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The U.S. could have prevented roughly 36,000 deaths from COVID-19 if broad social distancing measures had been put in place just one week earlier in March, according to an analysis from Columbia University.
Underlining the importance of aggressively responding to the coronavirus, the study found the U.S. could have avoided at least 700,000 fewer infections if actions that began on March 15 had actually started on March 8.
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And if restrictions had gone into effect in the U.S. two weeks earlier, researchers found, nearly 54,000 people would still be alive and nearly a million COVID-19 cases would have been avoided.
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The study was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Morris-Singer Foundation. The researchers’ findings are in “pre-print” status, meaning their article hasn’t been certified by peer review.
another form of memorializing on this weekend noted by the wrap:
Ann Coulter went on an early Sunday morning Twitter tear, ripping Donald Trump, calling him “the most disloyal actual r***** that has ever set foot in the Oval Office.”
[recent trump tweet here]
And that set off Coulter, who called the POTUS a “moron” and “lout,” who was incapable of “pretending to be” a “decent, compassionate human being.”
[several coulter tweets here]
Coulter capped off her rant by affirming the issues that Trump stood behind as a candidate, but adding that she does regret once believing in “this shallow and broken man.”
He should just be ignored completely as it is obvious that he is inessential for our dealing with the virus.
Make him know the meaning of inessential by totally leaving him out of the process.
Someone (joe?) set up a national alternative covid response team to give updates grounded in truth.
Memorial Days of past were always solemn family things. We would pile in the cars to go to the cemeteries. On the way we would get our poppies from the veterans selling them at intersections. At the cemeteries we would stop at graves while my grandmother would make a short prayer. Some were names of other families, some were names that only she knew. One or two or even three stops were made, depending on the weather.
When the visits were done we would go back to their house for an afternoon of relaxing. Adults drinking beer or whatever, we children got to drink soda. Dinner was usually cooked indoors, very rarely grilled outside. My great-uncles would come down, they served in WWI. It was at our house where the WWII veterans would stop by on a different weekend.
Now life is very different. Very few of us are veterans, about seven percent of the U.S. population. It feels odd considering I grew up in an era where everyone knew a veteran either in the family or a neighbor. Memorial Day is a holiday for something distant. That is for most but not all.
BB, similar to our Memorial Day family gatherings. Barbecue, beer, my dad and uncles (all served in WWII) and all our family in the 3 generations just hanging out enjoying each other. I don’t remember any of the vets ever mentioning their service. I do remember them talking about leave in several ports of call in the Pacific theater after VJ Day.
It would be very beneficial to me and my opening up my own personal sector of the economy if it were possible for me to obtain accurate information on the crisis, information untainted by gop propaganda.
If Cadet Bone Spurs looked at that meme, he would not see the names of the dead. He would only see his ~tremendous~ golf swing.
Today is the day my grandparents and I would cut irises and peonies from the yard, put them in mason jars, drive them to the cemetery, and, secure them to the ground with wire hangers. We did this early in the morning “to beat the crowd,” in a town of 2,500. In the afternoon, we would take a drive back to the cemetery to look at the flowers and the flags.
My great-uncles never spoke of their service in WWII and the Korean War. My grandpa tried to enlist with his brothers, but was rejected. It was a source of shame for him, but may be the only reason I am here. Occasionally, my grandmother would talk about her younger brother’s return. He was in Guadalcanal. He marched around the town square by himself, holding a flag. The family was embarrassed that he was “shell shocked.” Her brothers all went California to look for work. Her younger brother found a good job as a tool and die maker, but became a gambler and alcoholic. He ended up on Skid Row for awhile. He pulled himself together and retired, back to the Midwest, with another brother. He was the sweetest man. My grandfather’s youngest brother had great stories from the Navy. He stayed in quite awhile but he, also, eventually settled in California. I have a pic of my great-great grandfather in his Civil War uniform. He joined in February and was killed in May, leaving behind a lot of children back in Wisconsin.
