Comments by "Voix de la raison" (@voixdelaraison593) on "Kellyanne Conway slams Biden for failing to offer help as coronavirus spreads" video.
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Trump 26 assaults and counting.
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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Joe Martin
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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Lets Tango
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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Doomsday Clock
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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Chicano Powers
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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Shirley Evans
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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Patricia Gray
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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Tony Perez
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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Jane Young
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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Trumpian Quotes Continued:
02/07 & 02/19
“When we get into April, in the warmer weather—that has a very negative effect on that, and that type of a virus.”
02/27
“It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.”
Dr. Fauci, warned days later that he was concerned that “as the next week or two or three go by, we’re going to see a lot more community-related cases.”
03/23 & 24 & 29
If the economic shutdown continues, deaths by suicide “definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about” for COVID-19 deaths.
03/04
“The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing,” Trump said.
The Obama administration drafted, but never implemented, changes to rules that regulate laboratory tests run by states.
03/13
The Obama’s response to the H1N1 pandemic was “a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now.”
Barack Obama declared a public-health emergency two weeks after the first U.S. cases of H1N1 were reported, in California. Trump declared a national emergency more than seven weeks after the first domestic COVID-19 case was reported. While testing is a problem now, it wasn’t back in 2009.
03/06
“Anybody that needs a test, gets a test. We—they’re there. They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful.”
The country’s testing capabilities are severely limited. Many states have experienced a lack of testing kits. Pence, a day later admitted that “we don’t have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward.”
03/11
Trump said that private-health-insurance companies had “agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments, extend insurance coverage to these treatments, and to prevent surprise medical billing.”
Insurers agreed only to absorb the cost of coronavirus testing—waiving co-pays and deductibles for getting the test.
03/13
“Google engineers are building a website to help Americans determine whether they need testing for the coronavirus and to direct them to their nearest testing site.”
The announcement was news to Google itself—the website Trump (and other administration officials) described was actually being built by Verily, a division of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. The Verge first reported on Trump’s error, citing a Google representative who confirmed that Verily was working on a “triage website” with limited coverage for the San Francisco Bay Area.
To be continued:
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Trumpian Quotes continued, yet more:
03/24 & 25
The U.S. has outpaced South Korea’s COVID-19 testing: “We’re going up proportionally very rapidly,” Trump said during a Fox News town hall.
The truth: When the president made this claim, testing in the U.S. was severely lagging behind that in South Korea. Korea has tested 80% of its population and currently the U.S. is at 1%.
03/11
The U.S. would suspend “all travel from Europe, except the United Kingdom, for the next 30 days,” Trump announced in an Oval Office address.
The travel restriction would not apply to U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, or their families returning from Europe.
In the same address, Trump said the travel restrictions would “not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo but various other things as we get approval.” Trump followed up in a tweet, explaining that trade and cargo would not be subject to the restrictions.
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Yet more Trumpian Quotes:
03/12
TAll U.S. citizens arriving from Europe would be subject to medical screening, COVID-19 testing, and quarantine if necessary. “If an American is coming back or anybody is coming back, we’re testing,” Trump said. “We have a tremendous testing setup where people coming in have to be tested … We’re not putting them on planes if it shows positive, but if they do come here, we’re quarantining.”
Testing was already unavailable or severely limited in the United States. Americans returning to the country were not being tested, nor was anyone being forced to quarantine.
03/31
“We stopped all of Europe” with a travel ban. “We started with certain parts of Italy, and then all of Italy. Then we saw Spain. Then I said, ‘Stop Europe; let’s stop Europe. We have to stop them from coming here.’”
The travel ban applied to the Schengen Area, as well as the United Kingdom and Ireland, and not all of Europe as he claimed. Additionally, Trump is wrong about the United States rolling out a piecemeal ban. The State Department did issue advisories in late February cautioning Americans against travel to the Lombardy region of Italy before issuing a general “Do Not Travel” warning on March 19. But the U.S. never placed individual bans on Italy and Spain
03/17
“I’ve always known this is a real—this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic … I’ve always viewed it as very serious.”
