Coronavirus updates from Detroit, Michigan

Update: This list has been updated, See here!

Original story follows:

Latest numbers and break down from WXYZ TV:

Total
number of cases: 65

Confirmed
cases by county:

Bay – 1

Charlevoix – 1

Detroit – 8

Ingham – 2

Jackson – 1

Kent – 5

Leelanau – 1

Macomb – 8

Monroe – 1

Montcalm – 1

Oakland – 16

Otsego – 1

Ottawa – 1

St. Clair – 2

Washtenaw – 7

Wayne – 9

Our wonderful, but stupid, Governor, unleashes her inner Fascism fetish:

(WXYZ) — Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed a new Executive Order reducing the number of people allowed at assemblages and events.
The new Executive Order reduces the allowable number to 50. A previous Executive Order had reduced it to 250.
It comes on the heels of new guidance from the CDC and will go into effect Tuesday, March 17 at 9:00 a.m. and will remain in effect until April 5 at 5:00 p.m.
The order provides an exception from its prohibition on assemblages for health care facilities, workplaces not open to the public, the state legislature, mass transit, the purchase of groceries or consumer goods, and the performance of agricultural or construction work.
“My number one priority remains to protect the most people we can from the spread of coronavirus,” said Governor Whitmer in a news release. “We are all better off when all of us are healthy, and that’s especially true for the most vulnerable. These aggressive actions are aimed at saving lives. My administration will continue to do everything we can to mitigate the spread of the disease and ensure our children, families, and businesses have the support they need during these challenging times. We are going to pull through this together, just as Michigan has done in the past.”

Michigan has done it in the past. However, we did not have some fascist Governor telling people not to gather, you bitch.

New York Times does a possible hit piece on Trump

I am referring to this here by the NYT:

WASHINGTON — For weeks, President Trump has minimized the coronavirus, mocked concern about it and treated the risk cavalierly. On Tuesday he took to the White House podium and made a remarkable pronouncement: He knew it was a pandemic all along.
“I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters.
Here is what Mr. Trump actually said from the beginning of the pandemic.
Jan. 22, asked on CNBC whether he was concerned about a global pandemic: “No, not at all,’’ Mr. Trump said. “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
Feb. 26, at a White House news conference, about the number of reported cases of the virus: “We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.”
Feb. 27, at a White House meeting: “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”
March 7, seated next to President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil at Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach, Fla., club: “I’m not concerned at all.” (At least three members of the Brazilian delegation and one Trump donor at Mar-a-Lago on March 7 later tested positive for the virus.)
March 16, in the White House briefing room, warning that the outbreak would last until summer and then suddenly disappear: “So it could be right in that period of time where it, I say, wash — it washes through. Other people don’t like that term. But where it washes through.”

Now, I don’t know if the Times realizes this or not. But, it would be that President Trump did not realize how bad this virus was, until his staff informed him, of how bad the virus was and was getting in the United States. It sounds like a hit piece to me and that the NYT is simply trying to dig at the President.

But, then again, when you are dealing with a socialist paper, owned by a Mexican Millionaire, one can only expect so much. Sarcastic smile Thinking smile

Time to dust off the keys and get busy

As you all might have well noticed, I have not been writing very much at all. Well, the time has come to stop being lazy and get back to blogging. With all the serious stuff, related to this Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), I feel it is time to write and offer sane commentary on it.

So, here we go.

I WAS RIGHT! Chris Matthews Announces retirement

Man, I am good or what?

The video:

The Story via NBC News:

Chris Matthews, one of the longest-tenured voices at MSNBC, announced his retirement during Monday’s night’s airing of his talk show, “Hardball.”
Matthews, 74, said he and MSNBC had mutually agreed to part ways. The decision followed a series of events that resulted in criticism of the host’s statements about Bernie Sanders, African-American lawmakers, and comments he had made to female journalists and coworkers.
“I’m retiring,” Matthews said. “This is the last ‘Hardball’ on MSNBC.”
Matthews was due to retire in the near future with the events of the past week playing a factor in the timing of the move, an MSNBC spokesperson said.
After MSNBC aired a commercial following the announcement, Matthews did not return to the program. Steve Kornacki, a political reporter for the network, took over the rest of the hour, and seemed shocked by the news. “That was a lot to take in,” he said, saying it had been an honor to work with Matthews, and then beginning a discussion about the coronavirus response.

Sad way to go, But, times have changed.

(Via Memeorandum)