The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

[SectionC3]

6 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

Yes, initially China had us fooled. Maybe if we had more spies on the ground there we could have confirmed what was going on a little sooner. Shall we talk about what actions depleted our in country espionage in China?

And this is the point.  Even if China had “us” fooled, the Woodward tapes reflect that Trump knew of the dangers of the virus in February and March of this year, and that Trump knowingly downplayed those dangers.  So at that point, Trump fooled us, and perhaps himself.  And that is where the blame lies here. 

Edited September 10, 2020 by SectionC3

[WEATHER DOT COM]

 

[3rdnlng]

23 minutes ago, GaryPinC said:

I'm not a leadership expert, but if you accept that Trump knew the virus was going to be bad in late February what could he have done differently?  Plenty.

 

Absolutely he did great cutting flights from China and Europe.  Plenty of stupid people criticized him at the time and now those same people are crying he should have done it earlier.  Whatever, he deserves full marks for stepping up here.

 

What could he have done differently?  One easy catch-all answer:  SET A BETTER TONE FROM THE TOP.

 

Try to avoid panic?  Yep, good job and understandable.

Get the nation at large to take the pandemic seriously?  Total fail.

 

Wear a mask.  There's unrefutable reasons surgeons wear masks.  Those apply here.  Most importantly, masks protect others and instead of us pulling together as a society for something so simple, it got politicized and pulled us apart.

What role did Trump play in this?  Yuuuge.

 

Get the message out alongside democrats that this virus is real and to set politics aside, be a good American and pull together for each other despite personal opinions.

 

Force businesses to implement distancing measures before the shutdown, especially senior care facilities.  Very few were willing to do it unless forced.  Instead, we had to shut them all down.

 

Getting the economy going?  No one discusses this much, but even with businesses open, there's a large percent of the population that won't take a chance going to them because of all the people that don't take Covid seriously.  

 

This post's long enough, there's much more but Trump's tactic of being optimistic while refusing to advocate a cautious, nonpolitical tone has made this entire bad situation worse, medically, socially, and economically.

Trump made things so political while the poor innocent loyal opposition was just trying to get through their Unity Impeachment Trial? What a crockofshit. The dems have been fighting Trump tooth and nail for the last 4 years. They've used every dirty trick and lie possible to bring him down and now the deeply partisan tone is all his fault? "There are none so blind as those who refuse to see". 

[DFT]

5 minutes ago, shoshin said:

 

I give him and many others a lot of leeway because this was new, and have said so, but Trump is on record in Feb and March saying it was 5x more deadly than the flu and air transmissible ... and in the meantime not taking active steps to get the country prepared for a pandemic ... and also holding multiple giant rallies. 

 

So there's that. 

 

If he got everyone worked up and nothing happened, he'd deserve some blame. 

 

What he did was minimal early on and lots happened. He deserves some blame. 

 

That's the burden of being the big man. When you make the wrong decision, you're accountable for it. 

Agree to disagree. I think he acted appropriately. I think many of the governors and local politicians are the ones who did not.  But I appreciate your points!  🍻

[Buffalo_Gal]

Hindsight is very clear, is it not?

I know people want to dunk on Trump and Cuomo, but in February, March, and April little was known about the Wuhan virus.

I still think intelligence reports reported some sort of bio-weapon coming out of Wuhan, and that is why flights from China were stopped. I wonder if the the intelligence reports thought that would contain whatever they suspected it was? 

You want to dunk on people? How about Cuomo not fully opening NYS? How about his  threatening WNY shutdowns again? How about his killing NYC businesses like restaurants because people can riot without a mask (and not be arrested), but cannot walk through a restaurant without a mask (and will be arrested).  How about the news not reporting hospitalizations or deaths these days, instead they report "new cases" (which means poopie is they are asymptomatic or people are over it in a few days) and "new cases" by percentages to scare the masses?

 

[WEATHER DOT COM]

2 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

I know people want to dunk on Trump and Cuomo

 

hmm

 

2 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

You want to dunk on people? How about Cuomo

 

[DFT]

Just now, wAcKy ZeBrA said:

 

hmm

 

 

“Go Bills - this board has lost it's luster. 

 

I'll be back when Biden wins. Until then, sayonara all.”
 

- Casey Anthony 

[3rdnlng]

8 minutes ago, SectionC3 said:

And this is the point.  Even if China had “us” fooled, the Woodward tapes reflect that Trump knew of the dangers of the virus in February and March of this year, and that Trump knowingly downplayed those dangers.  So at that point, Trump fooled us, and perhaps himself.  And that is where the blame lies here. 

