This week's cover artist for The @NewYorker asked his daughter what his drawing should be about.
“Make sure it’s about how most doctors have children and families of their own,” she said. https://t.co/vgaIC4aWmS pic.twitter.com/RvEG3XiUpa
— Craig Trudell (@crtrud) March 30, 2020
“It’s a medical war zone,” says a doctor at Brookdale Hospital.
Here is an inside look at this New York City hospital that has been pushed to the brink amid the coronavirus crisis.https://t.co/U6MoFxGo9n pic.twitter.com/y1all58kBe
— New Day (@NewDay) March 30, 2020
A rare look inside some of the NY hospitals battling coronavirus and the remarkable courage doctors, nurses and hosptial workers are showing, via @ScottPelley and @60Minutes.https://t.co/K9JyUALg7J
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 30, 2020
"Medical workers are still showing up day after day to face overflowing emergency rooms, earning them praise as heroes. Thousands of volunteers have signed up to join their colleagues….Masks and protective gowns were in short supply."https://t.co/3UhhQvYdok
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 30, 2020
We now face the monstrous reality that 100,000 to 200,000 dead may be the best we can do. Left unsaid by Trump’s advisers: Many of these deaths will be the minimum price we pay for Trump’s utter incompetence and willful blindness. https://t.co/OTBC8cViO3
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) March 30, 2020
Trump did not start listening to the science until the media started carrying images of bodies being stacked like cord wood. Then he shifted to his 100-200,000 deaths is a win line. This is not an epiphany. It is the desperation of a failed, characterless leader in over his head.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) March 30, 2020
Trump just moved the coronavirus goalposts from "within a couple of days [cases are] going to be down to close to zero" to 200,000 US deaths representing "a very good job.” https://t.co/Axj8rBpSWR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 30, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump says he has spoken with the Italian prime minister and told him the U.S. will be sending about $100 million of protective equipment to Italy to help fight covid-19
— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) March 30, 2020
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."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 30, 2020
Reporter: Are you prepared for this to strike again, say, in the fall…?
Trump: "We're prepared. I hope it doesn't happen … I hope it doesn't happen, but we're certainly prepared."
Dr. Fauci: "In fact, I would anticipate that that would actually happen."
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 30, 2020
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam just issued a stay-at-home order through June 10. Wondering if Liberty University resuming classes played some small role in this decision.
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) March 30, 2020
Trump has no idea how this works. Asked about a state shelter in place order, Trump says “we’re letting governors do what they want with our supervision.” President is not the boss of governors. States, not feds, get to decide quarantines within their own states.
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) March 30, 2020
"We haven't discussed it", says the President of the idea of telling all members of the public to wear masks in public. "We'll take a look at it. For a period of time. I mean, we want our country back. We're not gonna be wearing masks forever".
— Simon Marks (@SimonMarksFSN) March 30, 2020
The My Pillow guy Mike Lindell says this: "God gave us grace on November 8, 2016, to change the course we were on. God had been taken out of our schools & lives, a nation had turned its back on God. I encourage you to use this time at home to get back in the word. Read our Bible" pic.twitter.com/tRdlubE08u
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 30, 2020
He said he called Tom Brady earlier this week, too.
I bet he has Kid Rock and the My Pillow guy leading a task force within a week. https://t.co/iDwA5DpaS7
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 28, 2020
It did not take Donald Trump long to use the COVID-19 crisis he created as a means to self promote and campaign at his “must see” TV events every afternoon — the White House briefings. He’s getting corporate America to genuflect before him with artificial praise. It’s disgusting!
— John Dean (@JohnWDean) March 30, 2020
Around the country..
