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Donald Trump still doesn't get it for COVID-19 testing

Italy has almost double the coronavirus testing, per capita, than the United States...

One of the muddled Donald Trump coronavirus briefings

But on early March the United States was dead last with only 5 tests per capita compared to seven other major countries like Italy, the U.K. and So. Korea. We should have been number one then and should be on the top now with our lead in technology and financial status in the world. It is pathetic and the total cause for the delay can be placed at the feet of Donald Trump. He first called the virus a hoax, then blamed it on the Democrats.

Not only is it his over two month wait to do something (early January notification to action March 15), but it is clear that he still doesn't have a clue how to get major testing going as reported by Politico...

"The president and his team in the White House are rushing to counter perceptions and develop a coherent message about the nation’s ability to test Americans for the coronavirus quickly and broadly, a prerequisite governors and business leaders have outlined to successfully get the economy back on track."

The Oval Office lunatic changes his mind regularly from claiming complete control over states for COVID-19 response to telling governors it is their responsibility to come up with disease testing. The result continues to be delayed testing which increases deaths from the virus. As of today there are 45,013 fatalities caused by coronavirus. It's been over three months since China had its first case and Donald Trump continues to blame others rather than act.

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Nursing homes and African Americans ...latest COVID-19 problems

While the blockhead protesters argue over economy or death, the African Americans and those in nursing homes have no choice...

The choice is death, over which neither group has control. The former due to the "racial character of inequality in the United States," according to the New York Times. Here's their reasoning...

"black Americans are more likely to work in service sector jobs, least likely to own a car and least likely to own their homes. They are therefore more likely to be in close contact with other people, from the ways they travel to the kinds of work they do to the conditions in which they live."

For nursing homes, there are multiple reasons and they all, by agreement, combine to make the overall task of caring for these folks seem almost impossible. For one, they are crammed together, making social distancing futile, second, staffs are already strained and now "there are reports of staff abandoning facilities when covid-19 cases appear." Third, these facilities have had management problems for years, with improvement, but now that's all reversed.

There are so many more and I urge you to read this Washington Post article that outlines many of the problems with nursing homes in the coronavirus pandemic. At this point, if there are any of your family that you are considering placing in one of these facilities, you might want to think again. Here's the scenario...

"As awful as these stories are, the situation could still deteriorate further, from terrible to unimaginable. The age and fragile health of their residents are not nursing facilities’ only vulnerabilities. The industry is potentially facing a financial catastrophe that could prevent any meaningful attempt to beat back covid-19."

 African Americans higher rate of COVID-19...

And can we argue that the workplace hasn't and still isn't geared toward white Americans for higher paying jobs, thus, better able to pay more for improved healthcare? I think not. The NYT says, and once again I believe this article is well worth a read...

"If black Americans are more likely to suffer the comorbidities that make coronavirus more deadly, it’s because those ailments are tied to the segregation and concentrated poverty that still mark their communities."

Nursing homes have a business model you can read about in WP, and it isn't working since COVID-19 has turned it upside down, which could worsen even more and put additional liabilities in the way of caring for the sick. But here's the answer...

"To stay afloat, nursing homes must take enough high-revenue short-stay Medicare patients to offset the low-revenue long-stay Medicaid residents. Otherwise, they will go out of business."

For the black community, the answer is the same it has been for years, but totally ignored. STOP RACISM. Not simple, but doable, and the timing couldn't be better. 

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Here's the headline for Kentucky COVID-19 idiots "Protesting for the Freedom to Catch the Coronavirus"

Anti-vaxxer mentality prevails in Kentuckians leading the coronavirus protests...

Let me be free to kill myself and your family

The portion of the headline, "Protesting for the Freedom to Catch the Coronavirus," is from the New York Times reflecting what these morons are apparently attempting to accomplish. 'Let's go out and catch the disease so we can take it home to our families, especially the kids and grandparents who are in the most vulnerable category. I believe the time has really come to collect all these people together and place them in concentration camps.

And then there's this Newsweek headline, "KENTUCKY REPORTS HIGHEST CORONAVIRUS INFECTION INCREASE AFTER A WEEK OF PROTESTS TO REOPEN STATE," which speaks to Donald Trump's whole idea of pushing to open the country before having an adequate testing program in place insure we can track cases. Trump is simply afraid of more COVID-19 testing because he fears the additional cases it will turn up.

Kentucky Gov. re. protests...

