BooIsMyCat Loc: Somewhere

You get funnier as you reply to each post.

Chump closed air travel from china but let 40,000 people FROM China enter the country after he did so. It only takes one infected person to start the ball rolling.

And it's obvious you don't know or understand the metaphor of "The Emporer has no clothes".

Meaning: This expression is used to describe a situation in which people are afraid to criticize something or someone because the perceived wisdom of the masses is that the thing or person is good or important.

Notice the part where it states "people are afraid to criticize"...

BooIsMyCat Loc: Somewhere

So, are you saying you would prefer someone who manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States?

How American of you!

LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America

TRANSLATED:

BooIsMyCat Loc: Somewhere

That MAGA hat a little too tight for ya?

hondo812 Loc: Massachusetts

Here's what I think.

Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and the UK have a total population of about 324 Million. The US has 331 Million.

From yesterdays data;

Main EU has a combined 838,710 confirmed cases. The US has 830,789 cases. This equates to 0.26% and 0.25% infection percentage of the total population.

Main EU has 90,905 deaths due to COVID19 to date.
US has 45,638 deaths due to COVID19 to date.

There is zero news about why there are 2 EU deaths for 1 US death. Similar population sizes, nearly identical infection rate, yet you are twice as likely to die in the EU as here in the US.

Is that because the US has better healthcare? Yeah, probably so!
Is it because Trump, for all his faults, has done a better job than Boris, Marcon, Merkel, etc.? Also, probably so!

What could Trump have done better?

I don't know. Unless he had a crystal ball when we had 15 people infected and he locked down the country then....but that seems awfully EXTREME! Hindsight is 20/20 and you can't change the past no matter how good your rear view vision is.

The truth is that this virus was out there in late October/early November. The Chinese lied about human to human transmission. So did the W.H.O. Were it not for the Taiwanese, millions would be dead by now. The West coast has the Wuhan virus. The East coast has a European strain of the Wuhan virus. The genome of the virus proves this.

What to do moving forward? Try solving the problem instead of laying blame because if you are going for blame go after W.H.O, China, Cuomo, DeBlasio, Pelosi, mayor of New Orleans, etc., etc.

If you want to solve the problem start moving operations/companies out of China. It won't stop the next pandemic but it would solve the problem of PPE and critical medical equipment, drug manufacturing, etc.

wilpharm Loc: Oklahoma

probably much better than your scorched desert!!!!!

BooIsMyCat Loc: Somewhere

LOL!

Bless your heart!

hondo812 Loc: Massachusetts

Jan. 20
The first human-to-human transmission was reported by a Chinese expert

Jan 22
Trump "we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine."

Jan 23
Chinese authorities implemented a strict nationwide travel ban, but allowed International flights.

Jan 24
Bill de Blasio “We urge all New Yorkers to continue to pursue their everyday activities and routines”

Jan 24
Dr. Anthony Fauci National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director said - “ Covid 19 It isn't something the American public needs to worry about or be frightened about, because we have ways of preparing and screening of. It's a very, very low risk to the United States, but it's something that we as public health officials need to take very seriously,"

Jan 24
Joe Scarborough and wife Minka had a segment where they said "no Americans need to be concerned about COVID-19 and should be more concerned about the common flu.

Jan 25
Good Morning America
"People should be more concerned right now with the flu in this country."

Jan 26
New York City’s health commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot “We are encouraging New Yorkers to go about their everyday lives... those “who had recently traveled from Wuhan were not being urged to self-quarantine or avoid large public gatherings.”

Jan 29
Joe Biden in a speech in Iowa said that Trump's idea of restricting travel from China was "Xenophobic"

Jan 30
The WHO declared a public health emergency of international concern

Feb 1
President Trump instilled China travel ban. New York City had its first suspected case of coronavirus


 
Feb 2
NYC health commissioner Bardot “As we gear up to celebrate the Lunar New Year in NYC, I want to assure New Yorkers that there is no reason for anyone to change their holiday plans, avoid the subway, or certain parts of the city because of coronavirus.”
“The risk to New Yorkers for Coronavirus is low and our preparedness as a city is very high. There is no reason not to take the subway, not to take the bus, not to go out to your favorite restaurant, and certainly not to miss the parade next Sunday. I’m going to be there.”

Feb 4
China’s consul general in New York, Huang Ping, thanked the Chinese-American community and other concerned Americans on Tuesday for their aid in battling the coronavirus outbreak, and criticized what he described as “an overreaction by the American government in severely restricting travel to and from China.”

Feb 5: New York Times "Who says it's not safe to travel to China? The coronavirus travel ban is unjust and doesn't work anyway." NYC Health Commissioner Barbot on Twitter, “Today our city is celebrating the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown... I want to remind everyone to enjoy the parade and not change any plans due to misinformation spreading about coronavirus.”

Feb 6 Bardot: “The important thing for New Yorkers to know is that in the city currently, their risk is low and our city preparedness is high...We’re telling New Yorkers, go about your lives, take the subway, go out, enjoy life. . . If it were likely that it could be transmitted casually, we would be seeing a lot more cases.”

