So as the general public starts to see the President as an actual leader in a time of crisis (versus Dementia Joe working out of his basement trying to figure out his 1980's camcorder) the left wing media appears to be increasingly concerned.
It's not enough to continue ask dishonest, argumentative, and repetitive questions during the daily briefings. That apparently has not worked for them. I suppose at some point in time the general public will see the questions as petty and disingenuous after being asked and answered for five days straight. It's also one thing for the media to attempt to undermine the President, but undermining CDC doctors is a whole different can of worms.
Now certain networks are deciding to not carry them, because they believe that the President, the task force, and the CDC are providing "disinformation". I am sure what this disinformation is, other than they seem to be taking the word of people they "want" to believe over what is being said in the daily briefings.
The other day I saw someone dispute the claims that they were ramping up testing and would be caught up with the backlog sometime this week... by citing statistics from March 9th. What does March 9th have to do with the recent ramp up of testing? Is it a lie to say that 4000 ventilators were shipped to the state of New York, because previously Cuomo had offered that he only had received 400 (which was actually a previous shipment) and needed 30,000?
Moreover, when did it become a thing to question the expertise of the CDC when it comes to infectious disease or an infectious virus? There is technically no group of experts in the world (and most certainly not in this country) with more experience, knowledge, and expertise in this particular subject. Yet, you get people "shrug off" what they say while chasing down whatever medical expert tells them what they want to hear.
We are in a full scale crisis and we can no longer trust our media to be even remotely objective about what is actually happening. Everything is about trying to discredit the President and apparently the Task force and the CDC. The problem is that at some point in time people will simply start to tune out the media rantings. For more and more Americans that point has already come and gone.
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CNN:
The Presidential Race Isn’t on Hold
March 26, 2020 at 10:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments
“For President Trump, the power and the perils of incumbency are on full display as he seeks to steer the nation through a never-before-seen moment in modern America. He’s cast himself as a wartime president, even as he sends conflicting signals on whether his bigger priority is ending the pandemic or restarting the US economy, both of which will now undoubtedly influence his re-election,” CNN reports.
“Seven months before Election Day, the President is working overtime to build a glowing narrative about his administration’s coronavirus response.”
“His rally-like rhetoric from the White House may be paying dividends — for now, at least — as three polls this week show more Americans view Trump’s handling of the crisis through a positive light than a negative one. His approval rating has ticked up. It’s an open question whether those early reviews represent more of a rallying effect, which presidents often experience during times of national emergency, or if the support will endure after the true scope of the deadly outbreak is fully known.”
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Good point. The coronavirus is neither a Republican nor a Democrat.
MUST MUST MUST WATCH TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1AXa9vnydE
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-campaign-threatens-legal-action-of-coronavirus-ad-81229893822
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSxU8ljtHB8
You do realize Reverend Idiot...
that only idiots watch "morning Joe" and only a complete moron would take anything he says seriously.
Are you going to tune into the Rush Limbaugh show later today because one of us tell you to? If not, why on god's green earth do you think it works the other way around?
Only a Sub-Human says this:
"James March 26, 2020 at 8:24 AM
On Easter, Trump supporters will pack churches and sit close to each other.
Some people call that "culling the herd".
James has no shame.
Candice Malcolm
@CandiceMalcolm
The World Health Organization, apparently, doesn’t recognize the state of Israel, refers to the world’s only Jewish country as “Occupied Palestinian Territory” in its regional update on coronavirus.
So they’re bigoted as well as being incompetent.
https://twitter.com/CandiceMalcolm/status/1242932058521055232
"Global Warming" Alarmist Who Panicked the World By "Predicting" a Half Million Wuhan Flu Deaths In the UK Alone Now Says... Never Mind
We need heads for this.
And I think I might mean that literally.
His new bullshit -- and his "model" is, like all alleged global warming models, completely based on whatever bullshit assumptions you start the model with -- garbage inputs, garbage outputs -- is that a great many more people contracted the Wuhan Flu than he thought, which means that many, many people had the flu and didn't even know it, which means... the Wuhan Flu is not much more dangerous than the standard yearly flu.
Gee sorry I crashed the world economy. Muh bad.
Of course, he didn't do it alone. It was the incompetent psychotics of the media and the obsessive shut-ins of Twitter that really Spread the Disease of FakeNews Panic.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/386533.php
Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say?
Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude.
If it’s true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried out in cities and states around the country are surely justified. But there’s little evidence to confirm that premise—and projections of the death toll could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high.
