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Anonymous said...


"Somebody with COVID-19, I will pay you to cough on Trump." - Amy Bednarz


Any bets as to whether Amy Bednarz is a Registered Democrat?


www.linkedin.com/in/amy-bednarz-b6a0a7143

https://twitter.com/amybbednarz?lang=en


Rhode Island Public School Teacher Offers to Pay for Someone With Coronavirus to Cough on President Trump

Just think of how fortunate we are to have such a nice person!

March 29, 2020 at 5:23 PM
Anonymous said...


Amy Bednarz and Kathy Griffin should get together and form a hate club.

When they got together, critical mass would be achieved and it would look like this.

March 29, 2020 at 5:27 PM
Anonymous said...



Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Sunday said that he expects Americans to be able to survive for two and a half months on just $1,200, which is about $17 per day.

In an interview on CBS's Face the Nation, host Margaret Brennan noted that the $1,200 relief checks that many Americans will be getting would not be enough in some parts of the country.

"I think the entire package provides economic relief overall for about 10 weeks," Mnuchin explained. "Hopefully we will kill this virus quicker and we won't need it, but we have liquidity to put into the American economy to support American workers and American business."
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coronavirus, covid-19, Margaret Brennan, Steve Mnuchin

March 29, 2020 at 6:28 PM
Anonymous said...

Trump has also lied about Obama. On March 4, he claimed that Obama’s administration “didn’t do anything about” the 2009 swine flu outbreak. On March 12, Trump said “nothing was done for such a long period of time, as people were dying all over the place.” On March 13, Trump said Obama’s team “started thinking about testing when it was far too late.” And on Thursday, Trump told Sean Hannity, “They acted very, very late. They were incredibly late.”

None of that is true. The 2009 outbreak started in Mexico. The Mexican government reported it to the Pan American Health Organization on April 12 of that year. Two days later, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examined a specimen in the United States, and by April 15, the CDC had determined it was swine flu. On April 22, the CDC activated its Emergency Operations Center. On April 26, the Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency and began to send antiviral drugs and personal protective equipment to affected states. On April 30, the Obama administration asked Congress for $1.5 billion to fight the virus. By April 28, the CDC had developed a test to detect the virus, and on May 1, the test kits were shipped out.

March 29, 2020 at 6:30 PM
Anonymous said...


Posted on Sun, Mar 29th, 2020 by Jason Easley
Trump Sent 17.8 Tons Of US Supplies To China Then Blames Obama For PPE Shortage
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Trump is blaming Obama for lack of Personal Protective Equipment to combat the coronavirus, but his administration sent tons of vital US supplies to China.

Trump said during the March 20 coronavirus briefing, “We inherited an obsolete broken old system that wasn’t meant for this. We discarded that system and we now have a new system that can do millions of people as you need them, but we had to get rid of a broken old system that didn’t work.”

The truth is that Trump didn’t take the coronavirus seriously and gave away critical US supplies to China.

According to a press release from the State Department, the US gave 17.8 tons of supplies including ventilators and masks to China:

This week the State Department has facilitated the transportation of nearly 17.8 tons of donated medical supplies to the Chinese people, including masks, gowns, gauze, respirators, and other vital materials. These donations are a testament to the generosity of the American people.

Today, the United States government is announcing it is prepared to spend up to $100 million in existing funds to assist China and other impacted countries, both directly and through multilateral organizations, to contain and combat the novel coronavirus. This commitment – along with the hundreds of millions generously donated by the American private sector – demonstrates strong U.S. leadership in response to the outbreak.

Sec. of State Mike Pompeo bragged about the federal government acting like a shipping clerk for China:

We have coordinated with U.S. organizations to transport more humanitarian relief to people in Wuhan. Personal protective equipment and other medical supplies donated by these organizations can help save lives in #China and help protect people from the #coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/57SN2TXfLP

— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) February 7, 2020

It is true that the national stockpile was not designed to handle a simultaneous crisis in all 50 states, but those tons of supplies that Trump gave away could be saving American lives right now. The first responders on the front lines of the epidemic would love to have tons of masks coming their way.

Every single ventilator that Trump sent to China could be used to save American lives now and in the future.

March 29, 2020 at 6:32 PM
Anonymous said...