#Florida pastor jailed for ignoring #coronavirus restrictions to hold packed services claims news media is “stirring up religious bigotry & hate” & says church was shot at. Except deputies were there & say no one shot at the church. https://t.co/1SuyhWUELb via @TMarreroTimes
— Craig Pittman (@craigtimes) March 30, 2020
"Epidemiologists may disagree on the nuances, but they all agree on the main point:
'We understand the math well enough to say with great confidence that Florida is going to have a huge public health crisis. We are just at the beginning of it right now'.”https://t.co/KDh6yYQ4ky
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 30, 2020
How does it happen that we have $738 billion to spend on the military industrial complex but not enough masks & gloves? Here's a radical idea: How about defending the lives of healthcare workers, not the executive compensation packages of Lockheed Martin? https://t.co/hwj6DCAdvl
— Warren Gunnels (@GunnelsWarren) March 30, 2020
A Missouri man who was planning to set off a bomb at a hospital during the coronavirus pandemic wanted to further his radical white supremacist ideology, federal authorities say. https://t.co/ePrv9DMRTj
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 30, 2020
heartbreaking to see https://t.co/39GN2RHwt6
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) March 30, 2020
There are currently more than 100k empty hotel rooms in Las Vegas https://t.co/OBslo6gaE0
— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) March 30, 2020
Meanwhile back in New York…
NYC welcomed the USNS Comfort naval ship on Pier 90 earlier today. overwhelming and scary to see this 🚢 in our city – yet grateful.
It has 12 operating rooms & 1,000 hospital beds, let us all stay home so we don’t need to board the🚢 #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/fpDk80tJEr
— Daniel Kraus (@rabbidkraus) March 30, 2020
Doofusbreath! You will wind up a PATIENT on that ship! #Covid-19 USNS Comfort https://t.co/7OhHElD1te via @nypmetro
— steve_howard (@steve_howard) March 30, 2020
you really have been terrible about communicating true, factual information to the public in this crisis. Please let the experts and scientists speak instead.
And please nationalize the supply chain for critical medical supplies. Thanks for watching, Mr. President.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 30, 2020
Definition of Out of Your Fucking Mind: Calling a deadly Pandemic a Hoax then saying if 200,000 die, you’ve done a great job.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) March 30, 2020
and…
A cri de coeur from @JVLast:
“I am writing at 5:oo p.m. on March 30. At some point in the next few hours, the coronavirus will kill the 2,978th person in America, passing the death toll of 9/11. And there is not yet an end in sight.” https://t.co/WzorDyXIYR— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 30, 2020
The amount of money the United States spends every year on its nuclear arsenal alone could fund:
–300,000 ICU beds
–35,000 ventilators
–and 75,000 doctors' salaries
As a nation, we desperately need to reassess our priorities.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 27, 2020
Elsewhere…
A recession on a scale not seen in modern history is looking increasingly likely due to the Coronavirus pandemic & it appears Boris Johnson wants to top it off with the economic catastrophe of a potential no-deal Brexit https://t.co/b8pupWc81D
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) March 30, 2020
the room next door – President Trump feat. Boris Johnson
PART ONE pic.twitter.com/ubBbNEduSS
— Michael Spicer (@MrMichaelSpicer) March 30, 2020
This photo compares China’s PPE v to that in the NHS. This is the only time I was able to wear a FFP3 respirator, normally having to wear surgical masks like everyone else on the front line. Is this really acceptable @BorisJohnson? @WHO @NHSuk pic.twitter.com/bHUj1pzm6P
— Viren Ahluwalia (@tweetdocv) March 28, 2020
Depressing. At some point, restrictions of some kind are likely for travellers coming to Ireland from Britain. That point may be nearer than any of us would like. https://t.co/uDTCxJV8bx
— Cathal #STAYATHOME! Mac Coille (@CMacCoille) March 30, 2020
A message to the Irish community in Britain from Ambassador @AdrianGONeill on the #COVID19 crisis: “Even in the shadow of this terrible virus, I am confident that the Irish community in GB will adhere to its traditional values of solidarity, care & concern for those most in need” pic.twitter.com/VW0OCR9HBP
— Embassy of Ireland (@IrelandEmbGB) March 27, 2020
The Overnight Note 