Donald Trump is proving his inability to deal with the CoronaVirus Crisis, as all he is doing is playing politics, attacking Democrats with his insults, and contradicting health experts.
He is more concerned with his reelection, than caring about Americans and their health.
He seems totally out of control, unable to deal with reality, and his mental instability is clear to anyone who has a brain.
Some worry about Joe Biden and his mental stability, but Biden is showing statesmanship by saying that the President should keep his mouth shut, and let the health experts take control and do what they know best, how to control a situation that requires calm and measured judgment.
Americans are seeing just how incompetent our President is, as if they did not know it already, if they had been paying attention to his day by day actions and utterances for the past three years!
We all totally second what Biden said.
Songs to wash your hands by, handshake alternatives.
https://www.vox.com/2020/3/9/21162031/wash-your-hands-coronavirus-memes
Orwell’s prescient nightmare of a tri-polar world at perpetual war is 2/3 realized: Eastasia has its Supreme Leader For Life in Xi and Eurasia has its in Putin. All that is needed now is a Big Brother for Oceania.
Questions every American should be asking themselves are:
1. Is it possible that such a thing could actually, really happen here?
2. If it is, what would be the fastest, cheapest, and easiest way to make that happen?
3. What can be done to prevent it from happening?
We the people will kick Drumpf’s butt out in November. We will also kick out butts of ReThuglicans in the House and the Senate.
That option may not be available to You, “the people,” in November.
Thumbs up to that, Rustbelt!
Rustbelt – Thumbs up from me as well. The troll has clearly been watching too much Hunger Games.
Precisely, Rustbelt.
We all think positively. We don’t let what ifs scare us.
Amen to that, Leia! 🙂
Trump has been around people who have been exposed to the virus. We may actually be days or weeks away from Pence being acting President of the US.
I don’t agree with Pence’s policies, but, quite frankly, I think he’s acting more presidential than Trump is.
Just what we need: not merely a science-denier for President, but a born-again Christianist jihadist wrapped in the flag and carrying a bible. i wonder if he’ll declare a Rapture.
Well, if something happens to Pence, our country finally gets saved by President Pelosi! 🙂
Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, have gotten the coronavirus.
NBA is suspending the basketball season after a basketball player for the Utah Jazz has gotten the disease.
Trump is banning travel from Europe. Except for the UK, which is strange, because the UK has the virus too.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-statement/index.html
An aide to a US senator – Maria Cantwell – has tested positive for the virus.
This virus situation is a very good example of why elections have consequences. President Hillary would not have cut funding for the CDC or gotten rid of an agency dealing with pandemics.
House Democrats unveil bill to protect working families from the coronavirus economy
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/12/1926747/-House-Democrats-unveil-bill-to-protect-working-families-from-the-coronavirus-economy
The Democrats are showing what a coronavirus economic response should look like, one that will actually help the people struggling to make ends meet in the midst of a crisis.
It’s just as I figured.
Like the “Muslim ban”, Trump’s coronvairus travel ban exempts countries where his resorts are located.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/12/1926720/-Like-the-Muslim-ban-Trump-s-COVID-19-travel-ban-exempts-countries-where-his-resorts-are-located?utm_campaign=trending
Disease is already here. Travel ban is no good. What is needed is more testing.
Seconded, Rational Lefty. We need, not only testing, but also, social distancing, support for those most vulnerable, and a rapid buildout of treatment capacity.
Governor Northam here in VA joins the list of governors declaring states of emergency.
He’s advising that conferences and large gatherings be cancelled for at least 30 days.
He’s advising no out of state work related travel for state employees for at least 30 days.
He says the issue with the testing is that the CDC supply chain is limited. The state is looking at developing our own test kits. There are also private labs in the state authorized to run the tests.
And speaking of supply shortages, hand sanitizers are going out of stock. You can make your own with rubbing alcohol, but that’s going out of stock too.
Out of curiosity, I checked out Fux News coverage of the virus. They’re being racist, calling it the China coronavirus.
