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If you can't bear to watch slaughterhouse footage, just imagine how the animals feel

Trump Plays Golf While More Americans Die Of COVID-19
https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-usa-update-trump-plays-golf-while-more-americans-die-covid-19-2936194

Rev. Sharpton: I don’t know how you make an MLK candidate out of the guy who voted against the Brady Bill five times
https://www.twitter.com/TheRevAl/status/1236984444998815744

Carbon emissions fall as electricity producers move away from coal - Carbon emissions from the global electricity system fell by 2% last year, the biggest drop in almost 30 years, as countries began to turn their backs on coal-fired power plants.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/09/carbon-emissions-fall-as-electricity-producers-move-away-from-coal

After mocking coronavirus,Gaetz himself is self quarantine. 4 members of Congress -- including lawmaker who shook Trump's hand -- to self-quarantine after CPAC
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/09/politics/doug-collins-self-quarantine-cpac/index.html

S&P 500 Plunges 7%, Triggering Market-Wide Stock Trading Halt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-08/rout-in-u-s-stock-futures-would-trigger-trading-curbs-at-5

A group of U.S. states won a court order blocking the Trump administration from implementing new regulations that they allege would allow anyone with a 3D printer to make firearms at home. A federal judge in Seattle on Friday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the rules, which the states contend are a “toothless prohibition” on computer software that allowed for the production of guns using a 3D printer and would lead to the “widespread proliferation” of such weapons. The rules were scheduled to take effect Monday.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-09/trump-administration-blocked-from-enforcing-3d-printed-gun-rule

Dow plunges more than 1,800 points at opening bell as virus, oil worries weigh on stocks
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dow-plunges-more-than-1800-points-at-opening-bell-as-virus-oil-worries-weigh-on-stocks-2020-03-09

Jared Kushner sells stake in company using tax breaks that he lobbied for. Democrats continue to refuse to lift a finger to investigate all the crimes he has committed.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jared-kushner-sells-stake-in-company-using-tax-breaks-that-he-lobbied-for-2020-03-02

Oil plummets 31% in biggest drop since Gulf War as Saudi cuts spark all-out price war. Oil markets tumbled the most in decades overnight on Sunday. The sell-off was fueled by sinking demand due to coronavirus concerns.
https://www.businessinsider.com/oil-price-crash-market-drop-global-price-war-futures-coronavirus-2020-3

Bloomberg gives $2 million to boost black voter registration efforts
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-bloomberg-donates-2-million-boost-black-voter-registration-key-states/

Saudi Arabia Stuns World With Massive Discount In Oil Sold To Asia, Europe And U.S.
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/08/813439501/saudi-arabia-stuns-world-with-massive-discount-in-oil-sold-to-asia-europe-and-u-

A former Bernie staffer literally live streamed himself committing multiple federal election crimes: A former Bernie employee is using our virtual phonebank tool to call voters and tell them Joe Biden has dementia — and is live-streaming it. We’ll cut him off in a little bit but I figured it’s worth everyone seeing this stuff in action. https://youtu.be/1q2pPb5TE4Y
https://twitter.com/Rob_Flaherty/status/1236842130020216832

The Most Drastic Anti-Coronavirus Travel Ban in the World: 'Micronesia has banned entry to anyone who has been in any country with a confirmed case of coronavirus in the past fortnight'
https://slate.com/technology/2020/03/micronesia-drastic-coronavirus-travel-ban.html

Sen. Ted Cruz announces self-imposed quarantine after possible COVID-19 exposure at CPAC
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/sen-ted-cruz-announced-self-imposed-quarantine-after-covid-19-exposure-at-cpac/

I've been told that if it's a legitimate coronavirus, the body has ways of shutting that down.....

I think this obviously sounds great, but it's probably too little, too late for it. I mean, really how would you force a bunch of private businesses that are probably already going to go out of business to also pay their employees while they're not working? Like, if the money doesn't exist, it just doesn't exist: Pelosi, Schumer to President Trump on Coronavirus Response: Put Health and Safety of American People Before Corporate Needs
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/3820-0

This is never going to happen. The govt didn't even help the contractors who lost income during the shutdown last year, and now Democrats want private industry to give out sick time? What if your job doesn't offer sick leave?

