Trump tries to dump CDC

Jennifer Prah Ruger served on the CDC Director's Advisory Ethics Subcommittee during the wake of SARS, anthrax attacks and avian influenza, and she totally disagrees with Donald Trump's reopening of the economy.

Jennifer Prah Ruger

She asks the question, "What has become of the CDC? The CDC is the national agency tasked with protecting America from threats to our health, safety, and security." She draws comparisons with other countries...

"CDCs in South Korea and Taiwan helped those countries act swiftly, decisively and successfully against Covid-19. The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control activated the Central Epidemic Command Center and imposed home quarantines, border restrictions, a face mask distribution system and other preventative measures. The CDCs in Taiwan and South Korea spearheaded rigorous detection and contact tracing, communication, and isolation."

Ruger comments that the CDC is a "national treasure" and just one of the reasons is that, as a very young agency, newly created in 1946, it eliminated malaria in 1951. The Oval Office lunatic wouldn't know this because his grasp of history only goes back to yesterday. She gives a good background in understanding the pandemic...

"A pandemic is an epidemic's spread across multiple countries. While pathogens are natural, epidemics and pandemics occur through human behaviors that spread them. Weak policies, institutions and leadership foster these disasters. Pandemics are preventable and controllable."

How COVID-19 spreads...

Ruger talks about 'human behavior' and it is obvious that the country reacts to Donald Trump's pronouncements, taking the lead on something they favor, like reopening businesses, etc. Trump sends out his double-digits to ramp up the crowd, resulting in an osmosis to those who aren't his supporters who temporarily forget the fact that COVID-19 is deadly, and there is a reason the scientists from the CDC have established their warnings.

 The great hope to curb the spread of coronavirus is, like with any disease, to create a vaccine to immunize the public. That's what the CDC and several private companies are attempting to do, but, T-rump, in his haste to open the country, minimizes the work being done with this headline, "Trump downplays the need for coronavirus vaccine: ‘It’ll go away at somepoint.’" Yeah, like a bad cold. He has said this before but it gets more stupid as the pandemic progresses.

Listen to the reasoning of a mentally incompetent moron who has no idea what he is doing...

“We think we’re going to have a vaccine in the pretty near future, and if we do we’re going to really be a big step ahead”

“And if we don’t, we’re going to be like so many other cases where you had a problem come in, it’ll go away at some point, it’ll go away. It may flare up and it may not flare up, we’ll have to see what happens, but if it does flare up we’re going to put out the fire and we’ll put it out quickly and efficiently. We’ve learned a lot.”

Donald Trump says COVID-19 will go away, vaccine or not...

This idiot has learned absolutely nothing, and the tragedy of the whole situation, as I have mentioned before, is that this oaf does not realize just how stupid he is. Everybody else knows but he doesn't. And this “Operation Warp Speed” crap is just another ploy to snow his double-digit followers, and mis-lead the general public in thinking that he actually has a plan. He doesn't...he never has...and he never will. It is free-wheel conning at its very best-Donald Trump perfected it.

NPR reports...

"Americans should oust President Trump from the White House and elect a leader who will support – rather than undermine – public health experts who are battling the COVID-19 pandemic, British medical journal The Lancet says in a newly published editorial."

Trump announces “Operation Warp Speed” bullshit...

Not a novel idea, except for the part about the CDC, which draws attention to how well this organization is respected, even across the pond. There's more...

The unsigned editorial sharply criticizes the Trump administration, saying it has marginalized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to a degree that is dangerous for both the U.S. and the world.

"Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics," the journal says.

Yes, we know that, and the balanced side of the U.S. population is doing everything it can to accomplish this in November. GET OUT THE VOTE!

WORLDOMETER Latest COVID-19 results

Coronavirus cases 1,524,551

Coronavirus deaths 90,902


Coronavirus recoveries 343,179

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"At least we can dump the pretense that the GOP is the ‘pro-life’ party"...

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Coronavirus cases 1,481,661

Coronavirus deaths 88,373

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Obama/Biden can beat Trump in 2020?

For some time now I have prescribed the idea that if we stay on Donald Trump's back with daily criticisms that eat at his ego, he just has to break.

Looks like to me Obama saw what was coming in 2016

Well, he hasn't, but at times you can almost see the breaking point at hand when the Oval Office lunatic hesitates, but then moves on to another crisis. Looks like this has saved T-rump from barreling right over the cliff, but not from ending up with the most disarrayed, chaotic, incompetent administration that has ever been in Washington. This is not good for the American people, but the pressure is necessary to prevent more disasters, and to dump Trump in November.

Donald Trump is obsessed with Barack Obama because, as his predecessor, he is constantly being reminded of the difference between a class presidency, that of Obama's, as compared to his own style that is crude, ignorant, lowbred, downright vulgar at times. It also doesn't help that...

