They're going to build a task force for that too. And it will be handled by boy genius Jared.
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US PoliEra 2020 |OT4| Disaster Voltron
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I'm not sure how much blame to assign them. I know it'll be popular though because of hatrid for China + racism + the desire to shift blame. I know that the US had several months notice of COVID19 and has done an even poorer job containing it than they did, so I'm not sure how anyone expects China to have contained it.
If you (not literally you) think Trump would have reacted any differently than China in the first month or two, i.e. trying to cover it up and making out it's no big deal, I have a bridge to sell you. That's what Trump did when he already knew it was a big deal.
The irony of course is that it's Trump's delayed response doing nothing in January and February except stopping some flights, which is killing Americans today. It spread here while he was saying it's just the flu and while he did nothing to prepare for the medical equipment shortages we're seeing already.
Trump had more advance notice than China did, and did even less in that time.
I think Hawley's efforts could be overwhelmed by dire stories about deaths, intensive care failures, supply chain disruptions, and sheer misery in the months to come, and this will be a perverted little footnote on the Trump era's postmortem report.
I actually just got off the phone with China. It was a good call. A really good call. They want to work with us.
Leigh Ann Caldwell @LACaldwellDCNEW: The latest Coronavirus stimulus (wh/ are changes from the original proposal):
- At least $100 billion for hospitals
- Unemployment insurance benefits expansion for 100% of salary for 4 months
- No phase-in of direct payments for lower income people. ($1200/person;$500/kid)
- At least $100 billion for hospitals
- Unemployment insurance benefits expansion for 100% of salary for 4 months
- No phase-in of direct payments for lower income people. ($1200/person;$500/kid)
9:58 AM - Mar 24, 2020
Lisa Desjardins @LisaDNewsNEW - UPDATE FROM CAPITOL: Manchin just told us there is good news, that GOP has made changes to oversight of the $500 b for corporations. And staff is now drafting language - that could take 2-3 hours. Also he said there is more $ for hospitals.
Thinks vote likely tonight.
Thinks vote likely tonight.
10:08 AM - Mar 24, 2020 · Washington, DC
New racist jingoistic chest-banging will replace old racist jingoistic chest-banging, yes.
It was lax regulation of the markets in Wuhan that let the virus jump from pangolins to pigs to humans. People worried about conditions there aren't just being xenophobic assholes. The presence of both exotic and mundane animals in close proximity to each other in terrible conditions makes the transfer of viruses to humans much, much easier. It's a massive externality, and when this is all over there needs to be a regime of international inspections to make sure the conditions don't recur.
Bobby Lewis on Twitter
“Fox's Stuart Varney says there's "two sides" to the coronavirus pandemic response, and "the investors, they're taking the president's side" instead of medical experts. https://t.co/bjljPcOlZo”twitter.com
We're in hell
They should reconsider that then, Elysium doesn't exist and they're stuck on this rock with us, we aren't stuck in here with them.
EAT.THESE.GREASY.WEASELS
This is why China's going full propagandist on the origins, because they know they fucked up huge not cracking down on this shit.
Americans see months-long pandemic fight ahead — CBS News poll
Scientists, doctors bridge partisan divide on whom to trust. Americans overwhelmingly approve of plan to send checks.
www.cbsnews.com
With Americans in lockdown, hope and calm beat nervousness — CBS News poll
Some report stress but most stay optimistic as life changes.
www.cbsnews.com
Pretty sure all true Florida Men already have it.
If it gets bad down here I propose calling it The White Shoe Flu
90% trust among Republicans for what Trump is saying about the virus!!! Holy crap. So they all believed there were millions of tests weeks ago, and that 15 cases would soon be zero (currently 46,485), and that those drugs he pimped are cures (which a couple took themselves and one died the other is in the ICU), wow.
What is even more astonishing is that they trust medical professionals to the same degree. The amount of cognitive dissonance is astounding.
13% trust in the media, yet it was the non-Fox media who warned them about this, which they called a Dem hoax! And here we are with the country mostly shut down weeks later, unemployment soaring, etc. smh
Treasury will be the ones dispersing the funds. That was never the question. It was always about tracking how the money goes out. Supposedly the verification is inspector general involvement and an oversight committee.
As far as popular disaster media goes, I'm contemplating a re-watch of The Road. . .
I hate that this fucking village Idiot is still considered to be speaking gospel to s certain segment of our population
My parents are life long republicans who dislike trump. Yesterday I got to hear a rant about how good of a job he is doing when I was on my phone call. If he says "churches are safe, go back to church" they will be the two happiest people on earth And probably vote for him =(
Aren't all of the business shut-downs instituted at the state level? How is he actually going to send anyone back to work?
You can if you're not actually paying attention to what one of the two is saying or thinking through how the two contradict each other.
We won't be able to lovingly watch over our elderly if we're exposing ourselves at work. I might not be able to see my 90 year old grandfather ever again. Thanks Trump!
Red state governors are not going to defy trump publicly.
He won't, he'll just whine at Dem governors for doing their jobs while whipping up the cult
Trump telling businesses to reopen will put pressure on governors to respond accordingly, and when they don't, he can try squeezing them on federal aid money. Or at the very least badger them in the press and online, to ensure some erosion of public support for those governors.
Of course he's not actually thinking it through like that, he probably assumes he'll flip the switch and everything will go back to normal, but that's how I can see it playing out.
Also a lot of people think they have 'above average' health and think doctors are worrywarts.
I'm not sure about that. They've all seen spikes in approval, unlike Trump, and they're not stupid.
Liz Cheney @Liz_CheneyThere will be no normally functioning economy if our hospitals are overwhelmed and thousands of Americans of all ages, including our doctors and nurses, lay dying because we have failed to do what's necessary to stop the virus. https://twitter.com/scottgottliebmd/status/1242282560106958854 …
10:30 AM - Mar 24, 2020
Can't. He can force their hand by ending the emergency delclaration and condition emergency federal money, but he can't actively make people go back to work. People will continue to call in sick rather than go.
He knows he'll be getting his ass kicked in November if this continues much longer. He's desperately trying to get the market back up to the high 20k's because he knows that's his only chance. He'll let thousands of preventable deaths occur to help secure his re-election.
Here in Ohio DeWine has been pretty aggressive. I don't know what would happen if Trump pressured states to open back up.
It's infuriating that Trump might actually go out of his way to make things even worse at this point.
Rand Paul who is a Dr. is proof that the public can't be trusted to practice social distancing as the only defense against the CoVID-19.
The infections are accelerating like crazy and that's just a reflection of where we were 10 days ago. Considering only selected states and cities just started going on lockdown 2-4 days ago, can only imagine how bad the infections actually are right now. And Trump wants to send people back to work in that environment? Any supposed "safe area" will turn into a hotspot within the days because the virus is nowhere close to being contained. and we don't really know where it is right now aside from the mature hotspots. Here in California, the testing has been painfully slow. The actual infections is much worse than what the stats say.
Once those 45 minute tests come out, it's going to get real ugly fast.
The infections are accelerating like crazy and that's just a reflection of where we were 10 days ago. Considering only selected states and cities just started going on lockdown 2-4 days ago, can only imagine how bad the infections actually are right now. And Trump wants to send people back to work in that environment? Any supposed "safe area" will turn into a hotspot within the days because the virus is nowhere close to being contained. and we don't really know where it is right now aside from the mature hotspots. Here in California, the testing has been painfully slow. The actual infections is much worse than what the stats say.
Once those 45 minute tests come out, it's going to get real ugly fast.
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