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The coronavirus has been a known threat to public health for more than two months. Today -- today! -- the Trump administration finally decided to let doctors determine who should be tested.
nytimes.com/2020/03/04/hea…
It's only fair to note that large-scale testing hasn't been possible until now -- and may still not be possible -- because the Trump administration also failed to establish the necessary infrastructure.
This is a drive-through testing station in South Korea -- a country that had the same amount of lead time as the United States to get ready for this thing.
And this is how we've been rolling here in the United States:
nytimes.com/2020/02/27/hea…
Listen, it's one thing for Americans to accept that other countries have better health care systems than the United States.

But now other countries also have better drivethrus?
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Binyamin Appelbaum
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The founders dressed the new republic in the architecture of Greece and Rome to assert its legitimacy. Now the United States is nearly 250 years old; it no longer needs to wear borrowed clothes. nytimes.com/2020/02/07/opi…
Here are some of the buildings created under a 30-year old federal program to encourage excellence in civic architecture. The Moakley courthouse in Boston:
The Ferguson courthouse in Miami:
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Binyamin Appelbaum
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LSU cancelled all classes, for everyone, for two days, because its football team is playing for the national championship.

Obviously LSU's professional football players aren't there for the classes, but this is some next-level stuff.

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Do the Warren/Sanders "free public college" proposals include LSU, or would it only apply to actual schools?
If the @ncaa actually cared about students, it would bar schools from engaging in this kind of nonsense.

But the NCAA only cares about one thing: Making money.
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Four years ago, the Republican presidential candidates met for a debate at that library, with that plane as the backdrop.

They were asked what we should do about climate change.

And they fought for the chance to tell the moderates and the audience that we should do nothing.
At that debate on September 16, 2015, Marco Rubio declared, "We are not going to make America a harder place to create jobs in order to pursue policies that will do absolutely nothing, nothing to change our climate, to change our weather."
Chris Christie: "In fact we don’t need this massive government intervention to deal with the problem."
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Caroline Orr
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So it's true that the mortality rate for coronavirus is relatively low (about 2%), but that also increases the risk that it will become a pandemic. Diseases w/ high mortality rates are more self-containing b/c people are too sick (or dead) to go around spreading it to others.
So my point here is that the average person is likely to be fine if they're infected with coronavirus. But that's also a problem, b/c many will never go to the doctor and will walk around unknowingly infecting others. Across a global population, that 2% mortality rate adds up.
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🧵 As the Trump administration reckons with the #coronavirus outbreak, recall how Donald Trump reacted to the Ebola epidemic – in tweets, interviews, and news conferences.

In a public health emergency, he saw political opportunity.
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