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May 30, 2020

I always love reading His Rudeness.

His level of outrage mirrors my own.

May 30, 2020

You're welcome.

This was an incredibly jarring day. There were no stats all day. The mess in Minneapolis has preempted even the coronavirus.

No data all day.

May 30, 2020

Yep!

May 30, 2020

LOVE this!

He is the epitome of ugly. In every way, literally and figuratively.

May 29, 2020

There go the waterworks...

sniff - Goldie -

May 29, 2020

And don't forget the LYING. The LYING!

The damn detestable galling LYING! ALL THE FUCKING TIME!

How do you know trump is lying? His lips are moving.

Hell, when is he NOT lying???

May 29, 2020

Totally. TOTALLY!

May 29, 2020

Welcome to DU, musclecar6.

I'm glad he spoke up! Only problem with what Don Lemon said was that it took so long to say it. For ANYONE to say it, in public, on the record, on a mainstream media camera and mic.

May 29, 2020

The Daily Dread - Tracking the spread, 5/29/20 - Broken Minneapolis Day {:(

The news is dominated by the Nightmare in Minneapolis.

So I will list the last sets of data from yesterday/last night:

At 2:13pm
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,712,675
Deaths worldwide - 356,740
Confirmed cases US - 1,720,455
Deaths US - 101,523


I didn't see anything new til 8:03pm, and only the domestic figures.
Confirmed cases US -1,726,174
Deaths US - 101,961

The only data I've seen for today was earlier this morning when my husband had CNN on - and they were still running the COVID data graphic on right. That CNN data does not directly match the NBC News data that runs on MSNBC, even while both data sources cite Johns Hopkins as the medical source. CNN cites only Johns Hopkins University as its source. MSNBC's is Johns Hopkins/NBC News.

At 7:43am, Pacific time this morning, CNN showed the following:
Total cases globally - 5,844,499
Deaths - 361,119
Total cases in the United States - 1,722,419
Deaths - 101,622

That's THIS MORNING, shortly before 8am. In CNN's numbers, you can certainly see the trends are the same. The exact count is slightly different. THIS MORNING, for example, CNN's domestic death figures aren't where the last MSNBC figures were, last night - 101,961 (MSNBC, 8:03pm last night). CNN's this morning (101,622) don't match. They aren't even to last night's MSNBC level yet. But I note the differences that do indicate the same things: upward motion, and degree of upward motion. That's what led me to say, earlier this week, that we wouldn't hit the 100-thousand death mark til sometime Tuesday, NOT Monday, as some on the air were saying. The rate of increase throughout the day strongly suggested we shouldn't expect the rate of increase overnight to jump, as significantly as it would need to, to get to 100-thousand.

I don't have enough info to explain the MSNBC/CNN discrepancy fully, or what difference it makes when you factor in NBC News with the Johns Hopkins info - an attribution CNN obviously does not have. I don't know what additional research or input NBC News brings to the overall picture. And I don't know how it's factored in on the MSNBC numbers.

Just making at least that much clear.

I happen to prefer the MSNBC coverage. Could be bias on my part because I used to work at NBC. But I've watched NBC News coverage of all kinds of events since the Kennedy assassination and state funeral in November 1963 with Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Frank McGee and Sander Vanocur. My parents liked that channel, so that's what they had on the TV. I grew up with Huntley/Brinkley anchoring the network news at dinnertime. We watched while eating dinner in front of it, every evening. It was a nightly ritual.

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About calimary

Female. Retired. Wife-Mom-Grandma. Approx. 30 years in broadcasting, at least 20 of those in news biz. Taurus. Loves chocolate - preferably without nuts or cocoanut. Animal lover. Rock-hound from pre-school age. Proud Democrat for life. Ardent environmentalist and pro-choicer. Hoping to use my skills set for the greater good. Still married to the same guy for 40+ years. Probably because he's a proud Democrat, too. Penmanship absolutely stinks, so I'm glad I'm a fast typist! I will always love Hillary and she will always be my President.
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