Post by the Scribe on Oct 17, 2020 8:06:36 GMT
TRUMP COVID-19 RESPONSE:
“Seems to me if Trump and his administration were doing their jobs individual governors would not have been put into the crisis positions they were forced into without any of the information he was withholding. States aren't prepared to deal with a national pandemic with no national strategy or help from the federal government and such a partisan, divisive president.
Now the story of COVID-19 and Trump’s response that we know about thus far:
Before anyone even knew about the disease (even in China) Trump disbanded the pandemic response team that Obama had put in place. He cut funding to the CDC, and he cut our contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Trump fired Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer, the person on the National Security Council in charge of stopping the spread of infectious diseases before they reach our country - a position created by the Obama administration.
Donald Trump was warned about a pandemic 3 months before Covid struck. A report in September 2019 by a team of top economists in the Donald Trump administration warned Trump about the looming dangers of a pandemic outbreak and presented a 41-page report, but the advice was not heeded. The report had "warned a pandemic disease could kill as many as half a million Americans and cause up to $3.79 trillion in damage to the US economy".
When the outbreak started in China, Trump assumed it was China’s problem and sent no research, supplies or help of any kind. We were in a trade war, why should he help them?
In January he received a briefing from our intelligence organizations that the outbreak was much worse than China was admitting and that it would definitely hit our country if something wasn’t done to prevent it. He ignored the report, not trusting our own intelligence.
When the disease spread to Europe, the World Health Organization offered a plethora of tests to the United States. Trump turned them down, saying private companies here would make the tests “better” if we needed them. (leave aside that Jared Kushner’s brother runs a company that’s involved in testing) However, he never ordered U.S. companies to make tests and they had no profit motive to do so on their own. (a failure of capitalism)
According to scientists at Yale and several public university medical schools, when they asked for permission to start working on our own testing protocol and potential treatments or vaccines, they were denied by Trump’s FDA.
When Trump knew about the first case in the United States he did nothing. It was just one case and the patient was isolated. When doctors and scientists started screaming in the media that this was a mistake, Trump claimed it was a “liberal hoax” conjured up to try to make him “look bad after impeachment failed.”
The next time Trump spoke of COVID-19, we had SIXTY-FOUR CONFIRMED CASES but Trump went before microphones and told the American public that we only had FIFTEEN cases “and pretty soon that number will be close to zero.” All while the disease was spreading, he took no action to get more tests.
Trump Calls Coronavirus Fear The Dems' 'New Hoax' As More Cases Confirmed | The 11th Hour | MSNBC
What Trump did was to stop flights from China from coming here. However, Trump’s travel restrictions were not all-inclusive, and went into effect on February 2, after 45 countries had already imposed their own restrictions, according to the outlet’s reporting. Trump’s restrictions also allowed travel from China to the States for more than five months after their announcement, and more than 8.000 Chinese and foreign nationals still entered the country after the sanctions the Associated Press described as “porous” were imposed. In the first months of the limited restrictions, at least 27,000 Americans also flew to the United States from China.
This was too late and accomplished nothing according to scientists and doctors. By then the disease was worldwide and was already spreading exponentially in the U.S. by Americans, not Chinese people as Trump would like you to believe.”
February 24th, the president’s economic team held a three-day gathering to warn wealthy Republican donors of the potential impact of the virus, according to documents obtained by the New York Times. Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, also gave a different message to board members than what he had said on television on February 25, when he declared ‘it’s pretty close to airtight,’ in an effort to downplay the outbreak.
February 26, six years after ridiculing predecessor Barack Obama’s handling of a major health crisis and two years after dismantling the pandemic response team Obama left behind, President Donald Trump is now reinventing the infectious disease wheel. Trump has let his "vengeful" Obama obsession blind him to his obligation to the American people, their safety and general welfare.
Related:
Trump's economic policies put the country into recession BEFORE the pandemic. The NBER's placing the recession's start in February 2020 also marks the official end of the longest economic expansion in U.S. history: More than 10 years of growth, or 129 months, that started during the depths of the (RepubliCONServative created) financial crisis during the Obama administration in June 2009.
Trump is claiming that we had a great economy that just got screwed up by the pandemic when we had to shut it down. But we didn’t. We had an enormous bubble, and there is nothing great about it other than the size of the bubble. The bubble was already deflating before the pandemic. It started to deflate in the fourth quarter of 2019. That’s when the Federal Reserve hiked the interest rates and then started cutting them again, started doing quantitative easing again. And then Covid-19 came. Trump's GREAT economy crashed in just a few weeks.
The pandemic hit at a very convenient time to take the blame when in fact it was caused by Trump's economic policies. The pandemic just sped up the crash of the already deflating bubble.
