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Trump VS COVID-19 Threat

It's just now being reported that Bonespurs has fired one of the doctors on the CV 19 team because he wouldn't go along with Bonespurs political agenda vis a vi the virus.
 
Half-Life said:
There won't be many more cases if we return to work. There's tons of people who most likely have the virus but are asymptomatic.
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What we have seen from antibody tests is the infection rate is only a small percentage of the people. That means we are just as vulnerable as we were before, but now we have those asymptomatic people going around infecting others.

It's going to be a long time before we can go without masks & distancing.

Tell me, what happens when a bunch of people who are asymptomatic go to work with a bunch of other people who are asymptomatic?
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Tell me, what happens when a bunch of people who are asymptomatic go to work with a bunch of people who haven't caught it yet?
 
Half-Life said:
Choices. If people choose to go to work knowing the consequences, then they can go to work. Grocery workers have been doing it for over a month now. Don't see grocery stores shutting down because all the employees contracted it from each other from being around each other all day.

Telling people you're scared to death to go back to work while grocery workers have been doing it non-stop makes you look weak.
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In other words, work or starve. Most would not have a choice.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
He pretty much just told a bunch of far-right wing zealots to take it to court, we've got your back. And when in the hell did he become an expert is disease management?
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It's not about disease management. The GOP idea of disease "management" is to let it burn hot. It's all about trying to save the GOP hold on power.
 
Elixir said:
ZiprHead said:
It's just now being reported that Bonespurs has fired one of the doctors on the CV 19 team because he wouldn't go along with Bonespurs political agenda vis a vi the virus.
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The fucker hates the truth so much he fires anyone who tells it.
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Ya just one more example of Trump being more concerned about his image than protecting people. And it's astonishing that he can get so many people to go along with his madness.

More on the same story
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/politics/rick-bright-barda-trump-coronavirus/index.html
 
AOC goes off on economic shutdown protesters: 'Tell your president to make some damn tests' | Fox News
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., went off on a rant Tuesday in which she told economic shutdown protesters they were petitioning the wrong government officials, and should tell President Trump to "make some damn tests" for the coronavirus.

"If you want your freedom, if you want to end the shutdown, then tell your president to make some damn tests and to support some state governments,” the freshman congresswoman said during an Instagram Live session.

“This is outrageous," she added. "So, if you want to make sure that we reopen the economy, why don’t you turn around, march on over to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and protest this president who's not supporting our governors and making sure that we get the tests, the medical equipment, the hospital funding, and the state and local funding, so that we can all get on with our lives."
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I think that she has the right idea.

Ryan Saavedra on Twitter: "AOC, who cheered Americans losing their jobs yesterday, falsely claims the Trump admin has not supported state governments
Numerous governors, including Democrat governors, have praised the admin for its work
AOC calls for people to physically go to the White House to protest https://t.co/kWv9qw5ZPn" / Twitter

Trump says he 'totally disagrees' with Georgia Gov. Kemp's decision to reopen businesses in the middle of coronavirus pandemic
Weird.
 
McConnell pushes 'bankruptcy route' as local governments struggle - POLITICO - "The Senate majority leader is resisting a top demand from Democrats."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday insisted that flailing state and local governments should be able to “use the bankruptcy route” rather than receive aid from the federal government — signaling renewed opposition to a top Democratic demand for the next coronavirus relief package.

In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, the Kentucky Republican also expressed concern about adding billions more to the national debt in addition to the nearly $3 trillion Congress has already sent out the door to combat the economic and public health challenges of the pandemic.
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What a worrywart.

Once more, Nancy Pelosi makes a deal — and her point - The Washington Post
Well, as we have seen so many times before, Pelosi — in tandem with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) — found a way to make a deal with the only semi-competent negotiator in the administration, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

The $25 billion for testing includes $11B for the states specifically. Moreover, “Schumer said they’d gotten a commitment from the White House that cities and states could use $150 billion allocated in the earlier $2 trillion Cares Act to offset some of the lost revenue in their budgets. That money was initially designed to address each state’s coronavirus response.”

