The Donald Trump Score Card

Brother I am telling you. This is a mental health situation. That man is sick.

 

Trump is lashing out at Fox and WSJ. His preferred media outlets are dwindling down to One America News.

 

Trump will be disappointed that projections are showing that the virus may significantly disrupt society for 12-18 months. He's hoping to reopen the U.S. in May and have it back to normal for the 2020 election.



Coronavirus disrupt life as we know it? Expect at least a year, experts say
A new paper by leading experts on the coronavirus pandemic reports that today's interventions will likely be in place off and on for 12-18 months.
Phil Boas, Arizona Republic
Published 7:07 a.m. MT Feb. 12, 2020
Updated 6:48 a.m. MT March 17, 2020

How long will coronavirus disrupt life as we know it? Expect at least a year, experts say

excerpt:

"Mitigation works to slow, not stop, the spread of disease, by encouraging home isolation of those believed infected, home quarantine for those living in the same home with them and social distancing of the elderly and other at-risk populations.

Suppression requires social distancing of the entire population, home isolation of infected patients and quarantine of their family members. It can require closing schools and universities.

“Each policy has major challenges,” write the authors.

According to their U.K. and U.S. modeling, mitigation would reduce health care demand by two-thirds and deaths by half. It would still result in “hundreds of thousands of deaths” and would still overwhelm the intensive care units in our hospitals “many times over.”

Suppression would require strict adherence until a vaccine is developed and scaled up for the larger public. That could take “potentially 18 months or more.” If relaxed before that time, “transmission will quickly rebound.”

“We conclude that the effectiveness of any one intervention in isolation is likely to be limited, requiring multiple interventions to be combined to have a substantial impact on transmission.”

If social distancing is effective, it “may allow interventions to be relaxed temporarily in relative short time windows, but measures will need to be reintroduced if or when case numbers rebound,” the authors write.

“… while experience in China and now South Korea show that suppression is possible in the short term, it remains to be seen whether it is possible long-term, and whether the social and economic costs of the interventions adopted thus far can be reduced.”

 

How long will coronavirus disrupt life as we know it? Expect at least a year, experts say

excerpt:

"On Sunday, The (U.K.) Guardian newspaper reported that secret briefing papers delivered to National Health Service officials project the epidemic will infect 80% percent of all Britons and last until the spring of 2021.

“The document, seen by the Guardian, is the first time health chiefs tackling the virus have admitted that they expect it to circulate for 12 more months and lead to huge extra strain on an already overstretched NHS.

It also suggests that health chiefs are braced for widespread infection. Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia, told The Guardian:

“For the public to hear that it could last for 12 months, people are going to be really upset about that and pretty worried about that. … A year is entirely plausible. But that figure isn’t well appreciated or understood.

“I think it will dip in the summer, towards the end of June, and come back in November, in the way that usual seasonal flu does. I think it will be around forever, but become less severe over time, as immunity builds up.”"

 

Trump in recent days appears to be acknowledging that the governors determine when stay-at-home directives will be ended. Trump can end the federal guidelines but that doesn't rescind directives of the governors, the governors he has repeatedly insulted.

Even when governors rescind their stay-at-home orders, it doesn't mean people are going to flock to restaurants and the economy will be quickly back to normal.

Trump could try another one of his edicts like he issued to all U.S. businesses to stop doing business with China. "I hereby order all governors to rescind their stay-at-home directives and I order all consumers to return to their pre-virus spending habits."

 

Trump is a fool

 

I see that O' Reilly fella is trying to support Trump a hand again. He just made a public statement to claim that people who died of Coronavirus were just on their last legs anyways. His foolish followers should be jumping with delight about now.

 

Where is the Donald's mask?

 

Most New York Coronavirus Cases Came From Europe, Genomes Show
Travelers seeded multiple cases starting as early as mid-February, genomes show.
By Carl Zimmer
April 8, 2020

Most New York Coronavirus Cases Came From Europe, Genomes Show

excerpt:

"In January, as the scope of the catastrophe in China became clear, a few countries started an aggressive testing program. They were able to track the arrival of the virus on their territory and track its spread through their populations.

But the United States fumbled in making its first diagnostic kits and initially limited testing only to people who had come from China and displayed symptoms of COVID-19.

“It was a disaster that we didn’t do testing,” Heguy said.

A few cases came to light starting at the end of January. But it was easy to dismiss them as rare imports that did not lead to local outbreaks.

