US President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a NATO roundtable meeting in England in December. AP Photo/Frank Augstein
Rosie Perper, Business Insider: Boris Johnson tested positive for COVID-19 and is being treated in the ICU. Experts explain the possible fallout of other world leaders catching the coronavirus.
* The coronavirus, which causes a disease called COVID-19, has killed more than 74,000 and infected over 1.3 million. It has spread to at least 184 countries.
* On March 27, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first world leader of a major power to announce that he had tested positive for COVID-19. He is currently undergoing treatment in the ICU.
* Other world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and Canada's Justin Trudeau, have come into contact with people who tested positive for the illness.
* Several experts weighed in on the possible social, political, and economic effects of a major world leader contracting COVID-19.
As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, experts have weighed in on the possible social, political, and economic fallout if a head of state were to contract COVID-19.
On March 27, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first world leader of a major power to announce that he had tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. On April 5, he entered the hospital for treatment, and as of April 6, he had been moved into an intensive-care unit after his coronavirus symptoms worsened.
"Over the course of this afternoon, the condition of the Prime Minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital," his spokesperson said on April 6.
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WNU Editor: World leaders have gotten sick in the past, and many have died while in office. In democracies there is a line of succession, but in autocratic countries, that may not be the case. If someone like President Putin or Chinese President Xi get incapacitated and/or past away, the impact on policies and foreign affairs will be very profound. Ditto if President Trump or Prime Minister Boris Johnson past away. But if other leaders past away .... like Canadian PM Trudeau, I do not see any significant changes. Life will go on.
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That the pandemic occurred is not Trump’s fault. The utter unpreparedness of the United States for a pandemic is Trump’s fault. The loss of stockpiled respirators to breakage because the federal government let maintenance contracts lapse in 2018 is Trump’s fault. The failure to store sufficient protective medical gear in the national arsenal is Trump’s fault. That states are bidding against other states for equipment, paying many multiples of the precrisis price for ventilators, is Trump’s fault. Air travelers summoned home and forced to stand for hours in dense airport crowds alongside infected people? That was Trump’s fault too. Ten weeks of insisting that the coronavirus is a harmless flu that would miraculously go away on its own? Trump’s fault again. The refusal of red-state governors to act promptly, the failure to close Florida and Gulf Coast beaches until late March? That fault is more widely shared, but again, responsibility rests with Trump: He could have stopped it, and he did not.
The lying about the coronavirus by hosts on Fox News and conservative talk radio is Trump’s fault: They did it to protect him. The false hope of instant cures and nonexistent vaccines is Trump’s fault, because he told those lies to cover up his failure to act in time. The severity of the economic crisis is Trump’s fault; things would have been less bad if he had acted faster instead of sending out his chief economic adviser and his son Eric to assure Americans that the first stock-market dips were buying opportunities. The firing of a Navy captain for speaking truthfully about the virus’s threat to his crew? Trump’s fault. The fact that so many key government jobs were either empty or filled by mediocrities? Trump’s fault. The insertion of Trump’s arrogant and incompetent son-in-law as commander in chief of the national medical supply chain? Trump’s fault.
For three years, Trump has blathered and bluffed and bullied his way through an office for which he is utterly inadequate. But sooner or later, every president must face a supreme test, a test that cannot be evaded by blather and bluff and bullying. That test has overwhelmed Trump.
Trump failed. He is failing. He will continue to fail. And Americans are paying for his failures.
Look squirrel squirted his ink.
Squirter, when hasn't the flu or something come around or about every 10 years?
Come on squirter, do you remember the iron lungs or the meningitis outbreaks?
I'm sure that in your mind, Trump is to blame for polio and iron lungs back in the 1950s.
MOMMY BOY STILL SQUIRTING BABY INSULTS BECAUSE CAN NOT GET DRY NAPPIES?
This country’s woeful response to the virus has an obvious cause: a president who refused to heed warnings and to prepare, instead offering false assurances while the nation snoozed. Even now, inexcusable delays limit tests, ventilators and respirators, and even now President Trump resists a nationwide stay-at-home order.
But it’s painful for some to put the responsibility where it belongs. Christian broadcaster Rick Wiles, therefore, took a different tack. He blamed the Jews. “God is spreading it in your synagogues! You’re under judgment because you oppose his son, the Lord Jesus Christ,” he proclaimed on his TruNews platform. This is the same Rick Wiles who in November called Trump’s impeachment a “Jew coup.” And this is the same Rick Wiles whose TruNews outlet was granted press credentials by the Trump administration to cover the World Economic Forum in January; Wiles stayed in a room booked by the administration.