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The testing funds were perhaps the biggest “get” for Democrats, a sad commentary on the Republican Party, which would rather defend Trump’s flight from responsibility than address the central issue needed to reopen the economy safely.
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A New York breakthrough on testing and tracing - The Washington Post
Cuomo was as restrained and positive while recounting his meeting with Trump. The governor described it repeatedly as “productive," identifying two major gains for his state. First, he apparently got Trump to agree to state funding in the next major stimulus legislation and to waive the state’s matching fee for Federal Emergency Management Agency services, which could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars. And without much detail, Cuomo also seems to have worked out an arrangement in which the testing and training will be left to him and other governors while the federal government will try to alleviate the bottleneck that prevents major manufacturers from getting test-kit materials and reagents.
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I think that "training" is a typo for "tracing" here. It will require a massive effort, and medical-school students will likely have to be recruited for it.

But that's a start, even if Trump has to be dragged into doing the right thing.
 
I live in Britain. Thank goodness there’s no Fox News here. - The Washington Post
The United Kingdom and the United States are both hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Both countries are run by populist blowhards whose larger-than-life hair and egos are inversely proportional to their regard for expertise. And both of those leaders badly botched the crucial early months, failing to prepare testing or protective equipment as the disease silently spread unchecked through populations on both sides of the Atlantic.

But there’s something very different about life in Britain in the time of the novel coronavirus: There’s no Fox News here. Thank goodness for that.
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Laura Ingraham on Twitter: "How many of those who urged our govt to help liberate the Iraqis, Syrians, Kurds, Afghanis, etc., are as committed now to liberating Virginia, Minnesota, California, etc?" / Twitter

She deserves to be pursued by the alien pizza bats of ST:TOS "Operation: Annihilate!" - those pizza bats that had destroyed the colony Ingraham B.

Trump’s latest campaign ploy is disgusting — and it will fail - The Washington Post
President Trump rarely bothers to conceal his basest motives, which may explain why he revealed that his new suspension of immigration is a rank reelection ploy even before the policy was complete. His campaign blasted out a message describing it as a “decision to protect us from the coronavirus.”

If that’s meant to imply that protection from immigrants is equivalent to protection from a deadly pathogen that has killed over 40,000 Americans, it wouldn’t be surprising: Trump and his allies have cast immigration as a deadly infestation for years.
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AOC Calls on Public to 'March' on White House and 'Protest' Trump to 'Reopen Economy' | Neon Nettle
What she said in an IG Live on Monday:
“If you want your freedom, if you want to end the shutdown, then tell your president to make some damn tests and to support some state governments,” Ocasio-Cortez seethed.

"So, if you wanna make sure that we reopen the economy, why don’t you turn around, march on over to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and protest this president whose not supporting our governors and making sure that we get the tests, the medical equipment, the hospital funding, and the state and local funding so that we can all get on with our lives.”
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She was addressing the protesters of the lockdowns.

Adam Rifkin 🐼 on Twitter: "@DanRiffle @AOC @maddow @vicdibitetto "If we pass a relief bill next year, we're gonna be paying for morgues, and if we pass a relief bill now, we will be paying for prevention. And that's the difference."
— AOC on April 21 about Congress flailing while people die [url]https://t.co/cKVRCRa6dB https://t.co/Qd9XlvvvEF" / Twitter[/url]

Vicki Dzin on Twitter: "AOC: "There are people who have not come within 10 feet of economic insecurity at any point in their lives, and that is the exact opposite of who we need dictating our public policy right now." Just going to leave this here for #mapoli" / Twitter
 
Washington state to implement 'rapid-response' contact tracing workforce in May | TheHill
"We expect roughly 1,500 workers focused solely on contact tracing by the second week of May," Inslee said in a televised speech Tuesday, according to NPR. "This workforce will be rapid-response, something like a fire brigade."

