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Today’s Top Stories: March 27, 2020
Coronavirus update:
558,552 infected, up from 495,086 yesterday.
25,251 deaths, up from 22,993 yesterday.
New York is hardest hit, with Florida poised to claim largest death count (due to a large percentage of seniors who have retired there).
Relevant COVID-19 stories:
- Live updates: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive for coronavirus; the U.S. now leads the world in confirmed cases
- Terrifying cellphone ‘heat map’ shows just how much people are still traveling
Economy Update:
DJIA is down nearly 900 points today, passing back down to the 21,000 range. The markets are awaiting a slew of really bad news.
Relevant Economy stories:
Politics:
Senators voted 96-0 on the $2 Trillion federal fiscal stimulus package. The House votes Friday. Trump is expected to pass it.
Teen Who Died of Covid-19 Was Denied Treatment Because He Didn’t Have Health Insurance
If Obamacare had followed its natural progression, that boy may have lived. Instead, for the past 10 years, Republicans have tried to reverse the landmark health insurance law.
Relevant Politics stories:
- $2 Trillion Federal Stimulus Package Heads for House vote
- Trump: I don’t believe you really need that many ventilators
Feel good song of the day:
While My Guitar Gently Weeps – watch Prince take over!
Offbeat Story of the Day:
Odd Squad Car Nosh Caught On Police Cam
According to an arrest affidavit, a vehicle cam captured Wallace last month “eating a bag of drugs he pulled from his butt.” Pictured at right, Wallace then “proceeds to eat the baggy with the drugs.”
When confronted by sheriff’s deputies, Wallace denied consuming the baggy, and then spit it out in front of a cop. The officer subsequently “swabbed the defendant’s mouth which tested positive for cocaine,” the affidavit states. “The baggy is being sent to the lab for testing.”
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Today’s Top Stories: March 26, 2020
Coronavirus update:
495,086 infected, up from 438,749 yesterday.
22,993 deaths, up from 19,675 yesterday.
Relevant COVID-19 stories:
- Ridgeback Biotherapeutics and Drug Innovations Ventures at Emory Partner to Develop Clinical Stage Coronavirus Treatment
- Doctors And Nurses Say More People Are Dying Of COVID-19 In The US Than We Know
- Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook
Economy Update:
DJIA is up over 900 points today, passing 22,000 (up 4.4 percent). That’s the good news, driven mostly by the hope that the Senate federal stimulus bill will pass in the House (it’s $2 Trillion).
Relevant Economy stories:
- Markets take 3 million claims in stride and now brace for ‘tsunami of negative news’
- READ: $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill
- The Senate has struck a $2 trillion deal on the coronavirus stimulus. Here’s what’s in it.
Politics:
Senators voted 96-0 on the $2 Trillion federal fiscal stimulus package. The House votes Friday. Trump is expected to pass it.
After all, it’s the only thing that’s going to save his ass. Plus, I want to know the 4 senators who didn’t vote and why.
Relevant Politics stories:
- READ: $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill
- ‘It’s a two-way street’: Trump suggests federal coronavirus aid will be given to governors who ‘treat us well’
Feel good song of the day:
Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves
Offbeat Story of the Day:
Fearful of catching the coronavirus, a 75-year-old man pointed a handgun at two women wearing face masks and gloves during an encounter at a post office in Georgia, police charge.
According to cops, Harvey Taratoot was in the post office Sunday when he confronted the victims. Taratoot yelled at the duo–a grandmother and her 18-year-old granddaughter–“to get back.”
The women, who were not hurt during the incident, told police that they were “wearing medical masks and gloves when they entered the post office” in Alpharetta, a city 25 miles north of Atlanta.
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Today’s Top Stories: March 25, 2020
Coronavirus update:
438,749 infected, up from 398,107 yesterday.
19,675 dead, up from 17,454 yesterday.
Relevant COVID-19 stories:
- Man who said he had coronavirus coughed on Wegmans worker, charged with making terroristic threat
- India’s coronavirus lockdown and its looming crisis, explained
- Where the Sick Will Go When Hospitals Run Out of Room
Economy Update:
DJIA is up 350+ points, passes 21,000 (again).
Relevant Economy stories:
- The Senate has struck a $2 trillion deal on the coronavirus stimulus. Here’s what’s in it.
- The coronavirus unemployment insurance plan, explained
Politics:
President Trump pulled a dick move, but what’s new, right?
