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The right hand doesnā€™t know who the left hand is shooting.

Fears grow of a coronavirus pandemic as markets stumble again; Japan shuts schools

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/02/27/coronavirus-live-updates/#click=https://t.co/vKUxAjdwP4


https://twitter.com/minhtngo/status/1232910937901846541
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/northern-californian-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-in-first-us-case-with-no-link-to-foreign-travel/2020/02/26/b2088840-58fb-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html
https://twitter.com/minhtngo/status/1233050457133551618



2 studies of coronavirus patients suggest the diseaseā€™s incubation period could be longer than the standard quarantine period of 14 days

Public health experts warn Trumpā€™s history of lying about crises is a ā€˜real problemā€™ as he downplays coronavirus and contradicts the CDC



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ā€¦well, I get your drift. No one really wants to bring harm essentiallyā€¦BUT we could hope that they see that he is NOT WELL.

Wonder if ā€˜theyā€™ think the same for non-MAGA believers???!!!

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Of course Azar is behind the ā€œthe vaccine may not be affordable for allā€ statement.

Michael McAuliff takes a look at Alex Azar, pharmaceutical lobbyist, former drug company executive, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and opponent of the ACA, the man who wants to charge for a #coronavirus vaccine we donā€™t even have yet.




https://twitter.com/mmcauliff/status/1232820272098664448

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So the coronavirus might not be ā€œall badā€ after all? :roll_eyes:

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Note this key line:

But even when proceeding at an ā€œemergency speed,ā€ a vaccine would not be available for use for at least a year or 18 months

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CNN - Gupta on Trumpā€™s coronavirus claim: Thatā€™s not true

:lying_face:

Trump makes misleading statement on risk of coronavirus.

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FUCK.

Pence Will Control All Coronavirus Messaging From Health Officials

Government health officials and scientists will have to coordinate statements with the vice presidentā€™s office, one of three people designated as the administrationā€™s primary coronavirus official.

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I just want ā€œthemā€ to wake up. How can anyone keep believing a liar?

And Iā€™m willing to believe they think the same for us non-believers. :roll_eyes:

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Pence and the WH are clamping down on info. In that vacuum, media is bound to fill it with fear and sensationalism.

Iā€™ve been told that there are already panicked people in some places stocking up on food and resources.

Letā€™s Call It Trumpvirus

If youā€™re feeling awful, you know who to blame.

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Official CDC info on the Coronavirus:

U.S. Stocks Slide Into a Correction as Virus Fears Show No Sign of Easing



Coronavirus live updates: California monitoring 8,400 people, stocks continue free fall

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I want to scream.

U.S. Health Workers Responding to Coronavirus Lacked Training and Protective Gear, Whistle-Blower Says

Team members were not properly trained, lacked necessary gear and moved freely around and off military bases where Americans were quarantined, a complaint says.







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A little backtrackingā€¦now Pence will have under him another expert Ambassador Debbie Birx, who handled the global HIV crisis as ā€œWhite House coronavirus response coordinatorā€, as well as Cabinet member Azar in positions of power.

In the end, President Donald Trump got a coronavirus czar ā€” without having to call it a czar.

Vice President Mike Pence, whom Trump appointed Wednesday to lead his coronavirus response, announced a global health official as the ā€œWhite House coronavirus response coordinatorā€ ā€” installing a czar-like figure under him to guide the administrationā€™s response to the outbreak after a protracted public dance around how to display the power of the federal bureaucracy to the American people.

The new role will put Ambassador Debbie Birx, who has served since 2014 as the U.S. governmentā€™s leader for combating HIV/AIDS globally, at the center of what now appears to be three leaders of the government response. Trump revealed in a news conference Wednesday evening that Pence would head up the administrationā€™s management of the coronavirus, overseeing a task force nominally led by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. Birx will report to Pence but serve on the task force that Azar chairs.

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More than a ā€˜testā€™ for Tā€™s competenceā€¦a nation is in need of good information.

And so, with the first case of coronavirus not tied to foreign travel being announced in California on Wednesday, Trump finds himself grappling with a crisis for which his record suggests he is particularly ill suited to respond.

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Trumpā€™s charge is to calm, rather than con, a frightened nation. But now in his fourth year in office, he lacks credibility with broad swaths of the country ā€” the sort of safety net that many of his predecessors could fall back on in moments of crisis.

Stephen Morrison, a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he directs the centerā€™s global health work, said that while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has done ā€œa fine jobā€ in regularly updating the public with guidance, ā€œthe trick and the missing part is the communications at a higher level to the American public, and thatā€™s from the president and the presidentā€™s designated surrogates.ā€

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/coronavirus-trump-experts/2020/02/27/71e8777c-5971-11ea-ab68-101ecfec2532_story.html

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Cross-posting from: Day 1134

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Welcome to the #gaslight express.

We have misspelled lies that claim Trumpā€™s racist border closings and flight bans are helping (theyā€™re not).

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We have blaming the media for the panic and lack of leadership he is causing, not to mention the laughable claim that CNN is ā€œfar left.ā€

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And we have totally false claims that Pence and his cadre of Trump cronies have everything under control and numbers are going down when the exact opposite is clearly happening.

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Heā€™s justā€¦ soā€¦ dumbā€¦

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Why in the world would Pence cancel this? Big dollars is why.

The countryā€™s new point man on coronavirus response, Vice President Mike Pence, is expected to travel to Florida on Friday ā€” but not on a public health mission.

Instead, Pence is headed to the moneyed barrier island town of Longboat Key, where heā€™ll be the main attraction for Congressional Republicans in one of their biggest fundraisers of the year.

Itā€™s $2,500 to get in the door and $5,000 to take a picture with the vice president, according to an invite obtained by the Tampa Bay Times . And $25,000 buys dinner with him, too.

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Absolutely shameful. The second Pence was unexpectedly (and astonishingly) appointed by Trump to command our national assault on the coronavirus, he should have cancelled every single event that was not focused on that goal. Our entire nation is at risk and heā€™s dawdling at a fundraiser?! Outrageous. And as soon as Pence showed he wasnā€™t making a serious effort, Trump should have chastised him, or more appropriately, fired him from that position. Is Trump serious about helping us face this crisis or is he fiddling while Rome burns? :violin: :fire:

And hereā€™s what Trump said today as he was supposedly ā€œrallyingā€ the nation:

Itā€™s going to disappear. One day itā€™s like a miracle, it will disappear. And from our shores, you know, it could get worse before it gets better. Could maybe go away. Weā€™ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.

Ahh, now I can sleep soundly.

Just imagine, would Britain have made it through the Nazi bombing blitz if, instead of delivering his stirring ā€œWe shall fight them on the beachesā€¦ā€ speech, Churchill had said this:

The Nazis are going to disappear. One day itā€™s like a miracle they will disappear. And from our shores, you know, the bombing could get worse before it gets better. Could maybe go away. Weā€™ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.

Yeah, that would have inspired the Brits to give it their all. And weā€™d still be quoting it today. :wink:

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Unfortunatelyā€¦all for show @Keaton_James

"Taskedā€™ means appear as if you are trying to attack this potentially catastrophic situation.

Being the mouthpiece of the nationā€™s influenza onslaught is so fraught with pesky fundraisers here, and swatting away experts there, and itā€™s just his warm-up.
Old wooden-face Pence will do his ā€˜duty.ā€™ - whatever the F that means.

Churchill had some gutsā€¦these guys, poses.

ARRRRGGGGHHHH.

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