The pool at my apt opened on Friday, so I got in after work on Friday. Nobody else was there for quite awhile. Then a guy came outside to lay on a pool chair. I got out of the pool and left. I brought a tube of Lysol wipes with me, which I wrapped up in a little, hand towel. I didn’t need them since I put my sandals on standing up. I went out early Saturday morning and much of the furniture (what hasn’t been put I storage), was moved together except for o e chair on the opposite side of the pool and another in the mud by the gate. It looks as if the kids in the neighborhood are breaking into the pool at night, again. I don’t feel safe going back now, not knowing who has been there and what they’ve been doing. They break in every year, and management did change the way the lock works to make it harder. But, short of putting razor wire on top of the gate, there is no way to keep them out. Swimming is the best thing for my back. I guess during the week, right after work, the chlorine will be high and the kids won’t have had a chance to break in yet.
The sky is crying here today, so no pool for anyone. I’d get in if it weren’t for the possibility of lightning and the rain throws off the PH of the pool.
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-condemn-disgusting-gov-andy-beshear-effigy-hung-kentucky-second-amendment-1506301
About 100 gun rights protesters who congregated at the Kentucky State Capitol on Memorial Day weekend were condemned by both democrats and republicans for hanging an effigy of Gov. Andy Beshear from a tree.
The rally, organized on Facebook by the Take Back Kentucky group, was created “to celebrate freedom and fight back against the unconstitutional shutdown over the Coronavirus.”
A model dressed in a blue shirt, white pants, gloves, shoes and a photo of Gov. Andy Beshear hung with the words “sic semper tyrannis.” The phrase, Latin for “thus always to tyrants,” was the same phrase John Wilkes Booth allegedly shouted before assassinating President Abraham Lincoln.
There’s an opportunity to promote yourself as a “covid responsible” contractor, Mr. S. For all their talk of “liberty” and “end the lockdown”, homeowners don’t want workers in their homes that they feel will expose them to infection.
I go back to work tomorrow. There will be all kinds of new safety guidelines. Masks must be worn at all times, except when we are on break. We will get our temperature taken before we enter the building. No coffee, no tea, no plastic silverware available, no using of microwaves etc… It will be different for sure.
“Donald Trump is the worst cheat ever and he doesn’t care who knows,” Rick Reilly says as he describes a man he has known for 30 years. “I always say golf is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a man. And golf reveals a lot of ugliness in this president.”
Reilly, the former Sports Illustrated columnist, has written a book called Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump. It’s rattling good fun which also depicts the startling duplicity of the president as a golfer. “You’re mostly laughing,” Reilly says, “but at times you’re crying – how did this happen? As a golfer he really offends me. Cheating? Hate that. Driving carts on greens? Hate that. Wearing old dockers two sizes too small for him? Give me a break. Kicking your ball so often the caddies call you Pelé? I so hate that. Most of all I hate how stupid he’s making my country look. I hate what he’s doing to my planet. I hate what he’s doing to kids at the border. I don’t mind Republicans. I just can’t stand this guy. I love golf and he has set the game back 30 years. Just when it was becoming cool with Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler we get this fat bozo cheating his ass off.”
Rules are made by weak guys so they can beat stronger guys. Truly great men make their own rules, and there aren’t very many of us, believe me. One in every age, they say.
If my caddy says I got a hole in one, I got a hole in one. Anybody who says different is a low-ratings bum and loser, unless she’s a horse-faced, low-ratings dog and loser, not my type.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention it. No president ever played as strong a golf game, ever. It’s true. Compared to me, Obama played croquet. And lost.
I beat kim jung un on his own course. And it’s a tough course, believe me. He came in with 18 strokes, but it wasn’t good enough. I had 17.
My dad made sure that Ms cracker’s dad and Dashiell Hammett had enough food and blankets. The Aleutians front was as nasty as war gets. Pitch black, wet and freezing, with blinding explosions. Short and bloody.
Holy mackerel, there are no deals on airfare from now through the fall unless you want to fly the economy class where you don’t even get to use the overhead for a carry-on. Not that I’m going anywhere this year, but I was curious as to what I was going to miss. Nothing. No deals.
