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Trump and Republicans illegally eliminate automobile emission laws: The new rule, written by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation, would allow vehicles on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the cars than they would have under the Obama standards and hundreds of millions of tons more than will be emitted under standards being implemented in Europe and Asia. | Even many large automakers, which had asked Republicans to slightly loosen the Obama-era rule, had urged him not to roll it back so aggressively, since that plan is certain to get bogged down in court for years, leaving their industry in regulatory limbo. | The new standard would lead to nearly a billion more tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide released and the consumption of about 80 billion more gallons of gasoline over the lifetime of the vehicles built during the terms of the rule, according to a recent draft of the plan. | For environmentalists, the tailpipe-emissions rule culminates the Republican party's quest to dismantle the United States’ efforts to fight climate change, which has so far included illegally pulling out of the global Paris climate change accord, illegally weakening rules to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired electric plants, and illegally undermining the basic science that underpins environmental regulations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/climate/trump-fuel-economy.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/climate/trump-paris-agreement-climate.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/climate/epa-coal-emissions.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/climate/trump-administration-war-on-science.html

The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort arrives in New York, Monday, March 30, 2020 | The USNS Comfort arrived in New York on Monday, bringing a massive Navy hospital ship to help relieve city hospitals overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. The 1,000-bed floating hospital docked Monday at Pier 90 on Manhattan’s West Side, and is set to begin treating patients Tuesday. “Our nation has heard our plea for help here in New York City,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said as he greeted the ship at Pier 90. “There could not be a better example of all of America pulling for New York City than the arrival of the USNS Comfort.” The ship, emblazoned with red crosses on its white hull, will not treat coronavirus patients, but will take on other patients including trauma cases, freeing up beds at local hospitals focused on combating the pandemic. It will have 750 beds ready to treat patients immediately.
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/03/30/usns-comfort-arrives-in-new-york-city-1269589

Citgo is liable for a 2004 oil spill and must pay back cleanup costs, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday. In 2004, an oil tanker chartered by Citgo Asphalt Refining Company and others hit an anchor in the Delaware River, leading to the release of 264,000 gallons of heavy crude oil, according to court documents. At the time, Frescati Shipping Company, which owned the vessel, and the U.S. together paid a total of $133 million to clean up the spill. The court ruled 7-2 on Monday that Citgo and others are responsible for cleanup costs.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/490153-supreme-court-rules-citgo-responsible-for-2004-oil-spill
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-565_3d93.pdf

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday announced that he is issuing a stay-at-home order for the southern portion of the state as the number of positive coronavirus cases grows. The order will apply to Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Monroe counties through the middle of May. | There are more than 5,000 positive coronavirus cases in Florida, with the state's department of health reporting 523 new positive cases on Sunday. The four counties included in the stay-at-home order make up over 58 percent of the cases in the Sunshine State, according to The Miami Herald.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/490159-governor-to-issue-stay-at-home-order-for-south-florida
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241609941.html

A commercial aircraft carrying 80 tons of gloves, masks, gowns and other medical supplies from Shanghai touched down in New York on Sunday, the first of 22 scheduled flights that White House officials say will funnel much-needed goods to the United States by early April as it battles the world’s largest coronavirus outbreak. The plane delivered 130,000 N95 masks, 1.8 million face masks and gowns, 10 million gloves and thousands of thermometers for distribution to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, said Lizzie Litzow, a spokeswoman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Ms. Litzow said that flights would be arriving in Chicago on Monday and in Ohio on Tuesday, and that supplies would be sent from there to other states using private-sector distribution networks. While the goods that arrived in New York on Sunday will be welcomed by hospitals and health care workers — some of whom have resorted to rationing protective gear or using homemade supplies — they represent just a tiny portion of what American hospitals need. The Department of Health and Human Services has estimated that the United States will require 3.5 billion masks if the pandemic lasts a year. That overwhelming demand has set off a race among foreign countries, American officials at all levels of government and private individuals to acquire protective gear, ventilators and other much-needed goods from China, where newly built factories are churning out supplies even as China’s own epidemic wanes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/economy/coronavirus-china-supplies.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/business/coronavirus-china-masks.html

The Justice Department is investigating actions by US lawmakers who dumped stocks before the market plunged over coronavirus fears
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/coronavirus-justice-department-investigates-lawmakers-who-dumped-stock-cnn-2020-3

Chinese squalid meat "wet markets" still operating despite COVID-19. Thousands of people have started to flood back into Chinese wet markets, with bats, rabbits and dogs still on offer despite the coronavirus outbreak.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-chinese-wet-markets-still-operation-despite-covid19/news-story/104a81601ff7b94fec6dae3e158ad0a1

