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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise (e.g., COVID-19) for Tuesday, April 7.
- Boris Johnson remains in ICU but isn’t on a ventilator; China reports no new virus deaths
- Japan opts for emergency but ‘no lockdown’
- Fatalities Rise in Spain; China Has No New Deaths: Virus Update
- Russia’s growing coronavirus outbreak and its challenge to Vladimir Putin, explained (“If many people get infected in Moscow, Russia’s showpiece capital, it could ruin the myth of Putin as the country’s protector.”)
- Trump’s War on U.S. World Leadership Continues
- Trump Eases Covid-19 Export Ban Amid Backlash Around World
- We Elected a Snake-Oil Salesman. He’s Peddling.
- The 9/11 Era Is Over (“The coronavirus pandemic and a chapter of history that should have expired long ago”)
- Trade Adviser Warned White House in January of Risks of a Pandemic
- We must learn from recent voting debacles (“There is only one surefire way to prevent chaos in November”)
- Trump Says ‘Nobody’ Knew Pandemic Was Coming. His Adviser Warned Of It In January.
- Despite Staggering Death Toll, N.Y. Outbreak Could Be Slowing
- America’s most influential coronavirus model just revised its estimates downward. But not every model agrees.
- Fact Check: Trump baselessly disputes HHS IG report, repeats several other false claims at Monday’s coronavirus briefing
- Trump, congressional leaders converge on need for new economic package (“Barely a week after the enactment of a $2 trillion stimulus, Congress is already preparing for more, as the needs for small businesses and individual Americans become glaringly obvious.”)
- Pelosi Says Next Stimulus Round Will Be $1 Trillion or More
- Bodies Pile Up and Trumpworld’s Sick Show Rolls On (“Real America is freaked out, and rightly so. But Trump America thinks this is fun! And the ratings!”)
- Small-Business Loan Program Crashed in the First Week It Was Up
- The Supreme Court’s disturbing order to effectively disenfranchise thousands of Wisconsin voters (Just remember, there are actually people who have argued that the Virginia Supreme Court, overwhelmingly right-wing Republican, will not act like the U.S. Supreme Court when it comes to redistricting in 2021. Why would they think that? It’s mind boggling.)
- By a 5–4 Vote, SCOTUS Lets Wisconsin Throw Out Tens of Thousands of Ballots (“The conservative majority just approved one of the most brazen acts of voter suppression in modern times.”)
- Roberts Gang Attacks the Right To Vote Again
- Wisconsin Election Fight Heralds a National Battle Over Virus-Era Voting
- The Easiest Way to Get Fired at Camp Runamuck Is to Do Your Job Correctly
- Acting Navy secretary apologizes for calling ousted aircraft carrier captain ‘stupid’ in address to ship’s crew
- How a Ship’s Coronavirus Outbreak Became a Moral Crisis for the Military
- Thomas Modly Is an Arrogant Apparatchik
- This is Trump’s vilest act of retribution yet (“The intelligence community’s inspector general is fired for doing his legal duty.”)
- The problem with Trump’s ‘light at the end of the tunnel’
- Inspector general shows Trump administration is doing a terrible job
- Trump blew it — not the WHO, Fauci or the Jews
- Acting Navy Secretary blasts USS Roosevelt captain as ‘too naive or too stupid’ in leaked speech to ship’s crew
- Trump’s ‘Hail Mary’ drug push rattles his health team
- Thanks to Trump, There’s a Hydroxychloroquine Shortage for People Who Need It
- Navarro memos warning of mass coronavirus death circulated in January
- Why Does the President Keep Pushing a Malaria Drug?
- ‘What do you have to lose?’: Inside Trump’s embrace of a risky drug against coronavirus
- Rep. John Lewis endorses Joe Biden’s presidential bid
- Biden to Trump: Here’s how to act like a president (“Biden offers us a breath of fresh air.”)
- Joe Biden to Trump: ‘Follow the science’ and wear a mask in public
- The Sunday shows have become horror shows (In more ways than one.)
- Did Sanders Blow It For The Democratic Left? Or Was The Nomination Always Out Of Reach?
