“You will be judged in years to come by how your respond to genocide on your watch.” -- Nicholas Kirstof
“As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world’s ills as a definable group, it open the world up to genocide.” -- Steven Pinker
Deaths
US: 2,227 (+526)
World: 30,879 (+3620)
Blueprint For A Genocide: A President At War With His Own Country. “Our myths about authoritarians have left us unable to recognize one in our very midst. Our devotion to the myth of leadership and the solidity of American government has prevented us from seeing Donald Trump as a despot-in-the-making. And our misplaced optimism and faith have allowed creeping authoritarianism to destroy our institutions one at a time. Now, as we stand on the precipice of what could be a historical atrocity, we rely on dated and limited definitions of genocide to hide our fear of a storm that is set to rage and kill an untold amount of Americans.” — There’s much more. Go read it.
I’m Talking to Americans From Six Feet Away; Why Isn’t the Task Force? “Tents have been seen outside the White House main gate to ensure only healthy reporters can get inside to visit Commodus. I mean Caligula. I mean Trump. The remainder of the press corps is shut out of the White House complex. Trump is talking in the Brady Briefing Room to mostly empty seats on a daily basis. The folly cannot be overstated. I repeat: The president of the United States, during a time of national crisis, is conducting daily briefings to a mostly empty room. He tells us to practice social distancing while cramming a small stage with 10 health experts who don’t follow their own advice. Alice in Wonderland on purple windowpane acid would make more sense...The virus is real. The threat is real. The existential threat from Donald Trump is real...And here we are—the eyes and ears of the American people—stuck in a room with a madman if we’re among the few left at the White House, or working from home trying to make sense of a world turned upside down.”
Trump says he won’t comply with key transparency measures in the coronavirus stimulus bill. The administration says it won’t provide documentation for audits into $500 billion in corporate bailout funds. — And the coverup begins.
Questioning authority in times of crisis is not unpatriotic. It's critical.
Trump asks CDC to issue strong travel advisory for New York, New Jersey, Connecticut.
Here's how to debunk coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories from friends and family.
What it's like for health care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. "I don't have the support that I need, and even just the materials that I need physically to take care of my patients," Smith said. "And it's America and we're supposed to be a first-world country."
People With Intellectual Disabilities May Be Denied Lifesaving Care Under These Plans as Coronavirus Spreads. Disaster preparedness plans in Washington and Alabama say people with cognitive issues are a lower priority for lifesaving treatment. Disability advocacy organizations have asked the federal government to clarify the plans.
States and hospitals are preparing to convert anesthesia machines for use on COVID-19 patients in need of breathing assistance.
Watch New Orleans. With the country’s attention turned north, the coronavirus pandemic is exploding in Louisiana.
The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged, began lifting a two-month lockdown by restarting some metro services and reopening borders. — I doubt Americans have the stomach for a two-month lockdown.
Reporting on Covid-19 in Italy: 'Life as we've known it has stopped'.
Shellshocked Spain reports record 832 new coronavirus deaths.
Coronavirus forecast: Deaths could peak in Washington state by mid-April.
‘Not just a big city issue': Coronavirus cases soar in rural America popular with tourists.
“At 4:00 pm today -- on the very day that the United States has reached a record 100,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and our Tribe is desperately struggling with responding to this devastating pandemic -- the Bureau of Indian Affairs informed me that the Secretary of the Interior has ordered that our reservation be disestablished and that our land be taken out of trust. Not since the termination era of the mid-twentieth century has a Secretary taken action to disestablish a reservation.”
Merkel thanks compliant Germans, shutdown to continue until at least April 20.
Coronavirus: India defiant as millions struggle under lockdown.
Fort Wayne, Indiana, is urging people to fight the loneliness of isolation by going out at 7 p.m. and waving to their neighbors.
GameStop to employees: wrap your hands in plastic bags and go back to work. The company has instructed employees to wrap one hand in a plastic bag to accept payments at the door. — Weel, no more shopping at GameStop.
Rightwing thinktanks use fear of Covid-19 to fight bans on plastic bags.
Inslee signs bill mandating sex education in Washington schools. — This is a very good thing.
Tornado tears through Arkansas city, prompting curfew and National Guard response.
Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.
Until next time, my friends. Good night.
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