Daily Mail: Trump salutes the US Navy Comfort as the hospital ship begins its journey to New York where Gov. Cuomo says he will welcome it with 'open arms' despite a rift with the president over a state-wide quarantine
* The US Navy Ship Comfort departed for New York on Saturday
* Trump called the hospital ship a 'message of hope' for New Yorkers
* The ship will provide 1,000 extra beds and 1,200 medical staff to the city
* It is expected to dock in Manhattan on Monday
* The situation in New York is dramatically escalating the cases jumped by iver 7,000 to 52,318 on Saturday
* The death toll in the state is now at 728
* Earlier on Saturday, Trump claimed he would quarantine New York
* Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed back saying 'I don’t like the sound of it'
President Donald Trump sent a 'message of hope' to the people of New York on Saturday as he sent off Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort to begin its journey to the city stricken with drastically increasing coronavirus cases.
The ship, traveling from the naval station in Norfolk, Virginia, will supply the city at the epicenter of the country's coronavirus crisis with 1,000 extra beds as well as 1,200 medical staff.
Deaths in the state rose by 209 on Saturday to a death toll of 728 people as cases in the city alone hit over 29,000.
Trump told the struggling New York 'we're here for you', despite earlier causing tension with the state's governor Andrew Cuomo for revealing his plans to quarantine New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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WNU Editor: Impressive ship that I am sure is going to help a lot of people.
Trump, who initially dismissed the pandemic as “under control,” is having to adjust his messaging to fit grim times, and some of his allies are pushing him to show more heart.
ReplyDelete“It’s not usually his first go-to emotion,” said a former senior administration official who remains close to the White House.
Two sources familiar with the internal dynamics of the White House said advisers twice intervened during the last week to nudge Trump to drop the strident language that is a hallmark of his presidency and instead seek to unite Americans.
It is rare for Trump to back down from a public statement but he softened his tone on both occasions after being urged to.
In the first instance, Trump had a testy exchange with a journalist who asked what he had to say to Americans who were scared by the virus, calling him a “terrible reporter” who had posed a “very nasty question.”
After his outburst, advisers urged Trump to “tell people something real, something emotional, something heartfelt,” one source said.
The next day, the president tried a softer tone. “This is a time of shared national sacrifice, but it’s also a time to treasure our loved ones,” he said.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a send off for the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort at Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. March 28, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
In the second case, Trump dropped - at least for now - his description of the disease as “the Chinese virus” at the urging of aides who argued he did not need to give the news media a fresh opportunity to attack him, the source said.
In response, Trump sought to tamp down anti-Asian sentiment among some Americans, saying in a post on Twitter that “it is very important that we totally protect our Asian American community.”
Asked by Fox News Channel anchor Bill Hemmer if he regretted his “Chinese virus” rhetoric, Trump said he did not but added: “Look, everyone knows it came out of China, but I decided we shouldn’t make any more of a big deal out of it.”
Trump instituted the travel ban from China in January when Democrats, liberals and other morlocks were calling him racist for it.
ReplyDelete12:50 and the morlocks parroted, chirped, and twitted that the travel ban was worthless.
What does slowing down the spread mean. It means we have more time to ramp up and to innovate.
Notice that I am using my own words unlike an ivory tower princess, who can only regurgitates the broth that is fed by the New York Times or Washington Post. Must really suck not to have a good education.
"Asked by Fox News Channel anchor Bill Hemmer if he regretted his “Chinese virus” rhetoric"
ReplyDeleteThe 1st I heard of it was by a gotcha reporter playing gotcha instead of being a reporter.
There was a picture of Trump with a sheet, where a word was crossed out and Chinese written over it.
I don't even know the date. I glance at it, so the same old reporter shit being done and moved on. I have no respect for most media people.
Tell me why shouldn't it be called the Chinese virus. They lulled everyone into thinking it would be no more dangerous than SARS was in 2002. That is not spreading. Xi and the rest of the leadership lied and so people were misled.
