printed this link today in a comment to a story on post lockdown rules that were just released. It's fairly consistent with what my ID internist friend has said as well as the rules for restaurants that are expected to go into effect fairly soon. What stood out to me was the insight offered by tracking infectious people and how important PPE and limiting exposure time to others is to reducing risk. Add the age and health risk considerations to the formula and we have the ability to develop a decent personal protocol for limiting risk. Lets face it. Our current lives depend on assessing risk because there are no hard and fast rules just like we still don't know enough about this thing to be sure of anything.

Of course our usual suspects, cranks and the delusional, were yelling about drinking cool aid and claiming they'd been right all along. sigh I sometimes think being an American is a symptom of mental defects.

Oh my Lord!!!! I haven't finished reading it yet, but wanted to thank you for posting a link to it. I am both horrified and fascinated. I honestly believe there are high school biology students who could do a better job than the ones currently running things.

From the Rolling Stone...

But on his visit to the CDC in Atlanta, Trump had made an extraordinary admission: That he did not want to let passengers from a cruise ship, then suffering an outbreak off the California coast, to come on shore because the tally of patients would rise. “I like the numbers being where they are,” Trump said. Those comments hit Sebelius like a punch in the gut. Trump plainly saw effective testing as a threat to his political messaging that the administration was containing the virus. By standing at CDC headquarters to declare that the tests were “perfect” and that he didn’t want COVID-19 numbers going up, the president was doing the exact opposite of demanding a fix. For the president’s deputies, Sebelius says, “there couldn’t be a clearer signal.”

Grover Norquist gets C19 big time, and gets the full effect of a government reduced in size, and drowned in a bath tub.

It will not be taken seriously. So open up those Golden Corral buffets and coffee shops. Pack those churches and beaches.

This Trump Pandemic has accomplished something Bernie Sanders could have never dreamed a year ago: cracked this rotten capitalist system wide open. Not in a good way, in any case, but "going back to normal" will never happen now. After the virus recedes, the homeless won't happily return to their roadside camps; the worker bees won't gleefully hop back into their cars and honk their way to their dead-end jobs to scrape together enough to pay their escalating rent. Nor will young people plunge back into lifelong debt in the hopes of getting a slightly better than minimum wage job upon graduating college.

Capitalism failed us long before the Trump Pandemic turned into the Trump Depression. But what will replace it? As Phil Ochs wrote, "Passion has led to chaos and now chaos will lead to order." We can't let the One Percent rebuild our dystopia.