March 13, 2020

A warning from an American in Wuhan

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1238595427672481794


A warning from an American in Wuhan.

March 13, 2020

This makes it sound like a far far FAR less developed project than the president sold at the presser

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1238579328692224001


This makes it sound like a far far FAR less developed project than the president sold at the presser.


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Statement from Verily: "We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing. Verily is in the early stages of development, and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time




Trump said during his presser that the Google triage website would be up for everybody by Sunday.

March 13, 2020

South Korea's Drive-Through Testing For Coronavirus Is Fast -- And Free

If you roll up to a drive-through COVID-19 testing center in South Korea, you might notice that safety procedures extend all the way to your car's air conditioning. You will be advised to hit the recirculation button so that if you're sick, you can keep your pathogens to yourself, in your car, and avoid infecting the medical personnel doing the testing.

The test takes 10 minutes at most. Results are texted to you, usually the next day. And it's free — paid for by the government.

Drive-through centers have helped South Korea do some of the fastest, most-extensive testing of any country. And while nobody is claiming that South Korea has defeated the outbreak, experts credit the emphasis on testing with reducing case numbers and fatalities.


"I think our approach was right," says professor Lee Hyukmin of the Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul. "We will continue to see sporadic infections," he predicts. "But still, the situation in Daegu," the epicenter of the outbreak, "is being stabilized."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/13/815441078/south-koreas-drive-through-testing-for-coronavirus-is-fast-and-free?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr


Thank god for Dem Governors because we'd be screwed relying on the shitweasal currently occupying the Oval Office.

March 13, 2020

An Australian official who met with Ivanka and Atty Gen. William Barr in

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1238394664618778627?s=21


https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1238395222486388740?s=21

Peter Dutton, Australia’s home minister, is the latest in a string of foreign dignitaries who have met with associates of President Trump in recent days, only to later learn they had been infected


https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1238399901312208896?s=21

CNN: Peter Dutton - shown here meeting with Barr and Ivanka Trump - said that he woke up on Friday morning "with a temperature and sore throat" and was "subsequently tested for COVID-19." Dutton was advised by Queensland Health that his tests returned positive on Friday afternoon

March 5, 2020

Top Green Party Candidate Says He'll Run Against Dems--Even If They Nominate Sanders

In both 2000 and 2016, the Green Party garnered enough votes in enough swing states that, had those votes gone to the Democrats they would have prevented George W. Bush and Donald Trump from ever assuming the presidency. At the time, Green Party advocates defended their positions by claiming, not without cause, that their voters never would have gone to Democrats anyway, and that the Democrats’ inability to win states like Florida in 2000 or Wisconsin in 2016 was, at the end of the day, their own fault.


The current frontrunner for the ticket, Green Party co-founder Howie Hawkins, remains adamant that he’ll run in as many states as he can in November—a position that puts him squarely at odds with some of the luminaries of American leftism, such as Noam Chomsky.

Two months ago, Chomsky and a raft of other prominent leftist voices penned an open letter criticizing 2016 Green Party candidate Jill Stein for not doing enough to paint Trump as a unique danger to the U.S., and for siphoning off votes from potential Hillary Clinton supporters in key states in 2016. “We are told, ‘Greens want to get Trump out as much as anybody’ but how can that be if Greens would vote for a Green candidate, and not for Sanders, [Elizabeth] Warren, or any Democrat in a contested state knowing that doing so could mean Trump’s victory?”, the signatories wrote.

As such, Chomsky and the others explicitly called for the Green Party to remove itself from potential swing states in the 2020 election, which could potentially tilt their Electoral College votes to Trump yet again. “Like Stein in 2016, some might claim doing so can’t help Trump win again or, in any case, that Trump’s re-election would not matter all that much. ‘He isn’t that much worse,’” the signatories wrote. “We write in hopes that no one in 2020 will rationalize campaign actions by making such irresponsible and patently false claims.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-green-party-candidate-says-hell-run-against-demseven-if-they-nominate-sanders/


Rick Wilson wrote in his book, Running Against the Devil that he knows GOP consultants who've hired people to run as Green candidates in close races and financed their campaigns.

March 4, 2020

Four #SuperTuesday states moved from caucuses to primaries this year. Check out the results

https://twitter.com/staceyabrams/status/1235233843445149697



Four #SuperTuesday states moved from caucuses to primaries this year.

CO participation is up 517% from 2016 and still counting
ME is up 304% and still counting
MN is up 264%
UT is up 120% and still counting

Democracy is stronger when more people are able to participate.

March 3, 2020

"He will risk making Ross Perot and Ralph Nader look good": Bloomberg resists adviser's push to exit

After Joe Biden’s decisive victory in South Carolina on Saturday, Mike Bloomberg’s campaign advisers lobbied Bloomberg to drop out of the race and endorse Biden before Super Tuesday, four sources briefed on the internal conversations said. Some of the sources said that campaign manager Kevin Sheekey and other top campaign officials argued to Bloomberg that the best chance of beating Donald Trump in November would be for Bloomberg to exit the race to bolster Biden’s candidacy as Biden battles with Bernie Sanders for the nomination. “There is a prevailing view Mike should drop out,” one Bloomberg adviser told me.

Campaign officials are privately frustrated that Bloomberg rejected their advice to drop out and pour their resources into helping Biden, sources said. “The dynamic of the race clearly changed,” a Bloomberg adviser told me. Bloomberg disagreed that Biden’s resurgence in South Carolina fundamentally nullified Bloomberg’s candidacy. “Mike is a data guy, and he’s looking at the numbers thinking, I’ll be damned if I walk away before a single vote is cast for me,” one source said, explaining Bloomberg’s thinking.

Bloomberg’s original argument for running was that he would fill the space that Biden’s implosion seemed to open up. Now, people close to Bloomberg fear that Bloomberg is playing the spoiler role tonight in delegate-rich states like California by siphoning votes from Biden. “It’s clearer than ever after the weekend that it’s over and thus he will risk making Ross Perot and Ralph Nader look good if he stays in this,” a person close to the campaign told me. A Bloomberg adviser told me that Bloomberg would consider dropping out after Super Tuesday if there continues to be no path. “He’s not going to stay in and say, ‘Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.’”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/bloomberg-resists-advisers-push-to-exit-the-race

March 3, 2020

Big Biden rally in Dallas tonight

https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1234658966887706625


For the first time since Biden’s launch rally in Philadelphia, I’m using panorama mode to take a photo of Biden’s crowd. And I’m still not getting everyone in here. Not to mention what a person familiar with the venue says is thousands more outside.



https://twitter.com/ikehaji/status/1234646873622925312