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03-16-2020, 08:08 AM
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The beat goes on. Everybody feels compelled to blame. What a world.
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03-16-2020, 08:19 AM
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Ledge Runner Baits
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: I live in a house, but my soul is at sea.
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Originally Posted by Sea Dangles
The beat goes on. Everybody feels compelled to blame. What a world.
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Based on where we are, do you seriously feel Trump doesn’t deserve blame for the messaging and constant (until he couldn’t) attempt to downplay the seriousness of this outbreak? Nobody is blaming him for for the virus, but Fauci speaks the truth and a Trump contradicts, best idiot of our lifetime. |
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03-16-2020, 08:31 AM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Late January
On the same day that Trump was dismissing the risks on CNBC, Tom Frieden, who ran the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for eight years, wrote an op-ed for the health care publication Stat. In it, Frieden warned that the virus would continue spreading. “We need to learn — and fast — about how it spreads,” he wrote.
It was one of many such warnings from prominent experts in late January. Many focused on the need to expand the capacity to test for the virus. In a Wall Street Journal article titled, “Act Now to Prevent an American Epidemic,” Luciana Borio and Scott Gottlieb — both former Trump administration officials — wrote:
If public-health authorities don’t interrupt the spread soon, the virus could infect many thousands more around the globe, disrupt air travel, overwhelm health care systems, and, worst of all, claim more lives. The good news: There’s still an opening to prevent a grim outcome. … But authorities can’t act quickly without a test that can diagnose the condition rapidly.
Trump, however, repeatedly told Americans that there was no reason to worry. On Jan. 24, he tweeted, “It will all work out well.” On Jan. 28, he retweeted a headline from One America News, an outlet with a history of spreading false conspiracy theories: “Johnson & Johnson to create coronavirus vaccine.” On Jan. 30, during a speech in Michigan, he said: “We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. And those people are all recuperating successfully.”
That same day, the World Health Organization declared coronavirus to be a “public-health emergency of international concern.” It announced 7,818 confirmed cases around the world.
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03-16-2020, 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Got Stripers
Based on where we are, do you seriously feel Trump doesn’t deserve blame for the messaging and constant (until he couldn’t) attempt to downplay the seriousness of this outbreak? Nobody is blaming him for for the virus, but Fauci speaks the truth and a Trump contradicts, best idiot of our lifetime.
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Blame anybody that makes you feel better and safer. Do what helps.
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