Kmgw9v wrote:
Our President lied to us. What is so difficult to understand? He is our trusted leader. China cannot be trusted, the WHO is a bureaucracy that might or might not be honorable.
But our President is something different.
He downplayed the serverity of the virus to protect his image and the economy He said it would go away with the warm April weather, even that a "miracle" might occur.
Sadly, he was terribly, terribly, wrong--and dishonest. And now today, the economy is in shambles, 22 million people are unemployed, and 38000 Americans are dead. And now he gives the authority to open the economy to the governors, without a national testing program---all to deflect the blame from him when the virus surges next month with increased infections.
The man is a fake, and a liar. The Man never takes responsibility for any negative, and spends most of his talking energy on blaming someone else for whatever happens.
He attacks anybody and everybody to divert blame.
Today, he even attacked John Kerry out of the blue about the Iran deal.
He is a loose canon. He wings it everyday, hoping something good happens.
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And you are trying to say that it is Trump's fault that our economy is in shambles. If he had shut things down earlier the economy would be even worse now.
Your hatred for the man is preventing you from thinking logically. The same for the Post. In their own article that gives Trump three Pinocchios they list at least nine facts that Trump got right. Bet you didn't pick up on that did you?
If you look closely, Trump got all of the following right.
That the WHO's initial alert from December 31st, 2019 about the virus indicated that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission, in spite of warnings from the Taiwanese CDC that this might have been possible. The Washington Post fact check dismisses this as irrelevant because "at best, we're talking about the last two days in December" that the WHO might have been warned. However, the fact check goes on to note:
The WHO issued a news release on Jan. 5, 2020, which stated, "Based on the preliminary information from the Chinese investigation team, no significant evidence of human-to-human transmission and no health care worker infections have been reported."
The WHO issued a news release on Jan. 9, 2020, which stated, "According to Chinese authorities, the virus in question can cause severe illness in some patients and does not transmit readily between people."
The WHO issued a news release on Jan. 12, 2020, which stated, "At this stage, there is no infection among healthcare workers, and no clear evidence of human to human transmission."
After Thailand announced its first imported case of the coronavirus, the WHO issued a release on Jan. 13, 2020, which stated, "The way these patients became infected is not yet known. To date, there has been no suggestion of human to human transmission of this new coronavirus. There have been no infections reported among health care workers, which can be an early indicator of person to person spread."
The WHO issued a news release on Jan. 14, which stated, "Based on the available information there is no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission. No additional cases have been detected since 3 January 2020 in China."
On Jan. 14, WHO tweeted, "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China."
On Jan. 14, WHO held a news briefing, at which WHO's head of the emerging diseases unit stated, "From the information that we have it is possible that there is limited human-to-human transmission, potentially among families, but it is very clear right now that we have no sustained human-to-human transmission."
On Jan. 19 2020, WHO issued another tweet, which still stated that there was only the possibility of "some limited human-to-human transmission occurring between close contacts."
On Jan. 20, 2020, WHO issued their first statement indicating that they may have been erroneous in their previous pronouncements, stating, "It is now very clear from the latest information that there is at least some human-to-human transmission of #nCov2019. Infections among health care workers strengthen the evidence for this."
The piece blaming Trump goes on to say "The WHO could have highlighted the human-to-human transmission sooner than it did and pressed China for more information." Yet it still calls Trump the liar instead of China and WHO. You should actually read with comprehension because the facts in the Post article demonstrate that Trump was much closer to right than people are willing to admit.