The illusion was dashed at the end of February by Trevor Bedford, an associate professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, and his colleagues.

Using Nextstrain, they showed that a virus identified in a patient in late February had a mutation shared by one identified in Washington state on Jan. 20.

The Washington viruses also shared other mutations in common with ones isolated in Wuhan, suggesting that a traveler had brought the coronavirus from China.

With that discovery, Bedford and his colleagues took the lead in sequencing coronavirus genomes. Sequencing more genomes around Washington gave them a better view of how the outbreak there got started."

 

Flu pandemics recur reliably but unpredictably every decade or so, and their extent and intensity varies. With COVID19, we may be in midst of a once-every-50-years event, perhaps similar to 1957 pandemic, but not as bad as the 1918 pandemic. Let’s talk about the 1957 pandemic.
Nicholas A. Christakis
Mar 14th 2020

Thread by @NAChristakis: Flu pandemics recur reliably but unpredictably every decade or so, and their extent and intensity varies. With COVID19, we may be in midst o…

 

As expected.


Barr backs Trump on firing of intel IG, calls Russia investigation baseless
By MATTHEW CHOI
04/10/2020 12:49 AM EDT

Barr backs Trump on firing of intel IG, calls Russia investigation baseless

 

Trump Keeps Talking. Some Republicans Don’t Like What They’re Hearing.
Aides and allies increasingly believe the president’s daily briefings are hurting him more than helping, and are urging him to let his medical experts take center stage.
By Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman
April 9, 2020

Trump Keeps Talking. Some Republicans Don’t Like What They’re Hearing.

excerpt:

"WASHINGTON — In his daily briefings on the coronavirus, President Trump has brandished all the familiar tools in his rhetorical arsenal: belittling Democratic governors, demonizing the media, trading in innuendo and bulldozing over the guidance of experts.

It’s the kind of performance the president relishes, but one that has his advisers and Republican allies worried.

As unemployment soars and the death toll skyrockets, and new polls show support for the president’s handling of the crisis sagging, White House allies and Republican lawmakers increasingly believe the briefings are hurting the president more than helping him. Many view the sessions as a kind of original sin from which all of his missteps flow, once he gets through his prepared script and turns to his preferred style of extemporaneous bluster and invective."

 

Trump Keeps Talking. Some Republicans Don’t Like What They’re Hearing.

excerpt:

"At Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign, staff members have closely monitored internal polling data showing an erosion of the gains Mr. Trump made immediately after he put social distancing guidelines in place. Advisers are torn between knowing that a less abrasive approach would help Mr. Trump and their awareness that he can’t tolerate criticism, regardless of the setting.

Mr. Trump’s limited gains in the polls are all the more striking when compared with those made by governors in both parties; many are enjoying double-digit gains in their approval ratings. And Mr. Trump’s penchant for ad hominem attacks, Republicans say, illustrates why he has little room for growth among the electorate.

“He can’t escape his instincts, his desire to put people down, like Mitt Romney, or to talk about his ratings,” said former Representative Carlos Curbelo, a Florida Republican. “That’s why he’s not getting the George W. Bush post-9/11 treatment. A leader in this sort of crisis should have a 75-to-80-percent approval rating.”

 

On FOX radio they said Barr is starting a criminal investigation into the origin of the Russia probe. Some none Republicans are going to be arrested just to please Trump.

 

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Russia gate was a total fabrication

 

Can they arrest Biden as well?

Just to check his pulse, they can release him after he tests positive for a pulse

....maybe a dementia test as well

 

can't wait till the debate , I know Trump will bring up Burisma , and Hunter and China and maybe Hunter's stripper baby . it will be a fun time for all , except the left .

 

Here in my hometown we have a new outbreak of Coronavirus in a nursing home for the old folks. This has obviously been caused by people who listen to Trump and refuse to take the appropriate precaution. Trump has been pushing for people to go back to work and he has been pretending that no additional testing be required. It is a demonstration of a fool in a position of leadership. We need a new president to care about the health and safety of the American people, not just the health of the pocketbooks owned by his rich friends. When we elect a new president taxes should be increased on the ultra rich.

 

In Greeley Colorado a nursing home has 14 customers who have just died all at once and tested positive post mortem. Does anyone know what Trump and Barr think of this? Didn't they raise hell over four dead people in Ban Ghazi?