“SCHOOLS MUST REOPEN IN THE FALL,” he Tweeted today.
It seems odd that he issues diktats for institutions that are almost unanimously state-run or private after he dumped federal pandemic responsibility on governors and mayors. Maybe he has so many leftover federal employees with nothing else to do that they can become hall monitors.
Quite by accident, I am sure, the Florida education commissioner announced all schools will open in September. Or else.
But the friendly folks at ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) know how to make a diktat work. Or at least make people suffer, which these days is considered just as good. ICE announced yesterday that foreign students enrolled in colleges that put their courses on-line and off campus have to go home.
That puts pressure on the colleges, which get full tuition from the damn furriners, AND (this is just beautiful) sends some of them swarthy furriners back where they came from.
The part about kicking out students — what ICE lives for — has a codicil. They will, of course, go to school somewhere. In many cases somewhere will be China or Russia (China isn’t too likely for Indians). Wherever they go, they will help to create what they helped to create in the Great Again, i.e., Silicon Valley and hospitals.
Coincidentally, my wife’s heart surgeon has decided to take it easy, and yesterday she was given the names of four topflight heart guys to replace him. Three of the four are from the Indian subcontinent.
The Don has never come upon a bag of good seed without throwing it to the hogs.
All of the schools in this area are planning to be in session on site this fall. Of course, plans can change.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm doing my math correctly, Trump will be president for another 198 days. Let's just see if we can somehow navigate that without getting bombed by North Korea or into a naval war with China. Beyond that, I'm resolutely ignoring him between now and then.
Jim, I sure hope you are right. But, I do not count him out yet. The electoral system may still decide he’s the winner, even if he’s down by 5 million instead of three million. If the peak has passed in the red states, and the death rate continues to go down, he’ll say “see - it’s no worse than the flu”.
ReplyDeleteWe can't take anything for granted, but I don't think he can win the election by fair means. Of course there's always foul.
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It's already worse than the flu.
ReplyDeleteMichigan's infection-to-death ratio has stayed around 10 percent even as testing has ramped up (as of yesterday 66K positives/6K deaths). It varies by state, of course, based on overall population density, age, economic stability, access to intensive care, etc.
If you figure that the number who test positive represent only 10 percent of actual cases, that puts the fatality rate at 1 percent. Seasonal flu is about 0.1 percent.
The notion that 99 percent of those infected will recover juuuust fiiiiine ignores the complications people have had with strokes, clots, and lingering lung damage or cognitive problems from long-term ventilation.
Philip Bump had a good analysis in the Washington Post on all this yesterday: "Trump will accept a ‘steady’ few hundred coronavirus deaths a day as the cost of his reelection"
Thank God he has stopped abortions and gay marriage, has brought peace to the Middle East, defused nuke programs in Iran and North Korea, got us out of Afghanistan, got a huge payment from Mexico for thousands of miles of Wall, and is making jobs jobs jobs!
Plus repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a great new system that is so much cheaper.
DeleteHe's right about one thing: I am sick of winning.
Oh, Lord, I am back to answering my own rants. And I thought I was doing better. Alas, alack.
DeleteYes - a mortality rate ten times greater than influenza won't faze his diehard supporeters. All those pro-life, anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, anti-Matthew 25:35-46 , anti-old, sick or otherwise expendable and inconvenient people - "christans" all - will continue to support him as the most "pro-life", pro-religious freedom president ever. Their religious freedom only, of course.
ReplyDeleteSadly, a majority of white Catholics are among those supporters according to the most r cent polls. The bishops should all be stripped of their mitres. And it sure seems like the gospel is not being preached in the nations majority white catholic parishes either. I guess there would be a backlash if priests and deacons preached the gospel, and made the trumpets in the pews angry.
ReplyDeleteI don't recall that Jesus held back in order not to make his listeners angry, but ....
Go figure, now the PTB are pushing to allow refugees from Hong Kong who have credible fear of persecution to have priority. So they are okay, but these others aren't?
ReplyDeleteIt's politically correct if it's one of the bastard countries we don't like versus one of those bastard countries we do like.
DeleteLittle Marco is not going to get any Hong Kongers into the United States. Boris Johnson has already offended the Don's chum Xi by saying he'll take them. Justin Trudeau (boy, do we hate him!) thinks they could create a new Hong Kong in Vancouver, Canada (and he is right).
DeleteBut will the Don get involved? This is a matter of freedom and international agreements. There are no Trump phallic symbols in Hong Kong. I guess that answers it.
Hong Kong is a heck of an international news story. Too bad we are busy with our four-year-old and can't cover it.
Ever since the "handover" of HK in the late 1990s, Vancouver has taken in a huge number of refugees. The US appears to be the only country who, when the handover started, would not automatically grant entry visas to the HK employees of US companies domiciled there. I was working for Bank of America at the time and we lost a lot of very talented folk to UK and Canadian companies who were going to help their key HK staff leave when the time was right.
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