HeavyG said:

bicktrav said:

Lit said:

YukonRon said:

Lit said:

YukonRon said:

@Matt86m

"Its the flu. 58,000 people die of the flu and pneumonia each year in the US. This is being hyped by the dems to make Trump look bad before the election. If Biden or Bernnie get in how fast will all this go away?"

Winning comment. Totally. 

Here is the Answer:
Much faster than Trump could ever do it.
 
The Democrats have no need to to make Trump seem like an imbecile, he is doing a masterful job of this on his own. this may be the final straw for many.

We have known this virus was NOT contained in China since the first week of the New Year. Yet the president chose to do nothing.

To categorize this pandemic as the typical type influenza that evolves every "cold and flu season" which an appreciable portion of the population is inoculated against, with a .1% mortality rate...... is, at best, a very uninformed statement.

So far, based on the numbers from The WHO, the corona virus has a mortality rate that may go higher than its current .36% (Most are saying globally as high as 4.0%). It is likely to do so, since there is no vaccine available and the virus can mutate as it spreads to other highly populated areas with limited resources for medical care.

Since the global notification back in January, and the President doing nothing, the stock market has crashed, we are heading into a recession, the virus continues to spread exponentially across America every single day, and Americans are dying because of it.

Democratic hype of grave danger? If it is, and it shames the president to do something other than, of course, blame the democrats, we all should be thankful.

Wash your hands, do not touch your face, and stay away from people. That is all we have. The travel ban is only about 2 and a half months too late.

There is nothing anyone could have done to prevent this. Maybe they could have delayed it a little but this crap has been here since December it just took time to blow up. 

Love you brother. 

Here is the deal. I have a very close relationship with someone, for the United States of America in the diplomatic service.

This person works for the republican administration. This person's office is in our embassy in Rome. This person's job is walking point on the Corona virus in Italy for the United States.

When we left Italy on the 3rd of January, this person was dispatched immediately to the north to investigate a report of a rapidly spreading deadly disease.

This person filed reports directly to the ambassador, who subsequently reported them to POTUS, directly.

This person has been face to face with this situation in Italy since January 3, 24/7/every freaking day,  sending reports that were as staggering as they were morbid.

This person deemed this as a major threat to the United States of America, in every report offered to the ambassador since day freaking one, and was on several conference calls explaining the issue to the POTUS and his staff.

The embassy in Italy was not alone, other United States embassies were uncovering this virus, globally, and literally screamed as they pleaded for the president to act immediately.

He did not.

You may say and be satisfied that this would have happened anyway. 

However witholding information from the American public, lying again and blaming democrats for this debacle is at the very least absurd.

Anyone that stands with this guy stands against America.

Any other country on the face of this planet besides Russia and North Korea, he would be put in prison for life.

He freaking knew. And he did nothing. Every embassy begged him to take immediate action.

People are now dying. Many American's dream of retirement is gone. Yet the Republuddites keep following this lying cheating sack of fecal matter.

He and his family have made billions. How is your 401K today?

What could he have done? The only thing I see they dropped the ball on is the tests. 

Testing is the most important element of response. Without aggressive testing, people with mild cases go to work, ride public transit, cough and sneeze on neighbors, and the thing spreads like wildfire. The countries that have managed to curb the spread have done so in large part because they have implemented widespread testing protocols. Also, testing is not the only thing we've screwed up. Not by a longshot.

I've read that the US has only done 10,000 tests total to date while South Korea has been doing 10,000 tests PER DAY for at least a couple of weeks.

That happens when a country has leadership that is concerned about the health and well being of their fellow citizens. Whereas, having a leader that considers it all a hoax and fake news and a plot to make him look bad "leads" to a different result.

HeavyG said:

Lit said:

HeavyG said:

bicktrav said:

Lit said:

YukonRon said:

Lit said:

YukonRon said:

@Matt86m

"Its the flu. 58,000 people die of the flu and pneumonia each year in the US. This is being hyped by the dems to make Trump look bad before the election. If Biden or Bernnie get in how fast will all this go away?"

