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Trump’s bluster and millions haven’t stopped universal mail-in voting plans

‘Pandemic fatigue’ leads to resurgence of coronavirus in Europe where France and Spain hit records

White House to announce $11.6 billion in disaster relief for Puerto Rico

POTUS to stop downloads of TIKTOK by Sunday

Outgoing China ambassador: Trump ‘believed the Chinese’ early in pandemic

The next wave of the global recovery could send commodity prices soaring

Pennsylvania Supreme Court sides with Dems — allows mailed ballots to be counted 3 days after Election Day

Rasmussen: Trump highest approval rating since impeachment launch

Poll: Biden up 9 points in Arizona, tied with Trump in North Carolina

Coronavirus live updates: U.S., Canada and Mexico extend border closures through October

Most voters now believe there is a ‘war on police’ — back ‘blue lives matter’ laws

Trump ‘putting a lot of pressure’ on CDC and FDA, I’d trust Fauci on vaccine


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Photo appears to show Jerry Falwell Jr. with zipper down and his arm around a woman

Congress, White House struggle to break coronavirus stalemate as economic pain spreads

NYC health commissioner quits, citing de Blasio’s failures

U.S. factory orders rise, signaling manufacturing recovery

French police use cameras with speakers that shout at people who break coronavirus rules

Massive explosion in Beirut port rocks Lebanese capital

VP Pence reminds Gov. Cuomo 1-in-5 Covid-19 deaths are in his state

Border wall construction crew caught smuggling from Mexico

Trump doubles down on well-wishes for alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell

Research shows $60 unemployment boost didn’t discourage returning to work

White House mulls ‘unilateral’ action on coronavirus relief

Shakedown: BLM demands protection fees from Louisville restaurant

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Short Note

I recently wrote about how new national coronavirus deaths,  not new cases was the metric to follow how we were progressing against this virus ... see: Scaredy Cats. Now, new deaths are starting to creep up ... primarily because of new cases spikes in Florida, California and Texas are causing new deaths to follow. (Not so much in Arizona.) I think the issue in the Southwest is all driven by what is happening in border leakage from Mexico. But the Florida numbers well might be the result of some number funny business.

Bottom line: Overall new deaths are still the metric to use ... but until new cases in California and Texas level out and decline I have gotten less optimistic and, as President Trump has said, things are likely to get worse before they get better.


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MexiCOVID

There is a coronavirus story that is not being told in the national media ... and that is that Mexico is one of the hottest spots in the world. Its cases, at 324 thousand, now top Spain (306 thousand) and italy (244 thousand). And its deaths, at 38 thousand, also top Spain (24 thousand) and Italy (35 thousand). Even Mexico’s new deaths so far today (668) are almost half the total for the whole world (1,481)!

Is the light starting to dawn ... why the Southwest of the United States might also be having a spike in new COVID cases and even a blip in new deaths? One would think that a good reporter (or the CDC) in this area of our country might investigate this further to see how many of our new cases there are actually border crossers ... ex-pats and Mexican workers attracted by our superior medical facilities?

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Users’ Request

A few users have requested of me the ability to look inside the coronavirus results by state ... that is by counties. Here is the link: Worldometers. When you see an underline below a state’s name, you can click on that state name to drill down to the next lowest level. These numbers are generally updated daily  ... so the later in the day you reference things, the fresher the data.

I am going to do this very thing later today to see if the counties in our Southwestern states, which are closest to Mexico, might be where some of the surge in cases is coming from (unfortunately not hospitalization statistics) because infected ex-pat Americans are returning from Mexico for our medical treatments.

