The president of the top lobbying group representing police and law enforcement officers tore into Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, calling them the “most radical anti-police ticket in history.”
Michael McHale, the president of the National Association of Police Organizations, decried what he described as a rash of violence against police officers in recent months and railed against “failed” elected officials in cities such as Minneapolis, New York and Chicago who he said had made “the conscious decision not to support law enforcement.”
Biden, he said, would follow their lead.
“Joe Biden has turned his candidacy over to the far-left, anti-law enforcement radicals,” he said. “And as a senator, Kamala Harris pushed to further restrict police, cut their training, and make our American communities and streets even more dangerous than they are.”
KAMALA HARRIS EVISCERATED DONALD TRUMP IN A SHORT SPEECH TODAY.
She pillored him up one side and down the other. She really threw down the gauntlet. Not to respond tonight will also cause difficulty for him.
It has been reported that Trump responded with white hot fury to Harris' speech at the Democratic Convention. You can bet he's seething right now.
When it comes to VP attack dogs, Kamala sure beats the pants off Pence:
Vice President Mike Pence’s speech at the Republican convention had 10.5 million viewers across the major broadcast networks and three big cable news networks, Nielsen reports.
That represents a significant drop compared to when vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris drew 16.2 million viewers for her speech.
Unless his staff can get him to calm down, he might go off topic and make some crazy lash out about Harris and imply that she's not qualified to be the Vice president, like he said before about Obama was born in Kenya!
Trump's coup of the Republic Party. Turned the GOP to the GQP, literally a cult of personality disorders.
"In the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, taken Aug. 9-12, 49% of Republicans identified themselves as supporters of Mr. Trump vs. 37% who identified as supporters of the party. His approval rating among those Trump Republicans was 99% vs. 69% among party Republicans."
Sen. Kamala Harris excoriated President Trump in a speech pre-butting the final night of the GOP convention, accusing him and his Republican allies of ignoring "the reality" of an America facing crises of racial injustice, public health and economic despair.
Why it matters: Harris said throughout her presidential run — and again during her Democratic National Convention speech — that her goal is to "prosecute" the case against the Trump presidency. She made that case on Thursday by relentlessly attacking Trump and the Republicans for spending little time during their convention on the coronavirus pandemic.
What she's saying: "Unlike the Democratic convention, which was very clear-eyed about the challenges we are facing and how we will tackle them, the Republican convention is designed for one purpose: to soothe Donald Trump's ego," Harris said.
"We know the truth: Donald Trump has failed at the most basic and important job of a president of the United States. He failed to protect the American people. Plain and simple." "Here's what you have to understand about the nature of a pandemic, it's relentless. You can't stop it with a tweet. You can't create a distraction and hope it will go away. It doesn't go away." "By its nature, a pandemic is unforgiving. If you get it wrong at the beginning, the consequences are catastrophic. It's very hard to catch up. You don't get a second chance at getting it right. Well, President Trump, he got it wrong from the beginning and then he got it wrong again and again." The bottom line: "Donald Trump stood idly by and, folks, it was a deadly decision," Harris said. "Instead of rising to meet the most difficult moment of his presidency, Donald Trump froze. He was scared and he was petty and vindictive."
Roger said: Unless his staff can get him to calm down, he might go off topic and make some crazy lash out about Harris and imply that she's not qualified to be the Vice president, like he said before about Obama was born in Kenya!
James: I think that may have been a cleverly orchestrated act on the part of the Biden campaign to get something just like that.
It has been seen how furious he gets when female reporters strongly question him.
Kamala Harris in effect questioned and destroyed most of the arguments he has been making and was probably planning on making tonight.
Fox News retained its dominant No. 1 position for RNC coverage, averaging 7.07 million viewers from 10 to 11:15 p.m. ET. No other network got above 2 million viewers: NBC finished second with 1.97 million viewers, followed by ABC (1.9 million), CBS (1.78 million), CNN (1.52 million) and MSNBC (1.48 million).
Among adults 25-54, the prime news demographic, Fox News delivered 1.38 million viewers, more than doubling the 595,000 for second-place NBC.
Through three days, the RNC is averaging 16.52 million viewers across the six networks, off by 23 percent from 2016. The Democratic convention was down by 21 percent over its first three days (19.57 million vs. 24.74 million in 2016). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-aug-26-2020-republican-convention-declines
I think a lot of people are like me and watching on C-Span to allow for uninterrupted viewing (or streaming). I get annoyed when they break away from speakers to do "analysis", I want to hear the speaker not some commentator. And my experience was with Fox but I saw other examples on twitter from the other networks.
That being said it is AMAZING how big Fox is getting. Their audience share is approaching 50% of all the networks COMBINED !!!
AXIOS: Kamala Harris: The RNC is designed "to soothe Donald Trump's ego"
Sen. Kamala Harris excoriated President Trump in a speech pre-butting the final night of the GOP convention, accusing him and his Republican allies of ignoring "the reality" of an America facing crises of racial injustice, public health and economic despair.
