WORLDOMETER Latest COVID-19 RESULTS

Coronavirus cases          1,035,454

Coronavirus deaths              59,252

Coronavirus recoveries     142,162

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2 Things: Trump approval tanking and his COVID-19 testing of 2% ridiculoua

Donald Trump's latest approval rating on the handling of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic hits the bottom of the barrel...

To be specific, it is down 22 points and I would give anything to have seen his face the first time he saw that number. In other words, what he thinks is his beautiful, wonderful handling of the COVID-19 crisis is really for shit. Here's the analysis from Newsweek...

"As a result, the net approval for Trump's performance, which is determined by deducting the share of those who disapprove from the share who do approve, sat 8 percentage points "underwater," Morning Consult said in a breakdown of its findings.

As an example of the confusion the Oval Office lunatic has caused, his suggestion "that injecting patients who test positive for coronavirus with disinfectant could be helpful...the U.S. saw a spike in calls made to poison control centers in at least four states." It is hard to believe anyone would have confidence in a stupid recommendation like this but, then, we are talking about double-digit Trump supporters.

My testing program

And then we come full present to today's plan from T-rump, one in which he has arranged for 2% of each state to now be tested--folks this is 4 months after he knew of the problem--and "Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said that number is nowhere close to adequate," according to Jake Johnson of Common Dreams. Completely inadequate...

“It’s about 6 to 7 million [tests],” said Jha, “and if that’s one-time, that doesn’t do anything.”

"The blueprint (pdf) is organized into an eight-part strategy that largely leaves states responsible for carrying out a massive expansion of testing, even as governors say they lack the equipment and capacity to ramp up screenings to the level that experts say is necessary."

Trump says his role is to "enable innovation," something this White House is completely incapable of.  

A Very Stable Genius Trump...NOT

Coming from Washington Post writers, Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, "A Very Stable Genius" is the continuing brilliance of those on the inside to portray a mentally challenged Donald Trump...

I am two-thirds way through "A Very Stable Genius" and am amazed at the way these two reporters have organized the information on Donald Trump to the extent you actually feel you are in the room where it is happening. It is hard to select something to quote but in consideration of Trump's totalitarian governing approach, there was a part in the book where he gives kudos to Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president.

A senior aide describes the two's speakerphone conversations as "un-fucking-believable, like hearing Hitler at a Nuremberg rally." Says Erdogan's voice was chilling, like Satan's, but Trump has long admired the man for his ruthless rule in Turkey and the ease with which he dispatched political rivals. This is unadulterated mental sickness at its worst, when you are talking about the person who rules the freest country in the world.

Best friends, Erdogan and Trump

Jennifer Rubin's Washington Post opinion piece recently headlined, "‘Stable genius’ or dangerous ignoramus?" is a good question but one that has been answered repeatedly over the last few months, with each time Donald Trump opens his mouth. She quotes from one of his recent press conferences...

“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out, in a minute. Is there a way we can do something like that? By injection, inside, or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. You’re going to have to use medical doctors, right? But it sounds interesting to me.”

This is the leader of the world's most advanced nation in such a confused state that what he is recommending could immediately kill thousands of people if they took his advice. But it was right after this at a later press conference where the disinfectant thing was brutally criticized, Donald Trump actually showed signs of doubt, both in what he was saying and also from the harsh criticism he received. He quietly left the room without taking questions.

I'm only a puttering psychologist, but are we seeing the first breaking point in the Trump facade, the latest of many that have come down the line, and are sure to eventually push Trump over the edge. A tragic way to have to get rid of a president but the only way when you have the head of the U.S. Senate, lowlife Moscow Mitch McConnell, constantly propping him up. Cody Fenwick, writing in AlterNet said...

"Of course, if Trump does genuinely feel shame, it’s not likely to last long. He’ll likely revert to his vastly overconfident self in short order."

Trump coming off the spool at a press conference...WATCH!

We'll be watching for more signs. After over three years, Donald Trump still does not know how to do his job, according to another piece by Cody Fenwick, this time in RawStory. The writer believes the Oval Office lunatic has contrived this reality show in his head, much like his former show, "The Apprentice," where he interviewed and fired people. In today's show, here's how Fenwick sees it...

