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It appears that 2020 has been the "Groundhog Day" of years.

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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Where have you gone Doc and Darren
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Scooter wrote:
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Given people's typical response to being told they have to change their lifestyle or they risk early death, or their habits will impact others (second hand smoke) we probably should not expect anything different with responses to Covid. Everyone assumes it will never be them or theirs who will be affected. With a huge population getting everyone to agree on things will be a fraught with futility as herding cats.

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Now you did it, Joe. Be careful what you sing for.

The D's will now be forced to respond ASAP.

They are probably scouring the alt-Right sites, panning for nuggets of "cut and paste" gold as we speak.

OK, Darren and "Doc', let's have it.
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51,097 new cases
130,798 total deaths
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55,442 new cases
993 new deaths
133,972 total deaths
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61,848 new cases
890 new deaths
134,862 total deaths
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71,787 new cases
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136,671 total deaths
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California has experienced one of its toughest weeks yet in the battle against coronavirus, with the state chalking up its two deadliest days since the start of the pandemic as cases continue to rise.

On Wednesday the state topped its previous single day death toll, reporting 149 fatalities. That was followed a day later by the second-deadliest day, when the state tallied 137 fatalities.

California has now reported 296,500 coronavirus cases and 6,700 deaths, according to public health data. The governor, Gavin Newsom, said on Thursday the state’s seven-day average had topped 8,000 new cases a day, its highest yet.

Meanwhile, new infections, hospitalizations and admissions to ICUs have all increased steadily, landing half of California’s 58 counties on the state’s “watchlist”, where public health officials closely monitor metrics such as infections, deaths and hospital capacity.

Reopening has also been stalled on several fronts. Counties on the state’s watchlist for three consecutive days are required to close bars and dine-in restaurants for at least three weeks. On Friday, San Francisco announced it would not be opening many businesses on Monday as planned – including barber shops, hair salons and gyms – on account of the surge.

Infections and hospitalizations ballooned after Memorial Day weekend, when thousands of residents marched in protest of police brutality; outbreaks emerged from family gatherings and as loosened restrictions in counties saw the openings of bars and dine-in restaurants.

Since the holiday weekend, hospitalizations more than doubled in southern California’s Riverside, Ventura and Orange counties. Orange county has emerged as a seat of organized resistance to mandatory mask orders.


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The Three "Rs":

Reading... Riting... Respirator.

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The US economy shrank by an annual rate of 32.9% between April and June, its sharpest contraction since the second world war, government figures revealed on Thursday, as more signs emerged of the coronavirus pandemic’s heavy toll on the country’s economy.

The record-setting quarterly fall in economic growth compared to the same time last year came as another 1.43 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, a second week of rises after a four-month decline.


The annualized figure is the largest drop in quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) – the broadest measure of the economy – since records began in 1945. Economists expect the rate to improve sharply later this year but the outlook has been clouded by the recent rise in infections across the US.

During the last financial crisis GDP shrank 8.4% in the worst quarter of 2008, according to Credit Suisse. The previous record came in 1958 when economic growth fell 10% during the Eisenhower recession.

The fall came as large parts of the US economy shutdown in March in an attempt to halt the spread of the coronavirus across the US. The closures led to a historic number of layoffs and sent unemployment soaring to levels unseen since the 1930s Great Depression.


All states have now begun to open up to some extent but the virus keeps spreading – more than 150,000 people have now died of Covid-19. As cases rise in California, Florida, Texas and elsewhere, some states have moved to restrict businesses again to stop the spread, renewing pressure on the US economy.

“This is something we have never seen before,” said Jason Reed, assistant chair of finance at the University of Notre Dame. “At first I felt it was like a natural disaster that had hit the entire country at the same time. Now it is evolving into something worse than that.”

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The balancing is a real problem; it's easy to say keep everything shut down, but what will we wind up with when the immediate crisis is over. Of course our president is hardly the guy to handle something as nuanced as this so I am not very optimistic--we'll wind up with the worst of both sides.

And yet I think he will be reelected; I certainly hope not, but I think he will. IMHO, the democrats, and Biden in particular, keeping too low a profile this late in the campaign season--there's only 3 months left to get out and revitalize the vote; it's those who don't vote who will decide this election and the dems had better get their collective asses in gear or they are doomed.

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