US Map Coronavirus cases vs. US Map of Sanctuary Cities: 
Posted on 03/02/2020 6:37:49 PM PST by Coleus
Whom better to have as president during the coronavirus epidemic but a renowned germaphobe, the “build-the-wall” guy who refuses to kowtow to China? It’s a unique set of characteristics showing that President Trump understood early the need for decisive measures such as travel restrictions on China, which he imposed in January.
Yet for that sensible decision — in defiance of the World Health Organization — he was criticized by Democrats such as Joe Biden as xenophobic, and by China as racist. “This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia — hysterical xenophobia — and fearmongering,” said Biden the day after the travel restrictions were imposed.
CNN ran a story warning that “the US coronavirus travel ban could backfire” and have the effect of “stigmatizing countries and ethnicities.” The Chinese Communist Party’s official mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, called the ban “racist.” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned it would increase “fear and stigma, with little public health benefit.”
It is hard to have much confidence in a United Nations bureaucracy run by the former health minister of the Marxist regime of Ethiopia. In 2017, Tedros tried to appoint then-Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe as a WHO goodwill ambassador, and he seems to have a soft spot for China.
The Council on Foreign Relations think tank said last week that Tedros owes China because it backed him in the election to become director-general in 2017. Tedros denies kowtowing to Beijing, but not only did he advise governments not to restrict travel from China at the start of the epidemic, he was slow to declare a global health emergency and praised China for its “transparency,” although the Communist authorities there had been covering up the spread of the disease.
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I give President Trump A+ for early recognition of the potential problem, finding experts to warn the public, positioning the medicines we will need, keeping in touch with world leaders and allies. A+ for him. A great leader.
China has 1.386 billion (2017) people and the death toll 3,125. That's not so many.
You're right about deaths from opioids. Maybe people don't care so much because taking opioids is a choice. Getting the virus isn't.
And virtually all of the Chinese deaths were elderly or sickly people.
The corona virus epidemic may, or may not, turn out to be a big deal. However, your logic is severely flawed. The Spanish flu epidemic after WW1 killed somewhere between 50 million and 100 million people. At some point only six people had died from it. The fact that this 2020 disease has only killed six people up to this point in time has absolutely nothing to do with what it’s potential might be. FYI, the coronavirus appears to be about three times more communicable than the normal flu, and it has a death rate of something likely less than 2%. If this disease ends up affecting three times as many as the flu, that would mean 120 million infections in this country. At a 2% death rate, that is 2.4 million people. That is not a joke, and it is also not a certainty that it will occur. However, the potential is there, despite the fact that only six people have died in this country up to the present time.
US Map Coronavirus cases vs. US Map of Sanctuary Cities:
I don’t give trump good grades here. We need to close international travel -especially now Korea and Italy like Israel is doing now. We don’t do it because we are afraid of the short term stock market effect
Finally the Rats had their dream come true. “Urban retards hardest hit”. They deserve it.
Just the TINIEST detail omitted by the Chinese, of course.
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