Kamala Harris Knows How to Win Elections Make a sharp shift to the center. The campaign has largely shrunk down from grand ideological issues to two practical problems: How to get rid of Donald Trump. How to beat Covid-19. .................. First, Democratic primary voters decided that beating Trump was more important than the revolution. Second, the pandemic hit. ............ Third, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris decided to run a professional campaign. Instead of trying to please those of us who consume large amounts of media, they have ruthlessly and effectively focused their campaign on the Exhausted Majority — people who are disgusted by and semidetached from politics in working-class homes in the Midwest, in retirement communities in Florida, in suburban cul-de-sacs everywhere. .............. Her first answer on Covid-19 was the most ingenious of the evening, in that it hit Trump from the right. ........... She said that in January, Trump denied self-reliant families the information they needed to keep themselves safe. ............ turned questions about the Supreme Court fight into a conversation about protecting Obamacare. .......... The three supporters she name-checked were Colin Powell, Cindy McCain and John Kasich. ............ When she was asked directly about the Green New Deal, she immediately reminded voters that Joe Biden wouldn’t ban fracking .............. once in office it is nearly impossible to rally support for issues and plans you didn’t take to the American people during the fall
Rest Better With Light Exercises Stretching and meditative movement like yoga before bed can improve the quality of your sleep and the amount you sleep. Here is a short and calming routine of 11 stretches and exercises. ........ a 37 percent increase in the rates of clinical insomnia among adults in China from before the peak of the pandemic. .......... Exercise can reduce the amount of time it takes to fall asleep and the amount of time spent awake at night
Coronavirus: WHO backflips on virus stance by condemning lockdowns stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method” of the coronavirus. ........... “Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer” ........ “The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganise, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.” ............ “Look what’s happened to smallholder farmers all over the world. … Look what’s happening to poverty levels. It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition.” ........... Melbourne’s lockdown has been hailed as one of the strictest and longest in the world. In Spain’s lockdown in March, people weren’t allowed to leave the house unless it was to walk their pet. In China, authorities welded doors shut to stop people from leaving their homes. The WHO thinks these steps were largely unnecessary. ........... lockdowns were doing “irreparable damage.” .......... and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection
The world recorded more than 1 million new cases in the last three days, and India’s total infections passed 7 million. The number of new cases is growing faster than ever. Deaths and hospitalizations in some countries are also beginning to rise. The pandemic has sickened more than 37 million people and more than one million people have died globally .............. Russia on Saturday also set a one-day record of 12,673 new cases. Argentina, which has seen more than 90,000 new cases in the past seven days, is a problem zone in South America, as are Brazil and Colombia. ........... and the Northeast is seeing early signs of a resurgence.
In Nepal, where hospital beds are few, thousands of Covid-19 patients just stay home — until they can’t. Coronavirus infections have surpassed 100,000, about a third of which are currently active. ........ Cases in Nepal are increasing sharply, with a record 5,008 new infections recorded on Saturday. The Health Ministry counts fewer than 400 patients in intensive care, but even that has left I.C.U.s overflowing. Frontline doctors have also been infected, raising fears that health institutions’ staffing will be hollowed out. ............ To avoid system collapse, the government has asked Covid-19 patients to stay in home isolation — with the possibility of imprisonment if they venture outside — and to go to hospitals only if their condition turns critical. Almost 16,000 infected patients are in home isolation .............. But by the time infected people become seriously ill, it may be too late. ................. some patients had died in ambulances while searching for I.C.U. beds, others in home isolation, and still others while waiting for I.C.U. beds in isolation wards. More than 600 people have died in Nepal since the pandemic began, a relatively low death rate but one that is likely to rise since the explosion in cases was so recent. ................. darker days are yet to come.”
Despite derision from Senate Republicans, the White House hasn’t given up trying to make a relief deal.
skeptical Senate Republicans would follow President Trump’s lead if Ms. Pelosi and Steven Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, could reach a deal. ......... “Republicans want to do it — we’re having a hard time with Nancy Pelosi,” Mr. Trump said on Sunday, speaking on Fox News. “We’re ready to go. We’re all ready to go. We can’t get Nancy Pelosi to sign the documents.” It was unclear what documents he was referring to. ............... repurpose funds from the lapsed Paycheck Protection Program as negotiations continued
The Northeast Held the Virus in Check. Now Cases Are Inching Up Again.
The Northeast, devastated by the coronavirus in the spring and held up as a model of infection control by summer, is now seeing early signs of a second wave. ............ and much of the Northeast had successfully tamped down transmission of the virus with physical distancing and masking, as much of Europe had done. “The point is, once you let up on the brake, then eventually, slowly, it comes back” ............. Some 2,800 people are in a hospital in the region, accounting for 8 percent of the hospitalizations nationwide. Those figures are tiny compared with the spring, when tens of thousands of people in the Northeast were hospitalized on any given day, and morgues were running out of body bags. ............. “Places like New York and other states in the Northeast could have more of the classic second wave phenomenon” ............ “Pretty much everybody expects things to get somewhat worse.” .......... The air turned suddenly chilly in the past few weeks ........... the virus seems to have inexplicably spread all around the county. ............. a city that has the largest school district in the country.
