As Rahm Emanuel would say “Don’t let a good pandemic go to waste.”
We live in interesting times.
democrats are literally hoping that the Corona outbreak becomes widespread and causes loss of life in the US.
Catch this from CNN:
But misspelling the name of the virus is the least of the government’s problems. President Trump has systematically undermined trust in the media and other institutions that play important roles in public health emergencies. He has explicitly said not to trust sources that he doesn’t personally approve.
He has engaged in what several columnists have called a “war on expertise.” Scientists have been among those adversely affected. Last December an investigation by The New York Times concluded that science is “under attack” by Trump appointees.
“Trump’s disdain for science and his cuts to science and public health programs have subverted preparedness for emergencies like the coronavirus,” said Michiko Kakutani, the famous literary critic and author of “The Death of Truth.”
And from George (Brian Stelter) Costanza:
Since the dawn of the Trump era, countless experts have warned that the president's lack of credibility would imperil the country in the event of an emergency.
As the coronavirus outbreak worsens, those fears may be coming true… https://t.co/vFo8MJZV7i
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 26, 2020
Don Lemon: Pence Will Pray, ‘Allow People to Die’ Rather Than ‘Look at Science’ on Virus
Buzzfeed went off the rails bigly:
Trump at the press conference said he agreed with claims that Rush Limbaugh (upon whom he bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the State of the Union speech) made during his radio show this week, that the deep state had created the coronavirus as a political weapon to “to bring down Trump.”
Trump never said that and Limbaugh never said that.
Tom Steyer called Trump “incompetent” and this is Trump’s Katrina. Recall that Mr. Green Steyer made his billions in coal and gas.
Pelosi says it’s too late:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday accused the Trump administration of responding “too late” to halt the possible spread of China’s deadly coronavirus in the United States.
“This is shameful,” Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill when asked about the administration sending a $2.5 billion supplemental budget request to combat the illness. “He puts forth a proposal now that is meager, anemic in terms of addressing this. Ebola, we did $5 billion. And now they’re trying to take the Ebola money and spend it here.”
“What he’s doing is late, too late, anemic,” she added. “Hopefully, we can make up for the loss of time but we have to have professionals in place, resources that are adequate and not use scare tactics about people coming back to our country.”
‘This great genius has told us that this coronavirus is going to end in two months. April is the magical day that this great scientist we have in the White House has determined. I wish I was kidding. That is what he said.’
Schumer: “Towering incompetence”
Bear in mind that these are same a**holes who want open borders and support the free inflow of illegals who already have re-introduced diseases that this country had pretty much eradicated.
Trump not prepared? Beg to differ. This is from January 29.
Subject: Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding the President’s Coronavirus Task Force
Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the formation of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force. Members of the Task Force have been meeting on a daily basis since Monday. At today’s meeting, which the President chaired, he charged the Task Force with leading the United States Government response to the novel 2019 coronavirus and with keeping him apprised of developments.
The Task Force is led by Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, and is coordinated through the National Security Council. It is composed of subject matter experts from the White House and several United States Government agencies, and it includes some of the Nation’s foremost experts on infectious diseases.
The Task Force will lead the Administration’s efforts to monitor, contain, and mitigate the spread of the virus, while ensuring that the American people have the most accurate and up-to-date health and travel information.
And the members? An epidemiological Who’s Who:
Secretary Alex Azar, Department of Health and Human Services
Robert O’Brien, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health
Deputy Secretary Stephen Biegun, Department of State
Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Deputy Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
Joel Szabat, Acting Under Secretary for Policy, Department of Transportation
Matthew Pottinger, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor
Trump took action nearly a month ago:
Starting Sunday, U.S. citizens who have traveled to China in the last 14 days will be flown to one of eight U.S. airports for extra screening. U.S. citizens who have been in Hubei province, where the outbreak began, will undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine. Experts say the incubation period for the coronavirus is 14 days.
Most non-U.S. Citizens who have traveled to China within the last two weeks will not be allowed to enter the U.S., except for immediate family members of U.S. citizens, permanent residents and flight crews.
This is proper handling. If you listen to democrats, they all whining about the money, as if simply throwing money at a problem solves it.
It doesn’t.
From not a single democrat have I heard a plan of action. Not one.
democrats’ behavior is just atrocious. As Trump said, this is a time when everyone ought to be on the same side but democrats are hell bent on using this as a political weapon.
Imagine what these dems would have said and done had Trump been President on 9-11 or during Pearl Harbor. They would have cheered for the enemy as long as it would bring harm to Trump, just as they are doing now.
Think how disappointed they will be if thousands of American don’t perish.
