Only the POTUS thinks this virus is a nothing burger ,, the rest of the world not so much

He's worried about Pocahontas and Bernie

If you have to shut down the market 3 times in 24 hours, it's not just a bear, it's a grizzly.

But here's an idea

Quick, ban short selling and let the Fed buy stocks directly. US indexes are only allowed to go up over time. Free markets be damned. Who needs capitalism when we have central banks?

Only the POTUS thinks this virus is a nothing burger ,, the rest of the world not so much
A few traders binge watched MSNBC last night and this is where we are. Don’t wash your hands to own the libs!
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Only the POTUS thinks this virus is a nothing burger ,, the rest of the world not so much

Trumps comments have been beyond idiotic. Fortunately, I don't look to him for information regarding my health and family's well being, I'll ask doctors about that stuff. But since Trump is hard-wired this way, he could really use better handlers.

Ask people who bought stocks in the 4th quarter of 2008, how they made out. This is a once-in-a-decade buying opportunity. I don't know when the absolute bottom will be (no one does), but there are steals out there.

The other thing that happened was U.S. credit markets exploded from $2 trillion in 2008 to $7 trillion today.

That's driven by single-A and BBB paper which could easily fall into junk, or non-investment grade territory.

With a possible recession we will likely need a bailout again for banks too big to fail.
And those people who invested in Bonds with great yields to be "safe" because they were getting towards retirement.

Buy low
Sell high
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Buy low
Sell high
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exactly.
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Some great buying opportunities. For instance: Tesla is off $100 today alone. They are not going away and it's a good time to buy the stock.

The world is going to end.
You guys should do whatever necessary to beat the rush.

Only the POTUS thinks this virus is a nothing burger ,, the rest of the world not so much

I saw my primary physician this morning...she thinks it's a nothing burger

I saw my primary physician this morning...she thinks it's a nothing burger

Did she say that after you coughed . LOL.

All of Italy is in lockdown as coronavirus cases rise??


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Only the POTUS thinks this virus is a nothing burger ,, the rest of the world not so much

if trump thought it was nothing, why did he limit people coming here from china on the first day?

my company is closing offices and eliminated business travel.


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Did she say that after you coughed . LOL.

All of Italy is in lockdown as coronavirus cases rise??


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Sorry. His Doc should have been more specific. Nothing Lasagna.
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if trump thought it was nothing, why did he limit people coming here from china on the first day?

my company is closing offices and eliminated business travel.


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The potential of this bug is not a nothing burger. Hopefully this can be limited in the US.

Our travel is limited now. Just canceled my trip to a conference, saving me the fight with my wife if I should go or not.... Awaiting closures/virtual learning but nothing yet. We will see.
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The potential of this bug is not a nothing burger. Hopefully this can be limited in the US.

Our travel is limited now. Just canceled my trip to a conference, saving me the fight with my wife if I should go or not.... Awaiting closures/virtual learning but nothing yet. We will see.
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id bet schools get closed at some point. And THAT is a big deal because you can’t even get working parents to keep a kid home when the kid is sick, for a day.

it’s amazing what can happen because someone ate something that looks like an armadillo in eastern china. and if that’s really what started this, how did they figure that out so fast?

and maybe we need better stockpiles of medical supplies.
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I saw my urologist this morning...she thinks it's a nothing burger

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It’s hard to believe there are still active cruise ships.

I wonder if the citizens of Italy blame leadership for their plight...
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:shocked:

It’s hard to believe there are still active cruise ships.

I wonder if the citizens of Italy blame leadership for their plight...
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plenty of other nice places to visit in the world....

Trump: Payroll Tax Cuts And Hourly Worker Relief Possible In Coronavirus Response

Or is this for the markets


From no big deal to this ?? More confusion.....

If this is still around in September plenty of seats at Octoberfest if they even have it ..

On February 27th, Italy had 600 people confirmed infected with coronavirus.

Today, it has 10,000 cases and the entire country is on lockdown.

That was 11 DAYS AGO.

Guess how many the US had yesterday: 600

THAT is exponential growth. Do the math.

Italy is an extremely densely populated country making containment very difficult. I sympathize with their plight and also with their leadership, who is obviously responsible for this tragedy. As is Iran, South Korea and China. Extra points for South Korea as they have many test kits.
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On February 27th, Italy had 600 people confirmed infected with coronavirus.