Why it matters: Harris said throughout her presidential run — and again during her Democratic National Convention speech — that her goal is to "prosecute" the case against the Trump presidency.
She made that case on Thursday by relentlessly attacking Trump and the Republicans for spending little time during their convention on the coronavirus pandemic.
What she's saying:
"Unlike the Democratic convention, which was very clear-eyed about the challenges we are facing and how we will tackle them, the Republican convention is designed for one purpose: to soothe Donald Trump's ego," Harris said.
"We know the truth: Donald Trump has failed at the most basic and important job of a president of the United States. He failed to protect the American people. Plain and simple.
"Here's what you have to understand about the nature of a pandemic, it's relentless. You can't stop it with a tweet. You can't create a distraction and hope it will go away. It doesn't go away.
"By its nature, a pandemic is unforgiving. If you get it wrong at the beginning, the consequences are catastrophic. It's very hard to catch up. You don't get a second chance at getting it right.
"Well, President Trump, he got it wrong from the beginning and then he got it wrong again and again."
The bottom line: "Donald Trump stood idly by and, folks, it was a deadly decision," Harris said. "Instead of rising to meet the most difficult moment of his presidency, Donald Trump froze. He was scared and he was petty and vindictive."
Rittenhouse was bullied when he was a kid. Trump would have picked on him as a kid.
He was working after dropping out of high school after complaining about being bullied, the Tribune noted.
His mom had even gone to court seeking an order of protection in January 2017, accusing one of Rittenhouse’s classmates of bullying her son with taunts of being “dumb” and “stupid,” as well as threatening to hurt him. Despite expressing concern for her son’s safety, the single mom ultimately dropped the request, according to Lake County court records.
But Scott, he should not be seen as a hero. He planned to kill people.
cumula said: "By its nature, a pandemic is unforgiving. If you get it wrong at the beginning, the consequences are catastrophic. It's very hard to catch up. You don't get a second chance at getting it right."
Was she talking about Biden saying he wouldn't have stopped flights from China at the beginning or Nancy's "come on down" to Chinatown ?
Six months ago, Trump said that coronavirus cases would soon go to zero. They ... didn’t. But with new constraints on testing, Trump may get his wish eventually. By Philip Bump August 26, 2020 at 9:57 a.m. CDT
It was exactly six months ago Wednesday when the spread of the coronavirus in the United States had become too significant for President Trump to wave away. He and several members of the team planning the administration’s response held a news briefing designed to inform the public about the virus and, more important, to allay concerns.
This was the briefing in which Trump made one of his most wildly incorrect assertions about what the country could expect.
“The level that we’ve had in our country is very low,” Trump said, referring to new confirmed infections, “and those people are getting better, or we think that in almost all cases they’re better, or getting. We have a total of 15. We took in some from Japan — you heard about that — because they’re American citizens, and they’re in quarantine.”
That part was generally true. At the time, there had been only a smattering of confirmed cases, with the addition of passengers from the cruise ship Diamond Princess pushing the confirmed total to more than 50.
“So, again,” he added later, “when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”
It was a brash prediction and seemingly an off-the-cuff one. Trump’s point was less about what was going to happen than arguing that his administration had done a good job. But by linking those two things, he made it simple for observers to use his assertion that the number of cases would fade as a baseline for measuring everything that followed.
Over time, more cases from the period before Feb. 26 would be discovered, including two early deaths in California from covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. There were actually almost 200 cases that would eventually be confirmed by the time Trump was saying the country would go from 15 to zero.
The experts standing behind Trump would have known that Trump’s claims were inaccurate. As the briefing was underway, The Washington Post reported a confirmed case of “community spread” — a documented infection that couldn’t be traced to international travel. In other words, it was uncontained: The virus was moving from person to person without impediment or detection.
Although about 200 cases in that period eventually would be confirmed, even that number was far lower than the reality. Researchers can use documented cases to estimate the number of cases that weren’t being detected and that also weren’t later confirmed through testing. For example, an estimate produced by data scientist Youyang Gu puts the likely number of new infections on Feb. 26 somewhere in the range of 13,000 to 25,000.
On that day alone.
Within a month, the country would go from Trump’s 15 cases to nearly 88,000 cases. By April 26, the total was nearly a million. By May 26, 1.7 million. The most recent total is north of 5.7 million.
That steady increase is in part a function of Trump repeating the same mistake over and over, portraying the pandemic as ending or functionally ended. As cases faded a bit in May and June, he pushed for a return to normal economic activity, triggering a new surge in confirmed cases. That second increase has been fading for about a month, happily, but the country is still adding 33 percent more confirmed new cases each day than it did at the peak in April.
That’s confirmed cases, a metric that relies on testing. Gu’s estimates of the actual spread of the virus put the country about 40 percent below the peak in daily new cases, which was reached in early July.
