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Thursday, March 26, 2020

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The coronavirus pandemic...TODAY...



Trump partners with tech firm Oracle to promote his two drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, online with none other than his family henchman, Jared Kushner, in charge. Both are unproven and a chloroquine derivative has killed an Arizona man...READ MORE...

Here's a statement from Maryland's Republican Governor Larry Hogan, who warned Tuesday...
that the messaging coming from Donald Trump and his administration about the coronavirus pandemic is "pretty confusing," while also countering the president's suggestion that life would soon go back to normal.
Imagine how those not with inside info feel...READ MORE...

Here's the latest on Donald Trump's miracle drugHydroxychloroquin. for coronavirus...
"Hydroxychloroquine — an anti-malaria drug that President Donald Trump has touted as a potential “game-changer” in the treatment of the coronavirus — was no more effective than standard treatments in a new study."
READ MORE...

With coronavirus, domestic violence victims locked in with abuser...
“My husband won’t let me leave the house,” a victim of domestic violence, tells a representative for the National Domestic Violence Hotline over the phone. “He’s had flu-like symptoms and blames keeping me here on not wanting to infect others or bringing something like COVID-19 home. But I feel like it’s just an attempt to isolate me.“
READ MORE...

Experts warn of second wave of COVID-19 in China...
relates to As China’s Virus Cases Reach Zero, Experts Warn of Second Wave"China has no new infections of the coronavirus domestically for the first time since the start of a crisis that has sickened over 80,000 Chinese people. But what could be a sign the country has defeated the fatal pathogen is likely to just be a temporary reprieve.
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Here's a headline that perfectly describes the character of Donald Trump: "Psychiatrist warns sociopath Trump ‘could see dead bodies’ from coronavirus ‘and step over them.’"...
"Dr. Justin Frank literally wrote the book on Donald Trump’s mind and behavior. In “Trump on the Couch,” Frank tracks Trump’s life from childhood to adulthood and reveals a man who is mentally unfit in many ways — from his intelligence, values, emotions and temperament down to the deepest parts of the psyche — to be president of the United States of America."
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Trump makes up "stuff" to look like a competent leader...
"Writing in The Bulwark this Wednesday, Tim Miller chronicled how President Trump 'downplayed the threat of and ignored warnings' of the burgeoning threat of coronavirus in the early days of the outbreak. Despite the documented evidence of the White House initially attempting to minimize the threat, the Trump administration is trying to establish an 'alternate reality' that paints Trump as a competent leader who was ahead of the situation."
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Grocery store had to throw out $35,000 in food when a woman intentionally coughed on it...
Employees at Gerrity's Supermarket in Hanover Township disposed of $35,000 worth of produce that the woman had contact with and disinfected the areas where she coughed. "The unnamed woman entered small grocery chain Gerrity's Supermarket in Hanover Township and started coughing on produce, bakery items, meat and other merchandise, chain co-owner Joe Fasula wrote on Facebook."
She was arrested by police and will be criminally charged...READ MORE...

More spite for Obama in the following headline: "Trump White House ignored Obama-era NSC ‘playbook’ for pandemic response: report"...
"The Trump White House has no excuses for its lack of pandemic preparedness. None. Every few days we learn about yet another warning from the past, another way some part of the government tried to prepare for a pandemic, only to have Team Trump ignore all the preparation and waste months denying that coronavirus was a danger to the United States, while the virus spread and our chances to contain it ebbed away."
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Friday, February 28, 2020


Will Trump drag his feet on coronavirus until it is out of control in the U.S.?

In this case, these two heads are horribly alarming

Unintelligible, as usual, Donald Trump in a news conference...
"claimed he saved America by shutting down flights, appointed Vice President Mike Pence to lead a coronavirus task force despite having few qualifications to do so, suggesting his public health budget cuts are no big deal because he can just hire more doctors later, and insisting that it was Democrats, rather than the epidemic, that tanked the stock market this week. 
This is beyond unconscionable and borders on the hysterical kind of talk the psychiatrists say he should be committed for.   READ MORE...

Trump fired pandemic response team in 2018...

Cutting budgets, Trump eliminated funding to Obama-era disease security programs and...
"Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, whose job it was to lead the U.S. response in the event of a pandemic, abruptly left the administration and his global health security team was disbanded."
There's more...
Overall in 2018, Trump called for $15 billion in reduced health spending that had previously been approved, as he looked at increasing budget deficits, cutting the global disease-fighting budgets of the CDC, National Security Council (NSC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) in the process.
And now we are facing a possible worldwide coronavirus epidemic which could turn into a pandemic having already started in the United States and getting worse.   READ MORE...