Looking at pics of SFB in golf pants…there’s no way he only weighs about 230 if he’s 6’3”. Add about 15 pounds, and, he’s probably shrunk an inch since his yute. Maybe 6’2” and 245, generously. (I referred to him as Pvt. instead of Cadet, this morning; that mistake has been rectified. He’s never served anyone except himself.)
By the way, if he needs to distract by tweeting lies about Scarborough, maybe someone needs to start tweeting questions about what happened to junior and the other one’s babysitter who ended up dead at the bottom of the stairs. Fair is fair.
Last week, Dallas county was still using 71% of ICU beds (for everything, not just Covid), although only 34% of available ventilators were in use. Between June 1st and Flag Day, that will go up. The only thing that may hold it down was today’s rain.
Well we burgered it tonight. Burgers and fresh corn on the grill with applewood chips Smoking them. and Cole slaw. Mrs. P made a cookie cake – chocolate chip with graham cracker crust. Really delicious. Hot and sunny, so it was a textbook Memorial Day at the Pogo homestead.
I don’t understand why the dictator with his lies and conspiracy theories is allowed on Twitter!!!! Doesn’t he violate ALL of their rules? He’s just a person, a poor cutout of a person.
A friend called and said he’d read where locally they’re going to have more stringent testing for the virus, and the increase of cases will SCARE people by making the number higher. I said GOOD! They should be scared, damn it! AND testing doesn’t create disease, it just identifies it! Tejas is an utter wasteland for logic, facts, or information. I’m the only balance he and a female friend has to the dictator’s madness. That’s what Tejas is following. The whole thing is grim.
I always end these conversations with, they can go out and frolic about nude and lick door knobs if they want to! But I prefer to not get the virus, at least not right now.
He says he’s bored. Yet, he has no hobbies. He has a nice house that’s neat & clean, and he has a cleaning lady twice a week. Someone cuts his grass, also. He used to dance, go to the gym, and bowl. I told him I’d rather be healthy and still in quarantine than out and about and then get sick, be in the hospital for weeks and then take month to rehab & recover. But it’s his choice. I’m a low risk taker when it comes to illness.
I don’t understand boredom. It’s not that boredom is an imaginary ailment. I know it exits, cuz I was bored a few times when I was a little guy. The last time was when I was about eight. No, I know it happens, but I can’t figure out how it could happen. Scientists should start studying boredom, cuz it’s a really bizarre phenomenon, and as far as I know, it’s also one of the few academically untouched phenomena.
A Remembered joke From “Boy’s Life” magazine:
3 elderly ladies are walking down the street. The First Lady says, “It sure is windy today.” The 2nd lady says, “No, it’s Thursday.” The 3rd lady says, “So am I, lets get a cup of tea.”
Having finished my lunch, I was ambling down the sidewalk towards the Hotel in Champagne, Ill. I found myself blocked by 2 elderly ladies, each carrying 2 bags of groceries. So I was just ambling along behind them a ways. I came into hearing in the middle of their conversation, and the First Lady says, “ They was going to give him the gas chamber, but the judge, he changed it to life.” And the other says, “mm-mm-mmm.”
Passed them before I found out what the story was, but it sounded like it might have been a good one.
NPR may 21:
“The base” just totally loves what he’s doing to the government because they’re unable to see that he’s doing it to them as well.
another form of memorializing on this weekend noted by the wrap:
that word “r*****” in the coulter quote above rhymes with petard
Retarded by his own hoist.
He should just be ignored completely as it is obvious that he is inessential for our dealing with the virus.
Make him know the meaning of inessential by totally leaving him out of the process.
Someone (joe?) set up a national alternative covid response team to give updates grounded in truth.
Fauci might even quit and join up.
Memorial Days of past were always solemn family things. We would pile in the cars to go to the cemeteries. On the way we would get our poppies from the veterans selling them at intersections. At the cemeteries we would stop at graves while my grandmother would make a short prayer. Some were names of other families, some were names that only she knew. One or two or even three stops were made, depending on the weather.