Trump, of course, blames testing for revealing the scale of the pandemic in the first place. He has a point, in a way: Had the United States never managed to solve its problems with testing, something that took weeks, there wouldn’t have been millions of confirmed cases. There would still have been millions of cases or, perhaps, tens of millions of cases. We just wouldn’t have known how many there were.
It has been about two months since Trump held a political rally in Tulsa, contributing to a new surge of cases in the city. There, he made a tongue-in-cheek reference to asking his team to slow down on testing, because it was pushing the number of confirmed cases higher. As they say, though, each joke contains a grain of truth, and it was clear that Trump, in fact, would be happy to see the number of tests drop so that the number of confirmed cases did as well.
Data compiled by the COVID Tracking Project show that he has gotten his wish, to a degree. Over the past month, the number of tests being completed each day in the United States has dropped by nearly one-fifth.
Part of this is a function of interference from natural disasters, with storms in Florida and fires in California limiting testing capacity. Part of it, too, is probably a function of the drop in the number of cases coming back positive. Fewer new cases means fewer people feeling sick and seeking tests to confirm an infection. The drop in the percent of tests coming back positive reinforces that trend.
But, increasingly, part of it will stem from the administration de-emphasizing testing. New guidance published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that those who had been in contact with an infected person no longer needed to be tested, particularly when asymptomatic.
This, too, has been something Trump has talked about a lot, complaining that people without symptoms were being tested and confirmed as positive — and added to the total number of infections.
“Many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day,” Trump said in an interview on July 19. “They have the sniffles and we put it down as a test.”
The reason it’s important to track asymptomatic cases, of course, is that those people can still infect others. To defeat the pandemic, we need to contain it, and the new CDC approach runs the significant risk of leaving large holes in that containment effort. But, with the presidential election only about 70 days away, it will mean fewer confirmed cases.
The irony of Trump’s complaints about the virus from the outset is that the United States’ confirmed infection totals already have been minimized because of limited testing. The reason Trump was able to claim that there were only 15 cases six months ago was that the administration had spent the month since the first confirmed case in the country unable to put together a robust testing regimen that would allow the virus to be constrained. South Korea, where such a regimen was quickly implemented, actually did see its virus numbers drop to near zero.
In other words, Trump’s prediction was not only wrong, it was wrong in large part because Trump’s team hadn’t done what would have been needed to make it come true. Trump portrays himself as an unwitting victim of the pandemic, but his comment six months ago Wednesday is a good reminder that he can put a lot of the blame for his position on himself.
In early March, President Donald Trump said that restrictions he placed on travel to and from China “saved a lot of lives,” a claim that grew to “probably tens of thousands” and “hundreds of thousands” by early April. But we found no support for such figures.
The few studies that have been done estimate the U.S.’ and other countries’ travel restrictions regarding China had modest impacts, slowing the initial spread outside of China but not containing the coronavirus pandemic. We didn’t find a study that looked at the U.S. restrictions alone, and we found only one non-peer-reviewed study, on Australia, that found an impact of such policies on deaths, though it has significant limitations.
Past studies, too, have found international travel restrictions could delay the path of the spread of diseases but do little to contain them.
Saad B. Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, told us he hasn’t seen any evidence to support the president’s claims. Previous studies of viruses with a reproduction number of 1.9 or higher, meaning the average number of other people one person infects, have shown the restrictions have to be very strict to have an effect, he said. Travel restrictions “can have an impact if you shut down 90% of all travel,” Omer said. But, “even then, it delays it a little bit but it doesn’t stop it.”
Omer co-authored a Feb. 3 article on why a travel ban wouldn’t stop the coronavirus.
Alex Nowrasteh, director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, looked at several of the same studies we examined and concluded that “by themselves, travel restrictions do little but delay the onset of a crisis mentality and shift the curve to the right rather than flattening it.”
But I spent most of the pandemic saying he did too much and it wasn't as big as a deal as Trump said it was. So I am more guilty than Trump of underplaying it.
But my supporters are morons and will ignore what I said or forget it like I did and they will just go along with what I tell them today. Because they are morons.
Exempted were thousands of residents of the Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macao. An analysis of Commerce Department travel entry records and private aviation data obtained by the Associated Press show that nearly 8,000 Chinese nationals and foreign residents of the territories entered the U.S. on more than 600 commercial and private flights in the first three months after the ban was imposed.
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When U.S. residents flying from mainland China arrived at U.S. airports, the system meant to flag and monitor them for the development of symptoms lost track of at least 1,600 people in just the first few days the ban went into effect, according to an internal state government email obtained by the AP.
Trump continues to praise his administration’s ban: “We did a great job on CoronaVirus, including the very early ban on China,” he tweeted last week. “We saved millions of U.S. lives!”
Trump on Jan. 31 announced the original travel ban on any non-U.S. residents who had recently been in mainland China. His move came weeks after Chinese officials acknowledged a new, highly contagious and deadly virus was spreading through the city of Wuhan.
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Travelers from Hong Kong and Macao were exempted from that ban. They did not face the same enhanced screening and quarantine procedures required of Americans and others returning from Wuhan and elsewhere on China’s mainland.
