After it was widely reported that Tom Hanks and his wife were able to simply walk into a clinic in Australia with the symptoms of a common cold and instantly get a coronavirus test - which was positive - Americans are beginning to ask out loud, "Why can't we get tested?"

According to President Obama's Ebola Czar (last night on Rachel Maddow's show), Ron Klain, Trump "privatized" the testing here in the United States. Instead of taking the World Health Organization test kits which are cheap and widely available all over the planet, and having them distributed across the country back in December, or January, or February when we knew this disease was spreading in the United States, Klain said that Trump has outsourced the testing to two big American companies, Quest and Labcorp.

Trump's head of HHS, Alex Azar, is the guy who doubled the price of insulin when he was CEO of Eli Lily company. Do he and Trump owns stock in these testing companies? Why are we refusing to accept the WHO test that the entire rest of the world is using? What the hell is going on here?

Plus - I'm asking today - Is this the official end of the Trump presidency?

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Tom Hanks Says He Has Coronavirus" by Nicole Sperling.

Article: "State announces 4 new presumptive positive COVID-19 cases" by Oregon Health Authority.

Video: Trump dissembling, mixed messages hurt U.S. coronavirus response.

Article: "South Korea is using fast food-style drive-thrus to test for coronavirus" by Sophie Lewis.

Article: "The Coronavirus May Linger On Plastic And Stainless Steel For Days, A Preliminary Study Found" by Stephanie M. Lee.

Article: "Can you catch the coronavirus from handling cash?" by Megan Cerullo.

Article: "HHS Secretary Alex Azar Once Doubled The Price of Insulin" by Alexandra Hutzler.

Article: "Why did Donald Trump exclude the UK from his coronavirus travel ban?" By Patrick Wintour.

Article: "Trump's coronavirus travel ban excludes the countries where he has golf courses struggling for business" by John Haltiwanger.

Article: "Chinese restaurant chain in California kicking out diners with fever amid coronavirus crisis" by Lee Brown.

Article: "Trump's Coronavirus Speech Fails to Unify or Reassure a Nation on Edge" by Peter Baker.

Article: "Trump says "the markets are gonna be just fine" as markets tank" by CBS News.

Article: "Hospitals could be overwhelmed with patients and run out of beds and ventilators as the coronavirus pushes the US healthcare system to its limits" by Lydia Ramsey.

Article: "Congressional doctor expects up to 150 million Americans to contract the coronavirus" by Bryan Dyne.

Article: "Stock market plunge deepens, S&P 500 enters bear market, as coronavirus' threat to the economy escalates" by Jessica Menton and Nathan Bomey.

Article: "Extracting the truth" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Trump Has Sabotaged America's Coronavirus Response" by Laurie Garrett.

Article: "Trump keeps coronavirus plans vague - and sends Mnuchin to meet Pelosi" by Heather Caygle, Andrew Desiderio, John Bresnahan.

Article: "The entire country of Norway is 'shutting down'" by Jeva Lange.

Article: "Ireland, Denmark join list of European nations in coronavirus lockdown" by Lee Brown.

Article: "Basic reproduction number" (R₀) (COVID-19 1.4-3.9) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democratic debate moving to DC from Phoenix amid coronavirus concerns" by Jonathan Easley, Tal Axelrod.

Video: Lab companies Quest and CPL face lawsuits in Ireland over missed cervical cancer diagnoses.

Article: "Cleaning and Sanitizing with Bleach after an Emergency" by CDC.

Article: "Coronavirus funding held up by GOP because of 'abortion' - and people are furious: 'Saving fetuses over actual lives'" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter" by David Freedlander.

Video: What the 'polarized era' means for 2020 (Rachel Bitecofer).

Article: "America is an oligarchy, not a democracy or republic, university study finds" by Cheryl K. Chumley.

Article: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page.

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Article: "Declaration of Independence".

Article: "Trump will "look at" slashing entitlement spending despite years of promises to do the opposite" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "President Trump releases 2021 budget proposal, calls for cuts to social safety net programs" by Jordyn Phelps.

Article: "Kansas City's Mayor Was Turned Away When He Tried to Vote" by Matt Stevens.

Site: Department of Energy Coronavirus Hub. "The Trump Administration has taken action to aggressively prepare for any coronavirus development, including requesting new funding and authorities from Congress. Because of the decisive action taken early on by President Trump, the risk of infection for Americans remains low and precious time has been gained to implement a whole-of-government response."

Site: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak.

Article: "California's prisons suspend visits over coronavirus fears" by KSEE.

Article: "Penn State Cancels On-Campus Classes For 2 Weeks Over Coronavirus" by Justin Heinze.

Article: "Hawaii Capitol's Public Access Room closes due to connection to Hawaii's second confirmed coronavirus case" by Kevin Dayton and Kristen Consillio.

Article: "White House Bans CNN Reporter Who Asked Trump About Cohen And Putin" by Carla Herreria Russo.

Article: "Trump dismisses coronavirus question from CNN's Jim Acosta as 'fake news'" by Andrew Mark Miller.

Article: "Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden proposes nationwide vote-by-mail in response to coronavirus" by Lizzy Acker.

Article: "Democrats introduce bill to guarantee paid sick leave in response to coronavirus" by Cristina Marcos.

Article: "Republicans are opposing paid sick leave and holding up free coronavirus testing over abortion" by Laura Clawson.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "New Apple iPhone could be delayed by 'months' due to coronavirus" by Charlie Osborne.

Article: "What Is a Bull Market?" by Motley Fool.

Article: "What Is a Bear Market?" by Anne Sraders.

Article: "World stocks plunge into bear market on U.S. travel curbs, ECB move" by Rodrigo Campos.

Article: "Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA" by Alison P Galvani, Alyssa S Parpia, Eric M Foster, Burton H Singer, Meagan C Fitzpatrick.

Video: "Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem".

Article: "Pentagon Silent On Coronavirus Test Kits At Overseas Military Bases" by Molly Redden.

Article: "Trump fears emergency declaration would contradict coronavirus message" by Anita Kumar.

Article: "Ex parte Milligan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Read Bernie Sanders's Full Speech About Staying in the Race" by Isabella Grullón Paz.

Article: "Sanders and Biden to Face Off in Debate on Sunday, Amid a Winnowing Primary and COVID-19. Here's What to Know" by Madeleine Carlisle.

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