Larry Kudlow, Trump’s top economic advisor, falsely claimed that the U.S. had successfully "contained" the Coronavirus...

Where does he get these idiots? Kudlow is on a level with Education Secretary, Betsy DeVoss. The CDC had just warned of the deadly virus' spread in the United States. The U.S. had 53 confirmed cases as of last Monday. Kudlow even used the term "pretty close to air-tight" to describe its containment. It is pretty obvious that the Oval Office lunatic ordered Kudlow to make the statement to try and stabilize the stock market.

Larry Kudlow
Another cover-up by the Trump administration, but, the most frightening thing is that the White House maniac is making similar statements while a killer virus spreads throughout the United States. The horror of it all is, now Donald Trump has placed Larry Kudlow on his task force to respond to the coronavirus epidemic.  What will it take?   READ MORE...

Trump says we're very close to a Coronavirus vaccine. Dr. Anthony Fauci says it's a year away...

According to the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci says that a coronavirus vaccine is at least a year away, and that is because the Donald Trump administration has completely dropped the ball. Fauci, on CNN’s ” New Day,” was asked by host John Berman about the fact that Trump had made the statement, “We’re very close to a vaccine." the doctor replied...
“Well, the confusion is we’re close to starting a phase one trial to determine safety,” Fauci explained. “We’re going to do that in about one and a half to two months –but that doesn’t mean you have a vaccine. In order to get a vaccine, that’s practically deployable for people to use, it’s going to be at least a year to a year and a half at best.”
T-rump's confusion is that he is just completely confused, about everything he talks about, evidenced by the gibberish we hear every time he opens his mouth.  And it gets more pathetic every day.

Rachel Maddow exposes Donald Trump's anemic response to Coronavirus and reports on first U.S. case with no foreign source...



Trump silencing White House officials from talking about coronavirus to keep stock market up...

T-rump is scared to death the coronavirus epidemic and potential pandemic in the U.S. could lower his favorability ratings and lose the election for him in November. He doesn't give a shit about the American public and rants and raves from his self-appointed pedestal questioning the seriousness of the virus while we rack up 60 cases at home. And he's put the clamps on people who work for him...
"According to a report from the Washington Post, Donald Trump is trying to rein in officials in his own administration from talking about the spread of the coronavirus over fears that it will impact the stock market — and hurt his re-election prospects."
This idiot keeps saying it has been contained and cases will be at zero soon, as well as the fact--his fact--we will also shortly have a vaccine. All CDC officials have a resounding NO for each of these statements. When you watch the Oval Office lunatic, he appears to have complete belief in what he says. That is even more terrifying than the substance of his comments. It isn't the media's purpose to induce panic in the public, but it is their job to report the news accurately.



 

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Donald Trump incompetence unmasked


Today's wrap-up of Donald Trump incompetence...

TRUMP CORONAVIRUS FAKE NEWS
As of last Thursday, Donald Trump had tested only 77 people for coronavirus for that week. He promised 4,000 per day starting yesterday, but I have seen no indication that this has started. So much for T-rump promises...READ MORE...

Donald Trump waves as he announces an “Apprentice Legend Cruise” on Sept. 26, 2005, in New York. (Thos Robinson/Getty Images)Will Trump's connection to "Carnival Corp. chairman Micky Arison, a friend whose company helped sponsor Trump’s reality show franchise The Apprentice over the years, prompt him to give favoritism to the cruise industry? Yes, according to an article published on March 8...READ MORE...


Donald Trump's November chances of reelection have gone down the drain along with his incompetent presidency, says Peter Wehner who served under both Reagan and Bush. There's more...
"Wehner argues that while all the warning signs of Trump’s unfitness for the presidency have been clear for years, it’s taken the coronavirus crisis to really drive home just how big of a mistake it was to make him the most powerful person on the planet."
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The headline says it all: "Trump is breaking every rule in the CDC’s 450-page playbook for health crisis." On March, reported...
Amid an outbreak where vaccines, drug treatments and even sufficient testing don’t yet exist, communication that is delivered early, accurately and credibly is the strongest medicine in the government’s arsenal.
And then the Washington Post says...
"But the Trump administration’s zigzagging, defensive, inconsistent messages about the novel coronavirus continued Friday, breaking almost every rule in the book and eroding the most powerful weapon officials possess: Public trust."
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Duh??? What's next?
Here's a confirmation of the piece, above, scuttling Donald Trump in November's election. Again, the headline says it, "Coronavirus crisis has set off the ‘slow-motion collapse’ of the Trump presidency." Former New York Times editor Howell Raines added...
"that Trump has never been a particularly popular president and the government’s response to the pandemic will be his undoing."
One, and most of the country, can only hope...READ MORE...