Trump keeps touting job creation and low unemployment numbers like it is the best it has ever been because he is the president. That ISN'T true. 10,000 baby boomers retired every day Trump has been in office. That equals approximately 300,000 per month jobs left open. It automatically sets up a condition for employers to raise wages to compete for the worker shortage. It lowers the unemployment rate. New job industries will be created and others enhanced to cater to this aging population. During the Obama administration baby boomers for the most part had to forego retirement because the Republiconservatives that controlled our government crashed the economy. It crashed in 2008 after cutting taxes on the wealthy and putting two wars they created on the credit card. It was the worst depression since the last Great Republican Caused Depression in the 1930s.
Both Bush and Trump claim no one could have predicted these surprises. 9/11 in Bush-Cheney's case and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Trump-Pence. Both parties ignored the warnings given to them. These were NOT surprises. History tells us this is the Republican/Conservative way. Never let an ignored crisis go to waste. Their 1% overclass increased their fortunes exponentially during both of these crises. And the American people are left to pay for it in many cases with their livelihoods, their retirement savings or their lives.
“Seems to me if Trump and his administration were doing their jobs individual governors would not have been put into the crisis positions they were forced into without any of the information he was withholding. States aren't prepared to deal with a national pandemic with no national strategy or help from the federal government and such a partisan, divisive president.
Now the story of COVID-19 and Trump’s response that we know about thus far:
Before anyone even knew about the disease (even in China) Trump disbanded the pandemic response team that Obama had put in place. He cut funding to the CDC, and he cut our contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Obama Prepared for a Potential Pandemic. Trump Gutted His Work.
couriernewsroom.com/2020/04/14/obama-prepared-for-a-potential-pandemic-trump-gutted-his-work/#:~:text=The%20Trump%20administration%20also%20famously%20disbanded%20the%20National,U.S.%20government%20to%20prepare%20for%20the%20next%20outbreak.
couriernewsroom.com/2020/04/14/obama-prepared-for-a-potential-pandemic-trump-gutted-his-work/#:~:text=The%20Trump%20administration%20also%20famously%20disbanded%20the%20National,U.S.%20government%20to%20prepare%20for%20the%20next%20outbreak.
Trump fired Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer, the person on the National Security Council in charge of stopping the spread of infectious diseases before they reach our country - a position created by the Obama administration.
Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?
www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
Donald Trump was warned about a pandemic 3 months before Covid struck: Report
www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/donald-trump-was-warned-about-a-pandemic-3-months-before-covid-struck-report/ar-BB16UBdO
www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/donald-trump-was-warned-about-a-pandemic-3-months-before-covid-struck-report/ar-BB16UBdO
In January he received a briefing from our intelligence organizations that the outbreak was much worse than China was admitting and that it would definitely hit our country if something wasn’t done to prevent it. He ignored the report, not trusting our own intelligence.
Trump was warned in January of Covid-19's devastating impact, memos reveal
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/donald-trump-coronavirus-memos-warning-peter-navarro
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/donald-trump-coronavirus-memos-warning-peter-navarro
Why Did the Trump Administration Reject the WHO Coronavirus Test?
www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a31677485/coronavirus-trump-administration-rejected-who-test/
www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a31677485/coronavirus-trump-administration-rejected-who-test/
According to scientists at Yale and several public university medical schools, when they asked for permission to start working on our own testing protocol and potential treatments or vaccines, they were denied by Trump’s FDA.
Timeline: The Regulations—and Regulators—That Delayed Coronavirus Testing
thedispatch.com/p/timeline-the-regulationsand-regulatorsthat
thedispatch.com/p/timeline-the-regulationsand-regulatorsthat
The next time Trump spoke of COVID-19, we had SIXTY-FOUR CONFIRMED CASES but Trump went before microphones and told the American public that we only had FIFTEEN cases “and pretty soon that number will be close to zero.” All while the disease was spreading, he took no action to get more tests.
Trump Calls Coronavirus Fear The Dems' 'New Hoax' As More Cases Confirmed | The 11th Hour | MSNBC
What Trump did was to stop flights from China from coming here. However, Trump’s travel restrictions were not all-inclusive, and went into effect on February 2, after 45 countries had already imposed their own restrictions, according to the outlet’s reporting. Trump’s restrictions also allowed travel from China to the States for more than five months after their announcement, and more than 8.000 Chinese and foreign nationals still entered the country after the sanctions the Associated Press described as “porous” were imposed. In the first months of the limited restrictions, at least 27,000 Americans also flew to the United States from China.
This was too late and accomplished nothing according to scientists and doctors. By then the disease was worldwide and was already spreading exponentially in the U.S. by Americans, not Chinese people as Trump would like you to believe.”