But perhaps no advanced nation has responded as poorly as the U.S. Perverse regulation, a bungled government test and fragmented supply chains held back testing for crucial weeks, allowing the epidemic to spread undetected. Abdication of leadership by the federal government left the job of shutdowns to state and local governments. Meanwhile, the president has issued highly unrealistic predictions that lockdowns could end in as little as two weeks. As a result, the U.S. now leads the world in cases of the coronavirus.

It’s possible that the U.S.’s scattershot, slow and ineffective response to this crisis is a result of leadership failures or the recent era of political division. President Donald Trump eliminated a pandemic response team at the National Security Council, his appointments to the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration have been controversial, and his messaging has generally been unhelpful and conflicting.

But the widespread nature of the failures suggest that coronavirus has exposed a deeper decline in the U.S.’s general effectiveness as a civilization. How recent that decline is, what its causes are and whether it can be reversed are all difficult but important questions.

One possibility is that the U.S. is burdened with outdated 18th-century institutions. Federalism leaves many powers to the states, making it hard for the central government to coordinate a pandemic response even when leadership is strong and competent. The Senate and the filibuster are set up to block swift legislative solutions to the nation's mounting challenges. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan created their centralized systems much more recently.

But the U.S. made big moves toward centralization to deal with the Civil War, the Great Depression, World War II and the Cold War. Those successful responses show that the U.S. has been capable of adapting to the challenges of upheaval in the past. Recently, though, the U.S. has allowed its civil service to shrink and its salaries to become less competitive with the private sector, outsourcing many of the bureaucracy’s functions:
The U.S. Needs to Upgrade Its Civil Service

March 29, 2020 at 6:49 PM
Anonymous said...

After spending the evening telling Sean Hannity that those greedy governors—especially pushy female governors—didn’t really need the ventilators they were desperately requesting, Donald Trump appears to have realized that literally cutting off air to Americans is a bad look. So on Friday morning, Trump did an all too typical 180 and took to Twitter to do what he does best: Blame other people for his mistakes.

On Thursday evening, The New York Times explained how Trump completely blew off an all-but-complete deal to have GM manufacture thousands of desperately needed ventilators while refusing to invoke the Defense Production Act. But on Friday, Trump demanded—demanded—that GM get right on with making ventilators, apparently for free. Only Trump addressed that demand to a Twitter account that wasn’t GM. And he ordered them to use a factory that they sold months ago.

For days, General Motors and Ventec Life Systems had been working on a deal that would use GM’s manufacturing capability to accelerate production of Ventec’s ventilators. Together, the two companies projected they could make as many as 80,000 ventilators over the next two months. The federal government’s contribution to this deal was simple enough: they would agree to buy most of these ventilators, providing GM with an up-front payment to help cover the cost of converting an existing auto plant in Indiana for the task. GM assured officials there was no issue with retooling, and Ventec and GM were reportedly moving at “breakneck speed” to meet the critical medical need.

That was before Trump decided that giving people ventilators was too pricey. With an estimated price tag for the deal at around $1 billion, that would put the ventilators at roughly $13,000 each—which is actually on the low end of what ventilators usually cost.

Trump was prepared to announce the deal on Wednesday, and hinted that he had big news coming during that day’s coronavirus-themed praise session. Instead, the deal—which reportedly included some ace negotiation from Jared Kushner—collapsed. Instead of providing thousands of generators, Trump simply went on Hannity to explain that breathing is overrated. “You go to hospitals who have don’t even have one [ventilator] in a hospital,” said Trump, “and all of a sudden everybody is asking for vast numbers.” How dare they.

But by lunchtime on Friday, Trump was ready to move to the next phase of this problem: blaming everyone but himself. First Trump pointed the finger at GM CEO Mary Barra, saying “things are always a mess” when she is involved. Trump ended that tweet with “Invoke P!”, which was apparently not a reference to anything that happened in a Moscow hotel but how all the cool kids are saying “I am going to invoke the Defense Production Act to order this done.”

March 29, 2020 at 6:52 PM
Anonymous said...

Rapid testing is crucial in the early stages of an outbreak. It allows health workers and families to identify and focus on treating those infected and isolate them.

Yet health officials in New York City and such states as New York, Washington, Pennsylvania and Georgia confirmed to Kaiser Health News that they each initially got one test kit, calling into question whether they would have even stood a chance to contain the outbreaks that would emerge. They would soon discover that the tests they did receive were flawed, lacking critical components and delivering faulty results.