Trump has repeatedly downplayed the significance of COVID-19 as outbreaks began stateside. From calling criticism of his handling of the virus a “hoax,” to comparing the coronavirus to a common flu, to worrying about letting sick Americans off cruise ships because they would increase the number of confirmed cases, Trump has used his public statements to send mixed messages and sow doubt about the outbreak’s seriousness.
03/26
This kind of pandemic “was something nobody thought could happen … Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened.”
Experts both inside and outside the federal government sounded the alarm many times in the past decade about the potential for a devastating global pandemic.
03/02
Pharmaceutical companies are going “to have vaccines, I think, very soon.”
The president’s own experts told him during a White House meeting with pharmaceutical leaders earlier that same day that a vaccine could take a year to 18 months to develop.
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Yet more and more Trumpian Quotes:
03/19
At a press briefing with his coronavirus task force, Trump said the FDA had approved the antimalarial drug chloroquine to treat COVID-19. “Normally the FDA would take a long time to approve something like that, and it’s—it was approved very, very quickly and it’s now approved by prescription,” he said.
The FDA Commissioner, who was at the briefing, quickly clarified that the drug still had to be tested in a clinical setting. An FDA representative later told Bloomberg that the drug has not been approved for COVID-19 use, though a doctor could still prescribe it for that purpose. Later that same day, Dr. Fauci told Said that there is no “magic drug” to cure COVID-19: “Today, there are no proven safe and effective therapies for the coronavirus.”
03/20
Trump twice said during a task-force briefing that he had invoked the Defense Production Act, enabling the federal government to order private industry to produce certain items and materials for national use. He also said the federal government was already using its authority under the law: “We have a lot of people working very hard to do ventilators and various other things.”
The FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor said on 02/22 that the president has not actually used the DPA to order private companies to produce anything. Shortly after that, Trump backtracked, saying that he had not compelled private companies to take action. Then, on 03/24, Gaynor said that FEMA plans to use the DPA to allocate 60,000 test kits. Trump tweeted afterward that the DPA would not be used.
03/21
Automobile companies that have volunteered to manufacture medical equipment, such as ventilators, are “making them right now.”
Ford & GM, which Trump mentioned at a task-force briefing the same day, announced earlier in March that they had halted all factory production in North America and were likely months away from beginning production of ventilators, representatives told the Associated Press. Since then, Ford CEO James Hackett said that the auto company will begin to work with 3M to produce respirators and with General Electric to assemble ventilators. GM said it will explore the possibility of producing ventilators in an Indiana factory. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose company Trump highlighted in a tweet, has said that the company is “working on ventilators” but that they cannot be produced “instantly.”
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Yet more OMG Trumpian Quotes:
03/29
Trump “didn’t say” that governors do not need all the medical equipment they are requesting from the federal government. And he “didn’t say” that governors should be more appreciative of the help.
The president told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday, March 26, that “a lot of equipment’s being asked for that I don’t think they’ll need,” referring to requests from the governors of Michigan, New York, and Washington. He also said, during a Friday, March 27, task-force briefing, that he wanted state leaders “to be appreciative … We’ve done a great job.” He added that he wasn’t talking about himself, but about others within the federal government working to combat the pandemic.
03/29 & 30
Hospitals are reporting an artificially inflated need for masks and equipment, items that might be “going out the back door,” Trump said on two separate days. He also said he was not talking about hoarding: “I think maybe it’s worse than hoarding.”
There is no evidence to show that hospitals are maliciously hoarding or inflating their need for masks and personal protective equipment when reporting shortages in supplies. Although Cuomo reported anecdotal stories of thefts from hospitals early in March, he was referring to opportunists trying to price-gouge early in the pandemic.
This is just a brief example of things Trump has said that show his lack of taking this crisis serious. For kicks and giggles you should Google how many times Dr. Fauci has had to correct Trump. You should also read up on how difficult it has been for him to do his job, not make Trump look bad, and keep Trump focused on the science. To make matters worse the Alt Republican Nut Cases are calling Dr. Fauci “Deep State” and “Treasonous” because he dared correct Tump’s false statements.
In summary, I hope you will forgive me if I don’t applaud Trump for his handling of this crisis.
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