There were 34,329 new coronavirus cases in the United States, just since yesterday. Like 24 hours, or 1,430 new cases each hour. And 1,870 deaths, 78 per hour. Does that sound like 'only a virus?...
Why? It's only a virus
People with this kind of attitude are a threat to a sane population which means following the guidelines established by the medical community to stay at home for the interim of the pandemic, at least practice safe social distancing. Not flaunt the fact they aren't worried about catching or passing along a disease that has become the medical killer of our time. This is no joke, as these less than bright individuals seem to think. It is serious and getting worse, thanks in part to them.
As best I can determine, these are the same clueless people who professed to be the anti-vaxxers who were instrumental in 140,000 measles deaths in 2018, "Most deaths were among children under 5 years of age," according to the World Health Organization (WHO). I would be horrified to know that my stupid ideology killed all these young kids. It's unconscionable and as I have said many times, these ignorant families should be put in concentration camps.
Resurgence of mumps shows how anti-vaxxers are putting everyone at risk...
And this same bunch of anti-health nuts is getting in their two cents already, making sure this audience of miscreants is aware that a vaccine for COVID-19 is in the wings and they should kill more of their children by refusing these vaccinations. Here's the scenario...
"As scientists race to develop a vaccine to protect people against the coronavirus, some outspoken voices of the anti-vaccine movement are already seeking to undermine their efforts.
"But those who promote anti-vaccine views aren't waiting. They're out there now on social media, cultivating conspiracy theories and planting seeds of doubt that could limit a future vaccine's success."
"Larry Cook, an anti-vaccine proponent with almost 50,000 subscribers on YouTube," according to CBS, says this to his followers...
"Make no mistake, the purpose of the coronavirus is to help usher in vaccine mandates. Be woke. Know the Plan. Prepare. Resist."
The purpose of the coronavirus is to kill, you idiot, and I'm sorry, if your followers believe this crap you put out, they are idiots too.
Trump latest alibi for the coronavirus uncontrolled spread in the United States names China as the culprit, once again taking no responsibility for his part in delaying response to the virus in the beginning, causing its current unchecked surge...
Trump - Xi Jinping
Here's the Washington Post headline: "U.S. officials crafting retaliatory actions against China over coronavirus as President Trump fumes." I wrote a post just yesterday, "TRUMP LATEST: China's Xi COVID-19 results excel Trump's significantly," outlining the parade of events, starting with Wuhan's outbreak and subsequent notification on January 3, of Robert Redfield, CDC Director. China has first case in November of 2019.
But the Oval Office lunatic wants to punish China's President Xi, might even hit him up for financial compensation, simply because this idiot waited over two months to make a move on coronavirus in the U.S. But first he said it was a hoax, then blamed the whole thing on Democrats. The dolt finally came to his senses in mid-March, and since then has screwed up every move he has made, compounded by the stupidity of his aides.
Donald Trump rails off on Xo Jinping and China...
The Washington Post says...
"The move could splinter already strained relations between the two superpowers at a perilous moment for the global economy.
Now, this may not seem important to some, but we are talking the two top powers of the world fighting each other over 'who dunnit' when there is a pandemic of colossal proportions going on that has killed over 233,000 people worldwide. Between one highly intelligent man who so far has played the gentleman, and the White House maniac who plays his regular roll of political clown. It makes our country look...clownish.
Trump complains about China giving the United States a heads-up on their status, but it doesn't seem mid-November to the first of January is that long when you understand what a shock this must have been attempting to identify a new virus that probably had to be analyzed before anyone could a statement. No, folks, no one in the Trump administration, including the head moron, really thinks, deep down, that China dropped the ball.
This is attempted get-even time with Xi because of the trade deals that didn't go right, and according to RawStory, "Trump obsessed with ‘settling scores’ even as coronavirus kills thousands of Americans every day: report." There is even more talk from the Don of misinformation that the disease came from a lab in China...again. It is said there is a battle between Trump's economic advisers and the national security team for retaliation...
“Punishing China is definitely where the president’s head is at right now,” one senior adviser said.