Putin just sparked an oil price war with Saudi Arabia and US energy companies are the victims
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/08/putin-sparks-an-oil-price-war-and-us-companies-may-be-the-victims.html

Hundreds of thousands of women across Latin America’s biggest cities flocked to the streets for International Women’s Day on Sunday, spurred by a growing outcry over inequality, femicide and strict abortion controls.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-womens-day-latinamerica/women-pack-streets-in-massive-marches-across-latin-america-idUSKBN20V06X?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Taiwan scientists develop antibodies for 15-minute Wuhan virus test in 19 days
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3893301

Bernie misreads "Laura Jane Grace" and says "Laura Jane Grass". Berners in the replies praise Bernie as lovable...now imagine their reaction if Biden did this?
https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1236796461280452608

Update on Willie Calhoun who was hit in the mouth area by a Julio Urias pitch in today’s game. A CT scan and examination revealed he has a fracture of his jaw. He is expected to undergo further evaluation on Monday.
https://twitter.com/rangerblake/status/1236802056360353792?s=21

In which Sarah Silverman tries to dunk on Kamala and instead reminds everyone of that time she wore blackface
https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1236820965646118913?s=20

North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile, South Korean military says
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/08/north-korea-has-fired-an-unidentified-projectile-south-korean-military-says.html

Sudan's PM survives assassination attempt in capital
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/sudan-pm-survives-assassination-attempt-capital-69478827

Trump tweets a meme of himself fiddling that draws a comparison to Roman emperor Nero
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/09/trump-coronavirus-nero-qanon/

Markets are tanking and coronavirus is spreading and Trump and Biden and all their supporters are attacking Biden and Democrats and the media

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock to run for Senate, boosting Democrats’ fortunes in their bid to claim Senate majority
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/montana-gov-steve-bullock-to-run-for-senate-in-boon-for-democrats/2020/03/09/7b19b7b6-5e5d-11ea-b014-4fafa866bb81_story.html

Trump To Use a Reagan-Era Legal Opinion To Censor Coronavirus Information | The Reagan administration invented a precedent to censor AIDS information in the 1980s.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/trump-reagan-coronavirus-olc.html

On Wednesday, the Senate Homeland Security Committee will vote to subpoena someone Republicans view as a crucial witness against Hunter Biden: Andrii Telizhenko, a political consultant who represented Burisma in the United States. Burisma is the Ukrainian energy company on whose board Hunter Biden sat. Trumpworld has spun a tale about alleged Joe Biden corruption that centers on his effort to oust a Ukrainian prosecutor, supposedly to protect Burisma and Hunter. That tale is entirely fabricated, and Joe Biden’s Ukraine efforts were entirely legitimate and even supported by Republicans at the time. | Telizhenko has long played an active role in spreading the debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine colluded with Democrats in 2016. Our intelligence services have told senators that this is central to Russian disinformation efforts. So Homeland Security Committee Democrats want all senators on the committee to get a classified briefing from the intelligence community on Telizhenko — to demonstrate that intelligence officials don’t view him as credible. “This is a fictional narrative perpetrated by Russian security services, and you’ve got Telizhenko basically out there saying the same thing,” Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the committee, told me. “What do intelligence services know about Telizhenko? We’d like to have a briefing on that.” Peters pointed to an ugly irony in this situation. Telizhenko is spreading disinformation designed to cover up the Russian attack on our democracy. But the Homeland Security Committee, which is tasked with oversight designed to help protect the country, may allow itself to become a platform for him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/09/gops-hunterghazi-probe-is-about-get-much-worse/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-republicans-plan-first-subpoena-in-burisma-biden-probe/2020/03/02/0111b39a-5cbb-11ea-b014-4fafa866bb81_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/27/quick-guide-trumps-false-claims-about-ukraine-bidens/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/30/gop-senators-know-trumps-defense-is-based-lies-heres-proof/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/ukraine-whistleblower-politico-story-dnc-telizhenko
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/08/gop-theory-that-ukraine-set-up-trump/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/politics/ukraine-russia-interference.html

Six dead as prison riots sweep Italy sparked by coronavirus emergency laws
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-coronavirus-six-dead-prison-21658829

Michigan Was Once Bernie’s Resurrection. Now It Could Be His Burial
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/09/michigan-bernie-sanders-primary-unfriendly-123898

Bernie supporters call Cubans Slave Owners and attack African Americans in Michigan, and then wonder why their base is shrinking instead of expanding.

