Sen. Murphy says Trump, not China or WHO, to blame for US coronavirus crisis

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  1. s002wjh

    s002wjh Well-Known Member

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    lol so when China/WHO downplay/mishandle it, its bad, when trump downplay/mishandle its call optimism, sry i'm pragmatist.
     
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    Sorry. Trump never denied its existence. From January 21, the first case showed up from Wuhan ,,, was not identified right away. January 24 Trump tried to get our doctors to China by offering help for the purpose of identifying the pathogen. January 31 Trump restricted travel to and from China over screams of racism, xenophobia.

    He was the only one to take the threat serious while trying to avoid panic. Blind hatred is more deadly than COVID-19. Be careful.
     
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    Well people of all affiliation hunkered down in self quarantine thinking that this would save them! Wouldn't that be something like optimism :)

    And I am also pragmatic but I lean more to realist.. I understand that a leader such as Trump or any other must sooth the mob.. If he would have been totally honest and WE both are about the real challenges people are faced with, well that wouldn't go well in large congested cities.. As a pragmatic I'm sure you have come to terms with the idea you have a fair chance of dying from this once its turned loose, right? But how can you not be realistic about how millions of other packed like sardines in cities will react if they were told the cold hard truth..

    Anyway, I sometimes think there is a large segment of Americans that would love to see total anarchy in the streets and be clear, this is a perfect event to do it with ;)
     
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    He tried, he failed.

    Considering that Trump never takes any responsibility for his actions, it will be up to the voters to decide his fate.
     
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    "He was the only one to take the threat serious while trying to avoid panic"

    Trump said in late February - multiple times - that we have this virus completely under control. That's not avoiding panic, that is lying.
     
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    Chris Murphy said - on February 5th - that the Administration was not taking the virus seriously because they refused to request any emergency funding.

    He was correct then and he is correct now.

    Attempts to blame China and the WHO are solely built on a desire to scapegoat away from Trump's failures.
     
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    BTW. Check out who is paying for the Murphy Mouthpiece

    Paul, Weiss was one of first foreign law firms to establish an office in mainland China, opening in Beijing in 1981. Today, the office is comprised of multinational, Western-trained, Chinese-speaking legal practitioners with deep expertise in U.S. and Chinese international business transactions.

    Paul, Weiss et al $151,583 $151,583

    https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00027566

    He should be required to register as a foreign agent.
     
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    I tend to ignore those who have a political axe to grind, who are attempting to gain political advantage from both major parties. Especially in today's modern era of polarization and ultra high partisanship, in an era where anything and everything goes in order to attain a political advantage over the other party.

    I'm more apt to be blaming China and their dishonesty over this corona virus situation than anything anyone did or didn't here in the states. WHO can only go by what ever countries tell them what is going on. Apparently China didn't let WHO know the truth and hence anything the president did or didn't do was a result of China, not so much WHO. My opinion anyway.
     
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    Of course the Chinese people aren't to blame. Their Govt however is, on their lies and cover ups.
     
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    Before he learned of the fraud China committed, this is from over two months ago. You left out Dr. Fauci in late February, well after the Trump quote, saying the US risk from the virus is miniscule and only hypothetical.
     
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    The Chinese people and government are two entirely different things.
     
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    So your solution is to vote for dementia Joe, who opposed the China travel restrictions that Dr. Fauci said saved a lot of lives? You make no sense.
     
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    Once again, through late Feb. Fauci was saying the risk here was very minimal, wasn't Trump supposed to listen to the experts?
     
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    Dr. Fauci repeatedly said, in the moments that you want to mis-remember, that the risk could change very quickly.
     
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    It was reasonably under control in the US at that time. It took idiocy to launch the US into hot spot stature. John Bel Edwards had to invite the world (that Trump never claimed to have under control) to fly through NYC to New Orleans for Mardi Gras.

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    Feminists and all varieties if Liberals had to display their idiocy to fly back and forth from to NYC into a hot spot Madrid Spain to celebrate International Women's Day.
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    Once in NYC, mass transit did the rest ...

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    Of course New York Liberals did what liberals do after screwing up their own home states and towns: Spread the misery. They spread their scourge down the coast and up to New England in much the same way John Bel Edwards spread his disease all over his own state and neighboring states.
     
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    15,000 New Yorkers dead because no one, a state full of Democrats, took social distancing seriously.

    And let's not forget Mardigras (or whatever) in New Orleans. The governor blamed Trump for her own stupidity of not shutting it down.

    Meanwhile all the Democratic governors are screaming Trump has no authority to shut their states down.

    But they all blame Trump. Can you go any more full retard?
     
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    That'd be a fair question if covid originated here and Trump was aware but silenced everyone.
     
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    Trump is to blame for his failures, WHO is to blame for their failures, China is to blame for their failures
     
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    What do you think Trump could have done to keep the virus out of America
     
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    If said animals are lumped together in inhumanitarian conditions, then....? Or if it doesn't take China MONTHS to respond? They are responsible by sheer apathy. And then by killing its medical people and trying to hide the facts.

    China will always bare a major portion of responsibility for the virus. So too does Europe bare its burden since it was even WORSE than China in responding.

    And domestically, Cuomo just SAT THERE when it was observable as mid-Feburary that NY was a hot spot. If Cuomo shut down NY 2-3 weeks earlier, we're not here.
     
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    He did not say reasonably under control. He said completely and totally under control - multiple times.


    And nearly every single one of those States that you choose to trot out as an instance of individual State failure implemented epidemic control measures earlier and more extensively than Trump making those recommendations nationally.
     
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    Wasnt Murphy one if the idiots that went to Iran?
     
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    Well he was already called a racist for keeping the Chinese out so...

    But lets be real, if Trump somehow shut the country down and only 5 people died we'd still be having this conversation.

    Why, because the Democrats are FOS. They don't care who or how many died. It would be used as a political weapon.
     
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