This Incompetent Administration's Response to Coronavirus

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Coronavirus threat rises across U.S.: ‘We just have to assume the monster is everywhere’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...2ab_story.html

The coronavirus is spreading at dangerous levels across much of the United States, and public health experts are demanding a dramatic reset in the national response, one that recognizes that the crisis is intensifying and that current piecemeal strategies aren’t working.

This is a new phase of the pandemic, one no longer built around local or regional clusters and hot spots. It comes at an unnerving moment in which the economy suffered its worst collapse since the Great Depression, schools are rapidly canceling plans for in-person instruction and Congress has failed to pass a new emergency relief package. President* Trump continues to promote fringe science, the daily death toll keeps climbing and the human cost of the virus in America has just passed 150,000 lives.

“Unlike many countries in the world, the United States is not currently on course to get control of this epidemic. It’s time to reset,” declared a report released last week by Johns Hopkins University.

...while our idiot resident ignorant Trumpkins are just fine with the worthless piecemeal strategies...

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"On food stamps, for example, Republicans added $20 billion for agribusinesses but nothing for greater food stamp benefits in their $1-trillion proposal unveiled on Monday. Meadows played a role in killing an increase in food aid during talks on the $2-trillion relief bill in March.

“Traditionally we’ve had a partnership between farms and families, and they’ve consistently broken that,” said Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee." LA Times

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...obless-benefit

Despicable Trumpublicans dole out corporate welfare to the tune of $20 billion for big agri-businesses but not a sou for struggling families and seniors.

November can't come soon enough. Toss these GOP grifters out on their ears.

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https://www.latimes.com/science/stor...d-19-survivors

'How scientists revived an old-school treatment for a 21st century pandemic'

"A few weeks after the new coronavirus arrived on U.S. shores, Dr. Arturo Casadevall hatched a plan to beat back the outbreak with a medical advance so powerful it had earned a Nobel Prize.

In 1901.

That’s when Dr. Emil Adolf von Behring was honored for pioneering the use of so-called convalescent serum as a treatment for diphtheria. In 1892, the Prussian bacteriologist infected horses with the pathogen that causes the deadly disease. If the beasts recovered, Von Behring harvested their blood, removed its red blood cells and clotting proteins, and introduced the resulting antibody-rich fluid into the bloodstreams of human diphtheria patients." LA Times

Wow!

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Thanks, Donny! MAGA!

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U.S. Small Business Bailout Money Flowed to Chinese-Owned Companies
Millions of dollars of Paycheck Protection Program loans went to China-backed businesses in critical sectors, a study found.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/u...ess-loans.html

SMH. Still, it’s likely far more went to Donny’s family and friends. Your tax dollars at work...

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Criminals shouldn't be let out of prison in the first place.

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Originally Posted by Waggs098

Criminals shouldn't be let out of prison in the first place.

The United States has less than five percent of the world’s population, but about 25 percent of the prisoners. That adds up to 2.2 million people behind bars in this country, including more than 11 million people who move through our local jails each year, all at a cost of $80 billion every year. Meanwhile 70 million people – about one-third of working age Americans – have some type of criminal record.

Do you REALLY think all these US citizens should be locked up? Why do you think Donny isn't behind bars yet? He's clearly a criminal. How about that traitor Michael Flynn? Why isn't he locked up?

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Waggs098

Criminals shouldn't be let out of prison in the first place.

Exactly! Rod Blagojevich, Michael Milken, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, and Clint Lorance to name a few who should still be doing time.

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NOT!

Now Donny boy has his attention on another Covid-19 "cure"
Oleandrin will save us all.

Evidently, the idea has been touted by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who believes all sorts of weird things, and Trump backer Mike Lindell, who owns a pillow company and who "recently took a financial stake" in a company that develops the experimental botanical extract.