Facebook refuses to ban fake Biden video that makes it look like he's endorsing Trump
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/facebook-biden-video-that-endorses-trump-is-partly-false.html

Sanders gets more Trumpian by the day | Populist leaders present themselves as the only authentic voice of the “people.” Therefore, critics in the media are enemies of the people, for to take on the leader is to attack the people. When the leader is rejected at the polls, it cannot be an authentic expression of the people. The system must be rigged; the establishment must be out to get the candidates and, by extension, the people. We have seen this for the three years President Trump has been in office, and previously in his 2016 campaign. The deep state, the fake news and the elites (not “real” Americans) are out to get him, he says. He insists that all these forces do not respect the people, his followers and the only real Americans. We are reminded in watching Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), as his presidential campaign fizzles, this mind-set is not limited to the right. | Other Democrats got out of the race because voters across the country did not vote for them. Sanders sneers at them as if they are puppets on a string, yanked out of the race by nefarious forces. They actually looked at the facts, saw they could not win and decided Biden had a better chance to unify the country and beat Trump than did a self-proclaimed socialist who cannot resist the urge to pick fights with his own party. This is akin to his waving off South Carolina voters, predominantly African American, and instead attributing Biden’s win to “corporate Democrats.” Sanders’s complaint about billionaires giving to Biden’s campaign (they would be limited to $2,800 per person like all other donors) is part of the fixation with attributing opponents’ success to something other than popular opinion. Sanders had no real answer when Stephanopoulos pointed out that “you outspent him on Super Tuesday.” In fact, one of the remarkable aspects of Biden’s romp on Super Tuesday was his lack of ads and organization in states in which Sanders poured in millions and had paid people on the ground. | One might ask how he expects to accomplish any of his extreme agenda when so many in the Democratic Party have no interest in his views or how he expects to unite a party when, he acknowledges, “we’re not going to get the support of most elected leaders. Not most governors, not most senators.” | Sanders keeps insisting he is “winning the support of grass-roots America.” That simply is not so. Biden won 10 of 14 states, driving turnout sky-high in states he won, like Virginia. Sanders’s promised onslaught of new voters has never shown up. Perhaps he and his snarling online supporters should confront an unpleasant truth: Sanders’s problem is not the establishment or corporate Democrats or billionaires. It is the voters. (who don't support him)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/09/sanders-gets-more-trumpian-by-day/
https://www.fec.gov/updates/fec-announces-20192020-campaign-cycle-contribution-limits/
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-20-sen-bernie-sanders-dr-ben/story?id=69465733

Rick Cotton, the head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, has tested positive for the coronavirus, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced on Monday. | The governor also said at a news conference that the number of cases in the Empire State has risen to 142, putting it ahead of Washington state, once the epicenter of the virus outbreak in the U.S.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/486613-chief-of-port-authority-of-new-york-and-new-jersey-tests-positive-for

For all NY schools we are setting a new policy that if a student tests positive for #Coronavirus in a school, that school will be closed for a 24hr period so we can do assessment of the situation.
Then a determination will be made about whether to close the school for longer.
    — Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) March 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1237035378244190210

America in 1999: Hey, the 21st century is right around the corner. We've been through a lot, and we have a long way to go but finally we might have some better days ahead. Did you hear Al Gore is running for president?

America in 2020: Slave labor manufactures a mildly effective panacea to treat a plague as the global economy eats itself alive for the second time in twelve years while a racist mysognist republican game-show host is president. Climate change is inevitable, our healthcare system is a shamble, and all wars are now permanent.

I keep seeing on social media where pundits were mentioning how Bernie is still bringing in large crowds at his rallies (specifically this past weekend while he was campaigning in Michigan)...I'm tired of hearing this because if these people who attend his rallies don't vote, then who cares

MLB is holding a 5pm cofnerence call with the 30 owners to discuss where matters stands with the coronavirus. As of NOW, MLB is still planning for the season to begin on time and fans in the crowd.
https://twitter.com/Joelsherman1/status/1237070989151940614

Spain Says Coronavirus Cases Almost Doubled Overnight to 999
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-09/spain-says-coronavirus-cases-almost-doubled-overnight-to-999

Medical breakthrough in Israel: a lung was removed from the body of a cancer patient, cleaned and returned
https://jewishbusinessnews.com/2020/02/28/medical-breakthrough-in-israel-a-lung-was-removed-from-the-body-of-a-cancer-patient-cleaned-and-returned/