The opening of the U.S. economy? Here's what CNN reports...

"As it stands in this coronavirus pandemic, the answer remains entirely unclear. Health experts have said the United States needs to rapidly increase its ability to test people for the virus in order to safely reopen without sparking a new wave of infections. Many governors have asked the federal government -- which has refused to take responsibility for shortages -- to help ramp up that testing capability."

Again, the Oval Office lunatic afraid of seeing new coronavirus cases. And so the beat goes on, first Kentucky, then whatever next state has the most double-digit IQs, and then on and on until those of the most ignorant species have killed themselves...and us. What this country has come to.

How I did it...Sabotaged COVID-19 response

It is impossible to compare Donald Trump with any past president - not likely that there will be anything like him in the future...

Always with the mouth open, yet nothing to say.

According to RawStory, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt rank at the top of the U.S. presidents. Lincoln for his handling of the Civil War, Roosevelt for his efforts in the Great Depression, and World War II. George W. Bush comes in at close to the bottom of the list, and Donald Trump, if there is any way to place him under the bottom of the list, well, that is where you would find him. It is hard for one to reconcile how the one running this country could be so appallingly labeled.
The article explains that the only reason Trump has been able to preserve a 40% approval rating is the fact that he is by...

"riding his predecessor’s economic coattails and effectively manipulating the lizard brains of white Republicans, but even before the coronavirus hit, Trump was considered one of the worst presidents in the two surveys of scholars done in 2018."

Trump's delayed efforts on COVID-19...

Trump's first efforts in the coronavirus crisis was on March 13, over two months from when his "administration claims to have first become aware of the virus." There was another alert from Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, on January 18. Here's the latest scenario...

"With two thousand Americans dying every day and reported cases in the States increasing by a hundred thousand each week, we are only now beginning to grasp the depths of human misery unleashed by Trump’s inattention to the coronavirus for those ten long weeks."

In most modern civilizations Donald Trump would be classified as a murderer for allowing this to happen. But not in the United States, where the Senate is controlled by Moscow Mitch McConnell with a Republican Congress scared of the Oval Office lunatic. Here's another example of GOP ineptness...

"Ronald Reagan was able to ignore the AIDS crisis for years because it was “a gay disease” and didn’t impact anyone close to him until his old Hollywood acquaintance Rock Hudson asked for—but did not receive—his help in 1985."

Ronald Reagan's absurd response to AIDS epidemic...

 While increasing an "already-bloated defense budget and passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut overwhelmingly tilted to the 1%" in his first budget to Congress, he...

"cut funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the agency tasked with protecting public health in the face of the opiate epidemic, AIDS, flu, and infectious outbreaks."

And then a couple years later along came the COVID-19 pandemic. It was February 1, 2018, that the Washington Post reported the CDC would cut 80 percent of its efforts to prevent a global disease outbreak. And this is one of the major reasons the CDC was so inadequate, and still is, in its efforts to fight the coronavirus in this country. Here's a summation of T-rump's assault on U.S. healthcare...

“Collectively, warns Jeremy Konyndyk, who led foreign disaster assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development during the Obama administration, ‘What this all adds up to is a potentially really concerning rollback of progress on U.S. health security preparedness.’

“‘It seems to actively unlearn the lessons we learned through very hard experience over the last 15 years,’ said Konyndyk….‘These moves make us materially less safe. It’s inexplicable.’”

The entire Donald Trump presidency can be considered "inexplicable," or worse if you can find the words. And here's the next stupid move...

"On May 10, 2018, Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton [just hired in April] “re-organized” the National Security Council (NSC), or more accurately “fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure” which had been set up by the Obama administration after the Ebola crisis, by collapsing the NSC’s Office of Global Security."

There's more...

"In the wake of Bolton’s action, the top official tasked with coordinating a response to a pandemic, Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer from the National Security Council, resigned on the same day that a new Ebola outbreak was reported in the Congo."

Donald Trump hires and fires John Bolton...

It is now evident that Trump has made it his goal to undo all the great programs Barack Obama had put in place during his administration, and the White House maniac continues that course of action today. And there was even more notice of the coming COVID-19 pandemic late last year...

"In September of 2019, a 'study by the Council of Economic Advisers ordered by the National Security Council predicted that a pandemic similar to the 1918 Spanish flu or the 2009 swine flu could lead to a half-million deaths and cost the economy as much as $3.8 trillion.'”

