Ever have one of those nightmares where it's your time to talk and everybody's looking at you, but you haven't prepared anything?
I've had that nightmare a million times, but never once where the amount of time I had to tread water and ad lib and fail and flail was **four hours**.
Now I'm worried that the next time I have this nightmare, I'm going to say things like "off the top of my head I can't remember" and "whatever it was, I'm not sure". That would be an even worse nightmare than my usual.
In my recurring “I’m not prepared and yet I’m talking anyway” nightmare, if I got to a point where I said “Nebraska is quite the judicial thinking place,” I think that’s the time I would wake up yelling and sweating.
Me: “The constitution shall make no laws... uh... all of these things!”
Susan: “Honey you’re yelling in your sleep”
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"Alabama saw its largest single-day increase in new cases Monday, a little more than three weeks after the stay-at-home order expired on April 30 and two weeks after the state allowed restaurants and bars to reopen on May 11." alreporter.com/2020/05/26/wer…
"The number of cases confirmed per day in Alabama has been rising since April 30, showing no sign of slowing. Over the past week, new cases rose faster than in 46 other states with no comparable increase in testing." alreporter.com/2020/05/26/wer…
"Those who say more testing is the only cause for the rise in cases are simply wrong, said Dr. Michael Saag, infectious disease expert at UAB.
“They’re not walking through the hospital like I am, seeing the entire ICU just loaded with only COVID patients" alreporter.com/2020/05/26/wer…
"Aome senior officials believe that the disease is already spreading rapidly through the warren of cramped offices that make up the three floors of the West Wing." nytimes.com/2020/05/10/us/…
"Most restaurants, offices and retail stores do not have the ability to regularly test all their employees and quickly track down and quarantine the contacts of anyone who gets infected. At the White House, all employees are being tested at least weekly" nytimes.com/2020/05/10/us/…
"Like other members of the White House staff, Ms. Miller did not regularly wear a mask while at work. On Thursday she was seen on television talking without a mask within a few feet of several reporters, all of whom were wearing one." nytimes.com/2020/05/10/us/…
"This raises the question of whether Trump is exploiting his own access to rapid testing to mislead the country into believing things are normal when the rest of the country lacks this access to testing and thus doesn’t enjoy the safety Trump does...
"The months the administration wasted with prevarication about the threat and its subsequent missteps will amount to exponentially more COVID19 cases than were necessary. In other words, the president has blood on his hands." bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/opi…
"Catastrophic decisions in the White House have doomed the world’s richest country to a season of untold suffering." bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/opi…
"As the American public braces itself for the worst of this crisis, it’s worth remembering that the reach of the virus here is not attributable to an act of God or a foreign invasion, but a colossal failure of leadership." bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/opi…
Hi, Mr. President -- thanks for tweeting that interview. Gen. Semonite and the Army Corps are indeed doing great work, but at nowhere near the scale that is needed.
We're hundreds of thousands of hospital beds behind, months behind schedule, and...
...we're about to see the number of sick patients surge and hospitals overflow in multiple US sites at once.
This is not an NYC problem or even just a city problem. The apex patient surges will not happen tidily, one after the other, they'll flare up all over, overlapping.
(By the way, did anyone show you the rest of the show from last night?)
"Health officials in NY, California and other hard-hit areas are restricting testing to health workers and people who are hospitalized, saying the battle to contain the virus is lost and the country is moving into a new phase of the pandemic response." washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03…
"As cases spike sharply, they're hunkering down for an onslaught, directing scarce resources where they are needed most to save people’s lives. Instead of encouraging broad testing of the public, they’re focused on conserving masks, ventilators, ICU beds." washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03…
"People with a manageable fever and cough who aren’t at high risk should assume they have it and not seek testing.
Doing so exposes health workers administering tests and uses up protective gear." washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03…