Posted on 03/03/2020 10:54:25 AM PST by OneVike
Excerpted from article.
Two months after the outbreak of the coronavirus, #TrumpVirus began trending on Twitter. Why? Because it’s the only chance that the Democrats have of winning back the White House in 2020.
Saddled with broken primaries whose nominee, after a possible brokered convention, will either be a Socialist who admires Communists, a senile lecher who admires young girls, or a billionaire who admires power, the coronavirus is a much more effective candidate than Sanders, Biden, or Bloomberg.
The media will spend all its time bashing President Trump, Pence, assorted cabinet members, and perhaps the CDC, without ever drilling down to the facts, even though it has them at hand. The media’s rule of thumb is that natural disasters and disease outbreaks are always successfully managed by Democrats and mismanaged by Republicans. Katrina and Maria were disasters, but Sandy was a success story. The coronavirus is a catastrophe, but the Ebola virus was brilliantly handed by smart people who are handling the coronavirus response. But it’s different because the guy in the White House is.
The truth is that all of these were mismanaged by the same agencies, many of the same people, and by a government infrastructure that excels at drawing up big budget proposals, but is inept at solving problems when they actually emerge, and just follow whatever protocols will cover its collective asses.
All the rest is a matter of the uncontrollable, the innate qualities of the storm or the disease, and the story that the media chooses to tell about the disaster in the service of its political agenda.
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Current data as for today
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
If this was a “pandemic about to break out” the death toll in China would all ready be in the millions.
It’s not
There are a number of people in the US Goverment, and Fake News, who are being despicably irresponsible in their rhetoric.
When this is over in a month or two, those people need to be held accountable for the criminal level incompetence and fear mongering.
Three years is enough time to get rid of holdovers.
CDC - Coronavirus Delivery Corporation
It is under control in China because they shutdown the country, quarantined millions, and didn’t hand wave it and say it wasn’t as bad as the flu. If you take action, then the damage can be limited. If you play pretend with it, then it will spiral out of control. The political risk is under reacting, not overreacting.
14000 Americans died of the swine flu during the Obama yrs and hardly a mention in the commie press it was all about protecting o bama even though he waited months to declare an emergency
Dear Moron
READ the data start thinking, do not cling to your drama queen hysteria and ignorance
Yes,Obams waited SIX MONTHS to declare an emergency....and then chose Biden’s Chief of Staff to head up the effort...probably because he had nothing else to do. Not a peep from the Democrat media either.
Once the world realizes that this virus is aerosol in its ability to infect, the societal change will be dramatic in the short term. Think measles or smallpox in that regard.
If you peel an orange in your house, and someone smells it in another room, an aerosol virus can spread that easily.
Large group events will disappear until a vaccine becomes available.
Believe the China numbers at your own risk. Instead, watch South Korea and Singapore. We will never accept Singapore level surveillance here, but they definitely are the gold standard of stopping the spread of this. South a Korea has done an amazing job of both testing and quarantine.
A nursing home here in Washington had a bunch of infected people, and the local EMTs and fire department arrived to evacuate them. These are young, healthy men. 38 of them are now in quarantine with 19 showing symptoms. Most had zero contact with the patients.
Your misinformation MNJohnnie is just as irresponsible as those who run around saying everyone will die.
Everyone needs to learn about this virus, keep a level head, and stay safe. We can defeat it through our hygiene and knowledge. Sticking your head in the sand, or up your ass, is DEADLY, especially for elderly or immune system compromised individuals.
My years of training for chemical warfare in the Army taught me to treat any possible pathogen as deadly first, and once it is determined to be less dangerous to lower your alert level.
Doing it the other way is how idiots die, or kill others.
I have read the data, and if you know how to read you know it is bad. If you know how to use your eyes and see what the response was, you know it is bad. If you use your ears and listen to what health professionals are saying you know it is bad. So my only conclusion is that you are deaf, dumb, and blind! But feel free to share your “data”.
I had no idea so many Americans died of this virus because the commie media hardly mentioned it
Pence should simply say that:
1. the government and pharmaceutical industry professionals seem to know very well what will need to get done to minimize the harm and that
2. it would be inappropriate for them to have waste their valuable time by having to report to him and that
3. he will resume his Senate duties full time.
Unless we were to have used Chinese Communist methods, the spread was bound to happen.
The Communist Chinese government doesn’t mind dragging off a few people on nationwide TV for endangering the nation. It just shows the Chinese people that the Communists still run things and for at least one good reason.
“Large group events will disappear until a vaccine becomes available.”
I suspect chemical anti-virus drugs are the way to go.
They can be put to the test quickly.
A vaccine would have to be tested to be safe and effective enough for 350 million American residents.
An anti-viral drug probably only has to be tested to be safe and effective enough for maybe 50 million American residents.
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I pray that will happen.
WuFlu has been found to dramatically infect brain stem tissue, causing failure of the breathing apparatus, so it passes the blood/brain barrier.
No pathogen has existed with this level of contagion for over 100 years. Let’s hope and pray we can get a cure or prophylactic prevention to this. Soon.
As testing ramps up in the USA after having been neglected from the beginning, the numbers will increase dramatically. Panic will ensue, as the media will fan the flames. Now is the time for Americans to learn about this virus as best we can, so the short term bleak future won’t be so dramatic.
That’s what pisses me off about the ostriches in our midst.
China shut things down. Hundreds of millions stayed home. We need to do that here, too.
Exactly what you said.
Since there is community transmission on at least 3 continents it already meets the definition of pandemic. No death toll threshold is required.
If you believe this is nothing, then just get out of the way and let the adults handle preparing for the possibility you are wrong. Maybe you should short some hand sanitizer stocks or something.
The only panic I see is from the normalcy-bias afflicted Meta Concern Trolls.
Not sure you can get through to the Meta Concern Trolls (they are concerned that you are concerned).
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