tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post2517444687399643256..comments2023-11-22T04:27:07.521-06:00Comments on glen brown: His Dangerous Ignorance: This Other Virus Plaguing America by Glen Browngbrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-76138306971096439792020-05-25T08:36:15.102-05:002020-05-25T08:36:15.102-05:00USA Cases: 1,688,709
Deaths: 99,348
Approximately ...USA Cases: 1,688,709<br />Deaths: 99,348<br />Approximately 96% of Americans have not been tested.<br /><br />gbrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-3125995579385843762020-04-16T08:35:46.696-05:002020-04-16T08:35:46.696-05:00USA Cases: 639,664+ (Highest in World)
Deaths: 30,...USA Cases: 639,664+ (Highest in World)<br />Deaths: 30,985+ (Highest in World, approximately 23% of World Total)<br /><br />And approximately 99% of Americans have not been tested! (CNN)<br /><br />Global Cases: 2,076,015+<br />Global Deaths: 138,008+ <br />gbrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-91759444044606853192020-04-14T19:15:12.334-05:002020-04-14T19:15:12.334-05:00USA Cases: 613,235+ (Highest in World)
Deaths: 25,...USA Cases: 613,235+ (Highest in World)<br />Deaths: 25,989+ (Highest in World)<br />https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/<br />gbrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-32991684084447278452020-04-10T12:09:20.789-05:002020-04-10T12:09:20.789-05:00USA Cases: 478,366 (Highest in World)
Deaths: 17,9...USA Cases: 478,366 (Highest in World)<br />Deaths: 17,927 (2nd Highest in World by less than 100)<br /><br />Global Cases: 1,652,655<br />Deaths: 100,371gbrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-88826318485775305962020-03-31T12:56:15.056-05:002020-03-31T12:56:15.056-05:001:00 pm, March 31:
COVID-19
Global Cases: 837,016...1:00 pm, March 31:<br /><br />COVID-19<br />Global Cases: 837,016<br />Global Deaths: 41,238<br /><br />U.S. Cases: 176,518<br />U.S. Deaths: 3,431gbrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-53780704240858328782020-03-29T07:10:16.763-05:002020-03-29T07:10:16.763-05:00Global Confirmed Cases: 669,312
Total Deaths: 31, ...Global Confirmed Cases: 669,312<br />Total Deaths: 31, 231<br /><br />U.S. Confirmed Cases: 121,960<br />Total Deaths: 2,046<br /><br />-John Hopkins Universitygbrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-62916980169127597622020-03-28T09:31:59.214-05:002020-03-28T09:31:59.214-05:00"A council representing more than 800,000 doc..."A council representing more than 800,000 doctors across the U.S. signed a letter Friday [March 27] imploring Donald Trump to reverse his call for businesses to reopen by April 12, warning that the president's flouting of the guidance of public health experts could jeopardize the health of millions of Americans and throw hospitals into even more chaos as they fight the coronavirus pandemic.<br /><br />"The Council of Medical Specialty Societies—a coalition comprised of such physicians' groups as the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the American College of Preventive Medicine—called for the president's leadership in encouraging Americans to continue practicing social distancing to slow the spread of the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19..." ("800,000 Doctors to Trump: Heed Expert Warnings and End Dangerous Campaign Against Social Distancing" from Common Dreams).gbrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-22774587059639908702020-03-28T08:35:51.287-05:002020-03-28T08:35:51.287-05:00“...This president does not have the capacity to l...“...This president does not have the capacity to listen to, synthesize, and internalize information that does not immediately serve his greatest needs: praise, fealty, adoration. ‘He finds it intolerable when those things are missing,’ a clinical psychologist told me. ‘Praise, applause, and accolades seem to calm him and boost his confidence. There’s no room for that now, and so he’s growing irritable and needing to create some way to get some positive attention.’<br /><br />“She added that the pandemic and its economic fallout ‘overwhelm Trump’s capacity to understand, are outside of his ability to internalize and process, and [are] beyond his frustration tolerance. He is neither curious nor interested; facts are tossed aside when inconvenient or [when they] contradict his parallel reality, and people are disposable unless they serve him in some way.’<br /><br />“It’s useful here to recall that Trump’s success as a politician has been built on his ability to impose his will and narrative on others, to use his experience on a reality-television show and his skill as a con man to shape public impressions in his favor, even—or perhaps, especially—if those impressions are at odds with reality. He convinced a good chunk of the country that he is a wildly successful businessman and knows more about campaign finance, the Islamic State, the courts, the visa system, trade, taxes, the debt, renewable energy, infrastructure, borders, and drones than anyone else.<br /><br />“But in this instance, Trump isn’t facing a political problem he can easily spin his way out of. He’s facing a lethal virus. It doesn’t give a damn what Donald Trump thinks of it or tweets about it. Spin and lies about COVID-19, including that it will soon magically disappear, as Trump claimed it would, don’t work. In fact, they have the opposite effect. Misinformation will cause the virus to increase its deadly spread.<br /><br />“So as the crisis deepens—as the body count increases, hospitals are overwhelmed, and the economy contracts, perhaps dramatically—it’s reasonable to assume that the president will reach for the tools he has used throughout his life: duplicity and denial. He will not allow facts that are at odds with his narrative to pierce his magnetic field of deception.<br /><br />“But what happens to Trump psychologically and emotionally when things don’t turn around in the time period he wants? What happens if the tricks that have allowed him to walk away from scandal after scandal don’t work quite so well, if the doors of escape are bolted shut, and if it dawns on even some of his supporters—people who will watch family members, friends, and neighbors contract the disease, some number of whom will die—that no matter what Trump says, he can’t alter this epidemiological reality?..." The Atlantic.gbrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-81319089578729042892020-03-23T13:41:14.628-05:002020-03-23T13:41:14.628-05:00From Dipti S. Barot, HuffPost:
I am a doctor. … “...From Dipti S. Barot, HuffPost:<br /><br />I am a doctor. … “Unconscionable” is a feather-light word to use for the response to this pandemic by those in charge. After weeks of inaction, of downplaying the pandemic, of calling it a hoax, President Donald Trump had no choice but to shift tone once this crisis was undeniable. He then stood shoulder to shoulder at press conferences, shaking hands while declaring a national emergency that his own experts said only social distancing would quell. He has failed our nation.gbrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-17272866978295850052020-03-21T10:51:21.280-05:002020-03-21T10:51:21.280-05:00Latest Update:
Global confirmed cases: 278,136
t...Latest Update:<br /><br />Global confirmed cases: 278,136 <br />total deaths: 11,570 <br />total recovered: 89,259 <br /><br />U.S. confirmed cases: 19,624 <br />total deaths: 260 <br />total recovered: 147 <br /><br />One in five Americans told to stay at home as Illinois and New York follow California’s lead on restrictive measures.<br /><br />Staffer for Vice President Mike Pence tests positive for coronavirus.<br /><br />Restrictions on movement are eased gradually in China as it tries to restart its economy.<br />gbrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-19328404902511290072020-03-21T10:06:33.609-05:002020-03-21T10:06:33.609-05:00"I only signed the Defense Production Act to ..."I only signed the Defense Production Act to combat the Chinese Virus should we need to invoke it in a worst case scenario in the future," Trump tweeted. "Hopefully there will be no need, but we are all in this TOGETHER!"gbrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.com