Ep. 128 – Stubborn Inefficiency | COVID-19 Stimulus & The White House Response

The Jay Doherty Podcast · Episode 128 · March 24, 2020

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TODAY ON THE JAY DOHERTY PODCAST:

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The COVID-19 Senate Stimulus Package

Coronavirus continues to disrupt the usually sublime functions of Earth. Thousands of businesses have closed their doors for business, tens of thousands everyday Americans have been laid off, and stock markets around the world continue to drop considerably. As Washington tries to fix the problems with Stimulus packages and purported bipartisanship, millions of Americans are struggling as a result of COVID-19. So, what should (or could) the two parties put first; efficiency in the hope of helping every affected American… or viability in the hope of pushing their respective agendas? Where does the line get drawn between the 1% brawling on Capitol Hill and the 99% of everyday Americans who are losing their jobs?

The Latest COVID-19 White House Response

Also, President Trump’s conduct so far has been particularly absurd, and we’re not even halfway through the week. What is Trump doing, how is he handling Coronavirus, and how will all of this pressure affect his position in the 2020 Presidential race?

We’ll answer all of that and more on episode 128 of The Jay Doherty Podcast.

NOTE: Lots of information has changed since the recording of this audio!

SHOW NOTES:

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COVID-19 Coronavirus

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO STAY INSIDE AND TO NOT SPREAD THE VIRUS!

Also, a compelling case to wash your hands can be found in The Atlantic here. 

NUMBERS UPDATE

• Johns Hopkins Map 
• America now has the third most cases in the world, majority in NYC (6th para)
• In Italy, COVID-19 is killing more men than women

THE CAUSE OF — AND SOLUTION TO…

The source of the problem continues to be the problem in many ways… but they have also maintained their halfway gotten-back-together act in some ways as well. 

In an article published in The Federalist yesterday, which I know happens to be incredibly biased to the right, Helen Raleigh, who writes as a Senior Contributor — and also happens to be a Chinese immigrant — shed light on a greatly unspoken timeline by going through how and when China knew about this virus in the fall of last year but when Chinese doctors went to inform their own government about what they’d found, a SARS-like virus, they were reprimanded by Wuhan police for “spreading rumors”. (4th Paragraph)

There are lots of articles that give this timeline; I just thought the subjectivity that Helen Raleigh provided as a Chinese immigrant was unique… and most of the data reporting came from The South China Morning Post. 

Moving along in the more recent (but still distant) days of the beginning of this virus, China actually acknowledged its existence internally as being something that may have spread from a fish market, as descri