BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

"Scientists warned that the United States someday would become the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. That moment arrived on Thursday.

With 330 million residents, the United States is the world’s third most populous nation, meaning it provides a vast pool of people who can potentially get Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.

And it is a sprawling, cacophonous democracy, where states set their own policies and President Trump has sent mixed messages about the scale of the danger and how to fight it, ensuring there was no coherent, unified response to a grave public health threat."

BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

"A series of missteps and lost opportunities dogged the nation’s response.

Among them: a failure to take the pandemic seriously even as it engulfed China,

a deeply flawed effort to provide broad testing for the virus that left the country blind to the extent of the crisis,

and a dire shortage of masks and protective gear to protect doctors and nurses on the front lines, as well as ventilators to keep the critically ill alive."

BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

"“This could have been stopped by implementing testing and surveillance much earlier — for example, when the first imported cases were identified,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University.

For now, at least, China has contained the coronavirus with draconian measures. But the pathogen had embarked on a Grand Tour of most countries on Earth, with devastating epidemics in Iran, Italy and Spain. More videos emerged of prostrate victims, exhausted nurses and lines of coffins.

The United States, which should have been ready, was not.

The public health system, limping along on local tax receipts, kills mosquitoes and traces the contacts of people with sexually transmitted diseases. It has been outmatched by the pandemic."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/world/coronavirus-news.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_NN_p_20200327&instance_id=17106&nl=morning-briefing&regi_id=75825028&section=topNews&segment_id=23038&te=1&user_id=41d25b438e0a743965c9afa48fa42a36#link-5d243367

OlinBost Loc: Marietta, Ga.

Why so many graphs are misleading.

https://www.popsci.com/story/health/misleading-covid-coronavirus-graphs-charts/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email

Frank T Loc: New York, NY

In the famous words of Fat Donny, "I take no responsibility".

BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

You don't need a graph to understand this:

"More than 86,000 people have tested positive in the U.S., more than any other nation.

Over 1,300 people have died of the new COVID-19 disease in the U.S."

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

Trump has no plan; save his “miracle”.
So, the death numbers will continue to rise unabated.
This has become the American tragedy under the present administration.

BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

State governments are having to compete with other states and other countries trying to get needed healthcare supplies.

The so called president is doing nothing to try and stop the spread of this virus.

LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America

What should he do?

BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

He could use the buying power of the United States to purchase and distribute supplies where needed; that would take away the competition between states to buy supplies. States are having to compete not only with other states but with other countries.


He could compel companies to produce the number of ventilators that the critically ill are going to need; not to mention face masks etc.

He could donate his hotel space and rooms as emergency hospitals.

He could listen to the health experts and stop wishing and hoping for a solution.


He could actually act like a president.

LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America

All but one of those has been done.

As to his hotels, I don’t know if he even has any stateside or very much at most.

His hotels are mostly just licensing if his name deals.

Other holdings are condos and apartments and no legal means to take them are available.

Act like a citizen.

BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

You are wrong

pendennis

First, there is no law passed by Congress, nor implicitly nor explicitly named in the Constitution, that allows the President to usurp the powers of the several states.

You have no concept of what it takes, even with modern technology (3-D printing, etc.), to build, test, and authorize ventilators for use by hospitals (the FDA is in charge here). Never mind that it takes specific training to keep from killing a patient with one. My son is a nationally certified paramedic on ventilators and other breathing machines.

Do you have any concept of what it takes to "hospital clean" a hotel room for use by patients. And just who is going to staff all these "new hospital beds"? What if a patient needs surgery, or some advanced procedure? Are you going to build an OR or MRI lab in the next two weeks? New York has 130K+ hotel rooms. How quickly could even ten percent be converted?

Medical schools who are graduating students early, are merely turning students in classes, to students in a hospital setting. They have no clinical skills; they won't learn those until they become interns; they don't even know how to draw blood, or read a chart, and until they finish their internships, they can't even draw blood or give injections. There are not enough RN's, paramedics, nor EMT's to take up the slack. And, BTW, RN's can't intubate a patient. Only doctors, paramedics, and respiratory technicians can do this task. Just where are these additional folks being found?

The President is listening to the necessary experts, and it's his job, as owner of the "bully pulpit", to keep morale of citizens up, and give them hope for the future.

Oh, and remember: Amateurs like you talk tactics; professionals know and discuss logistics.

You shouldn't have dropped out of school after the 2nd grade. You missed a lot of learning.

EyeSawYou

LOL You are the biggest fnk liar on this forum lol, how can you lie so easily without a bit of guilt?

And....most Americans and these Democrats agree with me...

Polls: Majority of Americans Approve of Trump’s Response to Coronavirus

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/polls-majority-of-americans-approve-of-trumps-response-to-coronavirus/

lhan Omar praises Trump's 'incredible' response to coronavirus pandemic

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omar-praises-trumps-incredible-response-to-coronavirus-pandemic

DONALD TRUMP'S FIERCEST CRITICS ARE PRAISING HIS HANDLING OF CORONAVIRUS

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-critics-coronavirus-1493288


California Gov. Newsom refutes media narrative, says Trump has said and done 'everything I could have hoped for' on coronavirus

https://www.theblaze.com/news/california-gov-newsom-refutes-media-narrative-says-trump-has-said-and-done-everything-i-could-have-hoped-for-on-coronavirus?utm_content=bufferb5f5d&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=fb-whitehousebrief

EyeSawYou

No YOU are wrong, many of Trump's hotels aren't actually owned by Trump.