DrLove
Diamond Member
So you expect him to close down the country before even one person has died?I really don't the blame CDC. The responsibility for the lack any early response rest with the president. In the first week of January, Trump got a security briefing which emphasized the seriousness of the epidemic in China and dangers to the US. The fact that the usual US security contacts in China had gone totally dark and Xi Jinping had taken charge of managing the issue was almost unprecedented. Yet Trump was not impressed. In the coming weeks he refer the the virus as the flu. He had no scheduled meetings with his CDC director. It wasn't until the first known case of Covid 19 in the US on Jan 21st did Trump have any real concerned. He issued and order to stop travel from China but it was written in such a way that it allowed people carrying the virus to still enter the US. On Jan 27th he formed a Pandemic Response Team. The makeup of that team was a good clue to what Trump thought about this pandemic. There were 12 members of the team and only one had any experience in dealing with an epidemic, Dr. Fauci. Trump did not attend most of the meetings. All the other members of the team were Trump appointments, bureaucrats and politician who were mostly interested in determining who would be responsible for whatever might be needed. They had no planning documents and no idea how to proceed. The last pandemic planning document was dated 2005 and was update in 2010. The original pandemic response team was disbanded by Trump in 2018. The CDC moved as you would expect any organization would when the boss considered the whole issue a democratic hoax, just the common flu.The cdc claimed to have its own test kits - probably hoping to prove they had been doing something useful since the last chinese diseaseThere were no reliable tests in feburaryDream onSome room temperature knuckle dragger had the idea to post the thousands of people who die every year from smoking and/or smoking related illness.
Here is the difference you idiot.
IF you are so stupid enough as to smoke, you know the dangers and accept them. It is YOU who decides to smoke.
There is conscience decision to contract COVID-19.
You Smoke. You Die. Your Choice.
You smoke around your house, especially with children in that house, you are deciding for them the consequences of YOU chose to do. Second hand smoke kills and it is YOU doing the killing.
COVID-19 crosses age, gender, religious, ethnic and social boundaries. No one is making the decision to DIE of COVID-19.
By the end of next week more people will have died of COVID-19 than died in the Viet Nam War.
Smokers DIE knowing the risks.
God you people have the IQ of dried up dog turd sitting on Mississippi Sidewalk at High Noon July.
You sir are correct!
The Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files contains records of 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War. These records were transferred into the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration in 2008.
Trying to figure out whether to call this Donald's Katrina or Donald's Vietnam. Either fits, but Vietnam is more accurate.
Deny all you must Mac, but there IS no question that the lost month of February, continued dithering on federalizing testing, PPE, vents etc combined with horrible mixed messaging on a reopening strategy, blaming the media and governors while taking "no responsibility" and failing to fully engage the Defense Production Act cost us thousands of lives.
We all worried about how this president would perform in a national emergency. Now we know. Your Donnie isn't a leader. Sad![]()
if there were you can bet that fauci would have used them
indeed the first test the medical pros offered was no good
Nonsense, the WHO tests which we declined to request a few hundred thousand of worked fine for other countries. We could have had those in JANUARY.
Face it - Donnie Dithered/ Donnie Lied/ Markets Crashed/ People DIED
but the kits did not work and the government doctors/scientists had to start over
which they successfully did eventually
That would have been pretty crazy
Not at all. but right now there 56,803 recorded deaths. Where are all the millions of tests that Orange Asshole promised?
Oh Yeah, he sent them along with over $18,000.00 In PPE to China.
By the end of this week, more people would died COVID-19 than were killed in the Viet Nam War. More dead in the first Four Months of this year than were killed in all of the Viet Nam War.
Thousands have died and thousands more will die.
45 is responsible for each and everyone of them.
Watch "Science Mike" Pence mansplain tests, and what a wonderful job Dear Leader was doing. Why without his bold leadership, we'd still be waiting on tests!!
Reminds me of the middle school kid who says "hey teacher, I'll take the final, but I won't turn it in for grading. Maybe I can get my dog to bring it to ya, but no promises!"
And now we ALSO know, that the Orange Clown was warned multiple ONE PAGE PDB's often accompanied by photos of Trump and videos of Trump and multiple references to Trump in order to hold his attention for any more than 15 seconds went unread during the entire month of January because he was too busy watching Fox-n-Friends, making excuses, and flinging blame at Obama and the fake news media.
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Trump reportedly ignored intel briefings on coronavirus threat
Trump "rarely, if ever" reads the President's Daily Briefing. When it comes to the coronavirus, his indifference has had brutal consequences.
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Donnie hasn't believed our formidable intelligence and law enforcement capabilities since damned of them (along with two Republican led Senate reports) said that Russia meddled in 2016 to help Trump.
This is by far the biggest failure of leadership we've seen from any president in American History. Donald is not well, and he must be removed - VERY QUICKLY.