The T-rump minions think this will arouse their double-digit supporters and they are probably right. It is much easier to hate someone like Xi Jinping and his China than working on something to stop the COVID-19 pandemic. The White House and GOP lawmakers are fixated on China's coronavirus problems, they think their inability to contain it. They claim, " Chinese officials concealed key information and refused to cooperate with international health organizations." Trump supporter, coronavirus a "nothing burger"...
As a point of reference, in a recent report from WORLDOMETER, China has had only 4 recent cases, total cases 82,862, no recent deaths, total deaths 4,633; The USA, total cases 1,088,415, new cases 24,221, total deaths 63,535, recent deaths 1,880. China's population, 1,408,526,449, the United states, 331,002,651. Pretty solid proof that Donald Trump is doing a piss-poor job of containing coronavirus, compared to China and the rest of the world.
Trump latest remarks...
"On Monday, Trump suggested at a White House news conference that the United States will seek hundreds of billions of dollars in damages from China. The president also said he is considering additional measures to punish China, but did not specify what they are."
Trump message of retaliatory action...
“We can do something much easier than that,” Trump said in response to a question about demanding financial compensation from Beijing. “We have ways of doing things a lot easier than that.”
Yet no explanation of what and once again this three-ring circus plays out in the media of the world and the United States has pie all over its face. Just another day at the White House.
Nation's quote: "China under Xi has suppressed the latest coronavirus at the human cost of three lives per million population, the United States under Trump is still struggling to overpower it, having already sacrificed 145 of every million Americans"...
Those are overpowering figures when you consider that Donald Trump is nowhere near getting a handle on coronavirus in this country. And what is even worse is that this idiot will not face up to the fact of how incompetent he is, leading the U.S. into more instability and peril on a daily basis. To emphasize the delay, here's a timeline...
"George Gao, director of the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC), spoke with his American counterpart, Robert Redfield, on January 3, alerting him to the arrival of an as-yet-unidentified, pneumonia-inducing virus in the city of Wuhan (news of which the Chinese government would for crucial days withhold domestically). Redfield then briefed Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar on that conversation."
In China, Wuhan was identified as the source of the outbreak and...
"On January 3, the NHC centralized all testing related to the mysterious disease and, two days later, in conjunction with experts in infectious diseases caused by pathogens that jump from animals to humans, completed the sequencing of the genome of the virus."
Trump lies, lies, lies on COVID-19...PATHETIC!...
This information was made available worldwide on January 7, and on January 14, WHO made a somewhat vague announcement to the world on this threat. China's national health Commission confirmed human to human transmission on January 19, with the U.S. moving slowly, mostly observing. On January 24, a complete lockdown of Wuhan was ordered of 760 million people. President Xi worked with WHO, keeping them posted regularly on what he was doing.
In the meantime, Donald Trump was just beginning to drag his feet, setting up a task force...
"led by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to monitor, contain, and mitigate the spread of the coronavirus while also keeping Americans informed on the matter."
Centers for Disease Control Prevention’s Robert Redfield had also been at work preparing for the disease in the U.S. when the...
"World Health Organization declared the outbreak a “global health emergency.” On February 11, it labeled the disease caused by the latest coronavirus, which can culminate in death-inducing pneumonia, Covid-19."
Trump disorientation on coronavirus testing...
It was right at this time that the Oval Office lunatic tweeted his first reaction to dangers of COVID-19 when the first lab-confirmed coronavirus case was reported in Olympia, Washington...
“It’s one person coming in from China and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
It wasn't "just fine" and as the threat continued to grow, T-rump called it a hoax, then blamed the whole thing on the Democrats, As it spread around the world, Trump placed Mike Pence in charge of response to the virus, and with his incompetence noted, put his moron son in law in charge, where, since then the handling of everything has deteriorated. While the rest of the world gears up for aggressive testing, Trump promises 2% of the U.S. population, grossly lacking.
With the threat of a full-blown pandemic, "all Trump did was ban the arrival of non-US citizens who had recently traveled to China. From then on, he repeatedly touted this as evidence that he had acted early." In the face of clear data this could turn into a worldwide pandemic from his own people, Trump tweeted...
“The coronavirus is very much under control in the USA,”
And yet more disinformation from Donald Trump COVID-19 under control...
He began tweeting that the U.S. would soon have a coronavirus vaccine, which was altogether false and, even today, it is thought to be at least a year before a safe vaccine can be ready for market. It was soon after around mid-March when the White House maniac finally came to his senses, and at about this time Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, came on the scene.
