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Oct 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
If the president’s testing timeline was exculpatory, would his Conley have refused to describe the testing timeline? He said he wouldn’t get into that when asked when the president’s last negative test had been.
It seems obvious what happened here: The president knew or had good reason to believe he had COVID, he didn’t want to admit it, and he just hoped it would be a mild enough case that he could just muddle through without disclosing it, superspreading all the way along.
He’s like COVID Corey, all the way down to the obnoxious social media presence.
Well, except that COVID Corey probably actually didn’t have COVID in the end.

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People who haven't updated their takes on Medicare since ~2007/8 really need to. Health care cost growth has come in way below forecast & reforms have cut some costs. As of '07, Medicare was forecast to be 8% of GDP by 2035. Current forecast is under 5%. joshbarro.com/p/nineties-2-e…
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People are making fun of this, but a built in smart scale sounds useful (just add ingredients directly to the bowl and read the weight), and if it works correctly, the feature that automatically adjusts speed as the viscosity of the contents changes would be convenient, too.
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We have some guest columnists coming in next week while I'm on vacation (and I think they're going to be really good!) but I suspect within a couple of years it'll just be possible to automate the newsletter when I'm away.
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