Tony_Tarantula on 2/3/2020 at 19:24
It is Monday morning, how can Trump start the week out. Ah, lets send a shout out to a guy who has potentially worked with Antifa to dox my supporters and threatened my supporters that they would "regret asking such questions".
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https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1234501885668855808?s=20)
Starker on 2/3/2020 at 19:28
Your fact check site has mightly dropped the ball there, as they make no mention how Lord Dampnut destroyed the epidemic response infrastructure Obama put in place, how he has put out extremely misleading, if not outright false information about the virus, and the general incompetence of his administration's handling of the situation -- Koreans have managed to test tens of thousands of people every day where the US has tested a few hundred in total. Calling his critics hoaxers in this situation is extremely irresponsible to say the least.
When Obama's administration was dealing with Ebola, Lord Dampnut was not shy of spewing invective, calling Obama a psycho and saying he would have the responsibility to go hug every American who caught it. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, he can't stop whining about how unfair everything is and how everyone is out to get him. He whined when American health workers who contracted Ebola (which is not nearly as contagious) were brought to the US for treatment, but when 14 Americans fell ill with the highly contagious coronavirus, his administration brought them to the US over the objections of the CDC, sent staff to handle them without proper instruction or protection, and then sent these health workers all over the US, even though they had had face-to-face contact with people who were confirmed to have the virus:
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/28/whistleblower-coronavirus-us-untrained-unprotected)
The US health department sent workers to assist Americans evacuated from China because of the coronavirus outbreak without proper training or appropriate protective gear, according to a whistleblower complaint filed by a senior department official who said she faced retaliation.
The workers were “improperly deployed” to two military bases in California where Americans who had been in the center of the outbreak, Wuhan in China, were being processed, according to a complaint first reported by the Washington Post.
The whistleblower's attorney, Ari Wilkenfeld, confirmed the Washington Post accurately described allegations made in a complaint filed to the US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) and said his law firm was hopeful the case would be investigated in a “timely and comprehensive manner”.
“This matter concerns HHS's response to the coronavirus, and its failure to protect its employees and potentially the public,” Wilkenfeld said in an email to the Guardian. “The retaliatory efforts to intimidate and silence our client must be opposed.”
The staff in question were from the health department's Administration for Children and Families, or ACF, and were not medical workers. They were “not properly trained or equipped to operate in a public health emergency situation” according to the complaint, which said they had face-to-face contact with evacuees on multiple occasions.
After potentially being exposed to the coronavirus, the workers moved freely off the air force bases and at least one left California on a commercial flight. About 14 personnel were sent to March air force base in Riverside county, California, and about 13 personnel were sent to Travis air force base in Solano county in late January and early February.
Solano county is the first location in the US to see coronavirus confirmed in a person who had not traveled to an area where the illness was spreading and who had no known contact with someone diagnosed with the illness.
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Just the handling of this one situation alone is so freakishly incompetent, it's as if Lord Dampnut's administration was
trying to spread the virus.
Renzatic on 2/3/2020 at 20:34
I love how all these hardcore Trump fans are taking the Coronavirus as some personal affront against the Trump administration. The coverage for this has been just as breathless and hyperbole ridden as it has been for Ebola, West Nile, SARS, or whatever else have you. Hell, even Trump got in on that action previously, calling out the Obama administration for all the fuckups they made during the Ebola outbreak.
...yet now that Trump's in the big seat, it's all a conspiracy by the media and their Democrat handlers.
lowenz on 2/3/2020 at 20:47
Well, SARS2 is infectious like hell......it's not a hyperbole.
1->3 / 1->4 as R0 with someone with symptoms.....if not (subclinic state / asymptomatic), maybe much much more!
Renzatic on 2/3/2020 at 21:45
Coronavirus has a higher death rate per infection than the flu, and is twice as virulent. The only reason why it hasn't spread about the world is because we're spending billions of dollars and enacting multiple quarantines across the world.
The rest of that Tony Tarantula level fuckwittery that I won't even bother replying to.
lowenz on 2/3/2020 at 22:39
*MOVED*
heywood on 2/3/2020 at 22:50
Wow, Amy Klobuchar just dropped out, on the afternoon before Super Tuesday. Her home state was to vote tomorrow!
That's three different Democratic candidates, pulling out of the race within a day or so of Super Tuesday. First Steyer, then Buttigieg, and now Klobuchar. They already put in the campaign effort and spent the money to compete tomorrow, so why not stay in one more day and see what happens?
Now that Biden got a win, it looks like the DNC is really twisting some arms to get rid of his competition, I presume, to avoid the negative optics if Sanders wins a plurality but doesn't get the nomination. But if Biden falters, which I think he will, that leaves them with Bloomberg. Ugh.