The Trump Pandemic

[Cunt]

Yeah but Ukraine!

(Just practicing for the real election)

Didn't Trump's son get billions from China?

Or was that Biden's?

[Tero]

Trump's son got billions from Turkey.

[Tero]

Trump removes watch dogs, placing his own pet dogs in place.

[pErvinalia]

You would have to find a whole other subject to vilify Trump with...

Pretty easy, there's plenty to choose from.

[Tero]

I think he needs some hydroxychloroquine.

[Tero]

Trump miracle cure kills Swedes. Almost.

https://www.newsweek.com/swedish-hospit ... 6368?amp=1

...side effects reported to include cramps and the loss of peripheral vision.

[Cunt]

...side effects reported to include cramps and the loss of peripheral vision.

huh...

Same as TDS, oddly enough...


Maybe this should be in the 'shallow dives' thread...

[Scot Dutchy]

Trump doing what he always does; looking for a scapegoat as America's death number rise is Making America Great Again.

Trump threatens to hold WHO funding, then backtracks, amid search for scapegoat

US president’s early inaction in pandemic has come under renewed scrutiny in recent days as coronavirus death toll grows

Donald Trump hunted for a new scapegoat on Tuesday in an increasingly frantic attempt to shift blame for thousands of American deaths from the coronavirus, accusing the World Health Organization (WHO) of having “called it wrong” and being “China-centric”.

The US president contradicted himself within minutes, first vowing to put “a very powerful hold” on his government’s funding of the WHO, then insisting such a freeze was only under consideration.

Trump’s early inaction has come under renewed scrutiny in the past day after a New York Times report that Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade adviser, warned in a memo in late January that the virus could put millions of Americans at risk and cost trillions of dollars. Susan Rice, a former national security adviser, told the Washington Post that Trump’s missteps “cost tens of thousands of American lives”.

Cutting funding to the WHO would really be cutting his nose to spite his face.

[Scot Dutchy]

A Guardian summary:

Summary

Donald Trump threatened to stop funding the World Health Organization and once again touted an unproven anti-malarial drug as a quick fix for coronavirus. The president also alleged widespread voter fraud and insisted that he was getting along swimmingly state governors, who have increasingly found themselves at odds with him as they respond to the crisis.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said the crisis has shined “a bright light” on the racial disparities in the US. Data from some states and cities suggest that the pandemic is disproportionately killing Black Americans.

Memos revealed that Trump was warned in January of the severity of the coronavirus crisis. The president insisted he never saw the warnings from his economic adviser Peter Navarro.

Acting navy secretary Thomas Modly resigned over insulting comments he made about Captain Brett Crozier, the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt who raised concerns about the spread of coronavirus on the ship.

Trump removed a Pentagon official tapped to oversee the coronavirus relief effort from his post. Acting Pentagon inspector general Glenn Fine was supposed to oversee implementation of the $2 trillion coronavirus bill, but an agency spokesperson confirmed he is no longer in the role.

New York reported the largest single-day increase in its coronavirus death toll yet. The state has recorded 5,489 deaths linked to the virus, up from 4,758 a day earlier, governor Andrew Cuomo announced at his daily briefing today.

The White House announced an overhaul of its communications team. Press secretary Stephanie Grisham is returning to the first lady’s staff after never having held a single White House briefing in more than nine months. She will be replaced by Kayleigh McEnany, who currently serves as a spokesperson for Trump’s reelection campaign.

Congress is seeking to allocate additional funds to the small business loan program established by the stimulus package. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said he would ask Congress to add $250 billion to the program, which was originally given $350 billion under the stimulus package passed last month.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/liv ... ws-updates

[rainbow]

...side effects reported to include cramps and the loss of peripheral vision.

huh...

Same as TDS, oddly enough...


Maybe this should be in the 'shallow dives' thread...

When there are significant numbers of cases of people poisoning themselves by self-medicating with chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, Trump will be out there denying he ever said anything about recommending it.

Strangely some Trump supporters will believe him.
Care to comment on that observation Cnut?

