A Biden/Kamala Harris ticket (or Susan Rice), with Bloomberg and his audio/visual crew working on a parallel track, so Trump is getting hit from so many different directions at once he doesn't even know where to respond.

Even though Dr. Bill Wattenburg was a nasty talk show host, his background was in science and he talked quite a bit about what to do in the event of a pandemic (which he expected to happen). His advice might not apply to this current pandemic, which appears to move in fits and bursts--as opposed to sweeping through a community rapidly.

He said stay home for two weeks, don't open the door, don't gather with others and don't get the mail.

I'm thinking that operations like utilities, credit card companies are going to be just as vulnerable to this as individuals. They may have to halt operations too. They may have to suspend billing procedures or "work with" customers.

Their people may not be able to go to work either. We may even lose certain services for periods of time. So they may not send out bills during the worst periods, or move to a different/delayed billing cycle. In fact, they may not be able to provide services.

It's in the self-interest of companies to work with customers, because if they push it too far people will declare bankruptcy and monies owed to them will be rendered unrecoverable. (We are talking about a worst case scenario here, perhaps unlikely to happen). If the system of payments breaks down, it would destroy companies. The government could conceivably step in and order them to provide services if they threatened not to. The government could "pay" the utility provider to provide services for a certain period of time, in effect making a loan to the company and paying the bills of the population until things settle down. This wouldn't be easy on ordinary people, though, who would eventually have to scramble to pay these bills. A lot of people who have striven to stay debt-free might suddenly find themselves in debt due to circumstances beyond their control, but most of the country would be in the same position.

In China (and now Italy), this pandemic is hitting both supply and demand.

is because he experienced liberation but wasn't seeking it and doesn't know how he attained it; therefore, he can't really teach a path to others. He can only describe the essential state. So he's tried to reverse-engineer his enlightenment and ends up relying too much on the words of others.

Just a theory.

https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1232769796644777986

I bet we could!

passed, and your OP and the responses saying "People have been trying since the 40s" don't exactly instill great confidence.

How is the fact that people have been trying for eighty years to get this done and can't a rational argument for Bernie?

https://twitter.com/juliebosman/status/1232357216050696192

that Trump won't throw at him in the GE. If Bernie survives, it might be a good indication he can triumph in the GE. My biggest concern about electability all along has been the torrent of opposition research, which a Tweet from one of Bloomberg's top people last week suggests they have in their possession.

(This is putting aside for a moment the concern about whether Bernie can deliver on his promises, which I see as a separate issue, since he would be a much better president than Trump regardless of whether he can realize his agenda.)

Dr. Lee’s observation that Trump is incapable of self-doubt tends to explain Trump’s unwillingness to ever apologize. Political experts attribute this to a strategic desire never to show weakness, but if I understand Dr. Lee correctly there is no volition on his part. He never even arrives at the phase of having to make this decision in the first place: Whether to apologize or not apologize.

Because Trump never experiences insight, self-doubt or insecurity, there’s never an inkling of the guilt, regret or remorse that are necessary prerequisites for an apology.