Wuhan residents estimate region's coronavirus death toll much higher than reported - 42,000-47,000 deaths vs. 3,000 reported deaths
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/wuhan-residents-estimate-regions-coronavirus-death-toll-much-higher-than-reported

40,000 quarantined in India after single priest spread coronavirus
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/least-40-000-quarantined-india-after-single-priest-spread-coronavirus-n1171261

Keeping the Florida primary was a DNC plot. Delaying the New York primary is also a DNC plot.
https://twitter.com/ProgressiveG2/status/1244265591034298369?s=20

The U.S. State Department shipped 17.8 tons of donated coronavirus medical supplies to China seven weeks ago, when health experts and some American lawmakers were already seeking federal action to prepare the country for the disease. The massive shipment to China included medical masks, gowns and respirators, now in desperately short supply across America. The supplies were contributed by American companies and nonprofits, according to a U.S. Agency for International Development official. The State Department touted its aid to China in a press release Feb. 7, three weeks after the first COVID-19 case emerged in Washington state. The statement said the agency was prepared to spend $100 million on the fight against the disease in China and other foreign countries. That was the same day the World Health Organization sounded an alert that such supplies were in critically short supply around the globe. | Later that month, Trump compared COVID-19 to his impeachment and claimed it was Democrats’ “new hoax” to make him look bad. The previous month he boasted at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland that it was “totally under control” in the U.S.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-china-coronavirus-shortage-governors_n_5e8179c6c5b66149226a0ff8
https://www.state.gov/briefing-with-usaid-deputy-administrator-bonnie-glick-and-director-of-u-s-foreign-assistance-resources-james-l-richardson-on-u-s-foreign-assistance-in-response-to-covid-19/
https://www.state.gov/the-united-states-announces-assistance-to-combat-the-novel-coronavirus/
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191
https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/07/coronavirus-concerns-trigger-global-run-on-supplies-for-health-workers-causing-shortages/
https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1225836989393534976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/not-concerned-timeline-trump-coronavirus-164634365.html

Nearly 12,300 Spanish health workers have coronavirus
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-spain-workers/nearly-12300-spanish-health-workers-have-coronavirus-idUKKBN21H1HZ?il=0

AOC breaks with Bernie on how to lead the left: the congresswoman is declining to back primary challengers following in her footsteps — and working within the system in Congress | Of the half-dozen incumbent primary challengers Justice Democrats is backing this cycle, Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed just two. Neither was a particularly risky move: Both candidates — Jessica Cisneros in Texas and Marie Newman in Illinois — were taking on conservative Democrats who oppose abortion rights and later earned the support of several prominent national Democrats. Ocasio-Cortez’s reluctance marks a break with the outsider tactics of the activist left, represented by groups like Justice Democrats. This election cycle, the organization is trying to boot not just conservative Democrats but also some liberal Democrats and to replace them with members who are more left-wing. In other words, to replicate what it pulled off against Rep. Joe Crowley in 2018 by recruiting Ocasio-Cortez. Ocasio-Cortez’s shift coincides with turnover among top aides in her congressional office — replacing some outspoken radicals with more traditional political professionals — along with a broader reckoning on the left on how to expand Sanders’ coalition after his failure to significantly do so in the presidential primary. Some progressives have questioned whether Sanders should have softened his anti-establishment rhetoric and tried to build bridges with mainstream Democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 rather than betting big on turning out disaffected and first-time voters. Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement moves are not a fluke but part of a larger change over the past several months. After her disruptive, burn-it-down early months in Congress, Ocasio-Cortez, who colleagues say is often conflict-averse in person, has increasingly been trying to work more within the system. She is building coalitions with fellow Democratic members and picking her fights more selectively. | “The Democratic Party is the party of coalitions, not a cult,” said James Carville, a top strategist for Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign and vocal critic of Sanders during the primary. “I’ve observed her. I think she’s really talented, that she’s really smart. Maybe she is — I don’t speak for her — coming to the conclusion that she wants to be part of the coalition.” Neera Tanden, president of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress and a longtime Hillary Clinton aide, called Ocasio-Cortez's shift "a sign of leadership." "There are some people on the left who thought that their views represented a strong majority, and the primary process has shown that voters diverged, that Sanders is winning a minority and smaller minority than he had four years ago,” Tanden said. Instead of supporting Justice Democrats' full slate of incumbent challengers, Ocasio-Cortez launched her own PAC earlier this year that's been more focused on electing progressives in Republican-held or open seats. Ocasio-Cortez declined to be interviewed, but her new communications director, Lauren Hitt, noted that Bush’s August 4 primary is still several months away and that the congresswoman is monitoring other primaries. "We don’t usually endorse so far out," Hitt said. Ocasio-Cortez, however, endorsed Newman six months before her primary and backed Cisneros more than four months before hers. | Other progressives said Ocasio-Cortez’s more accommodating stance is a smart long-term strategy for a movement looking for a path forward. “She’s speaking in a way to create a majority in a way that Bernie is not interested in doing,” said Max Berger, the former director of progressive outreach on Elizabeth Warren’s campaign who also worked for Justice Democrats.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/30/new-aoc-divides-the-left-150767