Flight records provided to the AP by FlightAware, an international aviation tracking company, show that more than 5,600 Chinese and foreign nationals from the two administrative zones flew to the U.S. in February. Those totals dropped to 2,100 in March and just 150 in April, Commerce Department travel entry records show.
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There is no clear evidence that the small but steady flow of people from Hong Kong and Macao introduced COVID-19 cases inside the U.S. in January or in the four months since, but the exemptions “certainly undercut the purpose of the ban,” said Dr. Ronald Waldman, a professor of global health at George Washington University.
None of the agencies involved in crafting and announcing the travel ban — the National Security Council, the State Department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Health and Human Services — would comment publicly to the AP about why Hong Kong and Macao were exempted. In a brief statement, the State Department would not “comment on internal policy decisions” and deferred to the White House, which did not respond to repeated requests for an explanation.
When Trump’s travel restrictions went into effect on Feb. 2, at least 15 cases of the new coronavirus had already been detected in Hong Kong, including one death, and seven more cases had been found in Macao. All the initial Macao cases were later traced to the outbreak in Wuhan.
“One of the things we did right was very early cut off travel from China to the United States,” Fauci told MSNBC last week. “Because outside of China, where it originated, the countries in the world that have it are through travel, either directly from China or indirectly from someone who went someplace and then came to that particular country. Our shutting off travel from China and, more recently, travel from Europe, has gone a long way to not seeding very, very intensively the virus in our country.”
What a Horrible Joe. "“The reality is that the life of a black person in America has never been treated as fully human,” Harris said. “We have yet to fulfill that promise of equal justice under the law.”
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The president of the top lobbying group representing police and law enforcement officers tore into Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, calling them the “most radical anti-police ticket in history.”
Michael McHale, the president of the National Association of Police Organizations, decried what he described as a rash of violence against police officers in recent months and railed against “failed” elected officials in cities such as Minneapolis, New York and Chicago who he said had made “the conscious decision not to support law enforcement.”
Biden, he said, would follow their lead.
“Joe Biden has turned his candidacy over to the far-left, anti-law enforcement radicals,” he said. “And as a senator, Kamala Harris pushed to further restrict police, cut their training, and make our American communities and streets even more dangerous than they are.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/513876-police-group-leader-calls-biden-harris-most-radical-anti-police-ticket-in
https://youtu.be/MardSoCZNpg
Hilarious
KAMALA HARRIS EVISCERATED DONALD TRUMP IN A SHORT SPEECH TODAY.
She pillored him up one side and down the other. She really threw down the gauntlet. Not to respond tonight will also cause difficulty for him.
It has been reported that Trump responded with white hot fury to Harris' speech at the Democratic Convention. You can bet he's seething right now.
When it comes to VP attack dogs, Kamala sure beats the pants off Pence:
Vice President Mike Pence’s speech at the Republican convention had 10.5 million viewers across the major broadcast networks and three big cable news networks, Nielsen reports.
That represents a significant drop compared to when vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris drew 16.2 million viewers for her speech.
Make no mistake about it:
Trump is inciting violence in this country so he can portray himself as the
law-and-order president.
And you are buying into this shit
JUST IN
Bloomberg:
Pence delivers the smallest audience of GOP’s convention so far.
Make no mistake, you’re a doddering old fool
Unless his staff can get him to calm down, he might go off topic and make some crazy lash out about Harris and imply that she's not qualified to be the Vice president, like he said before about Obama was born in Kenya!
I'm 4 years younger than the President
Trump's coup of the Republic Party. Turned the GOP to the GQP, literally a cult of personality disorders.
"In the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, taken Aug. 9-12, 49% of Republicans identified themselves as supporters of Mr. Trump vs. 37% who identified as supporters of the party. His approval rating among those Trump Republicans was 99% vs. 69% among party Republicans."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-presides-over-gop-remade-in-his-image-11598473437
He’s not In lockdown in the memory unit of a Medicaid assisted living facility.
With someone having to change his depends
Sen. Kamala Harris excoriated President Trump in a speech pre-butting the final night of the GOP convention, accusing him and his Republican allies of ignoring "the reality" of an America facing crises of racial injustice, public health and economic despair.
Why it matters: Harris said throughout her presidential run — and again during her Democratic National Convention speech — that her goal is to "prosecute" the case against the Trump presidency. She made that case on Thursday by relentlessly attacking Trump and the Republicans for spending little time during their convention on the coronavirus pandemic.
What she's saying: "Unlike the Democratic convention, which was very clear-eyed about the challenges we are facing and how we will tackle them, the Republican convention is designed for one purpose: to soothe Donald Trump's ego," Harris said.
"We know the truth: Donald Trump has failed at the most basic and important job of a president of the United States. He failed to protect the American people. Plain and simple."
"Here's what you have to understand about the nature of a pandemic, it's relentless. You can't stop it with a tweet. You can't create a distraction and hope it will go away. It doesn't go away."