Others follow Trump’s lead in blaming scientists for our woes. As The Post first reported, the government had to step up security for Anthony Fauci, the top infectious-disease expert at the National Institutes of Health and the most visible scientist responding to the crisis. Threats had been made against the 79-year-old doctor, who frequently contradicts Trump’s uninformed happy talk. Fauci has been attacked by pro-Trump outlets such as Gateway Pundit and American Thinker, which labeled Fauci a “Deep-State Hillary Clinton-loving Stooge.” The dark-web conspiracy theorists from QAnon and the like do worse to Fauci, a loyal public servant under every president since Ronald Reagan.
Still others try to distract from the Trump administration’s failures by blaming a globalist conspiracy. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) demanded an investigation into the WHO for “helping Communist China cover up a global pandemic.” Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton, former Trump U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.), and Tom Cotton (Ark.), Fox News’s Tucker Carlson and pro-Trump outlets such as the Federalist and Breitbart have proclaimed similar sentiments.
It’s fair to criticize WHO’s hesitation to declare a pandemic, and its credulity in sharing China’s claims and praising its efforts. But if the WHO had harshly attacked the Chinese response, we would have gotten even less cooperation and information out of China.
The WHO began working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Jan. 1 — a day after China disclosed the virus — and sent out advisories to worldwide public-health leaders beginning Jan. 5. Its scientists first got into Wuhan on Jan. 20, and on Jan. 23 it warned of a 4 percent death rate, human-to-human transmission and potential exporting of the virus to “any country.” The WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, visited Beijing and secured permission for a dozen scientists, including from the CDC, to tour the affected areas from Feb. 16 to Feb. 24.
The scientists issued a report warning that the virus is “spreading with astonishing speed” and called for governments to “immediately activate the highest level of national response,” including immediate and extensive testing and planning for closing schools and workplaces.
Fred Many of us out side of the halls forever shrouded in ignorance that is the English Department have taken statistics. As such we no what alpha risk/significance level, beta risk, p value et cetera is.
We do not have to slavishly follow every word of anyone, who has a degree. Many disciplines use statistics from the soft sciences, the hard science, and the rest of STEM. I even know of a few English majors who study and have used statistics. Alas, this is not common and most English majors remain benighted.
Experts like Dr Fauci have been wrong on disease projections the times over 3 months. fauci was wrong on hydroxychloroquine. The WHO director said corona 19 could not be spread from human to human.
So keep Fulminating Fred. You have been wrong every step of the way.
You were wrong about Jussie Smollet. About the best you could do by way of apology was to say "Smell it" as a joke.
Here is a typical Fred Blast from the Past.
fred said...
Fuck you hate girls
Trump screeed up live with it
March 1, 2019 at 12:58 PM
It has reached the point that discourse for the left is not based on the careful, calculated debate, but instead beating peoples heads into the floor with rabid narrative and feel feels. Just chanting, head nodding to those who say the same thing, and frothing at the mouth to those who do not. The same idiots now who are billowing their uncontrollable emotional yeast infections at people, 10 years from now will be in social gatherings trying to say how the Trump presidency wasn't a big deal and that they weren't one of those batshit crazies screaming and living the anti orange Thanos life. Precious shits.
Lololololo!
Matthew,
When your argument solely based on the ethical plane ( as the Left's is), personal attack is their only come back. Lapides is a prime example.
President Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, wrote a memo in late January warning of the potential for “a full-blown pandemic” caused by the new coronavirus, “imperiling the lives of millions of Americans,” The New York Times reports. The memo, dated Jan. 29, went around the West Wing at a time when the president was downplaying the risks of the virus publicly, though a day after it was sent Trump approved limits on travelers entering the United States from China. A second memo in February, published by Axios, predicted a possible “loss of life of as many as 1-2 million souls” in the U.S. from COVID-19. Navarro also detailed expected needs for personal protective equipment in the second memo, writing: “We can expect to need at least a billion face masks, 200,000 Tyvek suits, and 11,000 ventilator circuits, and 25,000 PAPRs (powered air-purifying respirators.)”
President Donald Trump has a “small financial interest” in the maker of an anti-malarial drug that he has been touting as a “game changer” in treating coronavirus, according to The New York Times. Over the past two weeks, Trump and his Fox News allies have aggressively promoted hydroxychloroquine as a potential cure, despite top infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci and others urging caution and noting that there was not enough evidence of the drug’s efficacy.
