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I don't get it either. I have been around long enough to have witnessed several flu's/viruses and never before have I seen people act so crazy as they are now. Canceling schools, sporting events, people going nuts at the stores and especially for toilet paper? WTH?
Yet you haven’t realized that maybe, just maybe, your sole perspective doesn’t cover *all* eventualities that can and may occur?
You bet Donald & Company are doing just that. From the get go. This craziness that POTUS is subjecting us to, was entirely predictable to anyone who has been following right-wing politics. It’s just the latest battle in Trump's and the GOP's long-running war on truth.
In the case of Covid-19, Trump and Donny Junior, and many in the WH started with blaming the "Democratic Owned" media for reporting the news of the looming health crisis. (See another thread on this forum where a Trumper is claiming the left wing media didn't do enough to report it. Oh OK. ) It’s all a hoax, a conspiracy by the liberal media to make Donald Trump look bad. Administration officials and Trump himself as well as Junior made those claims over and over, while adults were attempting to stimulate some type of "normal response" from the government. This is Trump POLITICIZING IT, QuickEnough.
Then we have Trump blaming Obama for a regulation that Trump claims hampered him in working on a crisis... wait. What crisis? Its a hoax isn't it? Oops, what regulation? No one has been able to point to that regulation. Why? It doesn't exist. This is WEAPONIZING IT, QuickEnough.
Then we get to the lying, misinformation and denying the reality phase which is always POLITICAL. You know, Trump as Trump placing personal & political gain over nation. POLITICIZING IT.
Now here we are today and POTUS is again tweeting about Swine Flu and Ebola and back to blaming the Democrats and self aggrandizing like the Autocrat wannabe that he is.. POLITICIZING and WEAPONIZING.
Sorry he has you fooled again. Don't beat yourself up too much, though. Trump has had years of practice to turn his paranoia into projection that he sells as propaganda. Even in the realm of health crises. After all, he and his GOP friends engaged in a concerted effort to politically weaponize the 2014 Ebola outbreak against Barack Obama, whose response was, in reality, smart and effective. By the way, in the aftermath of that outbreak the Obama administration put in place measures to deal with future pandemics — all of which Trump scrapped....HMMM wonder why? Oh right: Trump Politics over We The People.
EVERYTHING a politician does in the public eye IS deemed "POLITICIZING" by some
Look at the picture of obama signing O Care. Why do you think he had a little black boy standing next to him while he signed it?
And it took obama 6 MONTHS to declare a National Emergency for the H1-N1 virus.
Republicans politicized Ebola. Obama contained the outbreak. Democrats have not politicized Coronavirus. Trump didn’t stop the outbreak. That’s the difference.
Republicans politicized Ebola. Obama contained the outbreak. Democrats have not politicized Coronavirus. Trump didn’t stop the outbreak. That’s the difference.
You expected the President to actually stop the outbreak of a contagious virus? Wow, just wow, I have no other words.
This is not worse than swine flu IMO. I vividly remember swine flu.
Only thing that was worse is that people are more panicky and anxious today than they were 10 years ago.
I'll note that politically Obama actually did do a better job on getting on top of it and having a calm face/demeanor. Trump does not exude calmness and he doesn't have an adequate plan in place. Biden recently released a plan and invited Trump to adopt it. Trump should adopt it:
It's only so high because of its very low infection rate! Think about it, if only two people in the entire world have some disease and one of them dies...that's a 50% rate! That sounds scary...until you realize it's only TWO PEOPLE! The data on this is horribly skewed, the governments know it, but they don't care, they'd rather give in to panic and hype everyone else into a froth over it!
We have no idea what the infection rate is because not enough people are being tested.
LOL. Facts are stubborn things. And so far, The Chinese Wuhan virus has not risen to the level of H1N1. Too bad for leftists.
Yet another one who has no clue what exponential growth means. We have truly failed to educate people in this country. The ignorance on display here is astounding.
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) It’s all a hoax, a conspiracy by the liberal media to make Donald Trump look bad. Administration officials and Trump himself as well as Junior made those claims over and over, while adults were attempting to stimulate some type of "normal response" from the government. This is Trump POLITICIZING IT, QuickEnough.