Interesting piece on NPR, “Pandemic Shutdown Is Speeding Up The Collapse Of Coal.” It seems that one small, thin, questionable silver lining of the Covid-19 crisis is that it is accelerating the demise of polluting coal as a fuel. The industries that buy it are shut down for quarantine are using their forced off time…

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How is this possible? Unfortunately, it seems, all too easily. From /r/lostgeneration on Reddit.   These people are dying to reopen Applebee’s. from r/lostgeneration

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Fascinating article in The Guardian recently, Malicious forces creating ‘perfect storm’ of coronavirus disinformation Russia and China among state and other actors spreading fake news and disruption, say experts. It seems that combination of Russian agents, Chinese provocateurs, and our own Right-Wing political actors are working together to spread misinformation about Covid-19. The question is…

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There is something terrifying in the fact that Trump told his people that they might cure Covid-19 with disinfectant, and that they believed him. From The Guardian: ‘Don’t inject Lysol’: maker of household cleaner hits back at Trump virus claim 

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Name one… From Newsweek: GOP Texas Lieutenant Governor Says We Need to Take Risk to Get Back to Work: ‘There Are More Important Things Than Living’ By Brendan Cole On 4/21/20 at 6:01 AM EDT Thanks to Robert Folkner for pointing out this story.  

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As if anyone had any doubts about who was really behind the protests demanding an end to the Covid-19 lock-down. From the Washington Post: The anti-quarantine protests seem spontaneous. But behind the scenes, a powerful network is helping.   Special thanks to Michael Jay Tucker for pointing out this piece in the Post.

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The greatest trauma occurs when injury is human-caused. How will we cope with the fact that an incompetent president caused a devastating pandemic by eliminating a global response system only two years earlier, removed a CDC expert in China only months earlier…. — Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv (@BandyXLee1) April 19, 2020

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Pathetic. From Huffpost.   COVID-19 Protesters Just Like Rosa Parks, Says White House Adviser Stephen Moore

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If you’re a Trump supporter, please read on. All Executive Order links in this post will bring you to Federal, official documents that are public record on our own Federal *.gov websites and are for anyone to consume. These are facts that cannot be disputed unless you are denying reality or the validity of the…

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