Strict Control Measures Are Best for Keeping People Alive AND Protecting the Economy
I’ve seen a lot of people quoting the Imperial College study of coronavirus spread, so I want to repost this chart: It’s the top and bottom numbers that are important right now. President Trump would like us to “open the economy,” which for all practical purposes means doing nearly nothing. The IC study suggests that…
Fed Up With Social Distancing, Trump Goes Back to Likening Coronavirus to the Flu
President Trump, in the latest signal of his mounting frustration with the economic impact of the coronavirus, is back to inaccurately comparing the death rates of the virus to the seasonal flu in order to justify calling for the reopening the economy in the near future—possibly as soon as Monday. “We lose thousands of people…
Nancy Pelosi Just Released Her Own Coronavirus Bill. It Is Much Bigger Than Trump’s.
House Democrats released their own stimulus plan for coronavirus tonight. It’s bigger and different than the one Mitch McConnell has had voted down twice already. The Democratic bill was apparently leaked early today and has been, according to Politico, “circulating on K street.” (What hasn’t?) But is it good, this bill, or is not good?…
The Coronavirus Death Toll In New York Is Growing 47% Per Day
I get a lot of requests to please do my daily charts a wee bit differently or to add other countries or regions to them. I’m mostly not willing to do this since (a) I want the charts to be the same from day to day, and (b) adding more countries means it takes me…
The Most Irresponsible President on the Continent Right Now Isn’t Donald Trump
Adrián Monroy/Medios y Media/Getty Images All around Latin America, governments have spent the past few weeks gearing up for an impending wave of coronavirus cases. In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele closed the borders to foreigners. In Colombia, President Ivan Duque proposed a nationwide quarantine. Meanwhile, if you’d been listening to Mexico’s president, you’d think…
A Series of Reassuring and Oddly Endearing PowerPoints from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
As of Monday, there are nearly 40,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States. More than half of them are in New York, making it the epicenter of America’s rapidly developing pandemic. Though New York Gov. Cuomo has long been resistant to ordering a shelter-in-place, last week he issued an executive order advising New Yorkers to “stay…