China reports no locally transmitted coronavirus cases outside Hubei
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/china-reports-no-locally-transmitted-coronavirus-cases-outside-hubei-idUSKBN20W00Y

In Iceland: 58 Confirmed Cases, 500 In Quarantine, General Screening To Begin
https://grapevine.is/news/2020/03/09/covid-19-in-iceland-58-confirmed-cases-500-in-quarantine-general-screening-to-begin/

Russia 'hired network of Britons to go after enemies of Putin' | World news
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/09/russia-network-britons-enemies-vladimir-putin-report

Names of downed Malaysian airliner victims read out as murder trial opens
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-mh17/names-of-downed-malaysian-airliner-victims-read-out-as-murder-trial-opens-idUSKBN20W11A

Fire destroys most voting machines in Venezuela's main elections warehouse
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN20V15O

Japan's largest native rat species is suddenly devouring the country's beloved cherry blossoms, and conservationists can't explain why. Feasting on the blossoms up in the trees is strange behavior for the critically endangered Ryukyu long-haired rat, which grows to 25 to 30 centimeters in length
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13163440

Sea turtles are eating ocean plastic because it smells like food
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/sea-turtles-are-eating-ocean-plastic-because-it-smells-like-food-study.html

South Korea reports 69 new coronavirus cases, total 7,382
https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/world/south-korea-reports-69-new-coronavirus-cases-total-7382-kcdc-421157/

Australian privacy watchdog launches court action against Facebook over Cambridge Analytica access. The OAIC found over 300,000 user profiles compromised during investigation.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-09/facebook-privacy-oaic-information-commissioner/12039642

Indian Ocean system that drives extreme weather in Australia likely to worsen with global heating. Researchers believe the Indian Ocean Dipole is more clearly influenced by climate change than previously thought
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/10/indian-ocean-system-that-drives-extreme-weather-in-australia-likely-to-worsen-with-global-heating

Some American troops have begun leaving Afghanistan for the initial troop withdrawal required in the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement, a U.S. official said on Monday, amid political chaos in Kabul that threatens the deal. Hundreds of troops are heading out of the country as previously planned, but they will not be replaced as the U.S. moves ahead with plans to cut the number of forces in the country from about 13,000 to 8,600, the official said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/09/us-begins-troop-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-official-says-124368

Texas Dems announce largest-ever voter drive in 2020 flip effort
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/texas-dems-announce-largest-ever-voter-drive-2020-flip-effort-n1152646

Wells Fargo Officials Resign Days Before They Were Set To Testify Before Congress
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/09/813632098/wells-fargo-board-members-resign-days-before-set-to-testify-before-congress

At this point, I'm convinced anyone who says "it's just a flu" has never had the flu. Sure, they've been sick, but it's not flu-sick. The flu is really, really bad. It's extremely painful, and you basically end up all but disabled for 3-4 days while you fight it off. It's extremely unpleasant. There's a reason it kills people. People who say "it's just a flu" anger me to no end. It trivializes the pain the flu brings.

Dow closes with decline of 2,000 points, almost ending 11-year bull market
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/dow-set-open-decline-1-300-points-oil-war-adds-n1152941

Rep. Matt Gaetz Flew on Air Force One With Trump Hours Before Self-Quarantine
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-matt-gaetz-flew-on-air-force-one-with-trump-hours-before-self-quarantine

Florida House evacuated on coronavirus fears; Rep. Matt Gaetz tested for COVID-19
https://weartv.com/news/local/florida-house-evacuated-on-coronavirus-fears-rep-matt-gaetz-tested-for-covid-19

Matt Gaetz made fun of coronavirus. Now he’s in self-isolation.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/03/09/matt-gaetz-made-fun-of-coronavirus-now-hes-in-self-isolation/

Congressmen Collins and Gaetz had contact with Trump before they self-quarantined over coronavirus concern. Hopefully Collins took his clock and calendar with him.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/collins-gaetz-had-contact-with-trump-before-coronavirus-self-quarantine.html

During the impeachment hearings, Collins went on and on about how the hearing were really about a "clock and a calendar", meaning that Dems were trying to tie in the hearings and proceedings with the election year to make things look even worse for Trump.

The optics of Congress closing down amid a crisis? Not good and not reassuring. We need them right now working for us.

