Progressives (Liberals)

Ronald Klain
@RonaldKlain
14h
Every time Trump (or his minions) brag that he acted quickly on travel restrictions against China, I wish someone in that briefing room would ask him:

"Didn't Italy put restrictions on China travel BEFORE you did?"

(Answer: Yes, as did 44 other countries).

That your response - or anyone's response - to such a thing on top of all else could be anything other than demanding this man be removed from office puts you in a category which cannot be excused.

"Didn't Italy put restrictions on China travel BEFORE you did?"

(Answer: Yes, as did 44 other countries).

7 upvotes for this ridiculous claim already!

An ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first confirmed to have spread to Italy on 31 January 2020, when two Chinese tourists in Rome tested positive for the virus

On 31 January, the Italian government suspended all flights to and from China and declared a state of emergency.

andrew kaczynskiThinking face
@KFILE
· 2h
On the same day Larry Kudlow said coronavirus was “contained” on Feb. 25th, Trump’s campaign spox made an even more bold claim [on Fox]

“We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here..and isn't it refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama."

He scours that joint constantly, looking for any opinion or factual claim, however spurious, which opposes Trump, then "retweets" them here.

Bobsal’s getting froggy.

The Republican speaker of the Georgia state House is not happy that election officials are making it easier for residents to vote from home in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

The state is mailing every registered voter a form so that they can request an absentee ballot for the May 19 primary election. Voters will also be able to cast ballots in person on Election Day, as well as during the three weeks of early voting beginning on April 27, but the state is trying to make it easier for people to vote from afar.

David Ralston, the state [of Georgeia] House speaker, has deep concerns about this system, in part because the “possibilities of fraud are incredibly prevalent in this kind of voting,” as he said in an interview with the Georgia news site FetchYourNews. (See video below.)

“You don’t know who’s going to vote the ballot,” said Ralston, who wants to push back the date of the primary.

But he also admitted he doesn’t like the fact that absentee ballots will make it easier for people to vote ― and presumably increase turnout ― because that will hurt Republicans.

“The president said it best ― this will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia,” said Ralston.

“Every registered voter is going to get one of these. Now I ask you ... what was turnout in the primary back in 2018 or 2016. Was it 100%? No. No. It’s way, way, way lower. This will certainly drive up turnout,” he added.

Acyn Torabi
@Acyn
18h
Lindsey Graham [on Fox] calls setting up committees to look into the Coronavirus response “tone deaf” and suggests most Americans don’t care about how this situation developed into a crisis

The quip came while the president was fielding questions about the trajectory of the pandemic.“The models show hundreds of thousands of people are going to die and you know what I want to do? I want to come way under the model,” he said. “The professionals did the models and I was never involved in a model. At least this kind of a model.”

As good ole P.T. Barnum done said, there's one born every minute.

I was never involved in a model. At least this kind of a model.

"In fact there are no predictions by IPCC at all. And there never have been. The IPCC instead proffers “what if” projections of future climate that correspond to certain emissions scenarios....

There are a number of assumptions that go into these emissions scenarios. They are intended to cover a range of possible self consistent “story lines”.... But they do not consider many things like the recovery of the ozone layer, for instance, or observed trends in forcing agents.

There is no estimate, even probabilistically, as to the likelihood of any emissions scenario and no best guess. None of the models used by IPCC are initialized to the observed state and none of the climate states in the models correspond even remotely to the current observed climate.