We know of a number of people who vacationed during the start of this whole pandemic.
Idiots.
And some of the people who went around galavanting around the country were 60 and older.
People can talk all they want about how the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus problem, but Moscow Don cut funding for the Pandemic Response Team in 2018, which there is a video that confirms that act, and as The Washington Post recounted in a well-researched story, "US Intelligence Reports from January and February Warned about a Likely Pandemic," Moscow Don was informed by multiple people about the like likelihood of this virus becoming the major problem it is.
Because of the administration's lack of planning and response, the impact of Covid-19 is a catastrophe.
Here's the lede from the article: "U.S. intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in January and February about the global danger posed by the coronavirus while President Trump and lawmakers played down the threat and failed to take action that might have slowed the spread of the pathogen, according to U.S. officials familiar with spy agency reporting."
And there's this: “'Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn’t get him to do anything about it,'” this official said. “'The system was blinking red.'”
Of course, in a press conference two days ago, Moscow Don implied that he inherited a defunct system to respond to this disaster. He's blaming Obama. However, Moscow Don cut the funding for the response team for dealing with pandemics.
And courtesy of knowledgeable friend from FB, here is a chronological list of his idiotic comments:
January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
February 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
February 26: “We're going very substantially down, not up.”
February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
February 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5: “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
March 9: “This blindsided the world.”
March 13: Declares state of emergency and says “I do not take responsibility for anything”
The time home has let me watch season 6 and the start of the new season of Clone Wars. As Star Wars franchises go, Clone Wars has to rank in the top five best. The Empire Strikes Back is number one, but the Clone Wars series might rank as number two for me.
After watching two documentaries on jazz artists, I purchased some albums I have on CD but not on iTunes. The Birth of the Cool is about Miles Davis, which was quite interesting. Chasing Trane is about the meteoric rise of John Coltrane and his fascinating music. I highly recommend both.
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