Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Jake Tapper to Trump: This requires a plan. Do you have one?" video.
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“Don’t give me the MyPillow guy doing a song-and-dance up here on a Monday afternoon when people are dying in Queens,” Francesa said. “Get the stuff made, get the stuff where it needs to go, and get the boots on the ground! Treat this like the crisis it is!”
New York sports talk radio icon Mike Francesa, a longtime and vocal defender of Trump, delivered an on-air tirade Tuesday about the president’s leadership. Francesa seized upon Trump’s comments Monday that if the total number of coronavirus fatalities in the United States is between 100,000 and 200,000, that would count as a good job.
“How can you have a scoreboard that says 2,000 people have died and tell us, ‘It’s okay if another 198,000 die, that’s a good job,’ ” Francesa said. “How is that a good job in our country? It’s a good job if nobody else dies! Not if another 198,000 people die! So now 200,000 people are disposable?”
Jesus freak fervently praying for God to save our pillowed butts in WH presser...because, God knows, Trump sure as hell ain't doing it!
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The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged
Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller -- Washington Post -- 04/05/20
Thirty-three times Toxic Trump minimized, denied, and downplayed this pandemic.
By the time Donald Trump proclaimed himself a wartime president — and the coronavirus the enemy — the United States was already on course to see more of its people die than in the wars of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined. The United States will likely go down as the country that was supposedly best prepared to fight a pandemic but ended up catastrophically overmatched by the novel coronavirus, sustaining heavier casualties than any other nation.
It did not have to happen this way. Though not perfectly prepared, the United States had more expertise, resources, plans and epidemiological experience than dozens of countries that ultimately fared far better in fending off the virus.
The failure has echoes of the period leading up to 9/11: Warnings were sounded, including at the highest levels of government, but the president was deaf to them until the enemy had already struck.
The Trump administration received its first formal notification of the outbreak of the coronavirus in China on Jan. 3. Within days, U.S. spy agencies were signaling the seriousness of the threat to Trump by including a warning about the coronavirus — the first of many — in the President’s Daily Brief.
And yet, it took 70 days from that initial notification for Trump to treat the coronavirus not as a distant threat or harmless flu strain well under control, but as a lethal force that had outflanked America’s defenses and was poised to kill tens of thousands of citizens. That more-than-two-month stretch now stands as critical time that was squandered.
Trump’s baseless assertions in those weeks, including his claim that it would all just “miraculously” go away, sowed significant public confusion and contradicted the urgent messages of public health experts.
It may never be known how many thousands of deaths, or millions of infections, might have been prevented with a response that was more coherent, urgent and effective. But even now, there are many indications that the administration’s handling of the crisis had potentially devastating consequences.
Even the president’s base has begun to confront this reality. In mid-March, as Trump was rebranding himself a wartime president and belatedly urging the public to help slow the spread of the virus, Republican leaders were poring over grim polling data that suggested Trump was lulling his followers into a false sense of security in the face of a lethal threat.
The poll showed that far more Republicans than Democrats were being influenced by Trump’s dismissive depictions of the virus and the comparably scornful coverage on Fox News and other conservative networks. As a result, Republicans were in distressingly large numbers refusing to change travel plans, follow “social distancing” guidelines, stock up on supplies or otherwise take the coronavirus threat seriously.
“Denial is not likely to be a successful strategy for survival,” GOP pollster Neil Newhouse concluded in a document that was shared with GOP leaders on Capitol Hill and discussed widely at the White House. Trump’s most ardent supporters, it said, were “putting themselves and their loved ones in danger.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-us-was-beset-by-denial-and-dysfunction-as-the-coronavirus-raged/ar-BB12akzb?ocid=spartanntp
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"As many as 70,000 Americans could be confirmed as infected with coronavirus by the end of next week, marking a “pretty dramatic” increase in the number of confirmed cases, the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, told his employees in an agency-wide conference call on 03/20/20."
Except 03/21/20 saw a 33% jump in U.S. cases, from 18,000 to over 24,000. If continuing at 33% every 24 hours, the number of confirmed cases is trending much higher than just 70,000 by 03/27/20. Suspect confirmed cases will be double that. Bear in mind, states hardest hit are not testing many people, saving the tests for those most in need. So the actual number of infected Americans is going to be far higher than just what limited testing of the population has so far confirmed. Don't think this fact is being given enough attention. More important than the number of cases confirmed is the number contracting the disease and not getting tested, spreading the disease, in many cases unknowingly. Hospital projections are for about 100 MILLION Americans to become infected, with about 500,000 dead from covid-19.
(Update 5: Friday, 03/27/20, confirmed U.S. cases 105,000--which is 50% over NIH high-end estimate; deaths 1,700 by end of day. The perspective for cases is significantly skewed low and thus highly misleading, however, as just 0.17% of U.S. population has been tested to date.)
03/29/20 -- 143,000 confirmed cases; 2,450 deaths. Still no adequate testing.
03/30/20 -- 165,000 confirmed cases; 3,250 deaths. Still no adequate testing.
03/31/20 -- 190,000 confirmed cases; 4,200 deaths. Still no adequate testing.
04/01/20 -- 217,000 confirmed cases; 5,150 deaths. Still no adequate testing.
04/02/20 -- 246,000 confirmed cases; 6,050 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
04/03/20 -- 278,000 confirmed cases; 7,150 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
04/04/20 -- 312,000 confirmed cases; 9,400 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
04/05/20 -- 338,000 confirmed cases; 9,700 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
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