Winning comment. Totally. 

Here is the Answer:
Much faster than Trump could ever do it.
 
The Democrats have no need to to make Trump seem like an imbecile, he is doing a masterful job of this on his own. this may be the final straw for many.

We have known this virus was NOT contained in China since the first week of the New Year. Yet the president chose to do nothing.

To categorize this pandemic as the typical type influenza that evolves every "cold and flu season" which an appreciable portion of the population is inoculated against, with a .1% mortality rate...... is, at best, a very uninformed statement.

So far, based on the numbers from The WHO, the corona virus has a mortality rate that may go higher than its current .36% (Most are saying globally as high as 4.0%). It is likely to do so, since there is no vaccine available and the virus can mutate as it spreads to other highly populated areas with limited resources for medical care.

Since the global notification back in January, and the President doing nothing, the stock market has crashed, we are heading into a recession, the virus continues to spread exponentially across America every single day, and Americans are dying because of it.

Democratic hype of grave danger? If it is, and it shames the president to do something other than, of course, blame the democrats, we all should be thankful.

Wash your hands, do not touch your face, and stay away from people. That is all we have. The travel ban is only about 2 and a half months too late.

There is nothing anyone could have done to prevent this. Maybe they could have delayed it a little but this crap has been here since December it just took time to blow up. 

Love you brother. 

Here is the deal. I have a very close relationship with someone, for the United States of America in the diplomatic service.

This person works for the republican administration. This person's office is in our embassy in Rome. This person's job is walking point on the Corona virus in Italy for the United States.

When we left Italy on the 3rd of January, this person was dispatched immediately to the north to investigate a report of a rapidly spreading deadly disease.

This person filed reports directly to the ambassador, who subsequently reported them to POTUS, directly.

This person has been face to face with this situation in Italy since January 3, 24/7/every freaking day,  sending reports that were as staggering as they were morbid.

This person deemed this as a major threat to the United States of America, in every report offered to the ambassador since day freaking one, and was on several conference calls explaining the issue to the POTUS and his staff.

The embassy in Italy was not alone, other United States embassies were uncovering this virus, globally, and literally screamed as they pleaded for the president to act immediately.

He did not.

You may say and be satisfied that this would have happened anyway. 

However witholding information from the American public, lying again and blaming democrats for this debacle is at the very least absurd.

Anyone that stands with this guy stands against America.

Any other country on the face of this planet besides Russia and North Korea, he would be put in prison for life.

He freaking knew. And he did nothing. Every embassy begged him to take immediate action.

People are now dying. Many American's dream of retirement is gone. Yet the Republuddites keep following this lying cheating sack of fecal matter.

He and his family have made billions. How is your 401K today?

What could he have done? The only thing I see they dropped the ball on is the tests. 

Testing is the most important element of response. Without aggressive testing, people with mild cases go to work, ride public transit, cough and sneeze on neighbors, and the thing spreads like wildfire. The countries that have managed to curb the spread have done so in large part because they have implemented widespread testing protocols. Also, testing is not the only thing we've screwed up. Not by a longshot.

I've read that the US has only done 10,000 tests total to date while South Korea has been doing 10,000 tests PER DAY for at least a couple of weeks.

That happens when a country has leadership that is concerned about the health and well being of their fellow citizens. Whereas, having a leader that considers it all a hoax and fake news and a plot to make him look bad "leads" to a different result.

These instances have been blown out of proportion time and time again by the media how could anyone know this time it was real? He tried to stop our economy from tanking by not falling for it. He would have been right every other scare. I really don’t care who is president so I am kinda unbiased. Making this political is stupid and complaining about your 401k only being up 300% over the last couple years is ridiculous.

I agree this shouldn't be a political thing but when just one hour ago our Dear Leader tweets this sort of stuff (which is typical for him) it's hard to avoid the politics of the efforts to respond. The big surprise to me is that his tweet didn't also include his claim that the crowds at his inauguration were the largest ever. Period.