When the visits were done we would go back to their house for an afternoon of relaxing. Adults drinking beer or whatever, we children got to drink soda. Dinner was usually cooked indoors, very rarely grilled outside. My great-uncles would come down, they served in WWI. It was at our house where the WWII veterans would stop by on a different weekend.
Now life is very different. Very few of us are veterans, about seven percent of the U.S. population. It feels odd considering I grew up in an era where everyone knew a veteran either in the family or a neighbor. Memorial Day is a holiday for something distant. That is for most but not all.
Sturg, the Democratic Governors Association could do the job, they’re the only adults in this mess.
Next Memorial Day, we will be remembering all the people killed by irresponsible Memorial beach-goers. Shit’s about to get awful.
Thanks, beach-goers! Hope you’re having fun!
BB, similar to our Memorial Day family gatherings. Barbecue, beer, my dad and uncles (all served in WWII) and all our family in the 3 generations just hanging out enjoying each other. I don’t remember any of the vets ever mentioning their service. I do remember them talking about leave in several ports of call in the Pacific theater after VJ Day.
It would be very beneficial to me and my opening up my own personal sector of the economy if it were possible for me to obtain accurate information on the crisis, information untainted by gop propaganda.
If Cadet Bone Spurs looked at that meme, he would not see the names of the dead. He would only see his ~tremendous~ golf swing.
Today is the day my grandparents and I would cut irises and peonies from the yard, put them in mason jars, drive them to the cemetery, and, secure them to the ground with wire hangers. We did this early in the morning “to beat the crowd,” in a town of 2,500. In the afternoon, we would take a drive back to the cemetery to look at the flowers and the flags.
My great-uncles never spoke of their service in WWII and the Korean War. My grandpa tried to enlist with his brothers, but was rejected. It was a source of shame for him, but may be the only reason I am here. Occasionally, my grandmother would talk about her younger brother’s return. He was in Guadalcanal. He marched around the town square by himself, holding a flag. The family was embarrassed that he was “shell shocked.” Her brothers all went California to look for work. Her younger brother found a good job as a tool and die maker, but became a gambler and alcoholic. He ended up on Skid Row for awhile. He pulled himself together and retired, back to the Midwest, with another brother. He was the sweetest man. My grandfather’s youngest brother had great stories from the Navy. He stayed in quite awhile but he, also, eventually settled in California. I have a pic of my great-great grandfather in his Civil War uniform. He joined in February and was killed in May, leaving behind a lot of children back in Wisconsin.
I’m always hearing about “TDS: Trump Derangement Syndrome”. I’m starting to think here in Michigan we have “WDS: Whitmer Derangement Syndrome”.
The pool at my apt opened on Friday, so I got in after work on Friday. Nobody else was there for quite awhile. Then a guy came outside to lay on a pool chair. I got out of the pool and left. I brought a tube of Lysol wipes with me, which I wrapped up in a little, hand towel. I didn’t need them since I put my sandals on standing up. I went out early Saturday morning and much of the furniture (what hasn’t been put I storage), was moved together except for o e chair on the opposite side of the pool and another in the mud by the gate. It looks as if the kids in the neighborhood are breaking into the pool at night, again. I don’t feel safe going back now, not knowing who has been there and what they’ve been doing. They break in every year, and management did change the way the lock works to make it harder. But, short of putting razor wire on top of the gate, there is no way to keep them out. Swimming is the best thing for my back. I guess during the week, right after work, the chlorine will be high and the kids won’t have had a chance to break in yet.
My father served in WWII in the Aleutians in the same company as Dashiel Hammett. Radio unit
The sky is crying here today, so no pool for anyone. I’d get in if it weren’t for the possibility of lightning and the rain throws off the PH of the pool.
corey, yours isn’t the only deranged state
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-condemn-disgusting-gov-andy-beshear-effigy-hung-kentucky-second-amendment-1506301
About 100 gun rights protesters who congregated at the Kentucky State Capitol on Memorial Day weekend were condemned by both democrats and republicans for hanging an effigy of Gov. Andy Beshear from a tree.
