[Farm93]

Ireland has imposed a 6-week soft lockdown.  Police are enforcing a 3-mile limit on the distance people can travel from home.

Wales imposed a 17-day firebreak lockdown Friday.  Very few exceptions for leaving your house and no inter-household mingling allowed.

The obituary for lockdowns has been prematurely written.  It is not clear that Americans are responsible enough to avoid a strict lockdown.  In China, people were “nudged” to do the right thing, but life got back to close to normal much more quickly than it is in the US.

With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, January could be the worst month on record.

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The Senate is ostensibly in session today to debate the Supreme Court nomination, but in fact there is a lot of legislative maneuvering resulting in debates on COVID relief and health policy/pre-existing conditions.

Right now, Sen Brown is leading the charge for the Democrats and Sen Johnson is holding the line for the Republicans.

China again . . . what a shocker!  
What a great country that is . . .

Taiwan did even better than China and used less force.  Some Americans seem unwilling to accept their F grade in managing COVID.

A few of the Asian and Pacific nations are creeping back up with cases, but since they have a much lower base rate of cases they have a fighting chance to keep cases down in this second wave.  Many countries in Asia also have populations that will make shared sacrifices for the benefit of their nation.  

POTUS45 says he wouldn't change much and gave himself an A.   If you are a typical citizen inclined to think any POTUS must know a lot about important global events, then it would be hard to ignore his A grade and drop the USA down to F.    In polling ~65-70% say the USA has done a bad job, and ~25-30+% say the USA has done a great job with COVID.

POTUS45 may be a horrible government leader, but he is really good at messaging to get 30% of the people to believe him on COVID.   I thought pitching for debt after 5 or 6 bankruptcies was the sign of a great pitchman.    Getting 25+% to support his COVID19 management is amazing.

Ignoring his messaging, it seems clear our management of the virus has been awful.  The "F" potentially may impact our economy in ways we will not appreciate for a few quarters, but for the moment getting ready for the "dark winter" should be the federal government's #1 priority.

[Farm93]

Ireland has imposed a 6-week soft lockdown.  Police are enforcing a 3-mile limit on the distance people can travel from home.

Wales imposed a 17-day firebreak lockdown Friday.  Very few exceptions for leaving your house and no inter-household mingling allowed.

The obituary for lockdowns has been prematurely written.  It is not clear that Americans are responsible enough to avoid a strict lockdown.  In China, people were “nudged” to do the right thing, but life got back to close to normal much more quickly than it is in the US.

With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, January could be the worst month on record.

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The Senate is ostensibly in session today to debate the Supreme Court nomination, but in fact there is a lot of legislative maneuvering resulting in debates on COVID relief and health policy/pre-existing conditions.

Right now, Sen Brown is leading the charge for the Democrats and Sen Johnson is holding the line for the Republicans.

China again . . . what a shocker!  
What a great country that is . . .

Taiwan did even better than China and used less force.  Some Americans seem unwilling to accept their F grade in managing COVID.

A few of the Asian and Pacific nations are creeping back up with cases, but since they have a much lower base rate of cases they have a fighting chance to keep cases down in this second wave.  Many countries in Asia also have populations that will make shared sacrifices for the benefit of their nation.  

POTUS45 says he wouldn't change much and gave himself an A.   If you are a typical citizen inclined to think any POTUS must know a lot about important global events, then it would be hard to ignore his A grade and drop the USA down to F.    In polling ~65-70% say the USA has done a bad job, and ~25-30+% say the USA has done a great job with COVID.

POTUS45 may be a horrible government leader, but he is really good at messaging to get 30% of the people to believe him on COVID.   I thought pitching for debt after 5 or 6 bankruptcies was the sign of a great pitchman.    Getting 25+% to support his COVID19 management is amazing.

Ignoring his messaging, it seems clear our management of the virus has been awful.  The "F" potentially may impact our economy in ways we will not appreciate for a few quarters, but for the moment getting ready for the "dark winter" should be the federal government's #1 priority.