Today, it has 10,000 cases and the entire country is on lockdown.

That was 11 DAYS AGO.

Guess how many the US had yesterday: 600

THAT is exponential growth. Do the math.

i’ll ask again, what are you rooting for here? i know what you’re rooting for, just curious if you’ll admit it out loud. Whatever it takes to topple the current administration.

we’re probably going to be way into the thousands.

wonder what your reaction was, when trump restricted people
coming here from china on day one. did you call him a racist xenophobe? be honest, you did, didn’t you?

this is a serious situation. is anyone denying that? it’s also not trumps fault. will you concede that? or do you blame
him?
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No, did you?

His mistake came at the next step, when he played the miracle card instead of tracking, testing and isolation.

Nobody expects him to give definitive answers. But even a minimally competent president could calm anxieties by explaining what we know, what we don’t know and what we should do about the virus.

I have yet to see one of his officials, never mind him say that we should look at all the means of control we have, what they are and why we should use them.

Instead he says the exact opposite and curbs their speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTjTaR748eg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d52pQ_068Ho

wonder what your reaction was, when trump restricted people
coming here from china on day one. did you call him a racist xenophobe? be honest, you did, didn’t you?
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You’ve mentioned this several times now without any evidence any of it occurred. Besides Trump says who?
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Trump: Payroll Tax Cuts And Hourly Worker Relief Possible In Coronavirus Response

Or is this for the markets


From no big deal to this ?? More confusion.....

If this is still around in September plenty of seats at Octoberfest if they even have it ..

So it's not a good thing to try to guarantee hourly workers that they'll get paid in the event they cannot go to work?

For the second time, if Trump thinks this is nothing, why did he restrict people coming here from China on day one, for which he was called a bigot by the Chinese? Why did he do that, if he thinks this is nothing?

I have no doubt you're confused. When you go all-in on the notion that he's Genghis Khan, and then he proposes a plan to help the people who might need the most help, it can be confusing. To the rest of us, who view him as a deeply flawed person who occasionally gets it very right, it's less confusing.

If he wanted to help the markets, there are ways of doing it much more directly than providing relief to hourly workers.

If Trump helps the markets (which his corporate tax cuts did), you attack him for not caring about the little guy - and there's fairness to that criticism But when he proposes to help the little guy, you accuse him of secretly trying to help the markets. And that's TDS displaying itself.

WDMSO, what can the guy do, short of killing himself, that would make you feel obligated to admit he did something good? Youre not being rational. All you do, is put sinister spin on everything he does.

You’ve mentioned this several times now without any evidence any of it occurred. Besides Trump says who?
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Here, the NY Times, heretofore not known as being overly sympathetic to President Trump, discusses it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/business/china-travel-coronavirus.html

Are you denying that the administration put restrictions on who could come here from China a few weeks ago? You're denying that happened? I'm making it up?

Or, can you not bring yourself to admit it, because now such restrictions would appear to have been smart?

No, did you?

His mistake came at the next step, when he played the miracle card instead of tracking, testing and isolation.

Nobody expects him to give definitive answers. But even a minimally competent president could calm anxieties by explaining what we know, what we don’t know and what we should do about the virus.

I have yet to see one of his officials, never mind him say that we should look at all the means of control we have, what they are and why we should use them.

Instead he says the exact opposite and curbs their speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTjTaR748eg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d52pQ_068Ho

How do you test, when testing kits don't exist? Maybe Obama could do it by waving his hand, but Trump is merely a flawed human, not a deity like Obama was.

"let today (my inauguration) be the day we remember as the day that the waters stopped rising and the planet began to heal..." Those aren't the words of a narcissist, no sir!

Here, the NY Times, heretofore not known as being overly sympathetic to President Trump, discusses it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/business/china-travel-coronavirus.html

Are you denying that the administration put restrictions on who could come here from China a few weeks ago? You're denying that happened? I'm making it up?

Or, can you not bring yourself to admit it, because now such restrictions would appear to have been smart?

Good summary of the conditions at the time.
Where in the article did it say people were calling him a racist xenophobe?

Good summary of the conditions at the time.
Where in the article did it say people were calling him a racist xenophobe?

