Virus thread, the political one.

[Chik]

At best, the situation is complicated and complex, but the notion that keeps popping up in my mind is "leadership vacuum".

After "what a bunch of dildos".

The Truth Behind A Viral Picture Of A Reopening School Is Worse Than It Looked
An alarming photo of a hallway crowded by mostly maskless students in a Georgia high school raises issues with reopening schools all around the country.

[ides1056]

"face suspension or expulsion"

wtf?

[Chik]

You're a mind reader.

[Mark Kelly]

The “middle” will not hold.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B Yeats "The Second Coming"
published 100 years ago come November.

[thollandpe]

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B Yeats "The Second Coming"
published 100 years ago come November.

“A view to remember
The center is missing
They question how the future lies — in someone’s eyes

The gentle collapsing
Of every surface
We travel on the quiet road — the overload”

Talking Heads “Remain in Light” released 40 years ago this October.

[claritycycler]

“My view is the schools should open,” Trump said. “This thing is going away. It will go away like things go away, and my view is that schools should be open.”

Blithering idiot!

[Bob Ross]

How Covid-19 Signals the End of the American Era - Rolling Stone

"In 1940, with Europe already ablaze, the United States had a smaller army than either Portugal or Bulgaria. Within four years, 18 million men and women would serve in uniform, with millions more working double shifts in mines and factories that made America, as President Roosevelt promised, the arsenal of democracy.

When the Japanese within six weeks of Pearl Harbor took control of 90 percent of the world’s rubber supply, the U.S. dropped the speed limit to 35 mph to protect tires, and then, in three years, invented from scratch a synthetic-rubber industry that allowed Allied armies to roll over the Nazis. At its peak, Henry Ford’s Willow Run Plant produced a B-24 Liberator every two hours, around the clock. Shipyards in Long Beach and Sausalito spat out Liberty ships at a rate of two a day for four years; the record was a ship built in four days, 15 hours and 29 minutes. A single American factory, Chrysler’s Detroit Arsenal, built more tanks than the whole of the Third Reich.

In the wake of the war, with Europe and Japan in ashes, the United States with but 6 percent of the world’s population accounted for half of the global economy, including the production of 93 percent of all automobiles. Such economic dominance birthed a vibrant middle class, a trade union movement that allowed a single breadwinner with limited education to own a home and a car, support a family, and send his kids to good schools. It was not by any means a perfect world but affluence allowed for a truce between capital and labor, a reciprocity of opportunity in a time of rapid growth and declining income inequality, marked by high tax rates for the wealthy, who were by no means the only beneficiaries of a golden age of American capitalism.

But freedom and affluence came with a price. The United States, virtually a demilitarized nation on the eve of the Second World War, never stood down in the wake of victory. To this day, American troops are deployed in 150 countries. Since the 1970s, China has not once gone to war; the U.S. has not spent a day at peace."

[beeatnik]

Cut and paste!

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-...ancisco-money/



How eight elite San Francisco families funded Gavin Newsom’s political ascent
By SEEMA MEHTA, RYAN MENEZES AND MALOY MOORE


Gavin Newsom wasn’t born rich, but he was born connected — and those alliances have paid handsome dividends throughout his career.

A coterie of San Francisco’s wealthiest families has backed him at every step of his political rise, which in November could lead next to his election as governor of California.

San Francisco society’s “first families” — whose names grace museum galleries, charity ball invitations and hospital wards — settled on Newsom, 50, as their favored candidate two decades ago, said Willie Brown, former state Assembly speaker and former mayor of the city.

“He came from their world, and that’s why they embraced him without hesitancy and over and above everybody else,” said Brown, who is a mentor to Newsom. “They didn’t need to interview him. They knew what he stood for.”

A Times review of campaign finance records identified eight of San Francisco’s best-known families as being among Newsom’s most loyal and long-term contributors. Among those patrons are the Gettys, the Pritzkers and the Fishers, whose families made their respective fortunes in oil, hotels and fashion. They first backed him when he was a restaurateur and winery owner running for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1998, and have continued their support through the governor’s race.

They are not Newsom’s largest donors: The families in total have given about $2 million of the $61 million that donors have contributed to his campaigns and independent committees backing those bids. But they gave while he was a relative unknown, providing crucial support to a political newcomer in the years before his campaign accounts piled high with cash from labor unions, Hollywood honchos, tech billionaires and donors up and down the state.




Rural California now being ravaged by the coronavirus - Los Angeles Times

SAN FRANCISCO — It was once said that California’s coronavirus pandemic was hitting dense urban areas the hardest.
Now, it’s rural, agricultural areas that are among the most severely affected.

