Trump Herd Mentality - 13.5 Million Potential Fatalities

 

"The problem with Trump’s ‘herd mentality’ line isn’t the verbal flub. It’s the mass death." -- As many as 13.5 MILLION in the US alone. - Washington Post. Maybe Putin told him to do it. 

 

https://tinyurl.com/wv4x8zj9

Biden Addresses Pandemic Threat in 2019

“We are not prepared for a pandemic. Trump has rolled back progress
President Obama and I made to strengthen global health security.

We need leadership that builds public trust, focuses on real threats, and
mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores.”

- Joe Biden, October 25, 2019

Dino, Scams, Fakes, and Pandemics

2765   PM:   Dino   [Quote]     -- 5:52am -- Sat, May 30, 20 pst
Minneapolis is going to have a spike in the Covid now.
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That’s odd. Just a bit earlier Dino claimed the virus is fake.

9317   PM:   Dino   [Quote]     -- 3:39am -- Sun, May 17, 20 pst
We think they have gone nuts over the Covid scam

MwJohnson Flaunts CDC Guidelines

1629 PM: Mwjohnson [Quote] -- 8:04am -- Sun, May 10, 20 pst
. . . We had 4 hour rehearsal at a studio last night:Social distancing, no masks.

Doss Predicts

9542   PM:   Doss   [Quote]     -- 8:38am -- Sat, Apr 11, 20 pst
doss
When the mayors and governors succeed in turning the corner on this pandemic, Trump will claim credit. I promise you.

Dino Says Pandemic is Fake

Dino says the pandemic is fake.



3850   PM:   Dino   [Quote]     -- 4:18am -- Fri, Apr 10, 20 pst

Hospitals are losing money and some are shutting down because they won't do elective surgeries due to the fake pandemic.



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Trump says it's real; they need to get their lies straight.



“This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.” - Donald J. Trump - March 17, 2020



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html



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Dino changes his mind. Now the virus is real and is in fact "evil."



3929   PM:   Dino   [Quote]     -- 9:15am -- Sun, Apr 12, 20 pst
Not doing anything different now than I did before this evil virus came upon us. 

Trump Ignored Warnings about China's Duplicity on Virus

"Some of Trump’s advisers told him that Beijing was not providing accurate numbers of people who were infected or who had died, according to administration officials. Rather than press China to be more forthcoming, Trump publicly praised its response."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html

Trump Knew in January, 2020

Trump knew; and he did nothing for 70 days.

"The Trump administration received its first formal notification of the outbreak of the coronavirus in China on Jan. 3. Within days, U.S. spy agencies were signaling the seriousness of the threat to Trump by including a warning about the coronavirus — the first of many — in the President’s Daily Brief.

"And yet, it took 70 days from that initial notification for Trump to treat the coronavirus not as a distant threat or harmless flu strain well under control, but as a lethal force that had outflanked America’s defenses and was poised to kill tens of thousands of citizens. That more-than-two-month stretch now stands as critical time that was squandered."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/?arc404=true

US Already Losing Jobs before Pandemic Hit

U.S. businesses cut 27,000 jobs in March, before virus hit and unemployment exploded

"U.S.
companies shed 27,000 jobs in March, according to a private survey, a
figure that mostly reflected the economy as it stood before the full
impact of the viral outbreak.

"Payroll
processor ADP said small businesses took the biggest hit, losing 90,000
jobs, while medium-sized and large companies still added workers.
Economists forecast that much larger job losses, probably in the
millions, will be reported in the coming months." -

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-coronavirus-march-job-cuts-20200401-6hvgpmnmuffdrb5y2s4tuotymq-story.html

 

Trump Wasted Months Fiddling while Virus Raged

"U.S. ‘wasted’ months before preparing for virus pandemic" - by Michael Biesecker (AP)

"WASHINGTON (AP) — After the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus
in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration
squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the
federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment.

"A
review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows
federal agencies largely waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk
orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other
equipment needed by front-line health care workers."

https://apnews.com/090600c299a8cf07f5b44d92534856bc

WHO Warned Us about PPE Shortages Early February, 2020

“Concerns about a dwindling supply of PPE are not new. Back on February 7, the World Health Organization sounded alarm bells about “the limited stock of PPE,” noting demand was 100 times higher than normal for this equipment.