The article didn't mention it. I've yet to hear many liberals admit that they have a habit of calling everyone who disagree with them about anything, a bigot. But that doesn't mean it doesn't happen all the time. Liberals aren't shy about denying irrefutable, factual, empirical evidence. This is why liberals in CT claim that tax-and-spend is our solution, despite evidence to the contrary, which doesn't deter liberals.

I googled "Trump racist China travel coronavirus", here's a sample of what I got as a result...

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/trump-sinks-to-racist-panic-as-china-mobilizes-against-disease/

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/trump-authoritarian-coronavirus-response-puts-181922522.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/trump-response-coronavirus/606610/

Just look at the headlines...

Bryan, I'm right-leaning, I proudly admit that (though I agree with liberals on gay marriage, the death penalty, and to some degree gun policy). But I don't make stuff up. I am at least as capable as anyone of being incorrect, but I don't lie. If I had to lie to support my beliefs, I'd change my beliefs. That's why I cherish my beliefs, because truth and common sense make them so easy to defend.

Spence refuses to concede that there was any kind of travel restrictions initiated by Trump. I saw the liberal response, I read some of these articles. I'm not saying the democrats running for president accused the restrictions of being racist, but many in the media did. Those restrictions were OBVIOUSLY necessary (likely didn't go far enough), they were implemented to try and save lives, but the media used it as a club against him, because they hate him.

On this board, Pete said explicitly that the stock market drop wasn't because of the virus but a sign that people don't trust Trump, and WDMSO says that Trump's plan to provide some income guarantees to hourly workers, is really a sinister plot to help the markets instead of helping working people. Trump can't do anything right for a lot of thee people, that's obviously true. Trump brings a lot of criticism on himself - a whole lot. He's a crude, crass, jerk, and a pathetic excuse for a husband and a father. None of that can be denied. But there's all kinds of evidence that he does have some empathy for those less fortunate. Many here can't bring themselves to admit that. I don't include you in that group, you're very reasonable.

Now since you know a lot about science, do you have any idea how they may have traced the origins of the virus to Chinese people eating a weird looking animal? How do scientists answer these questions so quickly? Never ceases to amaze me.

How do you test, when testing kits don't exist? Maybe Obama could do it by waving his hand, but Trump is merely a flawed human, not a deity like Obama was.

"let today (my inauguration) be the day we remember as the day that the waters stopped rising and the planet began to heal..." Those aren't the words of a narcissist, no sir!

But Obama.....has nothing to do with it, other than that any program initiated by him was hacked out.

The Barking Carnival Clown cut CDC budget, eliminated coordination of pandemic control in the federal government and claimed it would all disappear....like a miracle

In South Korea, more than 66,650 people were tested within a week of its first case of community transmission, and it quickly became able to test 10,000 people a day. The United Kingdom, which has only 115 positive cases, has so far tested 18,083 people for the virus.

This is where we end up when the leader surrounds himself with yesmen, claims that all you hear is fake news, the truth only comes from him and Corona is not a problem.

His response might best be characterized as incompetence exacerbated by malevolence.

Just why can we still not test at the rate of other countries, is that too Obama's fault?
Of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R12N6ubQvFE

pete, you denied this stick
market dump
was because of the virus, you said it was trumps fault. you have, literally, zero credibility.
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Perhaps you can show me where i gave him sole responsibility, though he always claims it for anything positive.

I have said that Corona was the trigger and PB has been propping the market in anyway possible since he was elected, while not taking advantage of the growing economy to cut the deficit/debt and caring little about the longterm results.

Congress is responsible for cutting deficit and debt.

Congress is responsible for cutting deficit and debt.

Apparently Not Me is not just one of my children but also lives in the White House?

On September 8, 2017, Trump signed a bill increasing the debt ceiling. Later that day, the debt exceeded $20 trillion for the first time in U.S. history. On February 9, 2018, Trump signed a bill suspending the debt ceiling until March 1, 2019. It leapt to $22 trillion. In July 2019, Trump suspended the debt ceiling until after the 2020 presidential election. The debt soon rose to $23 trillion. Trump has overseen the fastest increase in the debt of any president.

Trump's Fiscal Year 2021 budget projects the debt would increase $4.8 trillion during his first term.

 That's as much as Obama added while fighting a recession. Trump has not fulfilled his campaign promise to cut the debt. Instead, he's done the opposite.