“The epidemic is moving from urban Latino populations to rural Latino populations,” Dr. George Rutherford, epidemiologist and infectious-diseases expert at UC San Francisco, said Wednesday. The risk factors are the same: low-income essential workers who live in crowded housing and must leave home to work and earn money and who may be less likely to speak up to call attention to problematic workplace safety conditions.

Earlier in the pandemic, Los Angeles County was one of the hot spots for new infections. By June, it was Imperial County. The rural, agricultural and impoverished county east of San Diego soared up the list as California’s hardest hit county, in terms of new cases per 100,000 residents over the past two weeks. Imperial County hit its worst number on June 16, when there were 1,438 cases per 100,000 residents over the previous two weeks.

Now, it’s clear that the virus is hitting the Central Valley the hardest. Kern County, home to Bakersfield, is now recording 1,160 cases per 100,000 residents over the past two weeks. The rate reached its highest point on Saturday, reaching 1,376 cases per 100,000 residents over the prior two weeks — a figure more than 9 times as much as it was at the beginning of July, when the county reported 136 cases per 100,000 residents.

Of the 10 California counties with the highest infection rates per capita over the past two weeks, eight were in the Central Valley as of Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times’ California coronavirus tracker. Besides Kern County, they were Merced County (656 cases per 100,000 residents over the past two weeks); Kings (568); Colusa (545); Tulare (538); Fresno (497); Stanislaus (440); and Madera (437).

Imperial County also made the top 10 list, with a rate of 415 cases per 100,000 residents; as did San Bernardino County, with a rate of 397 cases per 100,000 residents.

Other rural areas are also seeing a rise in cases, such as the Salinas Valley in Monterey County and fields in Ventura County, Rutherford said.

California’s 11th hardest hit county by this measure is Mono County, home to Mammoth Mountain, a popular tourist destination, with a rate of 395 cases per 100,000 residents in the last two weeks. It’s likely the disease followed Southern Californians traveling to the Eastern Sierra for the Fourth of July weekend, Rutherford said.

Los Angeles County is the 18th hardest hit California county by this measure, reporting 327 cases per 100,000 residents over the last two weeks.




10K Deaths NBD when you give good interview and you slick your hair in the right direction.
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[COVRTDESIGN]

I hate the human race!!

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally: What to know about masks, attendance, rules

[Colinmclelland]

If I were someone impacted by by the government shutdown when the debt ceiling hoo-ha was on (remember that?) I would be more than slightly pissed that this recent massive debt increase wasn’t an issue, but back then debt was representative of the end of the world. I’m of the view it’s not but Rich might be getting a Gaulzetti sooner than he expects...

[Jimbolina]

How Covid-19 Signals the End of the American Era - Rolling Stone

[vespasianus]

There are some good points in that article. I go to China a lot and the infrastructure development is impressive. The American people how no idea how behind the times we are compared to other parts of the world.

[BBB]

This should go in the thread virus political one thread.

[vertical_doug]

So the President's dubious executive orders to extend unemployment benefits really appear to be a way to defund social security and medicare.

[Too Tall]

So the President's dubious executive orders to extend unemployment benefits really appear to be a way to defund social security and medicare.

Once again Doug nails it. The GOP expects this cruelty to be soundly reject by the other side who OBVIOUSLY do not care about the American workers.

Amateur hour at it's best.

[ides1056]

Buffoon was the word I used to describe the candidate.

So where do we go from here?

What will our vaunted ingenuity come up with as a solution? Looking backward won't take us forward.

[Saab2000]

Pay attention to the chaos at the USPS. I’d be very concerned about this.

[vertical_doug]

Pay attention to the chaos at the USPS. I’d be very concerned about this.

It's not chaos, its the result of the plan.

A good business man doesn't fix what's not broken. So first they have to break the postal service. Next comes the 'FIX'

[htwoopup]

Posting this here as it is in a trade that I doubt many here would read and is an issue that if people aren't aware of it will be too late.

The FCC regulates a lot of the media industry and can not regulate other parts due to its very structure and the legal authorities about public airwaves etc. It's appointees are also named in a bipartisan fashion with Republican and Democrat commissioners.

Basically, Trump withdrew his previous nomination of a REPUBLICAN commissioner because that commissioner believes it is wrong to regulate social media the way Trump wants it to be regulated as 1) it would violate the first amendment and 2) the FCC doesn't really have the authority to do so.

One of the most important things in this country or any other are a free press. Otherwise it is not press it is propaganda.

O’Rielly’s Firing Ominous For FCC | TV News Check

[rwsaunders]

This may require its own thread, but I am wondering who will do 45's officious portrait?

I expect it will be in Sharpie and protected under a thick layer of plexiglass.

You can have an 8x10 photo for $10 in the interim...

Official Presidential Portrait of Donald Trump (8x1) | U.S. Government Bookstore