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January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”

February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”

February 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”

February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”

February 26: “We're going very substantially down, not up.”

February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”

February 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”

March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”

March 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”

March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”

March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”

March 5: “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”

March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”

March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”

March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”

March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”

March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”

March 9: “This blindsided the world.””

china knew in December but didn't do anything for at least a month while it spread in a city of 10 million.

 Now we are supposed to believe they have it contained.  

 

China isn't saying it's contained they had 22 new cases yesterday.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

That said once they got past the initial fuck up they have done everything right. I work with people in China. They can only leave their apartment to go grocery shopping and are checked for fever when they leave building and are checked again when they get to the grocery store and are checked again when they get back to their building. Shopping is self check out with QR code. 

Meanwhile people are flying back from Italty today and there is no check of any kind at US airports. 

Please disperse...

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No just this week Xi toured wuhan declared victory over it.

 


meanwhile...

 

the orange fucktard refuses to get tested after being exposed multiple times.

appears he's afraid to give up his bunk ass dna, 

due to pending rape cases where a judge has ordered him to.

 

 

More likely he's being tested every four hours and lying about it.

“Trump is such a habitual liar that he is incapable of being honest, even when being honest would serve his interests.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-pre...

The Australian minister for home affairs, Peter Dutton, tested positive last Friday, days after meeting with Attorney General William P. Barr and Ivanka Trump. Barr is staying home today, but the C.D.C. is recommending that he not be tested at this point. Barr says he feels great.

He's the AG of the United States, he's 69 years old, he met with someone who tested positive, and it's recommended he NOT be tested?

Can anyone make ANY sense of this?

 

Thom?

< Trump is such a habitual ,, 

Hairball

Trump to announce a "state of emergency" at 3:00 pm EST.   Wonder what all that will entail?

Please nooooo, the markets are all in the green today

"Wonder what all that will entail?"

It will entail opening up the floodgates of federal funds for the states.

Trump is declaring this emergency after 41 deaths (26 in one nursing home) and howls of how incompetent he is.

Obama didn't declare a national emergency in 2009 for H1N1 until over 1,000 people had died, including 100 children, and he was praised for his decisive actions.

Wonder what the difference is?

So those 26 in the nursing home don't count? Kind of like when Republican's say that x candidate would have won except for the black vote

The American Hospital Association says the total number of Intensive Care Unit beds is about 65,000. Waldhorn says hospitals can make more ICU beds available in a crisis, perhaps doubling the capacity, but there's still a chance it won't be enough.    He says government planning assumptions based on past flu pandemics suggest a surge in demand for intensive care that could range somewhere between 200,000 thousand and 2.9 million patients.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/06/812967454/u-s-hospitals-prepare-for-a-cov...

The blame rests with president xi.

Our hospital says they are bringing in trailers and possibly tents to use for triage. Getting closer.

Should states be allowed to use Medicaid to respond more flexibly to the coronavirus pandemic? Of course they should. But they can’t:

Despite mounting pleas from California and other states, the Trump administration isn’t allowing states to use Medicaid more freely to respond to the coronavirus crisis by expanding medical services. In previous emergencies, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the H1N1 flu outbreak, both Republican and Democratic administrations loosened Medicaid rules to empower states to meet surging needs.

….One reason federal health officials have not acted appears to be President Trump’s reluctance to declare a national emergency. That’s a key step that would clear the way for states to get Medicaid waivers to more nimbly tackle coronavirus, but it would conflict with Trump’s repeated efforts to downplay the seriousness of the epidemic.

Trump has been dithering over this for at least the past few days. This is from Wednesday:

The administration is “not comfortable with the optics of national emergency” because of how it might impact Wall Street, tourism and air travel, a former Department of Homeland Security official said. “That’s a big deal to Wall Street, a big deal worldwide,” the former official said. “It would instill fear in the general public.”

At this point, I doubt that an emergency declaration would spook either Wall Street or the rest of the world. We already know coronavirus is a big deal. Donald Trump is the only one who’s trying to pretend otherwise.

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/03/medicaid-funds-still-not-...

Are your folks there postponing cross burning during the national emergency thom? 
 

I can't remember if they did that during swine flu or not.

Hi thom

hope you folks ......figure this thing out ......   :-)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvp3WE1ve4A

The Republicans can't stop fucking lying. Pence just said two minutes ago that everyone coming into the country is being tested. 

Ms. McDow said she heard plenty of instructions from airport officials for those feeling ill in airports abroad. But when she reached the United States, she said, “There was none of that.” A customs officer stamped her passport, and she was on her way.

“No one asked where I had traveled. I guess they just assumed we all were just coming from London and so no big deal,” Ms. McDow wrote in an email because she was too sick to speak on the phone and has yet to be tested for the coronavirus. “I could have been coughing and feverish, and it seemed no one would have batted an eye.

