Comments on: Well, this is encouraging https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/02/well-this-is-encouraging/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 05 Apr 2020 23:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: GRA https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/02/well-this-is-encouraging/#comment-2488296 Sun, 05 Apr 2020 23:56:25 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=94757#comment-2488296 Currently watching Trump’s briefing to the public. There’s one reporter who is complaining why would Trump suggest taking antimalarial drugs when there’s no proof that it would work. Trump says that there’s a chance, going further saying that it might not work or it may work, but the reporter is having non of it, accusing Trump of going against the medical experts. “Why can’t we just let science speak?” asks the reporter. In other words: Trump is making decisions not based on rationality but on gut. This falls right in line with my governor proclaiming that decisions will be based on science. Science. This definitely is a calculated narrative, at least that’s how I view it.

]]> By: GRA https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/02/well-this-is-encouraging/#comment-2487791 Fri, 03 Apr 2020 22:17:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=94757#comment-2487791 I’ve noticed the “we’ll make decisions based off of science” has been quite popular with my state’s mayor and governor. The governor says it in a relatively arrogant if not sanctimonious way, as if he’s trying to diss Trump. “Well, unlike some heads of state who base their decisions on emotions and greed, we’ll make decisions on ScIeNcE!”

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/02/well-this-is-encouraging/#comment-2487784 Fri, 03 Apr 2020 21:58:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=94757#comment-2487784 huxley on April 3, 2020 at 2:02 am said:
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I’m betting on the can-do spirit, at least with Trump in office.
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I thank God every day that Hillary Clinton is not president.
On alternate days, I include all other Democrats and mos of the standard Republicans.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/02/well-this-is-encouraging/#comment-2487780 Fri, 03 Apr 2020 21:50:51 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=94757#comment-2487780 This is not encouraging.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/chinese-researchers-find-coronavirus-patient-contagious-for-49-days/

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/02/well-this-is-encouraging/#comment-2487721 Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:57:49 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=94757#comment-2487721 Perspective from another time, but timeless nonetheless:

“Sometimes I feel like a morning dove”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xGHVcxmQ_0

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/02/well-this-is-encouraging/#comment-2487717 Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:49:07 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=94757#comment-2487717 huxley,

The stuffed animals in windows is quite prevalent in my neighborhood and my daughter who is stuck home from College has festooned most all our street facing windows.

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/02/well-this-is-encouraging/#comment-2487716 Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:48:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=94757#comment-2487716 Jamie,

In discussions with my kids and their friends we have all agreed this is an awful year to be a High School Senior. I hope your daughter keeps her spirits up.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/02/well-this-is-encouraging/#comment-2487709 Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:08:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=94757#comment-2487709 Well, I can tell you what it’s like to be a high school senior in the time of COVID19: boring, frustrating, and seemingly unrecoverable. My daughter had just bought her prom dress when the first school closure notice came out.

Jamie: You might like Soderbergh’s film “Contagion” about a pandemic much more lethal than Covid, which includes a sub-plot about a high school senior who can’t spend time with her boyfriend and can’t have a regular prom.

]]> By: Texan99 https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/02/well-this-is-encouraging/#comment-2487697 Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:07:37 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=94757#comment-2487697 PS, one truly maddening aspect is the continual carping about the lack of proper controlled tests, combined with the concerted effort to obstruct and delay the proper controlled tests.

]]> By: Texan99 https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/02/well-this-is-encouraging/#comment-2487692 Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:01:34 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=94757#comment-2487692 We’ve drifted into a culture that prioritizes protecting the greatest idiots among us at infinite cost to everyone else. You see it in the banning of product after product as soon as one idiot finds an astounding way to hurt himself with it. You see it in red tape choking everything imaginable.

I’ve been posting good-news stories whenever I can find them, like the recent apparent vaccine breakthrough from Pittsburgh. I actually get comments saying things like “Vaccines are forever. Please, medical and regulatory staff, take your time.” Right, there’s no urgency of any kind. Business as usual.

In my worst moments I think it’s about perpetuating a lot of Good. Government. Jobs. held by frustrated would-be HOA presidents whose greatest joy in life is to tell people “stop doing that.”

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