Headlines

Trump falsely accuses Biden of being fed reporters’ questions

June private payrolls rose 2.37 million and there was a big positive revision for May, ADP says

DHS to deploy unit to protect monuments over July 4 weekend

DOD: No corroborating evidence Russians offered bribes for U.S. troops in Afghanistan

Seattle mayor orders ‘occupied’ area cleared, police arrive

US already at 100,000 coronavirus cases a day, it just isn’t testing enough

Citing coronavirus, Biden says he won’t hold campaign rallies

Anthony Fauci warns: Pig-bound virus in China could cause pandemic

Mexico says Lopez Obrador will visit Washington to celebrate new trade pact

Coronavirus expected to tank U.S. auto sales in the second quarter

First arrests made in Hong Kong under new China security law

Boston to remove statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln

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Trump’s 2020 strategy: A never-ending war with the states

Google, Apple, Amazon and Tesla slam Trump’s immigration crackdown

President heads to Arizona, an emerging presidential battleground ...

Trump: 10-year prison for people attacking statues

‘I don’t kid’: Trump says he wasn’t joking about slowing coronavirus testing

Coronavirus update: Tennis great Novak Djokovic tests positive, U. of Michigan won’t host presidential debate

7.4 mag quake Mexico ...

Whistleblower: Claims Chinese Communists pay Vatican $2 billion in bribes

Miami mayor says presidential debate might not have audience

BET founder Robert Johnson urges Black Lives Matter to form own independent political party

Declining dollar could happen at warp speed ...

Nolte: Mount Rushmore doomed to 1619 riots

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Trump says he’ll leave office peacefully if he loses in November

Coronavirus updates: Cuomo urges caution in reopening; small town businesses face uncertain restarts

White House blames Mex for new [Covid] spike

Joe Biden: George Floyd’s death bigger than MLK assassination

Temperature spike: Earth ties record high heat May reading

$600 unemployment benefits are ‘lifesaving’ for this waiter, ‘I’m right on the edge’

[Trump] Moves rally to June 20 ‘out of respect’ [for black leaders]

Moore: I’m ‘begging’ Dems don’t underestimate Trump supporters’ ‘rage,’ ‘emotion’

Seattle’s mayor and police chief diverge on autonomous zone

Amazon warehouse workers interviewed by New York attorney general in retaliation probe

More than 20% of NYC residents know someone who died ...

Co-worker recants story about Derek Chauvin and George Floyd conflict

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Health officials bearish on administration effort to open economy by May

Coronavirus live updates: NYC sees negative ICU admissions, HHS begins $30 billion in aid

Debt tops $24 trillion ...

Report: Donald Trump pressing to reopen country by May 1

Fauci: Coronavirus immunity cards for Americans are ‘being discussed’

Mexico throws OPEC’s historic oil production cut in doubt ahead of G-20 meeting

Poop study reveals virus cases undercounted ... Traces found in wastewater at high levels ...

Coronavirus crashes prices for hotels, rental cars and women’s dresses

Barr backs Trump on firing of Intel IG, calls Russian investigation baseless

Trump administration pays out $26 billion in relief funds to hospitals Friday

Antibody test in German town reveals 15% infection rate ...

WHO launches $1.5 billion global funding appeal

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Cuomo escalates safety mandates, orders all ‘non-essential’New Yorkers to stay home

Coronavirus live update: Unprecedented stop in economic activity, Americans worry about looming bills

UK SHUT ...

Spring breakers party on beaches, despite social distancing

Indiana becomes seventh state postpone presidential primary

Junk bond default rate to triple within 12 months S&P says

Fed begins pumping municipal bonds ...

‘Stunning’ correlation: Coronavirus not spreading in malaria countries

U.S.-Mexico to partially close border

IRS extends tax filing deadline until July 15th as coronavirs spreads, Mnuchin says

Delta, United sending largest planes to desert for storage ...

Lobby insists abortions must continue during coronavirus crisis

The Basics

Although I was quite young, I think living today is becoming a lot like it was during World War II. And, by that, I mean that life then was just getting through the day without screwing anything up badly ... keeping body and soul together..

