“Trump smears Jay Inslee, governor of the state at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak: “I told Mike [Pence] not to be complimentary of the governor, because that governor is a snake.””
I’m going to give a WAG of 3 months of closures and quarantines. That is based on China’s results. I’ll go further and predict around a thousand deaths, though we are already not identifying them. An elderly patient at the nursing home in Kirkland died Thursday. Per reports, she was never tested and cause of death was listed as natural causes.
I’m not sure what you mean by " We’re just gonna let this thing run to prop up the stock market for…
The virus is already mutating, and the mutations don’t just impact the elderly. There’s a strain in Shenzhen that is making the children ill.
We’re not prepared for what comes next. That, I guarantee.
Oh, I’m pretty sure he’s not praying for me.
I’m having trouble finding the answer: who will appoint Meadows’s replacement? If it’s the governor, that could really shake up the contest for Meadows’s seat.
Maybe preying on you.
The response so far largely seems to involve downplaying the threat and, whether intentionally or not, pretty much completely failing to test adequately such that we don’t know how many cases there are, where they are, what is really the fatality rate, etc. In one place they shut down a university or cancel a concert. But turn on the TV and Trump seems to be signalling the all clear, which is simply false. That part of it is “letting it run”, just acting like it is all ok and will blow over on its own, apparently to avoid spooking the markets. I think the irresponsible response is going to lead to a far worse outbreak than if we met the threat without all the bullshit and pretending.
What excuse can there be for America’s near inability to test for this virus? What excuse is there for the efforts to downplay or cover up the number of infected?
I meant I don’t think the stock market is being propped up by Trump’s BS.
Well that seems to be the intent. And FWIW, stocks finished the week slightly up, despite the drama.
Letter?
It looks like Pence will need to be tested for COVID-19. I wonder if he’ll get tested for this “hoax” before that quarantined nurse does.
Transcription?
Like how Steve Vai would compose a guitar live to the spoken contours of Frank Zappa’s, ahem, poetry?
(Warning: NSFW, mainly for misogyny. I probably should have gone with “The Dangerous Kitchen.”)
And the hits keep on rolling on to undo every positive thing President Obama did:
Good job on protecting everyone’s right to education, you useless scum!
In times past we’d expect (or at least hope) that the situation would bring out the best in a leader, like Clinton after the OKC bombing, Bush after 9/11, Reagan after the Challenger accident, and Obama after the Newtown school shooting. With Trump, we can expect a crisis like this to bring out his worst, and I guarantee you his followers will go in a similar direction.
Look at what’s taking place in rural Washington and Oregon, and you can imagine where this might lead. Groups of armed, violently ideological fringe groups who will claim that they’re victims of a Chinese, radical left conspiracy. If backed into a corner, I have no doubt that Trump would wink and nod to these ‘2nd Amendment people’ - Pay their legal fees? Shit he might even offer to pardon them.
That’s because he has no best. He is consistently bad. There is no gradation here, no spectrum. He’s just bad.
But is he praying hard enough? Shouldn’t that be his primary concern? And maybe bring on Jared? Not just because he’s Jewish, but, really, what can it hurt? I have it on good authority that God is a Methodist, but will bless your heart, so long as you mean well.
I found this alarming and searched for an article about it. Doesn’t sound like it’s a new strain, but that few children were exposed early on and that they weren’t being tested because of mild symptoms.
trump knows everything about epidemiology. Except how to pronounce it, instead calling it “this stuff”.
“People come up to me, doctors, medical folk, the best…even scientists…they say, sir, we hear you know all about this stuff. You should have been a doctor.”
Why won’t this stupid motherfucker suffer and die?
So is our President, the consoler-in-chief, concerned about the health, safety, and comfort of the 3000 people on the ship? Not so much.
Is he concerned about managing the health crisis for the nation as a whole? Nah.
No, it’s important that he manage the “numbers” and the perception it casts on his sorry ass personally.
He’s like a sleazy salesman, back-dating invoices so he makes his quota.