UPDATE
A reminder of Schumer insulting Trump for taking early action to limit the spread of Corona
According to Schumer, Trump was wrong to act promptly and then was wrong not to act fast enough.
Schumer is an a**hole.
UPDATE
The giddy reaction already be displayed down here to Ted Cruz announcing his self-quarantine for Coronavirus is as despicable as it is depressing. It seems more people are interested in rooting against the so-called other side than anything else. Just horrible.
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) March 8, 2020
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 40 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 45 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter who is in the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
The Dirty Democrats are outright evil they hate trump so much they would just like to see thousands of Americans catch this virus an die so they can blame Trump for the whole thing. They all should be sent over there to take care of it all and this is the very same Democrat Party some Hollywood Airhead said was OF THE PEOPLE,BY THE PEOPLE,FOR THE PEOPLE the only people the dirty democrats care for are illegal aliens who will vote for them
Surely if we use the left over money from ebola, we will all get ebola. Oh the death count has multiplied in the US its currently at zero, 5000 times what it was yesterday, when it was zero.
I bet the Chinese wish they had not stolen this tech.
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/02/27/coronavirus-infects-woman-for-the-second-time/
Then sold its used lab animals to the meat market. just 1 mile from the lab.
Lets ask Canada what they know, what have they known since 2013, how new is this virus.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1232752316211703809.html
@kitt:
under the muslin, terrorist obama $60 million was given to CDC for ebola. suprise no one knows where it went? wonder if don lemon’s plug will be contaminated?
Recall that Obama’s plan was to simply hope no one with Ebola came here. That didn’t work out too well; several cases came here that cost millions of dollars each to contain.
Trump is doing a great job on this while Democrats do all they can to spread fear and panic. Perhaps they will at least get the recession they have been dreaming of.
Trump and the truth the the Democrats and the M.S. Media accuse Trump about killing the truth these same idiots fall Hook,Line and Sinker for Obama’s big like having no scandals the M.S. Media has never told the truth or they have hid it
@Spurwing Plover: Correct on all points. Russiagate failed. Impeachment failed. The porn lawyer failed. Hopes for a recession last year failed. Now they are hoping for a good sized American bodycount they can exploit. And that will fail too.
If Israel creates a vaccine, should we boycott it to make the anti-Semitic Democrats happy? They might throw a fit.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bds-this-israel-makes-exciting-breakthrough-in-race-for-coronavirus-
@another vet: Imagine their joy if someone with coronavirus went on a killing spree with an AR-15?
Dr John, but of course the more incompetent and dishonest this administration becomes the more you’ll blame Democrats. That’s your job.
This political damage control also seems to be the job of Team Trump rather than dealing with the mess Trump welcomed by pulling funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), firing key people knowledgeable of dealing with such crises. disbanding the Global Health Security Team whose job was to respond to global pandemics, and that he forced CDC to slash its efforts to prevent global disease outbreak by 80%. And it’s also the job of Team Trump to politicize rather than admit that if it weren’t for Democrats, Trump would have succeeded in other deep cuts to disease control and outbreak programs that he wanted.
But Trump is now fixing that, and everyone should calm down as it’s been taken care of. President Donald Trump has officially put Mike Pence in charge because well, rather than bothering people with medical expertise, Mike is believed to have dated someone in high school that once thought about becoming a doctor so there! And as Trump was reported to say, “Mike doesn’t have anything to do anyway”.
Forget what the non-partisan CDC tells us because Team Trump now reports of their “exaggerating the threat of coronavirus” to “weaponize” it and “hurt me politically.” So, Trump’s fixing that too by preventing actual people of medicine from telling us what’s going on. Trump has ordered all government health officials to get clearance from public health mastermind Mike Pence (mini-stable genus) before issuing any statements or making any public announcements. So now, any updates will be coming from Honest Don, a man we’ve all come to rely on for truth and facts rather than the fake news. Even Mulvaney said at his SuperPAC fundraising that “they think that this is going to be what brings down the president.” and “What I might do to calm the markets is tell the people to turn the televisions off for 24 hours.” In other words, keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit.
Under normal circumstances one might question why Moscow Mitch McConnell still has several bills sitting on his desk that he’s refused to bring to the floor to correct this ordeal but that’s okay too. The cup of competency here does flowith over. Don’t fear as our Stable Genius now has a plan that doesn’t need Congressional approval. He’s going to take $37 million from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, $63 million from the National Institutes of Health, and $4.9 million from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which funds mental health and substance abuse treatment and prevention.