"a recent poll showed that a majority of Americans, 52 percent, say Obama would be a better leader for the current crisis than Trump, who weighed in at only 38 percent."

Brian Kilmeade, a Fox News anchor even commented...

"When this election happens ... it's not gonna be Biden against Trump, it is gonna be Obama against Trump."

Obama criticizes Trump on COVID-19 pandemic handling...

David Frum, a political commentator, who worked in G.W.B.'s White House, is convinced about Donald Trump's horror of being rejected, and that is looking like just what will happen to him in the the Fall election. He bases this primarily on T-rump's predilection with Obamagate, and the fact that he is falling more and more out of touch with his followers. But, as he continues to play to his base with this nonsense, how many borderline supporters is he losing?

I did a post yesterday about Moscow Mitch and his denial of a COVID-19 Playbook from former President Obama, something that turned out to be entirely false. McConnell seems to have the same propensity to lie as does Trump, and he has become just as big a target in November. Amy Klobuchar, who opposed Joe Biden in the Democratic Primary, but now endorses him, said...

“You always imagine the different world it would have been if Barack Obama was president right now, because he is someone that understood that service is about sacrifice and looking out for the people of this country instead of yourself.”

In reality Donald Trump detests Barack Obama, and we all know the more he dislikes someone, the more he talks about them. Like Hillary Clinton. But, in this case he is biting the hand that represents everything Trump cannot be, a decent person. It is comical how the whole T-rump gang insists on making Obama a center-point in this election when he represents the politics of the man Trump is running against, Joe Biden.

Comparison between Trump and Obama on science, relating to COVID-19...

I will conclude by showing a comparison between the Obama and Trump administrations...

"And his administration was more free from scandal than any in memory — which was not for the GOP’s lack of trying. Republicans used their power in Congress to promote one faux scandal after another — including eight separate investigations of the 2012 Benghazi attacks — in the vain hope that one would eventually reveal wrongdoing by the president. But none ever did. There was never even a hint of personal malfeasance on Obama’s part." 

Just keep it going, it's rah rah rah Barack Obama all the way to the White house in November for Joe Biden.

WORLDOMETER Latest COVID-19 results

Coronavirus cases 1,450,366

Coronavirus deaths 86,587

Coronavirus recoveries 316,181

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Obama's COVID-19 Playbook denied by Moscow Mitch

Mitch McConnell wasn't smart enough to bring Barack Obama down when he was President, and McConnell was Senate head, and he is still lying about the former Obama administration.

The team that created Obama's coronavirus Playbook...

Moscow Mitch, along with Donald Trump, has regularly criticized the former president for leaving T-rump in a lurch on specific issues, this time for not providing a "game plan" on a potential crisis like COVID-19. To begin with, the White House maniac has created every "lurch" he has found himself in. Second, the accusation is an outright lie, since McConnell knows full well Obama left a 69-page Pandemic Playbook.

Daniel Dale of CNN reports...

"The playbook -- 40 pages plus appendices -- contains step-by-step advice on questions to ask, decisions to make, and which federal agencies are responsible for what. It includes sample documents that officials could use for inter-agency meetings. And it explicitly lists novel coronaviruses as one of the kinds of pathogens that could require a major response." 

Dale adds...

"The color-coded, checklist-style document addresses issues like testing, funding, personal protective equipment, emergency declarations, border control measures, diplomacy, the use of the military, public communication, even mortuary services."

Obama warned Trump of COVID-19 back in 2014...

What Barack Obama failed to realize, or perhaps being the nice guy he is, simply was giving them the benefit of the doubt, that Republicans, particularly Trump and McConnell, need a literal blueprint, a picture drawn to point out what needs to be done. Since no one in Donald Trump's administration was bright enough to follow the playbook, the boss resorted to lying, along with his pathetic ally. Or, was it just to deny Obama's efforts yet again?

Aside from being stupid and unable to read, the lowlife McConnell has absolutely no empathy. He is callous and cold-blooded to the point of nit giving a shit about the American public. CNN reports...

"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he would rather bankrupt states rather than send federal aid during the coronavirus pandemic.

If it doesn't advance his power in Congress, or help the Republican Party, Moscow Mitch is not interested. There's more...

"The Kentucky Republican, whose state is among the most heavily dependent on federal aid, told talk radio host Hugh Hewitt that states should be allowed to declare bankruptcy to get out from beneath burdensome public employee pension costs."

Obama defines Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic...

In other words, screw the people, those who have worked hard for their pensions, just hang them out to dry, with little hope, especially in today's situation, which is experiencing unemployment at a rate comparable to the depression. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tore into McConnell for his statement saying...

