NSR: Give me your rested, your rich, privileged White Colombians yearning to post in soccer forums...

Tovarish Drumpf:

American soldiers’ lives are in danger and Trump has done nothing to stop it.

Add ‘America First’ to the laundry list of scams Trump has sold in his life. It’s clearly Trump first, Russia second, and America last. pic.twitter.com/sqiRyqtJBE

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 1, 2020

 

Something about Christian values:

1280529477156720642 is not a valid tweet id

 

So much winning!!!


https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/32-percent-of-us-households-missed-their-july-housing-payments.html


As the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic continues, almost one-third of U.S. households, 32%, have not made their full housing payments for July yet, according to a survey by Apartment List, an online rental platform.

About 19% of Americans made no housing payment at all during the first week of the month, and 13% paid only a portion of their rent or mortgage.

That’s the fourth month in a row that a “historically high” number of households were unable to pay their housing bill on time and in full, up from 30% in June and 31% in May. Renters, low-income and younger households were most likely to miss their payments, Apartment List found.

 

Posting YouTube videos from people that is consistently wrong seems to be a terrible way to prove a point. Dr Barke seems to be adept at carrying water for conservative bs artists, and while his current speech has not been debunked yet, here is the fact-check for the one from back in March. 135k deaths later, he’s still wrong and probably we’re just weeks away from seeing the death rate rise again:


https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/14/fact-checking-california-reopen-protest-video/


My name is Dr. Jeff Barke and I’m here representing thousands of physicians across the country whose voices are being silenced because we don’t agree with the mainstream media and the experts who are telling us what to do," he says at the start of the video.

The article was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)

Given that uncertainty, there is no indication that the coronavirus has a similar fatality rate to the flu, which usually hovers under 0.1% and is calculated annually using a mathematical model. Available data suggest that it is more lethal than the flu.

"It is surprisingly mild only to those who were not listening to competent epidemiologists, and it is in fact considerably worse than seasonal flu," Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, previously told PolitiFact.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/why-covid-death-rate-down/613945/


Deaths lag cases—and that might explain almost everything.
You can’t have a serious discussion about case and death numbers without noting that people die of diseases after they get sick. It follows that there should be a lag between a surge in cases and a surge in deaths. More subtly, there can also be a lag between the date a person dies and the date the death certificate is issued, and another lag before that death is reported to the state and the federal government. As this chart from the COVID Tracking Project shows, the official reporting of a COVID-19 death can lag COVID-19 exposure by up to a month. This suggests that the surge in deaths is coming.


In Arizona, Florida, and Texas, the death surge is already happening. Since June 7, the seven-day average of deaths in those hot-spot states has increased 69 percent, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

Expanded testing is finding more cases, milder cases, and earlier cases.
There is a bad way to talk about testing, and a nuanced way to talk about it.

The simplistic version, which we often hear from the president, is that cases are surging only because the number of tests is rising. That’s just wrong. Since the beginning of June, the share of COVID-19 tests that have come back positive has increased from 4.5 percent to 8 percent. Hospitalizations are skyrocketing across the South and West. Those are clear signs of an underlying outbreak.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/role-cognitive-dissonance-pandemic/614074/


Because of the intense polarization in our country, a great many Americans now see the life-and-death decisions of the coronavirus as political choices rather than medical ones. In the absence of a unifying narrative and competent national leadership, Americans have to choose whom to believe as they make decisions about how to live: the scientists and the public-health experts, whose advice will necessarily change as they learn more about the virus, treatment, and risks? Or President Donald Trump and his acolytes, who suggest that masks and social distancing are unnecessary or “optional”?

The cognition I want to go back to work or I want to go to my favorite bar to hang out with my friends is dissonant with any information that suggests these actions might be dangerous—if not to individuals themselves, then to others with whom they interact.

How to resolve this dissonance? People could avoid the crowds, parties, and bars and wear a mask. Or they could jump back into their former ways. But to preserve their belief that they are smart and competent and would never do anything foolish to risk their lives, they will need some self-justifications: Claim that masks impair their breathing, deny that the pandemic is serious, or protest that their “freedom” to do what they want is paramount. “You’re removing our freedoms and stomping on our constitutional rights by these Communist-dictatorship orders,” a woman at a Palm Beach County commissioners’ hearing said. “Masks are literally killing people,” said another. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, referring to masks and any other government interventions, said, “More freedom, not more government, is the answer.” Vice President Mike Pence added his own justification for encouraging people to gather in unsafe crowds for a Trump rally: “The right to peacefully assemble is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution.”


