5564

Look man… if you think I am going to defend Hillary Clinton you are knocking on the wrong door.

First Vote I cast was for Bush 41. Second one was for Dole.

If a Hillary Clinton administration was failing this badly and she put into place Chelsea Clinton and Mark Mezvinsky as advisors and in charge of all sorts of failed policies, this place would be melting down and I would be agreeing with you guys.

5565

You should be celebrating, this is exactly what you and yours have been working towards for decades.

A strong central gov’t that essentially erases the state gov’ts as anything other than administrative sub divisions.

5566

Anyone that died in the ER was almost certainly too sick to survive no matter what care they got.

Nobody is sharing ventilators, that was experimented with “just in case”.

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5567

Mass testing across the nation won’t be possible until the POC tests have been distributed nationwide.

The Article is BS. No country has ever geared up to mass test 150,000,000 people in thirty, sixty, ninety, or a hundred and twenty days.

Well be doing it in sixty days or less and it took a huge effort by the private sector to get geared up to produce and process that many tests.

You can’t simply wish anything into being and if it has to be manufactured you can’t exceed the total mfg capacity in the country not matter who occupies the WH.

There are physical limits to what is possible and we’ve blow away all other countries in this regard with respect to this disease that didn’t even have a name or a known Genome 60 days ago.

5568

The claim nothing was done in February is just an outright lie and we all know it.

He was right to be incensed as that lie is an absolute insult to everyone who has sacrificed to gear up for this fight which has been extremely successful.

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5569

There are no gaps. It’s not like everyone was taking the day off inbetween the milestones.

Exactly what more should have been done that was possible and practical given what was know at the time?

5570

And we had 61,700 deaths last year from the flu, a known disease for which there are proven treatments and vaccines for that for which we were completely prepared for months before our it broke out in the US.

5571

How exactly? China hid the outbreak for two months, denied us access to either tissue samples for typing or the genome until January and refused to allow the CDC response teams to enter the country.

This disease didn’t even have a name or a known Genome just 60 days ago.

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5572

Where is it “spreading uncontrollably”?

5573

If we treated Coronavirus like the common flu, would we have more or less infections and deaths?

5574

Very true. Everyone’s favorite model (IHME) went from a little over 60,000 predicted deaths up to almost 69,000 predicted deaths in 2 days. I think some fail to grasp the situation.

5575

He doesn’t, and you’re willingly throwing away basic conservative philosophy to say he does. I doubt you could even find a liberal president who would make such a claim.

Not at all. The first four words of your quote of trump are the most important.

Allow? No.

5576

Last one for Hildawg.

We don’t have to imagine a Clinton admin and an epidemic, we can look at the Obama admin and 2014-15. 51,000 deaths.

I know I didn’t blame Obama.

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5577

Who knows, we didn’t.

5578

We can’t treat it like the flu, there are know proven anti virals or vaccines for it.

The same exact preventive measures however work for both.

5579

Here is what Trump did in February. Which one would you say had the most impact?

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1249827680788381697

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5580

What are you talking about?

Today we had 4.059 new cases and 365 more deaths.

NY, our neighbor and friend had over 700 deaths.

Where are you getting your information?

https://www.njtvonline.org/news/uncategorized/tracking-the-coronavirus-in-new-jersey/

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5581

I’m celebrating the wisdom of the founders who knew someday we might elect an idiot.

5582

Texas nursing homes for one.

5583

There is no, “one thing”.

The declaration of a Healthcare Emergency freed up funds for the rest.

The Travel Restrictions bought us at least four to six weeks to gear up.

Getting testing underway early played a huge role.

Probably most importantly the private labs were given the opportunity to start producing and processing their own tests. We’re already seeing the benefits of that with more than 120,000 tests now being performed per day and with the POC rapid tests coming online right now we’ll soon be able to to ten times that number per day if not more.

The serum titer test developed at the same time under the same authority and urging from NIH and CDC will be the key to getting the country back to work.

Remove any one of those things and we’d be in a world of hurt right now.