Because you know, what could possibly go wrong with taking money from these programs that were spared before based on their needs but to offset Trump’s stupidity, are now fair game? And even if it does go wrong, that’s okay too because Trump has already geared his political machine and hacks like you that it’s the Democrat’s fault either way.
@Ronald J. Ward: The CDC has had plans for pandemics for many years up dated as needed, Cutting funding for the CDC working overseas on ebola. unless there is an outbreak is wasteful. First he was over reacting now it wasnt enough so why dont you alarmists just STFU and become better informed. Quit making shit up.
Trumps offer to assist the Chinese when the outbreak became known was rejected, they have all that free health care. The death toll was 17 at that time.
Money is no object, the real experts that were there during the last admin are still there. Quit freaking out. This virus was discovered in Dubai, sent to Canada where they tried to find out what other animals could be infected, then stolen by the Chinese then put in a lab with sloppy procedures.
Trump did not screw up the CDC has procedures that go into play no matter who is president you freak.
Trump never blamed the CDC he is blaming the Democrats and media.
Everything Trump has done to confront the virus the Democrats criticize without a single alternative suggestion. Trump put the team of epidemic experts together a month ago and banned travel from China (which the Democrats, of course, denounced). Meanwhile, the virus spreads wildly in all our favorite socialist countries with socialized health care.
Democrats offer nothing but crybaby tears… never a solution or assistance.
The only thing that has gone wrong ending up endangering the American public is that a DEEP STATE employee inside the State Dept allowed over 50 exposed American tourists to go home over the objections and orders of the CDC, State Dept and HHS.
Other than that we’d be safe.
The few other cases have all been dealt with successfully with no extra spreading of the virus.
A supposed whistleblower is claiming some employees dealing with exposed/perhaps infected cruise ship imports (via that DEEP STATEr) might have not protected themselves adequately then gone home to possibly infect others.
May be true.
But as these cruise ship exposees got off their plane they were met by employees in hazmet suits.
Hard to believe someone came along afterwards and went among them au natural.
But, hey, it’s another liberal story-teller, whistleblower.
Maybe there is a liberal dummy willing to infect him/her/zer/zit self just to cause a problem for Trump.
It is curable as long as you are an otherwise healthy person, after all.
@kitt:
Typical nonsense from a Trump apologist.
Just as I’ve said all along, Trump could slaughter school children on live TV and in broad daylight and you’d be there protecting him.
You did it when fleeing refugee children died from his policies, you did it when he set ISIS free in Syria, you did it when he sold our electoral process (and still is) to Russia, you did it when he kissed the asses of brutal dictators, you did it when he ;locked children in cages, you’re doing it while he’s spiraling the deficit out of control, you did it when he lied about locking Hillary up, you did it when he lied about Mexico paying for the wall, you will do it should the economy sour (which is being predicted), you’re doing it while his DOJ is turning our country into a dictatorship, you did it when he upended National Weather Service, and you will do it if innocent Americans die as a result of his disbanding and defunding programs as well as his lack of competence.
There is no question of that and you and the other cultist would continue defending him and you defending him now only further validates it. If Trump ordered an air raid on St Jude’s Children’s Hospital, you and this blog wold join the Trump Team in exonerating him and blame it on Democrats.
In so many ways, not only you would, but you do.
@Ronald J. Ward: What changes happened ?
Children were in cages during the last admin and photos of that used to attack Trump.
Isis freed? they were armed by the last admin without that support they no longer have a caliphate.
Over a hundred billion dollars went to a brutal dictator during the last administration. Lil Kim got nothing not one thing.
It is the Democrats calling for a socialist dictator to control every aspect of Americans lives you freak.
Everyone will die of both starvation and no doctors under any socialist regime.
Go sit in a corner and suck your thumb you raging retard.
China has free health care central government controlled how is that working out for them?
@Ronald J. Ward:
AP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort coronavirus readiness
@DrJohn:
Touche and congratulations that you were able to contradict in part what your supporting ankle biters could not as they seem to default to “suck-trump-first” rather than building a constructive argument. While I concede your quote in part, it falls short of context of your fact checker as to what you chose to copy and paste. Read further on that link. It also disregards the disbanding of the Global Health Security Team as well as the firings of key people who have never and would have otherwise never ever been replaced under Trump’s watch.
It also falls short of Moscow Mitch’s sitting on bipartisan bills which would have not sit easy with Trump’s objectives to cuts of these programs. It falls short of explaining Trump placing a political incompetent yes-man in charge over people of medical expertise. It falls short of addressing the secrecy of Trump requiring clearance of reporting prior to going through Pence.
There’s much here that warrants scrutiny of Trump’s policies and actions, something you know damn well you would have required of Obama.