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But here is the headline of the day, "Psychiatrist explains how Trump activates his supporters’ ‘reptilian and primitive emotional’ brains." Have you ever heard a better definition of T-rump's double-digit followers? I think not. Dr. James S. Gordon, a clinical professor at Georgetown Medical School adds...
"The insecurity that feeds Trump’s self-importance invites me to be more modest; his disregard for the truth shows me how vital it is for me to be honest; his greed shames me to greater generosity; his self-justification and self-righteousness invite me to deepened awareness of similar tendencies I may have; his fear of the ‘other’ challenges me to always take chances on mutual understanding.” 
If only Donald Trump could understand...READ MORE...

Here is more of the greed of the White House maniac. This is the scenario...
Melania, Trump, Merkel
"German lawmakers and government officials voiced outrage at reporting Sunday that the Trump administration is seeking to secure exclusive rights to a potential coronavirus vaccine being developed by the German firm CureVac as the pandemic spreads and takes lives across the globe."
He wants it exclusively for the United States, leaving the rest of the world to find their own, and, no doubt, has plans to add the German company to the Trump conglomeration when he no longer is in the White House. Now the end of this statement is purely my own, but doesn't it make sense, based on what we know about this professional con man?...READ MORE...

Well, there's still more but this is about as much as one can absorb on Donald Trump for a single session. Later...
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Friday, May 1, 2020

Donald Trump new excuse for failure...China did it


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...

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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.

There's more in the Washing Post, a good read...

Monday, April 13, 2020

Latest Coronavirus info


Things you may have missed in the COVID-19 chaos...

FOR CORONAVIRUS INFO
Take note if you live in Los Angeles, new York, or any other high-pollution city: HEADLINE: "New Research Links Air Pollution to Higher Coronavirus Death Rates."   READ MORE...

An empty Trump International Hotel on the Las Vegas stripPoor baby. It couldn't happen to a better asshole: HEADLINE: "Donald Trump 'lost $1bn in a month' from coronavirus lockdown."   READ MORE...

Put a fence around these people and let them fend for themselves: HEADLINE: "Ammon Bundy and other far-right extremists in Idaho vow to defy GOP governor’s social distancing order: report."   READ MORE...

As Donald Trump continues to push hydroxychloroquine, whose manufacturer he has an investment in, there are alarms out: HEADLINE: "Mayo Clinic cardiologist: 'Inexcusable' to ignore hydroxychloroquine side effects."   READ MORE...

Hard to believe but the COVID-19 virus is racist: HEADLINE: "'It's a racial justice issue': Black Americans are dying in greater numbers from Covid-19." 
READ MORE...

There is no end to what Donald Trump will do as a corrupt individual, even sitting in the oval office, to line Donald Trump's pockets: HEADLINE "Trump is using the pandemic as cover for his latest crime spree." You gotta read this...
"Donald Trump is on a search-and-destroy mission to remove anyone who might get in the way of him committing more crimes or using the federal government as a personal piggybank for himself and his friends. And he’s using the coronavirus pandemic as a cover..."
READ EVEN MORE...

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment take bodies through a tent before loading them onto a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn.Young people think they are immortal when it comes to the coronavirus, prompted partially due to media that emphasizes age when talking of the seriousness of COVID-19. We have one of those in the family whose comment was, "Oh, it's only a virus." Beyond pathetic: HEADLINE: "Hundreds of young Americans have now been killed by the coronavirus, data shows." 
READ MORE...

The experts have reversed on the earlier announcement that coronavirus will go away with Summer and the heat. HEADLINE: "Summer Heat May Not Diminish Coronavirus Strength."   READ MORE...

A man with untested COVID-19 yet but with mild resperatory symptoms kills 3 family members. HEADLINE: "A Man With The Coronavirus Hugged People At A Funeral And A Birthday Party. Three Of Them Died."   READ MORE...

