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Cyrano
(15,020 posts)riversedge
(69,708 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)Call me a cynic, if you must.
-Laelth
Initech
(99,909 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,281 posts)No, he didn't start the COVID-19 Pandemic, but his criminal mishandling of the response to the spread of it in the USA warrants naming it after him. At the very least.
Let that be his legacy for all eternity.
world wide wally
(21,718 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)czarjak
(11,191 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)donor class has lots to gain though
yuiyoshida
(41,759 posts)ほんとだ!この情報を共有していただき、誠にありがとうございます。Thanks for sharing.
Aussie105
(5,211 posts)I'm in South Australia.
We had our first COVID-19 death last night, a male, 76 years old.
I'm watching the events in the US develop with alarm and disgust.
What have we done in Australia to fight the epidemic?
1. Sources of the virus identified, hotspots located, people and their contacts tracked down and tested, isolated if infected.
(Cruise ships, tourist parties off the cruise ships before COVIT-19 hit, and baggage handlers at the airport are the main hotspots.)
2. Closed borders. Between Australia, and between the states of Australia.
3. 'Stay at home' orders enforced.
Get caught out of your home without a legit excuse, like buying food, and you get fined. Mother teaching her daughter how to drive copped a decent fine.
Beaches closed.
Shops, except for supermarkets and pharmacies, closed.
Open shops provide hand sanitiser and trolley wipes as you go in.
Most recent thing - supermarkets enforcing limited numbers of shoppers in at the one time.
Schools closed for holidays at the moment, when they reopen, kids stay home, and only kids from essential working parents can go to school.
4. Both the political party in power and the opposition party agree on financial aid packages to businesses and employees affected by close-downs and reduced trade.
5. Sport events cancelled.
6. Easter? STAY HOME!
Probably more . . .
But what we DON'T have:
1. An initial total denial by the people in power that is now costing lives.
2. A leader with this approach: 'I don't know really, I accept no responsibility, there is this drug that you could try.' (Aside to Fauci: 'shutup!')
3. Different states taking different approaches.
Do I like what is happening in my part of the country? Hell no!
Do I think it is necessary? Hell yes!
blakstoneranger
(333 posts)I would't take a drink of water on trump's recommendation. I DON'T GET IT! FOXNEWS AND LAURA INGRAM ARE PUSHING THIS DUMB CRAP ON OUR GOVERNMENT. WHY ARE WE LISTENING TO THIS IDIOT!! HE'S DELUSIONAL. Watch the stock makets once these idiots buy into this crap from the biggest con artist in the world. The company that makes this drug is going to make the trump-foxnews circle very wealthy--even if it doesn't work.