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They will be able to purchase supplies as a group, which is a boon to smaller states like Oregon, Delaware and Rhode Island. Also they can co-ordinate reopening schools, businesses, etc. Aside from the purchasing, it's probably going to be more of a long range planning group than anything else.

 

386 new cases in Singapore yesterday, third wave seems to be in full effect. Government has announced spot fines for people leaving their homes without a mask -- $300 for first offense, $1,000 for the second, then (presumably) prosecution. It's quite the juxtaposition, seeing Western reports lauding Singapore for its exemplary response while simultaneously hearing so many sphincters puckering on the home front.
COVID-19: Compulsory to wear mask when leaving the house, says Lawrence Wong

 

We were having this academic discussion the other day and try as we might, we couldn't come up with anyone worse in the history of the country. We dove deep into plantation owners, child predators, Nazis, the whole shebang but there is no one who can match Trump's destructive narcissism.

 

What it could also lead to is the banning of flights from non-consortium states. Flying in from NY? Welcome! Flying in from Ft. Lauderdale? Here's your forced quarantine hotel room.

 

The only thing Newsom did wrong in announcing it yesterday was not naming it "The Western Confederate States of America."

 

It’s the best news I’ve heard in a long time. Clear actions. And it has to be done as a coalition because of the population density. Acting as individual states won’t work.

It’s the type of common sense, doing what’s best for people, that we’ve lacked for 3.5 years at the federal level.

 

I can only speak for me, but it sure seems like, in my state of Alabama, the governor is in charge (except for her shadow council, who tells her what to say and when to say it) and what she says will go when it comes to reopening the state. And I trust that God will help us in our hour of need, because she's fucking clueless.

 

While I applaud the consortiums working together, how are they going to keep people from non-participating states from crossing the border and starting a second or third wave of infections?

 

Column: Another day, another coronavirus flip-flop from Trump — the emperor of inconsistency

 

I think geographic isolation helps the Western states a bit. There's so much commercial traffic even now between the Northeast and the rest of the country I don't think it can be prevented.

 

IMF says the world will 'very likely' experience worst recession since the 1930s