Good summary of the conditions at the time.
Where in the article did it say people were calling him a racist xenophobe?
I’d note the only article Jim linked that supported his accusation was the People’s World :rotfl:

Jim, one of the reasons you can’t support what you say is because you have a chronic habit of projecting what you think people believe onto them. It’s not what they believe, it’s what you believe which is why you’re so often wrong.
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So it's not a good thing to try to guarantee hourly workers that they'll get paid in the event they cannot go to work?

For the second time, if Trump thinks this is nothing, why did he restrict people coming here from China on day one, for which he was called a bigot by the Chinese? Why did he do that, if he thinks this is nothing?

I have no doubt you're confused. When you go all-in on the notion that he's Genghis Khan, and then he proposes a plan to help the people who might need the most help, it can be confusing. To the rest of us, who view him as a deeply flawed person who occasionally gets it very right, it's less confusing.

If he wanted to help the markets, there are ways of doing it much more directly than providing relief to hourly workers.

If Trump helps the markets (which his corporate tax cuts did), you attack him for not caring about the little guy - and there's fairness to that criticism But when he proposes to help the little guy, you accuse him of secretly trying to help the markets. And that's TDS displaying itself.

WDMSO, what can the guy do, short of killing himself, that would make you feel obligated to admit he did something good? Youre not being rational. All you do, is put sinister spin on everything he does.


Jim you have a great ability to not see the big picture . and read to much into things

On one hand Trump basically says its no big deal... Market Tanks 1900 points .. then its we are going to remove the payroll tax to help the people affected by the the virus thats isn't a big deal..

question if your not working because of the virus because your sick or
not working because the virus has impacted your profession ..

how does the payroll tax suspension help?..


in Davos, Switzerland, last month, Trump maintained that the coronavirus was “totally under control” and that he wasn’t concerned about the risk of a pandemic. “It’s going to be just fine,” he said.

And he still is, some are claiming Biden's senile.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qUuqCTSEGo

Many people claim Democratic incompetence out of one side of their mouth and sinister liberal machinations out of the other — in the same thread. But it fits neatly into their narrative.

Apparently Not Me is not just one of my children but also lives in the White House?

On September 8, 2017, Trump signed a bill increasing the debt ceiling. Later that day, the debt exceeded $20 trillion for the first time in U.S. history. On February 9, 2018, Trump signed a bill suspending the debt ceiling until March 1, 2019. It leapt to $22 trillion. In July 2019, Trump suspended the debt ceiling until after the 2020 presidential election. The debt soon rose to $23 trillion. Trump has overseen the fastest increase in the debt of any president.

Trump's Fiscal Year 2021 budget projects the debt would increase $4.8 trillion during his first term.

 That's as much as Obama added while fighting a recession. Trump has not fulfilled his campaign promise to cut the debt. Instead, he's done the opposite.

Congress is responsible for cutting deficit and debt.

President Trump told GOP senators Tuesday he wants to dramatically reduce the payroll tax through at least the end of the year


Now he is buying votes ... clearly he is 100% interested in himself

President Trump told GOP senators Tuesday he wants to dramatically reduce the payroll tax through at least the end of the year


Now he is buying votes ... clearly he is 100% interested in himself

Clear as mud.

Now since you know a lot about science, do you have any idea how they may have traced the origins of the virus to Chinese people eating a weird looking animal? How do scientists answer these questions so quickly? Never ceases to amaze me.

From an interview with Dr. Steven Mosher, an anthropologist who studies population control, especially in China:

CM: During your speech earlier this afternoon, you said that the coronavirus was "made in China" either through incompetence or evil or both. Can you say a little more about this?

Dr. Mosher: Well, here's what I see when I look at China. We know that China signed a bioweapons convention pledging never to develop bioweapons in 1972. They signed the convention. We know that before the ink was dry on the paper, they began trying to develop bioweapons, number one. Number two, we know that they have been collecting dangerous viruses, including dangerous coronaviruses from around the world. They've collected them from wild animals. They've collected them from bio research laboratories in Canada and the United States. They've stolen them, OK, from labs, and they've collected them — where? — they've collected those deadly coronaviruses in the only level 4 biotechnology laboratory in all of China. It is located in Wuhan, which just happens to be the center of the epidemic.