"He likely doesn’t have the ability to coordinate all the relevant actors, tap into the expertise of the administration, and craft a long-term strategy for fighting the pandemic and saving as much of the economy as possible. But regardless of whether he could do what is needed, it’s clear that he’s not interested in this hard work."

Trump just cannot shed the carnival barker personality that so often shows him for the idiot he is. Like this...

“It’s just a suggestion, from a brilliant lab, by a very, very smart, perhaps brilliant, man,” Trump said. “He’s talking about sun, he’s talking about heat. And you see the numbers. So that’s it. That’s all I have. I’m just here to present talent. I’m here to present ideas. Because we want ideas to get rid of this thing.”

We're all waiting for the next episode of Donald Trump's new reality show. Don't forget, "A Very Stable Genius," a great read.

WORLDOMETER Latest COVID-19 RESULTS

Coronavirus cases          1,007,949

Coronavirus deaths              56,647

Coronavirus recoveries     137,720

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Why is there is no dog in the White House?

Presidential dogs go all the way back to the beginning...George Washington...

Should there be a doggy in the White House? NO

Washington had seven dogs, one was named Drunkard. Trump has no dog. Abraham Lincoln had eight, one named Fido, who was assassinated by a drunk with a knife a couple months after Lincoln was killed. Trump is dogless. Teddy Roosevelt had twenty-four, which probably led to a rowdy White House, but that's the way he liked it. Still, Donald Trump has no dog. Barack Obama had his Bo, and even Richard Nixon had a dog, four in all. But not T-rump.

And that, folks, is what is wrong with the current White House, in addition, of course, to the fact its head occupant is a raving maniac doing what he has been doing since he entered that historic monument, tearing this country apart, piece by piece. But, would a dog do him any good? If you are a real animal lover, you have your pet because you want to give it loving care and a forever home. Our cats are treated as if they are our children, which they really are.

But an animal of any kind in Donald Trump's company is like...throwing it to the lions. Yes, a dog in this White House would, due to perpetual strife, be peeing and pooping from the Lincoln bedroom to the Oval Office to Trump's private quarters. A cat, on its first day. would observe the White House maniac in action, spray on the imperial desk, then find a place to hide. Animals know what's going on, and they know a phony the minute they spot it. Donald Trump.

Based on an opinion piece in the New York times by Jennifer Finney Boylan.

What's wrong with America?-Donald Trump...What's wrong with Donald Trump?-Mitch McConnell...

Trump latest from The New Yorker: Mitch McConnell is still refusing to rein in Trump — and things are getting worse for Americans...

The relationship is bending

And folks it is Moscow Mitch that has allowed the Oval Office lunatic the freedom to do what he pleases from the White House, most recently screw up the response to the coronavirus pandemic and fight with the scientific experts for who knows the best about the clinical approach to the disease. On some fronts this moron has won, like the widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, in which he has a financial interest along with his cronies.

Here's the scenario...

"New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer explained that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is enabling President Donald Trump’s bad behavior at a time that Americans need a leader the most."

 There's more...

"The New Yorker explained that McConnell’s worship for Trump is really a kind of 'cynical political genius.' He’s both protecting his caucus and covering himself in a deeply red state where Trump is more popular than even he is. "It is well known that McConnell interfered with witnesses against Donald Trump at his impeachment trial, a move thought by many to have turned the trial in T-rump's favor. 

Columnists and Gov. Cuomo on Mitch McConnell...

"Columnist and journalism professor Al Cross called McConnell’s partnership with Trump 'the most important political relationship in the country.'” And with McConnell in control of the Senate, this lowlife, with absolutely no ethics and no concern for what happens to this country as long as he maintains his power, it will never get better until we get him out of Congress, out of Washington. Here's what a Common dreams writer had to say...

"A decade ago, in my first public writing since leaving Capitol Hill, I warned that the Republican Party, in its evolution towards an extremist conservative movement allied with extremist Christian fundamentalism, was becoming like 'one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.'”

His conclusion: "They value only absolute power or ruin." Changed to "He valued only absolute power or ruin," should be on Mitch McConnell's tombstone. The author professes a more simplistic approach and...

"simply call the Republicans and their religious and secular conservative allies what they are, and in unadorned English: a death cult."

Now that's heavy and perfectly corresponds to earlier GOP talk during the Obamacare hassle where the Republicans recommended death panels for citizens age seventy-four and over, today it's...

