The federal government sent coronavirus stimulus payments to almost 1.1 million dead people totaling nearly $1.4 billion, Congress’s independent watchdog reported Thursday.
You’ll be glad to know that the breakdown was caused by the fact that the Social Security Administration has death records, but the Treasury Department does not, and apparently the two of them had a tiff of some sort because cross referencing them was just too damn much trouble. Gee, if the government just had some manner of machine on their desk that could cross-reference data. You know, with a screen so they could see it.
The report makes clear how, in the mad dash to pass legislation to prop up an economy in free-fall in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, mistakes were made.
Mistakes were made? Well, Honey, that pretty much sums up the Trump presidency.
No matter how bad it gets in Texas, at least I don’t live in Florida.
Here’s Florida’s latest graphic showing the increase in the virus.
The size of the bars have nothing to do with the numbers at the bottom. However, they did get them in correct chronological order. There’s always that.
Source: Florid Dept. of Health (But Not Arithmetic)
Bless Cornyn’s pitiful heart, he’s now blaming Democrats for the rise of Covid 19. He has now tweeted that State Representative Gene Wu of Houston should “quit trying to scare people” because Wu explained the hospital situation in Texas.
Cornyn’s tweet was in response to Houston state Rep. Gene Wu, a Houston Democrat, who tweeted a link to a news story about the Texas Medical Center reporting 97 percent of its intensive care beds in use with the comment: “We’re at the edge of the cliff. After these next few days, we will not have enough beds to care for all of the incoming #COVID19 patients. Then people die.”
Cornyn said that most of the cases in the ICU were not because of the virus and that those that are will probably recover.
Cornyn never was very good at math. (However, he must have gotten a medical degree when we weren’t looking.) A filled bed is a filled bed. If I have Covid19, I’ll need a bed, no matter how many car wrecks or heart attacks happened the night before. If that bed is not there, that’s a problem.
There’s a difference between scaring people and informing people.
Gov. Greg Abbott, still clinging pathetically to Donald Trump’s invisible coattails, has called a halt to future plans for re-opening Texas and laying out a bigger Yea Covid 19! welcome mat.
In case you haven’t heard, Texas is drowning in virus. Our ICU units are filled to capacity, elective surgery is halted, and the Governor wants you to wash your hands.
“This temporary pause will help our state corral the spread until we can safely enter the next phase of opening our state for business,” Abbott said. “I ask all Texans to do their part to slow the spread of COVID-19 by wearing a mask, washing their hands regularly, and socially distancing from others.”
Are you freekin’ kidding me? That is exactly what got us here.
Look, Greg, let’s chat. Texas is the home of conspiracy nuts. Remember Branch Davidians? Jade Helm mean anything to you? Oh hell, I forgot, you fell for that Russian troll conspiracy yourownself. Greg, when you tell people that Texas is fine, you just encourage the anti-maskers to go out and kiss each other. You and your Lt Governor don’t wear a mask. You’re not helping.
We’re not fine, Greg, and we are not fine because you have failed us.
Forgive me, customers, but I needed to explode this morning. “Temporary pause?” Really? When you are driving the wrong direction a temporary pause is still not going to get you to the swimming hole.
Well, Greg Abbott stands by his man – Donald Trump.
The Dean of the Baylor College of Medicine Tropical Disease Department just had this to say —
Greg Abbott
Dr. Peter Hotez, the dean of the School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, told CNN’s John Berman that the current situation in Texas represents the “greatest public health failure in the history of the nation,” and he warned that it will spiral out of control very quickly.
He says that the rise in cases is going up almost vertically. Hotez also said the state should consider going back into “full lockdown to get the spread of the virus back under control.”
But Greg Abbott still won’t issue a facemask rule because it’s communist or some damn thing. We’ve got seatbelt rules and helmet rules in Texas but God forbid we do something that Donald Trump doesn’t do.
Trump wanted something that’s the greatest in the history of America? Well, he’s got it.
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