“this is really one of the dumb ideas of all time,” adding that not funding state and local governments is “incredibly short-sighted’ Cuomo went on to say that McConnell’s plan ignores police and fire departments, teachers and schools.

Cuomo goes on and on over McConnell's ignorance but one of his major questions about withholding funding was, “How do you not fund police and fire and teachers and schools in the midst of this crisis?” Cuomo asked incredulously. But there is one bright spot in all this, Democrats are grabbing on to the opportunity of using this against him in his Kentucky Senate race against Amy McGrath. The race is close with McGrath leading in fundraising. 

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Coronavirus cases 1,428,815

Coronavirus deaths 85,072

Coronavirus recoveries 307,893

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America has been deserted...Leaves world spinning

Donald Trump has abandoned the ship when the U.S. has normally served in the captain's roll, both at home and internationally.

The Oval Office lunatic has abdicated his throne, which has been scaring Americans for weeks, now is terrifying the rest of the world. We are depended upon to stand tall and come up with the answers to crises like the coronavirus pandemic, leading others to a solution to solve the problem. It isn't even certain that Donald Trump knows what the problem is, let alone have an answer to deal with it. He is pathetically missing in action.

Here's how CNN sees it...

"The United States has scaled back its role on the world stage, taken actions that are undermining efforts to battle the coronavirus pandemic and left the international community without a traditional global leader, according to experts, diplomats and analysts."

Leading CEO grouses on Trump...

In other words, the leader's chair is empty, and since the United States has always filled it. there is an international disaster brewing while the world starves for leadership. CNN adds...

"Former world leaders warn that the Trump administration risks alienating allies by politicizing the deadly pandemic with its push to punish China and have other nations choose sides."

When you have someone sitting in the White House who is completely incompetent in what he is doing, and also refuses to accept the failures of his ineptness, you have a disaster and that is what Donald Trump is. It is now being fostered on America and also globally, simply because of this implied expectancy from history that we have always been in control. Well, we aren't, and won't be as long as Donald Trump commands the ship.

Brad Reed in RawStory reports "Americans see Trump as the ‘main source’ of COVID-19 misinformation," and there is no one even close in comparison. We are used to this idiot's lies, 18,000, as of mid-April, adding more every day, and, unfortunately, he has an international reputation. But the news media is held responsible for 33% of the misinformation, and I would attribute the majority of this to Fox (misinformation) News.

And here is the misinformation specialist...

When it comes to blogs, there are those with a highly credible standing like Huff Post, Politico, Slate, etc. Their biggest asset is the size of their staff that can confirm news stories to ensure their accuracy, something that small bloggers like myself lacks. In my case, Nasty Jack Buzz is a political opinion blog, which some view as less accurate than a news blog. That is not true, at least in my case, because I am careful to clarify news sources from more than one site.

Many have compared gun violence deaths with car crash deaths, but now a moron Republican Senator, Ron Johnson, from Wisconsin, is comparing COVID-19 deaths with car crash deaths...

“We don’t shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways,” said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). “It’s a risk we accept so we can move about.” President Trump also took up the bogus argument while deploying his trademark exaggeration, insisting that car-related deaths are “far greater than any numbers we’re talking about.”

Are Republicans the death party?...

It would seem to me that Republicans have been on a death watch since the coronavirus first hit, and people began to die. In a Dallas newspaper:
"Republicans: The party of death during COVID-19." This was during a rash of comments by GOP members musing over whether some Americans were just destined to die of the virus, primarily directed toward the senior population. Some were shocked, others just passed it off as inevitable.

There is talk that Steve Bannon wants to return to the White House, and in T-rump's current desperation, he just might welcome this white nationalist, racist back. Here's one of his radical comments made when he was there before...

“The real opposition is the media,” Steve Bannon, the president’s former chief strategist, once told the journalist Michael Lewis. “And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”…

Nancy LeTourneau in the Washington Monthly replies...

"Donald Trump is asking us to enter even further into his house of mirrors. He is asking us to live within a lie, to live within his lie, for four more years. The duty of citizenship in America today is to refuse to live within that lie."

I think we get the point.

WORLDOMETER Latest COVID-19 results

Coronavirus cases 1,404,386

Coronavirus deaths 83,211

Coronavirus recoveries 276,412

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LATEST ON COVID-19: Dr. Fauci contradicts Trump in front of Congress

It has regularly fallen to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s top U.S. infectious disease expert, to correct Donald Trump's wild and incorrect briefings on coronavirus, making him the one source most of the American public depends on for accurate information.

Dr. Fauci testifies before Senate...

