World
- New Cases: 643,042 (⬆︎ 1.22%)
- New Deaths: 9,669 (⬆︎ .75%)
USA
- New Cases: 161,541 (⬆︎1.51%) 🥳 NEW RECORD!! 🎉
- New Deaths: 1,190 (⬆︎ .48%)
Lockdowns possible as Illinois, Maryland and Washington governors weigh more restrictions
Some state officials mused aloud about the possibility of a fresh round of shutdowns, measures that health experts said could be avoided with widespread use of face coverings and stronger social distancing habits.
The warning came as the United States set new highs for cases and hospitalizations, with more than 152,000 daily infections and 66,000 hospitalizations, according to The Post’s latest data.
- and then -
As coronavirus infections surge again across the country, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has a call to action for the millions of Americans who have recovered from covid-19.
“We should tell them to celebrate,” Paul said during a Fox News interview on Thursday evening. “We should tell them to throw away their masks, go to restaurants, live again, because these people are now immune.”
That medically suspect comment from Paul, who tested positive for the virus in March, contradicts widespread public health guidance as well as consistent messaging from many doctors and scientists: There is no evidence that people who have already contracted the virus are now immune to it, they have repeatedly said. And there is a possibility they can still spread the virus to others.
“I don’t know why he would say that,” Vin Gupta, a pulmonologist at the University of Washington Medical Center, told MSNBC of Paul’s comments. “There is no evidence that if you’ve been infected with covid-19 that you are immune from reinfection for any period of time.”
Peter Hotez, an infectious-disease specialist at Baylor University College of Medicine, wrote on Twitter that Paul’s remarks amounted to “anti-science disinformation.”
- and the kicker -
Justice Alito says pandemic has resulted in ‘unimaginable’ restrictions on individual liberty
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told the Federalist Society on Thursday night that the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in previously “unimaginable” restrictions on individual liberty.
“We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020,” Alito said in a speech webcast to the legal society’s national lawyers convention, which was virtual this year because of the pandemic.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told the Federalist Society on Thursday night that the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in previously “unimaginable” restrictions on individual liberty.
“We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020,” Alito said in a speech webcast to the legal society’s national lawyers convention, which was virtual this year because of the pandemic.
He added: “The covid crisis has served as sort of a constitutional stress test.”
Alito said he was not criticizing officials for their policy decisions — “I’m a judge, not a policymaker” — and said before launching into the speech that he hoped his remarks would not be “twisted or misunderstood.”
Alito, one of the court’s most conservative members, said it would be hard to imagine before the pandemic that speeches and concerts would be off-limits and that churches would be empty on Easter and synagogues vacant on sacred holidays. The Supreme Court itself has been closed to the public since March, and the justices hold their meetings and hear oral arguments via teleconference.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told the Federalist Society on Thursday night that the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in previously “unimaginable” restrictions on individual liberty.
“We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020,” Alito said in a speech webcast to the legal society’s national lawyers convention, which was virtual this year because of the pandemic.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told the Federalist Society on Thursday night that the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in previously “unimaginable” restrictions on individual liberty.
“We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020,” Alito said in a speech webcast to the legal society’s national lawyers convention, which was virtual this year because of the pandemic.
He added: “The covid crisis has served as sort of a constitutional stress test.”
Alito said he was not criticizing officials for their policy decisions — “I’m a judge, not a policymaker” — and said before launching into the speech that he hoped his remarks would not be “twisted or misunderstood.”
Alito, one of the court’s most conservative members, said it would be hard to imagine before the pandemic that speeches and concerts would be off-limits and that churches would be empty on Easter and synagogues vacant on sacred holidays. The Supreme Court itself has been closed to the public since March, and the justices hold their meetings and hear oral arguments via teleconference.
Rand Paul has always been a legacy puke who's so caught up in the frat-house-kegger fuck-'em-if-they-can't-take-a-joke mode that there's no surprise when he shows his true colors as someone who has absolutely no fucking business being a US Senator.
And Sam Alito? What the fucking fuck. I think I get the drift - he thinks he's just trying to be observational. But how tone-deaf can a guy get?
Look, Sam - if the wife has a baby, then you have to forestall boys' night out for a while, and you don't send messages that indicate you resent the restrictions that are fucking necessary now that you have some added responsibilities - responsibilities that encompass something beyond your own self-centered desires to "live free".
Yes - for the team to win, each individual has to step up his game. But as often as not, "stepping up your game" means that you pass the ball, and set the screen, so somebody else can sink the fucking shot - you stoopid grade school snot-faced brats.
Goddamn, how I hate this radical libertarian bullshit.
- The record-breaking surge in cases is being driven to a significant degree by casual occasions that may feel deceptively safe, officials and scientists warn.
- Congressional Democratic leaders accused Republicans of refusing to confront the dramatically worsening pandemic.
- The Ivy League is the first Division I college athletics conference to cancel its winter sports seasons.
- As Georgia starts its laborious audit of the presidential race, its secretary of state entered quarantine Thursday after his wife tested positive for the coronavirus.
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