We also know that they have let dangerous viruses, including dangerous coronaviruses, escape from the lab before. Some people may remember the SAR's epidemic, SARS, sudden acute respiratory syndrome. That was a coronavirus. They were studying it in a lab in Beijing the year after the epidemic. They let it escape twice. It killed a lot of people in China, made a lot of people sick. Two times their poor lab procedure let it escape from the lab. So we know they have a history of lab accidents, OK. Add that to the fact that when the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan happened, the government first lied about the existence of it.

They didn't tell the Chinese people that they had a dangerous new pneumonia, but they did do this: They locked down all the military installations in and around Wuhan in late December. So they were trying to protect their military and police from the coronavirus. They didn't worry about ordinary people. Who cares about ordinary people? They don't value human life, right? The one-child-policy — they eliminated 400 million unborn children. What value do they place on human life? Virtually none. Then when the virus grew out of control, they finally told the Chinese people in Wuhan that there was a deadly coronavirus. And we're going to lock down the entire city of 15 million people. We're going to put a quarantine on the entire city. They blamed the outbreak on the seafood market in Wuhan.

They said there was some wild animal being sold in the seafood market. Somebody bought that wild animal. And one of the coronaviruses from that wild animal, maybe a bat, maybe a snake, maybe a little scaly anteater crossed over into human beings. But it was an accident. The seafood market is about 1,000 yards from the Institute of Virology. All right, that was just a pretext. I believe the coronavirus probably did come originally from a wild animal. That's how you collect dangerous pathogens. You go out and collect pathogens from wild animals, but then you bring them to the lab — in this case, the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And you're doing experiments on them. You're genetically re-engineering them. And then if you're careless, if you're careless — and we know that there's a lot of carelessness — they escape from the lab.

When that happens, what do you do? Well, if you're the Communist Party, you lie about the existence of the epidemic for weeks to your own people. You lie to the world about the problem for a couple of months until it gets to the point — until so many people are infected that you can't hide it any longer. And then you admit to the world that you have a problem.

By that point, 5 million people have left Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic. And they've gone to all provinces of China. They've gone to Italy. They've gone to Iran. They've gone to Africa. They've gone to all countries around the world. Why did they travel? Because those 5 million people are part of the largest human migration on the planet. Every year, 200 million Chinese go home for the Chinese New Year. They didn't quarantine the city of Wuhan until after 5 million people had left the epicenter of the epidemic and spread the disease throughout China and throughout the world. Too little and too late. The horse was out of the barn before they closed the barn door.

And now the latest dodge, the latest excuse by the Communist Party is, well, the epidemic began in China, but the coronavirus did not originate in China. And what Communist Party members are being told secretly — not publicly, secretly — is that the coronavirus really was a bioweapon that came from the United States of America. So you see, it's really our fault. Of course, all of this is just shifting the blame. And I think by the Communist Party claiming that this is a bioweapon from the United States is actually admitting that, yes, it's a bioweapon. But don't blame us, even though it's our bioweapon, blame these guys over here. Blame those bad Americans.

Total number of confirmed U.S. coronavirus cases at each Tuesday:
Jan. 14 — 0
Jan. 21 — 1
Jan. 28 — 5
Feb. 4 — 11
Feb. 11 — 14
Feb. 18 — 25
Feb. 25 — 59
Mar. 3 — 125
Mar. 10 — 1,004
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Thank you for the chronology,Bitchslappedboy.
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From an interview with Dr. Steven Mosher, an anthropologist who studies population control, especially in China:

CM: During your speech earlier this afternoon, you said that the coronavirus was "made in China" either through incompetence or evil or both. Can you say a little more about this?

Dr. Mosher: Well, here's what I see when I look at China. We know that China signed a bioweapons convention pledging never to develop bioweapons in 1972. They signed the convention. We know that before the ink was dry on the paper, they began trying to develop bioweapons, number one. Number two, we know that they have been collecting dangerous viruses, including dangerous coronaviruses from around the world. They've collected them from wild animals. They've collected them from bio research laboratories in Canada and the United States. They've stolen them, OK, from labs, and they've collected them — where? — they've collected those deadly coronaviruses in the only level 4 biotechnology laboratory in all of China. It is located in Wuhan, which just happens to be the center of the epidemic.

