COVID-19 Megathread 5: The Trumps catch COVID-19

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It’s funny how everyone is attacking only GOP governors.
Jared Polis is reopening tattoo parlors and nail salons and has yet to be the target of media outrage. It’s ludicrous.

Polis is a businessman so he understands how important Reopening The Economy really is

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Does anyone have "US minus New York" numbers? It seems like New York being through the worst of it is accounting for most or all of the decline in new cases.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hope the Supreme Court is happy when this inevitably leads to bad results.

Right-wing judges don't care about outcomes, only about naked exercise of power.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

https://twitter.com/RepDonBeyer/status/1260691091881369602

Well I want to go back to school so idgaf what he does on this front.

I'm a teacher and I want to go back to school too. I also want to be happily married to Rosalind Russell circa His Girl Friday. All of us want a lot of things.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1265045009323241472

That's actually badass.

Biden should take the debate stage dressed as a plague doctor and see what happens in the polls. Thanks to negative polarization, it's not like it'll hurt.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Averages are up in the US over the last few week; it remains to be seen whether this is an anomaly due to the holiday weekend or a new trend.

It's difficult to deny that there are any number of reasons why it could be a new trend--or that no political "side" really has the moral high ground on staying home or social distancing after the events of the past week.