Supposed to take your temp with forehead thermometer and triage at international airports in US.

 

From #notmypresident's press conference happening now, it looks like all the funds will go to the private sector... how many CEOs did he invite to speak? Walmart, CVS... not a surprise.

Other better prepared countries don't do this!

That was a fucking campaign speech. Garbage.

Trump Quote of the day:

"I don't take responsibility at all"
 

trump sounded ill to me

"Conclusion. CDC estimates that influenza was associated with more than 35.5 million illnesses, more than 16.5 million medical visits, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths during the 2018–2019 influenza season."

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html

 

2019-2020 U.S. Flu Season: Preliminary Burden Estimates

(It looks like we're already at the same number of flu deaths as last year and those were tracked until 05/30)

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

^>>>>(It looks like we're already at the same number of flu deaths as last year and those were tracked until 05/30)

 

My mistake: That's the number of hospitalizations so far vs. last year.  Oops.

All public schools closed.  Hard to get in the door at the local grocery stores. Police direction g traffic at the gas station close to the house.

 

Getting a little crazy.

It was a slam dunk

Trump wins again

>>>Trump wins again

Well, stocks shot up 2,000 points right after the speech.  Don't worry Walmart, CVS, and the pharmaceutical industry, we will all pull through this together.​  

“No, I don’t take responsibility at all."

 

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-pulling-million...

 

lets not forget this blast from the past,

 

I said a ohhhh oh ohhhhh domino,

Well, GODDAMN NO WONDER STOCKS WENT UP, Kroger circle k,  Walgreens,,,,,,, 

 

packed 

>>>It was a slam dunk

Trump wins again

 

fucking retard


>>> Well, stocks shot up 2,000 points right after the speech.  Don't worry Walmart, CVS, and the pharmaceutical industry, we will all pull through this together.​  <<<

 

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Shocking! 

Shocking! 

 

     ...if only Joe Biden were in the White House 

 

     Joe Biden Virtual Town Hall 

     March 13th, 2020

     https://youtu.be/TH4P0hTFSGM




Trump/Pence covid 19 press conference going on right now, 

3 out of 4 people standing behind them.

were the ones that caused the hiv outbreak in Indiana,

when pence was governor.

 

go fuckin' figure.

 

You forgot about Junior being in the Immoral Office for the Dot-Com crash.

Is Pence still standing by his assertion that cigarette smoking may not be linked to lung disease?

Trump is. no longer president  

https://apple.news/ATGsZSxQiQ7Ka1WTXU_cCHg

It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over.

many powerful statements and "truths" in this article  >> The least equipped leader in our history?

some will continue to believe in what they stubbornly cling to (anti democratic at ANY COST )

 

 

     "The Trump presidency is over." 

         -long live the dead (love matters)  March 14th, 2020

     

 

     https://youtu.be/wxvFuKsWU1I


 

^ trump thinks you're insignificant

 

jokes on you.

 

- namaste 

 

wonder how many people are currently questioning their previously held oppositions to m4a and in general expanding the social safety net...

 

 

We'll get it, but it won't be bernie's path.

no other industrial country uses a bernie-esque type system.

that's a fact.

 

 

bernie's in the rear view now.

 

 

    T.O.D....I'm curious to get your thoughts on the debate tomorrow night, thanks [my significance aside]

I wouldn't count out Trump just yet. Watch Fox News or if you really have the stomach for it check out the comments on the web site. Fox has pivoted from corona is a hoax to what a great job Trump is doing to combat it. Also if all the social distancing ends up working just wait for the Republicans to point out how hysterical the left were about the whole thing.

Remember he has always had the ability to kill a person on 5th Avenue without any consequences it will take a few hundred thousand deaths to get through to his base, particularly because this disease is a guided missile that targets his base more than anyone else.

This conveniently shuts down any protesting rallies.  The control mongers wish they'd thought of this in the 60s that woulda got rid of them hippies

El Nino is right.  You're not paying close attention if you can't see this helping him. Plus those that spoke on his behalf came across more believable than many might want to admit. 

 

     "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

         -Sir Isaac Newton 

 

     Tomorrow night's debate may have a dramatically positive impact on world markets...Dow futures may rise immediately.  

     Once the general public realizes the presumptive nominee wears no clothes intellectually, global markets may breathe a sigh of relief.

Oh hey it's fuckface Bryen and a-sshole! Fucking communists 

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     ^ Bucky the Foul-Mouthed enters the fray as articulate as ever...welcome, any original thoughts?

