Trump: "Following the announcement of our reopening guidelines, there have been some very partisan voices in the media and politics who have spread false and misleading information about our testing capacities." pic.twitter.com/AnayltbY4l
— The Hill (@thehill) April 17, 2020
For the first time in US history every state and US territory is operating under a major disaster declaration, right now, due to coronavirus.
The president just said that the US has tremendous test and capability.
It does not.
But he continues to repeat that falsehood.— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) April 17, 2020
They mean nothing to him other than hurting his poll numbers. https://t.co/eX0ujuSeFV
— John Weaver (@jwgop) April 17, 2020
Former GOP senate majority leader: "This nation has failed in terms of testing from the top to the bottom" https://t.co/jjUZ16orJe pic.twitter.com/bP8sntuzMW
— The Hill (@thehill) April 17, 2020
Coronavirus testing would have to be at least doubled or tripled from its current levels to allow for even a partial reopening of U.S. economy, public health experts say. https://t.co/dwYRE4uyQy
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 17, 2020
No. We haven’t. Not even close. @realDonaldTrump says it is up to the states. This government can’t even coordinate its lies to complement each other. https://t.co/YCh2hPdDLv
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) April 17, 2020
With H1N1 we had ample supplies from the Fed stockpile.
Obama tried many times to fund restocking it after H1N1.
A GOP congress refused to fund/restock it.In 2014—Obama warned about global pandemic & set up CDC task force. Trump fired that task force.pic.twitter.com/2y56iv4joC
— Trinity (@TrinityResists) April 17, 2020
Trump is going claim the number of people who died from covid-19 is proof of how great a job he did – no matter what that number is.
He's already touting 60,000 dead as a sign of his success, even though 24,000 more people have to die to reach that number.
— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) April 17, 2020
Rise in coronavirus cases in states without stay-home orders, in the past week:
OK +53%
AR +60%
NB. +74%
IA. +82%
SD. +205% https://t.co/94UVzDh8rQ— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) April 17, 2020
He keeps saying that. Like there’s ample testing capacity and no one is showing up to be tested. It’s a bald-faced lie. https://t.co/yBD3HADASG
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) April 17, 2020
Minimization and misinformation: Trump is guilty of the very things he's accusing the WHO of doing https://t.co/lZlLzhE787
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Trump has long claimed the Iraq War was a tragic mistake. And yet he’s failed to lead America through a pandemic that killed more people in ONE DAY yesterday than died in that entire war. What exactly is he calling to “liberate” the day after America reached that grim milestone? pic.twitter.com/C21nj9Nabz
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) April 17, 2020
these nuts are going to get themselves and their families sick or even killed – with Trump egging them on https://t.co/HpSKqphpcv
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 17, 2020
Trump's dangerous "LIBERATE" tweets represent the views of a small minority, but one that's being actively promoted by Fox News https://t.co/2y5KNPxAvW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
This protestor in Huntington Beach is wearing protection against #COVID-19, while saying it is a lie. pic.twitter.com/l5HDCfiTpH
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 17, 2020
Incredible report on the Senate call with Pence's COVID taskforce- @timkaine asks about Trump's "LIBERATE" tweets, Pence basically says we'll continue to work with the Governors but Donald will, you know, ask the people to launch an insurrection… NBD.https://t.co/PRhCMA8cNz pic.twitter.com/Am3imhHNAl
— Justin Hendrix | wash your hands & stay at home (@justinhendrix) April 17, 2020
Federal authorities want grocery stores, gas stations and even COVID-19 testing sites to know they now could be targeted by terrorists determined to strike inside the U.S. homeland—even if such an event is unlikely. https://t.co/WVi2Iuvq6f
— ABC News (@ABC) April 17, 2020
Hucksters literally don’t sleep during a crisis like this. https://t.co/73P5zmcnkn
— John O’Brennan (@JohnOBrennan2) April 17, 2020
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BORIS IS RISEN! BREXITSHAMBLES BRITAIN
Coronavirus could hit the U.K. harder than any other European country. Here's what went wrong https://t.co/abYZpmFl1d
— TIME (@TIME) April 17, 2020
‘Photos showed Johnson walking at Chequers, pale but well enough to go for a stroll. Most ICU patients leave hospital in a wheelchair. They suffer from exhaustion, muscle wastage and other chronic problems. The PM appears to be in much better shape.’ https://t.co/jldF2mnqqu
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) April 17, 2020
The Government needs to be thinking now about how to get the country back to work, while at the same time minimising the possibility of re-infection https://t.co/5A6mAog6Ke
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 17, 2020
I never picked fruit but spent a couple of summers as a teenager hand cutting leaks and weeding fields by hand and that was literally back breaking work. https://t.co/FMzSXH2Kbi
— Pastor “Nows not the time” Jimberoo 😷 (@PastorJimberoo1) April 17, 2020
don’t try to climb on this bandwagon, a splendid effort, but one that is only necessary because of the callousness, dishonesty, incompetence and failure of you and those that came before.
— Bruce McPherson 🇪🇺🇫🇷🏴 (@brucemcpherson) April 17, 2020
London Mayor 'concerned' over Met's clap for carers https://t.co/cVZdbhnSpV
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) April 17, 2020
Clapping is going to be the new poppy
— Sophia (@iheartpylons) April 16, 2020
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WORLDWIDE
"Taking a generous figure for disease exposure and the low-end threshold for herd immunity, we would need 12 times more exposure than we’ve had to this point—in other words, that we are only one-12th of the way through this crisis." (1/x) https://t.co/U9f9c7p2Ji
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) April 17, 2020
Coronavirus broke the global food supply chain. It’s like trying to unpick the world’s most complicated jigsaw and put it back together again. An article by @stokel with me & others. https://t.co/JIfn93CWip
— Prof Chris Elliott OBE (@QUBFoodProf) April 17, 2020
Bees are not coping with Coronavirus and much of our food production is at risk as a result
via @FT
https://t.co/EZtDgHf8ut— roula khalaf (@khalafroula) April 17, 2020
'Biological Chernobyl': How China's secrecy fueled coronavirus suspicionshttps://t.co/5uZZnEBV2k
— Ryan Heath (@PoliticoRyan) April 17, 2020
Things are going to get more difficult.. hopefully a bit more honest https://t.co/8VOHlXkact
— Ziya Meral (@Ziya_Meral) April 17, 2020
Poor man wanna be rich
Rich man wanna be king
And a king ain't satisfied 'til he rules everything— Miranda Yaver (@mirandayaver) April 17, 2020
The Overnight Note 