Fear of Covid-19 is based on its high estimated case fatality rate — 2% to 4% of people with confirmed Covid-19 have died, according to the World Health Organization and others. So if 100 million Americans ultimately get the disease, 2 million to 4 million could die. We believe that estimate is deeply flawed. The true fatality rate is the portion of those infected who die, not the deaths from identified positive cases.
The latter rate is misleading because of selection bias in testing. The degree of bias is uncertain because available data are limited. But it could make the difference between an epidemic that kills 20,000 and one that kills 2 million. If the number of actual infections is much larger than the number of cases—orders of magnitude larger—then the true fatality rate is much lower as well. That’s not only plausible but likely based on what we know so far.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464
Why Flattening the Curve is Overrated
There is no vaccine. Flattening the curve simply kicks the can down the road. It’s not like we go on lockdown for a few weeks while doctors go door to door inoculating us.
And that’s coming from someone that is actively practicing it. Our house is on lock down. We’re working from home. We only leave to grab essentials and come back. I stay six feet away from people. My parents cancelled a visit as they drove home to PA from Florida.
Here is the question that no one has answered to my satisfaction – can you describe to me what the successful lifting of quarantine looks like?
Without a vaccine, the minute we try to resume normal living, the virus starts to spread all over again. It takes one contagious person to emerge from quarantine to reset all those efforts. Those of us that have not been exposed during this shut down haven’t miraculously developed an immunity to it. We just delayed getting exposed. Whether I am exposed now or in two weeks or in two months, the odds are good that I will be exposed at some point. And that doesn’t even contemplate mutations of the virus, which starts the process all over again.
We are committing to be on quarantine between now and when a vaccine is developed, not just the next two weeks. I’m not sure that has sunk in yet for those that believe isolation is the cure-all here. My mom was sure I wasn’t following the logic.
Here is the question that no one has answered to my satisfaction – can you describe to me what the successful lifting of quarantine looks like?
i know.
it looks like when ordinary Americans like us realize this is mostly bullshit, we've panicked, over-reacted and went full retard like we ALWAYS do, and we finally just said fuck it and decided to get on with our lives and go back to life and business as usual.
i'm about 48 hours away from exactly this.
The Wall Street Journal article===
(and by the way, I was only joking when I called it a liberal rag,
it is NOT! nor is it a conservative rag)
==article linked by rrb above----
makes the point that there is need for EXTENSIVE TESTING which is as of yet FAR FROM having taken place, that MUST take place BEFORE we can make an informed medical-scientific decision on WHETHER it would make sense to start relaxing the social distancing policies we are now practicing.
We simply do not yet have sufficient data to conclude WHEN it will be safe or sensible OR less than disastrous to relax those policies.
We are not yet in a position to say
whether "the cure is worse than the disease,"
or "the disease is too bad to relax the cure."
rrb says:
Here is the question that no one has answered to my satisfaction
– can you describe to me what the successful lifting of quarantine looks like?
James says:
It looks like this:
Once we have successfully managed greatly to slow down
or practically eliminate the spread of this virus
and have begun successfully reducing social distancing
without causing disastrous results--
then it would make sense to lift quarantines.
Public Health Interventions Do Not Hurt Economy
March 26, 2020 at 1:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 75 Comments
From a new study on the 1918 flu pandemic: “We find that cities that intervened earlier and more aggressively do not perform worse and, if anything, grow faster after the pandemic is over.”
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Short term pain, long term gain?
Trump Slashed Public Health Staff at China Agency
March 26, 2020 at 12:57 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
“The Trump administration cut staff by more than two-thirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China, as part of a larger rollback of U.S.-funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak,” Reuters reports.
“Most of the reductions were made at the Beijing office of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and occurred over the past two years.”
Is that last another example of what Connolly said he thought "in retrospect...was an unwise move"?
Read the Johns Hopkins study stupid old man.
But whyvread Johns Hopkins whence can go to Taegan Goddard all day every day?
News media working frantically to try to explain away Trump's high approvals. But voters see them for what they are.
James says:
It looks like this:
Once we have successfully managed greatly to slow down
or practically eliminate the spread of this virus
translation - return us to another great depression hoping that it bounces trump out of office.
this is why we regard you as such a piece of shit, pederast. there is no amount of human suffering that you won't pray for in your desire to destroy trump.
Rosie memos
@almostjingo
According to the @CDCgov
-89 MILLION Americans were infected with H1N1 in one year (April 2009-April 2010)
-403,000 were hospitalized
-18,300 died (disproportionate number were children)
Remember this daily please, as we face #COVID19
CDC Doc: https://twitter.com/almostjingo/status/1243090375310331904
Dinesh D'Souza
@DineshDSouza
Funny to see all these blue state governors and mayors begging Trump to intervene. For four years, they told us he is a racist and a fascist. Are you sure, guys, that you want a racist and fascist to help you out here? Wouldn’t you be better handling your problems on your own?
