Too Stupid for Words category archive
Test Flailure 1
An excerpt:
That’s the Trump strategy in a nutshell: If we don’t have evidence, there’s no way for people to know about it . . . .
Unmasked Marauders 0
The editorial board of the Hartford Courant looks ahead at the “reopening” of Connecticut (and, by extension, other states) and has concerns (emphasis added). A nugget:
First, politicians have turned over communication and key decision making to scientists and public health experts, encouraging community responsibility and backing sweeping rules and regulations that were universally applied. That worked in South Korea, Vietnam and New Zealand. It also worked in Washington state, where the governor took a backseat to doctors and epidemiologists.
Second, effective leaders have learned from past failures in fighting pandemics and used those lessons to adjust their approach. A key lesson from a 2007 public health report “Lessons Learned from the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota,” identified a lack of clarity and coordination among local, state and federal authorities as a critical problem.
Both those lessons are being ignored by too many, and we are now at serious risk of losing the gains of the last two months, fueled in no small part by the illusion that not wearing a mask to the grocery store is an act of political will.
Do please read the rest.
The Void 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, retired military officer and public servant Robert Bruce Adolph admits to being less than sanguine as regards the “leadership” emanating from the White House during these viral times.
I don’t wish to excerpt of summarize it in any way beyond the above. It’s a short article, just on the other end of the link.
“Lethal Incompetence” 0
Experiments fail, even noble ones.
Numbers Gaming 0
Sam and his guest do the math and discover (surprise!) that the Trump administration is fudging the statistics on the effects of COVID-19.
Two Misdirection Plays for the Price of One, Going Viral Dept. 0
Trudy Rubin skewers Donald Trump’s attempt to pass all the bucks to China.
Will Bunch lampoons Trump’s attempt to himself into a reality-TV parody of a “wartime president.”
Read ’em both.
Flailing the Test 0
PoliticalProf does the math.
Covidiocy 0
AL.com’s Francis Coleman has had enough of fools and their foolishness.
A Picture Is Worth . . . 0
. . . all the words that fail me.
Aside:
You’ve heard of “malice aforethought.”
Welcome to the governance of “malice without thought.”
Furrfu.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Gene Lyons tells of watching truth collide with fiction in a world where facts are what people think.
The Maskless Marauder 0
Mike Littwin is in a Pence-sive mood. A snippet:
And yet he purposefully and willfully and very publicly ignored them.
Follow the link for his theory as to why Pence violated policy, probity, and prudence. Methinks you may find it interesting.