Trump declares coronavirus national emergency, says he will most likely be tested

[lannarebirth]

32 minutes ago, Chiphigh said:

You just can't help yourself. What a sad thing to go through life with. 

 

Anyway, there are fda changes as well. 

 

If you had a shred of objectivity, getting rid of the red tape will be a good thing for everyone. 

 

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/13/trump-coronavirus-testing-128048

 

Of course it's a good thing. Should have happened 2 months ago.

[metisdead]

Some more troll posts and the replies have been removed. 

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, lannarebirth said:

Everything thing he says politically is of note and is spot on.

That convinces me. ???? 

[jcsmith]

Declaring it a national emergency is a good thing. Trump getting tested shouldn't really be a question mark though. He had up close interactions with people who are known to be infected and he comes into contact with many people a day. 

[Traubert]

Fabulous. Fascinating. Insightful. Revealing.

 

I note Reuters have dropped the 'deadly' corona virus. It's now the 'worrysome' Covid 19.

[OneMoreFarang]

3 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

4 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

That convinces me. ???? 

Why? Because!

He is obviously the greatest - I am totally convinced, totally! 

 

 

[Nyezhov]

4 minutes ago, alanrchase said:

Ah. You are very amusing. No virus you would have a place in BKK? No idea where the ignore button is when using a phone but my BS meter is getting noisy.

Please find it as soon as possible. I just added you. 

[Phoenix Rising]

The sick joke of Donald Trump's presidency isn't funny any more

 

"

Trump was right about one thing, and only one thing, as the coronavirus started to spread across the world. The sight of thousands of dead Americans will hurt him politically. It will also hurt many thousands of Americans in reality.

 Trump’s rhetoric will make the pandemic worse. Words are now a matter of life and death
Multiple reports have detailed how Trump did not just ignore the growing pandemic; he actively sought to block his own officials’ attempts to track and stop it. Why has there been such a disastrous lack of testing? Because the president didn’t want to know the answer, and because his staff were too busy fighting each other to do the right thing.

[Jingthing]

7 minutes ago, Traubert said:

Fabulous. Fascinating. Insightful. Revealing.

 

I note Reuters have dropped the 'deadly' corona virus. It's now the 'worrysome' Covid 19.

Yes they need a specific name for it because corona virus is a generic term and this is a specific corona virus. I'm not sure it's good to call it deadly or worrisome. Deadly is too much as that implies a level of mortality from infection that definitely isn't there even if the rate is a high as 5 percent (it's probably closer to .5 to 1  percent). Worrisome sounds silly. A virus doesn't have feelings. 

Edited March 14, 2020 by Jingthing

[alanrchase]

1 minute ago, Nyezhov said:

Please find it as soon as possible. I just added you. 

555. You are so kind. Could you please provide some factual info and tell me where the ignore button is when using a phone?

I won't ignore you because you provide so much amusing material.

[Nyezhov]

11 minutes ago, Phoenix Rising said:

The sick joke of Donald Trump's presidency isn't funny any more

 

"

Trump was right about one thing, and only one thing, as the coronavirus started to spread across the world. The sight of thousands of dead Americans will hurt him politically. It will also hurt many thousands of Americans in reality.

 Trump’s rhetoric will make the pandemic worse. Words are now a matter of life and death
Multiple reports have detailed how Trump did not just ignore the growing pandemic; he actively sought to block his own officials’ attempts to track and stop it. Why has there been such a disastrous lack of testing? Because the president didn’t want to know the answer, and because his staff were too busy fighting each other to do the right thing.

Getting your talking points from "the Guardian"? The English Pravda?

[Chiphigh]

39 minutes ago, alanrchase said:

No FDA changes as you claimed. Get a grip.

Oh, how silly you look. 

 

Please keep up the resistance. 

 

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/bid-rapidly-expand-coronavirus-testing-us-agency-abruptly-changes-rules

 

 

[Sujo]

13 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Please find it as soon as possible. I just added you. 

You will only have yourself to chat too soon. Must be rivetting.

[Chiphigh]

36 minutes ago, lannarebirth said:

 

Of course it's a good thing. Should have happened 2 months ago.

Yes, your hindsight and intuitive nature is far superior. 

 

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/bid-rapidly-expand-coronavirus-testing-us-agency-abruptly-changes-rules

[Jingthing]

5 hours ago, UbonThani said:

No they arent. Most people are smart enough to look at it in real terms.

 

Trump haters are just sad people. Any excuse to whine.

 

A 103yo woman lived thru it.

 

That says a lot.

It says nothing. 

[sukhumvitneon]

where the f*** is my payroll tax cut?

[gargamon]

2 hours ago, simple1 said:

Why would the morality rates in the US be less than other Western countries?

A bit off topic don't you think? But I can make a reasonable attempt to answer it. Blame the Christians...

[alanrchase]

24 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Please find it as soon as possible. I just added you. 

Would have been more hurtful if you did it immediately. Why take so long? Missing you already.

[zydeco]

Trump: "Google will develop a website which will be build much more quickly than websites in the past." 

 

Yes, he has outsourced government emergency response to CEOs from Google, CVS, Walgreen, Wal-Mart, and Target. How much money will they get?  They've already been given a free advertisement for their companies from in front of the White House. And they got at least twice as much time in front of the camera than the experts he had around him.

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Trump: "I am officially declaring a national emergency. Two very big words!"

 

We will have the bestest, most yuge national emergency, evah! 

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"Some doctors say it will wash through, flow through."

 

Sure, the virus will all be done and over in a few weeks! He thinks he was right in the first place to dismiss it. 

