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Trump VS COVID-19 Threat

Colin Woodard on Twitter: "In a crisis, stand by for an important announcement from the president about what really matters: https://t.co/qhwRdnFj9C" / Twitter
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Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "95% Approval Rating in the Republican Party, 53% overall. Not bad considering I get nothing but Fake & Corrupt News, day and night. “Russia, Russia, Russia”, then “the Ukraine Scam (where’s the Whistleblower?)”, the “Impeachment Hoax”, and more, more, more...." / Twitter
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Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "....Also, according to the Daily Caller, leading Sleepy Joe Biden in Florida, 48% to 42%." / Twitter


If schadenfreude were a panacea, we could all go back to work by PZ Myers
Paula White, the venal “spiritual advisor” to Donald Trump, used a prayer meeting to beg for cash, and plugged a big evangelical event that would have “spiritual protections” against the coronavirus. The event has since been cancelled.
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How Fox News has shifted its coronavirus rhetoric - YouTube from denial of it to claiming that they knew about it all along

A day after mocking self-distancing, Trump-supporting 'evangelical' leader closes Liberty University
Well, not exactly, Jerry. Falwell Jr.’s appearance on Fox & Friends was something to watch, including his explanation of how landowners should have more rights than others, and his allegation that the coronavirus alerts being sent out by everyone except Fox News and Donald Trump were a lot of bunk, saying: “It’s just strange to me how people are over-reacting. The H1N1 virus of 2009 killed 17,000 people. it was the flu, also I think. And there was not the same hype. You just didn’t see it on the news 24/7. It makes you wonder if there’s a political reason for that. It’s a, you know, impeachment didn’t work, and the Mueller report didn’t work, and Article 25 didn’t work, so maybe now this is their next attempt to get Trump.” He then spouted a theory that North Korea got “together with China” and created this as a conspiracy to … destroy their own economy?
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Evangelical leader tells Fox News rural voters should run Virginia because they own land
“The Washington D.C. suburbs now control every Virginia statewide election and that’s the result of the radical government in Richmond. And they're passing all kinds of bills that are just contrary to what the majority of Virginians—not the majority of Virginians, but most Virginians as far as land mass, support,” Fallwell Jr. said on Fox News.
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So it's one acre one vote.
 
LOLGOP on Twitter: "Reportedly, Mr. Garrison is furious at Mr. Hat. https://t.co/1EFM1NAgoy" / Twitter
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Vicky Ward on Twitter: "Trump is reportedly furious at Jared Kushner for the White House’s mishandling of the coronavirus crisis.
According to one former West Wing official: “I have never heard so many people inside the White House openly discuss how pissed Trump is at Jared.” https://t.co/SzWs2Eac8c" / Twitter
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“There’s No Boogeyman He Can Attack”: Angry at Kushner, Trump Awakens to the COVID-19 Danger | Vanity Fair - "For weeks, Trump and his son-in-law saw the novel coronavirus mostly as a media and political problem. But the spiraling cases, plunging markets, and a Mar-a-Lago cluster finally opened eyes."
Kushner, according to sources, encouraged Trump to treat the emergency as a P.R. problem when Fauci and others were calling for aggressive action.

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Trump was also said to be angry that Kushner oversold Google’s coronavirus testing website when in fact the tech giant had a fledgling effort.

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“Jared told Trump that Google was doing an entire website that would be up in 72 hours and had 1,100 people working on it 24/7. That’s just a lie,” the source briefed on the internal conversations told me.

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Now that Trump is engaged and the crisis is accelerating—the Dow dropped nearly 3,000 points on Monday—Republicans fear he is operating without a playbook at a time when one is desperately needed.
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No word on what they are doing. Brushing up on FDR and Winston Churchill?
 