Fox News concerned about potential legal action over its misleading coronavirus coverage | When I've been talking to Fox insiders over the last few days, there's a real concern inside the network that their early downplaying of the coronavirus actually exposes Fox News to potential legal action by viewers who maybe were misled and actually have died from this. I've heard Trish Regan's being taken off the air is, you know, reflective of this concern that Fox News is in big trouble by downplaying this virus. ... I think this is a case where Fox's coverage, if it actually winds up being proved that people died because of it, this is a new terrain in terms of Fox being possibly held liable for their actions. [Gabriel Sherman, MSNBC]
https://theweek.com/speedreads/905601/fox-news-reportedly-fears-early-downplaying-covid19-leaves-open-lawsuits

A pastor in Florida has been arrested for violating coronavirus social distancing rules by holding two large services at his church over the weekend. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister confirmed on Monday afternoon that Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne had been arrested. “His reckless disregard for human life put hundreds of people in his congregation at risk and thousands of residents who may interact with them this week in danger,” the sheriff said. The River at Tampa Bay Church held two services on Sunday, despite a county order for residents to stay at home, and warnings from the sheriff's office to both Pastor Howard-Browne and church attorneys. Sheriff Chronister said that the church has the ability to livestream services but still encouraged people to show up in person, even laying on buses for some of the congregation. | “Because of the reckless disregard of public safety and after repeated requests and warnings, I worked with our state attorney, Andrew Warren, to obtain a warrant for unlawful assembly and violation of public health emergency rules, both of which are second degree misdemeanours,” Sheriff Chronister said.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-pastor-arrest-florida-church-services-tampa-bay-social-distancing-a9436741.html

DeSantis should be arrested and charged just like the Reverend. Let's talk about nerve. The thousands of spring breakers on those beaches, leave, go home to their respective states, and spread their germs. Meanwhile, DeSantis is checking license plates coming in from other states.

The River at Tampa Bay Church has a warning for visitors: ‘WE ARE HEAVILY ARMED — The Pastors’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/11/21/a-florida-church-has-a-warning-for-visitors-this-is-not-a-gun-free-zone-the-pastors/

Excellent. He should get at minimum a reckless-endangerment charge for each attendee, an attempted manslaughter charge for each confirmed covid case and a murder charge for each death.

Thirteen years ago, a group of U.S. public health officials came up with a plan to address what they regarded as one of the medical system’s crucial vulnerabilities: a shortage of ventilators. The breathing-assistance machines tended to be bulky, expensive and limited in number. The plan was to build a large fleet of inexpensive portable devices to deploy in a flu pandemic or another crisis.
Money was budgeted. A federal contract was signed. Work got underway. And then things suddenly veered off course. A multibillion-dollar maker of medical devices bought the small California company that had been hired to design the new machines. The project ultimately produced zero ventilators. That failure delayed the development of an affordable ventilator by at least half a decade, depriving hospitals, states and the federal government of the ability to stock up. The federal government started over with another company in 2014, whose ventilator was approved only last year and whose products have not yet been delivered. Today, with the coronavirus ravaging America’s health care system, the nation’s emergency-response stockpile is still waiting on its first shipment. The scarcity of ventilators has become an emergency, forcing doctors to make life-or-death decisions about who gets to breathe and who does not.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html

Elon Musk says Tesla's New York factory is making ventilators
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/elon-musk-says-teslas-new-york-factory-will-make-ventilators-as-soon-as-humanly-possible-medtronic/

Tesla donates hundreds of ventilators to New York
https://www.10tv.com/article/teslas-elon-musk-donating-hundreds-ventilators-new-york-2020-mar