We also know that they have let dangerous viruses, including dangerous coronaviruses, escape from the lab before. Some people may remember the SAR's epidemic, SARS, sudden acute respiratory syndrome. That was a coronavirus. They were studying it in a lab in Beijing the year after the epidemic. They let it escape twice. It killed a lot of people in China, made a lot of people sick. Two times their poor lab procedure let it escape from the lab. So we know they have a history of lab accidents, OK. Add that to the fact that when the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan happened, the government first lied about the existence of it.

They didn't tell the Chinese people that they had a dangerous new pneumonia, but they did do this: They locked down all the military installations in and around Wuhan in late December. So they were trying to protect their military and police from the coronavirus. They didn't worry about ordinary people. Who cares about ordinary people? They don't value human life, right? The one-child-policy — they eliminated 400 million unborn children. What value do they place on human life? Virtually none. Then when the virus grew out of control, they finally told the Chinese people in Wuhan that there was a deadly coronavirus. And we're going to lock down the entire city of 15 million people. We're going to put a quarantine on the entire city. They blamed the outbreak on the seafood market in Wuhan.

They said there was some wild animal being sold in the seafood market. Somebody bought that wild animal. And one of the coronaviruses from that wild animal, maybe a bat, maybe a snake, maybe a little scaly anteater crossed over into human beings. But it was an accident. The seafood market is about 1,000 yards from the Institute of Virology. All right, that was just a pretext. I believe the coronavirus probably did come originally from a wild animal. That's how you collect dangerous pathogens. You go out and collect pathogens from wild animals, but then you bring them to the lab — in this case, the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And you're doing experiments on them. You're genetically re-engineering them. And then if you're careless, if you're careless — and we know that there's a lot of carelessness — they escape from the lab.

When that happens, what do you do? Well, if you're the Communist Party, you lie about the existence of the epidemic for weeks to your own people. You lie to the world about the problem for a couple of months until it gets to the point — until so many people are infected that you can't hide it any longer. And then you admit to the world that you have a problem.

By that point, 5 million people have left Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic. And they've gone to all provinces of China. They've gone to Italy. They've gone to Iran. They've gone to Africa. They've gone to all countries around the world. Why did they travel? Because those 5 million people are part of the largest human migration on the planet. Every year, 200 million Chinese go home for the Chinese New Year. They didn't quarantine the city of Wuhan until after 5 million people had left the epicenter of the epidemic and spread the disease throughout China and throughout the world. Too little and too late. The horse was out of the barn before they closed the barn door.

And now the latest dodge, the latest excuse by the Communist Party is, well, the epidemic began in China, but the coronavirus did not originate in China. And what Communist Party members are being told secretly — not publicly, secretly — is that the coronavirus really was a bioweapon that came from the United States of America. So you see, it's really our fault. Of course, all of this is just shifting the blame. And I think by the Communist Party claiming that this is a bioweapon from the United States is actually admitting that, yes, it's a bioweapon. But don't blame us, even though it's our bioweapon, blame these guys over here. Blame those bad Americans.
Hope you were wearing your gas mask when posting...
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Clear as mud.

That's Trump when it comes to actions his administration is taking:btu:

Hope you were wearing your gas mask when posting...
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Don it only when I am about to read one of your posts.

Suresh V Kuchipud is a clinical professor and associate director of the animal diagnostic laboratory at Pennsylvania State University.

The coronavirus disease, known as COVID-19, is a frightening reminder of the imminent global threat posed by emerging infectious diseases. Although epidemics have arisen during all of human history, they now seem to be on the rise. In just the past 20 years, coronaviruses alone have caused three major outbreaks worldwide. Even more troubling, the duration between these three pandemics has gotten shorter.

I am a virologist and associate director of the Animal Diagnostic Laboratory at Penn State University, and my laboratory studies zoonotic viruses, those that jump from animals and infect people. Most of the pandemics have at least one thing in common: They began their deadly work in Asia or Africa. The reasons why may surprise you.

Population explosion and changing urban landscapes
An unprecedented shift in human population is one reason why more diseases originate in Asia and Africa. Rapid urbanization is happening throughout Asia and the Pacific regions, where 60% of the world already lives. According to the World Bank, almost 200 million people moved to urban areas in East Asia during the first decade of the 21st century. To put that into perspective, 200 million people could form the eighth most populous country in the world.

Migration on that scale means forest land is destroyed to create residential areas. Wild animals, forced to move closer to cities and towns, inevitably encounter domestic animals and the human population. Wild animals often harbor viruses; bats, for instance, can carry hundreds of them. And viruses, jumping species to species, can ultimately infect people.

