Comments by "Daily Wire Third Stringer" (@DailyWireThirdStringer) on "Students start project linking farms to food banks | WNT" video.
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@1111amyg Lmao. Okay, here goes nothing...
Donald Trump completely shut down the border with China. That took place just 1 month after the China FINALLY decided to report to the rest of the world (the WHO) that they were experiencing issues with an outbreak of a new respiratory virus, which by that point (December 31, 2019, hence COVID- 19) has likely already been circulating for AT LEAST a month. China didn't do enough to stop it, but the WHO (China's little puppet) was there to cover up for them. So one month later, Trump announces a travel ban on China. Unsurprisingly, he was labeled xenophobic for taking this decisive (and life-saving) action. Now of course US citizens from China couldn't be locked out from their home country (could you imagine the backlash from that?), so some were bound to slip through the gaps. Then, on March 6th, Trump announced a similar travel ban to include all of Europe (excepting the UK, which was added later), as Italy was suffering major damage as a result from an overwhelmed healthcare system. Then, on March 11th, President (yes he IS your President, like him or not) Trump signed the CARES Act into law, which was designed to provide emergency relief to millions of people who just got laid off as a result of a near-total economic shutdown (something that has NEVER happened before in human history as a result of a pandemic, not even the Spanish Flu of 1918). Then we of course saw the issue with the Carnival cruise lines which suffered major outbreaks on board (the Diamond Princess and Grand Princess), and eventually all the passengers were safely offloaded onto military bases to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine. Now we start to see this cases rise substantially in New York. Supposedly a lawyer arrived from Iran and infected over a dozen other people, who in turn infected God knows how many more. Horrible situation, but New York's lord and savior Andrew Cuomo took decisive action and saved thousand of lives, right? Not quite. As it turns out, it was his policies that FORCED sick elderly patients BACK into their nursing homes, exponentially exacerbating an already horrible situation and likely contributing to thousands of more deaths. On March 13th, President Trump declared a National Emergency (two very big words), and it was under this declaration that he was able to distribute much-needed medical supplies to areas that most desperately needed them (like New York). Just five days later, on March 18th, he also responded by taking advantage of a decades-old law giving the President the power to order the private sector to manufacture goods necessary for national defense: the Defense Production Act. This order required companies like 3M and General Electric to immediately transition their production lines to making PPE like N-95 respirators for frontline workers. Oh, and of course he gave the authority to transition the Javits Center into an emergency hospital, and the USNS Comfort to house non COVID (and later positive COVID) patients. The Comfort was hardly needed for more than a month, and the Javits has been virtually empty since the beginning. And Mr. Cuomo still says Trump hasn't done enough? Give me a f*cking break. Now, the focus is on testing. We've conducted more tests than any other country in the world at this point, and are already doing more per capita than South Korea which has largely re-opened its economy. The medical experts predict that we need to do at least 30 million tests per month to re-open safely, and I don't know if you saw that chart they presented at the Senate hearing this morning, but those test numbers are going UP. There's no doubt in anyone's mind that we'll get there soon enough. A fair analysis might conclude that the reaction was slow, but when he did react he did so decisively. He put together the greatest Task Force the nation could have asked for, and heeded their advice the entire time. Other action he left up to the individual states, as he knows each one will have to react differently (Montana still has not locked down).
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@1111amyg The ships docked safely, and all the passengers were offloaded and put into quarantine without error. The President wanted it done properly so there wasn't community spread. So I don't know what the hell you're complaining about there... The DEMONRATS held up and delayed the CARES Act to add provisions that had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the coronavirus! The Republicans were unanimously in support of the provision that lower income Americans would receive stimulus money (including the one that if you make 99,000+ you receive nothing), but were NOT in favor of adding useless environmental protections and the like that had NO relevance to the COVID-19 situation WHATSOEVER. Of course Trump let the states decide the rest, is that not what I said? They should know better how to handle this crisis, the situation in Utah or Montana is very different than that of California or New York. The states that needed ventilators got them. Now there are tons to go around. And you know how South Korea flattened their curve so quickly? THEY TRACED PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS. The government SURVEILLED where each citizen went and if someone was possibly exposed to the virus, they were FORCED into quarantine. I'm sorry if you didn't know this, but we have this little thing called the CONSTITUTION in America that guarantees the liberties of each of and every American citizen, and doing what South Korea did is NOT possible under the rights provided to the People under this document. Try doing some research, what works in one country may not work in another. And of course I haven't been tested, because I haven't gotten sick. Right now the recommendation is that you get tested if you have symptoms, not if you're feeling perfectly healthy. Maybe I can go get an antibody test if I want, but considering that I haven't had any flu-like symptoms in at least a year or more, I don't think I will.
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