11th April 2020 - Across the Pond - and keep out of Wales

Thought for the day :"The only person who listens to both sides of the argument is the next door neighbour "

LINK JOHNS HOPKINS
Office of National Statistics

And it appears that aTrump has decided to choose another new press spokesperson ..
[Guardian]
'We won't see coronavirus here' ... and other gems from Trump's new press secretary

Kayleigh McEnany, who replaces Stephanie Grisham, has embraced birtherism and claimed Democrats were rooting for the pandemic (The Guardian)

According to a Washington Post count, Trump made 16,241 false or misleading claims in his first three years in office. But on 28 August 2019, McEnany told CNN’s Chris Cuomo: “No. I don’t believe the president has lied.”

And taking her cue from the president, McEnany played down the threat of the coronavirus. On Trish Regan’s Fox Business Network show in late February, she praised Trump’s partial Chinese travel ban and asserted: “We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here. And isn’t it refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama?”

Regan later parted ways with the network after calling the coronavirus an “impeachment scam”. McEnany has been rewarded with a senior job at the White House.

On 28 February, McEnany appeared on Fox News. “What is bad for America is good for Democrats. It’s incredible that they think this way. They root against the stock market. They root for this [coronavirus] to take hold. They have a demented dream of taking down President Trump. It doesn’t matter how many Americans they destroy in order to get there.”

On 11 March, with the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and then candidate Bernie Sanders having cancelled campaign rallies, she was asked on the Fox Business Network whether Trump would follow suit. She wasn’t worried, she insisted. “Look, we have the commander-in-chief, we have the best health experts, we are taking it day by day, we are currently proceeding as normal,” McEnany said.

“And look, Joe Biden, he’s suspending his rallies. He’s been dying to get off the campaign trail. The man can only speak for seven minutes … The media’s best hope is for Donald Trump to suspend his rallies … they know it’s his avenue to speak directly to the American people.”

Later that day, the Trump campaign did cancel rallies.

There is more - but I stopped reading - almost stopped hoping !

Found a partner to yesterday's Last Supper picture...

Job Done

Some people may wonder why we are worried about hoards of people coming into Wales ont eh shut-down. This picture of wales showing all our hospitals gives a good idea of how stretched the health services are in this country ...  Powys does not have a hospital at all!

Which explains why the figures for Wales are so erratic - they are only testing in the hospitals, and therfore figures for deaths and cases cannot fairly reflect the geography.. Powys is still showing in double figures...

meanwhile in America

and...

Today in the US...

Don't get me wrong - we are a mess in the UK as well - no-one is getting away from the crisis - but we at least have some leaders who understand that antibiotics do not work against a virus, and that opening Churches for Easter is probably not a good idea...  

In other news -I decided to write out the origins if the Maiden's Cream drink for the Crimson Moon Tavern - and will work towards getting a video done in the basement - a little bar work in the shutdown. 

Did some more gardening yesterday and chopped down a section of tree that has been annoying me for a couple of years as it encroached over the pathway - it is very hot again today - so will try an hour in the garden later this afternoon - have some pathway to clear - and may get the strimmer out tomorrow - don't want to overdo it.....

So - best get on with it ....

Cheers !