Governor of Oregon, Kate Brown: Governor Kate Brown on Twitter: "I am putting in place new social distancing measures for Oregon. ..." / Twitter
I am putting in place new social distancing measures for Oregon. My goals are to decrease the rate of coronavirus transmission in Oregon, preserve hospital capacity for those who need it most, & decrease economic impacts on Oregonians. [THREAD, 1/6]

Effective March 17 for at least 4 weeks: [2/6]

Statewide cancelation of all events and gatherings larger than 25 people—exempting essential locations like workplaces, grocery stores, pharmacies, and retail stores. I urge Oregonians to avoid any gatherings of 10 people or more. [3/6]

Restaurants, bars, and other establishments that offer food or beverages for sale are restricted to carry-out and delivery only, with no on-site consumption permitted. (Food service at hospitals, workplaces and other essential facilities will continue.) [4/6]

I am also urging all other businesses to evaluate your practices to accommodate social distancing measures. As a biz owner, can your business can do the equivalent of restaurant take-out? If you cannot, I strongly urge you to close your doors to customers temporarily. [5/6]

We all know that as a community, we hold each other together in times of need. Working together, we are stronger together. Even if it’s in ways we never thought possible. Thank you. [6/6]
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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio:
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Twitter: "If you're a health care worker, your city needs YOU!
We’re activating the 9,000 members of the Medical Reserve Corps and calling on anyone with medical training to join us. You can help us save lives and protect this city. Head to [url]https://t.co/Xm9uxNnD4w to join this fight. https://t.co/47Yg53OAMD" / Twitter[/url]
 
I heard Malcolm Nance say this morning that the US government has 30,000 respirators in reserve that Bonespurs has yet to release.
 
I wish that the press would stop showing healthy people wearing masks, unless it's to point out that it should not be done. The masks are no good for an uninfected person. Only sick people should be using them.
 
ZiprHead said:
I heard Malcolm Nance say this morning that the US government has 30,000 respirators in reserve that Bonespurs has yet to release.
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If the curve continues in New York, they alone will need 37,000 by the end of April, per Governor Cuomo. They have 3,000.
 
crazyfingers said:
I wish that the press would stop showing healthy people wearing masks, unless it's to point out that it should not be done. The masks are no good for an uninfected person. Only sick people should be using them.
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Then how come healthcare workers desperately need more of them?
 
Treedbear said:
crazyfingers said:
I wish that the press would stop showing healthy people wearing masks, unless it's to point out that it should not be done. The masks are no good for an uninfected person. Only sick people should be using them.
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Then how come healthcare workers desperately need more of them?
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For their intended use, not a trendy misuse.
 
Treedbear said:
Keith&Co. said:
For their intended use, not a trendy misuse.
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Have no idea what that might mean.
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For example, the main point of surgical masks is to keep you from dripping snot, sweat, or spit into a patient. So you don't infect someone in a decidedly weakened state.
If you wear one to grocery store, it's probably not on correctly, it's only going to retain your spit & such for twenty minutes, and doesn't help if you touch someone else's doorknob and then touch your face, like to adjust your mask.
But surgeons need them, and really cannot reuse them.
 
Treedbear said:
crazyfingers said:
I wish that the press would stop showing healthy people wearing masks, unless it's to point out that it should not be done. The masks are no good for an uninfected person. Only sick people should be using them.
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Then how come healthcare workers desperately need more of them?
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surgical masks are for surgeons that still need to perform their services... people haven't stopped needing operations. Healthy people have thousands of kinds of bacteria and non-covid viruses in them... when treating a patient with an open wound, you don't want to accidentally spit your dirty saliva into it... Sick people can use them too to help prevent their infected spittle from escaping. Healthy people are not protected from airborne disease with surgical masks. You would need a sealed respirator with sub-micron filters.. you can get one for about $750.. that $0.30 piece of filter paper on string will do exactly nothing at all for you.

When you see Asian people on TV walking around their city with those masks on, it is not because they are trying to prevent infection from others... Asians wear these masks in their cities because the air is so polluted, they can filter some of the dirt out of the air so they breath less of it.

So, in America... Outside of the most polluted cities, healthy people have no use for those masks.
 
ZiprHead said:
Elizabeth Warren lists certain conditions that must be met before bailout of industry is allowed.

https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1240030852182130695

We’re not writing blank checks to giant corporations. Any taxpayer dollars that go to help big businesses during the coronavirus crisis should come with the following minimum requirements:
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Anyone who agrees to condition #1 is an utter idiot--that's a blank check with no assurance the government aid will cover it.

#3 is also a total non-starter as it permanently prohibits them from offering stock options.
 
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