Relevant Politics stories:
- Republicans Seem to Think They Can Decide Who Dies
- Sen. Paul: Why I didn’t quarantine after getting tested – Because you’re a self-important asshole? Am I right?
Feel good song of the day:
John Mellencamp – Peaceful World
Offbeat Story of the Day:
“Pee Napkin” Prompts Fight, Domestic Bust
The woman, cops reported, said after she “had intercourse with [Janisch] in their car, she had to urinate. She did so outside of the car.” And that is when the trouble began. “After she wiped herself she accidentally threw the napkin on” Janisch.
Upon reentering the car, the couple began arguing and Janisch, police allege, choked the victim for several seconds, prompting her to scream for help.
After being read his rights, Janisch reportedly told police he became “irate after she threw the pee napkin on him.” Janisch, cops say, declined to “advise who became physical first,” but claimed that the marks on his girlfriend’s neck “may have been from the beach.”
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Today’s Top Stories: March 24, 2020
Coronavirus update:
398,107 infected, up from 353,692 yesterday.
17,454 dead, up from 15,430 yesterday.
US leads the way in number of infections gained per day. MAGA? Can we do that soon, please?
Relevant COVID-19 stories:
- Biden: Trump’s ‘failure of planning and preparation’ worsened coronavirus crisis
- Arizona Man Dies From Chloroquine Overdose After Listening to Trump Coronavirus Press Conference
- Summer Olympics in Japan Postponed Until Next Year
Economy Update:
DJIA is up 1,700+ points on news federal stimulus bill may soon be passed.
Relevant Economy stories:
- The coronavirus unemployment insurance plan, explained
- Whatever It Takes: How the Fed Aims to Rescue the Economy
Politics:
Joe Biden is beating up President Trump over his horrible response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Obamacare turns 10 years old today. Let’s see how the GOP plans on killing it again.
Feel good song of the day:
Let’s get it on.
Offbeat Story of the Day:
Felony Rap For Coughing In Face Of Paramedic | The Smoking Gun
MARCH 22–A woman arrested for assaulting her boyfriend shouted “I have the coronavirus” before intentionally coughing in the face of a paramedic who she sprayed with “copious amounts of saliva,” police charge.
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Today’s Top Stories: March 23, 2020
Coronavirus update:
353,692 infected. 15,430 dead. Both STEEP increases over the weekend.
Relevant COVID-19 stories:
- Trump: I haven’t consulted past presidents – of course he hasn’t. They might tell him to resign.
- Hobby Lobby founder reportedly told employees a message from God informed his decision to leave stores open amid the coronavirus outbreak – Uh huh, that has to be the answer.
- Harvey Weinstein is put in isolation ‘after contracting coronavirus’ – Rand Paul tested positive for COVID-19 and Mitt Romney has self-quarantined.
Economy Update:
Dow is down over 900, under 19,000, very close to 18,000. Stock futures halted trading 5 minutes in last night, foretelling a gruesome day on the Dow Monday.
Relevant Economy stories:
- Coronavirus hits China’s economy twice as financial contagion spreads across the globe
- Unemployment could reach 30% in the U.S., says St. Louis Fed’s Bullard with potential 50 percent reduction in GDP in Q2. BLOODBATH.
I’m Rooting for This Guy:
Why this Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery: ‘We’re going to be fine’
A Nobel laureate predicted China’s recovery weeks before it happened. Analyzing the numbers, he sees a much brighter global outcome than many experts.
Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, began analyzing the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide in January and correctly calculated that China would get through the worst of its coronavirus outbreak long before many health experts had predicted.
Now he foresees a similar outcome in the United States and the rest of the world.
While many epidemiologists are warning of months, or even years, of massive social disruption and millions of deaths, Levitt says the data simply don’t support such a dire scenario — especially in areas where reasonable social distancing measures are in place.
“What we need is to control the panic,” he said. In the grand scheme, “we’re going to be fine.”
Offbeat Story of the Day:
Inmate brought gun into Orange County Jail intake area before holding 3 hostage, report shows
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The man who held an Orange County corrections officer, deputy and nurse at gunpoint Saturday was able to bring the weapon into the jail intake area, the Sheriff’s Office arrest report shows.
Orange County Sheriff John Mina said Eric Stanley, 25, of Holiday, was arrested Saturday evening along with another individual on drug charges after Stanley was accused of speeding along World Center Drive.
According to the arrest report, Stanley pulled his hand out of his flex cuffs and pointed a gun at the corrections officer telling him to get on the ground.
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