Re: Covid 19
I can hear the groans of disappointment, every time a treatment or possible vaccine is mention.
You noticed that too, eh? Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Speaking of which ...
Noted physician scientists Dr. Cuomo and Dr. Trump....I am really reassured by their evidence-free recommendations. We need to wait for controlled trials (which by the way are not difficult to run in this setting) before making broad based conclusions. This is experimental and should be limited to experiments.
Of course, how silly of them. I'm sure they're doing this without consulting with the medical experts.
BTW, I'm pretty sure when I voted back in November 2016, President Fauci was not on the ballot.
I have an idea. Let's let the elected leaders lead, and consult with the experts when making their decisions? And if the elected leaders want to give off a positive spin - "cheerleading" or whatever we want to call it - well, that's kind of what leaders do to rally their people in trying times. FDR gave his "Fear Itself" speech at the beginning of his first term in 1933, when all indicators were telling everyone it was still going to be a long slog through the '30's to get out of the Depression (which some would argue lasted through all 4 of his terms, including WW2) … and Churchill gave his "Never Surrender" speech while <s>the Germans were dropping bombs</s> some people were doing something daily over London. BTW I don't buy the "wartime President" thing here (yet) but the concept of leaders trying to bolster their peoples' optimism isn't really a foreign concept to you, is it?
The part I did see was a FEMA, I think, guy fumbling all over his words and the President, in full on ramble mode, about how glad he was that he spent so much money to buy the election. That part did not go well.
I will say, Peter Gaynor (the FEMA guy) looked nervous as a tick even before he started, and I don't know if he's spoken to the nation before. My wife asked me "Who's the guy with the RBF on the right side?" Not knowing the term, I asked and was then informed what RBF stands for, so that was my "new learning" for Sunday. I'm wondering if we'll be seeing him again, and if we do, someone may want to give him a drink in advance to steady his nerves.
Your take on President Trump's comments misses the overall context, which was numerous badgering questions (where he held his temper better than usual), including a snarky comment by a reporter who, when Trump said it was "too bad" about Senator Romney being in self-quarantine, asked "Was that sarcasm?" to which Trump immediately shot back "No" … and numerous other stupid questions about him and his proximity to Rand Paul (nothing), perceived need for him to re-test (no), a funny exchange with Pence about how they each handled the testing, and then inferences that bail-outs would somehow benefit Trump himself. Again, it's amazing how these bloodhounds somehow go off the trail when it leads to (say) a certain D-CA senator.
I didn't hear his (admittedly overlong) comments about his monetary loss in running for President being based so much on what he spent - and I think all credible sources will tell you he was outspent by his opponent in the general election - but rather on the money he's foregone by not only refusing to accept the annual $450,000 salary all recent Presidents have gladly accepted, but on divesting himself of his own companies' holdings. So when some wet-behind-the-ears know-nothing reporter badgers him about stupidity on an evening when he's clearly going overboard to answer everyone else's questions … yeah, I think it's OK if he points out that (unlike Burr and Feinstein, possibly others) he's hardly profiting from his experience in politics. But he's glad he did it.
What I took out of it was that it doesn't sound like the President is going to do anything like "shelter in place" on a nationwide basis, and leave the decisions on specific states to their governors. Both he and Pence mentioned multiple times how yesterday was "Day 7 out of the 15 day lockdown plan", and he outright called supposed forthcoming martial law "disinformation", which one would think some would prefer to his usual "fake news" terminology.
FWIW it looks like the markets are set to open UP this morning, after the weekend futures were well down until after last night's conference. So at least in this short window of time, it seems like the perceptions out there were pretty favorable.
A doctor interviewed later spoke very highly of the talking points presented so I'll go with that. The beginning went well.
Think of it as anti-Umile thinking -- I've won 20 games every year, so I will continue winning 20 games even though I've stopped recruiting any talent and so have no good players on my roster this coming year. Remember, there are always fans we railed against who just assumed things would remain as they always were.