DAILY UPDATE 16 May, 2020

The information is not going the way he wanted and spent 10.7 million dollars to put out data for the CDC as a result of the friction between WH and CDC.  The Administration wants to sanitize the data before its released.  What can go wrong?  Will data be relevant or will it be misrepresented, slanted and full of wishes and magical thinking? 

Trump continues to say the CDC deaths are overstated without evidence, however, with a global 1% death rate and 1,400,000 cases, one could say the potential death count in the U.S. is 140,000, not 90,000. The actual reported death rate worldwide is .8%, which would be 112,000, so somewhere between 112 and 140 thousand deaths.  I think this may be high, as I would guess at about 100,000 deaths at this time.  (16 May, 2020)  Even if the total deaths are accurate, if this pandemic follows the Spanish Flu mortality rate and doubles in the fall and winter, the total could be as high as 240,000 to 250,000 deaths.

Barr recently was heard saying he would release the results of the investigation of the investigators of the Russia probe in October.  This is the same administration that excoriated Comey for doing the same thing, by the FBI announcing new evidence and an investigation without charges close to an election.  When confronted Barr said, “Comey is not on the ballot”.  This is the same time frame as Linsey Graham is going to release his smear of the Bidens.  Trump stated that Obama, Biden, Comey, and others should be locked up for 10 years for what they did, without stating what they did and how it was illegal?

Trump’s promise magically to have a vaccine by January just after he is elected, is strictly a political wish and has been described as BS.  The realistic and record-breaking achievement would be available by mid 2021.  He is betting on opening and having a vaccine not based on medicine and science but wishful thinking with mortal consequences.  Dr. Bright the whistle-blower in charge of vaccines in the CDC, has never seen any vaccine testing going perfectly and rushing may produce an unsafe vaccine.  “Operation Warp speed” should be renamed “Operation Warped speed”.  Note the amount of time it takes for a normal effective vaccine is 4 to 5 years not 12-18 months.  Most medical experts say its wishful thinking and some say it amounts to mystical thinking for approval of an effective tested vaccine by the end of the year.

The Trump administration just fired one of the remaining watchdogs. The State Department watchdog was announced Friday he was being fired.  The watchdogs are independent and non-political appointments and that’s why he wants them all out, so he can reinstall sycophants to do his bidding and sweep complaints under the rug. What could go wrong?

One of the Taliban leaders in Afghanistan has defected to join ISIS operating in Afghanistan.  The Sunni leader left after both the cease-fire and the peace talks had broken down.  Another one of Trump’s great negotiation successes?  Nonetheless Trump is still leaving with or without any peace agreement.

5 shipmates on the Roosevelt have tested positive for the second time, which is very troubling in that the only hope now becomes the vaccine.  It appears they did not produce antibodies and if they did they were very short lived.  Most antibodies are effective for about a year and that’s why we get annual flu shots.

Betsey De Vos education czar has redirected funds meant for public schools to both private schools and religious schools, counter to the guidelines that say religious schools and those that promote religion are not to be funded by the federal government.