[Brian Peacock]

I think you'll find that taking a critical view of anything Trump says or his administration does will simply get you labelled as someone who demonstrates a surfeit of undue, unfair prejudice.

[Cunt]

Trump doing what he always does; looking for a scapegoat as America's death number rise is Making America Great Again.

Trump threatens to hold WHO funding, then backtracks, amid search for scapegoat

US president’s early inaction in pandemic has come under renewed scrutiny in recent days as coronavirus death toll grows

Donald Trump hunted for a new scapegoat on Tuesday in an increasingly frantic attempt to shift blame for thousands of American deaths from the coronavirus, accusing the World Health Organization (WHO) of having “called it wrong” and being “China-centric”.

The US president contradicted himself within minutes, first vowing to put “a very powerful hold” on his government’s funding of the WHO, then insisting such a freeze was only under consideration.

Trump’s early inaction has come under renewed scrutiny in the past day after a New York Times report that Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade adviser, warned in a memo in late January that the virus could put millions of Americans at risk and cost trillions of dollars. Susan Rice, a former national security adviser, told the Washington Post that Trump’s missteps “cost tens of thousands of American lives”.

Cutting funding to the WHO would really be cutting his nose to spite his face.

Did you hear the interview where the W.H.O. representative refused to acknowledge Taiwan, then cut his feed to the interviewer?

As to Trumps inaction, while he was making early travel bans of China, what were the Dems doing?

Oh yeah, pushing their open borders initiatives 'No Ban Act'. This time with vigor!

Pelosi revealed in a news release on Monday that Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee will introduce and vote on the s0-called NO BAN Act, which would limit the White House’s authority to impose travel restrictions on foreign nationals, in the next few weeks.

Check the date on that, if you want to accuse Trump of being slow to respond. 'Slow' compared to who, exactly? Pelosi who encouraged her constituents to go to Chinatown?

...side effects reported to include cramps and the loss of peripheral vision.

huh...

Same as TDS, oddly enough...


Maybe this should be in the 'shallow dives' thread...

When there are significant numbers of cases of people poisoning themselves by self-medicating with chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, Trump will be out there denying he ever said anything about recommending it.

Strangely some Trump supporters will believe him.
Care to comment on that observation Cnut?

That's a cute little fantasy you have there.

First off, he didn't recommend it, but LOTS of people too stupid to check his own words, have believed his detractors when they claimed he said that.

Second, why are you wishing so hard for it to fail as a treatment? Will you hope for saving, rather than losing lives if I remind you that Cuomo also said good things about the drug's potential?

Is it better for you, and your Trumphate, if more people die gasping?

Maybe don't mention the chloroquine thing...if it turns out to be a decent treatment, you'll end up looking like a TDS-infected loon.

[NineBerry]

You're grasping. No study or data shows that diarrhoea is common.

Professor doing an analysis of the first major outbreak area in Germany reports at least 33% of cases report diarrhea.

https://www.zeit.de/amp/wissen/gesundhe ... men-studie

[Cunt]

You're grasping. No study or data shows that diarrhoea is common.

Professor doing an analysis of the first major outbreak area in Germany reports at least 33% of cases report diarrhea.

https://www.zeit.de/amp/wissen/gesundhe ... men-studie

So what they are saying, is that we should buy a heap of toilet paper?

Headed out!

[Tero]

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WHO shoots back: we told you it was serious.

The WHO, the United Nations' health agency, started sounding the alarm on the outbreak of a new coronavirus in Wuhan, China, in mid-January, designating the now COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency on Jan. 30 when there were just 8,200 cases in 18 countries across the world. The coronavirus has since wreaked havoc across the globe, spreading to more than 1.4 million people and killing more than 83,000, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

Trump said Tuesday thatt he is thinking about withholding funds to the WHO, saying the international agency pushed back on his travel ban from China early in the COVID-19 outbreak. It's unclear how Trump would do this, however. Congress has already authorized $122 million for the WHO for this fiscal year, and while Trump has proposed $58 million in funding for the agency in fiscal 2021, Congress is unlikely to authorize such a drastic funding cut, especially in the wake of the pandemic.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/04/08/as- ... -bags.html