233: Digging In

The election was decided this past weekend. The next few weeks should be a doozy as the Trump team is digging their heels in and not going lightly. It’s the first time I’ve seen any team or person refuse to accept an outcome. Interestingly, Hilary Clinton called this out in 2016 that this exact scenario would happen:

Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D @farooqkperogi

Hilary Clinton was right on the money. This was from the 2016 debates. Every Republican primary election Trump lost was "rigged" against him. When he thought he lost the 2016 general election, he said it was rigged against him until he squeaked a win through the Electoral College

It’s good to see media outlets not taking Trump’s bait. Just yesterday Fox cut away from Trump’s team’s press announcement as they said there was no evidence for their claims and until there is, they can’t continue to show it.

The Recount @therecount

@AshleyRParker @PressSec Watch Fox News cut away from Press Sec. McEnany:

It’s great to see the media finally coming around to thinking before airing every thing that gets thrown against the wall.

How crazy would it be if Trump waited all the way until January and until he literally gets kicked out by the military? Oooff - that can’t be good for America.

Vaccine Alert

Nine months into the pandemic, we have some game-changing vaccine news. Pfizer announced early results from its coronavirus trial, which suggests that their vaccine is over 90 percent effective and with no serious safety concerns.

This is the first significant sign that a coronavirus vaccine could actually work. There have only been hints up till now.

Of course, the technology behind the vaccine, which requires two doses, has not previously ever been approved for use in humans but those are small details.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta @drsanjaygupta

I want to take a moment to explain the big vaccine news today. #Pfizer is reporting early data showing their vaccine is “more than 90%” effective in preventing COVID-19. I spoke with #Pfizer’s CEO @AlbertBourla today, as the news broke early this morning (1/10)

As a result stocks are reacting: Zoom is way down and travel stocks are way up. Seems like people think the end of the pandemic is near:

Scott Galloway @profgalloway

Stocks today: Carnival Cruises: +39% Royal Caribbean: +29% Wynn Resorts: +28% Expedia: +25% TripAdvisor: +22% Marriott: +14%

Other Stuff

There are now Twitter accounts for the First Dogs and surprisingly good content considering they’re dogs:

Champ & Major Biden 🐶 @FirstFamilyDogs

Woof! Woof! Paws for a second & read this tweet🐶 My name is Champ, I was named after something Grandpa used to tell Dad. He used to tell him, “Champ, when you get knocked down, you get back up." Anything is pawsible & now Dad is the 46th President of the United States.

This is just a bonkers amount of COVID deaths:

Keri Blakinger @keribla

At one Texas prison nearly 6% OF THE POPULATION has died of COVID-19. Not 6% of the covid patients died, but 6% of the entire prison population. That's according to a fabulous new report out today. Here's a thread w/some other 🤯 data: repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/hand…

Felipe Tristan @felipetristan

NYC Prima Ballerina with Alzheimer’s listens to Swan Lake and it all comes back ✨ The most beautiful video you’ll see today! 🎵❤️🩰⠀ ⠀ Spaniard ballerina Marta C. Gonzalez Valencia 2019 - Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky @nycballet⠀ ⠀ #primaballerina #alzheimers #nycballet

Rex Chapman🏇🏼 @RexChapman

Obstacle course skills...

Corona

23 states set new highs last week for coronavirus infections recorded in a single day. 15 states surpassed records from the previous week. ICU capacity has not yet been reached but it’s getting there.

That’s it everyone. Cases are on the way up so stay home.

Only 64 more days to go