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Not by anyone watching the numbers. We will be at 75K in less than 10 days.

Yes. Yes, and it didn’t happen. The best thing to come out of this so far is that Trump appears to be trying to act more presidential this week after looking so much the moron.

I doubt anyone believed your post but just in case, here’s a thorough refutation.

Absolutely. The last few have been grown up on both sides.

Trump is smart to not fall for the "Just wipe out the Chinese debt" rhetoric circulating lately. That would be idiotic and it's good he quashed it.

Taking more shots at Sweden's approach. Says the lockdown was the way to go. Very proud of the US lockdown. Owning it all the way.

He implied that China released a virus after we were tough on China in the trade deal. Which makes no economic sense. China hurts the Chinese economy by releasing a virus? Not too smart. China sucks BTW.

China wanted to hurt the world economy because China wants to crush their economy down too? That's some logic.

Trump does not think Sweden is doing well and defends the shutdown. Which is a good thing since he recommended it.

Hard to justify a position not to wear a mask because it's hard to breathe and itches. No kidding. No one love it. But when we lift this thing and I am eager to do so sensibly, case counts will go up, hospitals will get busier, and more people will die. Shouldn't we take the easy steps to keep that to a minimum? Face masks in stores, social distance reasonably. Avoid large crowds. Extra handwashing and sanitizing of hands. Extreme precautions around at-risk people. Our business will stay remote for a while just because we can. None of these things are huge. We know this is an extremely contagious disease and it will kill a lot more people no matter what % the mortality measure is. The least we can do is our part to minimize that, even if it's kind of annoying.

It's not 4 but it's still very few. (From CDC website)

Given that it was a funeral of a Rabbi who died of Covid-19, living in a community largely ignoring the shutdown rules and already suffering disproportionately because of it, more cases are all but guaranteed.

Photo 2 doesn't look like anyone is within 15 feet of another group of people. Perspective makes them look jammed together.

A lot of NYC stories about Hasidic/Orthodox gatherings in large numbers. The immediate story had deBlasio on the scene here. And deBlasio followed his first tweet with this one. "We have lost so many these last two months + I understand the instinct to gather to mourn. But large gatherings will only lead to more deaths + more families in mourning. We will not allow this. I have instructed the NYPD to have one standard for this whole city: zero tolerance." Trump school of communications in wording in first Tweet but the full context was the absurd funeral gathering.

Having worked in many, yes. Especially in uneaten portions. Amount of waste depends on type of restaurant in my experience. Nicer restaurants with smaller portions had less waste in front and back. Faster food least waste in back in fact I remember only bread being regularly tossed. Buffet style (college caf) endless waste everywhere, just wasted food in stunning quantities. Nothing compares to home food waste in America though.

2470 just under the highest yet. The really bad news is that NYC was near a record low. Lots of other states are having record highs. The human toll is so sad with this. Hard to hear these numbers each day and consider each one as a person many people love. Heartbreaking to leave the graphs.

I agree that it is hard but heavy lies the crown and all that. I will judge a lot of politicians by the results of what has happened here, and we all should do the same. No one could have seen this coming and few had any real reaction until the Utah Jazz night. From there I am happy to give a long look at our Executives at the federal and state levels, who have had the reins on this much more than their legislatures.

I think he’s done a great job with this pandemic overall and I’ve defended him many times especially for anyone suggesting someone else could have done better, but it doesn’t mean he hasn’t had some low moments, most notably his overconfidence.

Trump has been a mess enough times on predicting this that you’ll forgive me for being a little off on this one. But happy to admit he didn’t say we’d be ready to open after Easter. Now if you can defend cases going from 15 to zero...

Good to supply the full quote, thank you--I only had the partial. On another topic, let's make sure we don't do this: Japan Haikkado back into lockdown after cases rise to levels higher than before first lockdown.

He didn't say he was going to be "looking at reopening over Easter." He said the economy would be "opened up and just raring to go by Easter." I don't really care that he was wrong but let's not spin this into him being right.

I was thinking this too, but even more so how much food waste is built into restaurants vs home cooking. We aren't eating less, we are wasting less.

Between that, India's 939 deaths, and China's data, I'm not sure what to believe less.

I agree that if we reopen too soon, we risk the gains we made to get this under control, but we can't stay closed and what we have now is a disease for two groups of the population: Group 1) Older people and people with health issues like hypertension, obesity (most of America), breathing issues, heart disease Group 2) The rest Group 2 is at a negligible risk. There are dog-bites-man stories about group 2 that are heartbreaking but they are the exception we remember, not the norm in any way. We should let group 2 get back to work and dedicate time and resources to helping group 1, who really need it.

Since Korea got its first confirmed case in late Jan (same day as the US), of course they weren't testing in January. Korea was testing widely in February, when it could still put a lid on this. By the end of February, with a population ~1/6 of the US, Korea had conducted 98K tests to the US 3K. You're kidding yourself if you don't think that their testing and tracing regimen didn't make a difference. It absolutely did.