So it damn well should be called the Chinese virus.
ReplyDeleteDr. Fauci predicts America's coronavirus death toll will be '100,000 to 200,000', millions of people will be infected and says lockdowns will NOT be lifted next week like the President wants
Fauci, an "expert", put a stake in the ground and made a prediction.
If it is only 50,000 to 70,000 he should retire, resign, or be fired.
Actually it looks like a brush fore due to high fuel loads to me. I don't remember in 9th grade ecology class the teacher or the book relating that humans were immune to the laws of biology or ecology.
Between 1986 and and 1992 you can see a bulge in the death rate in America due to HIV. I am not sure if we look at the deaths over a 100 or 1,000 year time period, we would see where the population (or forest) shrank.
They used the term excess deaths to come up with the million death mark in the Iraq war to go after their favorite prey. Let's use the excess deaths to see if this Wuhan flu will kill many more people than would have died anyway this year.
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Cuomo: Trump's mandatory quarantine comments "really panicked people"
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a press conference Sunday that President Donald Trump's unexpected Saturday announcement of a possible "short-term" quarantine of New York, New Jersey and parts of Connecticut to curb the spread of the coronavirus "really panicked people."
Why it matters: Though Trump ruled out the mandatory quarantine later that day, Cuomo said people still called "all night long" asking about the comments and many likely fled the New York area — possibly spreading the virus further.
What he's saying:
"Last night we were fighting two things. You're fighting the virus and you're fighting the fear. I can't tell you how many people called all night long about the mandatory quarantine comment that the president made as he was getting into a helicopter, which was inconclusive, by the way.
But people are so on edge. I mean, it really panicked people. They were going to leave the city last night. So, you need to manage that fear and panic."
— Andrew Cuomo
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Those are real informative parts of your post Fred. You're as batty as Joe Biden.
What really touched my heart were the parts of your post that read
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Keep up the good work.
Without you the world's IQ average would be 100 points higher.
Fred Lapides, the parrot , has been wrong so consistently that I'm always betting against him and made a fortune doing so. He's that reliably wrong, misinformed and dumb. I'm sorry little parrot. .it's been years and you showed no sign of improvement. I give up on you.
ReplyDeleteLYNCHBURG, Va. — As Liberty University’s spring break was drawing to a close this month, Jerry Falwell Jr., its president, spoke with the physician who runs Liberty’s student health service about the rampaging coronavirus.
ReplyDelete“We’ve lost the ability to corral this thing,” Dr. Thomas W. Eppes Jr. said he told Mr. Falwell. But he did not urge him to close the school. “I just am not going to be so presumptuous as to say, ‘This is what you should do and this is what you shouldn’t do,’” Dr. Eppes said in an interview.
So Mr. Falwell — a staunch ally of President Trump and an influential voice in the evangelical world — reopened the university last week, igniting a firestorm, epidemiologically and otherwise. As of Friday, Dr. Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggest Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. Another eight were told to self-isolate.
“Liberty will be notifying the community as deemed appropriate and required by law,” Mr. Falwell said in an interview on Sunday when confronted with the numbers. He added that any student returning now to campus would be required to self-quarantine for 14 days.
“I can’t be sure what’s going on with individuals who are not being tested but who are advised to self-isolate,” said Kerry Gateley, the health director of the Central Virginia Health District, which covers Lynchburg. “I would assume that if clinicians were concerned enough about the possibility of Covid-19 disease to urge self-isolation that appropriate screening and testing would be arranged.”
Of the 1,900 students who initially returned last week to campus, Mr. Falwell said more than 800 had left. But he said he had “no idea” how many students had returned to off-campus housing.
Thirteen years ago, a group of U.S. public health officials came up with a plan to address what they regarded as one of the medical system’s crucial vulnerabilities: a shortage of ventilators.
