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You have a knack of completely missing the main point. The illegal part wasn't a specific dumb mandate, but any mandate from the federal government absent some kind of an emergency powers provision. You can make an argument that trump & admin didn't set up better procedures for the states to acquire the needed equipment early on, but his quip to the states that "you are on your own" was following US laws. It surely sounds cold-hearted and insensitive, but that's how the US laws are set up.

I could have sworn that you said you were leaving? How about reading the the Covid thread for the response?

It's not breathtaking, because it's not true. Boy, you must love to see your name starting random thread on topics already discussed. And you think you're not part of the problem?

Usually things that ignore math do not add up. There are serious gaps in logic and statistics to arrive at their conclusion. If Sturgis was a super spreader event, the numbers would be clearly evident in the daily case numbers. Let's ignore the fundamental error of the dates used in the sample, which pick up higher daily Wuhan counts in the first week of August, before anyone associated with Sturgis got infected, but more importantly started the super spread. No, no, the main problem is extrapolating 266k cases nationwide from the event, which defies basic trend analysis. At the start of the rally, US was reporting about 63k 7-day moving average, which was about a week past the national peak of 68k. You can make an argument that Sturgis lead to the slowdown of the accelerated decline that was evident in early August, as in the 2nd week of August 7-day avg case counts plateaued at about 55k, when they were dropping by about 1.5k per day in the first week of August. But, in the following week, the cases resumed their previous downward trajectory. If Sturgis was truly responsible for 266k additional deaths, the trendline would have looked completely different, and you would have seen an increase in the 7-day moving average. Instead, the cases continued to drop at the previous pace from mid-august to the end and then plateaued (but was still on a downward trend). Sturgis can be the cause of SOME increased cases, but that number is nowhere near 266k, and more importantly, there wasn't a commensurate increase in hospitalizations and deaths. But great headline, though.

So you are a non liberal anti-semite? Good to know. What does US southern history have to do with 1930s Germany?

Proving that you don't know history and fascism, especially the roots of liberal anti-semitism.

That's how it used to be. Apparently some people don't like that tried and true method.

Is that when the President instructed his intel chiefs to dig up dirt on a Presidential candidate? Or when that President winked away as his intel chiefs tried to frame the incoming administration? I get my Presidential scandals confused all the time now.

I wonder if there ever was a night of broken glass that's been memorialized as a start of something more horrific? After all, it's just glass.

So much for that vaunted national strategy to combat the virus.

He won't, because Trump has a knack for pissing people off as they walk out the door

Leaving aside the Dem states efforts to resist Federal mandates, what exactly have the other countries done that is so much better than US?

We've been through this before. It would have been impossible to have a national strategy because, it's illegal under US laws, and you can imagine the response if Trump enacted an emergency decree in March.

Are you channeling your inner Fulghum, as in the mattress was on fire when you lay on it? How about addressing the crux of the problem, instead of playing word games with tenses. You've yet to propose an alternative to the police handling a psychotic episode where the EMTs didn't want to touch the guy until he was restrained. How would YOU deal with a violent mentally disturbed individual who's high on PCP?

You apparently have a totally different definition of the word "multiple" than the rest of the English speaking population.

My understanding is that EMT were on the scene and the cops were following procedure, especially with a psychotic guy, who was spitting on them at the height of Covid in NYS.

It's a known condition for PCP side effects and was the EMT diagnosis in the scene. Good luck getting a murder conviction based on medical evidence and history.

As many as can keep you tingling for joy. Keep pretending there's no problem.

Have you checked 60 miles to the east?

So you missed the fun times leading up to 2000 :). Definitely not in a rush to get back to the office.

Funny how you equate the current political situation in the US to a war. Thanks for the confirmation.

I also don't buy the excuse that the anonymous sources are arrays to go *****. If this was as true as reported, the source would be the country's biggest hero. Also, why didn't this story come out during the Ukraine saga?

Realistically, Trump said something about losers and suckers and military in France. But it's doubtful that he used them in the context that Atlantic reported.

That's why the logic isn't consistent. There was no abatement in cases during summer peak, but there was a significant drop in mortality. If they're concerned that the virus will turn more deadly as the weather cools, wouldn't it make more sense to have greater exposure of healthier people in the summer when the virus is at its weakest? They also don't explain why the virus will get more deadly in the fall. I understand why transmissions could increase as more people socialize indoors, but why would it turn more lethal?

What a difference a few months makes? Wondering what made IHME do an about face in their estimates?