- Will Wisconsin Be the Last Stand for Bernie Sanders? (“If Mr. Sanders suffers another big loss there on Tuesday, it is certain to intensify the growing calls for him to exit the Democratic presidential race.”)
- Exclusive: Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Protect Your Right to Vote from the Coronavirus
- Will We Flunk Pandemic Economics?
- ‘We cannot have a colorblind policy’: Lack of racial data obstructs coronavirus fight (“Covid-19 is hitting black and brown communities especially hard. But many states aren’t collecting the data to find out and fight back.”)
- Democrats warn people will die as courts rule Wisconsin’s election on for Tuesday
- Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns governor, orders Tuesday elections to proceed (Another Republican-dominated Supreme Court, acting exactly as one would expect a bunch of partisan hacks in robes to act.)
- Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States (“Data on race and the disease Covid-19 is too limited to draw sweeping conclusions, experts say, but disparate rates of sickness — and death — have emerged in some places.”)
- A ‘Liberty’ Rebellion in Idaho Threatens to Undermine Coronavirus Orders (“Even some public officials have challenged social-distancing requirements, calling them assaults on the Constitution. One group wants to gather up to 1,000 people for Easter.”)
- Franklin Graham tells Judge Jeannine that pandemic happened because world “turned its back on God” (Yep, that’s Franklin Graham for ya.)
- Red States Are Exploiting Coronavirus to Ban Abortion (“For autocrats everywhere, the crisis is a chance to restrict rights.”)
- Warner says issues with small business relief package getting ‘ironed out’
- Sen. Tim Kaine, Rep. Elaine Luria Respond to Acting Navy Secretary Modly Calling Captain Crozier “Stupid”
- Live Video, Highlights: Gov. Ralph Northam’s Monday (4/6) Virginia COVID-19 Briefing
- Seth Heald column: Electric cooperatives should embrace transparency during the current crisis
- People are the Economy
- Virginia Uses Genetic Technology to Combat COVID-19
- Virginia likely has more COVID-19 cases than state numbers suggest. This is why.
- Monday (4/6) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +241 Cases (to 2,878), +66 Hospitalizations (to 497), +3 Deaths (to 54) From Yesterday (Slowest rate of growth in confirmed cases since before March 9)
- COVID-19 Pandemic Shedding New Light on Collective Bargaining Debate
- Virginia to get more protective medical gear via $27 million deal with a private supplier
- Scott Lingamfelter: Northam faces difficult decisions to manage crisis
- Graphics: Brand-New University of Washington Model Run Projects 1,401 Virginia Deaths from COVID-19 by 8/4; Shortage of 231 ICU Beds and “Peak Resource Use” on April 20
- Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association Launches New Online Data Dashboard with Up-To-Date COVID-19 Statistics
- Va. gun sales soar to new monthly record in March, topping 80,000 amid COVID-19 fears
- New Pipeline Construction is Non-Essential & Endangers Us Now More Than Ever; Protect All Rural Regions from Virus
- Death count reaches 28 at Canterbury – ages 56 to 102 (“Eight more residents of Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center have died of COVID-19, boosting the death toll from the disease to 28 at the skilled nursing facility in western Henrico County, which has been the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in Virginia.”)
- Richmond Public Schools adopts grading policy with two goals: ‘do no harm, keep it simple’
- All the News These Days Apparently Is Bad. Arlington County Board Vice Chair Erik Gutshall Resigns, as He Battles Brain Cancer…
- Arlington County Board member Erik Gutshall resigns seat over illness (“Erik Gutshall, vice chair of the Arlington board, has been under treatment for brain cancer.”)
- Coronavirus Crisis Causes Arlington County to Slash Budget, Shift Focus on “Essential Services and Critical Needs” (We’re likely going to be seeing a lot of this across Virginia…)
- Virginia Senate plans to convene at Science Museum during April veto session
- UPDATED: UVa slates $3 million to help furloughed contract employees, community
- Fredericksburg-area parents turn to ‘homeschooling’ as virus crisis closes schools statewide
- 3D Printing Coronavirus Emergency Supplies: DC Area Network in Action
- Franklin County distillery turns its alcohol know-how to hand sanitizer
- D.C. area forecast: Late-day thunderstorms could be strong to severe
