His initial instinct (before the nasty media got to work) was that this wouldn’t be that big of a threat or that deadly. That will be borne out when all is said and done. |
Not exactly PPE, is it? |
So what? Different rules for your Dear Leader? |
PP is right, and Trump hasn't done shit to wean us from reliance on China. You'd think for propaganda purposes alone he could get his MAGA/KAG hates made in the USA. Basically he is like a doctor that diagnoses a heart condition accurately, and then decides it's time to cut off the foot without anesthesia or any means of attempting to staunch the bleeding. My favorites are the Bernie Bros holding out for Medicare for All. Like that'll pass muster from SCOTUS the moment a Republican gets in office. We've become a Presidential dictatorship which might be a bit better than a SCOTUS dictatorship. Yeah I'm supporting Bernie, because he has the best diagnosis and the cure, but I'd rather keep the patient on moprhine and an iron lung like Biden is essentially proposing. |
Right, so he has an excuse that if it doesn't kill 100,000 people, it's the nasty media's fault for crashing the economy. And of course he would have been right along even though he changed his mind. |
He changed his mind because he was no longer just responding to the actual threat of the virus, but a media phenomenon that had taken hold in the minds of the populace. Different type of problem and different threat posed. |
He only did a limited scope of travel ban and NOTHING else. It does make you wonder what his true motive or his limited understanding of a pandemic was. Why didn't he do anything else such as testing, testing and preparing for medical supplies? Italy did a much stronger travel ban three days before Trump's. It did absolutely nothing. Trump should stop bragging about the travel ban when we are having the worst outcome of all countries. |
| Without widespread testing and information sharing we are certainly undercounting. For instance, in NYC around 20-25 people die at home per day on average. That number is now over 200 dying at home every single day and they are not being reported as Covid19 deaths because they don’t have the capacity to test (combination of test availability and the ME just being plain overwhelmed) |
Just more excuses and failed promises. He was going to fix Washington. Instead Washington turned him into a quivering mass of jello. Not that he wasn't before, but his failure is particularly noticeable now. We needed decisive action. Instead we get, "But the media..." |
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The curve is not really flattening as the testing has plateaued. Today we passed 500,000 cases. We added another 32,000 new cases, and 1,975 new deaths. The testing was up less than 150k from yesterday. We are still testing at 20% positive rate.
USA 501,272 +32,706 18,666 +1,975 (Last updated: April 10, 2020, 23:14 GMT) |
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The US now has the most Covid deaths of any country in the world, and we are not close to being done.
This is the defining legacy of the Trump Administration. Just as "Silence = Death" during the AIDS crisis of the Reagan era, "Incompetence=Death" during the Trump Administration. To be sure, Trump will be remembered for other aspects of his stupidity and venality (the Ukraine mess, the overwhelming crassness of his children and relatives, and the sexual assaults and boorishness that preceded his election), but the botched reaction to the Covid-19 crisis leaves those misdeeds in the dust. Future generations will ask how Americans could have lost their minds and voted such a man into office, just as Germans had to explain how they allowed Hitler to rise to power. |
I got emotional after seeing these. Think of the number of families that lost their loved ones in one day... and the people who might be fighting for life in ER... |
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Let's understand how stark the lies from this administration are.
March 10: VP Pence promises total of 5 million tests by end of that week. https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article241059031.html April 9: Trump boasts that 2 million tests have been completed: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/testing-backlog-coronavirus-quest-invs/index.html We are not testing enough, and now, Trump wants to end federal testing. He is literally putting the lives of EVERY American at stake. |
I almost feel bad for Ivanka and Jared's kids, who will have to live with the same and infamy for their entire lives. |