Since then it has been a tumultuous battle between the counterfeit doctor and scientist sitting in the White House and the expert from the CDC, who tries his best to balance the stupidity of Donald Trump with the truth from his office. The big question is...who will win the war, not just the battle?
Trump has never done anything I know of where he should be congratulated. Therefore, it seems both unbelievable and bizarre he could come up with 600 pats on the back...
Thanks to our neighbor
But he did and it was for another most ludicrous reason, his handling of the coronavirus situation. Here is DAILY BEASTS headline: "Trump Has Congratulated Himself 600 Times During Coronavirus Briefings, Says Report." The New York times analyzed all Trump's press briefings to get this number concluding, “The level of self-congratulations that occurs every day at these press conferences is unprecedented.”
And it would seem that Moscow Mitch McConnell has taken up Donald Trump's mantle exhibiting his brand of ignorance and idiocy. According to the Washington Post has basically told U.S. states to drop dead by refusing them aid and saying you are pretty much on your own. Although he has moderately backed off this position, it is a clear sign of this slimeball's disdain for American citizens, and his aversion to our democracy.
With the current press of the public to reopen the U.S. economy amid over 1 million cases of COVID-19 in this country, growing on a daily basis, 30,000+ since yesterday, and almost 60,000 deaths, there is reason to pause and reflect on this move. Here is a statement from an expert: "Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm warned that the states starting to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic 'will pay a big price later on.'” There's more...
"Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday that states like Georgia, Colorado and others that are easing social distancing restrictions were 'putting gasoline on fire.'
“I think right now, this is one of the things we’ve learned, if we’re going to learn to live with this, then you just don’t walk in the face of it and spit in its eye, because it will hit you,” said Osterholm.
Taking out the Trash
Here's the Guardian's opinion: "Trump is a danger to the American people. But the Republicans refuse to stop him." Bingo. This hits the jackpot and my blog posts over the years portrays the one man most responsible for this, Moscow Mitch McConnell. The Guardia expands...
"I don’t know how many psychological profiles I have read of him in which he is diagnosed as a malignant narcissist, or it is suggested he has a cognitive impairment, or suffers from delusional thinking or a sociopathic inability to experience basic empathy. Yada yada yada. None of it matters. He promised an end to “American carnage”, but that is exactly what he is presiding over."
By the way, he didn't look like congratulating himself after walking off the podium recently after remarks on his disinfectant decision. He said nothing.
Donald Trump's latest approval rating on the handling of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic hits the bottom of the barrel...
To be specific, it is down 22 points and I would give anything to have seen his face the first time he saw that number. In other words, what he thinks is his beautiful, wonderful handling of the COVID-19 crisis is really for shit. Here's the analysis from Newsweek...
"As a result, the net approval for Trump's performance, which is determined by deducting the share of those who disapprove from the share who do approve, sat 8 percentage points "underwater," Morning Consult said in a breakdown of its findings.
As an example of the confusion the Oval Office lunatic has caused, his suggestion "that injecting patients who test positive for coronavirus with disinfectant could be helpful...the U.S. saw a spike in calls made to poison control centers in at least four states." It is hard to believe anyone would have confidence in a stupid recommendation like this but, then, we are talking about double-digit Trump supporters.
My testing program
And then we come full present to today's plan from T-rump, one in which he has arranged for 2% of each state to now be tested--folks this is 4 months after he knew of the problem--and "Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said that number is nowhere close to adequate," according to Jake Johnson of Common Dreams. Completely inadequate...
“It’s about 6 to 7 million [tests],” said Jha, “and if that’s one-time, that doesn’t do anything.”
"The blueprint (pdf) is organized into an eight-part strategy that largely leaves states responsible for carrying out a massive expansion of testing, even as governors say they lack the equipment and capacity to ramp up screenings to the level that experts say is necessary."
Trump says his role is to "enable innovation," something this White House is completely incapable of.
Coming from Washington Post writers, Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, "A Very Stable Genius" is the continuing brilliance of those on the inside to portray a mentally challenged Donald Trump...
