And… we see why he was fired now…
Well there clearly was a double standard in NYC for rioters and everyone else.
The proposed letter to Mr. de Blasio came from the office of Mr. Dreiband, assistant U.S. Attorney for the Justice Department’s civil-rights division. The letter criticized Mr. de Blasio for a perceived double standard in the enforcement of social-distancing rules, to the detriment of religious groups. Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, had come out strongly against large religious gatherings—including Orthodox Jewish funerals—during the city’s coronavirus lockdown earlier this spring, but subsequently allowed protests against police violenceacross the city.
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key word is “perceived” in your quote.
A weapon against political opponents is not the role of the Justice department. That’s covered in the link you posted as well. It’s just behind a paywall, that’s why I didn’t post the WSJ link.
I’m a little surprised that no one has equated allowing the protests to Jews being matched to the gas chamber. Di Blasio clearly showed he’s a racist by only protecting the religious organizations and not giving two craps about the black community spreading infections…
Of course I joke, but I am kind of disappointed that none of the ingenious young rabblerousers have tried to play that card yet.
122,000 confirmed corona virus deaths in the US – 26% of the worldwide total.
Update Garlic warning
I contacted Christopher Ranch in CA. They inform me Gilroy garlic will not be shipping until the end of July!!
This is difficult news, but it is what it is. Personally I shall have no choice except to go without for a few weeks. Do not want foreign garlic. Hope my Vidalias at least hold out in this heat. Summer is tough on perishables.
So far so good with the Staples oranges. Enjoyed a delicious one this morning. Dunno what the future holds, whether some will spoil or not. I also am enjoying the Staples bananas.
What is the world coming to when you have to buy fruit from an office supply store? Pandemic craziness.
1/3 more hospitals closed or bankrupt so far this year than all 2019. Turns out covid isn’t nearly as profitable as their normal “non-essential” business.
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Good post, xerty. This thread covers investment concerns attached to the virus. I would observe owners of hospital muni bonds today have plenty of investment concern.
At the same time, the virus might be offering a buying opportunity for bonds of strong hospitals which are weathering the coronavirus onslaught well. As always with munis, ya gotta do your homework.
Yes the loss of elective services will continue for a while I imagine. During the shutdown period, it was state-mandated in many places across the country but even after it was allowed again, many patients are not too eager to go to a hospital where they may rub shoulders with COVID-19 patients and the doctors treating them.
I saw the dynamics personally. I needed to get some lab work done and with many labs available near me at about the same costs, I specifically went for one which was NOT testing for COVID-19. Simply, all things being equal, I’d rather not take extra chances I don’t need to take.
Is this the first official rollback?
I think I’m tired of “winning”
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Wow, Abbott seems to have dropped the lie he’s stuck with so far that any and all increases were due to increased testing capacity.
He references a doubling (from current levels) by August as a problem, but at current rate that will happen in less than two weeks…
This is getting stupid. I said from day one, if you’re going to shut something down, you’re shutting it down until there’s a cure. Reopening before that wouldnt be “safe”, it’d be a calculated risk. The same calculated risk you’d be taking by leaving things open all along.
I think we should, and should’ve all along, focus more on learning to live with the risk, not hide from it. But more importantly, we need to pick a lane and stick to it. All this closing/phases/rollback/warnings BS needs to stop, all it is is pointless meddling to try to stay relevant.
The local schools are thinking that the year is going to start with remote teaching again. Which is dumb - if you do that, you plan on it for the entire school year, because nothing tangible is going to change between Sept and May (besides the ebbs and flows of public sentiment). (Yes, there’s a chance for a vaccine within that time, but that timeline is completely undefined and thus impossible to include in planning.)
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I read this morning that my school district is thinking of a 2 day on 3day remote week. I think this would be great for teachers, but very bad for students. Good students would be ok with remote but, slower kids gain nothing or very little. Slower students need direct teaching every day. I hope the District does not go with this plan.
I agree that shutting down was the wrong decision. But it’s been done, so let’s just live with the risk now.
I somewhat agree. I’m not sure it’s going to be good student vs slower kids as much as wealthy districts vs. poorer ones. In wealthier school districts, transition to remote learning was smooth. Our kids had school issued iPads and after a week of transition, pretty much everybody adapted. Many parents having white collar jobs were remotely working from home, little to no disruption to income, they were also home to assist kids, many were educated enough to help with technical issues, etc…
But by contrast, in poorer school districts, the lack of resources really got amplified. Many kids were cut off from teacher communication because parents may not have internet connection or no device to work on, or difficult home environment to work in, and teachers with less resources to adapt as well. The longer the distance learning continues, the more we’re going to see the inequality gap widen.
Finally, I think it’s going to be very rough on elementary kids. I think high-schoolers can handle distance learning a lot better. They can text/chat with their friends about homework, and were even before COVID. They are used to solving things creatively. But young kids need a lot more personal guidance. They often need to be presented the information in multiple ways before they figure it out and in a more hands-on way. So I think distance learning would really hurt them in that respect.
For the record our school district is deciding on that same 2/3 day remote learning so that they can manage distancing in schools by effectively only having half the students on site at a time. And I don’t think it’ll be great for teachers at all. They will have to be in school every day to teach half full classes and then redo the same class for those who were remote. Sounds like way more work than fully on site or fully remote.
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I wouldnt think so. I assume they’d teach the same class twice, then provide everyone the same at-home assignments.
One more chart seems to illustrate this well
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How the turn tables…
It’s a nice chart but it’s cases rather than death rates. I agree cases are going up, but I think there’s a good chance death rates won’t end up increasing, or increasing that much. Dexamethasone looks like it should cut the death rate by 1/3 or there abouts and that’s without any other improvements.
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1/3 is great and looks promising (TBD on capacity increase, looks like it was in shortage already in the US before covid). Definitely a great development. Every additional recovery is another small win.
IMO, really doesn’t help that much overall when we’re looking at exponential increases. (No silver bullet yet). If it were already stocked and available, that just about buys about a week difference in deaths arriving at current rates of increase. Now, if we take the defeatist view of completely giving up and assuming we intentionally get ~100% of the population infected in about 12 months, then IF we can get the massive amounts of intravenous doses to materialize then it does decrease the grim worst case to 1/3 less but still grim.
You’re both probably right about how it will be done somewhere.
There are over 10,000 school districts across the 50 different states in the USA (plus private schools on top of that). So I’m sure return to school in the Fall will be done every way we could imagine.