Monday, April 13, 2020
Trump's poll numbers dip over handling of coronavirus pandemic
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/10/trump-poll-numbers-dip-handling-coronavirus
Support for Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus has plunged
over the past week, polls show, as some of his advisers and Republican
allies are said to be concerned over the US president’s daily briefings
on the pandemic.
CNN Poll of Polls: Trump's approval ticking down on coronavirus response
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/10/politics/cnn-poll-of-polls-trump-approval-coronavirus-general-election-biden/index.html
A new CNN Poll of Polls out on Thursday finds President Donald Trump's approval rating and the public's approval of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic trending down in the last month.
Trump's averaged approval rating stands at 46% approve, 49% disapprove -- ticking down from 48% approval in late-March.
Top hospital head to 'Post': Coronavirus strategy failed
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/health-ministry-strategy-failed-senior-health-official-tells-post-623682
The Health Ministry’s strategy for tackling the
coronavirus crisis is a failure, the head of one of Israel’s leading
hospitals told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday as the ministry announced it
had fallen far below its original test target, leaving the country
without an end in sight for its isolation strategy.
“We
are in the third week of isolation and the numbers continue to rise –
and in big numbers,” the senior official said. “We need to think about
another strategy. Isolation has not brought us any good.”
Only One President in the Last 20 Years Wasn’t Worried About a Pandemic
https://thebulwark.com/newsletter-issue/only-one-president-in-the-last-20-years-wasnt-worried-about-a-pandemic/
On March 30, President Donald Trump went onto the most important news venue in America, Fox & Friends, to defend his handling of the coronavirus outbreak. Here is a thing he said:
“Nobody could have predicted something like this . . .”
This is false.
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Bull Session: Ted Cruz Says the Press Is “Giddy With Glee” Over Pandemic
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/ted-cruz-says-press-giddy-with-glee-over-coronavirus-pandemic-bull-session/
Callooh, callay! It’s another glorious day in the mainstream media
where, as Texas senator Ted Cruz recently noted, we’re all simply “giddy with glee”
over this global pandemic. The sun is shining on all of God’s green
earth that the governor recently closed, the birds are chirping in
between the distant wail of ambulance sirens, and we members of the
press are feeling particularly lighthearted, a sensation we keep
checking against all the known symptoms of COVID-19. You could tell from
the huge smiles on our faces, if only you could see them beneath these
homemade masks.
Boy, am I ever! Personally, nothing gives me greater pleasure than
waking from yet another anxiety dream about going to the grocery store,
then opening my phone to find that another thousand people died
overnight, a friend lost their dad, and everything remains closed
indefinitely. Humming a tune by a favorite artist who was killed
prematurely by a preventable public health crisis, I leap from my
flop-sweat-soaked bed, eager to begin another day of cheerleading for
our nation’s incipient collapse—right after my wife and I figure out how
we’re going to juggle the demands of our jobs with another day of
watching the two small, restless children trapped inside with us. Then,
during the few allotted hours I’m able to work for an industry that is,
like so many other businesses, faltering under mass layoffs, it’s party time, baby. That’s when I get to write about all this death and malfeasance for an audience that openly resents me for it! Yippee!
Anti-Semitism on the rise, Jews blamed for coronavirus
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/B1xuHBePU
In a document prepared by the ministry, malicious conspiracy theories, some contradictory, are being spread blaming Israel and Jews for the spread of the virus in order to thin out the world population and profit from a vaccination.
These posts are most common in the U.S., France, and Germany where anti-Semitism has been on the rise, but are seen in the Arab and Muslim world as well.
Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods to be locked down starting Sunday
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-ultra-orthodox-neighborhoods-to-be-locked-down-starting-sunday/
The government approved locking down four of the capital’s seven
zones delineated ahead of Passover: Zone 1, which covers northeast
Jerusalem Zone 2, which covers northwest Jerusalem, Zone 3, which covers
southwest Jerusalem, and Zone 5, which covers much of the city center.
Among the included neighborhoods: Har
Nof, Mea Shearim, Geula, the Bukharim Quarter, Romema, Sanhedria, Neveh
Yaakov, Ramat Shlomo and Makor Baruch.
Trump says he'll use 'facts and instincts' to guide decision on when country safe to reopen
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/11/trump-facts-and-instincts-decision-on-when-country-safe-to-reopen-180000
President Donald Trump on Saturday
said he would use “facts and instincts” to make a decision on whether to
recommend opening up areas of the country for working life to resume
amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In a phone interview on “Justice with
Judge Jeanine” on Fox News, the president said: “I think it's going to
be the toughest decision I ever made and hopefully the most difficult I
will ever have to make. I hope I'm going to make the right decision. I
will be basing it on a lot of very smart people, a lot of professionals,
doctors and business leaders. There are a lot of things that go into a
decision like that. And it's going to be based on a lot of facts and
instincts."
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