Trump was being racist during his speech last night as well, referring to it as a “foreign virus”.
The Brazilian president’s press secretary tested positive for the virus. Trump, Pence, and several other Republican lawmakers, including Lindsey Graham and Rick Scott, had dinner and interactions with the guy at Mar-A-Lago over the weekend.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fabio-wajngarten-brazilian-official-who-met-trump-at-mar-a-lago-reportedly-tests-positive-for-coronavirus
Well, like I had said previously in another conversation, maybe the Republicans will take it more seriously when they start having fever, cough, and shortness of breath.
I hope D is ok. He hasn’t been around since February 28.
[From the “Facts Can Be Such Inconvenient Things Department”]:
The CDC’s Budget Is Larger Now Than Under Obama, by Ryan McMaken
This is how the budget process in Washington begins. Step one: the president submits his budget to Congress. Step two: Congress puts the president’s budget in a drawer somewhere and forgets about it. Step three: Congress passes a budget it likes instead.
This reality, however, has been conveniently ignored in recent weeks. Some pundits and politicians have claimed that Donald Trump “gutted the CDC.”
Trump has been busy “slashing the government agencies” that combat disease control, one headline reads. Another claims, “the Trump administration has spent the last two years gutting critical positions and programs that…weakened the federal government’s ability to manage a health crisis.”
Well, it’s possible that there is a federal program out there somewhere that Donald Trump “gutted,” but the CDC isn’t one of them.
This is largely because Congress ignored the administration’s budget request and increased the CDC’s budget from 2017 to 2018 and again from 2019 to 2020. Trump didn’t object. As ABC news reports:
All of Trump’s budget proposals have called for cuts to CDC funding, but Congress has intervened each time by passing spending bills with year-over-year increases for the CDC that Trump then signed into law.
Nevertheless, leftists of all stripes have used the imaginary “gutting” to claim both that Trump is a fool and that the reason the CDC hasn’t handled the COVID-19 outbreak with flying colors is because its budget has been “gutted,” “slashed,” and “depleted.”
But here’s the reality: the CDC’s budget is now more than 7 percent larger than it was under President Obama’s last two budgets. That is, the actual enacted program budgets for the CDC in 2016 and 2017 were both under $7.2 billion, but for 2020 the budget Congress adopted for it is nearly $7.7 billion.
https://cdn.mises.org/styles/max_full/s3/cdcbud2.png?itok=wTezPjre
Here’s the analysis from Factcheck.org: “Democrats’ Misleading Coronavirus Claims” https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/democrats-misleading-coronavirus-claims/
[Continued at: https://mises.org/wire/cdcs-budget-larger-now-under-obama%5D
Well…. i’m moving up in the world. My Comments are now “moderated.” Just like on Briefbarf.
NEWS FLASH: The CDC’s Budget Is Larger Now Than Under Obama
Here’s the story from Factcheck.org: “Democrats’ Misleading Coronavirus Claims” https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/democrats-misleading-coronavirus-claims/
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Democrats are not lying about the CDC. And it is true that Trump is a fool.
Exactly, Former Republican. Governors around the country are having to deal with this matter themselves because Trump is incompetent.
Coronavirus survivor shares her story. You can have a fever but not necessarily have coughing or respiratory symptoms.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/health/coronavirus-survivor-elizabeth-schneider/index.html
Cuts include cuts in personnel, not just budget. There are a lot of important vacancies in many of our government agencies that Trump has not bothered to fill with anyone.
The thing that scares me is that you can infect someone and be asymptomatic.
My God! I just heard that cases in Virginia have jumped from 18 to 30! Most, so far, are in the heavily populated areas of northern and eastern Virginia.
K-12 schools in Virginia are joining the growing list school systems closing for at least two weeks.
In regards to the cuts, two years ago, the CDC stopped funding epidemic prevention activities in 39 countries, including China, after the Trump administration refused to reallocate money to a program that started during the government’s response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/politics/coronavirus-budget-preparedness/index.html
Trump is to blame for the lack of preparedness.