by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, April 5.
- Spain Deaths Slow; Over 1.2 Million Global Cases: Virus Update
- Trump Steps Up Oil Tariff Threat Amid Saudi-Russia Rift
- Italy’s Virus Shutdown Came Too Late. What Happens Now? (“Italy underestimated the spread of the virus at first. These maps show why the country’s nationwide lockdown didn’t come in time.”)
- The Mystery of ‘Excess Fatality’ (“Italy has tested about 200,000 people and confirmed 111,000 coronavirus cases. But experts say the true number of cases could be as high as 6 million…But the impact of the resource allocation is significant as well. Beds, physicians, and ventilators are finite resources, meaning that hospital systems around the world are scaling up COVID-19 capacity at the cost of ballooning excess deaths”)
- U.S. Sees Coronavirus Peak in Some Cities Next Week as Global Toll Climbs
- Coronavirus Case Counts Are Meaningless* (“*Unless you know something about testing. And even then, it gets complicated.”)
- The US enters crucial weeks of coronavirus fight after a grim milestone of most deaths reported in one day
- America was unprepared for a major crisis. Again. (“Inadequate planning, uneven leadership, lack of agility and bureaucratic inertia compound problems when disasters hit, say veterans of past national crises.”)
- The Washington Post Just Laid out the “Devastating Consequences” of Trump’s Inept Pandemic Response
- Denial, dysfunction, delays: Tracing Trump administration’s failures over first 70 days of the virus fight (Massive Trumpist cluster@#$!)
- Trump Warns ‘One Of The Toughest Weeks’ Is Ahead, Says To Brace For ‘A Lot Of Death’ (And it’s partly his fault.)
- Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Warns of ‘a Lot of Death’ While Also Revisiting Easter Sunday Services
- Sideshow Don: Trump pursues a non-virus agenda (“Even as he struggles to beat back a global pandemic, the president is going after other targets.”)
- Distance, Trump Talks Of Opening Country (“Despite saying that the worst was yet to come, President Trump talked of opening things back up: ‘We don’t want to be doing this for months and months.'”)
- ‘He shouldn’t be talking that way’: Trump rips ousted Navy captain (Trump the draft dodger…)
- Inside the ouster of Capt. Brett Crozier
- Trump Proceeds With Post-Impeachment Purge Amid Pandemic (“The president’s decision to fire the intelligence community’s inspector general under cover of darkness indicated that his hunt for those he considers disloyal continues.”)
- Trump’s new purge (“Sources close to President Trump expect him to fire more inspectors general across his government, after his Friday night removal of Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community I.G. who alerted Congress to the complaint that triggered impeachment.” Unhinged and authoritarian.)
- Trump just dealt a brutal blow to federal oversight — as Republicans do nothing
- Pelosi Statement on Firing of Intelligence Community Inspector General
- ‘A searing time for whistleblowers’: Ousted intel watchdog wrote letter to Schumer
- Jared Kushner and his shadow corona unit: what is Trump’s son-in-law up to? (Corruption, almost certainly.)
- Seeking coronavirus relief, investment firm with ties to Kushner emails Kushner, Trump admin
- Larry David, Master of His Quarantine
- A small trial finds that hydroxychloroquine is not effective for treating coronavirus
- Democratic senators want probe into change of national stockpile description
- Pelosi, McConnell clash over next coronavirus bill
- Pelosi eyes end of April to bring a fourth coronavirus relief bill to the floor
- US far right seeks ways to exploit coronavirus and cause social collapse (“‘Accelerationist’ groups aim to sow chaos to hasten the collapse of society and build a white supremacist one in its place”)
- Some top Sanders advisers urge him to consider withdrawing (Good for folks like Faiz Shakir.)
- Trump’s Lost Months Are Killing Us. Here’s How to Make Them Politically Fatal for Him. (“Trump needs to be tarred with his lack of preparedness the way ‘the emails’ were stuck to Clinton, ‘the hostages’ to Carter, ‘the pardon’ to Ford, and ‘Hoovervilles’ to Hoover.”)
- CDC begins testing blood for antibody coronavirus treatment
- Trump, GOP challenge efforts to make voting easier amid coronavirus pandemic (Of course they do.)
- Wisconsin’s primary to go forward Tuesday even as coronavirus all but shutters the U.S.
- Op-Ed: How Republicans are using the pandemic to suppress the vote
- Foot-dragging GOP governors are imperiling the whole country (Yep, big time.)
- In the American South, a Perfect Storm Is Gathering (“In states with many uninsured citizens, few hospitals and leaders who have not required citizens to stay home, a disaster is looming.”)
- Georgia governor opens beaches a day after issuing statewide stay-at-home order (Brilliant. Not.)
- Mayor of Georgia coastal town assails governor’s ‘reckless mandate’ to reopen the state’s beaches
- So Much for the “Trump Bump?” “Rally Around the Flag” Phenomenon Happening with Governors, World Leaders Not Named Trump
- Editorial: Protecting members of the military should be paramount
- Riggleman: New trade deal is a win for Virginia
- Saturday (4/4) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +395 Cases (to 2,407), +78 Hospitalizations (to 390), +6 Deaths (to 52) From Yesterday
- EDITORIAL: Gov. Northam, veto anti-business bills (This is from the right-wingnut Free Lance-Star editorial board. Ignore.)
- Coronavirus in Virginia: 5 takeaways from this week
- Virginia Governor Orders Hiring Freeze, Agency Heads to Look for Cuts
- Far-Right Virginia General Assembly Member Wants to Use Coronavirus Crisis to Roll Back Progressive, Environmental Legislation (“Of course, this is what he and his fellow ultra-conservatives have wanted to do for years…”)
- Video: “Not Larry Sabato” Discusses His Possible COVID-19 Infection in Las Vegas in Early February; 2020 and 2021 Virginia Political Predictions; Campaigns During Coronavirus
- Gordon C. Morse: Layne stands at the center of Virginia’s financial storm
- Another level of grief: Virginia families hold funerals with no audience, no hugs
- Their mother tested positive for the coronavirus. No one told them, and now she has a few days to live.
- Hampton VA employees’ union says N95 masks not ideal for multi-day use
- High School Robotics Teacher Using 3D Printers to Churn Out 200 Masks Per Week for Health Care Workers (“Carlos Castro teaches at Woodbridge Senior H.S. in Prince William County, VA”)
- Warmer today and through much of the week, with occasional chances for scattered light showers