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
If you want a lesson in our corrupt media, watch the thoughtful, sober questioning from reporters at Gov. Cuomo's daily press conference. Then, watch the unhinged lunatics trying to get their "gotcha" moment from Trump each day.
It's beyond parody.
And the public gets to see it, saw ratings approach MNF status or season ending Bachelor episode.
Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
The disconnect between announcements being made by Cuomo ("we now have enough PPE for the foreseeable future") and the media ("here are nurses wearing trash bags!") is pretty stunning.
Which narrative will the waterboy go with ?
President Trump scored among his best approval ratings ever in the latest Gallup poll on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. As PJ Media's Matt Margolis reported, this is the fourth poll in which Trump has excelled and that is remarkable considering the media anvil sitting on his head.
The media have done even worse in the poll. And why wouldn't they? They:
Were caught carrying water for the Chinese government to criticize Trump.
Tried to do silly gotcha stories on Trump for failing to keep proper social distancing while sitting close to other reporters.
Slammed Trump for giving what they consider "false hope" about using malaria meds to help treat very sick patients.
Demanded to know why he didn't nationalize companies for supplies when companies are already helping.
Used the pressers announcing how the government is responding and offering new information to grandstand.
Called the president a xenophobe and racist for instituting a travel ban from China early in the crisis.
Called Trump a racist for calling a virus from China a Chinese virus.
Called him selfish for not doing getting a COVID-19 test even though his doctor didn't think he needed one. It was negative.
Accused Trump of not believing in science so people shouldn't believe what he said on COVID-19.
Used Chinese government talking points about that government's response to the disease.
Blamed Trump and "right wing media" of sending mixed messages in a National Emergency that changed by the hour.
Encouraged other media not to air the president's daily Coronavirus Task Force briefings deriding them as "dangerous."
Depicted minor differences in approach between Trump and his NIH pandemic expert as catastrophic.
And what of the media's approval rating during this National Emergency? According to the same Gallup poll, the media have not acquitted themselves well, coming in last.
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/in-the-same-poll-where-trump-triumphs-on-covid-19-response-the-media-come-in-dead-last/
Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
Media Matters Attacked Fox as Virus "Fearmongers", Now Accuses Network of "Downplaying" Virus
https://thejeffreylord.com/media-matters-attacked-fox-as-virus-fearmongers-now-accuses-network-of-downplaying-virus/?utm_source=socialflow
says a lot about why Soros funds media matters and what he gets for it
i would propose that every liberal democrat in American chug a quart of fish tank cleaner as a preventative measure against the chinese lung AIDS.
one can never be too careful.
pederast, lead the effort.
rrb said...
President Trump scored among his best approval ratings ever in the latest Gallup poll on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. As PJ Media's Matt Margolis reported, this is the fourth poll in which Trump has excelled and that is remarkable considering the media anvil sitting on his head.
Yep, a truly remarkable president, and with so many people at home they are seeing it unfiltered by a corrupt press corp.
i would propose that every liberal democrat in American chug a quart of fish tank cleaner as a preventative measure against the chinese lung AIDS.
one can never be too careful.
pederast, lead the effort.
and I heard it can be used off-label for mad cows disease. 2 for 1.
and with so many people at home they are seeing it unfiltered by a corrupt press corp.
hence the tv blackout on the briefings from the MSM.
they claim it's to shield us from his "lies."
one of the silver linings from chinese lung AIDS is that the moose-limbs continue to go to mosque and bang their fucking heads on the floor 5 times a day shoulder to shoulder; no social distancing for them.
the virus has the potential to take out a large swath of the religion of pieces.
"New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said his state has only about 53,000 beds but predicted he could need as many as 110,000 beds. He has previously said that the peak of the virus was expected mid-April, but said it could now come earlier.
The Comfort is not expected to treat coronavirus patients, but help alleviate the strain on civilian hospitals in New York, as they deal with an influx of patients with coronavirus.
The Comfort will have more than 1,100 active-duty Navy medical crew, and about 60 Navy reserve medical staff. It is deploying from its homeport in Norfolk, Virginia."
Easter is April 12th.
So when Press. Trump said he would like to see the restart of the US Economy is doable.
Socialist Hero to the US Leftist Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro has been charged with Drug Trafficing Crimes By The US Department of justice.
Rat the ugly american said....
one of the silver linings from chinese lung AIDS is that the moose-limbs continue
The other silver lining is keeping assholes like you contained to the pig sty you call home and away from real working people fearful for their lives !!!!!! And he is still chickenshit poster afraid of his own shadow and his ex wife......BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
chug a quart of fish tank cleaner denny.