I say most because there are still those Trump double-digits who hang on the every word of Donald Dufus. These people have long since lost touch with reality along with the Oval Office lunatic, so are not included with the normal population. The normal population listens to Fauci, and as Sen. Chuck Schumer counseled the scientist before his hearing, "Let it rip," he did just that. Here it is verbatim...

"The risk is that reopening too soon, without widespread testing and contact tracing measures, will trigger outbreaks that governments may not be able to control.

"New hot spots could lead not only to unnecessary suffering and deaths but also set back attempts to revive local economies.

"Even though more than 100 potential vaccines are under development, “there’s no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective,” or worse could backfire and strengthen the virus."

 

To strengthen Dr. Fauci's  statements, areas around the country that have reopened are reporting...

"The 10 top areas recorded surges of 72.4 percent or greater over a seven-day period compared to the previous week, according to a set of tables produced for the task force by its data and analytics unit. They include Nashville, Tennessee; Des Moines, Iowa; Amarillo, Texas; and — atop the list, with a 650 percent increase — Central City, Kentucky.

 Since Fauci just testified this morning, Donald Trump has not had time to comment, nor has he had time to fire the doctor...yet.

Are COVID-19 deaths more relevant than gun deaths

Will Donald Trump's handling of the COVID-19 crisis eventually jaundice this country to the depths of the people beginning to ignore deaths from the virus as they have the deaths caused by gun violence?

A Brooklyn cemetery

That would mean then that coronavirus deaths share the same level of importance as when someone dies from being shot. Minimal. My reasoning is, right now people are shot every day but no one is doing a damn thing about it. Not the American public, not Congress, nor the dufus sitting in the White House. There have been 14,032 gun deaths since the start of 2020, 80,004 COVID-19 deaths since we first learned of the virus in early January.

Just recently on February 23, a black man, Ahmaud Arbery, was killed in Georgia and it took 74 days before the state stepped in and applied justice. Former police officer Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, have been arrested and charged with murder...

"Will Day, 25, of Brunswick, who had known Arbery since first grade, said the revelations about law enforcement agencies refusing to act on arrestable evidence continued to vex him, even after the murder charges.

“If I had done something like that, if I had shot somebody, I’m pretty sure I would have my justice served to me the same day,” said Day, who is black. Since Arbery’s death he said he’s “just been staying in the house. It used to be enough just to stay out of trouble and keep your nose clean.”

Video of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder...

And here we go again says Charlie Warzel in the New York Times...

"The coronavirus scenario I can’t stop thinking about is the one where we simply get used to all the dying."

Sound familiar. like what's going on today in gun violence?  Here's a headline from the Oberlin (Ohio) Review: "American Apathy Perpetuates Gun Violence." Could not have been said better; I call these people the apathetics. Warzel continues...

"I first saw it on Twitter. 'Someone poke holes in this scenario,' a tweet from Eric Nelson, the editorial director of Broadside Books, read. 'We keep losing 1,000 to 2,000 a day to coronavirus. People get used to it. We get less vigilant as it very slowly spreads. By December we’re close to normal, but still losing 1,500 a day, and as we tick past 300,000 dead, most people aren’t concerned.'”

Watch Trump's foolish, illogical and laughable timeline on COVID-19 reaction...

When it comes to COVID 19, we know what the source of the problem is. It is solely in Donald Trump's lap, and my opinion of how many virus cases and deaths we can expect by December is grossly underestimated, as long as the White House maniac is in control. The question, of course, is, if we dump Trump in November, can we recover?  Yes, coronavirus must stay on the front burner right now, but we mustn't ignore gun violence.

One immediate action that must be taken is to ban firearms from all COVID-19 demonstrations. Common sense would say to ban guns from any large gathering of individuals, except military and law enforcement. Folks, these gun nuts are carrying around assault rifles, regularly used to kill numerous people in mass murders. The slightest spark could set these double-digits off into a rage that would no doubt result in hundreds of deaths.

Michelle Norris of the Washington Post says...

"We’ve gotten far too accustomed to the image of white protesters carrying paramilitary-level firearms in public spaces. The presence of guns — often really large guns — at protests has become alarmingly normalized. It is time to take stock of what that means."

She adds...

"Accepting and even expecting to see firearms at protest rallies means that we somehow embrace the threat of chaos and violence. While those who carry say they have no intention of using their weapons, the firepower alone creates a wordless threat, and something far more calamitous if even just one person discharges a round."

It would appear there might be hope today in the gun violence dilemma; the National Rifle Assn. is on the ropes and it looks like head gun nut, Wayne LaPierre, is going down with it. Over the years the NRA has been the one lobbying group most responsible for gun violence as they fight to put more guns on the street. But what we do about the coronavirus pandemic, well, that is currently dependent on one individual.

But we must not put the disease in the same discounted and neglected category as we have relegated gun violence.