Another first for post revolution #Iran. The last two Friday prayers were cancelled due to the #CoronavirusOutbreak. Now for the first time in 30 years Ayatollah Khamenei will not deliver a speech in Mashad to mark Persian New Year. #coronavirus
https://twitter.com/aliarouzi/status/1237099784374190081

Italian PM Giuseppe Conte announces that the lockdown area will be extended to the whole of Italy, not just the most severely affected areas of the north. Unprecedented measures, in peacetime.
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1237116728104058882

Conservative Republican Florida Woman Tied to Organization Funded by Pro-Trump Dark Money Accused of Massive Voter Fraud: 'It's Just Really Bizarre'
https://www.theroot.com/florida-woman-tied-to-organization-funded-by-pro-trump-1842213184

Trump Campaign Postpones Bus Tour as He Plays Down Risks of Coronavirus
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/us/politics/trump-oil-price-drop-markets.html

This is a complete smear. Obama came to Flint, met with residents and was far better received than Rick Snyder. He also made sure federal aid packages passed. Also, why isn't Michael Moore back in Flint and Michigan campaigning for Bernie?
https://twitter.com/sjdemas/status/1237085062895722496

Also Bernie voted against the Michigan aid packages

Serious question. Do the people who think the virus is some media driven panic designed to tank Trump’s presidency by manufacturing a recession think that the complete lockdowns in places like China and Italy are also in on the same conspiracy to doom Trump?
https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1237122047844769793

Trump has defied precedent and advice from aides in tying himself to the stock market.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-09/trump-panic-tweets-as-markets-tank

FDNY confirms that an EMS worker has tested positive for Covid-19. The person is asymptomatic, FDNY said, but had worked three tours and interacted with 11 patients before quarantining. All have been notified, and 5 other EMS workers have been told to self-quarantine.
https://twitter.com/AliWatkins/status/1237131382251565057
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Extraordinary account by Dr. Daniele Macchini, an ICU physician in Italy near the center of the outbreak. "Please share this message. We must spread the word to prevent what is happening here from happening all over Italy."

4/ I myself watched with some amazement the reorganization of the entire hospital in the past week, when our current enemy was still in the shadows: the wards slowly "emptied", elective activitieswere interrupted, intensive care were freed up to create as many beds as possible.
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933822794653697

5/ All this rapid transformation brought an atmosphere of silence and surreal emptiness to the corridors of the hospital that we did not yet understand, waiting for a war that was yet to begin and that many (including me) were not so sure would ever come with such ferocity.
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933824166182912

6/ I still remember my night call a week ago when I was waiting for the results of a swab. When I think about it, my anxiety over one possible case seems almost ridiculous and unjustified, now that I've seen what's happening. Well, the situation now is dramatic to say the least.
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933825537679361

7/ The war has literally exploded and battles are uninterrupted day and night. But now that need for beds has arrived in all its drama. One after the other the departments that had been emptied fill up at an impressive pace.
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933826896683008

8/ The boards with the names of the patients, of different colours depending on the operating unit, are now all red and instead of surgery you see the diagnosis, which is always the damned same: bilateral interstitial pneumonia.
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933828209512448

9/ Now, explain to me which flu virus causes such a rapid drama. [post continues comparing covid19 to flu, link below]. And while there are still people who boast of not being afraid by ignoring directions, protesting because their normal routine is"temporarily" put in crisis,
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933829564260352

10/ the epidemiological disaster is taking place. And there are no more surgeons, urologists, orthopedists, we are only doctors who suddenly become part of a single team to face this tsunami that has overwhelmed us.
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933830893883393

11/ Cases are multiplying, we arrive at a rate of 15-20 admissions per day all for the same reason. The results of the swabs now come one after the other: positive, positive, positive. Suddenly the E.R. is collapsing.
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933832307363841

12/ Reasons for the access always the same: fever and breathing difficulties, fever and cough, respiratory failure. Radiology reports always the same: bilateral interstitial pneumonia, bilateral interstitial pneumonia, bilateral interstitial pneumonia. All to be hospitalized.
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933833653653505

13/ Someone already to be intubated and go to intensive care. For others it's too late... Every ventilator becomes like gold: those in operating theatres that have now suspended their non-urgent activity become intensive care places that did not exist before.
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933834937073664

