The crowd uniquely at least twice audibly recoiled at Bloomberg statements

He's not going anywhere.

Joe Biden can't close

Reeled off three points no one will remember.

He couldn't remember 'em either, had 'em written down.

Klobuchar's top selling point is normalcy

Only works anymore in places like Minnesota.

Bernie's not a vanguard communist

He's a bottom up, proletariat uprising communist.

But there aren't enough of them in Trump's America, which is why he'd lose.

There it is again: Pocahonky say "I grew up fighting"

Trail of tears.

Benito Bloomberg gonna make the trains run on time

Pocahonky on warpath against everybody on stage

Trail of tears.

Bloomie havin' a hard time remembering to criticize Trump's tax cuts, not Obama's

Obama made the Bush tax cuts permanent.

Joe Biden is loudly for tariff punishment of China for burning coal

He's a Democrat Trump.

Democrats forced Obamacare on the country and Pocahonky says Americans are suffering

How would any of these people do anything different?

Democrats are supposed to be about choice, but are not.

Vegas Debate: Buttplug's got a point

Bloomie's no Democrat, and neither is Sanders.

Bernie Sanders says military socialism is bad socialism, social socialism is good socialism, doesn't get it that most military spending is on PEOPLE

The Defense Department knows it needs to become more efficient. It now spends a third of its budget on personnel and maintenance. That will rise to 100% by 2024, thanks to retirement and medical costs. 

More. 

The nuclear family is communist and the US military is socialist, and yet they call it capitalism.

Communist Bernie Sanders won't stop at seizing the utilities, he'd also seize the banks

Mayor Buttplug doesn't care if private health insurance companies serving 150 million Americans fail

China didn't restrict travel soon enough: Between Jan 10-24 trips by rail jumped 17.2% year over year

There were already seven cases of untreatable viral pneumonia on Dec 30, 2019 at the Wuhan Central Hospital, according to now deceased Dr. Li Wenliang.

By Jan 23, 2020 830 confirmed cases and an unknown number of clinically diagnosable cases had piled up, at which time Wuhan in Hubei province was locked down.

Much too late.

From the CNBC update:

China’s railway operator said 210 million trips were taken in the 40 days of the Lunar New Year travel period from Jan. 10 to Feb. 18, state news agency Xinhua reported. That number marked a 48% decline from last year.

During roughly the first two weeks of the travel period, through Jan. 24 (Lunar New Year eve), 168 million trips were taken, an increase of 17.2% from the corresponding holiday travel season last year, the report said. For the remainder of the time period, rail trips fell 83.9%, the article said. The report noted the number of average daily trips during the latter period fell to 1.7 million from 11.2 million. — Cheng

Diamond Princess cruise ship coronavirus infections jump to 621

The infection rate for the 3,711 passengers and crew therefore jumps to 16.7%.

China says 74,185 coronavirus infections, 2,004 deaths, fatality rate jumps again

Fatality rate jumps to 2.7%.

Rush Limbaugh today sees an idiot in the Mini Mike Mirror and backs away thinking "Yeah, I'm pretty dumb and look at all the money I've got!"

Here:

I just don’t think he’s very bright, and I know that cuts against the grain so strongly because most people say, “My gosh, Rush, he’s got more money than you, more money than we got. He can’t be dumb and have that happen.” Ehhh. I think there’s a lot of these rich people, folks, that when it comes to flat-out common sense are just idiots.

Absence of non-East Asian coronavirus fatalities so far makes some wonder if there ever will be any

Time will tell.

There are considerations other than genetic racial predisposition or vulnerability to infection, however.

As the Chinese are now reporting, the coronavirus infection affects older men much more than women. In the initial phase of infection in Wuhan, for example, 68% of patients were men. Strikingly, as recently as 2015, 68% of Chinese men were said to smoke cigarettes, making them predisposed to infection because of impaired lung health.

Still, no death so far has involved someone without East Asian ancestry, which may indicate, as with the SARS coronavirus epidemic in 2002-2004, that fear of a global pandemic resulting in millions of deaths may not be reasonable and that this may remain an East Asian epidemic. It could be that just as sub-Saharan Africa is responsible for 80% of genetic sickle cell disease China may be prone to respiratory disease for some as yet unknown genetic reason.

China liberalized case counts to include clinical diagnoses recently, so the death rate is already much lower

And on top of current skepticism about current data, we still don't know how many cases, or deaths, may not have been counted in the early period of the outbreak.

And we probably never will know.

There were 999 confirmed cases outside China as of this morning. That's what we'll have to watch.