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Old 04-27-2020, 09:52 AM   #169
Pete F.
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Morons, now it's just the flu? Gonna have a pox party?
Social distancing works, earlier social distancing is hundreds of times better.

70 days of delay cost us thousands of lives, millions of jobs and trillions of dollars.

That's billions and billions for Trumplicans.

Death, disease and economic pain are real. They can't be spun.

No, social distancing didn't start in January but it certainly could have started weeks earlier and been supported rather than downplayed.

What did the Stable Genius do in the time between late January and early March. Besides Rallies, Golf and repeating Chinese propaganda?

January 20, 2020: The United States and South Korea each announce their first case of COVID-19 on the same day.

The CDC confirms the first case of COVID-19 in the United States in Washington State.

South Korea’s National IHR Focal Point (NFP) reports its country’s first case of novel coronavirus on the same day. South Korea quickly proceeds to mobilize vast resources for diagnostic testing, enlisting the private sector for test development, including drive-through screening centers, and quarantines.

The same day: President Xi Jinping publicly announces for the first time that the coronavirus outbreak “must be taken seriously” and that the country must impose all possible measures to contain the virus. Chinese officials also confirm for the first time that the new coronavirus is transmissible via human-to-human contact.
Maybe he told his good friend Donald not to worry about it.

Reports later emerge that by this date nearly 3000 Chinese citizens were already infected by the coronavirus.

March 13, 2020: President Trump declares a national emergency and promises a new website to link Americans to testing sites.

President Trump* declares that the coronavirus pandemic is a national emergency. He also states: “I don’t take responsibility at all,” in response to a question about the lack of available tests.

Because in Trump*s empty mind, the states are responsible but absolute power lies with him.

Stop telling me what the Stable Genius really meant to say or how to interpret him. If he can’t speak for himself then he shouldn’t speak for a nation.

Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!

Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?

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