Feb 9: Chinatown in New York City held its annual Lunar New Year parade. Surgical masks were nearly absent from this parade. Councilman Mark D. Levine on Twitter, “In powerful show of defiance of coronavirus scare, huge crowds gathering in NYC’s Chinatown for ceremony ahead of annual Lunar New Year parade. Chants of ‘Be Strong Wuhan!’ If you are staying away, you are missing out.”

Feb 12 The House Judiciary Committee on voted, 22-10, to terminate President Trump's expanded travel ban and rein in presidential authority to issue such travel restrictions.

Feb 13: New York City Council speaker Corey Johnson “It is important to support the Chinese community in New York City...There is no need to avoid public spaces. I urge everyone to dine and shop as usual.” Bill de Blasio
"This should not stop you from going about your life. It should not stop you from going to Chinatown and going out to eat. I am going to do that today myself.”

Feb 24
Nancy Pelosi says from San Francisco's China Town to come visit, it is safe and "there are no Coronavirus concerns". Then SF became one of the epicenters of the disease.

Feb 25
Dr. Anthony Fauci “You need to do nothing different than you’re already doing"

there were 15 cases of corona in the US. Total.

Rose42

Non Americans fail to see beyond Trump - as do most who want
him gone. There is nothing standing by but a bumbling old man. Its a lose/lose situation for us.

BooIsMyCat Loc: Somewhere

Not saying China did or didn't lie. That's for the experts to determine at a later date and deal with.
But, I don't see any information indicating the virus was "out there" in Oct/Nov as you suggest.

“On December 26, the first patient we saw was an elderly lady who had fever, cough and trouble breathing.”

You can say (and probably will) that that is a lie but, it's neither here nor there at the moment.


As for "What more could chump have done"? WOW!


He was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response.

Throughout January, as chump repeatedly played down the seriousness of the virus and focused on other issues, an array of figures inside his government — from top White House advisers to experts deep in the cabinet departments and intelligence agencies — identified the threat, sounded alarms and made clear the need for aggressive action.

He was slow to absorb the scale of the risk and to act accordingly, focusing instead on controlling the message, protecting gains in the economy, and batting away warnings from senior officials. It was a problem, he said, that had come out of nowhere and could not have been foreseen.

The shortcomings of chump’s performance have played out with remarkable transparency as part of his daily effort to dominate television screens and the national conversation.
But dozens of interviews with current and former officials and a review of emails and other records revealed many previously unreported details and a fuller picture of the roots and extent of his halting response as the deadly virus spread:

The National Security Council office responsible for tracking pandemics received intelligence reports in early January predicting the spread of the virus to the United States, and within weeks was raising options like keeping Americans home from work and shutting down cities the size of Chicago. Chump would avoid such steps until March.

Despite Mr. Trump’s denial weeks later, he was told at the time about a Jan. 29 memo produced by his trade adviser, Peter Navarro, laying out in striking detail the potential risks of a coronavirus pandemic: as many as half a million deaths and trillions of dollars in economic losses.

The health and human services secretary, Alex M. Azar II, directly warned chump of the possibility of a pandemic during a call on Jan. 30, the second warning he delivered to the president about the virus in two weeks. The president, who was on Air Force One while traveling for appearances in the Midwest, responded that Mr. Azar was being alarmist.

Mr. Azar publicly announced in February that the government was establishing a “surveillance” system in five American cities to measure the spread of the virus and enable experts to project the next hot spots. It was delayed for weeks. The slow start of that plan, on top of the well-documented failures to develop the nation’s testing capacity, left administration officials with almost no insight into how rapidly the virus was spreading. “We were flying the plane with no instruments,” one official said.

By the third week in February, the administration’s top public health experts concluded they should recommend to Mr. Trump a new approach that would include warning the American people of the risks and urging steps like social distancing and staying home from work. But the White House focused instead on messaging and crucial additional weeks went by before their views were reluctantly accepted by the president — time when the virus spread largely unimpeded.

When chump finally agreed in mid-March to recommend social distancing across the country, effectively bringing much of the economy to a halt, he seemed shellshocked and deflated to some of his closest associates. One described him as “subdued” and “baffled” by how the crisis had played out. An economy that he had wagered his re-election on was suddenly in shambles.
He only regained his swagger, the associate said, from conducting his daily White House briefings, at which he often seeks to rewrite the history of the past several months. He declared at one point that he “felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic,” and insisted at another that he had to be a “cheerleader for the country,” as if that explained why he failed to prepare the public for what was coming.


How about for starters, instead of saying "It's the flu, it will go away in April when the weather gets warm", he "actually listened" to his own "experts" then publicly announce that he would do whatever was in his power to assist the country in fighting this virus?

A leader doesn't lead by declaring themself a genius, making fun of handicapped people, always blaming others for his failures, and ignoring FACTS that end up killing thousands of people.

BooIsMyCat Loc: Somewhere

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/coronavirus-vaccine-doctor-says-he-was-fired-over-doubts-on-hydroxychloroquine/ar-BB133TTm?li=BBnb7Kz


The Emporer has no clothes!

Such a leader!

Rose42

Duh. I wasn’t defending Trump. The point was the democrats have nothing either.

trainspotter Loc: Oregon

DILLY...DILLY!

letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

As are you.

BooIsMyCat Loc: Somewhere

OK but, the Democrats don't have anyone who is so ready to degrade others, make fun of others, call others names or fire others simply because they disagree with each other.