I am two-thirds way through "A Very Stable Genius" and am amazed at the way these two reporters have organized the information on Donald Trump to the extent you actually feel you are in the room where it is happening. It is hard to select something to quote but in consideration of Trump's totalitarian governing approach, there was a part in the book where he gives kudos to Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president.
A senior aide describes the two's speakerphone conversations as "un-fucking-believable, like hearing Hitler at a Nuremberg rally." Says Erdogan's voice was chilling, like Satan's, but Trump has long admired the man for his ruthless rule in Turkey and the ease with which he dispatched political rivals. This is unadulterated mental sickness at its worst, when you are talking about the person who rules the freest country in the world.
Best friends, Erdogan and Trump
Jennifer Rubin's Washington Post opinion piece recently headlined, "‘Stable genius’ or dangerous ignoramus?" is a good question but one that has been answered repeatedly over the last few months, with each time Donald Trump opens his mouth. She quotes from one of his recent press conferences...
“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out, in a minute. Is there a way we can do something like that? By injection, inside, or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. You’re going to have to use medical doctors, right? But it sounds interesting to me.”
This is the leader of the world's most advanced nation in such a confused state that what he is recommending could immediately kill thousands of people if they took his advice. But it was right after this at a later press conference where the disinfectant thing was brutally criticized, Donald Trump actually showed signs of doubt, both in what he was saying and also from the harsh criticism he received. He quietly left the room without taking questions.
I'm only a puttering psychologist, but are we seeing the first breaking point in the Trump facade, the latest of many that have come down the line, and are sure to eventually push Trump over the edge. A tragic way to have to get rid of a president but the only way when you have the head of the U.S. Senate, lowlife Moscow Mitch McConnell, constantly propping him up. Cody Fenwick, writing in AlterNet said...
"Of course, if Trump does genuinely feel shame, it’s not likely to last long. He’ll likely revert to his vastly overconfident self in short order."
Trump coming off the spool at a press conference...WATCH!
We'll be watching for more signs. After over three years, Donald Trump still does not know how to do his job, according to another piece by Cody Fenwick, this time in RawStory. The writer believes the Oval Office lunatic has contrived this reality show in his head, much like his former show, "The Apprentice," where he interviewed and fired people. In today's show, here's how Fenwick sees it...
"He likely doesn’t have the ability to coordinate all the relevant actors, tap into the expertise of the administration, and craft a long-term strategy for fighting the pandemic and saving as much of the economy as possible. But regardless of whether he could do what is needed, it’s clear that he’s not interested in this hard work."
Trump just cannot shed the carnival barker personality that so often shows him for the idiot he is. Like this...
“It’s just a suggestion, from a brilliant lab, by a very, very smart, perhaps brilliant, man,” Trump said. “He’s talking about sun, he’s talking about heat. And you see the numbers. So that’s it. That’s all I have. I’m just here to present talent. I’m here to present ideas. Because we want ideas to get rid of this thing.”
We're all waiting for the next episode of Donald Trump's new reality show. Don't forget, "A Very Stable Genius," a great read.
Presidential dogs go all the way back to the beginning...George Washington...
Should there be a doggy in the White House? NO
Washington had seven dogs, one was named Drunkard. Trump has no dog. Abraham Lincoln had eight, one named Fido, who was assassinated by a drunk with a knife a couple months after Lincoln was killed. Trump is dogless. Teddy Roosevelt had twenty-four, which probably led to a rowdy White House, but that's the way he liked it. Still, Donald Trump has no dog. Barack Obama had his Bo, and even Richard Nixon had a dog, four in all. But not T-rump.
And that, folks, is what is wrong with the current White House, in addition, of course, to the fact its head occupant is a raving maniac doing what he has been doing since he entered that historic monument, tearing this country apart, piece by piece. But, would a dog do him any good? If you are a real animal lover, you have your pet because you want to give it loving care and a forever home. Our cats are treated as if they are our children, which they really are.
But an animal of any kind in Donald Trump's company is like...throwing it to the lions. Yes, a dog in this White House would, due to perpetual strife, be peeing and pooping from the Lincoln bedroom to the Oval Office to Trump's private quarters. A cat, on its first day. would observe the White House maniac in action, spray on the imperial desk, then find a place to hide. Animals know what's going on, and they know a phony the minute they spot it. Donald Trump.
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