@Ronald J. Ward: You sure got slapped around on that one, didn’t you, big mouth?
Of course, according to Democrats, we don’t even need Border Patrol or immigration enforcement.
https://www.analyzingamerica.org/breaking-1155-chinese-nationals-apprehended-after-illegally-entering-u-s/?utm_source=msp
Without Trump as President, infected Chinese would be swarming into the country and spreading into every community. Let’s see… he started protecting us from this… January 20, 2017.
Liberal idiots.
Good news for everyone except the demokrats, MSM, and those unfortunate enough to catch it.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/02/28/new-england-journal-of-medicine-coronavirus-could-be-no-worse-than-flu/
From the linked Breitbart article:
Like Dr. Peng Yinhua, age 29, and Dr. Li Wenliang, age 34?
@Greg: Perhaps they had an underlying illness. You dont know they didnt. Maybe the commies offed them.
@kitt: Like breathing Chinese air.
Trump says he could use some war powers to prioritize and speed up the manufacture of drugs if necessary. Democrats, of course, hate and denigrate the idea. Because they care so much about lives, you see.
From The Guardian, March 1, 2020 – Coronavirus: Pence defends Trump Jr claim Democrats want ‘millions’ to die
That would be a single sarcastic op ed column, Mike. Which, by the way, appeared the day after Rush Limbaugh’s February 25th radio announcement that democrats were “weaponizing” coronavirus. Please try again.
I’m glad to hear they have their priorities straight, and that the fundamentals are sound—though I do seem to recall hearing that somewhere before.
@Greg: It is an absolute fact that Democrats fervently hope for the worst possible outcome of the reaction to coronavirus in order to exploit it for political gain. This is why they lie about what Trump does and says in response to the virus.
You either denounce the Democrats or are a part of the despicable scheme.
@Deplorable Me, #25:
Uh huh. Democrats are all hateful and stuff. Yet this freaking lunatic is Trump’s “spiritual adviser” and his appointed chairperson to the Faith and Opportunity Initiative at the Office of Public Liaison. Don’t take my word for it. Watch the video linked in the quote below and draw your own conclusions.
January 26, 2020 – Paula White, a White House employee and Trump’s spiritual adviser, calls for ‘satanic pregnancies to miscarry right now’
She’s a perfect fit for your money-worshiping cult leader’s perverse and self-serving brand of “Christianity”, which turns the teachings of Jesus upside down:
Why televangelist Paula White is the perfect Trump administration hire
The taxpayers are OK with this woman having a White House job? Here are my own sentiments about The House of Trump.
It seems that any statement the right fervently proclaims to be a FACT requires immediate close inspection, unless the reader wants to be taken for a FOOL.
@Greg: Holey moley Hillarys knocked up? I think some good old fashioned exorcisms done by a few old “white” priests on members of congress, they often use a “D” for devil or demon, as an identifier. 😉
If Jesus had meant for his words to be taken literally, he would have told us so?
I may not be a very good Christian, but I can see something is seriously wrong with Paula White’s New and Improved Prosperity Gospel. And I can see something is seriously wrong with the Trump administration.
@Greg: If the prayer affected you…well isnt that special 😉
@Greg:
Perhaps you have a different explanation for why Democrats, almost without exception, have been lying, spreading panic and fear and discrediting what is being done long before the effectiveness can even be measured? There really is but one and I believe I have pretty much nailed it.
@Deplorable Me, #30:
A serious public health threat was becoming apparent by late January, but the public was getting no information about it at all from the White House. The first knee-jerk response to rising media attention was denial, quickly followed by angry accusations that democrats were politicizing and fear mongering.
That’s not an explanation. It’s an observation. The White House has created its own need for damage control. The State Department ignoring the warnings of the CDC also tells us something. People can figure out what that is for themselves. It’s both a symptom and a problem in its own right.
@Greg: You don’t address the Democrats LYING about Trump’s response, which has been far greater and more effective than Obama’s response to N1H1. Also, the spreading of the lie that Trump declared the crisis a “hoax” confirms that Democrats will do anything to hype the crisis, politicize it and spread as much fear and panic as they can.
The administration is not doing “damage control”; they are doing their job and doing it well. The failures we see are what is usually characteristic of a big, lethargic government that is full of people who take their jobs for granted, the faulty test kits being just one good example.
@Greg:
With only China as a source of information, A denial from China to accept our experts into China so the travel ban was put in effect.
The initial damage was the MSM and former VP Biden declaring Trump as a Chicken little, even China called it racist. Many experts say Trumps actions prevented a much worse situation. The overt fear mongering for political hit points, with Trumps history of swinging back everytime was to be anticipated.