"By its nature, a pandemic is unforgiving. If you get it wrong at the beginning, the consequences are catastrophic. It's very hard to catch up. You don't get a second chance at getting it right. Well, President Trump, he got it wrong from the beginning and then he got it wrong again and again."
The bottom line: "Donald Trump stood idly by and, folks, it was a deadly decision," Harris said. "Instead of rising to meet the most difficult moment of his presidency, Donald Trump froze. He was scared and he was petty and vindictive."
https://www.axios.com/kamala-harris-rnc-rebuttal-c9391e5c-2cda-47ad-b350-e3908cee092d.html
Roger said:
Unless his staff can get him to calm down, he might go off topic and make some crazy lash out about Harris and imply that she's not qualified to be the Vice president, like he said before about Obama was born in Kenya!
James:
I think that may have been a cleverly orchestrated act on the part of the Biden campaign to get something just like that.
It has been seen how furious he gets when female reporters strongly question him.
Kamala Harris in effect questioned and destroyed most of the arguments he has been making and was probably planning on making tonight.
Fox News retained its dominant No. 1 position for RNC coverage, averaging 7.07 million viewers from 10 to 11:15 p.m. ET. No other network got above 2 million viewers: NBC finished second with 1.97 million viewers, followed by ABC (1.9 million), CBS (1.78 million), CNN (1.52 million) and MSNBC (1.48 million).
Among adults 25-54, the prime news demographic, Fox News delivered 1.38 million viewers, more than doubling the 595,000 for second-place NBC.
Through three days, the RNC is averaging 16.52 million viewers across the six networks, off by 23 percent from 2016. The Democratic convention was down by 21 percent over its first three days (19.57 million vs. 24.74 million in 2016).
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-aug-26-2020-republican-convention-declines
I think a lot of people are like me and watching on C-Span to allow for uninterrupted viewing (or streaming). I get annoyed when they break away from speakers to do "analysis", I want to hear the speaker not some commentator. And my experience was with Fox but I saw other examples on twitter from the other networks.
That being said it is AMAZING how big Fox is getting. Their audience share is approaching 50% of all the networks COMBINED !!!
AXIOS:
Kamala Harris: The RNC is designed "to soothe Donald Trump's ego"
Sen. Kamala Harris excoriated President Trump in a speech pre-butting the final night of the GOP convention, accusing him and his Republican allies of ignoring "the reality" of an America facing crises of racial injustice, public health and economic despair.
Why it matters:
Harris said throughout her presidential run — and again during her Democratic National Convention speech — that her goal is to "prosecute" the case against the Trump presidency.
She made that case on Thursday by relentlessly attacking Trump and the Republicans for spending little time during their convention on the coronavirus pandemic.
What she's saying:
"Unlike the Democratic convention, which was very clear-eyed about the challenges we are facing and how we will tackle them, the Republican convention is designed for one purpose: to soothe Donald Trump's ego," Harris said.
"We know the truth: Donald Trump has failed at the most basic and important job of a president of the United States. He failed to protect the American people. Plain and simple.
"Here's what you have to understand about the nature of a pandemic, it's relentless. You can't stop it with a tweet. You can't create a distraction and hope it will go away. It doesn't go away.
"By its nature, a pandemic is unforgiving. If you get it wrong at the beginning, the consequences are catastrophic. It's very hard to catch up. You don't get a second chance at getting it right.
"Well, President Trump, he got it wrong from the beginning and then he got it wrong again and again."
The bottom line:
"Donald Trump stood idly by and, folks, it was a deadly decision," Harris said. "Instead of rising to meet the most difficult moment of his presidency, Donald Trump froze. He was scared and he was petty and vindictive."
At his Inauguration, Trump said,
"I alone can fix it."
WELL, MR. PRESIDENT, THIS PANDEMIC HAS BEEN RAGING FOR SIX MONTHS AND YOU SURE HAVEN'T FIXED IT.
Rittenhouse was bullied when he was a kid. Trump would have picked on him as a kid.
He was working after dropping out of high school after complaining about being bullied, the Tribune noted.
His mom had even gone to court seeking an order of protection in January 2017, accusing one of Rittenhouse’s classmates of bullying her son with taunts of being “dumb” and “stupid,” as well as threatening to hurt him. Despite expressing concern for her son’s safety, the single mom ultimately dropped the request, according to Lake County court records.
But Scott, he should not be seen as a hero. He planned to kill people.
cumula said:
"By its nature, a pandemic is unforgiving. If you get it wrong at the beginning, the consequences are catastrophic. It's very hard to catch up. You don't get a second chance at getting it right."
Was she talking about Biden saying he wouldn't have stopped flights from China at the beginning or Nancy's "come on down" to Chinatown ?
Both were clearly wrong
Of course Nancy was focused on impeachment
MIKE PENCE ,with a straight face said "We have won the Covid19 fight, the lowest infections in the world."
