President Trump suspends all travel to US from European countries – except the UK - for 30 days, due to coronavirus https://t.co/mus0Adf70C
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) March 12, 2020
New York City postpones St. Patrick’s Day Parade for the first time in its 258-year history due to #coronavirus concerns pic.twitter.com/ihyQv2qRyB
— AFP news agency (@AFP) March 12, 2020
China's coronavirus epicenter sees single-digit cases for first time https://t.co/EzpiC0YIDV Follow our liveblog for the latest developments around the new #coronavirus outbreak: https://t.co/673OUwbBt2 pic.twitter.com/TFyoUouHlS
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 12, 2020
Italy shuts all stores except for pharmacies and food shops in desperate bid to halt the spread of #coronavirus.
— AFP news agency (@AFP) March 12, 2020
Virus has killed 827 in the the country in just over two weekshttps://t.co/wostUR5BxI pic.twitter.com/Pq3vyo3MFF
NBA suspends all games after a player on the Utah Jazz preliminarily tests positive for coronavirus. https://t.co/v72zvU5EDr
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 12, 2020
Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert groaned and touched all microphones at a press conference before being ‘preliminary’ diagnosed with the Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/bbWU3qH06g
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 12, 2020
This is significant. https://t.co/WLk5I0ySr8
— Mike (@Doranimated) March 11, 2020
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Tokyo governor says cancelling Olympics 'unthinkable'
https://www.france24.com/en/20200312-tokyo-governor-says-cancelling-olympics-unthinkable
Can you say that again!?
WNU Editor; maybe I missed it, but not seeing anything on Putin’s big changes for himself.
Mike why ask WNU? I'm getting convinced that WNU is singing a duet with Zerohedge.
Putin's Shake-up of the Russian Government: Six Takeaways
El Salvador imposes national quarantine prohibiting any foreigners from entering the country for 30 days in bid to keep out coronavirus
Nancy Pelosi and Democrats to hold ribbon cutting ceremony on the Rio Grande asking illegals to come on down.
She further said that these undocumented immigrants will not be asked for papers or be subjected to NAZI-like health checks. "We are not NAZIS" She said emphatically.
In other news the patrician senator Nancy handed out flyers for a groundskeeper at her gated winery paying $14.99 a day.
The financial markets have plunged into a 2008-style crash, auguring a recession, perhaps a severe one. The Trump administration has had almost two months to think about this crisis. It has trial-ballooned some ideas. But, of course, fiscal policy would require assent from the House of Representatives. Trump is still pouting at Speaker Nancy Pelosi. So—aside from some preposterously unconvincing happy talk about the economy—again: nothing.
Thomas Levenson: Conservatives try to rebrand the coronavirus
There was one something in the speech: a ban on travel from Europe, but not the United Kingdom. It’s a classic Trump formulation. It seeks to protect America by erecting a wall against the world, without thinking very hard how or whether the wall can work. The disease is already here. The numbers only look low because of our prior failure to provide adequate testing. They will not look low even four days from now. And those infected with the virus can travel from other countries and on other routes. Trump himself has already met some.
The travel ban is an act of panic. Financial futures began crashing even as Trump was talking, perhaps shocked by his lack of an economic plan, perhaps aghast at his latest attack on world trade. (The speech seemed to suggest an embargo on European-sourced cargo as well, but that looks more like a mental lapse of Trump’s than a real policy announcement. The ban on cargo was retracted by a post-speech tweet, although the ban remains in the posted transcript of the speech.) Among other things, the ban represents one more refutation by Trump of any idea of collective security against collective threats. While China offers medical assistance to Italy, he wants to sever ties to former friends—isolating America and abandoning the world.
This crisis is not of Trump’s making. What he is responsible for is his failure to respond promptly, and then his perverse and counterproductive choice of how to respond when action could be avoided no longer.
The stately Oval Office setting underscored the gravity of the crisis, but Trump’s demeanor made clear how hemmed in he has become. For weeks now, Trump’s handling of the growing crisis has invited intensifying criticism. He has contradicted the public health experts in his own government, spread misinformation, accused the media of overhyping the threat of the virus to hurt his presidency, sought to lay blame on Democrats and the Chinese, and erupted in private meetings with advisers.
The coronavirus is testing Trump’s governing philosophy that gut instinct is better than traditional expertise, that preparation and careful study is no match for impulse and luck. And the outcome is threatening his chief claim for a second term: a booming economy.
Historian Douglas Brinkley said he is surprised it has taken this long to do what so many other presidents have done at moments of national crisis.
“President Trump has been delinquent in not giving an Oval Office address about coronavirus until now,” Brinkley said. “Out of the gate he wanted to minimize the public health crisis, but the public is in no mood for blarney and improvisation. They’re just looking for empirical facts.”
In announcing the travel ban Wednesday, Trump’s focus on Europe, and specifically the European Union, fits with his neo-isolationist foreign policy ethos. Trump excluded Britain from the ban, which was both a nod to its historic alliance with the United States and the fact that Britain is no longer part of the European Union.
Although Trump has said as recently as this week that the news media and Democrats are overhyping the coronavirus as a means to damage his presidency, he did not repeat that claim Wednesday night.
And the Parrot just shat all over these pages yet again.
I guess What Robert Heinlein said about parrots is true. They are not quite human.
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
- Robert Heinlein
Parrot making messes everyday.
Health officials have recorded six new cases of coronavirus in Russia, according to a federal task force. Five of the infections were discovered in Moscow and the other patient is in Nizhny Novgorod.
The government says all the new cases are linked to trips to Italy, where the disease has spread out of control. All six infected people are reportedly in good condition with only mild symptoms.
Russian officials previously confirmed four cases of coronavirus in Tyumen, the Transbaikal Territory, St. Petersburg, and Moscow.
Republicans’ interest in universal health care is ephemeral. Call it Medicare For All But Just For This One Disease.
But there’s an even deeper tragedy at play, beyond the meagerness of the new benefits. The true embarrassment is that it took a possible pandemic for leaders to realize that the health of the American work force is important to the strength of the nation.
As the coronavirus spiders across the planet, I’ve been thinking about the illness as a very expensive stress test for the global order — an acute, out-of-nowhere shock that is putting pressure on societies at their weakest points. Some nations, like Iran and perhaps Italy, are teetering under the threat; others, like South Korea, are showing remarkable resilience. The best ones will greet the crisis as an opportunity to build a more robust society, even better prepared for a future unseen danger. The worst will treat it as a temporary annoyance, refusing to consider deeper fixes even if they somehow stagger through this crisis.
And Parrot keeps on shatting
"Republicans’ interest in universal health care is ephemeral."
And a Democrat keeps on being a Democrat and lying.
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