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New White House News Conference with Trump on Corona at 3 PM today. Update: National Emergency to be announced.
- Thread starter Vanillalite
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I just want context for the quotes I'm seeing here about
Nasty question
Did he say it wasn't his fault?
Reporters shouting at him after the mics go off
yup. He will probably say "apply for unemployment", and then immediately make cuts and defund it or whatever
One thing he is good at is to corrupt, it is a skill. Hes starting to sound like an apologist
The CDC has the authority to waive the cost of testing wherever you get it, which is the point the Rep was hammering the CDC director on.
Yeah
Travel restrictions 'irrelevant' if coronavirus becomes a pandemic, top US health official says
Stringent travel restrictions imposed on inbound flights from China to contain the coronavirus outbreak become "irrelevant" in a potential pandemic because "you can't keep out the entire world," a top U.S. health official said.
Government response to coronavirus: Fauci backs Trump travel ban, says testing system 'a failing'
Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress Thursday he backs President Trump's Europe travel ban bus said the testing system for coronavirus is "a failing."
abcnews.go.com
The nasty question was: "Why did you disband the pandemic team?"
His response was: "I didn't disband it. I don't know who did. It was someone in my administration. Do you want me to take time to look it up for you now?"
It's like... who knows at this point.
A Democratic Congresswoman got the head of the CDC to agree to pay for Coronavirus testing. But seeing as the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing in this administration, this may or may not amount to anything. They could pretend he never said that. Trump could put the kibosh on it, as it would look like "caving" to a Democrat. Above all, Trump in the White House and Mitch McConnell in the Senate don't want to ever make it look like a Democrat was able to accomplish something; they have zero interest in bipartisanship despite how much they whine about "do nothing" and "partisan" Democrats. (A mountain of legislation passed by the Democratic-majority House of Representatives lies dead on Mitch McConnell's desk, as he doesn't even want to bring any of it to a vote in the Senate, lest Republicans look bad by voting against legislation that would help this country.)
Unless this administration follows through on what the CDC director promised, the cost of testing would fall on each person tested and their insurance provider (and they better hope they have one). There are some really crummy insurance plans out there too, so it could end up costing even people with insurance a lot of money.
Nothing about this press conference was for the average person. They were hardly an afterthought.
Maybe you'll get a free test if you buy a case of Rockstar Energy Drink.
And to think the rough drafts probably called them "paychecks"
Usually he uses a helicopter to drown then out
Ain't it fucked that if he gets sick we'll probably start to manage this better because he'll just handwave the authority to someone else?
Like, that's the best we can hope for. That Trump gets sick.
Ehh 1 million tests wouldn't be so bad. Ideally we'd be able to bump that up to 1.5 or 2 million. That said, South Korea has done 250,000 tests since Jan 20 and they have done a pretty good job at slowing the spread. Of course they have roughly 1/6th of the population of the US but if you do the math a million tests per month for 300 million people more or less works out to testing at the same rate as South Korea.
Edit: Whether or not we will actually get a million tests a month is the real question. I have my doubts.
They want 4 more years of Republican power. This was a Republican tv commercial. They'll tell the truth after his presidency. Libraries filled with crazy stories. But not right now. They rather live a countless lies than to risk having democrats in power.
True. If he wasn't infected already he would never shake the hands of all those people.
He knows. Even if he gets tested they will say he isn't infected .
I dunno, he passed the buck to someone proud of her involvement in handling HIV in the 80s... I guess that's still marginally better than Trump and Pence...
He then said to the reporter that she used to work for other newspapers, implying she had been fired before. After his attack her mic was cut off.
the headache I have after watching this shit
these pieces of shit are going to get re-elected
these pieces of shit are going to get re-elected
I'll take it.
Quest Labs - one of the "great, tremendous corps" whose CEOS are standing behind Trump - billed me $402 for a simple (doctor ordered) cholesterol test in Jan 2020 and I had to fight them for over a month to get them to properly bill my insurance for it.
There's no way this isn't going to turn into an absolute disaster for the average person in the USA.
It was delayed right before closing bell so we'd have a positive day and then sell off next week.
Capitalism has always been about telling someone one thing when you know another to take advantage of someone that has something you want.
If it's anything like other healthcare transactions it could look like this on billing statement(example only):
1. novel coronavirus test : $400 - (covered/waived)
2. Doctor office visit: $300 (partially covered by insurance)
3. Administration/tax/baffling items: $50
4: standard patient copay thing: $36
6. Basic flu remedy prescription or antibiotics for respiratory risk: $120 (subsidized co-pay)
you (or somebody like your employer or the loaded atm card you get in some plans) owe:
$112
It's almost never truly zero. YMMV
Haaaa....
Well, good for stock closings for today only; terrible for everyone else.
Thanks.
I'm shocked it was disbanded! Who could have done that on my team? What's a cdc
Private enterprise is being pushed to save Americans.
It went as tragic as one would imagine.
6 months of no interest student loans means you can delay your payments without penalty. That's $2,400 in my pocket before making payments again.
Best part is that he mentioned in a 10 second aside AFTER markets closed that the paid sick leave/etc deal fell through.
Then the $350 bill 3 months later saying the receptionist was out of network.
Always pass the buck. Always assign blame to someone else. Always have someone lined up to throw under the bus. Never take responsibility for anything.
After hours trading will be telling but we won't know if it's a rally or a vacillating spike till Monday. No argument from me that this was a tactically big deal for stock market but the hangover from the realization that retailers are literally creating pox parties and Trump is bailing out Exxon etc from crisis created by unrelated actions of his two main sponsors/blackmailers - and worse - Trump's GUARANTEED contradictory and disastrous statements, revelations, backtracks and details this weekend - is going to be extremely real.