(180,000 deaths.)
WELL, MR. PRESIDENT, THIS PANDEMIC HAS BEEN RAGING FOR SIX MONTHS AND YOU SURE HAVEN'T FIXED IT.
Here is what your hero had to say:
Jan 31: In response to Trump’s travel ban: “this is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia – hysterical xenophobia.”
Early February: The coronavirus is less lethal than the SARS virus and “is probably not a serious epidemic.”
Mid February: “we don”t have a Covid epidemic, we have a fear epidemic.”
Late February:The virus is “like the flu” and will dissipate with warmer weather moving to the southern hemisphere. Masks will not help, he adds.
Early March: Criticizes the European travel ban as ineffective and “counterproductive.”
Mid March: Regarding Trump’s January 31st decision to close travel to China: “stop the xenophobic fear mongering.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OgQZExTciQM
31 times Trump said the coronavirus would go away
Rather sooner than later
https://youtu.be/uXxuUJJz4VE
HERE'S YOUR HERO'S RECORD ON THIS:
Six months ago, Trump said that coronavirus cases would soon go to zero. They ... didn’t.
But with new constraints on testing, Trump may get his wish eventually.
By
Philip Bump
August 26, 2020 at 9:57 a.m. CDT
It was exactly six months ago Wednesday when the spread of the coronavirus in the United States had become too significant for President Trump to wave away. He and several members of the team planning the administration’s response held a news briefing designed to inform the public about the virus and, more important, to allay concerns.
This was the briefing in which Trump made one of his most wildly incorrect assertions about what the country could expect.
“The level that we’ve had in our country is very low,” Trump said, referring to new confirmed infections, “and those people are getting better, or we think that in almost all cases they’re better, or getting. We have a total of 15. We took in some from Japan — you heard about that — because they’re American citizens, and they’re in quarantine.”
That part was generally true. At the time, there had been only a smattering of confirmed cases, with the addition of passengers from the cruise ship Diamond Princess pushing the confirmed total to more than 50.
“So, again,” he added later, “when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”
It was a brash prediction and seemingly an off-the-cuff one. Trump’s point was less about what was going to happen than arguing that his administration had done a good job. But by linking those two things, he made it simple for observers to use his assertion that the number of cases would fade as a baseline for measuring everything that followed.
Over time, more cases from the period before Feb. 26 would be discovered, including two early deaths in California from covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. There were actually almost 200 cases that would eventually be confirmed by the time Trump was saying the country would go from 15 to zero.
The experts standing behind Trump would have known that Trump’s claims were inaccurate. As the briefing was underway, The Washington Post reported a confirmed case of “community spread” — a documented infection that couldn’t be traced to international travel. In other words, it was uncontained: The virus was moving from person to person without impediment or detection.
Although about 200 cases in that period eventually would be confirmed, even that number was far lower than the reality. Researchers can use documented cases to estimate the number of cases that weren’t being detected and that also weren’t later confirmed through testing. For example, an estimate produced by data scientist Youyang Gu puts the likely number of new infections on Feb. 26 somewhere in the range of 13,000 to 25,000.
On that day alone.
Within a month, the country would go from Trump’s 15 cases to nearly 88,000 cases. By April 26, the total was nearly a million. By May 26, 1.7 million. The most recent total is north of 5.7 million.
That steady increase is in part a function of Trump repeating the same mistake over and over, portraying the pandemic as ending or functionally ended. As cases faded a bit in May and June, he pushed for a return to normal economic activity, triggering a new surge in confirmed cases. That second increase has been fading for about a month, happily, but the country is still adding 33 percent more confirmed new cases each day than it did at the peak in April.
That’s confirmed cases, a metric that relies on testing. Gu’s estimates of the actual spread of the virus put the country about 40 percent below the peak in daily new cases, which was reached in early July.
Trump, of course, blames testing for revealing the scale of the pandemic in the first place. He has a point, in a way: Had the United States never managed to solve its problems with testing, something that took weeks, there wouldn’t have been millions of confirmed cases. There would still have been millions of cases or, perhaps, tens of millions of cases. We just wouldn’t have known how many there were.
It has been about two months since Trump held a political rally in Tulsa, contributing to a new surge of cases in the city. There, he made a tongue-in-cheek reference to asking his team to slow down on testing, because it was pushing the number of confirmed cases higher. As they say, though, each joke contains a grain of truth, and it was clear that Trump, in fact, would be happy to see the number of tests drop so that the number of confirmed cases did as well.
Data compiled by the COVID Tracking Project show that he has gotten his wish, to a degree. Over the past month, the number of tests being completed each day in the United States has dropped by nearly one-fifth.
Part of this is a function of interference from natural disasters, with storms in Florida and fires in California limiting testing capacity. Part of it, too, is probably a function of the drop in the number of cases coming back positive. Fewer new cases means fewer people feeling sick and seeking tests to confirm an infection. The drop in the percent of tests coming back positive reinforces that trend.
