The USSC Ginsburg replacement drama is good theater, nothing else. Turmp will nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the D's will flail, raise a bunch of superfluous BS about her catholic believes and the Senate will confirm her nomination. Drama over. For me, it's a good ending as the court will be, for better or worse, pretty conservative. With Biden the next POTUS and Harris working to advance a leftist legislative agenda they'll be plenty of battles ahead over gun rights and affirmative action to name just two on a long list.
Meanwhile we have a presidential election, a botched response to the pandemic, mostly involving testing and tracking at this point and an impending economic implosion. It's mindboggling to me that there isn't a clear path to another stimulus package. No credible economist or banker is saying we don't need one.
On the COVID front, I do believe that increasing case #s globally are a problem mainly because the economic fall-out related to consumer and business confidence is taking a huge hit. Businesses trying to look forward in this environment, invest, hire and return to profitability just isn't going to happen. They'll turtle and go into survival mode. As far as disease burden is concerned, the impact, while not insignificant is, as usual, not adequately dealt with by the press. The drum beat of rising case numbers, taken out of context, mischaracterizes COVID impact. That is harmful and that is an understatement. In the US back to college is getting much of the blame. The reality is that, for the most part, outbreaks are being dealt with by colleges pretty well - there are exceptions but, by-in-large, there are plans to handle outbreaks and despite the hand-wringing from the press, they are being executed. More importantly, the disease burden in this cohort is exceptionally low.
Meanwhile we have a presidential election, a botched response to the pandemic, mostly involving testing and tracking at this point and an impending economic implosion. It's mindboggling to me that there isn't a clear path to another stimulus package. No credible economist or banker is saying we don't need one.
On the COVID front, I do believe that increasing case #s globally are a problem mainly because the economic fall-out related to consumer and business confidence is taking a huge hit. Businesses trying to look forward in this environment, invest, hire and return to profitability just isn't going to happen. They'll turtle and go into survival mode. As far as disease burden is concerned, the impact, while not insignificant is, as usual, not adequately dealt with by the press. The drum beat of rising case numbers, taken out of context, mischaracterizes COVID impact. That is harmful and that is an understatement. In the US back to college is getting much of the blame. The reality is that, for the most part, outbreaks are being dealt with by colleges pretty well - there are exceptions but, by-in-large, there are plans to handle outbreaks and despite the hand-wringing from the press, they are being executed. More importantly, the disease burden in this cohort is exceptionally low.
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