"cheerfully suggesting that a few dead elderly people would be a small price to pay to protect the U.S. economy in the coming weeks."

A year ago but still appropriate on McConnell's destruction of the Senate...

It is obvious how far this Grand Old Party has gone to shore up its power and what it will do to get it and keep it. It is why Progressives find Republicans so disgusting. And there is yet one more idiot Congressman from Indiana, Trey Hollingsworth, who made the comment...

“it is always the American government’s position to say, in the choice between the loss of our way of life as Americans and the loss of life, of American lives, we have to always choose the latter.”

But this blockhead took it even further with this comment...

“'It is policymakers’ decision to put on our big boy and big girl pants and say it is the lesser of these two evils.' This encapsulates the stereotype of the economic conservative: Dickens’s Thomas Gradgrind, the rigid, condescending, and heartless pedagogue."

And this is the kind of Republican that is running this country today, and a primary reason the White House maniac can get away with what he does. But the latest play of Moscow Mitch is his latest position re. the plight of U.S. states during the COVID-19 pandemic. His attitude is there will be no more federal aid and as far as he is concerned, they can just go bankrupt. Since the Democrats in Congress are all wimps, there is no choice but to dump them with the GOP.

Trump Today collection of coronavirus news

It's time again to review coronavirus headline stories you need to know about...catch up with the following...

HEADLINE: "REVEALED: White House pushed FEMA to give its biggest coronavirus contract to a company that never had to bid."   READ MORE...


HEADLINE: "Food goes to waste amid coronavirus crisis."   READ MORE...


HEADLINE: "Poultry Worker’s Death Highlights Spread of Coronavirus in Meat Plants."   READ MORE...

HEADLINE: "He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus."   READ MORE...

HEADLINE: "Trump reportedly asked Dr. Anthony Fauci whether it was possible to allow the coronavirus to 'wash over' the US."   READ MORE...


HEADLNE: "Fauci admits earlier Covid-19 mitigation efforts would have saved more American lives."   READ MORE...



HEADLINE: "‘It is what it is’: Fauci carefully admits Trump ‘could have saved lives’ if he took the virus seriously."   READ MORE...





HEADLINE: "What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Responses Have In Common? Women Leaders."   READ MORE...



HEADLINE: "Furious Nebraskans blame GOP governor for surge in COVID-19 cases after he refused to issue stay at home order." 
READ MORE...

HEADLINE: "All the cruise ships that have had confirmed cases of COVID-19 onboard." 
READ MORE...


HEADLINE: "Florida nursing homes a coronavirus ‘nightmare’: Gov. Ron DeSantis deploys National Guard."   READ MORE...

HEADLINE: "Rick Wilson: Trump’s press conference meltdown was a ‘manic ragefest by America’s Worst President.’"   READ MORE...

HEADLINE: "Trump obliterated nursing home safety regulations in 2017 — COVID is showing why they’re desperately needed: Ex-healthcare official."  READ MORE...

HEADLINE: "'God help us’: Americans horrified after Trump names Jared and Ivanka to his ‘Council to Re-open America.'"   READ MORE...

HEADLINE: "Trump’s ‘delusional’ supporters will never admit they were wrong — even in the face of national catastrophe."   READ MORE...

That completes the latest roundup of COVID-19 news...

Latest WORLDOMETER COVID-19 RESULTS

Coronavirus cases          818,352

Coronavirus deaths          45,290

Coronavirus recoveries    82,860

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Donald Trump still doesn't get it for COVID-19 testing

Italy has almost double the coronavirus testing, per capita, than the United States...

One of the muddled Donald Trump coronavirus briefings

But on early March the United States was dead last with only 5 tests per capita compared to seven other major countries like Italy, the U.K. and So. Korea. We should have been number one then and should be on the top now with our lead in technology and financial status in the world. It is pathetic and the total cause for the delay can be placed at the feet of Donald Trump. He first called the virus a hoax, then blamed it on the Democrats.

Not only is it his over two month wait to do something (early January notification to action March 15), but it is clear that he still doesn't have a clue how to get major testing going as reported by Politico...

"The president and his team in the White House are rushing to counter perceptions and develop a coherent message about the nation’s ability to test Americans for the coronavirus quickly and broadly, a prerequisite governors and business leaders have outlined to successfully get the economy back on track."

