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“writers” are not only JONATHAN LEMIRE, JOSH BOAK AND BILL BARROW, but also at bottom:

Associated Press writers Tamara Lush in St. Petersburg, Fla., Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pa. and Alan Fram in Washington contributed to this report. (at bottom of article)

AP setting up the expected Dem meme, with Biden sounding like a genius!

“Though typically overshadowed by Trump’s megaphone, Biden argues the administration offers a false choice between reopening the economy and limiting the casualties of the coronavirus. The balance, Biden says, is a national plan for testing and tracing.”

getting a finale from a Clinton stooge - great:

“Conventional wisdom would say ‘It’s the economy, stupid,’” said Adrienne Elrod, a Democratic strategist who was senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
“If good, a president gets reelected. If not, he loses.”

however, Trump is to be blamed for Governors’ lockdowns, and a phony covid scandal dreamt up by two from the left - Neil Ferguson from Imperial College London and Marc Lipsitch of Harvard, while Republicans were also to be blamed for the GFC which re-elected Obama!

“Voters also cast out other recent incumbents who presided over sluggish economies, including Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, while Barack Obama was elected in 2008 after Republicans took the brunt of the blame for the collapse of the financial markets that fall.”

back-up for calling Ferguson and Lipsitch “from the left”:

9 May: UK Sun: SECOND LOVER Husband of lockdown-breaking Professor Ferguson’s lover Antonia Staats ‘has his own mistress’
by Nick Parker
It was not known whether 38-year-old Mr Lucas, an Arabic studies lecturer - who recently showed coronavirus symptoms - had left his home during lockdown to visit his mistress at another address...

PIC CAPTION: Professor Ferguson and Ms Staats are said to have met on dating site OkCupid, which has become popular with left-leaning couples who share liberal views...
Prof Ferguson, 51, would have been asked whether he reckoned Brexit was either “terrible for the UK” or “great for the UK”.
He would also have been quizzed on whether he considered his political beliefs to be either, “liberal/left, centrist, or conservative/right”.
The algorithm matched him with blonde Ms Staats, a south London-based left-wing campaigner with a masters in Asian politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies...

Ms Staats - who lives in a £1.9million home in Clapham, South West London - is also a climate change activist who joined anti-press protests outside Parliament in 2017...
The Sun on Sunday source added: “The fact that Professor Ferguson was matched with a left-wing activist makes his political leanings pretty clear.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11586872/husband-professor-neil-ferguson-lover-seeing-woman/

Lipsitch keeps blaming DC; can’t recall one TV show, but remembers Rachel Maddow’s!

AUDIO: 53m37s: 20 Mar 2020: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Marc Lipsitch
TRANSCRIPT
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LIPSITCH: But to me, it seems that the perhaps most pressing issue as we’ve all been hearing about is that even at the very outset of this epidemic personal protective equipment is running low in hospitals around the country. Health care workers are having to reuse it or not even have it. And calls are going out to seamstresses around the country to make the cloth masks.
This is not an adequate national response...

The second is scaling up onto a really wartime footing the production of PPE, ventilators, and other items. There’s been some talk from Washington about doing that, but it doesn’t actually seem to be happening on a real-time basis...

I would also add that, at least based on what I saw on television last night, the networked thermometer company whose name is escaping me right now also shows that Florida is a big hotspot of atypically high fever activity at the moment. And maybe you could chase that down, because I don’t remember even the name of the company. And that was widespread in Florida based on the map that was shown on Rachel Maddow last night...

MARC LIPSITCH: Yeah. I think from a disease control perspective that’s absolutely right. And I’m not sure if I’d share that description of Neil Ferguson’s evolution of position. But I’ll leave that aside.
But I think from a disease control perspective a near complete lockdown is appropriate at least until we have time to assess the situation and build up our capacity to test and to take care of patients with PPE and that sort of thing...

Q: Yeah. I guess the follow up to that, Marc, is, do you still feel your overall prediction about a pretty good swath of America getting infected by this over the next 12 to 18 months– you said 40% to 70%. Do you still sense it’ll be in line with that?

MARC LIPSITCH: Yeah, I have reduced that from 40% to 70% down to 20% to 60% about two weeks ago. But doesn’t seem to have stuck as much as the first. And that’s obviously a very wide range...
I’ve gotten a lot of questions about that. My current thinking is as follows. Clearly, China has shown that you can, in the short term, even in a place as critical as Wuhan, bring cases down to nearly zero, detected cases to zero, with several weeks– about two months, I guess, from January 23 to the present– almost two months of lockdowns. If somehow that could be maintained, then over a long period, like over 12 to 18 months, then those numbers would not come to pass. Because the disease would stay under control, very likely.
The problem is that I don’t understand how anybody, but especially a democratic society, is going to maintain that level of control for that period of time. So, the alternative is to have cycles of cracking down and letting up. And that would slowly accumulate. Cases would accumulate immunity in the population and would approach those kinds of levels.
If there’s some other solution, like if a vaccine magically appeared, which I don’t think is going to happen in the next year, that would change the game...
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/coronavirus-covid-19-press-conference-with-marc-lipsitch-03-20-20/