The rally, organized on Facebook by the Take Back Kentucky group, was created “to celebrate freedom and fight back against the unconstitutional shutdown over the Coronavirus.”
A model dressed in a blue shirt, white pants, gloves, shoes and a photo of Gov. Andy Beshear hung with the words “sic semper tyrannis.” The phrase, Latin for “thus always to tyrants,” was the same phrase John Wilkes Booth allegedly shouted before assassinating President Abraham Lincoln.
There’s an opportunity to promote yourself as a “covid responsible” contractor, Mr. S. For all their talk of “liberty” and “end the lockdown”, homeowners don’t want workers in their homes that they feel will expose them to infection.
i feel like “Fat-ass the Golfing President” would have been a better title to this thread, as well as an homage to KGC.
ok✊❤️🇺🇸
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/25/politics/trump-threatens-charlotte-republican-convention/index.html
tRump, the toddler tyrant, needs a big crowd to feed his ego. May any and all who go anywhere to laud the lard-ass get sick and die before Election Day. Please, by all means, feed your oversized ego and kill your base, you orange fool.
Fort McHenry is currently under siege by a fat, orange, monster.
Re “r*****” : I thought coulter was calling the maniac a rapist.
Apparently the hideous woman needed attention. Maybe she has written yet another moronic book for lovers of franco, mussolini, and vervoerd.
x – Yep, it’s kinda difficult to do ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ with her.
Corey – You back on the job?
So much for social distancing. Whoever this is getting POTUS back slap might want to self-quarantine.
I go back to work tomorrow. There will be all kinds of new safety guidelines. Masks must be worn at all times, except when we are on break. We will get our temperature taken before we enter the building. No coffee, no tea, no plastic silverware available, no using of microwaves etc… It will be different for sure.
Self quarantine after a long hot shower I’d say
rnc should have their convention in Puerto Rico.
Maybe Eniwetok would be better.
Trump wasn’t “golfing”. He was “exercising”.
corey, this guy would agree with you about not golfing – but it’s more like cheating rather than exercising
from the guardian last year:
Rules are made by weak guys so they can beat stronger guys. Truly great men make their own rules, and there aren’t very many of us, believe me. One in every age, they say.
If my caddy says I got a hole in one, I got a hole in one. Anybody who says different is a low-ratings bum and loser, unless she’s a horse-faced, low-ratings dog and loser, not my type.
Just seasoned a fine slab of Black Angus Beef Ribs for tonight, comes with grilling beans and my homemade slaw and corn bread.
i just put a slab in, myself!
…going 250F for four hours. Think that’ll do it?
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention it. No president ever played as strong a golf game, ever. It’s true. Compared to me, Obama played croquet. And lost.
I beat kim jung un on his own course. And it’s a tough course, believe me. He came in with 18 strokes, but it wasn’t good enough. I had 17.
Not bad for 36 holes.
A through M head to Mr Bink’s. N-Z go to Mr Crawford’s.
oh come on, xrep, the cognoscenti are three months deep into this; you know i got the place booby-trapped, by now
Bink
Are you a follower of Adele Davis?
Oh. I get it.
In that case, A-M go to Mr Crawford’s and N through Z go to Mr Bink’s.
i used a curried brown-sugar rub, KGC, so probably not.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/25/americas/brazil-coronavirus-manaus-mayor-bolsonaro-intl/index.html
“The President’s dream is to be a dictator, but he’s too stupid.” So…Brazil and the US have that in common.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/25/tech/airbnb-hosts/index.html
Not only can you get deals on rental car fleet sell-offs, but vacation properties, as well.
Corey – Hope all goes well for you at work. It feels very different at work, even after 2 and a half weeks.
Joe “46” Biden and Jill looking very much like the presidential couple today.
My dad made sure that Ms cracker’s dad and Dashiell Hammett had enough food and blankets. The Aleutians front was as nasty as war gets. Pitch black, wet and freezing, with blinding explosions. Short and bloody.
Will 46 be Joe or will Pelosi get in there for a short while…soon?
