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We can expect repeated waves of infections until the federal government takes affirmative steps — expanded testing, more robust tracing, isolation — to repress the spread of the virus.
We’re finding out the hard way that we can’t reopen the economy on a wing and a prayer.
We’re finding out the hard way that we can’t reopen the economy on a wing and a prayer.
With cases surging in Florida, Texas, Georgia, and across the Sun Belt, it’s time to call bull on McConnell about cutting off state & local aid.
Either he’s bluffing, or he’s willing to put GOP senators running for re-election through the wringer as economic damage mounts. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1277334375441600513
Either he’s bluffing, or he’s willing to put GOP senators running for re-election through the wringer as economic damage mounts. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1277334375441600513
The damage — as Lovett notes — won’t just be economic. By sending infections spiraling upward again, the country has already screwed up a necessary condition for getting children back into classrooms this fall. https://twitter.com/jonlovett/status/1277660012949549056
The bottom line: the trajectory of the pandemic is hurtling toward a bad place, and that situation will not change unless and until get serious that “reopening,” right now, is not going to happen. https://twitter.com/WillFOIA/status/1277709413868949504
(^ federal and state officials)
(I accidentally clipped this from the beginning of the thread:) https://twitter.com/ggreeneva/status/1277645151628902402
Americans didn’t *need* to end up in a position of having to step up social distancing measures again. Public policy could have returned life to semi-normal conditions — as it has elsewhere.
But now that we’re screwed, it’s either stepping distancing measures up, or …this.
https://twitter.com/tackettdc/status/1277996974650908672
But now that we’re screwed, it’s either stepping distancing measures up, or …this.
https://twitter.com/tackettdc/status/1277996974650908672
: “[Republicans] engineered fiscal scarcity that forced states to choose between prudence and solvency. …The president and his advisers pressured states to reopen quickly. … Instead, our austerity-induced haste has bought us a new wave of outbreaks.” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/gop-fiscal-aid-states-coronavirus-outbreaks.html
Speaking of the ‘let’s do it and be legends’ approach to ‘reopening,’ Virginia’s determination to plow ahead with further loosening of restrictions tomorrow seems … strange. https://www.fox5dc.com/news/virginia-gov-ralph-northam-stresses-caution-going-into-phase-3-tomorrow
(As a token concession to reality, Virginia’s governor announced a late decision today to keep bar seating at restaurants closed. That seems like the literal least he could do, however, to inch back from letting the good times roll.)
Watch this, folks — watch this clip. Take time to sit with it, to really drink it in.
The president is never going to do jack shit about the virus, and a required step toward some solution is to become pitilessly clear about that. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1278405761077477376
The president is never going to do jack shit about the virus, and a required step toward some solution is to become pitilessly clear about that. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1278405761077477376
I share Prof. Tufekci’s reading of the the situation: nothing will improve, nothing *can* improve, until the president leaves office. (He should resign now and save us the wait, of course.) https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1278317083412115456
With summer emphatically refusing to make the virus disappear, and Trump and his party just as emphatically refusing to bend their brains around that, my hope for any semblance of a normal childhood for our kids is a) that voters beat the tar out of the GOP this November … https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1278322483482025984
… and b) that Democrats use the powers thus won to *govern* the country out of crisis, by enacting the measures necessary to bring the virus under control.
It’s either that, or potentially years of figuring out matters as basic as how society can f’ing reopen schools. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1278316383110127617
It’s either that, or potentially years of figuring out matters as basic as how society can f’ing reopen schools. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1278316383110127617
In the meantime, this thread by @senwarren does a solid job of explaining what the administration _could_ do — if, that is, we lived in the alternate universe where the president were at all inclined. https://twitter.com/senwarren/status/1278407144065380353
