Trump claims coronavirus is 'going to go away' despite mounting concerns

Thanks for the irony.

 

Barack Obama would have been better prepared for a pandemic than Trump is right now. We're all focused on containment but we need to know how to mitigate it. This administration is simply not moving fast enough to attack a possible pandemic in this country.

A possible pandemic is something that Trump can't simply take a sharpie to in order to change the facts as he did with the NOAA map during hurricane Dorian. He altered science to cover up for his own blunder. And just to remind every Trump loyalist here, Trump also gutted out NOAA after hurricane Dorian. When Trump loyalists decry 'America First' as being a good thing, they have to realize that this is specifically why that profound statement is a really bad thing, not a good thing. Trump has spent the last 3+ years denigrating these agencies whether it's NOAA or our intelligence agencies and these are the times when Trump needs these very agencies that he has denigrated and hollowed out.

He's going to have the same issues after going after these agencies and saying they're incompetent. The CDC is going to have to step up and he's going to be relying on them and this is one of the agencies among others that he has said 'don't trust' in the past. His lack of confidence is being projected and there's a lot of doubt as to whether he's going to be able to carry through. People are going to want health management not only his personal information management.

 

Would have been a heads-up from Bush that his economic advisors were shorting stock while simultaneously telling Americans to "Buy Buy Buy" just before the Bush crash!

But has always been the Republican Way! Make public feel safe as the Republicans sell off America!

 

First of all, It's not a pandemic. Second, If it was, Obama would have given aid to China and Iran before anyone in the USA.

 

Nothing he could have said would have been sufficient.

That's why nobody outside of liberal town is worried about what he said. He could have said nothing and he'd have been bashed. He could've said be cautious and he'd have been bashed.

It's the same bullshit the left did when their main target were policemen. Shoot a guy? Could have tased. Tase a guy? Could have used pepper spray. Pepper spray a guy? Could have used your hands and arrested him. Use your hands and arrest him? Police brutality. There's no satisfying the left because they thrive on anger, it's the only time they're happy.

 

The flu has killed literally 2000 times as many people.

 

I did not say it was a pandemic, did I. Stop making stuff up that I've never said, thank you. As I clearly stated, the CDC was fully staffed under Barack Obama and prepared to deal with a potential pandemic. Trump has gutted all departments that deal with control of infections and preparedness.

 

It's the reverse in fact. The coronavirus will make the trade war worse.

 

Me too, but your damned post switched on that perfection tyrant within. So I trudged through it.

T is the time between confirmation of infection and death. It's been determined that for this virus t is 7 or 14 or maybe 12 days. Humm.. now that's a variable that leads to precision.

Anyway let's assume precision. The sun total of deaths to date are patients that contracted the virus 7, 12 or 14 days ago to be precise. So, with precision in mind, the rate of death calculation needs to only include the confirmed cases at or before the date today's dead were infected.

Which kinda brings up another variable, how is confirmation determined? Admission to hospital? Lab tests? First symptoms? Exposure?

Ok, back to precision. I give up.

Thanks AKS for the reminder of my limitations. Lol

 

COVID-19 only appeared within the last several months.

 

Remember when ISIS was claiming responsibility for all the attacks here and these same people were telling us that we have a better chance to be struck by lightning than caught up in a terror attack? And there were actual deaths from terrorists.

But since Trump said "don't worry", all bets are off and it's suddenly a pandemic.

 

Anyone dumb enough to think a virous outbreak is going to crash the markets shouldn't be investing. Short sellers like Soros a dem don't buy during market downturns.

 

Here's a real question: Will trump use a COVID-19 outbreak as a reason to cancel the election in California?

 

How about waiting until it starts taking lives over here before you beat yourself up over it.

 

Yes there is plenty he could have said that would have at least reassured the American public that the United States is well-prepared. He has been doing nothing, including today, but ignore the significance of this whole coronavirus scare. He claims it's "under control" and it is not.

 

Might as well. First y'all say he downplays it, next it'll be over-exaggerating it. Y'all are more predictable than pimples on picture day.

 

Zero deaths, minimal infections. Where is your proof that it's not under control?

 

Jesus Christ, do you ever read the news or just get your sound bites from Fox?

 

When I was a kid almost all kids got measles before they were teenagers, very few didn't get it. But very few died. It wasn't a serious disease and we still had to go to school except when we were down in the bed with it. When you could walk Mama handed you a brown bag lunch and you'd better make roll.

Then in the early 60's there was an immunization for measles.

 

When I started the thread, his comment about the COVID-19 being completely under control had not halted the Dow from dropping 500 points.

By closing, it was down 900.

 

Perhaps you can explain how you know when a lower price has been reached? Is the price low right now?

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/25/us-coronavirus-outbreak-inevitable-cdc-117389

U.S. coronavirus outbreak inevitable, CDC official says

 

A two second search would find you the citations you have asked for

 

Did you ever stop to consider that the reason we are predictable is because trump is predictable?

In other words, wouldn't it be absolutely in line with his history to downplay something before over-exaggerating?

 

Over 10,000 dead from perennial, typical influenza in the USA this season. None dead in the USA yet from corona virus afaik. But I expect that there will be some, although limited.

If the truckers become afraid to darken the doors of truckstops then we got problems. Empty shelves and no gasoline. But that is very unlikely.