CDC removes guidance on drugs touted by Trump to treat coronavirusThis pretty much blows all of the versions of hydroxychloroquine success. One view, "The study was a complete failure.HEADLINE: "Publisher of hydroxychloroquine study touted by Trump says the research didn't meet its standards."   READ MORE...

This is about as scary as it gets if you have coronavirus and can't breathe. HEADLINE: "80% of NYC's coronavirus patients who are put on ventilators ultimately die, and some doctors are trying to stop using them." 
READ MORE...

This ghastly video portrays why distancing is so important and life-saving. HEADLINE: "VIRUS PERIL Terrifying video shows how a single cough can spread a cloud of coronavirus across supermarket that lingers for minutes." READ MORE...

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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

What happened to coronavirus on Tuesday


Coronavirus spikes the news



Nouriel Roubini, given the name "Dr. Doom" for his accurate predictions of the 2008 financial crisis, just called a new one which, hopefully, will spell Donald Trump's doom in November. Roubini says, "the spread of coronavirus will tank the stock market and cost President Donald Trump the 2020 election. He added that the stock market could drop as much as 40% this year, which could very easily point to another recession. The economist commented...
“The Democratic field is poor, but Trump is dead.”
There's more...
“I live in New York City, and people there are hardly going to restaurants, cinemas, or theaters,” he said. “If it comes, we are totally f*cked.”
The stock market will recover; hopefully, Donald Trump won't. Can't be any more blunt than that...READ MORE...

Florida woman returns from Italy with coronavirus symptoms and cannot get verified to be tested. It's due to "refusal of health officials to conduct the necessary tests, according to CBS Miami." Here's her scenario...
“The doctor himself told me that, you know, he thinks that the results of my [preliminary] tests mean that I most likely have the COVID-19, but that the Department of Health did not want to pursue it further,” the woman said. “It was either the Department of Health or the CDC that decided not to further pursue the inquiry. But I was basically told that it is most likely that I have this virus and that I should self-quarantine.”
The hospital, Jackson Memorial, would only respond that they were, “following guidelines for testing established by the CDC and the Florida Department of Health.”  More evidence of Donald Trump interference?

Unbelievable only 1,900 tested for coronavirus in U.S. but 140,000 in So. Korea...


Did the CDC bungle the initial coronavirus tests? Reporters from ProPublica say yes. This is their assessment...
"As the highly infectious coronavirus jumped from China to country after country in January and February, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost valuable weeks that could have been used to track its possible spread in the United States because it insisted upon devising its own test."
The Centers for Disease Control ignored World Health Organization test guidelines used by other countries and embarked on research that ended in what was a similar test to what WHO had already developed. They distributed the kits...
"But when it was sent to labs across the country in the first week of February, it didn’t work as expected. The CDC test correctly identified COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. But in all but a handful of state labs, it falsely flagged the presence of the other viruses in harmless samples."
The admission from health officials...
“We’re weeks behind because we had this problem,” said Scott Becker, chief executive officer of the Association of Public Health Laboratories, which represents 100 state and local public laboratories. “We’re usually up-front and center and ready.”
That was before Donald Trump came to the White House.

Did Republicans stall the Coronavirus Bill just to protect the pharmaceutical industry over the welfare of the American people? The short answer is YES! When negotiations stalled on a federal spending package to address the spread of the coronavirus strain known as COVID-19, it was due to a dispute over vaccine pricing. Democrats even proposed free treatment and vaccine, but Republicans wanted to eliminate "fair and reasonable pricing," the federal procurement standard.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar commented, “We would want to ensure that we work to make it affordable, but we can’t control that price, because we need the private sector to invest. Price controls won’t get us there.” This dufus is talking about the rule of law when the U.S. is facing a potential pandemic in the coronavirus crisis. And it all can be traced back to the incompetence of the Donald Trump administration in handling the dilemma.

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The Grand Press ready to unload coronavirus cases in Oakland
Here is the latest on coronavirus from CNN: "Coronavirus is now in 34 states and a cruise ship linked to dozens of cases will soon dock in the US." And there are more cruise ships at sea with potential cases. The Grand Princess docked yesterday in Oakland disembarking 21 people with the disease that Oakland's Mayor and California's Governor say is under control. It was then "learned a California man who traveled on the same ship last month later died of coronavirus."