Hey Bryen why don't you call your pals a-sshole and Thom and have a stupid cunt Coronavirus party together 

Yeah fuckface I'm foul mouthed you stupid fucking cunt 

How's dear leader doing you brainwashed cunt 

 

    ^ the predictable pubescent expletives 

Hey Bryen why don't you post your email address or phone number and we can take this off board? 

Cmon buddy 

How's your diabetes and respiratory health these days Bryen? 

 

     [[[keyboard tough guy]]]

Hey did you go buy a pallet of toilet paper and sanitizer you fucking simpleton? 

 

     How's your aptitude coming along?  Any progress on developmental skills?

Go fuck yourself Bryen. You're a useles cunt. I'm not here to answer your questions, just to remind you that you truly are a piece of shit, garbage human being. 

 

    ^ It's "here" not "hear"...but I digress.

Nice try cunt 

 

     ^ nice edit

When Trump Announces his test results:

"I am negative - many people said I would be positive, that was a hoax, they say I've done a very good job staying negative - probably the best ever, some doctors, great people - wonderful people, say that I am immune. It went away, like a miracle -- just went away. I've done a very good job, unlike the previous administration."

Stolen from a Reddit comment

good afternoon


 

trump's biggest supporters fall in the age category which will be affected the most by covid 19.

red states will be affected the hardest.


(((((( thinning the herd )))))

 

you're way past the speculation of troll, bryen.

 

Keep your head on a swivel.

 

 

 

 

 

     For what it's worth, I felt a bit of a pivot this afternoon...a "turning of the corner" as it were, I think the administration is in fact embracing the challenge, realizing the historic opportunity to seize victory from the jaws of defeat and exhibit true leadership...history may look back at March 14th as a true turning point in this crisis.

 

     Turtle, remember when I recommended PEGI at $18 and change in another thread?  I hope you're doing well, glad you got to go to Hawaii, went there between Cal Expo and Greek Theatre shows in '89, it's a special place.

     

     https://youtu.be/V1bFr2SWP1I          

 

 

^ false equivalency 

 



I got your pivot buddy.

 

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    ^ If I didn't know any better it seems like some of the less righteous among us are hoping for the worst case scenario for some perceived political gain, surely that's not the case, that would be downright shameful...oh that's right, I forgot, shame was long ago abandoned [i.e. The Russia Scam].


 

yeah, shocked.

 

why don't you grab your sticks and go hang out with your buddies.

make sure and keep checking in tho.

 

definitely hate for something to happen to a deadhead legend.

 

smh

 

 

I don't know all the ''hotties for trump' seem to be in their 20s and 30s. 

Just google 'trump babes' or 'trump hotties' 

Then try Biden babes 

Hell, just type in 'trump women'. 

Its hilarious how huge the difference is

Lol?

 

 

sympathy, and compassion?    ....yes

have a great weekend 

 

    "why don't you grab your sticks and go hang out with your buddies."

     Oh to be on the links...soon, very soon.  You should take it up T.O.D., it's the most beautiful game humankind has ever experienced on Earth, reading the delicate curvatures of the planet, its like a primal connection, divine in nature, ultimately life changing.

>Turtle, remember when I recommended PEGI at $18 and change in another thread? <

i missed that. i don't like the stock market. it is evil.

and yes, thanks. hawaii was incredible. the david nelson band has provided a similar life affirming vibration in my mid age as the grateful dead had done in my youth. very blessed.

 

 

     A trip like that can really provide perspective, I'm glad it was able to happen!  

 

     Pattern Energy is an impressive operation located in San Francisco, it's a great dividend play, and I do believe they're trying to make the world a better place.

     $26.74 as of yesterday's close

 

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>>> I don't know all the ''hotties for trump' seem to be in their 20s and 30s. <<<

 

greg, solid on the trump defense.

 

kent state gun girl who shits her pants at frat party, sooo hot.

 

 

whose says we need professional sports.

 

that's cheap entertainment.

 

smh

 

They're taking title to the wild frontier In spite of everything that seems unclear

The underwriter's disappeared With a foreign premier

No one interfere

Another new volunteer

Heading for Armageddon...

Come on tod you really think that's solid ? 

What a goof, man.

I don't think that's really a defense of trump for the record. it's reality.  There is a huge representation of younger trump supporters.

 

     Sustainability at Pattern Energy

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^^ Ok, give us another one.

 

 

     Beyond Meat [BYND] at $73.06

 

     

 

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     March 3rd, 2020

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You get no choice between a tooth and nail

The fix is in, yeah, the check's in the mail

Buzz along down to the pale horizon Or go directly to jail

Be ready to ride the rail Heading for Armageddon

2018 U.S. Farm Bill that legalized hemp nationwide... that would be defending Trump.

I mean why the fuck did it take that long and why not Obama or any one else?   no ones even talking about It like hemp sucks just because It was Trump who legalized It. Its kinda lame. i bet he has,  in his playbook, some sort of marijuana legalization roll out plan. I know Biden still thinks it's a 'gateway drug'.  And there are middle of the road pot smokers that will swing their vote trumps way for sure and that would include the younger vote. 