The Times reports the president’s family trusts all have investments in a mutual fund whose largest holding is Sanofi, the manufacturer of Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine. Associates of the president, including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, have also run funds that hold investments in the pharmaceutical firm.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting that a Republican Georgia senator invested in a medical equipment company on the same day they received a briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic — and this time it’s not Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA).
According to AJC, Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) “made a number of purchases of stock in DuPont de Nemours, a chemical company that supplies personal protective equipment used by people trying to avoid exposure to the virus.”
The paper notes that this included “buying shares worth as much as $65,000 on Jan. 24, the same day that the Senate held a members-only briefing on the novel coronavirus.”
now baby girls: put up more silly schoolyard insults till mommy feeds you lunch
Lapides is a liar AND a loser.
It must really gall ole Lapides that his "inferiors" are smarter than he is.
wow. girls are realy being very clever today! mommy must be away from the kids
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ABC's Karl shuns responding to Trump's personal attacks: 'It's not what matters'
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Jonathan Karl, chief White House correspondent for ABC News, says he doesn't want to engage in a "personal back-and-forth" with President Trump, arguing "it's not what matters."
Karl, who serves as head of the White House Correspondents Association, has been on the receiving end of attacks from the president during White House coronavirus task force briefings in recent days, including Monday when Trump called him a "third-rate reporter" who will "never make it."
"I’ve been on the receiving end of very public attacks from the president. I’ve also been on the receiving end of public praise from the president," Karl told The Hill in an interview. "I think in both cases you need to ignore it. It’s not what matters. What matters is trying to report the facts and being accurate and being fair and asking the right questions. I don’t want to engage in this personal back-and-forth."
Karl's remarks come on the heels of the release of his new book, "Front Row at the Trump Show." The book notes that while Trump often characterizes the media as being "fake news" and the "enemy of the people" at campaign rallies and on Twitter, the president is also a big consumer of news, including outlets that he regularly criticizes.
"One of the fakest things in the world is Donald Trump’s attack on fake news," Karl told The Hill. "Donald Trump actually does a lot to court reporters and is certainly a consumer of news beyond any president that I’ve ever witnessed. [Trump] is certainly a consumer of news beyond any president that I’ve ever witnessed. He uses his DVR to watch all of the networks, to watch the cable networks, even those he professes to hate and to not watch."
Karl added that the president also is well aware of the political benefits of casting the media as the villain.
“I don’t take responsibility at all,” said President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden on March 13. Those words will probably end up as the epitaph of his presidency, the single sentence that sums it all up.
Trump now fancies himself a “wartime president.” How is his war going? By the end of March, the coronavirus had killed more Americans than the 9/11 attacks. By the first weekend in April, the virus had killed more Americans than any single battle of the Civil War. By Easter, it may have killed more Americans than the Korean War. On the present trajectory, it will kill, by late April, more Americans than Vietnam. Having earlier promised that casualties could be held near zero, Trump now claims he will have done a “very good job” if the toll is held below 200,000 dead.
The United States is on trajectory to suffer more sickness, more dying, and more economic harm from this virus than any other comparably developed country.
Read: How the coronavirus became an American catastrophe
That the pandemic occurred is not Trump’s fault. The utter unpreparedness of the United States for a pandemic is Trump’s fault. The loss of stockpiled respirators to breakage because the federal government let maintenance contracts lapse in 2018 is Trump’s fault. The failure to store sufficient protective medical gear in the national arsenal is Trump’s fault. That states are bidding against other states for equipment, paying many multiples of the precrisis price for ventilators, is Trump’s fault. Air travelers summoned home and forced to stand for hours in dense airport crowds alongside infected people? That was Trump’s fault too. Ten weeks of insisting that the coronavirus is a harmless flu that would miraculously go away on its own? Trump’s fault again. The refusal of red-state governors to act promptly, the failure to close Florida and Gulf Coast beaches until late March? That fault is more widely shared, but again, responsibility rests with Trump: He could have stopped it, and he did not.
Panting!
POOR POOR PUTNAM...NOTHING TO DO BUT PLAY TRUMP WITH PERSONAL INSULTS...MOMMY'S LITTLE CUTIE IS AN ASSHOLE
Covid Is Forcing the GOP to Admit Its Ideology Is Delusional
"Fred is when he spends so much time posting snippets of incoherent crap on here that no one bothers to read anymore, then lingers waiting for responses"
That sums it up.
I never read the article. I do note that Frederick has passed this way. I also tag the 1st sentence for a web search and see what luminaries in what rags Fred is reading. Sometimes.
Considering your comment delusional is too nice a word.
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