During those tough times we struggled to keep our houses warm in the winter without too much concern about all that coal smoke we produced. In the summer, air conditioning was accomplished with lots of ice and a fan. Movies were simpler yet more wistful. Racial tensions and gender politics were not top of mind. Life was just the basics ... food, clothing, shelter, religion.

Oh yes, we now have the internet to replace the morning paper ... and can watch Joe Scarborough froth at the mouth while we sip our coffee. But lots of diversions have now disappeared out of our lives ... at least for a while. No sports ... no going to the movies ... or out to dinner ... more complications in grocery shopping.

I have a feeling that, once this Wuhan virus thing has gone away, our lives will be completely different. We will be far less dependent on China for our manufacturing. Much more of our lives will be on-line. We will have a closer relation with Canada, Mexico, Great Britain ... maybe even Russia. We will have much more effective virus treatments. Unfortunately, many businesses will have disappeared. A lot of people will have new jobs. Carbon dioxide won’t be quite the bugaboo it recently was ... even if our climate actually changes a bit.

We, as a nation, might even start getting behind our president.

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Coronavirus consumes Trump’s re-election bid

Trump plans to declare national emergency over coronavirus pandemic

CDC nightmare scenario: 1.7 million [coronavirus] deaths ...

Biden’s coronavirus proposal cribs heavily from Trump  administration

Mnuchin calls the coronavirus pandemic ‘a great investment opportunity’

Coronavirus live update: Europe is now the ‘epicenter,’ The Masters is postponed

Mexico frets about U.S. coronavirus spread, could restrict border ...

AOC: Biden is winning because of rampant voter suppression

Canadian government to suspend parliament

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says White House and Congress close getting coronavirus bill done

Noonan: ‘Don’t panic’ is rotten advice ...

Consumer sentiment holds up better than expected

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Sanders to press on against Biden after primary losses

Coronavirus live update: Gottleib urges faster US response, WHO declares global pandemic

Top doc: Virus 10 times more lethal than flu ...

Media, Democrats deem Bernie Sanders done: ‘Drop out’

Sessions swats back after Trump endorses his opponent

Goldman says bull market will end soon with stocks down another 15%

White House told federal health agencies to classify meetings ...

U. of Dayton students riot after being told to leave campus

Merkel expects two-thirds of Germans to get coronavirus

Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape, sex assault in case that sparked ‘MeToo’

Vowing to keep border open, Erdogan compares Greeks to Nazis ...

Mexican congressman gunned down in state capital

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Trump pushes forward conservative transformation of Medicaid

Trump impeachment trial: Senators ask final questions before critical witness vote

Republicans could move to quick acquittal vote ... claim momentum ...

Graham there are ‘53 Republican votes to call Hunter Biden’

Wilbur Ross says coronavirus could bring jobs back to the U.S. from China

GM resurrecting Hummer as ab all-electric ‘super truck’ with 1,000 horsepower

Mexican economy suffers first contraction in decade ...

Impeachment poll: 47% for removal, 48% against

U.S. economy grew at moderate 2.1% rate in fourth quarter

Economic growth looks even weaker this quarter virus now a wild card

Fed pumps another $82 billion ...

Netanyahu in Moscow to discuss Mideast peace plan

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First case of deadly China virus identified in U.S.

Boeing doesn’t expect regulators to sign off on 737 Max until June or July ...

2A activists: Media smearing VA protesters as ‘white rednecks’

Chaos as rock-throwing caravan migrants push into Mexico

Voters giveTrump’s job performance low marks

Housing market falling short by nearly 4 million house as demand grows

[Hillary] Torches Bernie: ‘Nobody likes him’ ...

Breaking bombshell: Warren’s son-in-law produced film fund by Iran

Supreme Court won’t fast-track Obamacare case

Swiss police believe Russian spies posed as plumbers to bug Davos

Fed pumps $90 billion more ...

Black Guns Matter Founder blasts ‘Governor Blackface’

Headlines

Cornyn: Giuliani ‘not relevant’ to impeachment trial

2020 Democrat field outraising Trump by a huge margin — that didn’t happen to Obama, Bush ...

Report: Brady ready to meet with teams ...