14/ The staff is exhausted. I saw the tiredness on faces that didn't know what it was despite the already exhausting workloads they had. I saw a solidarity of all of us, who never failed to go to our internist colleagues to ask "what can I do for you now?"
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933836249935872

15/ Doctors who move beds and transfer patients, who administer therapies instead of nurses. Nurses with tears in their eyes because we can't save everyone, and the vital parameters of several patients at the same time reveal an already marked destiny.
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933837550223360

16/ There are no more shifts, no more hours. Social life is suspended for us. We no longer see our families for fear of infecting them. Some of us have already become infected despite the protocols.
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933838871367680

17/ Some of our colleagues who are infected also have infected relatives and some of their relatives are already struggling between life and death. So be patient, you can't go to the theatre, museums or the gym. Try to have pity on the myriad of old people you could exterminate.
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933840205221888

18/ We just try to make ourselves useful. You should do the same: we influence the life and death of a few dozen people. You with yours, many more. Please share this message. We must spread the word to prevent what is happening here from happening all over Italy."
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933841509666818

20/ I finish by saying that I really don't understand this war on panic. The only reason I see is mask shortages, but there's no mask on sale anymore. We don't have a lot of studies, but is it panic really worse than neglect and carelessness during an epidemic of this sort?
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933843900346369

19/ Full post here, you can DeepL:
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933845167017984

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'Every ventilator becomes like gold' - a doctor's stark warning from Italy's Coronavirus outbreak
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/suddenly-the-er-is-collapsing-a-doctors-stark-warning-from-italys-coronavirus-epicentre/

This is the co-host of the podcast that was previously devoted to defending Trump during impeachment talking about lack of warnings/available information after a cpac attendee was said to have been diagnosed with the coronavirus >
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1236864254545932288

Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) was told he was in proximity of individual at CPAC who tested positive for coronavirus, according to a Gohmert aide. Gohmert is choosing not to self-quarantine.
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1237133297572106243

Boston's St. Patrick's Day Parade, scheduled for 3/15/20, is being cancelled. This decision is being made out of an abundance of caution to ensure that we are doing what is needed to keep the residents of Boston safe and healthy.
https://twitter.com/marty_walsh/status/1237136379257200641

Major League Baseball will join the NBA and NHL in closing clubhouses to media due to fear over potential spread of coronavirus, sources tell ESPN.
https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1237137775444594689?s=21

In addition to closing clubhouses to media, MLB recommends that teams limit non player personnel travel as part of the coronavirus prevention measures.
https://twitter.com/HannahRKeyser/status/1237145033951703040?s=19

Regarding the media restrictions: Players will be available in press-conference settings as well as outside the clubhouse, though during interviews they will be asked to abide by the CDC suggestion that they keep a 6-foot distance from reporters, sources told ESPN.
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1237139150622666753?s=19

MLB plans to monitor local markets and remain nimble if local health authorities recommend games not be played. One option, sources said, is for teams to play games at different locations outside of their metropolitan areas.
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1237138687391121415?s=19

Trump’s new chief of staff Mark Meadows is also self-isolating “out of an abundance of caution” after being advised he may have come in contact w CPAC patient. His chief of staff says his testing came back negative & he’s experiencing no symptoms but will remain home for 14 days.
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1237172736021200896

Biden, not Sanders, gains in popularity after Warren drops out: Reuters/Ipsos poll
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-democrats-poll/biden-not-sanders-gains-in-popularity-after-warren-drops-out-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN20W31R

Beshear signs order requiring free coronavirus testing for Kentuckians with insurance
https://www.kentucky.com/news/health-and-medicine/article241030641.html

I can't recall the last Republican president who didn't end his presidency in a recession: Once Again, Democrats Will Have to Clean Up the Mess Left By Republicans
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/03/09/once-again-democrats-will-have-to-clean-up-the-mess-left-by-republicans/

A federal judge on Monday held Iran responsible for the kidnapping of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, entering a default judgement against the regime on the 13th anniversary of his disappearance. The decision from U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly was a milestone moment in the family’s lawsuit against Tehran, which featured wrenching testimony in Washington’s federal court from each of Levinson’s seven children. “It is really important to the family that people realize what their father, their husband, has been through and what they’ve been through,” said David McGee, a lawyer for the family. “It is a terrible ordeal.”
https://apnews.com/805c0bcccc093e1a908202538450a6d6

