Trump wants America to die.

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Kid Berwyn (3,023 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213693335

Trump BLACK LIES MATTER and the DNC wants America to die.

Otherwise, we’d have a national strategy to fight the plague.

A strategy would include nationwide plans for:

1. Stopping the spread of the disease.
2. Treating the afflicted.
3. Protecting the healthy.
4. Protecting the healthcare infrastructure (hospitals, clinics, transportation, equipment).
5. Protecting healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, specialists, technicians, staff).
6. Preserving the economy (communities, people, workers, employers, companies, banks, etc.).
7. Recovery and reopening businesses, schools, arts, sports, culture and the rest of national life.

What else would a National strategy need to do to defeat Covid-19?

 

Star Member RKP5637 (58,304 posts)

1. He and Moscow Mitch are probably under direct orders from Putin on how to handle this plague. n/t

Kid Berwyn (3,023 posts)

3. Based on reality, yes.

Trump couldn’t do more harm if he wanted to. Nor Putin.

 

Star Member jalan48 (10,512 posts)

4. I've been wondering what he, and the Republicans really want. I think chaos is their goal. If people happen to die it's considered collateral damage. Milton Friedman and other disaster capitalism adherents know the best time to make major changes to a society is when the citizens are in a state of chaotic panic. When the chaos subsides they wake up to a new order.

 

Star Member I_UndergroundPanther (2,308 posts)

23. I dispise republicans

And every single asshole who supports and believes thier free market neo liberal shit.

To me the neo liberal capitalist narcissists must be barred from power forever. Make it impossible for them to be elected to anything.

Most people are not neoliberal asshats.

Defang declaw and neuter all the predatory capitalists forever.

 

Star Member StarryNite (5,095 posts)

13. He does want us to die.

At least he wants the ones of us who are collecting Social Security to die. The rethugs have been trying to do away with SS since the beginning of it. If they can't get rid of it they will get rid of as many of us who are on it as they can. Since Covid-19 is the most dangerous for older people they see it as a win and let it keep on going. In fact they are actually working to spread it by having those disgusting rallies.

 

[jukin]

Everybody on that thread should be red flagged and never be able to buy a weapon. They are insane.

[SVPete]

A strategy would include nationwide plans for:

1. Stopping the spread of the disease.
2. Treating the afflicted.
3. Protecting the healthy.
4. Protecting the healthcare infrastructure (hospitals, clinics, transportation, equipment).
5. Protecting healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, specialists, technicians, staff).
6. Preserving the economy (communities, people, workers, employers, companies, banks, etc.).
7. Recovery and reopening businesses, schools, arts, sports, culture and the rest of national life.

Other than providing guidelines and supplying shortages, that's almost entirely the job of the states, counties and cities, not the Federal government. So, item by item:

1. Not possible. There is no such thing as zero risk. Beyond that, containment of outbreaks is the job of the states, counties and cities.

2. It is the job of the states, counties, and cities to support local hospitals.

3. That is the job of the states, counties, and cities, who know - or should - what is happening in their jurisdictions better than any DC desk driver.

4. That is the job of the states, counties, and cities.

5. It is the job of the states, counties, and cities to support local hospitals who are directly responsible.

6. States, counties, and cities shut businesses down. Should the Feds have violated the Constitutions and immediately forced reopening? The Feds have provided guidelines, but states have the sovereign right to follow those guideline - or not - as they choose.

7. The Feds have provided guidelines, but states have the sovereign right to follow those guideline - or not - as they choose.

So, what IS the Feds' job?

1. Controlling entry from other countries. Trump did that.

2. Get approved Federally approved tests into healthcare workers' hands. Trump did that, and then when it turned out that the CDC F'ed up their in-house-designed test, got the FDA to give approval for the use of private companies' tests.

3. Fund and enable the development, approval, and distribution of treatment medicines. Trump has and is doing that.

4. Fund and enable the development, approval, and distribution of vaccines. Trump has and is doing that.

5. Provide things like PPE and ventilators and hospital space (e.g. USS Comfort and Mercy, VA hospitals making facilities available for civilian use) when hospitals, cities, counties, and states are overwhelmed. IOW, the Federal government is the final, not the first resort. Trump has done that and is also replenishing the stockpiles that had not been replenished in 2010 (2011?).