#3 | Posted by LampLighter

I walked into a Mapco (convenience store chain) last night. Both clerks are Coptic Christians from Egypt.

When I saw the younger clerk didn't have a mask on while the older clerk did, but just one of those blue surgical masks, I asked him why he wasn't wearing a mask, working as he does in a building with a closed HVAC system and hundreds of people in and out all night. He replied he has asthma, so it's hard to breathe in them. He asked where he could get one like mine - a Moldex 2300 with exhalation valve, which makes it easier to wear a mask long term.

I drove home and brought him back one from a box I'd just purchased at eBay. He offered to pay, but I was happy to give him one, explaining that it was a small gesture to share a little something on the Fourth of July with these two newly minted U.S. citizens.

The older man, Ehab, nearly begged me to tell him where he could buy some (eBay). We got to talking a little. He was a lawyer in Egypt who has twin sons in college there who are nearly finished with school. His wife has been staying in Egypt to help them through. He showed me pictures from their last visit. All three are coming for a month long visit next month, which is why he was urgently asking about where to get masks. I brought him back 4 masks, which made him beam with relief for himself and his soon-to-arrive family. It was a joyeful chance encounter that made yesterday special.

Susan Rice for VP!

She knows what she is doing!

#2 | Posted by oldwhiskeysour

I agree. She'd be outstanding.

Is Missouri really viewed that poorly? I mean, I see the meth heads here but I didn't think we were as bad as Alabama...

#33 | Posted by jpw

Is it as bad in the hinterlands of MO as the TV show "Ozark" makes it out to be?

"'We need to live with it': White House Readies New Message on COVID"

No, we don't. We just need a president who gives a ------ about mitigating the pandemic here. Instead, he's minimizing.

We're in the boat we're in because of his early denials about the potential threat COVID posed here. When finally forced to acknowledge COVID was a problem, he played games with PPE and still asserts it will go away on its own.

Our national supply chain for absolutely necessary PPE is a mess. Something he's played games with for political reasons.

NONE of this was preordained and needed to be this way in the U.S. Only Trump's failed leadership is to blame.

This is disgusting and outrageous

#4 | Posted by Effeteposer

Trump & Co have run America like banana republic and made us a laughing stock.

We need competence only a new president can bring to turn things around. Establishing a national supply chain is something that CAN be done, if only Trump had the will to do it. But he doesn't, so here we are.

After flying with the Trump entourage to SD, the girlfriend of Don Jr tested positive for COVID and had to fly home.

This idiotic display of unconcern in SD evidences the utter lack of concern for the well being of attendees and everyone they come in contact with.

Expect a spike in SD in the next couple of weeks.

I just read an article today that described the lungs of young, healthy, asymptomatic, positive COVID patients looking like the lungs of long term smokers.

It doesn't matter how symptomatic or not COVID is, it's going to do some long term damage if you get it. Kidneys, lungs, heart, blood clots, damaged immune system ... It isn't the flu.

"Guilfoyle had travelled to be with Trump as he gave a high-profile speech in South Dakota but did not attend the event after getting the positive test result, the New York Times reported. She had not been in recent proximity to the president and Donald Trump Jnr tested negative, the paper said."

ABC News reported that Guilfoyle was asymptomatic.

Don Jr's girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, ex-Fox News presenter and GOP fundraiser, just tested positive for COVID-19

#1 | Posted by LampLighter

I read that story too. Nature is amazing, isn't it?

My wife is a blood management doctor in the Houston Medical Center, and as a result, I get regular updates on how the doctors treat and view COVID. And some things went down this week.

Her hospital tests every person coming through the door. That means you don't have a COVID symptom bias. Over the past month, they went from 5% positive, to 20% positive, to 30% positive. The last test of 100 patients came in at 50% positive, but it had a COVID bias. They were testing 50 walk through the door patients and 50 folks who came in with COVID symptoms.

So, you got the mild version of the virus? Not so fast. They are running CT scans on mild patients now and what they are seeing is that they are showing lung damage similar to the lung damage seen in smokers.

I met a young man while picking up dinner, in a mask, and waiting in the parking lot. He had the harsh form of the virus. Spent a month in the ICU. Three months later, his lungs still havn't recovered. He was wearing a mask and keeping his distance. I asked him why? He said, "I know I can't get it again, I don't want anyone else to get it so I'm setting an example."

Lots of Republicans say 'we have more cases because we have more testing.' That isn't true.

Testing capacity has been maxed out for weeks. The positive test rate has risen because COVID infections are more widespread now than a month ago.

And we should be testing a million or more a day, according to the experts. Because of a lack of leadership and thwarting of our national public health agencies by this WH, we haven't been able to ramp up testing to the needed levels to get a real handle on where we are with infections.

Says the guy who created his own Board of Ophthalmology to certify him. Couldn't pass the muster with the real one?

#5 | Posted by jpw

True.

Republicans don't care about anything until it happens to THEM. Then their minds change fast as lightning.

Trump has made America the laughingstock of the world, and sadly now the sickest.

Who ever thought it would be US who were banned from crossing borders. Even Canada won't let us in. Can't blame 'em.

#14 | Posted by Odbrochound

LOL!

Ah, those darned Darwin cousins! A huge family for sure.

MadBomber only likes solutions that have never been shown to work.

His user page does say he's a Libertarian, so...res ipsa loquitur.

#28 | Posted by JOE

Mexico is a "libertarian" society. No social safety nets, etc. How's that working out?

ER physicians in a hospital group engaged in a study of hundreds of otherwise healthy asymptomatic COVID patients.

They x-rayed their lungs. 50-100% of them had lung damage which was described as looking like 'there is a fog covering the x-rays."

This virus may not kill you, but your body may never be the same again.

Among findings by others, it also damages the immune system and causes other maladies listed in the article.

I remember all the right wing angst against 'legislating from the bench' during Obama's 2 terms.

Now, a fundamental tenet of American democracy enshrined in the Constitution - separation of church and state - has been usurped by 'conservative' SC justices.

Hypocrisy.

Code 9 9 9 !!!

There were fewer cases in all of Europe yesterday than just in the state of Arizona.

Biden is still probably still able to read. Will likely hire competent people to fill known skill-gaps, and will be open to collaboration/feedback.

#2 | Posted by GOnoles92

Biden will assemble a top notch team and fill positions with good people, not cronies.

He already has several teams of highly competent people working with him on economic policy and actionable efforts to defeat COVID if he's elected.

Being Obama's VP up until only 3.5 years ago, he knows who to call.