meangirl8 wrote:
 

 Coaxial wrote:
 
My mistake, your comment. Strange the way you positioned it. Maybe it makes you feel dominant or superior, which makes me laugh.

Goodness, you for real?

 Coaxial wrote:
 

Oh look both Boris and Natasha on the same page.

And the child again implicates idiotic claims for reasons inexplicable. Amazing how many evil among us....

 R_P wrote:
 

Trump’s Suspect Spanish Flu Claims

 islander wrote:
 

Because, again, the American people must only be shown information after it's been filtered & framed by the media. Otherwise they won't know what to think.

https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1242883014516002817

 islander wrote: 

However, we will not be airing the briefings live due to a pattern of false or misleading information provided that cannot be fact checked in real time. (2)

— KUOW Public Radio (@KUOW) March 24, 2020

Mission accomplished!

Donald Trump Says America’s Ventilator Shortage Was “Unforeseen.” Nothing Could Be Further From the Truth.

“We have tremendous numbers of ventilators, but there’s never been an instance like this where no matter what you have, it’s not enough,” Trump said on March 18. “It sounds like a lot, but this is a very unforeseen thing. Nobody ever thought of these numbers.” A day later, he doubled down, noting that “nobody in their wildest dreams would have ever thought that we’d need tens of thousands of ventilators.”

Except, of course, somebody did think that. A lot of somebodies, actually, and for a very long time. Almost every federal agency you can imagine has, in fact, warned about shortages — and some have offered specific and sobering estimates of need — for the better part of two decades. (...)

A reporter asked Trump why there is a gap between things he says (e.g., millions of tests) and what happens in reality. Trump says he hears “good things” are happening on the ground. No one asks: Well, how can we trust anything you say? Why do you say things that are demonstrably not true? (...)

More than three years into the Trump presidency, you might hope that the media figured out how to convey the degree to which Trump is entirely out of touch and ill-equipped to handle a deadly pandemic of massive proportions. You would be wrong.

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 Red_Dragon wrote:
 
We would all be safer if he were locked in a closet for a few months.

Today's press briefing started with him talking about getting the release of a hostage overseas who is terminal.  Truly good news, but he spent 5 mins talking about one person and the amazing work of his team while every other family in America waited to hear anything about why they can't leave their homes for the next month.

Only those who credit his leadership remain on stage (which is why a dozen is down to 4).  His new nickname is "China virus", having used his famous sharpy to correct the notes he was given that called it Corona.  His stupidity is already killing people, and when someone does the regressions to show what reacting to this a month earlier would have done for the country...fake news!

 R_P wrote:
 

At this point, Trump should be required to appear in public dressed only in those hospital gowns that don't quite close in the back. OR, to save people from that awful flabby sight, hot pink slankets. 

 R_P wrote:
 

The Idiot In Chief.

Donald Trump has sown fresh confusion about the US government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic by claiming that a therapeutic drug will be available “almost immediately” – only to be contradicted by officials.

“I have been the most transparent president and administration in the history of our country, by far.”
How Transparent is President Trump? Audit Shows Three-Quarters of His Decisions Have Been Bad for Openness

Media Dutifully Report Trump’s Fiddling as Coronavirus Burns Through World

• He called COVID-19 a “foreign virus” and promised “the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront” it in “modern history.”
• He banned “all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days” to “keep new cases from entering our shores,” though later this turned out only to apply to non-US citizens (and not to people from Britain or Ireland, either, for some reason); Americans traveling abroad will still be tested (somehow) before being allowed onto planes.
• He announced that “I met with the leaders of health insurance industry who have agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments,” which turned out not to be true (Common Dreams, 3/12/20), and that “we are cutting massive amounts of red tape to make antiviral therapies available in record time,” even though antivirals for the new virus aren’t available yet and may not be for some time (AP, 3/11/20).

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CDC urges Americans to stay safe by doing opposite of everything Trump says

 jahgirl8 wrote: 
Snails get there eventually 

 jahgirl8 wrote:
 

What, are you confused by the facts?