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I worried on Thursday about "a wave of infected American returning" through airports, but I admit I did not foresee this problem:
INFECTIOUS BOTTLENECK AT AIRPORTS

But it's a foreseeable disaster. THIS IS WHY WE ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE EXPERTS AND NOT SOCIOPATHS RUNNING THINGS.
Dallas:
Chicago, New York, Dallas airports:
Sociopath.
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"And somewhere in the darkness
The gambler he broke even
But in his final words
I found an ace that I could keep"

Rest in peace, Kenny Rogers.
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This Spotify playlist includes @don_schlitz's version, and my God it is so good.
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Jed Shugerman
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I love this.
Some of us are being tested more than others, some more unfairly than others.
But we're all being tested.
Let's take care of each other.
Let's try to make the best of it:

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2) TV pop culture parody
3) a witty wise positive "we got this" re-framing.

It's so perfect.
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Jed Shugerman
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To assess the criminal case against @SenatorBurr, we need to recognize a causation problem and a possible contradition between an initial moral wrong and the new alleged crime:

The problem of non-public information vs. obvious public information about the Coronavirus risk.
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2/ Condemning Burr was appropriate yesterday for 2 seemingly contradictory reasons:

A) It was already outrageous that Burr secretly sold off assets while publicly dismissed the *obvious* risk.

B) The new outrage with a crim twist was b/c he also had *non-public* briefings.
3/ The inconsistency - or at least a causation problem - as that the moral case against Burr is so strong because of how clear and public the risk already was.

That, in turn, makes the legal caustion case based on a non-public briefing more challenging.
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