“Yet the same day as the WHO warning, the Trump administration announced that it was transporting to China nearly 17.8 tons (more than 35,000 pounds) of “masks, gowns, gauze, respirators, and other vital materials.””

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/opinions/coronavirus-personal-protective-equipment-obeidallah/index.html

Conway Blasts Trump

Kellyanne Conway's husband, George wrote the following:


''For Trump supporters, let me make one thing VERY clear!


For the record NO ONE is blaming the President for the virus. Let me repeat. Coronavirus is not Trump’s fault.


Here’s a detailed list of what I blame him for:



* Trump declined to use the World Health Organization’s test like other nations. Back in January, over a month before the first Co-vid19 case, the Chinese posted a new mysterious virus and within a week, Berlin virologists had produced the first diagnostic test. By the end of February, the WHO had shipped out tests to 60 countries. Oh, but not our government. We declined the test even as a temporary bridge until the CDC could create its own test. The question is why? We don’t know but what to look for is which pharmaceutical company eventually manufactures the test and who owns the stock. Keep tuned.


* In 2018 Trump fired Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossart, whose job was to coordinate a response to global pandemics. He was not replaced.


* In 2018 Dr. Luciana Borio, the NSC director for medical and bio-defense preparedness left the job. Trump did not replace Dr. Borio.


* In 2019 the NSC’s Senior Director for Global Health Security and bio-defense, Tim Ziemer, left the position and Trump did not replace the Rear Admiral.


* Trump shut down the entire Global Health Security and Bio-defense agency. Yes, he did.


* Amid the explosive worldwide outbreak of the virus Trump proposed a 19% cut to the budget of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention plus a 10% cut to Public Health Services and a 7% cut to Global Health Services. Those happen to be the organizations that respond to public health threats.


* In 2018, at Trump’s direction, the CDC stopped funding epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries including China.


* Trump didn’t appoint a doctor to oversee the US response to the pandemic. He appointed Mike Pence.


* Trump has on multiple occasions sowed doubt about the severity of the virus even using the word hoax at events and rallies. He even did it at an event where the virus was being spread. Trump has put out zero useful information concerning the health risks of the virus.


* Trump pretended the virus had been contained.


* Trump left a cruise ship at sea for days, denying them proper hospital care, rather than increase his numbers in

America.


Repeat. We do not blame Trump for the virus. We blame him for gutting the nation’s preparations to deal with it. We blame him for bungling testing and allowing it to spread uninhibited. We blame him for wasting taxpayer money on applause lines at his rallies (like The Wall). We blame him for putting his own political life over American human life. I hope this clears things up.''

Hannity Reverses Himself on Seriousness of COVID 19

Sean Hannity flip-flops on the coronavirus pandemic. He claims he “always” took it seriously; and that he never called it a hoax like Trump did.  But wait! The videos prove otherwise!

HANNITY #1 (March 9, 2020) : Alright, so that’s the point. I mean, this scaring the living hell out of people -- I see it, again, as like, oh, let's bludgeon Trump with this new hoax.

HANNITY #2, March 18: By the way, this program has always taken the coronavirus seriously. And we've never called the virus a hoax.

http://www.newshounds.us/sean_hannity_did_call_coronavirus_hoax_proof_031920

Trump's Pentagon Was Warned

From The Nation: "The Pentagon warned the White House about a shortage of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds in 2017—but the Trump administration did nothing."

"Despite President Trump’s repeated assertions that the Covid-19 epidemic was “unforeseen” and “came out of nowhere,” the Pentagon was well aware of not just the threat of a novel influenza, but even anticipated the consequent scarcity of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds, according to a 2017 Pentagon plan obtained by The Nation."



''“The most likely and significant threat is a novel respiratory disease, particularly a novel influenza disease,” the military plan states. Covid-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the novel (meaning new to humans) coronavirus. The document specifically references coronavirus on several occasions, in one instant saying, ''Coronavirus infections [are] common around the world.''''



https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/covid-military-shortage-pandemic/

Trump Downplays Virus Threat

''And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days
is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve
done.''

''I’m leading everybody. We’re doing great.''

''But we have it so well under control. I mean, we really have done a
very good job.''

- Donald Trump, in comments about the extent of the coronavirus problem
in the USA.

The White House - Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and
Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Conference

Issued on: February 27, 2020 -  https://tinyurl.com/yx5nl723