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How the Covid-19 outbreak will affect the presidential election campaign -- the mechanics and manner of campaigning, rather than the issues:


 
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How the Covid-19 outbreak will affect the presidential election campaign -- the mechanics and manner of campaigning, rather than the issues:


It could have interesting repercussions. Covid is much more dangerous to older people and you are more likely to get it in a crowd, like a polling station. The conventional wisdom is Bernie has lost because he is behind and Biden is stronger in the remaining states, Bernie is strong with youth but the problem was turnout. What if they come out more, enough to turn the political balance in those states, and Bernie passes Biden before the convention?
 

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Trump is trying to back out of this after agreeing.So this weekend call your Reps & Senators. Leave messages.

 

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White House says Google is building a coronavirus testing website, but details are fuzzy

For comparison, here's what the NHS have had here for some weeks now, at least (the questions keep being updated, on advice from the Chief Medical Officer):


Doesn't seem a particularly complex application, but what do I know?
Well, donnie says 1700 people are working on his site. A big site. A beautiful site. A site that can be described on one piece of paper.
 

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If anyone's interested, the UK response is based on a pandemic preparedness strategy that was devised in 2011 and which has been kept under review since (last revised in 2017), so the plans and blueprints were ready for immediate use when this current pandemic started.

Details here


In contrast

 

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About that herd immunity thing:


I'm not a fan of The Hill as a trusted source, so we'll have to see if this story is reported in more reliable places.


Also, the big orange one was only able to remember the name Google, so that's what he said at the presser yesterday. The company is actually Verily, and they are planning to roll out "something" on Monday but won't give more details. They say that yes, they have worked somewhat with Google on this, lol.