The Woodward tapes showed nothing more than what was said publicly at the time. This is just another manufactured crises created by the Left to try to denigrate Trump. If you are truly an attorney I would consider you an educated person. It's a shame when "educated" crosses paths with "dumb as a rock" and the rock wins. Your TDS is what determines your thinking. It is the driving force of all of your opinions. If I had to compare you with someone it would be Harry Reid. Think on that. 

 

 

[WEATHER DOT COM]

2 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

Your TDS is what determines your thinking. 

 

Rule #2

 

[BillsFanNC]

Using a global pandemic for political gain is wrong no matter what. Either side. Period. 

 

Nobody knew in Feb/March and still nobody knows how this all shakes out. The entire world is a petri dish and we are in mid experiment collecting data in real time. Making conclusions mid experiment before all the data has been collected and analyzed is anti-science. Doing it to score political points, on either side, is dead wrong and if you buy into any of it then you're allowing yourself to be manipulated. 

 

[3rdnlng]

3 minutes ago, wAcKy ZeBrA said:

 

Rule #2

Your response is nothing more than a surrender, acknowledging that you have nothing to really say. How does it feel to be a minion of an MT Chair?

[SectionC3]

12 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

The Woodward tapes showed nothing more than what was said publicly at the time. This is just another manufactured crises created by the Left to try to denigrate Trump. If you are truly an attorney I would consider you an educated person. It's a shame when "educated" crosses paths with "dumb as a rock" and the rock wins. Your TDS is what determines your thinking. It is the driving force of all of your opinions. If I had to compare you with someone it would be Harry Reid. Think on that. 

 

 

Rule #2, sir.  

[The Trump Virus]

35 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

The Woodward tapes showed nothing more than what was said publicly at the time. This is just another manufactured crises created by the Left to try to denigrate Trump. If you are truly an attorney I would consider you an educated person. It's a shame when "educated" crosses paths with "dumb as a rock" and the rock wins. Your TDS is what determines your thinking. It is the driving force of all of your opinions. If I had to compare you with someone it would be Harry Reid. Think on that. 

 

 

Wow! Not even remotely close to reality. Are you on drugs?  

[3rdnlng]

17 minutes ago, SectionC3 said:

Rule #2, sir.  

You've graduated to "Childish Clown". What a waste of a supposed education. You've allowed yourself to become a narrow thinker, incapable of independent thought. 

[SectionC3]

19 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

You've graduated to "Childish Clown". What a waste of a supposed education. You've allowed yourself to become a narrow thinker, incapable of independent thought. 

 

So you can’t satisfy Rule #2? 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

[The Trump Virus]

5 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

Yes, it's on him to protect America, not the president. 🤪

[B-Man]

1 minute ago, The Trump Virus said:

Yes, it's on him to protect America, not the president. 🤪

 

 

"Hall of Fame" misrepresentation of the post............Congrats.

 

 

"The fact Bob Woodward has written another book about the current occupant of the White House should be greeted with roughly the level of enthusiasm reserved for..."

 

"... such annual or semi-annual non-events as the Biennial Conference of the American Hippotherapy Association or the Pro Bowl. I would be tempted to suggest that the latest affectless, indifferently written Woodward volume is a matter of at most seasonal interest, like the early September appearance of Halloween candy in supermarkets, except that unlike the former, Rage is unlikely to bring pleasure to any living American.... Why do presidents talk to Woodward? Is it some kind of tradition, cloying but innocuous like the White House Turkey Pardon? His modus operandi is by now fairly well established: Speak to him because if you do not he will publish hundreds of pages of decontextualized gossip from disgruntled agenda-driven current or ex-employees. He will in fact probably do so regardless of what you say to him and when, but why spoil the fun? What Woodward does is not journalism. It is, as Joan Didion memorably put it, 'political pornography.'"

From "There's nothing shocking about Bob Woodward's new book" by Matthew Walther (The Week).

 

Posted by Ann Althouse 

[shoshin]

2 minutes ago, The Trump Virus said:

Yes, it's on him to protect America, not the president. 🤪

 

Trying to make this story about Bob Woodward and Lindsay Graham is not working. 

[Deranged Rhino]

4 minutes ago, shoshin said:

 

Trying to make this story about Bob Woodward and Lindsay Graham is not working. 

 

This story will change zero people's minds -- because it's a nothing story dressed up as if it were a bombshell. 

 

It's not.