But, increasingly, part of it will stem from the administration de-emphasizing testing. New guidance published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that those who had been in contact with an infected person no longer needed to be tested, particularly when asymptomatic.
This, too, has been something Trump has talked about a lot, complaining that people without symptoms were being tested and confirmed as positive — and added to the total number of infections.
“Many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day,” Trump said in an interview on July 19. “They have the sniffles and we put it down as a test.”
The reason it’s important to track asymptomatic cases, of course, is that those people can still infect others. To defeat the pandemic, we need to contain it, and the new CDC approach runs the significant risk of leaving large holes in that containment effort. But, with the presidential election only about 70 days away, it will mean fewer confirmed cases.
The irony of Trump’s complaints about the virus from the outset is that the United States’ confirmed infection totals already have been minimized because of limited testing. The reason Trump was able to claim that there were only 15 cases six months ago was that the administration had spent the month since the first confirmed case in the country unable to put together a robust testing regimen that would allow the virus to be constrained. South Korea, where such a regimen was quickly implemented, actually did see its virus numbers drop to near zero.
In other words, Trump’s prediction was not only wrong, it was wrong in large part because Trump’s team hadn’t done what would have been needed to make it come true. Trump portrays himself as an unwitting victim of the pandemic, but his comment six months ago Wednesday is a good reminder that he can put a lot of the blame for his position on himself.
Jan 31: In response to Trump’s travel ban: “this is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia – hysterical xenophobia.”
Early February: The coronavirus is less lethal than the SARS virus and “is probably not a serious epidemic.”
Mid February: “we don”t have a Covid epidemic, we have a fear epidemic.”
Late February:The virus is “like the flu” and will dissipate with warmer weather moving to the southern hemisphere. Masks will not help, he adds.
Early March: Criticizes the European travel ban as ineffective and “counterproductive.”
Mid March: Regarding Trump’s January 31st decision to close travel to China: “stop the xenophobic fear mongering.”
Jan 31: In response to Trump’s travel ban: “this is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia – hysterical xenophobia.”
Early February: The coronavirus is less lethal than the SARS virus and “is probably not a serious epidemic.”
Mid February: “we don”t have a Covid epidemic, we have a fear epidemic.”
Late February:The virus is “like the flu” and will dissipate with warmer weather moving to the southern hemisphere. Masks will not help, he adds.
Early March: Criticizes the European travel ban as ineffective and “counterproductive.”
Mid March: Regarding Trump’s January 31st decision to close travel to China: “stop the xenophobic fear mongering.”
Jan 31: In response to Trump’s travel ban: “this is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia – hysterical xenophobia.”
Early February: The coronavirus is less lethal than the SARS virus and “is probably not a serious epidemic.”
Mid February: “we don”t have a Covid epidemic, we have a fear epidemic.”
Late February:The virus is “like the flu” and will dissipate with warmer weather moving to the southern hemisphere. Masks will not help, he adds.
Early March: Criticizes the European travel ban as ineffective and “counterproductive.”
Mid March: Regarding Trump’s January 31st decision to close travel to China: “stop the xenophobic fear mongering.”
If I repeat myself enough, then my supporters will listen to me!
Did I already post this?
Jan 31: In response to Trump’s travel ban: “this is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia – hysterical xenophobia.”
Early February: The coronavirus is less lethal than the SARS virus and “is probably not a serious epidemic.”
Mid February: “we don”t have a Covid epidemic, we have a fear epidemic.”
Late February:The virus is “like the flu” and will dissipate with warmer weather moving to the southern hemisphere. Masks will not help, he adds.
Early March: Criticizes the European travel ban as ineffective and “counterproductive.”
Mid March: Regarding Trump’s January 31st decision to close travel to China: “stop the xenophobic fear mongering.”
One more time to prove I am an idiot!
Jan 31: In response to Trump’s travel ban: “this is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia – hysterical xenophobia.”
Early February: The coronavirus is less lethal than the SARS virus and “is probably not a serious epidemic.”
Mid February: “we don”t have a Covid epidemic, we have a fear epidemic.”
Late February:The virus is “like the flu” and will dissipate with warmer weather moving to the southern hemisphere. Masks will not help, he adds.
Early March: Criticizes the European travel ban as ineffective and “counterproductive.”
Mid March: Regarding Trump’s January 31st decision to close travel to China: “stop the xenophobic fear mongering.”
In early March, President Donald Trump said that restrictions he placed on travel to and from China “saved a lot of lives,” a claim that grew to “probably tens of thousands” and “hundreds of thousands” by early April. But we found no support for such figures.
The few studies that have been done estimate the U.S.’ and other countries’ travel restrictions regarding China had modest impacts, slowing the initial spread outside of China but not containing the coronavirus pandemic. We didn’t find a study that looked at the U.S. restrictions alone, and we found only one non-peer-reviewed study, on Australia, that found an impact of such policies on deaths, though it has significant limitations.
Past studies, too, have found international travel restrictions could delay the path of the spread of diseases but do little to contain them.
