Un-freaking-believable. Now more than ever, people are looking to elected leaders for signals on how to mitigate risk. Is it any wonder so many aren't following health guidelines? And this is the allegedly pro-science party!
Just in the past week:
-- Newsom's indoor unmasked dinner with lobbyists
-- Pelosi's indoor new members banquet
-- NYT op-ed "I'm traveling anyway"
-- Cuomo doing this
What's a well-intentioned person who is on the cusp about pandemic restrictions supposed to conclude from this?
Either our elite class is full of hypocrites incapable of even modest amounts of self-sacrifice, or our public health guidelines are mostly for show and can be tossed aside as soon as they pose a minor inconvenience. Which is it?
Apparently a lot of people on here really want to let Democrats off the hook because Republicans are, objectively speaking, 1,000x worse. "Better things aren't possible" but for pandemic response.
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The most plausible path seemed like: 1. Trump wants to steal the election 2. Launches legal challenges to throw out D votes 3. Pressures officials to not certify, throwing electors to partisan legislatures 4. ELECTION STOLEN
A long shot? Yes. But they were/are trying *very* hard
Again, and I will be a broken record on this: the only thing standing between now and a much more chaotic timeline is the conscience of a few Republican judges and election officials.
And given current political realities and the fact that most of the GOP *went along with this,* I don't see why the GOP plan for the next four years isn't to install more pliant judges and officials for the next time this happens.
A recent survey found that 40% of Americans plan to attend a Thanksgiving gathering with 10 or more people. Here are the odds of encountering a Covid-positive person at one of those gatherings. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
Caveat: These numbers will only look worse on Thanksgiving day given the uncontrolled spread everywhere. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
Data comes from @joshuasweitz's COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool, which was recently peer-reviewed in Nature.
Wife hears a commotion in the toddler’s room 2 hours after lights out. She goes down to investigate and finds him pacing around talking to himself. There’s a half empty soda bottle perched precariously on his bed. (1/n)
The little shit had snuck out of his room, raided the fridge, found the leftover soda from dinner, and brought it back to his room for a little one-toddler party. But that wasn’t all.
Returning to our room the wife notices something *under* the dining room table. It’s another soda bottle, this one empty, along with a tube of Go-Gurt that appears to have been gnawed open and drained.
The only way we know this, by the way, is because of a lawsuit filed by civil rights groups. Tracking this kind of thing should be a no-brainer for the USPS but they fought it tooth and nail. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
NEW: USPS data dug up by @jacobbogage shows that the battleground states that may decide the presidency have some of the nation’s most erratic mail service, with obviously troubling implications for vote-by-mail washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
Among other things, we were able to make this nifty animation showing how district-level on-time delivery has fluctuated this year. You'll notice everything tanks in July, shortly after DeJoy took over. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
Here's the national average in chart form. DeJoy has said his changes would boost service in the long run, but months later service remains considerably slower than it was at the beginning of the year. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…