Pelosi: I want Trump ‘to know that he is impeached forever’

Graham: Senate GOP doesn’t ‘have the votes’ to dismiss impeachment trial

An intensifying climate crisis threatens more than half of the world’s GDP, research claims

Cusack at Bernie rally: We have 10 years to save planet from capitalism

Lindsey Graham: ‘I predict a bipartisan acquittal of President Trump’

Schiff says House did its best to get Trump witnesses

Davos elite back corporate social responsibility, but ‘their words are bigger than their actions’

Mexican troops block US-bound caravan travelers ...

Salvini: Muslim immigration ‘main cause’ of rising antisemitism ...

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Mexicans protest Trump administration’s latest deportation plan

After its strongest year in a decade, Apple stock is historically expensive

US embassy attack on Baghdad ... pro-Iran mob ... Trump: Tehran will pay

Lindsey Graham’ There will be no Benghazi on Trump’s watch

CBS airs picture of Elijah Cummings during segment about Rep. John Lewis’s battle with cancer

Fugitive ex-Nissan chairman, Carlos Ghosn says he fled Japan to escape ‘injustice’

Buchanan: Will war derail Trump’s re-election?

Joe Biden: ‘We’re all dead’ if we don’t stop using fossil fuels

Trump claims America stopped terrorist attack in Russia, Putin called to thank him

This decade saw Warren Buffer finally turn his back oh IBM and jump big time into Apple

Consumer confidence unexpectedly drops on dimmer outlook ...

Joe Biden: I would consider a ‘decent’ Republican for my running mate

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U.S., Mexico resolve differences in USMCA talks

Warren’s antitrust bill would dramatically boost government control over biggest US companies

Six other [Saudis] arrested; filmed attack ...

Trump backs down on designating Mexican cartels as terrorists

DeVos orders partial loan relief for many duped student borrowers

It’s possible US economy is not just ‘late cycle’ but rather just recharging

Kudlow claims Dec 15 ‘important [China trade deal] date ...

Pope Francis compares Trump to murderous King Herod

Hostilities between Warren and Buttigieg boil over

Managing China is NATO’s biggest challenge yet

Release of Trump banking records delayed by Ruth Bader Ginsburg ...

Trump Science Advisor Will Harper: Global warming is a ‘scam’

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Buttigieg has a serious Latino problem too

Stocks rise for a forth day in a row, hit record highs

Great getaway ... record 55 million travel for Thanksgiving

Politico: Obama ‘skeptical’ of Buttigieg and most other Dem candidates

Judge delays Flynn sentencing to wait for Russia IG report

Economy is growing better than economists had expected just a few weeks ago

GDP 2.1% ... But Fed pumps $108.95 billion more into markets ...

Mexico calls for meeting over Trump’s cartel terrorism designation

Poll: Biden remains atop Democrat field, as Warren slips

Bloomberg is crushing all 2020 Democrats with his ad spending in Super Tuesday states

Iran, Russia, China to hold joint war games in ‘message to world’ ...

Sen. Blumenthal: Lindsey Graham will ‘regret’ investigating Biden

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Warren snub of California convention a show of ‘disrespect, ‘ state party leader says

Stocks fall into the red on report Trump-Xi meeting could be delayed until December

Dems take KY gov ... Suburban revolt growing ...

Report: GOP discussing whether to include Biden’s in impeachment trial

Macron takes dig at Trump over climate pact exit: ‘I deplore some choices’

California AG says Facebook isn’t cooperating with probe, asks for court order

Most Republicans on committees aren’t showing up, transcripts reveal

Donald Trump ready for ‘WAR’ on drug cartels in Mexico

United Kingdom  ignores warnings of digital election interference

House will hold first public hearings in the Trump impeachment inquiry next week

Somali wins in Maine ...

‘Squad’ divided: Pressley backs Fauxcahauntas