I Want To Be Exquisitely Clear About This

This virus spreads extremely efficiently with lethal consequences so opening movies, and schools, and theme parks is not only stupid it is negligent.

This event was outdoors. But if you get too close without a mask, KABLAAM.

I am concerned that this is a new strain with more efficiency and potentially more lethality, however at this point inclined to believe it is a function of close quarters viral load.

Nervous times. Netflix does just fine for me.

Word Is

Trump is deteriorating. https://twitter.com/PrestonTheSnack/status/1312201785679912960/photo/1

Look at this chart. He is at a crossroads.

Nearly 1 in 5

The CDC's latest death counts indicate that the crude case fatality rate is around 28 percent for patients 85 or older and 18 percent for 75-to-84-year-olds. That rate falls to about 8 percent for 65-to-74-year-olds, 2 percent for 50-to-64-year-olds, 0.6 percent for patients in their 40s, 0.2 percent for patients in their 30s, 0.06 percent for patients in their late teens and early 20s, 0.02 percent for 5-to-17-year-olds, and 0.04 percent for children 4 and younger.

https://reason.com/2020/09/29/the-latest-cdc-estimates-of-covid-19s-infection-fatality-rate-vary-dramatically-with-age/

That is across all outcomes of all people, not including deeper dive into co-morbidities.

Oh man.

Watching Trump Walk To Marine 1 Chopper

he is very sick. Slow gate, slow cognizance. He looked to me, frightened.

The thing is is they know the progression. A person might be able to walk now, hours later, often, ventilated.

Republican Source: Situation Is Spiraling Out Of Control

Breaking: Trump Being Transferred To Walter Reed

A Rattled Nation

will not choose the guy that did everything wrong and gave it to himself.

This is like choosing between an arsonist and a Fireperson.

Flu to the left of me, Covid to the right here I am left of the middle with you.

Larry Kudlow: Trump Now Suffering Moderate Symptoms

In Missouri I Worked On VP Gore's Advance Team

But over the years I also got to know the Carnahans. I was one of the first to know about the plane crash that took Gov. Carnahan and Randy and Chris from us.

I loved Mel. He was a great Governor. But he went on to victory, posthumously, in one of the worst stretches of my life, later on of course being what happened to Al. That pain is never something I will let go of.

It drives me. I keep getting punched upside my head, but I keep getting up. But Jean took his place, secured the seat until 2002, and did all she could for us as well.

The point is twofold-1. A dead man could win an election. But not a despised dead man.

2. Sooner or later, through no action of your own, your enemies suffer too. As a man of faith, indeed I believe Jesus is my Lord and Savior though I hold no judgment or pre-conceived notions towards those who subscribe to other, or no, spiritual philosophies, I have to maintain a sense of mercy. I know people would be happy if Trump succumbs to Covid. But then there is inside of me that young man who all those years ago burst into tears in front of a STL Post Dispatch reporter because I just had nothing left but sadness in that moment. You see that young man is still with me. That night is still fresh. And he will always cry when he thinks about it. And so it is not within me to have my pain assuaged by my enemy's pain.

Perhaps this is my weakness. Even so, it is how I sleep at night.

So yes sooner or later your enemies will suffer and that leaves me with this piece of advice, for when they do:



Choose wisely the wolf we feed, for one of them has a hunger satisfied by nothing less than the vessel it resides in.

-ROC

NEW IBD/TIPP Poll

49-46 Joe. Realistically the internals project 53-44. About in line with everyone else. Why? 42 with whites, plus 10 with indies.

IBD is probably doing their "cautious" 75 percent white turnout model again.

Just remember-plus 42 or more with whites equal landslide, period.

Trump is not likely to be getting 15 percent of the black vote. But while I am here, look at it this way. 1000ish people polled, about 12 percent black. Trump in this poll gets 15 percent. That is eighteen people. If it were 10 percent that would be twelve people.

That is a 1.2 percent swing ON THE WHOLE POLL. Six AA people, out of 140 million voters. Sometimes polls are just silly.

And they badly need re-evaluated.