March 13, 2020 6:45 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, the 13th of March, 2020
Lots of events are cancelled/posponed/suspended. The key is to be flexible, be safe, and be well.
As for me and my house, we’ll be stress-baking.
- For those counting…
- NBA suspends season.
- MLB suspends season.
- MLS suspends for 30 days.
- NCAA March Madness canceled.
- St. Patrick’s Day parades canceled.
- GA Legislature suspends (but don’t take the silverware out of hiding – they’ll be back).
- Cancellations everywhere (feel free to add more in the comments).
- Well done, sir. Backup plans for his backup plans.
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Some of the coronavirus damage to health and the US economy is Trump’s responsibility, though Trump’s morning tweets are blaming the CDC and Obama’s handling of H1N1, natch. Those acquiescing Trump’s lies and denigration of science share in that responsibility. Even single digit percentage responsibility is significant given economic damage has been in the trillions and US deaths will probably be in the thousands..
Remember the acquiescence when Trump took a sharpie to a map only four months ago? That sent the message to senior bureaucrats and scientists to not cross him, because no one in the administration and hardly anyone in the GOP ever refutes him. Weeks and weeks of Trump publicly stating over and over that coronavirus is being beautifully contained with perfect testing no doubt delayed development of a response to it.
Only yesterday Trump was still saying “We’ve done a good job on testing”.
From the LA Times: “[HHS Secretary] Alex Azar was asked about Trump’s false statement that anyone who needs a test for the virus can have one.
Rather than simply correct the error and move on, Azar, whose standing in the White House is fragile, tried to square Trump’s bluster with reality.
“It’s just different ways of phrasing it,” he said. “He’s using a shorthand. What he meant to say is, ‘We’re not in the way of that.’”
Trump being Trump is a clear and present danger to America..
WH e-mails to Trumpsters this week have included accolates on the Wall.
“President Trump’s long-promised border wall is working.” The new chief of U.S. Border Patrol shared that parts of the new “wall system”—which replaces miles of ragtag broken fencing—are 90 percent effective, up from just 10 percent before.”
The need for the wall of course was a Republican national emergency, unlike the current situation.
A little bit of weekend news related to emergency declaration:
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/kemp-postpones-primaries-calls-up-national-guard-over-virus-fears/OEK43EJ3YFEORIADIGSFQGEQWI/
Thanks for the link.
“If Georgians who have already cast their vote for the March 24 primary do not vote again in the May 19 primary, their votes for the presidential preference primary will still count.”
OK, but what about those early voters who also vote in the May 19 primary? There have been around 200K who have voted early. Will their earlier ballots be discarded if they vote in May? Will the tab for presidential choice be protected for early voters? Is the new system smart enough to rationalize March 24 early voters and May 19 votes to avoid double counting?
There may not be much suspense about the outcome for presidential preference in Georgia for either side this year but given the recent challenges regarding the accuracy of state vote totals, I would think the state has to have a clear procedure in place.
Those voting early could be given a ballot on May 19th just for the additional races. seems easy enough. We had a system to give a specific party ballot for primaries.
Easy enough if you can determine who voted early and you have enough of the right ballots. You’d need four different ballots by my count, two per party, with and without presidential choices, and you’d need to know in May who voted early in March.