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*COVID-19 FACTS*

Most Dangerous Place to Be in Public: Indoors
Maximum Distance COVID-19 Droplets Carry: 27 feet
Maximum Time COVID-19 Droplets Hang in Air: 14 minutes
Percentage of Infected Persons Who Are Asymptomatic: 25 to 75

Did they ask Jenkins about room and class sizes?
PS/ My only point is—these conversations are complex. If media is going to discuss this issue, as it should, we probably need to get into the weeds a bit. How many contact tracers has Notre Dame hired? How many can get sick before the school closes? We must get beyond platitudes.
PS2/ It's possible that we have people all across the country coming up with real solutions to very thorny logistical problems: how often do you clean the bathrooms? Does a class go HyFlex the moment one student is sick? These are *hard* questions media will begin to ask broadly.
PS3/ I'm of course only speaking for myself and in quite general terms about the need for us to be as specific as we can be in acknowledging the challenges here. I worry when I see a CNN interview that is more about reassurances than detailed, comprehensive plans and principles.
PS4/ The CDC says 6 feet is a safe distance; studies say otherwise. How do we reconcile this?

If droplets hang in air for up to 14 minutes, how do we ask people to socially distance from the perimeter of the space where a person *was* speaking... 13 minutes ago? See the problem?
PS5/ I don't mean to suggest answers might not exist to *all* these questions—and schools are working *damn* hard on them. But Notre Dame saying—in effect—we've created a fever house and we have top experts and near-universal testing is around the corner... not sure that cuts it.
SOURCES/ Re: 27 feet—it's from a recent MIT study. Re: 14 minutes—it's from a May 2020 NIH study in the open-access journal PNAS. Re: 75% asymptomatic, it's actually 80% (sorry for the typo); see the link below. Google will bring up the others immediately. cebm.net/covid-19/covid…
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Want to know what the Holy Grail of American journalism is right now?

Discovering the story of Trump's emergency (mid-"cold") visit to Walter Reed military hospital days after U.S. military intelligence discovered there was a new virus in China.

Whoever gets it gets a Pulitzer.
PS/ The first comprehensive narrative of that event to be published in the United States will be published in PROOF OF CORRUPTION. But I fully expect that reporting on this issue will continue until the incontrovertable truth is revealed. It's already clear the truth will be bad.
PS2/ Many don't realize that Trump wouldn't have gone to a military hospital for any of the common bases he might have had for an emergency visit to a hospital.

For an acute issue, he'd have gone to George Washington. For a non-acute issue, he would've used his White House team.
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(NOTE) This is comprehensively addressed in my forthcoming book PROOF OF CORRUPTION, and people will be shocked by what the major-media evidence suggests: Trump wasn't undergoing a physical, but was experiencing a scare related to the emerging virus in China. Yes—in November '19.
PS/ The book constructs a comprehensive timeline using only major-media investigative reports. The confluence of facts, dates, and communications established by major media around the world first confirms that this wasn't a physical, then points *strongly* to a "new virus" scare.
PS2/ The implications of this major-media reporting are staggering, including that the WH was aware of the virus in November and began ignoring grave warnings about China's virus-related perfidy for reasons—also comprehensively explored in the book—unrelated to national security.
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"Extraordinary" doesn't cover it. A federal district court judge asking for briefs on an issue shouldn't be subject to appeal—given that Flynn isn't incarcerated and is post-plea, meaning DOJ prosecutors no longer hold his fate in their hands—let alone result in a move like this.
NYT: "'Everything about this case is unusual,' said David Sklansky, a Stanford professor of criminal law. 'It's unusual to ask a higher court to direct a lower court to do something before the lower court has had a chance to make up its own mind in the first instance.'"

*Yep*.
PS/ It's not even clear what's being appealed, as no decision has been rendered. Flynn, who's not incarcerated, is complaining of—what—a *delay* in his case? He's post-plea... so on what basis, precisely, is a several-week delay in sentencing violating his constitutional rights?
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