This time we have Atty. General Wm. Barr to thank for Trump administration stupidity...
Here's the headline: "AG Barr denounces stay-at-home orders as ‘draconian’ — suggests Trump should reconsider social distancing guidelines at end of the month." This cloned aide has worked himself so far up Trump's rear end that he qualifies for a lower endoscopy. After almost everyone on board--except for those with double-digit IQs--this idiot appeared on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” this week, he described them as “draconian” and implied that they were going too far."
He's on the right show for idiots and that is basically what the Fox News audience is composed of. And then he tries to play attorney general saying...
AG Barr
Barr told “Ingraham Angle” host Laura Ingraham that officials should be “very careful to make sure that the draconian measures that are being adopted are fully justified.”
AlterNet added this...
"Unlike France or Italy, the U.S. does not have a nationwide stay-at-home order. Social distancing measures and stay-at-home orders — some stricter than others — have been carried out at the state level or the local level in the U.S."
France is having noticeable results and Italy seems to be over its peak in the pandemic, but at least they are doing something concrete about the dilemma and not spending their time bragging about what they supposedly have done. Now here is a statement to the clueless Ingraham that should have closed down the show...
"The U.S. attorney general defended Trump vigorously during the interview, telling Ingraham — herself a strident defender of the president — that Trump has been unfairly attacked with 'snarky, gotcha questions from the White House media pool.' And he defended Trump’s promotion of hydroxychloroquine (which has been used to treat malaria) as a possible COVID-19 treatment."
But, then, this is the kind of crap Fox News thrives on.
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Yes, we finally passed South Korea in total testing but not per-capita...
Donald Trump refuses responsibility for lousy COVID-19 testing...
Donald Trump's failure to attack the COVID-19 problem early is the nucleus of all the current problems we are experiencing with the pandemic. It was obvious from the beginning that the virus would be a serious threat to this country from what had happened in China. Any fool would know to move quickly but not T-rump. He initially claimed it was a hoax, something dreamed up by Democrats to defeat him on November. Now, there may not be a November. A big factor was testing.
"New Jersey-based Quest Diagnostics had about 160,000 coronavirus test orders waiting to be processed on March 25, which amounted to about half of the 320,000 total orders for the tests the company had received up to that date."
But, wait, the Oval Office lunatic says we have tested 2 million in the U.S., elated that we finally passed South Korea in testing. But, hold on again...
"compared to South Korea, the US has conducted far fewer tests per capita given the US population is more than six times larger than South Korea's."
Once more Donald Trump doesn't outright lie but makes the inference that he has done a great job in testing, when, in fact, testing in this country is still miserably behind where it should be. READ MORE...
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Donald Trump fails miserably as U.S. quartermaster for coronavirus supplies...
Looks capable but completely inept
Washington state governor Jay Inslee has done a remarkable job of saving his state, which had been labeled as the epicenter for the COVID-19, what at that time was only an epidemic. Washington has a total of 9,342 cases, 431 deaths (59 per 1,000), but no new cases and no new deaths. It would seem that if Inslee were leading the country and not Donald Trump, the virus situation would be much better. T-rump's actions even sound downright criminal.
With coronavirus deaths approaching 15,000, medical supplies are depleting at a faster rate than they can be depleted. As the New York Times put it, it is a “signature failure,” which can only be attributed to one Donald Trump for his handling of the U.S. pandemic. Governor Inslee explains...
"how President Trump’s lack of “urgency” is directly contributing to equipment shortages hobbling response efforts — and hinted at an alarming scenario ahead."
Gov. Inslee talks about Washington's COVID-19 results...
First, the Oval Office lunatic calls it a hoax, then he blames the whole thing on Democrats before finally facing up to what was really going on. But he still doesn't get it, and is totally responsible for the current shortcomings for COVID-19. Inslee pleads for a stronger voice from the White House, but we all know there is none, only Trump's incompetence. The difficulties in procuring equipment is "inexplicable and infuriating," he says, and added,,,
"As dogged reporting has shown, the federal government’s handling of medical supply chains has left states and health-care providers scrambling in a state of confusion and without badly needed supplies."
Once again, it can all be traced back to the fact that Trump failed, "to fully deploy the Defense Production Act to marshal private sector resources." This is still a problem for Washington state, and they got an early start on the problem, simply due to White House incompetence. Here's one example, Inslee's state has one simple problem, unused testing capacity because it lacks one thing: the swabs needed to take samples. The governor complained...
“It seems ridiculous that the United States can’t produce enough swabs to solve this problem. I have 50 or 60 long-term care facilities that have infections in them that we literally have not been able to do the testing we want of remaining residents and staff.”
Adam Schiff criticizes Trump saying, "incompetence kills..."
They finally procured the swabs on their own, but now he's concerned about vials. It all boils down to, “an inadequate supply chain” that’s “grossly inadequate to the demand.” And that is...
directly traceable to “at least a month” of lost time, because “the president was downplaying this problem and had not engaged the full force of the federal government.”
And, apparently some of the problem hinges on the fact that small businesses that manufacture the needed products need help in financing the overtime due to the overall economic situation. Inslee wonders why the federal government hasn't been more active in identifying these industries who make the necessary products and make sure they get the help. He calls it a "schizophrenic approach adopted by the federal government." The term explained...
Trump initially told states they were mostly on their own, which led to a bidding war among states seeking supplies from a range of manufacturers and suppliers. Now the feds have sought to exert control over distribution, but it appears piecemeal and partial.
Inslee, again, places blame on not initiating the Defense Production Act earlier and a failure by Trump in the coordination of availability of parts. And here's a point that cannot be ignored, even when things get better with new cases and deaths on the decline, testing will be at least as important then, if not more so than now. We have to "mobilize" as does the military for war, and that is where he indicated we need a quartermaster, not a Trump, in control. READ MORE...
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HEADLINE: "More US voters believe Trump is a better leader during the coronavirus outbreak than Joe Biden, according to a new poll"...
First of all, how would anyone know how Joe Biden would have handled the COVID-19 dilemma, since he had nothing to do with it so far. Second, even surmising what Biden would have done, and knowing what Trump has not done, and his blunders in the coronavirus efforts we have suffered through so far, more people choose Trump as the leader? If this is the case, and the study shows it is 44% to 36%, Trump/Biden, then the Trump double-digit supporters out there haven't learned a thing. READ MORE...
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