 

 

 

 

[Jingthing]

  

4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Wonder how Trump will react when the world retaliates and bans America travellers ? 

By his "logic" they should. 

 

Quote

 

How the US stacks up to other countries in confirmed coronavirus cases

 

The United States is more in line with Italy and Iran than Singapore and Hong Kong.

 

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/13/21178289/confirmed-coronavirus-cases-us-countries-italy-iran-singapore-hong-kong?utm_source=digg

 

He'll probably like it as he's such an extremist isolationist.  

Edited March 14, 2020 by Jingthing

[alanrchase]

16 minutes ago, Chiphigh said:

Oh, how silly you look. 

 

Please keep up the resistance. 

 

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/bid-rapidly-expand-coronavirus-testing-us-agency-abruptly-changes-rules

 

 

Please read your links. There was nothing in the previous regulations that stopped them doing this weeks ago. The Senate took a vote a while ago that basically confirmed the President can do whatever he likes if it benefits the USA. No Trump hate, just facts.

[White Christmas13]

4 hours ago, EricTh said:

US death toll is 48 and not 9.

 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

The numbers are rising fast in Europe and USA. Check the stats everyday.

Experts predicts millions of deaths from coronavirus is United States alone

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/experts-predicts-millions-of-deaths-from-coronavirus-is-united-states-alone/news-story/1e4b7696dd8b3ac35b65f7f5898ec842

[NanLaew]

22 minutes ago, gargamon said:

3 hours ago, simple1 said:

Why would the morality rates in the US be less than other Western countries?

A bit off topic don't you think? But I can make a reasonable attempt to answer it. Blame the Christians...

Good answer but which ones in particular?

[Phoenix Rising]

1 hour ago, Nyezhov said:

Getting your talking points from "the Guardian"? The English Pravda?

I get my "talking points" from a great number of sources and try very hard to not limit myself to those which I generally tend to agree with politically. What about you?

Edited March 14, 2020 by Phoenix Rising

[watthong]

Still amazes me to no end that as of today there are still people on this planet who still hang on to every syllable this buffoon utters. Remind me of a period in my youth when I lived with a cuckoo mother and son duo (yes, I must have been cuckoo myself, if not for hard found cash) the son occasionally pulled me a side and whispered, "you know, I think my mom is a little crazy..."

 

Pull your head out of the sands, folks! It's one thing that we have to live under his reign, it's another to get bothered by his lunacy/idiocy/thousands other -icies with every precious second of our lives.

[Crazy Alex]

1 hour ago, White Christmas13 said:

Experts predicts millions of deaths from coronavirus is United States alone

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/experts-predicts-millions-of-deaths-from-coronavirus-is-united-states-alone/news-story/1e4b7696dd8b3ac35b65f7f5898ec842

Which experts? And what is their agenda?

[Crazy Alex]

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

  

By his "logic" they should. 

 

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/13/21178289/confirmed-coronavirus-cases-us-countries-italy-iran-singapore-hong-kong?utm_source=digg

 

He'll probably like it as he's such an extremist isolationist.  

Yes, because a president who believes his country's borders should be enforced and immigration controlled is obviously "an extremist isolationist". Apparently, Italy is led by "extremist isolationists" as well. ????

[sirineou]

 

3 hours ago, Skallywag said:

To be fair, I dont think any president is ever prepared for a pandemic. 

A "pandemic" is a viral outbreak, of an unknown strain, etc... 

You cannot prepare for the unknowable

Bureaucracy and federal money distribution have always been a bit slow during emergencies in America I believe

 

Panic serves no purpose, being cautious is absolutely necessary though.  That is up to us, not a president.  We have necessary info from WHO and CDC, and need to follow it. 

 

Peace

 

 

This president had a Four month head start and waste it shouting "Fake news"!!! Plenty was know and preparedness actions should had being taken. 

  The first case was reported in China four months ago.

 By January 10, a Shanghai laboratory had sequenced the virus' genome,German scientists produced the first diagnostic test a week later ( January 17th ).

   The World Health Organization began shipping those tests out to countries during the first week of February.

WHO offers the test to the US but we refuse and insist in developing and distributing our own test.

  The CDC shipped 90 test kits!!!!! to state public health labs on February 6 and 7. By that point, the US had only confirmed about a dozen coronavirus cases, including two cases of person-to-person transmission.

 February 12,  A problem with one ingredient in the US tests caused more than half of state labs to receive inconclusive results.

 

 

[Crazy Alex]

1 minute ago, sirineou said:

 

This president had a Four month head start and waste it shouting "Fake news"!!! Plenty was know and preparedness actions should had being taken. 

  The first case was reported in China four months ago.

 By January 10, a Shanghai laboratory had sequenced the virus' genome,German scientists produced the first diagnostic test a week later ( January 17th ).

   The World Health Organization began shipping those tests out to countries during the first week of February.

WHO offers the test to the US but we refuse and insist in developing and distributing our own test.

  The CDC shipped 90 test kits!!!!! to state public health labs on February 6 and 7. By that point, the US had only confirmed about a dozen coronavirus cases, including two cases of person-to-person transmission.

 February 12,  A problem with one ingredient in the US tests caused more than half of state labs to receive inconclusive results.

 

 

Good thing Trump restricted travel from China in January, yes?

[OneMoreFarang]

'He's an idiot': critics say Trump has failed the US in this test of reassurance

Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, said: “He’s an idiot. He’s handled it horribly. When things are rough, you want somebody who can exude confidence and competence and Trump does not do that.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/coronavirus-outbreak-response-trump-us

 

Enjoy!