The chickenshit of the year roars like the fraud and loser his leader is.....BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Still too afraid to post the name of the shithole town he lives in because he is afraid beaners might come in and scare him!!!!!!!
Easter is April 12th.
So when Press. Trump said he would like to see the restart of the US Economy is doable.
Not according to the Johns Hopkins Institute.
You’re a liar pederast and beneath contempt
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
✔@AOC
· 5h
To clarify, $1200 checks are ONLY going to some w/social sec numbers, NOT immigrants w/ tax IDs (ITINs).
Thanks to GOP, these checks will be cut off the backs of *taxpaying immigrants,* who get nothing. Many are essential workers who pay more taxes than Amazon.
Wall St gets $4T
Re: rrb calling me a liar at 5:51
Coronavirus plea from Johns Hopkins:
please take social distancing seriously to save lives
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0325-coronavirus-hopkins-social-distancing-20200324-b75k465kdfcq3jt235mr7uzaba-story.html
Our goal at this point is to reduce the rate of infection, to “flatten the curve,” as it has become known, so that hospitals aren’t overwhelmed by severely ill patients or the impact on hospital and clinic staffing if our health care workforce becomes infected. Along with every other health care organization and health department in the country, Johns Hopkins is doing all it can to increase preparedness for a potential influx of COVID-19 patients. Nationwide, we’ve made important progress in this, increasing our supply of beds, staff and equipment. But hospitals and health departments can’t do it alone. We need everyone to do their part to reduce infection rates.
Many millions of Americans have heeded this message, and are doing their best to self-isolate, minimize social contact and stay at least six feet away from others.
But unfortunately, we’re still not doing enough. Too many of us are not taking social distancing seriously. It appears that too many Maryland residents — of all ages — are ignoring this guidance. As Gov. Larry Hogan pointed out Monday in announcing an order to close most businesses, people continue to socialize, to see friends and relatives in their homes and in the community — behavior he deemed “reckless and irresponsible.” He is right. These activities may feel safe, but they significantly boost the risk of being infected, and of infecting others. This is a matter of life and death, for all of us.
Right now, social distancing is indispensable. Because we don’t yet have a treatment or a vaccine for COVID-19, social distancing is one of the few effective tools we have right now to reduce the risk of widespread transmission. Social distancing is especially crucial because with COVID-19, many infected people have no symptoms, so they don’t even realize they are spreading it. In this way the virus spreads invisibly, widely and exponentially.
Hours after Trump discusses walking back coronavirus measures, Johns Hopkins official warns of consequences
Compared to other viral diseases such as seasonal influenza, COVID-19 has a high fatality rate. Many experts say that without strict measures to limit the spread of the virus, between 100 to 150 million Americans could eventually be infected. For older people, the risk is significantly higher, especially for people with chronic illnesses. And there is growing evidence that younger adults can also become seriously ill.
Of course, we don’t want everyone to practice social distancing. Doctors, nurses and other health care workers, as well as police officers, firefighters, grocery store workers and others, must continue to have close contact with the people they serve. The importance of their work supersedes the need for isolation. But for everyone else, strict social distancing is crucial.
We understand that social distancing is a major disruption, socially and economically. It’s also hard to grasp what it’s accomplishing, because unlike with a hurricane or a terrorist attack, there is little obvious evidence that anything is wrong.
We are only at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., and what we do now will determine whether we suffer a worst-case scenario in which disease rates spike and a flood of severely ill patients overwhelms hospitals. Avoiding that will require systematic coordination between the public and private sectors, far beyond anything we have attempted. It will also require millions of individual Americans to change their behavior.
So what can you do? Here’s a summary. Avoid groups and mass gatherings. Keep a 6-foot distance from other people, no hugs, no handshakes. Especially if you’re over 60, stay home and avoid other people. Realize that if you break these rules, if your children or your parents break these rules, they are almost certainly exposing themselves, and whoever they are living with, to a wide swath of other people that they, and you, don’t know.
Following social distancing rules will not be easy. It will not be fun. We can guarantee that. But we can also guarantee that it will help save lives — perhaps many, many lives.
Ronald J. Daniels (president@jhu.edu) is president of Johns Hopkins University. Paul Rothman is dean of the Johns Hopkins medical faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Kevin Sowers is president of the Johns Hopkins Health System.
Why are rrb and Kansas Dim running away from this?
Away from what?
"gives you a royal 🖕." lost lamb james
Not an answer, Kansas Dim, not an answer.
LOL LOL LOL
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