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"We're now needing to scale up contact tracing," former CDC director Tom Frieden told NPR. "Ten or one hundred-fold more. It needs to be extremely proactive and complete."

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Wednesday the state is planning to train up 10,000 contact tracers.

Last week Newsom said increased testing and contact tracing was one of six indicators that would drive the state’s decision to gradually modify portions of the stay-at-home-order.
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Both WA and CA govs recognize what one has to do to get out of this mess. I watched VICE News, and it had a segment on Austria going back to normal -- gradually. Among the first businesses to reopen were jewelers, because they don't get a lot of people at a time. So such businesses are likely to open first.

GOP lawmaker calls McConnell remarks on state bankruptcy 'shameful and indefensible' | TheHill
Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) comments after the senator said that he’s in favor of allowing states to declare bankruptcy in the wake of coronavirus responses that have seriously diminished state budgets.

“.@senatemajldr McConnell’s dismissive remark that States devastated by Coronavirus should go bankrupt rather than get the federal assistance they need and deserve is shameful and indefensible,” King tweeted Wednesday.

“To say that it is ‘free money’ to provide funds for cops, firefighters and healthcare workers makes McConnell the Marie Antoinette of the Senate,” he added.
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I hope that that gets under Moscow Mitch's skin.
 
AOC Says Reopening the Economy Shouldn't Mean Returning to 70-Hour Work Weeks - VICE
“Only in America, does the president, when the president tweets about liberation, does he mean ‘go back to work,’” the progressive legislator said. “We have this discussion about ‘going back’ or ‘reopening’ — I think a lot of people should just say ‘No, we’re not going back to that. We’re not going back to working 70-hour weeks just so that we can put food on the table and not feel any sort of semblance of security in our lives.”

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“I have to call family members, congregations and people in our community offering condolences and day in and day out. I have to talk to teenage kids who have lost their parents. I have to talk to spouses that have lost their husband or wife of several decades,” Ocasio- Cortez said. “I have to talk to people who have lost their pastor or who have lost their Imam, or who have lost their spiritual leader of their community, and you know, I have to talk to people who say where am I going to get my next meal or am I going to be evicted from my apartment next month?”
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Coronavirus Is Devastating Homeless Shelters Across the Country - VICE

Michigan Governor: Go Ahead and Protest the Lockdown, But You Might Get Coronavirus and Die Alone - VICE

White House set to use Defense Production Act to ramp up testing swab manufacturing - CNNPolitics

Yung Adult on Twitter: "they have arrested two people for “amplified noise” https://t.co/I7atQQ2ScG" / Twitter
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Kendall Mayhew on Twitter: "no arrests nationwide at the astroturfed “liberate america” protests, but residents of LA who are facing economic devastation are arrested for yelling too loudly at the rich mayor. https://t.co/A9EGJhvjI4" / Twitter
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David Kim🌹🧢🌍❤🧘🏻*♂️🏳️*🌈✊ on Twitter: "It's wrong. The people are crying for help bc of economic distress & they get handcuffed in return. https://t.co/p37kaukAtQ" / Twitter
 
Who would have thought that Mnuchin would end up being the most competent person in the executive branch? Obviously, it's a low bar, but still ...
 
hurtinbuckaroo said:
Who would have thought that Mnuchin would end up being the most competent person in the executive branch? Obviously, it's a low bar, but still ...
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Munchkin has an IQ above room temperature which places him in an elite group among administration personnel. But he is as corrupt as any of them.
 
Elixir said:
hurtinbuckaroo said:
Who would have thought that Mnuchin would end up being the most competent person in the executive branch? Obviously, it's a low bar, but still ...
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Munchkin has an IQ above room temperature which places him in an elite group among administration personnel. But he is as corrupt as any of them.
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Fahrenheit or Celcius?
 
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