Outside the Beltway

The CDC director predicts a double whammy when flu season hits.

Another grim milestone.

These figures indicate that we are experiencing a serious global health crisis that is, empirically, a deviation from the norm.

Bad journalism is not needed right now.

Sigh.

Cable news “experts” frequently aren’t.

The President is issuing dangerous statements.

Or just a bump in the road?

Another grim milestone

Next thing you know, they’ll tell us to eat vegetables.

The President is learning more about the Constitution every day.

The bad news keeps on coming.

Global vaccination programs have halted amid the pandemic.

People who keep calling Covid-19 “just the flu” haven’t looked very closely at the numbers.

A well-intentioned idea that may be out of hand.

A disgraced governor is signing a wave of progressive legislation

Trump’s performance during this crisis is a reminder that electing an amateur to the presidency is a really bad idea.

The pandemic is massively more livable given modern technology.

Not to encourage people to skip the longer version, but here’s a key point.

Critics of the modeling and of the data analysis are being too simplistic.

Gatherings involve risk at the moment.

Rand Paul still doesn’t get it.

A grim milestone.

Sanders supporters need to get on the bus.

It would be laughable, but the White House might be interested.

A startling statistic.

A great songwriter is gone at 73.

The disease has killed three times the September 11 attacks in the last week.

The state is voting during the high point of a global pandemic because Republicans forced it.

Thomas Modly, the acting Secretary of the Navy, has embarrassed himself and must go.

The British PM is very sick from COVID-19.

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

Some internal cracks in terms of continuing?

Social distancing is helping but too many aren’t taking it seriously enough.

A public health crisis turns into a public relations crisis.

It’s not greedy hoarders after all.

Leadership matters (as does sources of news).

President Trump has made plenty of mistakes handling this crisis. Let’s not invent dubious ones.

Orban has used Covid-19 to kill whatever vestiges of democracy remained.

Conflicting guidelines from the CDC are unhelpful.

We’re passing grim milestones on a daily basis.

Political considerations overruled warnings from national security and health professionals.

Ego trumps all?

The 1990s country star is dead at 61.

The update you were probably expecting.

He is actually tweeting about ratings.

Comparing South Korea to the US tells a lot about the failure of leadership in the US.

Exactly the opposite of what we need in a crisis.

Everything is easier with money.