Saad B. Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, told us he hasn’t seen any evidence to support the president’s claims. Previous studies of viruses with a reproduction number of 1.9 or higher, meaning the average number of other people one person infects, have shown the restrictions have to be very strict to have an effect, he said. Travel restrictions “can have an impact if you shut down 90% of all travel,” Omer said. But, “even then, it delays it a little bit but it doesn’t stop it.”
Omer co-authored a Feb. 3 article on why a travel ban wouldn’t stop the coronavirus.
Alex Nowrasteh, director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, looked at several of the same studies we examined and concluded that “by themselves, travel restrictions do little but delay the onset of a crisis mentality and shift the curve to the right rather than flattening it.”
My supporters say Trump didn't do enough.
But I spent most of the pandemic saying he did too much and it wasn't as big as a deal as Trump said it was. So I am more guilty than Trump of underplaying it.
But my supporters are morons and will ignore what I said or forget it like I did and they will just go along with what I tell them today. Because they are morons.
Did I mention that my supporters are morons?
My supporters are hypocrites and morons! No better place than CHT to see this!
Trump’s wall was more like a sieve.
Exempted were thousands of residents of the Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macao. An analysis of Commerce Department travel entry records and private aviation data obtained by the Associated Press show that nearly 8,000 Chinese nationals and foreign residents of the territories entered the U.S. on more than 600 commercial and private flights in the first three months after the ban was imposed.
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When U.S. residents flying from mainland China arrived at U.S. airports, the system meant to flag and monitor them for the development of symptoms lost track of at least 1,600 people in just the first few days the ban went into effect, according to an internal state government email obtained by the AP.
Trump continues to praise his administration’s ban: “We did a great job on CoronaVirus, including the very early ban on China,” he tweeted last week. “We saved millions of U.S. lives!”
Trump on Jan. 31 announced the original travel ban on any non-U.S. residents who had recently been in mainland China. His move came weeks after Chinese officials acknowledged a new, highly contagious and deadly virus was spreading through the city of Wuhan.
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President Donald Trump smiles at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Friday, July 3, 2020, near Keystone, S.D. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Travelers from Hong Kong and Macao were exempted from that ban. They did not face the same enhanced screening and quarantine procedures required of Americans and others returning from Wuhan and elsewhere on China’s mainland.
Flight records provided to the AP by FlightAware, an international aviation tracking company, show that more than 5,600 Chinese and foreign nationals from the two administrative zones flew to the U.S. in February. Those totals dropped to 2,100 in March and just 150 in April, Commerce Department travel entry records show.
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There is no clear evidence that the small but steady flow of people from Hong Kong and Macao introduced COVID-19 cases inside the U.S. in January or in the four months since, but the exemptions “certainly undercut the purpose of the ban,” said Dr. Ronald Waldman, a professor of global health at George Washington University.
None of the agencies involved in crafting and announcing the travel ban — the National Security Council, the State Department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Health and Human Services — would comment publicly to the AP about why Hong Kong and Macao were exempted. In a brief statement, the State Department would not “comment on internal policy decisions” and deferred to the White House, which did not respond to repeated requests for an explanation.
When Trump’s travel restrictions went into effect on Feb. 2, at least 15 cases of the new coronavirus had already been detected in Hong Kong, including one death, and seven more cases had been found in Macao. All the initial Macao cases were later traced to the outbreak in Wuhan.
“One of the things we did right was very early cut off travel from China to the United States,” Fauci told MSNBC last week. “Because outside of China, where it originated, the countries in the world that have it are through travel, either directly from China or indirectly from someone who went someplace and then came to that particular country. Our shutting off travel from China and, more recently, travel from Europe, has gone a long way to not seeding very, very intensively the virus in our country.”
Senseless is pretending to be Joe Biden
We don't listen to Dr Fauci.
We listen to better scientists, like Bill Nye the science guy!
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-07-04/trumps-strong-wall-to-block-covid-19-from-china-had-holes
I think this Roger guy is smarter than Dr Fauci.
He knows that cutting off travel from China was racism rather than the prudent move that Fauci claims.
What does Dr Fauci know about epidemics anyways?
Roger knows way more.
Oh and I am not senile and I only have a bit of dementia.
I can see why wp and Indy and other people have gotten sick and tired from the Coldheartedtruth
I'm joining the team
Go fuck yourself Scott A**hole
Well, Bye!
Here is what your hero had to say:
Isn't it eery how Biden is wrong on just about everything? I mean what are the odds.
He is as wrong as Ally.
What a Horrible Joe.
"“The reality is that the life of a black person in America has never been treated as fully human,” Harris said. “We have yet to fulfill that promise of equal justice under the law.”
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I can see why wp and Indy and other people have gotten sick and tired from the Coldheartedtruth
I'm joining the team
Go fuck yourself Scott A**hole
oh look.
another one of the alky's "goodbye cruel world!" farewells.
i give it a day.
LOL.
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