SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

Yeah, this didn't help... Article starts with a timeline of what congress and the president did during the beginning of #coronavirus

Pollak: Democrats Pushed Impeachment While Coronavirus Spread

The timeline of the two developments -- impeachment and coronavirus -- is shocking, and reveals the true cost of hyper-partisanship.

"To the extent that they commented on coronavirus at all, it was only to tear up the president’s remarks or to call him a racist."

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/13/pollak-democrats-pushed-impeachment-while-coronavirus-spread/

So kids under 9 are at the least risk? They're the least likely to wash their hands well and most likely to touch their faces.

What if....? No.

#wuhan #coronavirus #covid_19

Update to #Colorado #wuhan #corona panic levels : schools in st least some districts are closed next week, 4 days before scheduled spring break.

I'll be working from home with plenty of background noise.

Current panic level in my part of #Colorado : One employee has a cold. Several employees pack up all of their belongings, clear their desks and flee the office.

This seems unbelievable to me.

I've been #running since September and just signed up for my first marathon!

We'll see if it's canceled due to Wuhan Corona virus panic.

@sno @freemo @sda
I would have thought that economy, jobs, starting international conflicts, deaths of the country's soldiers, harmful legislation, tax rates the debt, wages, etc., would have mattered more as objective measures of a nation's leaders.

But I have a feeling those measures would make him look better than most presidents (except perhaps debt where he's following the same pattern as his predecessors?), and we have a hard time looking at those measures objectively because we have a negative opinion of him personally.

It's like...what if everything was going well in the Star Wars universe than you found out that Jabba the Hut was the one in charge. It would be hard to mentally reconcile those two things.

I also wonder... The worst president OF ALL TIME? How well do you know EVERY other president enough to make that call? I think : "worst of my experience" would probably be better. Or maybe "worst since I started caring about politics"... Worst of my lifetime assumes I have a good understanding of who was president when I was a toddler. I'm not close to being a presidential history scholar, so I'm not qualified to make the statement myself.

This doesn't need to be a long or serious thread. I guess I'm just weary at the hyperbole and extremeness of our ongoing political talk. Politicians talk that way. We don't need to.

I read comments on #qoto recently that Trump is the Worst President Ever. Are there objective measures that can be used in such a claim? Or is it more meaning something more : of everyone who is president of the USA in 2020, he's my least favorite?

(Sometimes it's hard to tell if the level of political commentary is like my 3 year old declaring it's the Worst Day Ever when she can't get a third serving of ice cream.)

Obama Announces He Is No Longer Responsible For The Economy

MARTHA'S VINEYARD, MA—From his seaside mansion, former president Barack Obama announced today that he is formally passing ownership of the stock market and economy on to President Trump."All the gains were mine -- Trump didn't build that -- but this crash is all on Trump," Obama said as he admired the ocean, which will consume his home …

https://babylonbee.com/news/obama-walks-back-comments-about-being-responsible-for-the-stock-market