The Oval Office lunatic changes his mind regularly from claiming complete control over states for COVID-19 response to telling governors it is their responsibility to come up with disease testing. The result continues to be delayed testing which increases deaths from the virus. As of today there are 45,013 fatalities caused by coronavirus. It's been over three months since China had its first case and Donald Trump continues to blame others rather than act.

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Nursing homes and African Americans ...latest COVID-19 problems

While the blockhead protesters argue over economy or death, the African Americans and those in nursing homes have no choice...

The choice is death, over which neither group has control. The former due to the "racial character of inequality in the United States," according to the New York Times. Here's their reasoning...

"black Americans are more likely to work in service sector jobs, least likely to own a car and least likely to own their homes. They are therefore more likely to be in close contact with other people, from the ways they travel to the kinds of work they do to the conditions in which they live."

For nursing homes, there are multiple reasons and they all, by agreement, combine to make the overall task of caring for these folks seem almost impossible. For one, they are crammed together, making social distancing futile, second, staffs are already strained and now "there are reports of staff abandoning facilities when covid-19 cases appear." Third, these facilities have had management problems for years, with improvement, but now that's all reversed.

There are so many more and I urge you to read this Washington Post article that outlines many of the problems with nursing homes in the coronavirus pandemic. At this point, if there are any of your family that you are considering placing in one of these facilities, you might want to think again. Here's the scenario...

"As awful as these stories are, the situation could still deteriorate further, from terrible to unimaginable. The age and fragile health of their residents are not nursing facilities’ only vulnerabilities. The industry is potentially facing a financial catastrophe that could prevent any meaningful attempt to beat back covid-19."

 African Americans higher rate of COVID-19...

And can we argue that the workplace hasn't and still isn't geared toward white Americans for higher paying jobs, thus, better able to pay more for improved healthcare? I think not. The NYT says, and once again I believe this article is well worth a read...

"If black Americans are more likely to suffer the comorbidities that make coronavirus more deadly, it’s because those ailments are tied to the segregation and concentrated poverty that still mark their communities."

Nursing homes have a business model you can read about in WP, and it isn't working since COVID-19 has turned it upside down, which could worsen even more and put additional liabilities in the way of caring for the sick. But here's the answer...

"To stay afloat, nursing homes must take enough high-revenue short-stay Medicare patients to offset the low-revenue long-stay Medicaid residents. Otherwise, they will go out of business."

For the black community, the answer is the same it has been for years, but totally ignored. STOP RACISM. Not simple, but doable, and the timing couldn't be better. 

WORLDOMETER Latest on U.S. COVID-19

Coronavirus cases          792,759

Coronavirus deaths          42,514

Coronavirus recoveries    72,389

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Here's the headline for Kentucky COVID-19 idiots "Protesting for the Freedom to Catch the Coronavirus"

Anti-vaxxer mentality prevails in Kentuckians leading the coronavirus protests...

Let me be free to kill myself and your family

The portion of the headline, "Protesting for the Freedom to Catch the Coronavirus," is from the New York Times reflecting what these morons are apparently attempting to accomplish. 'Let's go out and catch the disease so we can take it home to our families, especially the kids and grandparents who are in the most vulnerable category. I believe the time has really come to collect all these people together and place them in concentration camps.

And then there's this Newsweek headline, "KENTUCKY REPORTS HIGHEST CORONAVIRUS INFECTION INCREASE AFTER A WEEK OF PROTESTS TO REOPEN STATE," which speaks to Donald Trump's whole idea of pushing to open the country before having an adequate testing program in place insure we can track cases. Trump is simply afraid of more COVID-19 testing because he fears the additional cases it will turn up.

Kentucky Gov. re. protests...

The opening of the U.S. economy? Here's what CNN reports...

"As it stands in this coronavirus pandemic, the answer remains entirely unclear. Health experts have said the United States needs to rapidly increase its ability to test people for the virus in order to safely reopen without sparking a new wave of infections. Many governors have asked the federal government -- which has refused to take responsibility for shortages -- to help ramp up that testing capability."

Again, the Oval Office lunatic afraid of seeing new coronavirus cases. And so the beat goes on, first Kentucky, then whatever next state has the most double-digit IQs, and then on and on until those of the most ignorant species have killed themselves...and us. What this country has come to.