It was that same month that " the Trump administration ended PREDICT, a “pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat.”  If it is possible to believe, there is so much more and Dan Benbow from Raw Story has done an excellent job of bringing it to you in his opinion piece here...a must read.

Kidney problems and dialysis machines newest coronavirus crisis

For those with serious kidney problems, getting a dialysis machine may prove hard to do in the future...

Dialysis machines on the ready

Here's the CNN headline: "New Covid-19 crisis hits ICUs as more patients need dialysis." With some of their patients going into kidney failure, Doctors are experiencing a shortage of the supplies needed to treat them and the dialysis machines necessary to keep them alive. That isn't all...

"They say they are overwhelmed, not only because patients are going into kidney failure, but also because the body's intense reaction to the virus is often causing their blood to clot too much, and the clots are literally clogging up the dialysis filters."

Get the latest information from the CDC about COVID-19...

The whole complication is changing from the threats of "pneumonia that has been one of the defining symptoms of serious Covid-19 disease," to "systemic effects on their hearts and other organs." Namely, kidney failure. This is a statement from Dr. Sam Parnia, a critical care specialist at New York University Langone Medical Center...

"It's taken everyone by surprise because it is acting so different from everything else."

It's always the unknowns that slow down the progress and this time it is...

"They are not dying because they can't get enough oxygen. They are actually dying because of other complications and it is predominately due to blood clots."

That would explain some of the recent deaths of patients on ventilators. It wasn't their lungs that killed them, it was their kidneys. But the medical profession is still learning with this new virus, and hopefully this save lives in the future. 

Republicans are sick and I don't mean just mentally

Here's the RawStory headline: "Red states may be facing a perfect storm of illness and death from COVID-19"...

Trump, surrounded with other morons 

We're talking about previously minimum outbreaks of COVID-19 due to the low density of rural areas compared to New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. That has now changed...

"More than two-thirds of rural counties have confirmed at least one case.” Forty-two states now have over 1,000 confirmed cases of the disease, and many red states are among those conducting the fewest tests."

There's more...

"Polls consistently find that Republicans–especially those who watch Fox News regularly–are more likely than Democrats to believe that COVID-19 is similar to the seasonal flu, and that the media and Democrats are hyping the seriousness of the pandemic to harm Donald Trump’s prospects in November."

Coronavirus effects on rural areas...

And there are additional health factors involved...

"According to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 17 of the 20 states with the highest rates of smoking are red. Two are swing states and one, North Carolina, has only become blue in the past couple of cycles.

"Twelve of the 15 states with the highest self-reported rate of diabetes are red.

"Thirteen of the 15 states with the highest obesity rates are as well.

"Of the 15 states with the largest share of their populations reporting being in “fair” or “poor” health, one is blue, two are swing states and the rest are solidly Republican.

"Among the 15 states with the highest rates of death from heart disease, four are swing states but none are blue states.

Not only do we have a bunch of double-digits running around out there rooting for Donald Trump, these same Republicans don't seem to give a damn about their health. 

Trump ranking declines where other world leaders surge on COVID-19

Donald Trump bungles the COVID-19 emergency in the United States, where other world leaders have excelled in their countries...

Contemplating...What will I screw up next?

Here's the headline from Forbes: "Most World Leaders See Approval Ratings Surge Amid Coronavirus. Not Trump." But does anyone wonder why with the level of incompetence he and his minions have exhibited in handling the crisis  Only the double-digits that support him. And this will all play out even more as those ding-a-lings who hit the Jacksonville, Fla. beaches yesterday spread around their frivolity, perhaps more. Thanks to Fla.'s idiot governor, Ron DeSantis.

Donald Trump's deplorable response to COVID-19 handling...

There are several "key facts" about Trump's handling of the dilemma, but here is a comparison well worth mentioning...

"Some world leaders have seen spectacular rises in support, especially Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel, whose approval rating increased 11 points to 79% since early March, according to a recent poll from Forschungsgruppe Wahlen."

Germany has had 143,160 coronavirus cases and 4,451 total deaths, according to WORLDOMETER. The U.S. 734,525, 38,768 deaths, but the huge difference is Germany's deaths per 1,000 population of 53, compared to the U.S. which is double that at 117. This is an excellent article, worth reading, documenting how Donald Trump's handling of the COVID-19 crisis reflects the highest level of incompetence in comparison with our allies. More than pathetic!