A choir decided to go ahead with rehearsal. Now dozens of members have COVID-19 and two are dead | With the coronavirus quickly spreading in Washington state in early March, leaders of the Skagit Valley Chorale debated whether to go ahead with weekly rehearsal. The virus was already killing people in the Seattle area, about an hour’s drive to the south. But Skagit County hadn’t reported any cases, schools and businesses remained open, and prohibitions on large gatherings had yet to be announced. On March 6, Adam Burdick, the choir’s conductor, informed the 121 members in an email that amid the “stress and strain of concerns about the virus,” practice would proceed as scheduled at Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church. | Sixty singers showed up. A greeter offered hand sanitizer at the door, and members refrained from the usual hugs and handshakes. “It seemed like a normal rehearsal, except that choirs are huggy places,” Burdick recalled. “We were making music and trying to keep a certain distance between each other.” After 2½ hours, the singers parted ways at 9 p.m. Nearly three weeks later, 45 have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or ill with the symptoms, at least three have been hospitalized, and two are dead.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-29/coronavirus-choir-outbreak

For the new folks: Video from 1987 of Bernie claiming that the "astronomical cost" of universal health care would "bankrupt the nation". At the time he wanted an NHS, not M4A, and would go on to oppose Clinton's UHC push in the '90s even voting against SCHIP. Who got dragged where exactly?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyIWpYDP-PQ


Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition
‏ @DefendGlendale
In the last year, DGPHC has
1. Held 6 calls to action asking @IlhanMN to act against Section 18 & RAD
2. Met with her office twice asking them to act.
3. Attended her events and asked her to act.
4. Emailed/Wrote/Called her offices.
5. Organized Phone Zaps asking her to act.
https://twitter.com/DefendGlendale/status/1244705496940122113

Public housing residents have called her office and asked her to act. Even her own party, @CD5DFL wrote an open letter to @IlhanMN asking her to stop Section 18 & stand with public housing residents. Despite this, she has refused to act, or even discuss this crisis publicly.
https://twitter.com/DefendGlendale/status/1244705498257068038

Given this, it is clear that @IlhanMN doesn't care about the voices of public housing residents, despite her bill Homes for All. Her policy platform is completely insincere. How could it be genuine, considering the crisis in her district and her refusal to engage with it?
https://twitter.com/DefendGlendale/status/1244705500106756098

During this pandemic, MPHA has harassed scattered site residents, announced Elliot Twins will be handed over to private ownership through RAD on June 1st & forced residents to sign documents they don't understand. MPHA's mistreatment has know bounds & are completely unaccountable
https://twitter.com/DefendGlendale/status/1244705501562232834

We are asking voters to hold @IlhanMN accountable. City council, @Jacob_Frey & @Ilhan have had years to rectify this crisis, support public housing residents and protect a public good. They haven't. They don't care about poor people, and their base should know their record.
https://twitter.com/DefendGlendale/status/1244705503214796800

We will continue to hold them accountable and expose their record and the wrongdoings of MPHA. As public housing residents, we will always have the backs of public housing residents, & protect our homes from privatization and displacement. We wish our electeds would do the same.
https://twitter.com/DefendGlendale/status/1244705507614568451

Trump promises that more ventilators will produced than are needed in the US. He says we're going to be sending them to Italy, Spain and France. He says he's already told Italy we're now sending $100M worth of: "things. Surgical and medical and hospital things to Italy." The US medical/healthcare infrastructure lacks these things. He's mentally ill, a liar, and a terrorist.

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An Idaho hospital CEO vacuumed his hospital to give maintenance a break. ER docs are working extra shifts to fill in as nurses. In Virginia, a call out to neighbors for more hand sanitizer.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/coronavirus-strains-rural-hospitals-absolute-limit-n1172416

The medical professionals on the front lines deserve our respect and admiration, but I think we tend to overlook the folks working to keep healthcare facilities clean. About 100K Americans die each year from healthcare acquired infections. The work by these folks save lives.

20 days ago, Pence said over a million tests had been distributed & 4 million more would be by the end of the week.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-03-10/millions-of-coronavirus-test-kits-available-soon-pence-says-as-us-cases-top-700

A coronavirus outbreak at the Marine Corps' Parris Island boot camp has infected dozens of recruits and staff members, possibly becoming the Pentagon's largest yet. Up to 50 likely infected, source says. Wave of testing occurred over the weekend.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/coronavirus-outbreak-at-marine-corps-boot-camp-infects-dozens-of-recruits-staff-members/2020/03/30/d7a1cdd2-72be-11ea-ae50-7148009252e3_story.html

New York is reporting fewer new cases than yesterday—and they reported fewer yesterday than Saturday—but their testing numbers have stagnated a bit and otherwise been a little weird lately. Mon: 6,984
Sun: 7,195
Sat: 7,683
Fri: 7,377
Thu: 6,447
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1244736568801333254

Nearly 10 minutes of today's coronavirus briefing was taken by six company executives who alternately gave shout outs to their own products, called for a return to the Bible, and praised Trump's leadership.

