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Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz: TV dolts adding to the problems with having a TV president

 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story: After Fauci urged caution in reopening the economy, Fox News turned to Dr. Phil for a second opinion]

The most dangerous place in the country at the present moment isn’t a nursing home but rather the space between ‘Dr. Phil’ and any running television camera.

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The fully corrupt reason live TV wrestling is deemed ‘essential’ in Florida

 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story: Linda McMahon’s Trump Ties Under Scrutiny As WWE Is Deemed Essential In Florida]

When I heard that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had declared WWE to be an essential business I immediately figured that Vince and/or Linda McMahon had worked a corrupt end-around. Sure enough, they did.

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Michigan physician assistant helping out in NYC writes righteous response to Lansing protesters

 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

Michigan physician assistant voluntarily deployed to NYC pens righteously pissed off response to the idiot protesters in her home state. Seriously, read her:

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The vulnerability of nursing home residents in this crisis was so clearly foreseeable

 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story: Lack Of Testing Obscures True Scale Of Coronavirus Impact On NY Nursing Homes]

The 2,200 nursing home COVID-19-related deaths (in NYS — 1,344 in NYC) include only those who have tested positive. But nursing home operators say they don’t have testing capabilities, so that 2,200 figure only accounts for the residents who were moved to hospitals. If you die at the nursing home, which is evidently happening in big numbers, your cause of death isn’t COVID-19, at least until a medical examiner or funeral director can get to you, which isn’t happening anytime soon, with deaths bottlenecking.

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As Trump abdicates leadership role, California, Oregon, and Washington band together

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this announcement: California, Oregon & Washington Announce Western States Pact]

Very basically, federalism is the idea that states have the right to govern themselves but that certain areas of governance are better left to the federal government, such as threats to the nation as a whole such as, oh, say, a pandemic.

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Fauci is doing more harm than good as long as Trump only uses him for cover

 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story: Trump retweets call to fire Anthony Fauci after the coronavirus expert says earlier measures ‘could have saved lives’]

A lot of people are crossing their fingers, hoping that Trump doesn’t fire Anthony Fauci, which now seems like a real possibility after Fauci had the gall to state the obvious, that had the administration responded earlier lives would’ve been saved. Common sense to most, verboten in the bunker.

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i-Betty: Boris Johnson is home, a hamster falls in love with itself, and here’s a bumblebee

 
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is out of hospital and appeared on video in a suit and tie less than two hours after leaving St Thomas’ hospital in London, the impression given that he is keen to get back to overseeing the country’s coronavirus response as soon as possible. He said he has no doubts whatsoever that the NHS (our National Health Service) saved his life, so he was clearly very sick indeed. After spending a week in hospital, including three days in intensive care, BoJo will recuperate at his country retreat at Chequers (weekend home of all UK PMs, just like Camp David in the US, but with more chimneys), where he will be joined by his pregnant fiancée, Carrie Symonds, who had herself been suffering coronavirus symptoms.

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Nurses in garbage bags, and no federal plan on testing: The nightmare continues

 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story: How Did the U.S. End Up with Nurses Wearing Garbage Bags?]

This goes deep into the whys and hows of the federal failure to assume a leadership, or practically any role on getting hospital workers the PPE equipment they needed for their own protection.

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Social isolation across the pond, with ducklings and the pajama lifestyle

 
Today I learned that COVID-19 stands for COronaVIrus Disease 2019. Who knew? Probably all of you.

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Trump is demonizing mail-in voting to get ahead of November

 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

Trump is clearly signaling that he’d like November to look like yesterday’s disgraceful election in Wisconsin, which saw huge drop-offs in turnout as more people chose not to brave a pandemic.

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