DriveInDriѵeOut
Inordinately Right
Uh oh only another 30 or 40 thousand and it will catch up with the flu.
Coronavirus
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1989
Well-Known Member
Of course
wilberforce15
Well-Known Member
At current pace, that's 15 days, dummy.
jimdandy3
Impeach Hunter Biden
After all they do have similar symptoms.
1989
Well-Known Member
CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010.
rod
Retired 23 years
zimbomb
Well-Known Member
Some good News from teamcare, extending benefits in the event of layoffs is huge.
"The Board of Trustees has approved Plan amendments in light of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. These include waiving cost-sharing for both testing and treatment of COVID-19 through Dec. 31, 2020, and continuing coverage for up to 8 weeks for members who are laid off due to COVID-19 between March 1 and Dec. 31, 2020."
"The Board of Trustees has approved Plan amendments in light of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. These include waiving cost-sharing for both testing and treatment of COVID-19 through Dec. 31, 2020, and continuing coverage for up to 8 weeks for members who are laid off due to COVID-19 between March 1 and Dec. 31, 2020."
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
...who then proceeded to round up the Native Americans and relocate them to reservations...
wilberforce15
Well-Known Member
Lulz, my ancestors got tired of the scalping and treaty breaking, so they benevolently allowed the natives to keep living and simply moved them.
I'm quite proud of how restrained my ancestors were, given the savages they were dealing with.
Jumpin Jack Flash
Troll
16,312 dead Americans, 458,000+known infected. 1,524 dead. Thankfully, Trump is only dealing with Covid19. Can you imagine what he would have done to the economy over an influenza pandemic?
fishtm2001
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via that liberal bastion otherwise known as the Wall Street Journal:
The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday published a column attacking President Donald Trump’s daily White House coronavirus task force briefings.
In the editorial titled “Trump’s Wasted Briefings,” the conservative newspaper’s board said the pressers had started off as “a good idea to educate the public” about the pandemic but had now descended into “a boring show of President Vs. the press” after Trump decided to make them all about himself.
Trump’s frequent “outbursts against his political critics” were “notably off-key at this moment” given the “once-a-century threat to American life and livelihood,” it added, noting how public health officials have in the briefings been relegated to the role of “supporting actors.”
“If Mr. Trump thinks these daily sessions will help him defeat Joe Biden, he’s wrong,” the board wrote, suggesting Trump’s 2020 campaign against the de facto Democratic nominee Biden is “about one issue: how well the public thinks the President has done in defeating the virus and restarting the economy.”
The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday published a column attacking President Donald Trump’s daily White House coronavirus task force briefings.
In the editorial titled “Trump’s Wasted Briefings,” the conservative newspaper’s board said the pressers had started off as “a good idea to educate the public” about the pandemic but had now descended into “a boring show of President Vs. the press” after Trump decided to make them all about himself.
Trump’s frequent “outbursts against his political critics” were “notably off-key at this moment” given the “once-a-century threat to American life and livelihood,” it added, noting how public health officials have in the briefings been relegated to the role of “supporting actors.”
“If Mr. Trump thinks these daily sessions will help him defeat Joe Biden, he’s wrong,” the board wrote, suggesting Trump’s 2020 campaign against the de facto Democratic nominee Biden is “about one issue: how well the public thinks the President has done in defeating the virus and restarting the economy.”
fishtm2001
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"It is increasingly clear that the president* is on the verge of taking the approach once recommended by Senator George Aiken in relation to the Vietnam War—declare victory and get out. He has set up all the elements of doing so. His enablers already have begun declaring victory now that it is becoming clear that social distancing is working. The president* is ready to get back to full operational misrule and, if things go badly wrong, and they will, he can blame the states, especially the ones with Democratic governors. He will then campaign on a field of bones as the man who stopped the epidemic.
I can hardly wait."
Charles Pierce
I can hardly wait."
Charles Pierce
Yes, we should blame China’s communist government for the spread of COVID-19
Apparently, blaming China for exporting a deadly virus around the globe, lying about the danger it posed and withholding vital information regarding its origin is now considered racist by polite society.
Mike Ryan, the executive director of the World Health Organization’s Emergencies Program, said at a news conference, “There is no blame in this. All we need now is to identify the things we need to do to move forward quickly, with speed and to avoid any indication of ethnic or other associations with this virus.”
There you have it — Dr. WHO gives China a clean bill of health!
China deserves to be blamed for this mess. And we need to start making critical goods, like pharmaceuticals, back at home again.
Now that we have Ford, General Motors and even the My Pillow Guy using their factories to make medical devices to defeat the coronavirus, maybe it’s time to start knocking on Walter White’s door too.
Apparently, blaming China for exporting a deadly virus around the globe, lying about the danger it posed and withholding vital information regarding its origin is now considered racist by polite society.
Mike Ryan, the executive director of the World Health Organization’s Emergencies Program, said at a news conference, “There is no blame in this. All we need now is to identify the things we need to do to move forward quickly, with speed and to avoid any indication of ethnic or other associations with this virus.”
There you have it — Dr. WHO gives China a clean bill of health!
China deserves to be blamed for this mess. And we need to start making critical goods, like pharmaceuticals, back at home again.
Now that we have Ford, General Motors and even the My Pillow Guy using their factories to make medical devices to defeat the coronavirus, maybe it’s time to start knocking on Walter White’s door too.
fishtm2001
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Never forget: The president of the United States claimed to have the coronavirus “totally under control” because it was only “one person coming in from China”; he said it would miraculously “disappear”; he compared it to the flu; he tried to prevent sick Americans on a cruise ship getting off and getting tested because he liked “the numbers being where they are”; and he called concerns over the spread of the virus a Democratic “hoax.” Donald Trump also held daily White House press briefings where he berated the press; told countless lies; denied any “responsibility at all” for the crisis; and pushed unproven and risky drugs as a possible treatment for the disease, adding: “What do you have to lose?” As thousands of Americans lost their lives to Covid-19, the president bragged about his TV ratings and his Facebook followers, while also taking Twitter potshots at Hillary Clinton over Benghazi and her emails.
Fred's Myth
Nonhyphenated American
And worst of all, he used a plastic straw to drink his soft drink!
Where IS the wrath of God when you need it???
zimbomb
Well-Known Member
The great nation state of California (5th largest economy in the world) is leading in the absence of federal leadership. Loaning out much needed equipment to harder affected states. A massive plan is in place to purchase the needed PPE and distribution to not just California but other states. It's amazing what a state government can do. Trump's hands off approach seems to be working.
fishtm2001
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Donald Trump on Twitter
"China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!"
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5:18 PM - Jan 24, 2020
wilberforce15
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So when do they clean up the poop?
