Coronavirus Thread

Eh... I dunno, half of this battle is about mobilizing voters. Anything that makes people perceive Trump a bit less like a crazy egomaniac and a bit more like a statesman is bad, and every moment not spent convincing unmotivated voters that the other guy is actually good is also bad.
 
The conclusions themselves aren't especially interesting; they're expected from a report with partisan aims. But the method used to reach those conclusions is often striking: The Republican majority engages in a process of systematically changing the standard of evidence needed for it to reach a conclusion. For a conclusion the report's authors favor, they'll happily accept evidence from computer models or arguments from an editorial in the popular press; for conclusions they disfavor, they demand double-blind controlled clinical trials.
"If you take the results (and also disregard this detail here, here, and here), a pattern starts to emerge."

--Patrick
 
The best part of having a lingering sinus headache -- doing the responsible thing, getting a COVID kit, and swabbing my nose to make sure I'm not going to make anyone else sick.

The upside is that it's just sinuses.
 
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