Quarantine Diaries: Day 256

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Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Why we're numb to 250,000 coronavirus deaths

FDA authorizes emergency use of the antibody cocktail given to Trump to treat Covid-19

Trump's petulance worsens pandemic pain

When the lame duck president speaks about the pandemic, he only further undermines scattershot efforts to contain it. That Trump skipped out of a side-session focused on pandemic preparedness with world leaders at the G20 virtual gathering on Saturday surprised no one. It's unlikely he was missed. All the while, states and cities around this country reported record-high numbers of infections as hospitalizations mounted -- setting off alarm bells over a collapse of an overwhelmed health care system.

Trump skips G20 pandemic event to visit golf club as virus ravages US.

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Don't Blame Covid: The Economy is Imploding from Over-Capacity and Corrupt Cartels

Here’s the fantasy: if we stop the shutdowns, the economy will naturally bounce back to its oh-so wunnerful perfection of Q3 2019. This is a double-dose of magical thinking and denial. The U.S. economy was unraveling in 2019 from 11 long years of Fed-induced over-capacity in almost everything (except integrity, competition, transparency and social cohesion) and the bone-crushing burden of corrupt, greedy cartels that have the nation by the throat.

GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

South Africa Unveils New Crypto Rules as Usage Soars Exponentially

The One Chart That Predicts our Future

Politics:

Trump’s Indifference Amounts to Negligent Homicide

Negligent homicide has a specific meaning in the law books. The standards of proof and categories of offense vary from state to state. But the essence is: Someone died because someone else did not exercise reasonable care.
An adult leaves loaded weapons where children can find them. A factory owner or amusement-park operator ignores the safety standards for their equipment. A motorist in a hurry, or heading back from a bar, roars through a school-crossing zone full of children. A parent leaves an infant “just for a few minutes” in a car with rolled-up windows on a baking-hot day. Prosecutors and juries draw the line between cases like these and murder, based mainly on intent. Did the person who caused the death actually mean to do harm? It’s a distinction that matters a lot to the defendant, but not to the victim. Whatever the legal outcome, a person who—except for another’s indifference to risks that should have been foreseen—would still be living and learning and loving, instead is dead.

In Total Loss for Trump Campaign in Its Most Major Remaining Election Case, Federal Court in Pennsylvania Dismisses Case and Denies Motion to File Amended Complaint

Granting Plaintiffs’ requested relief would necessarily require invalidating the ballots of every person who voted in Pennsylvania. Because this Court has no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person, let alone millions of citizens, it cannot grant Plaintiffs’ requested relief.

An attorney leading Trump's attempt to subvert the election results is a longtime QAnon supporter

Translation: Sidney Powell is batshit crazy.

Don Junior finally passes a test, positive for COVID-19: Donald Trump Jr says he will pass time in Covid isolation by cleaning his guns

And, in his spare time, Don Jr posts bizarre clip of Trump beating up Biden, Obama and Harris in bar fight helped by Pence, Giuliani and Christie.

Rudy Giuliani suggested someone 'cut the head off' Democratic leaders in Fox News interview

Serendipity:

Welcome To The Interregnum: Your unease has a name — Zozobra

The old story of endless growth on a finite planet is winding down. Whatever replaces it won’t be a continuation of the past. Things are going to have to change, whether we like it or not.
Put more bluntly: the easy times are over, and a period of disruption has begun.

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