Belgium's accurate reporting.  What's with these demonstrations? Are they striving for the Darwin Award? Is China a victim or attacker? How can you have a broken test before anything is known? You think Justin Amash can upset the Republican applecart? 

McConnell doesn't want to bail out Blue States. Go ahead, Mitch. See how far that gets you. He also wants to absolve businesses of all responsibility if their workers contract the Coronavirus while on the job. That is total BS!

Colorado has joined the Western Pact. Find out what it is. Businesses, families, and individuals will need to restructure after this pandemic is over. What will that entail?

Word Du Jour: Vaccine 

The conversation really takes off with the discussion of the 7 tips from the Europeans on how to handle the Coronavirus in the future from ProPublica. Society will be changing. Can we handle it? Will there be fewer workers and will Artificial Intelligence and Robotics play a part? A suggestion: Maybe we should elect Robots to Congress. Mitch McConnell says states should file for bankruptcy. Well, as the senator from on of the biggest welfare states, how do you think that will impact Mitch and his re-election? What's this? Medical staffing companies laying off doctors, medical support personnel, and cutting pay? Does comparing the COVID-19 to the Spanish Flu really work? Did Sweden screw up?

Word Du Jour: Pandemic 

Is the U.S. a failed country? Will we ever get enough test kits? Tax breaks? On the good side, corporate volunteers are doing their part. Michael Savage, a conservative radio host, lambasts other members of the conservative movement. Really? Expect the poverty rate to go up. McConnell defends trying to cancel a CDC program to help fight pandemics since 2017. Assisted living homes are coming under fire for coronavirus cases. Is it time to close these facilities down or at least require that they maintain hospital cleanliness/sanitation  standards? 

Word Du Jour: Democracy 

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Zdogg.MD tells us that the healthcare system is collapsing. Trump is playing politics in the distribution and purchasing of medical equipment and safety items. Look what Massachusetts has done. Got Good News and Bad. Does Finland have the right attitude and what formed it? Will the South be the next flareup for the coronavirus? Chances are pretty good.

Good News: What cable channel has quit covering the presidential daily briefings? Did the feds stop funding for testing of the COVID-19? Really? Congresswoman Katie Porter for vice-president? Couldn't do worse. 

Thomas Friedman's editorial about cabinet picks is interesting. Some we agreed with and other were WTF?

Another week filled with total (you fill in the blank). Oooh! The GDP is going down. Half-wit Jared Kushner is in charge of the National Stockpile? Will we have a National Shutdown? The people at the USAID live in an alternate universe and the truth seem to evade them. Get a load of the countries that are receiving coronavirus aid. New York ain't among them. Trump punks us and the price of oil goes up. Are you taking Zantac?

Unemployment hit an all time high. Want to go to church? Ohio, Florida, and Louisiana might be turning Blue this election season. Venture Capitalists and Private Equity firms are jockeying for a piece of the coronavirus bailout. We have a list of states that are in denial. The South is screwed.

Word Du Jour: Pandemic.

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Are we going from a Recession to a Depression? Is our healthcare system finally collapsing under its own weight due to its current business model? Did you go to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans this year? Better get in line for the Coronavirus test because you may have gone home with a "new" friend. How are you getting your groceries? Lyn can help you there. Amazon is raising money through a relief fund for its employees to take sick leave. Say what? Isn't Bezos the richest guy on the planet? Can't he pay for this out of his own pocket? Come on, now.

Good news: Oil is being given away! Tar sands oil is $5.06/bbl. Wyoming Sweet is $3.00/bbl. Oklahoma Sour is $5.75/bbl. Maybe it's time to leave it in the ground. One can hope.

Our government and elected officials at all levels are tell us to not panic and gather around the campfire. Hong Kong is giving its citizens $10,000 each to spur the economy there. Here, a tax cut is being considered for the leisure industry including the airlines. Really? Santelli of CNBC suggests everyone get the Coronavirus to stabilize the markets. Will he have a job come Monday morning? Stay tuned. El Paso County gets its first case of Coronavirus while the city officials, county officials, and the emergency preparedness people are tell us how great a job they're doing. Right.

The McKinsey Report says what businesses should be doing during the Coronavirus situation. Will these suggestions be taken by businesses in your area? Let us know. 

California will not have co-pays for Coronavirus testing. A good thing. What is Rand Paul always a thorn in the side of the Senate?

The Coronavirus (AKA COVID-19) is showing the weaknesses in our medical system from the budget cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health. Let's throw in cuts to the Graduate Medical Education program and you see there has been created a deadly and toxic stew with a helping of incompetence and downright stupidity.

Postal workers being fired for injuries sustained on the job. Where's the EEOC when you need them? HHS workers unprepared to handle the Coronavirus? Are the aircraft (Civilian/Military) that carried people with the Coronavirus to the U.S., were they decontaminated after their flights or put into service? Do we have the "Katrina Virus"? 

What is AMAC? 

Good News: Pikes Peak Library District. Rank Choice Voting. Marine Corps.

Word Du Jour: Democratic Socialism. 

Two headlines today: 1) Lyn's eyewitness account of the Trump rally and Trump supporters wanted to know how Lyn's 401K is doing. 2) A passionate discussion of the changes coming for retirees, their dependents, and active military to the Military Medical system. Who's benefit are the changes really for? The readiness of our armed forces? The headlong rush to privatize the military medical system? Or are the lobbyists finally getting their way to help the bottom line of the companies they represent? 

Secretary of State Pompeo is upset that our European allies didn't welcome him with a opens arms greeting. Can you blame them? 

Private equity firms are burrowing further into the medical support fields. This can't be good for the consumer. Profits come first with these vultures, not your well being.

Two Good News stories in this segment.

Word Du Jour: Snow Flake

Jillian Freeland, candidate for Colorado Congressional District 5 in a spirited Q&A session. No holes barred here. No canned talking points. Right from the heart stuff. Her personality and warmth come through. See knows the existing congressman better than he does and she points out why she's the better candidate. She talks to you and doesn't duck and weave.

We also get her take on Military medical and what is happening to it from her perspective plus what is going on with the VA.