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April 29, 2020

Jared Kushner, the morning after we hit 1 million cases and more deaths than in the Vietnam War:

Jared Kushner, the morning after we hit 1 million cases and more deaths than in the Vietnam War:

“We’re on the other side of the medical aspect of this. The federal government rose to the challenge, and this is a great success story.”

https://twitter.com/IanSams/status/1255494609226141698

April 29, 2020

Florida medical examiners were releasing coronavirus death data. The state made them stop.

Source: Tampa Bay Times

State officials have stopped releasing the list of coronavirus deaths being compiled by Florida’s medical examiners, which has at times shown a higher death toll than the state’s published count.

The list had previously been released in real time by the state Medical Examiners Commission. But earlier this month, after the Tampa Bay Times reported that the medical examiners’ death count was 10 percent higher than the figure released by the Florida Department of Health, state officials said the list needed to be reviewed and possibly redacted.

They’ve now been withholding it for nine days, without providing any of the information or specifying what they plan to remove.

Dr. Stephen Nelson, the chairman of the state Medical Examiners Commission, said the change in policy came after the state health department intervened.

Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/29/florida-medical-examiners-were-releasing-coronavirus-death-data-the-state-made-them-stop/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=social&utm_content=%40TB_Tmes

April 29, 2020

Here's the transcript of the president's response when he was asked if he's spoken with the families

Here's the transcript of the president's response when he was asked if he's spoken with the families of anyone who has died in the pandemic other than the family of his friend:



https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1255333793608671232

April 28, 2020

Trump to Order U.S. Meat Plants to Stay Open Amid Pandemic

Source: Bloomberg

President Donald Trump plans to order meat-processing plants to remain open, declaring them critical infrastructure as the nation confronts growing disruptions to the food supply, a person familiar with the matter said.

Trump plans to use the Defense Production Act to order the companies to stay open, and the government will provide additional protective gear for employees as well as guidance, according to the person.

Trump signaled the executive action at the White House on Tuesday, saying he planned to sign an order aimed at Tyson Foods Inc.’s liability, which had become “a road block” for the company. He didn’t elaborate.

The order, though, will not be limited to Tyson, the person said. It will affect all processing plants supplying beef, chicken, eggs and pork.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-28/trump-says-he-s-issuing-order-for-tyson-s-unique-liability?utm_content=politics&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics

April 28, 2020

The Twitcess tweets: HAPPENING NOW: Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds fly over New York...

HAPPENING NOW: Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds fly over New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in a salute to our first responders.

This is spectacular and historic tribute to all those on the frontline of the war against #COVID19!

God Bless America!

https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1255167694892085253


https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1255173256820203529
April 28, 2020

Nannies Tell the Truth About Working During the Coronavirus

“We are like items to them; they can’t go without us.”



I’m a live-in nanny for an ultrahigh-net-worth Manhattan family. I have a degree in early-childhood education and decades of professional nanny experience. The family I work for is pretty high profile. These people could afford to keep a full staff on furlough for months on end with benefits, but they choose not to. They’ve had people quit on them because of safety reasons. They told them, “Okay. Well, then, you’re not getting a reference. How dare you let us down.” But most of the people who they employ are foreign-born like me and would have a hard time sticking up for themselves.

During the week, I stay with them at their outrageously large Hamptons house, so of course they need an outrageously large staff. There wasn’t really a conversation about moving up to the Hamptons with them; it was basically just “This is how it’s going to be.” For the first time since working there, I had a sort of Are you kidding me? reaction. Normally, I’m a “yes, ma’am” type of person. And that quickly escalated to her screaming that I had better come in or else. But then she was like, “I’ll make it worth your while.” I don’t know if that’s going to come to fruition.

There’s so many people coming in and out of the house. There’s a sports coach for the kids, and he goes to other people’s houses and works with their kids, too. And then they have the chef that goes to the grocery store every day. There’s people who come in to do hair blow-dries a few days a week, a manicurist, a personal trainer. The other housekeepers and nannies are like, This is really ridiculous. They haven’t asked any of the workers to stop coming in. Why don’t they care? One of my co-workers, she has just been washing the clothes of the kids nonstop every time they come in contact with a new person. And if I’ve ordered anything on Amazon, like school supplies, I quarantine the boxes in the pool house for two days. I get met with a lot of rolled eyes from my employers.

They don’t seem to be worried, even though when I started coming into the Hamptons, I had a cough. The dad seems to be a germophobe. He’s freaking out all the time about my kids washing their hands, but if we’re FaceTiming someone and I’m coughing in the background, he’ll say, “Oh, it’s just the nanny.”

They have been sending me and my co-workers back to Manhattan on weekends in a private car together. But the driver doesn’t work exclusively with them, so there’s other people that go in this car at other times. One of my co-workers has a big family, they’re elderly, and also one of my co-workers’ husbands is really sick and is one of the delicate people that should not be exposed at all. Our employers probably don’t even know she has a family. It’s not one of the things they would wonder about.

The dad sits on the couch all day on the phone doing business. But then he has the gall to tell people, “Oh, it’s so hard being with my kids. They’re doing all this homeschooling.” And I’m like, You haven’t done one thing with that! It’s me! They’ve never taken care of their own kids for more than an hour.

https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/nannies-working-during-coronavirus.html
April 28, 2020

Trump will be having a press conference with the Governor of Florida at 11:30 (UPDATE)

President @realDonaldTrump will be having a press conference with the Governor of Florida, @GovRonDeSantis am ET.

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1255140112884613120


Please, please, please air Cuomo's press briefing instead.

UPDATE:

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1255147822644486152
Can't get their shit together for the simplest of things.
April 27, 2020

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