"WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction"-@DrTedros #COVID19— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) March 11, 2020
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Why COVID-19?
Why #19?
Because corona viruses are as common as rhino viruses.
Prediction. Some brave and soon to be unemployed American scientists will test the 1918 flu victims of Nome. He or she will find they have the flu virus, corona virus and many other viruses. Shorty after putting a stake through the narrative, they will end up where Chinese dissidents end up. As parts.
Bernie is quitting his campaign.
Bernie is not a fighter.
You cannot fight the will of the wealthy controlled Democratic Party. Bernie has learned that lesson once again. So it will be Trump, someone who cannot speak coherently for another four years. As for employment, it will surely keep the night show hosts busy.
Bob falls for it hook, line, & sinker.
The World Health Org is a collection of corrupt autocrats, globalists and Marxists. Happily inducing panic among their media brethren with the added bonus of sinking the Dow Jones - which they figure will hurt Trump.
//and Oh ho! Bernie is NOT out. Looks like he's in for the fight. Sort of. At least until the "debate". The real question will be if they sit or stand.
And Bob is right - as most leftists get their news from Seth Myers and Stephen Colbert. Also Samantha C (I mean B).
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Exclusive: White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations - sources
Aram Roston
6-7 minutes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified, an unusual step that has restricted information and hampered the U.S. government’s response to the contagion, according to four Trump administration officials.
The officials said that dozens of classified discussions about such topics as the scope of infections, quarantines and travel restrictions have been held since mid-January in a high-security meeting room at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), a key player in the fight against the coronavirus.
Staffers without security clearances, including government experts, were excluded from the interagency meetings, which included video conference calls, the sources said.
“We had some very critical people who did not have security clearances who could not go,” one official said. “These should not be classified meetings. It was unnecessary.”
The sources said the National Security Council (NSC), which advises the president on security issues, ordered the classification.”This came directly from the White House,” one official said.
The White House insistence on secrecy at the nation’s premier public health organization, which has not been previously disclosed, has put a lid on certain information - and potentially delayed the response to the crisis. COVID19, the disease caused by the virus, has killed about 30 people in the United States and infected more than 1,000 people.
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Fred, you'd be whinging and fretting no matter what Trump did. You've got it canned and ready. If Trump closed the border to China its racist, if he didn't he's incompetent. If he says remain calm, he's lying. If he proclaimed it a disaster he's fearmongering.
Leftists are useless, detestable people. Contribute nothing, demand everything and whine incessantly. Take Schumer and Pelosi - a case in point. Sitting back carping and obstructing, criticizing everything. What were they doing when Trump was shutting the border with China to get ahead of this thing? They were busy impeaching Trump over the fake Ukraine scandal.
Where is their plan? oh wait - they have none. They just pile on Trump's back and suck like parasites.
So please kindly STFU while serious people work 24/7 to try to save your craggy ass.
contribute nothing? try this
House Democrats plan to vote Thursday on a wide-ranging coronavirus relief package that will include expanded unemployment insurance, paid sick leave and food security assistance.
The effort shows the urgency with which political leaders are moving to contain the economic turmoil caused by the coronavirus outbreak. Although the Senate seems unlikely to act before a congressional recess scheduled for next week, a number of Republican senators indicated openness Wednesday to at least some elements of the House plan and said it was important to act quickly.
“The sick leave is certainly something we need to take a close look at, I think that’s a very practical, very significant help to folks,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). “I think we shouldn’t rule anything out at this point and I think, you know, it’s a very fluid situation.”
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So F anonymously posts 2 sock puppet posts. Classy.
Maybe F can name all 50 states? Maybe F can name to a few common viruses?
Another anonymous F post at 3:06 PM. This time he is screaming.
Very good Fred. Happy to see the Dems are finally getting off their asses and doing something other than calling the president a racist. Guess they finally saw their internal polling and realized they were losing big on this and their do-nothing posture.
And I have to give props to CA Gov Gavin Newsom and WA Gov Jay Inslee. Both of whom have outbreaks and both of whom are cooperating and acknowledging that Trump is doing everything possible to halt the C19 outbreak. Praising him even.
The Fix
Analysis
Anthony Fauci undercuts Trump on the flu and other coronavirus assertions
Fauci on coronavirus: The worst is yet to come
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony S. Fauci said told lawmakers March 11, "Things will get worse than they are right now." (Reuters)
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Aaron Blake
March 11, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. EDT
Midway through a hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill, a House Republican asked Anthony Fauci, a member of the president’s coronavirus task force, if he was offended by the idea that he could be prevented from speaking openly about the coronavirus by the Trump administration.
“With all due respect,” Fauci said, “I served six presidents and have never done anything other than tell the exact scientific evidence and made policy recommendations based on the science and the evidence.”
The rest of his testimony reinforced that Fauci isn’t exactly toeing anybody’s line. Over and over again, he differed with President Trump’s talking points that play down the threat posed by the novel coronavirus, and he even differed with decisions Trump has made.
Fauci didn’t come out and say “The president is wrong,” but he repeatedly offered a very different emphasis. In one particular instance, he roundly criticized a comparison Trump has trotted out repeatedly.
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While Trump has throughout the coronavirus outbreak sought to minimize it by comparing it to the seasonal flu, Fauci noted the novel coronavirus is significantly more lethal.
“I mean, people always say, well, the flu does this, the flu does that,” Fauci said. “The flu has a mortality of 0.1 percent. This has a mortality rate of 10 times that. That’s the reason I want to emphasize we have to stay ahead of the game in preventing this."
Among the people who always compare the novel coronavirus to the influenza virus, Trump is first and foremost. From the very start, he has emphasized the flu is also deadly and suggested maybe coronavirus isn’t so bad by comparison. At one point, he even said incorrectly that the mortality rate for the flu is “much higher than” for coronavirus. Trump said two weeks ago, “It’s a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we’ll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner.” He said the novel coronavirus was in some way “easier” to deal with than the flu. He even tweeted this week that we don’t shut things down over the flu and seemed to suggest that maybe we shouldn’t do so for this.
And another prolonged scream (a copy and paste effort that taxed his abilities to the utmost.) by F.
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