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This would solve the problem of opening the U.S. economy...

...if we had an expert like Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the CDC, in sole charge of disseminating any and all information on the coronavirus pandemic...

The Big Mouth

Dr. Fauci has proven himself credible and dependable to see the problems, analyze the situation and come up with the correct answers. But we know that giving him free reign won't happen with the big mouth maniac
in the Oval Office. So what do we do? The coronavirus clown just did an about-face on

The coronavirus clown

shutdowns he had previous determined...

"The feds were issuing broad guidelines, he said, but 'governors will be empowered to tailor an approach that meets the diverse circumstances of their own states....'"

But then...

"Before noon on Friday, Trump and his thumbs had ripped off the mask to reveal the man we always knew was underneath: the raging, juvenile, divisive partisan with Twitter Tourette’s.

“LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” he wrote. “LIBERATE VIRGINIA!” “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!”, he said, clearly siding with protesters who’ve broken social distancing restrictions to put themselves and their neighbors at risk. It is no mistake he chose three swing states with Democratic governors who have gone out of their way to work with regional partners.

Dr. Anthony Fauci says there should be a stay-at-home order for the ENTIRE country...

"The New York daily News profiles Donald Trump the, "nation’s supposed leader reverts again to being its loudest whiner, its blame-shifting, chaos-causing, whirlwind-reaping rabble-rouser," finishing their article with...

"None of this is the least bit surprising. Just as when the dog, who has gone to obedience school and put on an “I’m sorry” face many times, makes on the carpet again. If it wouldn’t violate social distancing rules, we’d roll up today’s Daily News and hit him on the nose again."

Hope your 'stay at home' weekend is going great!

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Dumping Moscow Mitch like reforming complete political system

Fix Our Senate Group running killer ads against Moscow Mitch McConnell for protecting Republican Senators "profiting from stock sales while America fights coronavirus.”

Moscow Mitch hung out to dry

Moscow Mitch and his wife Elaine Chou are mired in their own share of corruption in Kentucky and McConnell knows if he pulls the plug on them, they will do likewise. But this sort of thing does naturally fit his personality. The other culprits include...

"Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), who are among a handful of senators accused of potentially violating a law banning Congress members from making financial trades based on nonpublic information."

Moscow Mitch has made it his goal to stop anything that is presented by Democrats in the Senate, and you might remember his statement when Barack Obama was elected indicating he would see that he was only a one-term president. He failed. And the ad also takes a swipe at how he miserably fails his constituency and other Americans...

"The narrator of the ad also hits McConnell for putting 'handouts for big corporations ahead of real assistance for regular Americans.'”

Politico reminds us of the political corruption between Moscow Mitch and wife Elaine Chao in Kentucky underhanded Transportation deal...

Donald Trump reigns today as the self-made king he has created simply because Moscow Mitch remains completely silent and even encourages him at times. Again the ad...

“His corruption continues while doctors and nurses can’t get the supplies they need and millions are unemployed,” the narrator says. “Enough is enough. Tell Mitch McConnell: end the culture of corruption in the Senate.”

But McConnell is 78 years old, an age where he can't afford to get coronavirus, so you would think this slimeball would be more supportive of fighting the virus. Dianne Feinstein, also accused of selling her stock made this statement...

A spokesperson for Feinstein told The New York Times at the time that the senator had nothing to do with the decision to sell her stocks. Feinstein’s assets are in a blind trust and the senator has no involvement in her husband’s financial decisions, the spokesperson said.

Amy McGrath, running against McConnell in Kentucky will surely be the winner now. GO AMY! But we have no doubt not seen the last of this. 

Trump drive to open economy meets failure

Here's the headline from Common Dreams: "Trump’s effort to enlist private companies to reopen economy derided as an utter failure."

CEOs give Trump heave-ho on opening economy

Yes, the CEOs that run America's corporations are much smarter than the Oval Office lunatic and, despite the fact that they are all extremely profit-minded, they realize the dangers of putting their employees back to work. This would indicate to the triple-digit IQs, and even the double-digit Trump supporters that this idiot is only interested in one thing by forcing the economy to open too soon, it is his desperation to win the November election. Here's the scenario...

"An attempt by President Donald Trump to enlist the assistance of private business leaders in his efforts to reopen the U.S. economy by early May was panned as a failure by participants and observers alike as the White House response to the coronavirus pandemic appears set to make an economic crash worse."