"At least 565 people in the US have tested positive for coronavirus, including 70 people who were repatriated to the US.," according to CNN. More than 3,500 have died worldwide and at least 105,000 have been infected, with these numbers climbing daily. What's really scary is "Hundreds of passengers have been infected from multiple cruise ships," and, as I indicated earlier, there are similar ships at sea with potential coronavirus infected passengers.

Princess Cruises which owns the Grand Princess and the Diamond Princess, earlier quarantined with the disease in Japan, "said the CDC has given a 'no-sail' order for another ship, the Royal Princess." It seems the cruise line says a crew member who recently served on the Grand Princess transferred to the Royal Princess just over two weeks ago. Princess claims it could not get the crew member tested.

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Chris Hayes of MSNBC

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes literally fumed in a recent show, "All In," over Donald Trump’s botched handling of the ongoing coronavirus crisis. One of his major points was how far we have fallen behind in testing with 164 U.S. cases reported by the CDC, more than 500 in the media. U.S. News just released an article that claims, "'Real' U.S. Coronavirus Cases May Have Topped 9,000," a number investigators allege was, "very conservative" in methods to estimate the number.

Hayes added...
“And when the tests do deploy, case numbers in the country will spike. which will freak people out,” Hayes explained. “They shouldn’t be. The whole point is that we do not know how many cases there are. Because — inexplicably! — we have not been testing nearly enough now for at least a week and probably longer."
This is purely my opinion, but I wouldn't put it past Donald Trump being the sole reason behind the fact that test kits haven't been distributed, because he is afraid of the large number of potential coronavirus cases that will be revealed from the findings. Bad for his favorability ratings for the November election. And, perhaps that's where the researchers in the U.S. News piece loosely predicate their findings. Chris Hayes makes several good point worth reading here.

Monday, March 2, 2020





Complete disarray as Donald Trump continues to bungle the coronavirus outbreak...

The Oval Office lunatic cannot realize, or if he can, which is most likely, that he and only he is responsible if the coronavirus goes out of control in the United States.

It is Donald Trump's administration that early on fired the pandemic response team in 2018...place the incompetent V.P. Mike Pence in charge of the coronavirus program...His US health department sent unprepared workers to assist Americans evacuated from China...and dating all the way back to 2017, Trump's intelligence team knew about the potential effects of coronavirus in the U.S., but were afraid to tell T-rump because they felt it might upset him. Unconscionable and all preventable.

Further, he is blaming it on the Democrats rather than the complete "bungling" of the problem by his administration. Trump's Twitter comment...
“Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus (sic) look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible. Likewise, their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape!”
Should be a permanent addition
This idiot can't even spell the name of perhaps the biggest potential health threat the United States and the world have seen in years...READ MORE...

CDC urgent on spread of coronavirus... The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is putting out the word for all Americans to be prepared for the possible escalation of the Coronavirus outbreak. This goes hand-in-hand with Donald Trump's continued tweeting that downplays the disease, while trying to lay the blame for all this on the Democrats and the media. No longer trying to prevent the virus from entering the country...
“The data over the past week about the spread in other countries has raised our level of concern and expectation that we are going to have community spread here,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the CDC’s head of respiratory diseases, told reporters on a conference call.
What is not known, she said, is when it will arrive and how severe a U.S. outbreak might be. “Disruption to everyday life might be severe” and businesses, schools and families should begin having discussions about the possible impact from the spread of the virus, Messonnier cautioned.
San Francisco has declared a medical emergency in preparedness, even though they don't yet have any cases. "Although the World Health Organization says the epidemic has peaked in China, coronavirus cases have surfaced in about 30 other countries, with some three dozen deaths reported." With the recent U.S. death in Seattle, a man, not a woman as T-rump reported, it isn't time for tweeting, it is time for action...READ MORE...

Trump's "Deep State" hit list...


Trump's MAGA morons still blaming the left's deep state...You know the term: "A deep state (from Turkish: derin devlet), also known as a state within a state, is a form of clandestine government made up of hidden or covert networks of power operating independently of a state's political leadership, in pursuit of their own agenda and goals,"according to Wikipedia. In this case it refers to underground Democrats bent on destroying Donald Trump. Yeah, sure.