DeSantis order3e checkpoint at Florida-GA border to look for travelers from coronavirus hotspots like NY -- but I-95 checkpoint is forced to shut down after traffic backs up for miiiiiiles.
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2020/03/29/screening-checkpoint-at-florida-georgia-border-slows-traffic/

A federal judge has temporarily blocked an effort in Texas to stop almost all abortions during the pandemic - hearing on April 13

Dr. James T. Goodrich, the neurosurgeon who allowed CNN inside a remarkable operation to separate twins Jadon and Anias McDonald, died on Monday after complications related to Covid-19, according to the hospital where he worked.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/health/new-york-neurosurgeon-death-coronavirus-mcdonald-twins/index.html

To be clear, General Motors is not making ventilators yet. They must retool their factories. Yesterday a GM spokesman said they’re working “around the clock” to start doing so w/ Ventec Life Systems but "not making ventilators yet." Production expected next couple of weeks.
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1244744562393911298

As someone who recently spent almost a week hooked up to a ventilator (and probably wouldn't be alive today without one), I can attest to the importance of ventilators and the need for an adequate supply. #coronavirus #CoronavirusUSA #COVID19 #Covid_19
https://twitter.com/DavidLat/status/1244411822423318529
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html

A Texas judge appointed by George W. Bush just sided with abortion clinics who were challenging the state's order to halt abortions during the covid19 pandemic. The state is banned from enforcing the order for the next couple week while the lawsuit continues in court.
https://valleycentral.com/news/local/judge-blocks-texas-from-temporarily-closing-abortion-clinics-as-part-of-covid-19-response

MyPillow Lays Off 150 Workers After Praising Trump’s Tax Cuts, ‘Booming Economy
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mypillow-mike-lindell-layoffs-trump-tax-cuts_n_5cd5b3a0e4b0705e47dbd2e3

1918 data show that the places with tougher lockdowns had stronger economic recoveries once it was all over
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-27/tough-pandemic-shutdowns-work-for-the-economy-too

An MTA worker couldn't get treatment for coronavirus and died in her home. Then her body was left for 24 hours, while her scared family slept in a van.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/30/bronx-coronavirus-victims-body-left-in-home-for-24-hours-before-collected/

They Were Opposed To Government Surveillance. Then The Coronavirus Pandemic Began. As nations around the world take on sweeping new powers to fight the disease, critics aren't sure what's necessary and what's too far. The coronavirus pandemic, which has grown to over 740,000 cases and 35,000 deaths around the world, has been so singular an event that even some staunch advocates for civil liberties say they’re willing to accept previously unthinkable surveillance measures.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/they-were-opposed-to-government-surveillance-then-the

Ford and GE say they will produce 50,000 ventilators over the next 100 days, and that the simplified ventilator design, which has been cleared by the FDA, can meet the needs of most COVID-19 patients. It relies on air pressure without the need for electricity.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-ford-motor/ford-ge-to-produce-50000-ventilators-in-100-days-idUSKBN21H39F

Today:
-6,984 new cases, 253 deaths reported in New York
-3,250 new cases, 37 deaths in New Jersey
-1,120 new cases, 34 deaths in California
-1,012 new cases, 52 deaths in Michigan
-797 new cases, 8 deaths in Massachusetts
-693 new cases, 10 deaths in Pennsylvania

A federal judge obtained the full and unredacted report on election interference and obstruction of justice prepared by former special counsel Robert Mueller on Monday. A two-page filing submitted by U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia notified Judge Reggie Walton of the delivery of the documents in question. The filing also noted DOJ’s compliance with two court orders issued by Walton earlier this month demanding the law enforcement agency supply the full report.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/federal-judge-who-slammed-ag-barr-obtains-unredacted-version-of-mueller-report/

Social distancing means you should stay away from anyone and NOT have social interactions with them, because the more time you spend next to someone with Covid-19 the more likely you are to catch it too through air droplets.

Here's the part that worries me. They say that transferring the virus to your face with your hands is the most likely way you would get infected. More likely, they say, is being near someone coughing or sneezing. But then they say it's spreading mostly by asymptomatic individuals, who clearly wouldn't be coughing or sneezing. So how are they spreading it so effectively?? All the soap and sanitizer and 6-foot instructions start to sound more like a feel-good activity if that's true.