Memorial day weekend we find out two horrible things.
One, more Americans died from coronavirus than the Korean War and the Vietnam war put together and
two, the country will have passed 100,000 dead.
Three things:
Still not blaming China, the source of the virus, I see -- exactly as ordered.
China didn’t let 40,000 people into the United States from China AFTER imposing the ban, with no testing or quarantine.
China didn’t allow 50
direct flights from Wuhan to the United States AFTER Trump was briefed that this was a really bad virus.
You REALLY suck at this. But, then again, you always have.
China let the virus loose. China told the World Health Organization it was no big deal. China silenced people who tried to get the truth out.
You just keep blaming the Orange Man, exactly as you're programmed. Communist China appreciates your passionate ass-kissing.
Did Trump tell you that? Why do you believe him when he's lied or been wrong about everything else?
China didn't "let the virus loose". Like the rest of the world, they didn't know what they were dealing with and by the time they found out it what it really was, it was too late.
Obama had scientists at the Wuhan lab, because he didn't entirely trust the Chinese not to cover something up, and to give the US priority in case another virus came out of that region, like SARS and MERS. Trump pulled them out as a waste of money. Had Trump left these people there, there would have had advance warning, but Trump would have ignored that too.
The rest of the world got warnings in late November and December from China. Most of the rest of the world, started preparing according to their pandemic plans. Dumb Donald threw out the pandemic plan and closed the White House pandemic office. While the rest of the world bought PPE's, and started mass producing WHO test kids, Dumb Donald did nothing, and turned down the WHO tests.
When the rest of the world started testing everyone coming in from China, Donald Trump closed the border to people from China, but then told 40,000 American citizens to come home and
failed to test ANY of them for covid19 when they returned. This single act would have guaranteed that the virus was let loose in the USA, and the Chinese had nothing to do with it. This one is all on Trump.
Trump didn't close the border to people coming from Europe until more than a month later. In the meantime, Americans went on spring break trips to Europe, and Florida, bringing the virus home with them. After landing and going through customes in New York, Atlanta, Boston, and Washington, they fanned out across America taking the virus with them.
Every decision Donald Trump made from the time the virus left China right up to his "decision" to force churches to re-open, has been the wrong one and cost lives.
If he had decided to shut down the nation, one week earlier, he would have saved 30,000 lives. Two weeks earlier would have save 60,000 of the nearly 100,000 people who have died so far, and slowed the transmission of disease.
If he had taken the WHO test and started manufacturing, he would have had testing available from day one. And here is the result: You can buy a home test in the USA for $115. In Germany, they're $18 each. There was more profit for American businesses in exclusive rights on the test. Trump didn't have exclusive rights to the WHO test. Trump screwed the testing so his buddies in Big Pharma could profit. Screw the people.
Trump said that the WHO knew what was going on in China and covered it up. But the USA has several scientists working at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. Why didn't they warn Trump about the coverup?
And then there's this:
Take a look at the top five nations for illness and infection in the world:
Live statistics and coronavirus news tracking the number of confirmed cases, recovered patients, tests, and death toll due to the COVID-19 coronavirus from Wuhan, China. Coronavirus counter with new cases, deaths, and number of tests per 1 Million population. Historical data and info. Daily...
www.worldometers.info
| # | Country,
Other | Total
Cases | New
Cases | Total
Deaths | New
Deaths | Total
Recovered | Active
Cases | Serious,
Critical | Tot Cases/
1M pop | Deaths/
1M pop | Total
Tests | Tests/
1M pop | Population |
|---|
| World | 5,372,763 | +74,556 | 342,634 | +3,209 | 2,225,428 | 2,804,701 | 53,491 | 689 | 44.0 | | | |
| 1 | USA | 1,656,694 | +11,600 | 98,254 | +607 | 438,562 | 1,119,878 | 17,109 | 5,008 | 297 | 14,191,937 | 42,902 | 330,795,837 |
| 2 | Brazil | 340,887 | +9,997 | 21,678 | +630 | 135,430 | 183,779 | 8,318 | 1,605 | 102 | 735,224 | 3,462 | 212,397,420 |
| 3 | Russia | 335,882 | +9,434 | 3,388 | +139 | 107,936 | 224,558 | 2,300 | 2,302 | 23 | 8,402,747 | 57,581 | 145,927,974 |
| 4 | Spain | 282,370 | +466 | 28,678 | +50 | 196,958 | 56,734 | 1,152 | 6,040 | 613 | 3,037,840 | 64,977 | 46,752,901 |
| 5 | UK | 257,154 | +2,959 | 36,675 | +282 | N/A | N/A | 1,559 | 3,790 | 541 | 3,348,507 | 49,353 | 67,848,130 |
| 6 | Italy | 229,327 | +669 | 32,735 | +119 | 138,840 | 57,752 | 572 | 3,792 | 541 | 3,391,188 | 56,080 | 60,470,956 |
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Of the six worst hit countries in the world, five have right-wing, authoritarian type strong men as leaders, - all of whom downplayed the virus, and acted like it really wasn't a danger to the nation.
Leaders included Donald Trump, and leaders often referred to "The British Trump", "The Italian Trump", "The Brazilian Trump", and Vladimir Putin. That's not an accident that nations with autocratic leaders have a problem. Trump fires those who disagree with him or criticize him. Putin kills them. And Trump rejects advice he doesn't like.
So all of these men rejected the advice of the doctors, public health people, and those who want to keep their jobs, or their lives, they say nothing or they try to curry favour because they're the only chance the country has of getting through this.
Trump has already killed hundreds of Americans pushing his maleria treatment which has now been proven to be dangerous and deadly in this pandemic.
It's not "orange man bad", it's orange man criminally corrupt, inept and dangerous. 98,500 Americans dead. The economy cratered. This isn't happening anywhere else in the world. Not like this.