Here's the scenario...
As POLITICO’s Ben Shreckinger and Alice Miranda point out, the “evidence” for the theory centers around the fact that an official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who’s been making public statements on the virus is the sister of Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general who oversaw the Mueller probe — and who some say suggested removing Trump from office. Now, Dr. Nancy Messonnier’s connection to Rosenstein is even being seized on by right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh and Jim Hoft, who is the publisher of the pro-Trump site Gateway Pundit.
"Shreckinger and Miranda [also] mention that there’s no evidence that federal health authorities are overstating the threat of coronavirus in an effort to undermine Trump."...READ MORE...

Typical Donald Trump headline: "Top expert on viral infections must get Pence’s approval before issuing statements." This as almost as ludicrous as the Oval Office lunatic putting Pence in charge of the coronavirus issue in the first place. I posted on Pence's irresponsible handling of the HIV outbreak as Indiana's governor, and a statement he had made earlier that smoking does not kill. The man is a certified idiot and as Bernie Sanders said, will probably try to pray himself out of the coronavirus dilemma.

George Orwell's totalitarian novel, "1984," has been used repeatedly to describe Donald Trump's administration, and the following statement is continuing proof that the White House maniac is truly a tyrant...
"The New York Times reports that Dr. Anthony Fauci, who serves as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has “told associates that the White House had instructed him not to say anything else without clearance” about the disease."
Fortunately, Fauci, alone, is smarter than the entire Trump administration, thus, we can probably expect leaks to benefit the American public when this becomes necessary.

A military hospital full of Spanish influenza patients in Kansas circa 1918. (National Museum of Health and Medicine)

If your memory of history is as bad as mine, you also do not remember the 1918 flu pandemic that killed millions. It was a new strain of influenza that "hit military camps in Europe on both sides of World War I." It took Spain to finally report the disease accurately so that its crucial nature was realized. Months later a bigger, deadlier wave swept across the globe. So how does that parallel today's dilemma?...
“They [the Trump administration] are clearly trying to put the best possible gloss on things, and are trying to control information,” said John M. Barry, author of “The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History.”
Now, this is beyond frightening. I don't mean to be alarming because this is the last thing we must do in a situation where a Donald Trump is in charge of the U.S. Government. And Moscow Mitch is in control of the Senate. Donald dufus could not handle a panic across this country, so we must be guarded in how re report the problem. And a problem it is. Here's the latest in Kirkland, WA, where the first U.S. death occurred...
"approximately 27 of the 108 residents and 25 of the 180 staff have some symptoms, health officials said during a teleconference with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Authorities report that some among them have pneumonia."
So, the motto today is don't panic, but do practice prevention... READ MORE...

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Coronavirus crisis TODAY


Things are happening so fast in the COVID-19 pandemic that brevity is the best format...

"Gov. Cuomo’s crisis leadership is putting Trump to shame." Cuomo says he's not running for president, but if he was???

"Nurses Share Coronavirus Stories Anonymously in an Online Document." They say coronavirus has turned American hospitals into “war zones.”Sonja Schwartzbach started compiling the accounts after she determined that hospital conditions were “far worse” than most people realized.

"Trump’s Coronavirus Disinformation Campaign Isn’t Working: Poll." According to this article neither the American public nor several lawmakers, even some Republicans, believe that Donald Trump can solve the COVID-10 crisis.

"Some Trump supporters fear coronavirus lockdowns are undermining ‘America’s masculinity’: history professor." Here's an example of a Trump supporter: "Jonathan Shuttlesworth, said that people who practice social distancing are “sissies” and “pansies” who have been 'neutered.'” Does it get more pathetic?

"The final death toll from coronavirus will not be the result of viral disease; it will be the result of mental disease. The greatest risk factor of disease and death is not being considered, and that is Donald Trump."
Image result for andrew cuomo donald trump"Cuomo says he doesn’t want to fight with Trump over politics in coronavirus response: ‘I think it’s anti-American’" The gentleman vs. the idiot.

"Americans rage as Trump admits he’s watching cable news amid the coronavirus pandemic." As the healthcare industry begs for more supplies and equipment to fight COVID-19, "Donald Trump spent Tuesday morning watching television and commenting [tweeting] on what he watched." Only a moron would give this idiot a good favorability rating.

"‘No more spending’: Trump and GOP cast doubt on new stimulus after securing $4.5 trillion corporate bailout." After Moscow Mitch got what he wanted for big business, he is refusing to give additional help to Americans that got pittance from the first stimulus bill, half of what corporations received.

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