Trump announces WH press conference tomorrow afternoon to discuss "very major" economic steps administration will take, including payroll tax cut, to combat coronavirus. Also mentions paid sick leave, SBA loans, help for airlines, hotels, other industries
https://twitter.com/KateDavidson/status/1237147697439703040

US currently has over 500 cases, CDC Director Redfield says — cases in 35 states and DC. There are "several community outbreaks" — Seattle, Santa Clara and elsewhere, he says at WH press briefing.
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1237152149974499328

My main take-away: The US had a luxury not available to other countries: It had time. It had precious days, weeks to shore up its health systems and get testing capacity ramped up. That luhttps://twitter.com/AlecGaffney/status/1237148166186827778xury seems to have been wasted, even squandered by missteps.

Lorraine Birabil @LorraineForTX is defending her #HD100 seat in the #TXLege & she’s got Beto’s endorsement! We’re only need 9 districts to #TurnTXBlue. Please Volunteer or Donate https://secure.actblue.com/donate/lft

Winning in November is the absolute top priority. Period. Four more years of Trump will mean the end of the Republic as we know it. We have to build a broad coalition that can beat Trump or else we lose it all. Nothing that Sanders and his campaign have done has convinced anybody that he can do that. When Sanders and his movement spend their time attacking the closest ideological candidate (Elizabeth Warren) as a "snake" and a "backstabbing corporatist" we already know how they would treat the actual moderate voters that we need to help win in the general. We see how they're treating the moderate voters now. If Team Sanders is willing to trash Team Warren so horribly, how can they win over voters who do not share the same total agenda as them?

How the global health scare is impacting sports. Italy suspends ALL sporting events. Champions League to play Round of 16 game with no fans. NBA owners to discuss ‘escalating concerns’
https://sports.yahoo.com/coronavirus-latest-how-the-global-health-scare-is-impacting-sports-231135518.html

American military commanders are reviewing how their forces conduct missions in Iraq and Syria after the deaths of two U.S. Special Operations troops in northern Iraq on Sunday during an operation against Islamic State fighters, military officials said on Monday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/world/middleeast/marines-killed-iraq-isis.html

Sanders, a 78-year-old man with an underlying health condition, qualifies as an at-risk person for Coronavirus. Asked what he’s doing to protect his health, Sanders makes a joke and basically says he’s too busy running for president to worry about it, so, lol.
https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/1237115459213889536

Among the bills: paid sick leave, allowing for free testing for patients, expanding unemployment insurance, ensuring low-income children have access to food if their schools close and providing new protections for health care workers.
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1237175294219427843

Jill Biden: "I want you to picture that it's 2021... You pick up your paper and the headline isn't about some late-night tweetstorm... Then you turn on the TV... and when they cut to the president of the United States, you don't turn the channel."
https://twitter.com/WakeUp2Politics/status/1237175130553491459

Remember that MBS, who’s 34 years old, is the guy running Saudi Arabia who murdered an American journalist, arrests his family members (including this past weekend) and decided it was now a good idea to start price war on oil. And he is INCREDIBLY close to Trump and Jared.
https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/1237022872742301697

"Stop Handshaking" #1 on Coronavirus precaution list. Pres Trump didn't get the message with supporters today in Florida.
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1237181013261987840

Several members of the medical staff at the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas are under home quarantine after exposure to a patient there who tested positive for the new coronavirus.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/staffers-at-va-hospital-in-north-las-vegas-under-home-quarantine-1975846/

This is flat wrong. Obama declared a public health emergency for swine flu (H1N1) in April 2009. The disease wasn’t declared a pandemic by the WHO til June 2009. Obama declared a national emergency in October 2009. Don’t get your facts from Charlie Kirk.
https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1237178879841914880
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-pandemic-timeline.html

As an MD, PhD expert on viral #pandemic threats, the reason why #coronavirus testing has not been performed is because the Trump Administration totally bungled the rollout of #COVID19 tests. If we truly had 1-million-test capacity, surely these members would have been tested.🙄
https://twitter.com/DrDenaGrayson/status/1237171028717076485 

Almost 200 North Korean soldiers have reportedly died from coronavirus cases while thousands more are in quarantine. The government won't acknowledge they even exist.
https://www.businessinsider.com/almost-200-north-korean-soldiers-died-coronavirus-2020-3