Now when they got totally busted with trotting out such virus experts as Chelsea Clinton and Michiko Kakutani, the famous literary critic and author, its Trumps fault again. More travel advisories from countries with free health care.
I hope you dont have any underlying health issues, wash your hands, and maybe go get a couple of weeks of food stocked in the pantry. Take care and be well.
@Deplorable Me:
Trump’s most promising response has been to hand the matter off to VP Pence, who seems to have the sense to listen to the experts. The less Trump says about it the better. His pronouncements and messages weren’t helping anyone, including himself.
@Greg: Trump would not be a good leader if he did not delegate issues to capable people. Trump is a good leader.
Trump is in fact doing such a great job that you Democrats have to create lies to have something to criticize him for.
@Deplorable Me: You must remember Gregs sources they’re lucky breathing is a reflex, as remembering to do it with regularity would prove to be too great a task for people with shoe sizes greater than their IQ.
@Greg:
You’re a damn liar, Comrade Greggie.
Denial? The WHO wasn’t informed of the coronavirus outbreak in China until January 12, 2020 and that was reported by MSN the next day. China, not Trump, was keeping the spread of the virus under their belt.
By January 30th, the Coronavirus Task Force held a press conference declaring a national health emergency because Trump has already assembled his team to fight the virus.
Of course, when Trump shut down travel between the U.S. and China, the left went nuts saying he was “overreacting.”
Not only are you a useful idiot for the Communist wing of the DNC, you are a liar, Comrade Greggie.
@Deplorable Me:
Yeah, yeah, Trump is a Very Stable Genius, a Golden God, etc etc, and Democrats have to make stuff up to criticize, while Joe and Bernie are the Devil Incarnate—both at once, somehow. Call me a heretic for doubting.
A while back you were celebrating how skillfully he reined in North Korea, and I was an idiot for my failure to believe
@Greg: You are certainly welcome to be critical as long as you are also factual.
I do not like the Presidents comments on negative interest rates, I believe its a sign of a failing economy, I would have to buy a safe to keep my cash at home cause I wouldnt pay for a bank or credit union to hold on to it for me.
See how that works if other non Trump haters disagree they can make their own point.
@Greg: Speaking of geniuses, your boy Biden was on a real roll today. I don’t believe a bigger moron could be found to run for President if you tried…. and THAT’S your hope against Bernie.
In this situation, Bernie would have the elderly killed because they can’t contribute to the Collective and Joe would see how much money he and his coke-head, stripper-banging, deadbeat son could make off the crisis.
I never celebrated him “reining in” N. Korea, but he did do all that could be done short of war. At least he didn’t lift all sanctions and pay them $150 billion to like him.
Is it too early to start printing up the Biden & Buttigieg 2020 signs?
@Greg: Full steam ahead… until Gropin’ Quid Pro Genius Joe starts groping Pete’s “partner” and sniffing his hair.
@Deplorable Me, #42:
Maybe it will come out before the election why Trump had his buddy Jeffrey Epstein murdered in his jail cell. It’s probably not because they shared the same underage lawyers.
@Greg: No doubt there will be an investigation and impeachment with almost as much “evidence” as they had the last few times.
@Greg:
More b/s from Comrade Greggie.
Sorry, Comrade Greggie, it was Bubba Clinton taking flights on the Lolita Express, not Donald Trump.
You are one sick puppy. Your TDS has made your brain completely void of all honesty and rational.
@Greg: Then there’s this:
tick…. tick…. tick…. tick
@Greg:
Best way to lose Bidens firewall and they know it.
Biden can only be saved by Moochelle, if she can stop him from speaking.
Do you think they can write where he is on his hand?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/03/01/biden-forgets-what-show-hes-on-03/02/2020&bcid=f5211ef4seconds-after-calling-the-president-sleepy-
Happy Super Thursday Joe!
@Deplorable Me:
No doubt, since the security camera covering Epstein’s cell when his presumed suicide took place supposedly malfunctioned. But no one entered his cell, according to the Justice Department. How that was concluded—in the absence of a video record and without any required cell checks having taken place—remains a mystery.
The story is interesting. As is how it then somehow became a non-story:
Surveillance footage from night of Jeffrey Epstein suicide attempt goes missing
Uh, what footage?
@Greg: In a New York prison. Now, who pulls strings in New York? Trump? Not hardly. This has Clinton written all over it. But, you just keep fantasizing. I’m sure it distracts from the real disaster looming on the Democrat horizon.
@Deplorable Me:
Comrade Greggie wants to talk about Epstein. It takes attention away from the dumpster fire that is the Democrat Party.