Eventually, extreme urbanization becomes a vicious cycle: More people bring more deforestation, and human expansion and the loss of habitat ultimately kills off predators, including those that feed off rodents. With the predators gone – or at least with their numbers sharply diminished – the rodent population explodes. And as studies in Africa show, so does the risk of zoonotic disease.

The situation is only likely to get worse. A major proportion of East Asia's population still lives in rural areas. Urbanization is expected to continue for decades.

Subsistence agriculture and animal markets
Tropical regions, rich in host biodiversity, already hold a large pool of pathogens, greatly increasing the chance that a novel pathogen will emerge. The farming system throughout Africa and Asia doesn't help.

On both continents, many families depend on subsistence farming and a minuscule supply of livestock. Disease control, feed supplementation and housing for those animals is extremely limited. Cattle, chickens and pigs, which can carry endemic disease, are often in close contact with each other, a variety of nondomestic animals and humans.

And not just on the farms: Live animal markets, commonplace throughout Asia and Africa, feature crowded conditions and the intimate mixing of multiple species, including humans. This too plays a key role in how a killer pathogen could emerge and spread between species.

Another risk: bushmeat hunting and butchering, which is particularly widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. These activities, as they threaten animal species and irrevocably change ecosystems, also bring people and wild animals together. Bushmeat hunting is a clear and primary path for zoonotic disease transmission.

So is traditional Chinese medicine, which purports to provide remedies for a host of conditions like arthritis, epilepsy and erectile dysfunction. Although no scientific evidence exists to support most of the claims, Asia is an enormous consumer of traditional Chinese medicine products. Tigers, bears, rhinos, pangolins and other animal species are poached so their body parts can be mixed into these questionable medications. This, too, is a major contributor to increasing animal-human interactions. What's more, demand is likely to go up, as online marketing soars along with Asia's relentless economic growth.

A matter of time
The viruses, thousands of them, continue to evolve. It's just a matter of time before another major outbreak occurs in this region of the world. All the coronaviruses that caused recent epidemics, including the COVID-19, jumped from bats to another animal before infecting humans. It's difficult to predict precisely what chain of events cause a pandemic, but one thing is certain: these risks can be mitigated by developing strategies to minimize human effects which contribute to the ecological disturbances.

As the current outbreak has shown, an infectious disease that starts in one part of the world can spread globally in virtually no time whatsoever. There is an urgent need for constructive conservation strategies to prevent deforestation and reduce animal-human interactions. And a comprehensive global surveillance system to monitor the emergence of these diseases – now missing – would be an indispensable tool in helping us fight these deadly and terrifying epidemics.

There is an urgent need for constructive conservation strategies to prevent deforestation



? :huh:

From the snowflakes at National Review
The failures of leadership at the top, however, show no sign of being corrected. In a serious public-health crisis, the public has the right to expect the government’s chief executive to lead in a number of crucial ways: by prioritizing the problem properly, by deferring to subject-matter experts when appropriate while making key decisions in informed and sensible ways, by providing honest and careful information to the country, by calming fears and setting expectations, and by addressing mistakes and setbacks.

Trump so far hasn’t passed muster on any of these metrics. He resisted making the response to the epidemic a priority for as long as he could — refusing briefings, downplaying the problem, and wasting precious time. He has failed to properly empower his subordinates and refused to trust the information they provided him — often offering up unsubstantiated claims and figures from cable television instead. He has spoken about the crisis in crude political and personal terms. He has stood in the way of public understanding of the plausible course of the epidemic, trafficking instead in dismissive clichés. He has denied his administration’s missteps, making it more difficult to address them.
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? :huh:
What makes me go like that are things like this
“Communist Party members are being told secretly — not publicly, secretly“
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That's Trump when it comes to actions his administration is taking:btu:

he’s proposing cuts to payroll taxes. democrats lived that idea when obama pitched it, today democrats say it only helps corporations. But employees pay half that tax, so at worst, it helps people
and corporations equally. the self employed pay the entire payroll tax, so for someone like Nebe, he sees the entire benefit.

God forbid you people tell the truth once in awhile.
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What makes me go like that are things like this



ok biden....

ok biden....

Your quotes are always off just enough to twist the meaning

Glad to see you have realized Biden is OK