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Wonder if a mod can move all the political post to a "I hate xx political group" post and leave this one to updates about the Coronavirus
Trump’s coronavirus twitter timeline
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/12/trump-coronavirus-timeline/
WaPo - you are hilarious please go to Grandpa's thread and self-quarantine there
I guess we should start another thread on thisI don't have a subscription. Please give specific examples. All I could see was a title "It will go away." It will. Timing of when certain things have been said also matters. But most importantly, the assertion was made that he hasn't taken this seriously, hasn't done enough to stop or slow it, and I'd like to hear what specific things he should have done. Especially things that the health professionals or others have been asking for. Politics aside, a discussion on what we should have done and when would be appropriate for this thread.
Take it to a politcal thread and stop polluting this one
And then here we go again with no specific examples of what he should have done differently. Going all the way back to January, the WH and Congress and the CDC and NIH have been in constant contact and I've not ready anywhere people were pushing back on this or that. I'd love to read some examples of what people said he should be doing differently that he didn't do. For every person that complains Trump himself didn't take this seriously (which isn't an actual policy that affects anybody anyway), there is a person that complains they've completely over-hyped it. It can't be both. I've consistently found from the very beginning that everything out of the health professionals (CDC/NIH) mouths was honest, transparent, level-headed, and science-based.
The "President coronavirus press conference" thread is available if you don't want to create a new one.I guess we should start another thread on this
WaPo - you are hilarious please go to Grandpa's thread and self-quarantine there
Interesting...
Lately, the NYT and WaPo are only marginally better than the EnquirerWhat do you read, the National Enquirer?
Give me a break.
No sharing of candy right now.Break me off a piece of that Kit-Kat bar.
Thought about that recently also. Bunch of people touching the same voting machines, queuing in lines, etc.
Similar vein, what about the mailman, delivery drivers, etc. who touch mail, packages, etc and do it rapidly, house-to-house, etc. People can react how they want.
And the delay in testing does not lie at the President's feet; it is the fault of the bureaucratic, foot-dragging CDC.OK, I just read that article. The entire thing is about the delay in being able to test for coronavirus.
Is that it? When you say that the administration hasn’t been taking this serious enough and we are all worse off for it, of all of the things he’s done (or not) is it just this one that you disagree with?
If so, I’d like your answer to 2 things:
1) what could a different administration have done differently? Dr. Fauci has stated repeatedly that our FDA processes and regulations do not allow for a fast ramp up. You and I could go screaming in there as the president demanding that they just do what you say, but they won’t. They can’t. And companies won’t join in and break the law and risk huge liabilities. What should they have done differently? That’s still the question to be answered.
2) Second, and equally as important, anybody who has tested positive, thinks they might be positive, or was possibly exposed to someone with a virus was supposed to be self quarantining for at least 14 days. If they would’ve had test kits and confirmed a positive rating, the next step would’ve been exactly the same. sure, in the big picture, we need to have much more and better data. But in terms of where we stand right now and how we got here, I don’t see that that would’ve made a material difference.
You seem pretty passionate about this, so I certainly still would like your opinion on what things should have been done differently.
Queuing in lines should be able to be handled by spacing. Touching voting machines can be handled with sanitary wipes, or investing in food safety gloves.Thought about that recently also. Bunch of people touching the same voting machines, queuing in lines, etc.
Similar vein, what about the mailman, delivery drivers, etc. who touch mail, packages, etc and do it rapidly, house-to-house, etc. People can react how they want.