Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Trump made coronavirus claim, but a scientist had to stop him" video.

  1. She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie...COVID-19
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  2. Market drops over 3,000 in just three days, wiping out $3.6 TRILLION from our accounts and economy in one WEEK--setting records for biggest losses EVER in the stock market for a day and for a week. Trump, dismissing COVID-19 as a "hoax": "Our Big Pharma, Big Med, and disinfectant companies are prospering!"
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  3. As of 03/02/20 in the U.S.A., we still don't have the testing kits we need yet; just announced yesterday that test kits for 75,000 will be released over the next two weeks, with 50,000 more following. Reported 15,000 sent out over weekend. Reliable testing protocol absolutely vital to assessing and containment of COVID-19! Health experts and American public both in the dark without massive testing about which Americans, how many Americans have COVID-19--and where--so they can be isolated and treated before infecting others. Health experts have criticized Trump administration for inexplicably not adopting W.H.O. test much earlier. In the U.S. the CDC has conducted just 500 tests for COVID-19 to date, with 102 cases now known in the U.S. For perspective, compare to the U.K., with a much smaller population, who already tested 10,400 people, finding 23 COVID-19 cases. ~03/02/20 Four new COVID-19 related deaths, bringing total to six. ~03/02/20 There are now new or confirmed cases of novel coronavirus COVID-19 in California (33), Massachusetts (1), Washington state (17), Arizona (1), Illinois (3), Wisconsin (1), Oregon (2), Rhode Island (2), Utah (1), Nebraska (13), Texas (11), New York (1) and Florida (2). ~Number of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in U.S. has jumped from 64 on 02/29/20, to 71 reported morning of 03/01/20, to reported total of 102 evening of 03/02/20. Business and individuals starting to cancel travel plans due to COVID-19, both global and domestic, impacting airlines, hotels and many other businesses in a cascading effect. ~03/02/20 Stock future drops 110 points on volatile overnight trading, indicating another rough week for Wall St. ~03/01/20 The White House has scrambled to gain control of a rudderless response defined by bureaucratic infighting, confusion and misinformation. “It’s complete chaos,” one senior administration official said. ~Face masks--which unless surgical-grade N95--have limited effectiveness and are impractical for extended wear. Recommended for those exhibiting any flu or cold-like symptoms; not yet recommended for those healthy at this point. ~CDC: "People should understand that their lives may be significantly disrupted." ~Trump administration ignored and went against the advice of CDC top medical experts, brought infected patients back to the U.S. from Wuhan, China on the same plane as uninfected evacuees. ~U.S. workers WITHOUT protective gear assisted coronavirus evacuees, HHS whistleblower report states. Workers received Wuhan evacuees at two military bases in California without proper training or appropriate protective gear, alongside CDC in full hazmat attire. Whistleblower claims they were potentially exposed to COVID-19. ~Trump places science-denier V.P. Pence--who also has no medical expertise--in charge of Federal response to COVID-19. ~The American workplace isn't ready for an epidemic. Many Americans have no insurance, many others can ill-afford deductibles, still more can't afford to take off work when not feeling well; more than a third of jobs don't offer sick days, and even where available, they may have been already used, or employees try saving them for more serious illness--all making us extremely vulnerable to epidemics such as COVID-19. Many jobs in America involve low-paying work in the service industry, where employees are in constant contact with, and exposed to, a huge swath of the public on a daily basis. These folks typically don't get sick days or insurance benefits, and can ill-afford to miss any work because of loss of money and the threat of losing their job. Many are ill-educated, and may not pay sufficient heed to health warnings, further exacerbating the spread of the epidemic facing us all. ~In plausible worst-case-scenarios given the pattern of the outbreak thus far, the country could experience acute shortages not just in ventilators but also health workers to operate them and care for patients; hospital beds; and masks and other protective equipment. Trump administration facing increasing criticism for not using these many weeks after learning of COVID-19 to prepare increased hospital capacity, stockpile medications, obtain adequate amounts of respirators and other equipment that will be vitally needed in the U.S.. “Even during mild flu pandemics, most of our I.C.U.s are filled to the brim with severely ill patients on mechanical ventilation,” said Dr. Eric Toner, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an expert on health care preparedness. “I hope and pray Covid-19 turns out to be a moderate pandemic, but if not, we’re in serious trouble,” he said, referring to the name given the disease caused by the virus. ~“The Chinese bought us a month of time to prepare ourselves by imposing these astonishing and draconian measures,” said J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which last year issued a report that identified flaws in the nation’s health security. “Unfortunately, we didn’t make good use of that time and now we’re heading into a very dangerous situation.” ~03/01/20 The FDA expanded coronavirus testing by speeding up hospitals’ abilities to test, though some worried that the changes fell short. The number of confirmed cases is likely to increase given the expansion in testing. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Sunday that the administration is watching for possible drug shortages from disruptions to the pharmaceutical supply chain in China. ~03/01/20 Coronavirus has also caused significant supply-chain disruptions affecting toys, medical equipment, auto parts and smartphones from China, none of which will be easy to smooth out, even if the virus ebbs within a month or two. The twin blows to consumer confidence and supply chains have significantly raised the chance of a recession, according to economists. ~03/01/20 State of Washington announces second death from COVID-19 in U.S. First presumptive death in U.S. also from King County on 02/29/20; a 50-year-old man with health conditions. Deceased had unknown origin of contact with virus. Long-term health care facility there with many sick elderly residents suspected to have outbreak of COVID-19. In response, Trump finally vows to screen travelers entering the U.S., but only from certain areas in a few select nations. No details as to when screening will begin, what the screening process is or how effective, or how many travelers will be affected. ~First case in NY state confirmed. Three new cases in Oregon reported 02/28/20, one believed to be from community spread. Now three from community spread in California; one in Washington, and one in Oregon state. Third case in Illinois announced in Chicago 02/29/20, first two have recovered. ~03/01/20 Two new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Washington state in King County on Sunday, bringing that state’s total to ten. Governor declares state emergency. Rhode Island also announced its first probable case. Florida announces two cases, health emergency. ~02/29/20 First suspected community-spread case in N. California was untested for DAYS after disease contracted. CDC acknowledged Thursday that a California woman with coronavirus was made to wait days before she was tested for the disease because of the agency’s restrictive criteria about who may get tested. As a result of this case, CDC announces a whole new testing criteria is needed. ~On 02/29/20, two new cases of COVID-19 in California and Oregon announced. Total cases in U.S. now stands at 64. Trump continues to lie about the epidemic, insisting only 15 Americans are infected. ~On 02/28/20, we learned that there is a second SEPARATE COVID-19 case identified in California. Indications are that we have community spread from the unprotected government workers Trump administration sent to receive the Wuhan evacuees--once again, against the advice of medical experts. ~Trump continues spreading misinformation on COVID-19, overly downplaying risk and danger, contradicting his own administration's health experts. ~02/28/20 DOW loses almost 1,200 in biggest single day loss EVER. Follows two previous day market losses around 1,000--$3.6 TRILLION from the American stock market ERASED for the week.. After the week, total market loss now stands at over 12%, ERASING all gains made in the market under Trump over three years in just one WEEK..
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  4. Got two American dead and more Americans dying from COVID-19, and who knows how many infected because this administration can't get its act together, still can't provide the requisite testing kits to keep the American people safe, still spreading extremely dangerous disinformation, dismissing a very real threat to public health as a "hoax." But all that's important to Trump and his ilk are getting laughs with vituperative, vindictive partisan demagoguery at their annual gala of gluttony CPAC conference--sticking it to the other side to assuage insecurities, so these losers can claim to be "winning." Pathetic, sickening, shocking, enraging, and highly alarming. BTW, the Presidency shouldn't be a stand-up comedian routine. We got a bad joke played upon us, instead of a real President. Big trouble is, Republicans just don't have what it takes to admit their mistakes--prefer to be yellow weasels bringing the whole nation down.
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  5. Trump Has Sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response by Laura Garrett In 2018, the Trump administration fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure. In numerous phone calls and emails with key agencies across the U.S. government, the only consistent response I encountered was distressed confusion. .... White House efforts included reducing $15 billion in national health spending and cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, and HHS. And the government’s $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated. In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSC’s entire global health security unit shut down, calling for reassignment of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer and dissolution of his team inside the agency. The month before, then-White House National Security Advisor John Bolton pressured Ziemer’s DHS counterpart, Tom Bossert, to resign along with his team. Neither the NSC nor DHS epidemic teams have been replaced. The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10. Meanwhile, throughout 2018, the U.S. Agency for International Development and its director, Mark Green, came repeatedly under fire from both the White House and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And though Congress has so far managed to block Trump administration plans to cut the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps by 40 percent, the disease-fighting cadres have steadily eroded as retiring officers go unreplaced. Public health advocates have been ringing alarm bells to no avail. Ronald Klain, who directed U.S. efforts on Ebola, has been warning for two years that the United States was in grave danger should a pandemic emerge. In 2017 and 2018, the philanthropist billionaire Bill Gates met repeatedly with Bolton and his predecessor, H.R. McMaster, warning that ongoing cuts to the global health disease infrastructure would render the United States vulnerable to, as he put it, the “significant probability of a large and lethal modern-day pandemic occurring in our lifetimes.” And an independent, bipartisan panel formed by the Center for Strategic and International Studies concluded that lack of preparedness was so acute in the Trump administration that the “United States must either pay now and gain protection and security or wait for the next epidemic and pay a much greater price in human and economic costs.” https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/
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  6. Toxic Trump advice: "MY political rallies are ABSOLUTELY safe from the scourges of this out-of-control COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe unmercifully!" Did anyone inform him that his supporters can't vote when they're dead, and those made sick lent indisposed against him?
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