During those early weeks, the virus took off, infecting thousands of people and leading to nationwide social distancing and sheltering in place. Public health officials are just beginning to grapple with the fallout from that early bungling of testing, which is likely to haunt the country in the months to come.

Too little too late

The first shipment to Washington state arrived more than two weeks after officials there announced the first U.S. case of coronavirus, and at a moment when deadly outbreaks of the disease were already festering in places like the Life Care Center in Kirkland. Within weeks, three dozen people infected with COVID-19 would die at the nursing home in the suburbs of Seattle.

The spread of COVID19 would not take long to overwhelm the state, which as of Friday had more than 1,300 cases.

The Trump administration in recent days has attempted to speed testing for the virus after early missteps hampered the government's response to contain the contagion, and officials have had to respond to a barrage of criticism from public health experts, state officials and members of Congress.

Federal health officials have eased the process for university and commercial labs to perform their own tests, and they are ramping up their capacity. As of March 16, public and private labs in the U.S. had the ability to test more than 36,000 people a day, according to estimates compiled by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C., a figure expected to rapidly escalate in coming weeks. That figure, however, can vary considerably by state and does not indicate how many tests are actually given to patients.

March 29, 2020 at 6:55 PM
Anonymous said...

Who posted at 6:32?

The idiot, who cannot see beyond the tip of his dick, wrote

"Every single ventilator that Trump sent to China..."

SARS never reached The US in a big way. SARS was a corona virus. It was not unlikely that this might be the case again.

China was having trouble. Much as we despise Xi and the Communist Party (well some of us despise communism, while others despise 'their'; communism, but vote for every communist in sheep's clothing in the Democrat Party. Can you say "Stupid?!?!" ), we want good relations with the people of China.

America often sends aid to countries, where we hate the governing cabal, but like the people.

See Something, Say something!

Do we have trolling by a foreign government, trolling by someone for shits and giggles, a really dumb person, or a none-too bright Democrat?

March 29, 2020 at 7:01 PM
Anonymous said...

Posted on Sun, Mar 29th, 2020 by Jason Easley
Trump Sent 17.8 Tons Of US Supplies To China Then Blames Obama For PPE Shortage

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Mere copy and paste idiocy by a person who lost their frigging mind. They never had much of one to begin with. They are living proof of white male privilege.

No brains, but a healthy paycheck.

March 29, 2020 at 7:38 PM
Anonymous said...

There are rumblings that the Trump administration may slap protectionist measures on medical supplies needed to fight the coronavirus.
That is to say, in the midst of a pandemic, Trump might start a trade war.
Anything that worsens relations between nations, makes medical supplies more expensive, or complicates supply chains is the last thing we need right now.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Listen and read between the lines of some of Trump's press conferences, and pay attention to what some of his friends and allies are saying, and you may notice that he's toying with the idea of starting a trade war in the middle of a global pandemic.

More than once this week Trump has complained about European Union nations that have put export restrictions on vital coronavirus fighting supplies. His ally, GOP Rep. Doug Collins, wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to restrict the trade of US supplies.

And earlier this week White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Trump would sign an executive order requiring government agencies to "buy American" when building equipment to fight the coronavirus pandemic in a bid to bring parts of the medical supply chain back to the US.

The move was largely panned. The US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin urging him to oppose the measure as it would only exacerbate supply constraints and shortages of necessary goods.

This is because we already have evidence that tariffs make the fight against coronavirus harder. Because of Trump's trade war with China, the US already started from a lower inventory of much-needed medical supplies, according to research from the Peterson Institute of International Economics (PIIE). About $5 billion worth of critical medical goods were caught up in the US-China trade war, which accounts for 26% of US imports of those items.

Trade experts, like Chad Bown of PIIE, warn that the EU's decision to limit exports of medical goods will backfire. It will slow supply chains, seize up productions lines, and maybe inspire guys like Trump to do what Trump is thinking of doing — retaliating. It all has to stop. What we, as a human race, are about to find out is that a global pandemic is an exercise in cooperation.

Unfortunately cooperation is not the Trump administration's forte.

March 29, 2020 at 8:34 PM
Anonymous said...

Lazy, doddering, fool parrot gave us this tidbit.

He thinks it is very, very important.So he put it in bold so we wouldn't miss it

... This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. ...

Words of wisdom dropped on us by parrot at 8:34.

March 29, 2020 at 11:16 PM
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