Dissonance theory also teaches us why changing your brother-in-law’s political opinions is so hard, if not impossible—especially if he has thrown time, money, effort, and his vote at them. (He can’t change yours either, can he?) But if you want to try, don’t say the equivalent of “What are you thinking by not wearing a mask?” That message implies “How could you be so stupid?” and will immediately create dissonance (I’m smart versus You say I’m doing something stupid), making him almost certainly respond with defensiveness and a hardening of the belief (I was thinking how smart I am, that’s what, and masks are useless anyway). However, your brother-in-law may be more amenable to messages from others who share his party loyalty but who have changed their mind, such as the growing number of prominent Republicans now wearing masks. Senator Lamar Alexander from Tennessee said, “Unfortunately, this simple, lifesaving practice has become part of a political debate that says: If you’re for Trump, you don’t wear a mask; if you’re against Trump, you do... The stakes are much too high for that.”

This nasty, mysterious virus will require us all to change our minds as scientists learn more, and we may have to give up some practices and beliefs about it that we now feel sure of. The alternative will be to double down, ignore the error, and wait, as Trump is waiting, for the “miracle” of the virus disappearing.

 

Sanctity of Life Party:

BREAKING: The Trump administration has carried out the first federal execution since 2003. After a divided Supreme Court said in the middle of the night the execution could proceed, federal officials executed Daniel Lewis Lee by lethal injection https://t.co/R7TohQAUUg

— “Mark Berman” (@markberman) July 14, 2020

 

I vote for eating the deniers first:

As Trump rolls out his closing argument of "find something new," Limbaugh suggests "cannibalism." https://t.co/vtN4fYsdax

— Adam Jentleson (@AJentleson) July 14, 2020

 

How to get fewer cases:

"The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the CDC and, beginning on Wednesday, send all coronavirus patient information to a central database in Washington — a move that has alarmed public health experts" https://t.co/hadOhKMpmv

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 14, 2020

 

Some research on Dr. Barke:

My Rx for Liberty: Word! https://t.co/i4sFoj9vLN

— Dr. Jeff Barke (@RX_forLiberty) July 5, 2020

But feel free to follow his recipe...

 

Aaaaaand 132 deaths in Florida today...

Florida sets single-day record for COVID-19 deaths with 132.

Governor @RonDeSantisFL should resign.https://t.co/YU0FY6JglL

— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn) July 14, 2020

 

Starting tomorrow this ad is going up on TV for a week. Including at the White House. pic.twitter.com/bLfrpIditK

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) July 14, 2020

 

Send your kids and teachers to war:

This is absolutely brutal across the board on an issue that’s going to be critical to voters’ daily lives in November and there’s no reason to think he can change it before then https://t.co/SMARIT2TF2 pic.twitter.com/dzBz2RzEBP

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 15, 2020

Isn’t it amazing how the pro-life party stops caring about life after babies are born?

 

Send your kids and teachers to war:

This is absolutely brutal across the board on an issue that’s going to be critical to voters’ daily lives in November and there’s no reason to think he can change it before then https://t.co/SMARIT2TF2 pic.twitter.com/dzBz2RzEBP

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 15, 2020

Isn’t it amazing how the pro-life party stops caring about life after babies are born?

 

Deaths are rising fast:

TX:
•Dallas County, 80% of hospitalizations have been essential workers. 60% of Covid cases among Latinos
•Rate of TX deaths has been accelerating. Took 24 days for TX to go from 2k deaths to 3k. Morgues are filling up, & Austin, Travis, Cameron, & Hidalgo counties are now...

— Mike Madrid (@madrid_mike) July 14, 2020

And will continue to rise:

Texas teachers writing their wills as state promises to open schools in fall https://t.co/XsZkkLFVYT

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) July 14, 2020

 

Tennessee schools seem to be kind of worried about the falling death rate:

The county in Tennessee where I grew up is making parents sign death waivers absolving the school district of liability if kids die of Covid after going back to school in the fall pic.twitter.com/9GQKxJiaZ9

— Yes, You're Racist (@YesYoureRacist) July 15, 2020