Here's what one CEO who commented anonymously for fear of White House reprisals told Politico...

“He’s got to stop talking about turning the economy back on and start talking about making people feel safe, things that are happening around testing, and the health care system. That’s the only way you will really get the economy reopened over a period of time.”

CEOs are most concerned about COVID-19 testing, which has been a complete failure by Donald Trump, promising, but never delivering. He has boasted about the 3-million done, when the healthcare industry has said we need millions per week, of not by the day. Trump had the gall to open the call with the comment, "testing is under control," which must have sent many of the corporate heads into silent convulsions.

Yet new guidelines from Trump to open economy...

But the same advisers who apparently talked the White House maniac out of officially appointing his daughter, Ivanka, and her husband Jared Kushner to head up the advice team to reopen the economy, talked him into the call to corporations with the following results...

"Those people have apparently told him it would be absurd to get back to regular life before the government has hugely increased testing capabilities."

The dumbest duo

 Donald Trump is still clueless after having been alerted on January 18, by Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, who warned him then of the coronavirus threat. That's three months and still Trump does not have a workable COVID-19 testing plan to save more American lives. But it does seem that some employers would be amenable to sending employees back to work if they are immune from litigation. Some fake concern there, perhaps?

Politico's Ben White reported the typical Donald Trump mishandling of things in setting up the corporate executive calls...

“The whole thing was a bit of a disaster, the way they announced this on Tuesday,” White explained on MSNBC, “read a lot of corporate CEO names that had no idea they were a part of this effort to reopen the economy, didn’t give anybody really time to plan to be on these calls. Among the Wall Street executives, a lot of them had earnings yesterday and couldn’t be on the call. One JP Morgan executive tried for 20 minutes to get in and couldn’t.”

 White reiterated corporate execs response to Trump's demands that they help him get the economy rolling,..

“But we cannot do that, our employees will not feel safe until the testing regime is much more widespread, until people don’t feel like they’re going out to be guinea pigs to get the virus..."

But here is the headline to end all headlines: "Trump supporters fear Bill Gates wants to make a COVID-19 vaccine to secretly implant them with brain chips." Based on this statement, you have to assume that many of the double-digit Trump supporters are really in the single-digit category. And this is why we have another moron in the White House.

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Dopey Republicans said...Credible scientists said...

This is an argument that scientists and the healthcare community cannot afford to lose...

Here we have one of those stupid arguments that have become commonplace since Donald Trump settled in the White House. The plausible and rational side and the Trump side. leaving the American public in the middle to suffer, some die, from a virus the Oval Office lunatic should have been on the top of from the beginning (having been advised of the potential pandemic on January 18) but clearly has not been. Two months of doing nothing.

Republicans are telling T-rump it should have happened yesterday, referring to the opening of the economy. Credible scientists have shown in a study that, "Social distancing measures may be necessary until 2022 to contain coronavirus pandemic." Okay, there is a middle ground here somewhere and I'll bet the scientific community is more willing to negotiate than are Trump and his minions. Here are the findings...

"In the study, published in the journal Science Tuesday, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers projected that several smaller outbreaks of COVID-19 could follow the more severe pandemic.

"They determined that prolonged periods of social distancing may be necessary in order to control transmission and prevent health care facilities from becoming overwhelmed."

Good illustration of COVID-19 SPREAD...

Obviously it will require a widespread educational program that Donald Trump is no doubt incapable of handling but could be implemented by those in healthcare who know what they are doing. Dr. Anthony Fauci would not be the right leader as long as he is under the thumb of T-rump. Scientists should form their own group like the Democratic governors have done to do their own thing, refusing to let Donald Trump interfere.

This is the case from the right, which you have to understand has no concern for the average American's health but is thinking only of starting up a lagging economy for just one reason, to win the November election...

"President Donald Trump is itching to reopen the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. And congressional Republicans are mostly giving him the green light — and in some cases, leaning on him to speed up.

"As Trump alternately agonizes over when to push states to reopen and browbeats governors with questionable claims of his superior authority, GOP lawmakers are urging federal guidance that quickly restarts some industries and begins to roll back unprecedented closures of vast swaths of the United States."

There are 24 states with Democratic governors and considering the recent "mutiny," as Trump described it, they plan to do the right thing with their states no matter what the White House maniac says. Naturally, the good guys, and gals, are rooting for the scientists and the governors.

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