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It's a bad morning when Savannah Guthrie has you up against the wall. I lived in NYC for many years. Rode the subway every day. I am not an alarmist. This is serious. Dr. Fauci and Angela Merkel are not 'sensationalizing' this story. What would their or the media's angle be?

Oh, I think they are. Even his denialist base will crack a bit. I also think this above all will end Trump's presidency, if we survive it. It's his Katrina, or the '08 meltdown for McCain.

You can only do for you and your people. Focus on that. And take time doing things you enjoy to get the pressure down, at home, safely.

"Jared Von Frankenstein" made me laugh more than it should.

Contagion, y'all. Watch it. I've urged my very social and active octogenarian parents to stay home.

He has to be stopped.

Another very pointed comment in this article worth reading, AOC defending Warren:

I'm telling my parents to stay in. This is going to get rough.

Lord:

I shouldn’t laugh at these clips from some creepy 4chan Twitter account of the Young Turks live broadcast as Bernie loses, but putting the sad Cowboy Bebop music over it is just inspired.

It is 3:25 AM on Al Gore's Internet and already I am plum tuckered out by all the (mostly) otherwise well-meaning dudes online going, 'huh... I guess a lot of Bernie's 2016 base really was just people hating Hillary due to generations of institutionalized misogyny and conspiracy theory.' No [!@#$%^&*], Steve!! I knew Bernie's base was far weaker than it looked, and I was far from the first or only. Only thing that surprises me a little is just how crippled it truly, clearly is without decades of misogyny and family-taught hatred for a progressive woman to cloak his flaws. I always knew he benefitted greatly, but I didn’t know it was practically a ghost train. He was never my first or even second choice but I think Joe Biden’s a very decent if very flawed man who’s done a lot of good and has a lot of goodwill with the public, more than the online sector likes to recall or frankly was prepared for. I’ve been quietly trying to mention that issue in more ideologically diverse corners of the Internet for months, and the last several weeks have proven this out. I gave Bernie a chance to surprise me and I was willing to embrace a good result if he could bring the heat he promised despite my severe personal misgivings, but he has exposed his weakness far graver than even I anticipated. He can’t be allowed to touch the general. Nor was I that surprised on the big turnaround - I knew if Biden’s segment of the black vote held, he might come back hard and fast. He did. We're done here. Suspension rumors are now flying re: Bernie. I’ll believe it when I see it. He has a choice: He can be the distinguished progressive torchbearer handing off the baton to someone new - which he should’ve done last year for Warren, IMO - or he can become Kucinich. I prefer not to believe he’ll opt for the latter this time.