Weâve been told . Many here will regret the folly of their ways .
Iâd love him to save lives pal because I feel sorry for the millions of elederly who have to endure such a third world health system as the US has but the point is that destroying your pandemic response capability and lying about the threat the virus poses was the entirely predictable act of a totally incompetent and corrupt piece of shit.
The US is an international joke, but nobodyâs laughing.
The US took decisive action early to limit travel from China and quarantine anyone who had been to the Wuhan area. Meanwhile the EU sat back and did nothing and now Italy has over 350 cases with 10 dead.
The US also has the finest professional in the world in terms of responding to this disease, the CDC, NIH and some of the best medical facilities in the world. There is no country I would prefer to be in now in terms of protection measures from this disease or treatment for those affected.
Utterly despicable that people would politicize this. Scumbags basically who would prefer people dead so they can win an Internet argument in their head.
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Obama care is a joke
Trump care saves lives
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Youâre consistently avoiding the facts because the facts hurt your feelings.
Trump has drastically denuded the USâs capability to respond, put idiots in place who donât know basic facts like the death rate of normal flu versus corona virus, as was exposed by a Republican senator yesterday, and you know that full well but because youâre bizarrely trying to maintain an internet persona, you doubled down on the performative delusion.
Itâs sad to see somebody do that.
I got a seething response last night from another one of your deluded cult which mentioned the word crowbar, which I thought was ironic because you and he both give the distinct impression that your brains have been smashed in with one.
To reiterate, the US is an international joke, and you are a joke.
Trumpâs response and preparedness for this has been a complete joke. Not just in comparison to how Obama handled the Ebola outbreak in 2014, but in comparison to how countries like Italy are dealing with this outbreak.
Pretending everything will be fine based on literally nothing and because youâre petrified a stock market crash will send your approval ratings tumbling is banana republic stuff, like everything else about this regime.
Donald Trump will address the public on Wednesday night to discuss the governmentâs response to coronavirus, which US health officials say has entered a new phase.
The president has expressed optimism, but that does not mesh with warnings from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that the respiratory illness is likely to cause âsevere disruptionâ to the lives of ordinary Americans.
Trump has complained without evidence that the news media is âdoing everything possibleâ to make coronavirus âlook as bad as possibleâ, while he has praised his administrationâs response. Despite his rosy picture of the administrationâs work, serious concerns have been raised about its response so far.
The top questions for Trump before his remarks include:
How is the US monitoring the outbreak?
The government distributed faulty test kits and public health experts are increasingly concerned the lack of testing is misrepresenting the spread of coronavirus in the US.
Test kits have not been widely distributed to hospitals or medical labs and the kits that have been sent out must be sent back to the CDC in Atlanta to confirm results.
While South Korea has tested more than 35,000 people for coronavirus, the US has tested 426 people, excluding those returned on evacuation flights, according to the Washington Post.
As of now, the US recommends testing only for people who display respiratory symptoms and have recently traveled to China or had close contact with an infected person. The CDC is considering expanding the testing protocol to include people traveling to the US from countries beyond mainland China.
Jeremy Konyndyk, who led the Obama administrationâs response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014, told the Guardian this week the US does not have a fully mobilized response to testing for coronavirus. âIt is puzzling to me that the government has been unable so far to resolve that problem, at a time when most other countries that are facing the disease have been able to do testing at a much larger scale,â said Konyndyk.
Who is in charge?
According to the White House, the coronavirus response is in the hands of the health secretary, Alex Azar.
During the Ebola crisis, Barack Obamaâs administration established a post to oversee the governmentâs response in case the outbreak turned into a pandemic. Lawmakers and health experts have called for a similar post to be made in the Trump White House for coronavirus.
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Ronald Klain, who held the Ebola position under Obama, told the New York Times: âOne cabinet secretary cannot run an interagency response. Azar has the biggest civilian job in the American government. Is he doing this in his spare time?â
On Wednesday, the White House deputy press secretary, Judd Deere, said on Twitter that a report the White House is considering appointing a coronavirus czar âis not true!â
In May, the Trump administration scrapped a position created after Klainâs departure to coordinate similar responses in the future: senior director for global health security and biothreats on the national security council (NSC). Last week, 27 senators wrote a letter to Trump asking him to quickly fill the job.
The Pulitzer-prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett said the federal government had âintentionally rendered itself incapableâ of responding to the outbreak.
âIn numerous phone calls and emails with key agencies across the US government, the only consistent response I encountered was distressed confusion,â Garrett said. âIf the United States still has a clear chain of command for pandemic response, the White House urgently needs to clarify what it is â not just for the public but for the government itself, which largely finds itself in the dark.â
How much money is available?
The US is entering this phase of the coronavirus outbreak after repeated attempts by the federal government to drastically cut CDC funding. Congress has mostly blocked this from happening, though the Trump administration successfully cut its global epidemic work from 49 countries to 10.
Among the countries where CDC efforts were scaled back were Haiti, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as China, where the agency provided technical assistance.
Now, the White House has requested $1.25bn in new emergency funding and to divert another $1.25bn from existing federal programs. The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, a critic of the administrationâs response to coronavirus, on Wednesday requested $8.5bn.
Does the US have enough equipment?
Azar told a Senate panel on Tuesday that the federal government had a stockpile of 30m masks but could need 300m for health workers.
Stores are also reporting shortages of the N95 respirator mask, which doctors recommend for people who are sick instead of surgical-type masks. Doctors have cautioned even the N95 has limited efficacy because it needs to be fit-tested, which many people arenât qualified to handle on their own.
Can the president instill confidence?
Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary under George W Bush, said he didnât understand why the CDCâs Tuesday announcement was made without coordination with the White House.
âThere should have been an Oval Office meeting, a statement by Potus about protecting people, and then a press avail by experts,â Fleischer said. âBizarre.â
Amid increasingly serious messages about the outbreak, Trump has repeatedly cast an optimistic light on US preparedness. On Tuesday, he said the US was âvery closeâ to a vaccine, before the White House backtracked on the remarks and said he was referring to an Ebola vaccine approved two months ago.
And while the administration appears focused on downplaying coronavirus because of its impact on the economy, the S&P 500 closed down 3% on Tuesday, after its worst one-day slide in two years on Monday.
Trump just appointed Mike Pence to deal with the Coronavirus. 
Heâs going to pray it away.
Just like he did with HIV.
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1595 cases now in S Korea, 453 in Italy. Thereâs an urgent need to curtail travel now from these hotbeds of infection, time is running out.
Denmark has fallen.
Estonia has fallen.
Itâs times like this being an island nation helps
If itâs still around when the Sahara sand clouds start blowing North weâll be fucked
Poland hasnât fallen because they donât have the testing kits. There are a few cases alright. A load of people were down in Italy skiing for the ferier ( school winter break).
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Just like Brian Lenihan said about the banking crisis. Though his father Brian Lenihan did say we couldnât all live on a small island.
Did that not already happen when Derek McGrath and Donal Og appeared on the Sunday Game together ?
The countries with the most cases are the countries which have it most under control, or should I say, least not under control⌠To tackle a problem, you have to actually know you have one in the first place
Itâs in Buxton.
Covid 19 sounds like a Fine Gael housing plan.
