The Trump Pandemic

[Tero]

No Chinese bats to be funded by Trump. We want to sponsor American bats! Or kill them. Either way.

Nonetheless, at an April 17 news conference, President Trump said he had given instructions to check if any U.S. funding was slated for the Wuhan Institute, and if so, he said, it would immediately be terminated. Days later, on April 24, the National Institutes of Health, or NIH — which was providing the grant for the project — notified EcoHealth Alliance that the money was being canceled, as first reported by Politico.

To learn more about the cutoff of funds and the possible impact on coronavirus research, NPR interviewed the president of EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, as well as Robert Garry, a microbiologist at Tulane University who is playing a prominent role in COVID-19 research but who does not work with the nonprofit. (NPR reached out to both NIH and the White House for comment. The White House referred questions to the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees NIH. A spokesman for the department did not respond to a request for comment and neither did officials at NIH.)

What results has the project yielded so far?

Daszak says the China bat sampling project has already racked up quite a number of successes. The team and its collaborators at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have collected about 15,000 samples from bats. From these they have already identified about 400 wholly new coronaviruses. About 50 of those fall into a category that caused the 2002 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, and, now, the COVID-19 pandemic.

The researchers were also able to demonstrate that at least some of the new bat coronaviruses they have found are capable of infecting a human cell in a petri dish. Then the team sampled the blood of people in China who live near various bat caves. They found evidence that for some time now, these bat coronaviruses have been spilling over into the human population.

"Our work has shown that between 1 [million] and 7 million people a year are exposed in rural China and rural Southeast Asia to these viruses," says Daszak.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandso ... coronaviru

[JimC]

It's science, so it must be a liberal plot...

[Tero]

72-year old Wal Mart cashier killed by customers coughing at her. America is too poor to give her 6 months off.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/business ... index.html

[Seabass]

But the stock market is doing fab.

[Tero]

"The United States does not prioritize who gets tested, and the United States does not make sure you get answers within 24 hours. We haven't authorized kiosks or home testing. That's still a regulatory thing that's tied up. So our testing numbers should never be compared," said Gates, the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -- one of the world's biggest charities and public health donors.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Yeahbut it's Obama's fault.

... started off with empty cupboards. The last administration left us nothing. We started off with bad, broken tests, and obsolete tests. ...

Reporter: You say broken tests. It's a new virus, so how could the test be broken--

Jim, we had broken tests. We had tests that were obsolete. We had tests that didn't take care of people.

[Seabass]

E.R. doctor on 'front lines' of coronavirus fight in N.Y. dies by suicide

A New York City emergency room doctor who was on the “front lines” of the fight against the coronavirus has died by suicide, police said Monday.

Dr. Lorna Breen, 49, who worked at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, was in Virginia when she died on Sunday, said Tyler Hawn, a spokesman for the Charlottesville Police Department.

“The victim was taken to U.V.A. Hospital for treatment, but later succumbed to self-inflicted injuries,” Hawn said.

It was her father, Dr. Phillip Breen, who revealed the first details about his daughter's tragic death.

“She tried to do her job, and it killed her,” he told The New York Times. “She was truly in the trenches of the front line.”

He said his daughter seemed very detached of late and that she had described some of the horrors she had witnessed at the hospital while battling the virus.

“Make sure she’s praised as a hero, because she was,” Phillip Breen said. “She’s a casualty just as much as anybody else who has died.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/e- ... y-n1193701

And meanwhile, the Branch Covidians are out doing this shit:



Armed protesters against Covid-19 lockdown enter Michigan's state capitol

[pErvinalia]

Yeahbut it's Obama's fault.

... started off with empty cupboards. The last administration left us nothing. We started off with bad, broken tests, and obsolete tests. ...

Reporter: You say broken tests. It's a new virus, so how could the test be broken--

Jim, we had broken tests. We had tests that were obsolete. We had tests that didn't take care of people.

He's just a total bullshitter. Can't believe his supporters can't see that.

[Sean Hayden]

They don't do any research at all. That is the best explanation I can come up with for the majority of his supporters. They can't tell you the first thing about the testing fiasco.

Now, the people feeding them bullshit, people like Limbaugh, I don't know. --lowlifes I guess

[Brian Peacock]

Mr Trump says he's seen "good evidence" that the virus was deliberately released from the Wuhan lab and/or that its release was possibly arranged or coordinated by the Biden campaign. My initial thought: how does that correlate with the FOX NEWS schedule?

[pErvinalia]

God I hope he loses in November. I don't think I can do another 4 years of this imbecile.

[Tero]

We are solving it very quickly! Very!

CNN
The testing problem
Trump claimed again that South Korean President Moon Jae-in had called him to compliment the administration's work on coronavirus testing and then said, "The testing and the masks and all of the things: We've solved every problem. We solved it quickly." Moon's administration told CNN that it would not discuss the contents of their conversations.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/politics ... index.html

[Cunt]

He's just a total bullshitter. Can't believe his supporters can't see that.

They can.

They can also take some of what he says as a joke.

A lot of people seem to be only playing a game where they can see if ANYthing he says, can be misinterpreted to serve their ends.

Given a fair chance, he would turn up about as good as any prominent politician in the US.

[NineBerry]

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[Cunt]

Politicians who don't admit that opening will cost lives, should not be part of this conversation.

Similarly, politicians who suggest that staying closed will not cost lives, should be ignored with them.

It's a shit decision, so will only be getting criticism. No biggie if all the politicians get fired. Their jobs aren't all that 'essential' anyway. (as has been proved by the lockdown)