ReplyDeleteThe breathing-assistance machines tended to be bulky, expensive and limited in number. The plan was to build a large fleet of inexpensive portable devices to deploy in a flu pandemic or another crisis.
Money was budgeted. A federal contract was signed. Work got underway.
And then things suddenly veered off course. A multibillion-dollar maker of medical devices bought the small California company that had been hired to design the new machines. The project ultimately produced zero ventilators.
That failure delayed the development of an affordable ventilator by at least half a decade, depriving hospitals, states and the federal government of the ability to stock up. The federal government started over with another company in 2014, whose ventilator was approved only last year and whose products have not yet been delivered.
Today, with the coronavirus ravaging America’s health care system, the nation’s emergency-response stockpile is still waiting on its first shipment. The scarcity of ventilators has become an emergency, forcing doctors to make life-or-death decisions about who gets to breathe and who does not.
The stalled efforts to create a new class of cheap, easy-to-use ventilators highlight the perils of outsourcing projects with critical public-health implications to private companies; their focus on maximizing profits is not always consistent with the government’s goal of preparing for a future crisis.
Trump has strongly defended his administration's actions amid the pandemic. He said Friday, "We have done a hell of a job; the federal government has really stepped up." He also blasted governors he thought were not "appreciative" enough of his administration's efforts.
ReplyDelete"All I want them to do — very simple — I want them to be appreciative," he said. "I don't want them to say things that aren't true. I want them to be appreciative. We've done a great job. And I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about Mike Pence, the task force; I'm talking about FEMA, the Army Corps of Engineers."
Pointing to Trump's remarks earlier this year downplaying the potential for such an outbreak, Pelosi said that attitude cost some Americans their lives.
"I'm saying that, because ... the other day, when he was signing the bill, he said, just think, 20 days ago, everything was great," Pelosi said. "No, everything wasn't great. We had nearly 500 cases and 17 deaths already. And in that 20 days, because we weren't prepared, we now have 2,000 deaths and 100,000 cases. So, again ... we really want to work in a unifying way to get the job done here, but we cannot continue to allow him to continue to make these ... underestimates of what is actually happening here. This is such a tragedy."
Pelosi's remarks come as the much of the nation is shut down to contain the spread of the disease, which first appeared in China late last year. As of Sunday morning, roughly 125,000 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the U.S., the highest total of any nation, with at least 2,000 deaths, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker.
Wilson fully exploited the authority of the federal government, compelling rationing, propaganda and nationalizing the railroads, all directed at defeating Germany, not the virus.
ReplyDeleteThe country, after all, was already accustomed to 100,000 deaths a year from the flu. There was a limited public health infrastructure. Use of vaccines remained uncommon, and therapies were often primitive. It wasn’t that Wilson was restrained about using federal power; he simply had less precedent to lean on, and a much higher priority in the war effort.
Trump has framed his fight against the pandemic as a war, and himself as a wartime president. But rather than fully lever the power of the federal government, he has increasingly put responsibility on the states, reigniting the kind of tension the nation’s founders wrestled with more than two centuries ago.
The feud with states boiled over Thursday when Trump got into a contentious exchange with several governors. States are demanding more sweeping help from the federal government to battle an insidious challenge the founders never knew existed — a global public health crisis. It calls into question how well a system of federalism — where power is legally shared between a national government and the states — can work when the needs are so urgent and the politics so polarized.
Is the USAF trolling. We know they created trolling software.
ReplyDeleteRevealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
Maybe it is not the USAF, but a foreign government or someone from 4 chan.
Or maybe a certain person has voted straight line party ticket for hos whole life and could face the fact that he was wrong his whole life?
Or maybe we are jut witnessing dementia overtake an average mind?
All we really do know is that the words posted by the parrot are never his own, but merely are repeated from the leftist rag de jure.
Do you need to ask the Parrot what they think? You do not. Merely pick up a former newspaper, a Leftists rag, and you know what the parrot thinks.
