DanieRains (1,275 posts)
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Just Got Into It With A Customer / Friend 1.) This Nightmare Is 100% Trump's Fault
2.) Our intelligence told the Israelis in November this was coming.
3.) Trump called it a hoax and did nothing while it spread unchecked for months.
4.) Trump's administration removed most of the scientists in China who were looking for this crap (according to Biden).
5.) We have the most doctors, ventilators and everything else, and have by far the most dead. Why?
1.) What in Hades kind of business owner "gets into it" with customers? And if an employee, the business owner should consider canning
DU-Moron DanieRains!
2.) Stupidly false, since it was only in mid-December that doctors in Wuhan had enough patients with the same symptoms to recognize a pattern.
3.) Trump did not call this coronavirus a hoax. He called the Dems' politicization of it a coax, quite accurately. Even Snopes had admitted this,
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As for the stupidly false claim that Trump "did nothing for months", China notified WHO - after info leaked out of China - on 12/31/2019. On 1/2/2020 (US time), the US CDC offered to send specialists to China.
CDC issued a Level 1 travel notice for Wuhan, China: January 6, 2020,
https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2020/01/cdc-issues-level-1-watch-travel-notice.htmlCDC offered to send team to China: January 6, 2020,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/01/28/cdc-offers-china-help-as-coronavirus-outbreak-grows-according-to-report/#5b15af734ee4CDC established a coronavirus incident management system: January 7, 2020,
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/videos/coronavirus/COVID-19-webinar.pdfCDC alert to clinicians to ask patients with "severe respiratory illness" whether they had traveled to Wuhan: January 8, 2020,
https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/han00424.aspThe US started screening arriving passengers from China: January 17, 2020, JFK, SFO, LAX
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-disease-virus-china-us-airports-screening-cdc-2020-1 ; O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson January 22, 2020,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/21/us-screenings-coronavirus-expanded-airports-atlanta-chicago/Dr. Fauci announces the National Institutes of Health working developing a vaccine for coronavirus: January 20, 2020,
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/health/coronavirus-nih-vaccine-development/index.htmlCDC activated its emergency operations center: January 20, 2020,
https://emergency.cdc.gov/recentincidents/index.asp?cid=EPR-homepagePharmaceuticals company working with US government to develop vaccine: January 22, 2020, Moderna,
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/moderna-is-working-on-a-vaccine-for-chinas-deadly-coronavirus.htmlCDC sought “special emergency authorization” from FDA to allow states to use its coronavirus test: January 23, 2020,
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-cdc-idUSKBN1ZM2XSCDC renewed offer to send team to China: January 28, 2020,
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/480314-us-looks-to-send-health-experts-to-china-amidWhite House announced the formation of the Coronavirus Task Force: January 29, 2020,
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/480627-white-house-announces-task-force-to-monitor-coronavirusUS personnel evacuated from Wuhan: January 29, 2020,
https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-chartering-evacuation-flight-wuhan-coronavirus-zone-california/story?id=68571310Trump declared a public health emergency: January 31, 2020,
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/delta-suspends-us-flights-china-amid-coronavirus/story?id=68666037State Department raised the travel advisory for China to Level 4, do not travel: January 31, 2020,
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-flight-ban-delta-cuts-all-flights-white-house/4620989002/People entering the US from China forbidden: Announced January 31, 2020, effective February 2, 2020,
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/02/us/coronavirus-us-travel-restrictions/index.html4.) "According to Biden",
.The full story is boring, but basically they had been in China working on a multinational project, and their part was ending. China had plenty of its own scientists, but in late December and early January they were being ordered by China to destroy their work and stop all communication about this virus.
Ai Fen, director of Wuhan Central Hospital, posted a WeChat message about the new SARS-like virus and reprimanded: December 30, 2019,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/coronavirus-wuhan-doctor-ai-fen-speaks-out-against-authoritiesGenomics company employee ordered by Hubei Provincial Health Commission official to stop testing and destroy samples: January 1, 2020,
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-early-signs-of-the-coronavirus-were-spotted-spread-and-throttled-in-chinaJust after 8 AM China time, a senior official of Wuhan Central Hospital subjects Dr. Ai Fen to what she later describes as “an unprecedented and very severe rebuke.” The official tells her not to speak to anyone, including her husband, about the pneumonia cases: January 2, 2020 (China),
https://tinyurl.com/sggfhq8 (Chinese language)
China's National Health Commission ordered institutions not to publish any information and ordered labs to transfer samples to testing institutions (without designating an institution) or to destroy them: January 3, 2020,
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-early-signs-of-the-coronavirus-were-spotted-spread-and-throttled-in-chinaLi Wenliang detained by Wuhan police for "spreading false rumors": January 3, 2020,
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/07/coronavirus-chinese-rage-death-whistleblower-doctor-li-wenliang5.) China's and Iran's stats are bogus, and Russia's questionable at best. That said, If one looks at the
deaths per million in population numbers,
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries ,Spain, UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Australia, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, and New Zealand are all doing worse, most far worse.
