My husband just said we ought to start calling the death toll "the Hannity/Trump dead."

Works for me.

Messaging is EVERYTHING.

For the record - just for consistency's sake

I am using the statistics being noted at MSNBC.

We're mainly watching that network, switching back and forth with CNN. But I haven't been able to track CNN's numbers as closely. So I guess the MSNBC numbers are the "control numbers" - at least for this NON-pro, completely civilian and unofficial. But I think it probably serves the general situation. At least it gives us a picture of the rising numbers and the extent of the spread of the virus and its rising casualties.

Update:

7:37am (all times Pacific)
Confirmed cases - 165,075
Deaths - 3,038.

10:06am
Confirmed cases - 173,466 - Look at that! Cases went up by approximately EIGHT THOUSAND, in roughly three hours. .
Deaths - 3,370

10:10am (just four minutes later)
Confirmed cases - 174,251
Deaths - 3,376

SHEESH - just as I'm writing this - watching the confirmed case numbers ticking upward.
10:11am
Confirmed cases - 174,265
Deaths - 3376

What a difference a few minutes makes:
10:29am
Confirmed cases - 174,278
Deaths - 3376 - well, that's good news. The death toll nationally hasn't risen. Yet, anyway.

Jeez-Louise...

WHOA! This one's a real humdinger!

WHOA!

Michelle Goldberg!

She NAILS it and NAILS it and NAILS it.

All I can think of right now is a line from one of the Cheech & Chong movies: "Holy sheep shit!"

YIKES. Well, at least he's doing the right thing. Keeping a distance.

Hope that's where it stops in his family.

Gotta check both of these after my husband gets off the phone.

This one and the one in the OP.

That was one of our "Quote of the Week" quotes.

Our Indivisible group's "call-to-action" emails start with a quote, an inspirational opening. I'm on the team and since I'm the "quotes collector", I wind up being the writer who plugs a new quote in every week. Lately I've been getting them in verbatims off the TV coverage. I collect quotes anyway, just because. Now I can put some of 'em to use!

Nancy Pelosi and Andrew Cuomo were this week's choices.

“Our children face real national adversity for the first time.
They are hurting, they are scared, but they are learning.
And they will be better people and citizens for it.
Let’s teach them the right lessons.
Let our better angels guide us.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-NY, 3 26 20

“The markets are not going to succeed unless we take care of people...for those who say prayer over science, I say science is the answer to our prayers…
…(changing priorities) from ‘trickle-down’ at corporate headquarters to ‘bubble-up’ from the assembly-line floor.”
· Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, Speaker of the House, 3 26 20

Bookmarking. Born to run the numbers.

THIS.

Well, WE are the ones with the numbers on that one.

There are more of us. More on the Democrats' side. There are just - MORE. More of us.

And all we have to do is show up to vote. All we have to do is flex those numbers like all the muscles they are. All we have to do is make sure our numbers show up at the polls, and in the mailboxes where ballots can be mailed in.

There are more of us than there are of them. We've already seen the reports about the GOP's slowly-but-steadily shrinking numbers. There are fewer republi-CONS these days. They're a lot louder and meaner now, probably because they feel their backs up against the wall more than ever. So they're gonna get more desperate about holding on to power. But our sheer NUMBERS can flood them out.

If only we USE them! That's all we have to do. Turn out the vote. Get 'em out to vote. Get 'em to the polls. There will be too many of them to try to keep out.

ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS GET OUT THE VOTE!

The only question is -

ARE WE UP TO IT?



VOTE. As though your life depended on it.

As though the life of YOUR COUNTRY depended on it.