Bink, all about low and slow ain’t it? Just like life it’s own self.
word
Holy mackerel, there are no deals on airfare from now through the fall unless you want to fly the economy class where you don’t even get to use the overhead for a carry-on. Not that I’m going anywhere this year, but I was curious as to what I was going to miss. Nothing. No deals.
Looking at pics of SFB in golf pants…there’s no way he only weighs about 230 if he’s 6’3”. Add about 15 pounds, and, he’s probably shrunk an inch since his yute. Maybe 6’2” and 245, generously. (I referred to him as Pvt. instead of Cadet, this morning; that mistake has been rectified. He’s never served anyone except himself.)
By the way, if he needs to distract by tweeting lies about Scarborough, maybe someone needs to start tweeting questions about what happened to junior and the other one’s babysitter who ended up dead at the bottom of the stairs. Fair is fair.
Last week, Dallas county was still using 71% of ICU beds (for everything, not just Covid), although only 34% of available ventilators were in use. Between June 1st and Flag Day, that will go up. The only thing that may hold it down was today’s rain.
Not what I’d like to see but what we should see. Thank you Joe Biden.
Well we burgered it tonight. Burgers and fresh corn on the grill with applewood chips Smoking them. and Cole slaw. Mrs. P made a cookie cake – chocolate chip with graham cracker crust. Really delicious. Hot and sunny, so it was a textbook Memorial Day at the Pogo homestead.
…going to end up taking 5 hours @ 250F, fyi
I don’t understand why the dictator with his lies and conspiracy theories is allowed on Twitter!!!! Doesn’t he violate ALL of their rules? He’s just a person, a poor cutout of a person.
A friend called and said he’d read where locally they’re going to have more stringent testing for the virus, and the increase of cases will SCARE people by making the number higher. I said GOOD! They should be scared, damn it! AND testing doesn’t create disease, it just identifies it! Tejas is an utter wasteland for logic, facts, or information. I’m the only balance he and a female friend has to the dictator’s madness. That’s what Tejas is following. The whole thing is grim.
I always end these conversations with, they can go out and frolic about nude and lick door knobs if they want to! But I prefer to not get the virus, at least not right now.
He says he’s bored. Yet, he has no hobbies. He has a nice house that’s neat & clean, and he has a cleaning lady twice a week. Someone cuts his grass, also. He used to dance, go to the gym, and bowl. I told him I’d rather be healthy and still in quarantine than out and about and then get sick, be in the hospital for weeks and then take month to rehab & recover. But it’s his choice. I’m a low risk taker when it comes to illness.
I don’t understand boredom. It’s not that boredom is an imaginary ailment. I know it exits, cuz I was bored a few times when I was a little guy. The last time was when I was about eight. No, I know it happens, but I can’t figure out how it could happen. Scientists should start studying boredom, cuz it’s a really bizarre phenomenon, and as far as I know, it’s also one of the few academically untouched phenomena.
x-r. that’s a great thing that you’re not bored! I always have a list of stuff to do.
Mpls Dems have to dump that poisonous republican sqroughball ilhan omar :
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ilhan-omar-i-do-believe-tara-reades-claims-against-joe-biden/ar-BB14zI6v?ocid=spartanntp
99,462 C19 deaths.
On Tuesday we will officially pass 100,000.
The 23d Tuesday from now will be payback time.
The meme-a-thon continuuuuues
I used to have a tiny desk theory about boredom, which was that creativity springs from boredom.
NEW THREAD
A Remembered joke From “Boy’s Life” magazine:
3 elderly ladies are walking down the street. The First Lady says, “It sure is windy today.” The 2nd lady says, “No, it’s Thursday.” The 3rd lady says, “So am I, lets get a cup of tea.”
Having finished my lunch, I was ambling down the sidewalk towards the Hotel in Champagne, Ill. I found myself blocked by 2 elderly ladies, each carrying 2 bags of groceries. So I was just ambling along behind them a ways. I came into hearing in the middle of their conversation, and the First Lady says, “ They was going to give him the gas chamber, but the judge, he changed it to life.” And the other says, “mm-mm-mmm.”
Passed them before I found out what the story was, but it sounded like it might have been a good one.