Lol good point @ what the parrot thinks @ Anon:457
ReplyDeleteHe boils it down though to the dumbest talking points.. so it's easier for me to see what sticks in the most easy to manipulate minds.. also.. I don't want to spend any money or clicks on any leftist magazines/online outlets.. I shudder at the thought of even opening cnn in my browser.. what would people think of me if they look at my browser's history? Can't have that.. I rather be caught with weird fetish/animal porn than reading what Pelosi spews uhhhh
The United States government sent nearly 17.8 tons of donated medical supplies to China—including masks and respirators—almost three weeks after the first case of the coronavirus was reported in the state of Washington.
ReplyDeleteIn a press release from the State Department dated Feb. 7, the agency announced it was prepared to spend up to $100 million to assist China as the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to rise there. The day the press release went out, Trump tweeted that he spoke with China’s President Xi Jinping and that China would be “successful especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker and then gone.”
At the time, sending supplies overseas may have seemed like the right thing to do. But it’s worth noting that this release of vital medical supplies came two days after several senators, including Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, offered to allocate congressional emergency funding for preventative health measures and research to ward off the virus in the United States—and President Donald Trump turned it down. “Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff, etc…” tweeted Murphy, “and they need it now.”
Just left the Administration briefing on Coronavirus. Bottom line: they aren't taking this seriously enough.
Notably, no request for ANY emergency funding, which is a big mistake. Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff etc. And they need it now.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 5, 2020
Trump would go on to call the virus the Democrats’ “new hoax” and deny that it posed a risk to Americans for weeks after that.
Suffice it to say, the Trump administration has cumulatively failed, both in taking seriously the specific, repeated intelligence community warnings about a coronavirus outbreak and in vigorously pursuing the nationwide response initiatives commensurate with the predicted threat. The federal government alone has the resources and authorities to lead the relevant public and private stakeholders to confront the foreseeable harms posed by the virus. Unfortunately, Trump officials made a series of judgments (minimizing the hazards of Covid-19) and decisions (refusing to act with the urgency required) that have needlessly made Americans far less safe.
ReplyDeleteIn short, the Trump administration forced a catastrophic strategic surprise onto the American people. But unlike past strategic surprises – Pearl Harbor, the Iranian revolution of 1979, or especially 9/11 – the current one was brought about by unprecedented indifference, even willful negligence. Whereas, for example, the 9/11 Commission Report assigned blame for the al-Qaida attacks on the administrations of presidents Ronald Reagan through George W Bush, the unfolding coronavirus crisis is overwhelmingly the sole responsibility of the current White House.
Chapter 8 of the 9/11 Commission Report was titled, The System Was Blinking Red. The quote came from the former CIA director George Tenet, who was characterizing the summer of 2001, when the intelligence community’s multiple reporting streams indicated an imminent aviation terrorist attack inside the United States. Despite the warnings and frenzied efforts of some counter-terrorism officials, the 9/11 Commission determined “We see little evidence that the progress of the plot was disturbed by any government action … Time ran out.”
Last week, the Washington Post reported on the steady drumbeat of coronavirus warnings that the intelligence community presented to the White House in January and February. These alerts made little impact upon senior administration officials, who were undoubtedly influenced by President Donald Trump’s constant derision of the virus, which he began on 22 January: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
By now, there are three painfully obvious observations about Trump’s leadership style that explain the worsening coronavirus pandemic that Americans now face. First, there is the fact that once he believes absolutely anything – no matter how poorly thought-out, ill-informed or inaccurate – he remains completely anchored to that initial impression or judgment. Leaders are unusually hubristic and overconfident; for many, the fact that they have risen to elevated levels of power is evidence of their inherent wisdom. But truly wise leaders authentically solicit feedback and criticism, are actively open thinkers, and are capable of changing their minds. By all accounts, Trump lacks these enabling competencies.
Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg News: Federal stockpile of N95 masks was depleted under Obama and never restocked
ReplyDeleteObama had 6 years