Did Trump Ban All Travel From China at the Start of the Pandemic?
www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-ban-travel-china-pandemic/
www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-ban-travel-china-pandemic/
February 24th, the president’s economic team held a three-day gathering to warn wealthy Republican donors of the potential impact of the virus, according to documents obtained by the New York Times. Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, also gave a different message to board members than what he had said on television on February 25, when he declared ‘it’s pretty close to airtight,’ in an effort to downplay the outbreak.
Donald Trump’s team ‘warned CEOs about dangers of Covid before the public’
metro.co.uk/2020/10/15/donald-trumps-team-warned-ceos-about-dangers-of-covid-before-the-public-13427679/
metro.co.uk/2020/10/15/donald-trumps-team-warned-ceos-about-dangers-of-covid-before-the-public-13427679/
February 26, six years after ridiculing predecessor Barack Obama’s handling of a major health crisis and two years after dismantling the pandemic response team Obama left behind, President Donald Trump is now reinventing the infectious disease wheel. Trump has let his "vengeful" Obama obsession blind him to his obligation to the American people, their safety and general welfare.
Trump Reinvents Pandemic Response Wheel After Scrapping Team Obama Left Him
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-coronavirus-threat_n_5e56e9a7c5b66137fb5d4445
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-coronavirus-threat_n_5e56e9a7c5b66137fb5d4445
Related:
Trump's economic policies put the country into recession BEFORE the pandemic. The NBER's placing the recession's start in February 2020 also marks the official end of the longest economic expansion in U.S. history: More than 10 years of growth, or 129 months, that started during the depths of the (RepubliCONServative created) financial crisis during the Obama administration in June 2009.
Trump is claiming that we had a great economy that just got screwed up by the pandemic when we had to shut it down. But we didn’t. We had an enormous bubble, and there is nothing great about it other than the size of the bubble. The bubble was already deflating before the pandemic. It started to deflate in the fourth quarter of 2019. That’s when the Federal Reserve hiked the interest rates and then started cutting them again, started doing quantitative easing again. And then Covid-19 came. Trump's GREAT economy crashed in just a few weeks.
The pandemic hit at a very convenient time to take the blame when in fact it was caused by Trump's economic policies. The pandemic just sped up the crash of the already deflating bubble.
US economy was an ‘ENORMOUS BUBBLE’ before Covid-19 & pandemic is just the pin – Peter Schiff to Joe Rogan
www.rt.com/business/494943-us-economy-joe-rogan-peter-schiff/
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-08/it-s-official-nber-says-record-u-s-expansion-ended-in-february
www.rt.com/business/494943-us-economy-joe-rogan-peter-schiff/
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-08/it-s-official-nber-says-record-u-s-expansion-ended-in-february
Trump keeps touting job creation and low unemployment numbers like it is the best it has ever been because he is the president. That ISN'T true. 10,000 baby boomers retired every day Trump has been in office. That equals approximately 300,000 per month jobs left open. It automatically sets up a condition for employers to raise wages to compete for the worker shortage. It lowers the unemployment rate. New job industries will be created and others enhanced to cater to this aging population. During the Obama administration baby boomers for the most part had to forego retirement because the Republiconservatives that controlled our government crashed the economy. It crashed in 2008 after cutting taxes on the wealthy and putting two wars they created on the credit card. It was the worst depression since the last Great Republican Caused Depression in the 1930s.
BABY BOOMER RETIREES WILL HELP CREATE 55 MILLION JOBS BY 2020
www.georgetown.edu/news/study-finds-retirees-will-create-more-jobs-2020.html
June 28, 2013 – A Georgetown report released this week predicts that 31 million jobs will open up as baby boomers retire, and another 24 million new jobs will be available by 2020, barring any unforeseen economic or political surprises.
www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2010/12/29/baby-boomers-retire/
www.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/12/20/baby-boomers-approach-65-glumly/
www.georgetown.edu/news/study-finds-retirees-will-create-more-jobs-2020.html
June 28, 2013 – A Georgetown report released this week predicts that 31 million jobs will open up as baby boomers retire, and another 24 million new jobs will be available by 2020, barring any unforeseen economic or political surprises.
www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2010/12/29/baby-boomers-retire/
www.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/12/20/baby-boomers-approach-65-glumly/
Both Bush and Trump claim no one could have predicted these surprises. 9/11 in Bush-Cheney's case and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Trump-Pence. Both parties ignored the warnings given to them. These were NOT surprises. History tells us this is the Republican/Conservative way. Never let an ignored crisis go to waste. Their 1% overclass increased their fortunes exponentially during both of these crises. And the American people are left to pay for it in many cases with their livelihoods, their retirement savings or their lives.
The Pandemic Has Benefited One Group Of People: Billionaires
www.yahoo.com/news/pandemic-benefited-one-group-people-204834926.html
www.yahoo.com/news/pandemic-benefited-one-group-people-204834926.html