The Trump Pandemic

[Cunt]

Cunt wrote:

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

Most people would prefer a serious leader rather than a vacuous clown...

If experience serves, maybe most do, but not by a very wide margin.

Barack Obama was a MUCH better 'corporate communications' style speaker. Trump drones fewer children.

Seems comedy is only one element of leadership.

[Tero]

But of course!
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/0 ... rus-229699

[Brian Peacock]

But who is outraged?

Jones fans can be #OUTRAGED that he's pilloried, de-platformed, and (it seems now) even prosecuted. And those who find him and his ideas repugnant can be #OUTRAGED that he's said something outrageous - again. It all generates traffic one way or another. Even a high profile as a worthless piece of shit is better than no profile at all.

[Tero]

But where is our Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory?? So we can send Trump to cut ribbons.

[Brian Peacock]

POINH.

[Tero]

A pitiful bunch of 50 with no weapons protest in NE including a nail salon owner. "These nails are to die for, honey!"
https://www.1011now.com/content/news/Ab ... 27161.html

[Tero]

Hey Trump! You will lose Iowa. After so many die in the pig packaging plant, workers will not show up.

[Cunt]

You seem to be celebrating all the worst things.

[Scot Dutchy]

Are not pigs called hogs in America?

[Seabass]

You seem to be celebrating all the worst things.

[Tero]

[Tero]

[Seabass]

"Success story."

Illinois adjusts on the fly to meet medical supply needs in a coronavirus ‘Wild West’
https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronaviru ... -wild-west

About two weeks ago, Illinois officials tracked down a supply of 1.5 million potentially life-saving N95 respirator masks in China through a middleman in the Chicago area and negotiated a deal to buy them.

One day before they were expecting to complete the purchase, they got a call in the morning from the supplier informing them he had to get a check to the bank by 2 p.m. that day, or the deal was off. Other bidders had surfaced.

Realizing there was no way the supplier could get to Springfield and back by the deadline, Illinois assistant comptroller Ellen Andres jumped in her car and raced north on I-55 with a check for $3,469,600.

From the other end, Jeffrey Polen, president of The Moving Concierge in Lemont, drove south. Polen isn’t in the medical supply business, but he “knows a guy,” an old friend who specializes in working with China’s factories.

As they drove, Andres and Polen arranged to meet in the parking lot of a McDonald’s restaurant just off the interstate in Dwight. They made the handoff there.

Polen made it back to his bank with 20 minutes to spare. Illinois already has received part of the mask shipment. There’s more on the way.

That’s just a taste of the “Wild West” world of emergency procurement taking place over the past several weeks as the state fights for equipment and supplies to protect frontline workers and patients in the battle against COVID-19.

Most of that work is being performed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration through a rapid-procurement strike team, pulling together procurement specialists from around state government under the auspices of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.

As Pritzker has made clear at his daily briefings, it’s an effort made all the more difficult by the absence of a strong, coordinated White House response. That’s left Illinois competing against other states, foreign nations and even our own federal government for the same materials. They’re all looking for what we have come to know as PPE or personal protective equipment — masks, gloves, gowns and face shields — plus coronavirus testing kits and swabs and, most prized of all, ventilators to help those most seriously ill keep breathing.

There’s a separate team working just on ventilators, said Deputy Governor Christian Mitchell, who is overseeing the procurement efforts for Pritzker.

When they find what they need, they have to move immediately to complete the purchase before losing out to another bidder — even as the competition causes prices to jump to levels that would have been ridiculous just a month ago.

...

[JimC]

I'm sure there are those in the US who would say that this sort of crazed competition is exactly what makes America strong and free. Co-ordination smacks of socialism...

[Sean Hayden]

I don't believe half of it, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for the truth to come out.
--//--

I do wish like hell we had a better president though. It would mean a lot to our morale to have a good, capable leader. I don't think they could fix anyone's lack of preparedness, or have a magic bullet for systemic problems, but they could inspire confidence and foster more of a belief that we are in this together.

"I think you're a terrible reporter" --I'll never forget that, he has said so many shitty things, but saying that in response to ~What would you say to scared Americans~ clearly shows where his mind is at all times.