 

In preparation for the latest crusade

A charter member of the local brigade

Was getting down upon his knees to pray

Just before they overheard him say

Somebody show me the way To get to Armageddon


>>> I don't think that's really a defense of trump for the record. it's reality.  There is a huge representation of younger trump supporters. <<<
 

lol

the boy scouts collapsed after he courted them.

 

wait, are you talking about the hitler youth?

that don't equate to votes homie.

 

 

Legalizing weed would get more younger votes. Genius.

And please explain. ..trump courted the boy scouts?  I missed that story


 

 

is that what's gonna put your guy over the hill that your willing to die on?

 

 

Trump IS TOAST In November WE Are Fed Up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

   

     ...for good measure, GW Pharmaceuticals [GWPH] at $83.29 seems like a great move on the board

 

 

     https://youtu.be/y6yFuKdk94g

 

 

 

Hey tod this kind of reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Marge wants to tear down the house of Burlesque.  Weird. 

I wonder which way the strippers of America and those that support that scene will lean? 

Country Music festivals...are they all Nazis too? NASCAR...

mostly younger voters


 

I feel you already know the answer to that.

 

I fear your guy knows that also.


still as soft as the leaking depends he wears.

 

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     Burt Bacharach on Composing


     https://youtu.be/LxPHAFy8LAI

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     Bacharach in Canada 1977


     https://youtu.be/9vAHEvDf5Ok

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     Burt Bacharach Documentary.


     https://youtu.be/hcGDvUgewu4

They put a hurtin' on the working man

About as much as anybody can stand

The chicken's kicking out the do-re-mi

But then there's nothing left in the frying pan

And nowhere to take a stand

Instead of Armageddon

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     Burt Bacharach

     What the World Needs Now is Love

     https://youtu.be/lvcfeyoBghY


 

I can't believe we're at this major point in human existence and you think it's funny.

 

you're always gonna be one lonely motherfucker.

 

sad.

 

 

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I feel you'll always be an ass wipe 

You're man is Adolf Hitler.  You worship satan

 

Is your ass wipe comment somehow related to toilet paper hoarding/shortages?

Could you guys please change your strains? Play some music? Do something that feels good. There's enough bullshit...

After I wrote it it seems to fit the thread

But...

 No problem judit. I just fired back. 

Sorry tod.

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Bryen, do you know the way to San Jose? I've been away so long. I may go wrong and lose my way.

Nice DNB song choice, Turtle.

In rasta colors too.

They really jammed that one at Fernwood in Dec!

Road to Armageddon.

Fits.

from another message board i follow about lake powell:

 

I'm concerned too; I'm an avid Lake Powell bass fisherman, and my party has a houseboat booked for mid-May. I never answer blogs, but I will make an exception this time. I'm the CEO of the largest laboratory in Arizona, and the largest integrated laboratory in the nation; we're at the epicenter of COVID-19, and I'm on conference calls round the clock with the largest health system in Arizona, the state health department, and CDC. We will have full testing capability by next Thursday, at the latest. So far, the state health departments have been the only testing labs, with limited volume capability, and those patients tested have been exposed to symptomatic patients; only 1% have tested positive. The large labs, like ours, will have have an automated PCR test and we will be able to perform thousands of tests per day. Testing people that are concerned, not just exposed, will greatly reduce the fear factor in Arizona and the US. The Lake Powell operators can take the same precautions that are recommended and still inspect boats: stay 6 feet away, wear a mask, wash their hands frequently, and don't touch surfaces unless you have too; they can also test employees frequently or if they develop symptoms. I've already advised the state health department that our lab will support tent collection sites all over Arizona, including Page, Arizona. I sincerely hope that they don't close down Lake Powell, but I can assure you the state healthcare system is much better prepared than the public and media surmise, and we will get control of the Corona Virus. Tight lines - Dave 

I wonder if it will be this week that I know someone with corona, or will it be me or my elderly Mom. Yikes 

 

My kids' school district has joined others in cancelling school for two weeks. On the bright side, I don't have to wake up at 5 am for a couple weeks. 

In physics, the most powerful device on the planet is a wedge

In news and social media, the most powerful device is the edit

In the animal world,, the most powerful and destructive force is fear

It is truly interesting to watch the animals go hunting (behave) at the supermarket in times like this. 

Love the Kief meme

 

So if you edit the news so as to promote fear, you can drive a wedge between people.

^has worked incredibly well through the ages

In a truly enlightened society, an instantaneous psychedelic prize would be one of many choices for a correct answer :)