*Read the disturbing updates first… as they answer the questions…
The reason why I ask, is it SHOULD be the job of Dr. Jerome Adams, Surgeon General of the US. It is his number one duty to Americans: To “Communicate Health Care and Health Care Needs to the People.” In a Health Emergency, which the US has declared, he is the one who first and foremost has in the past made public statements, and even as a Canadian, I am so aware of that I awaited his official announcements… as were done in the past.
What have we heard from Dr. Jerome Adams? He has been making speeches and including the important information in them and thus making local news, but his message should be NATIONWIDE. The seasonal flu viruses are hospitalizing hundreds of thousands killing thousands and people should be getting their flu shots as it is killing even young and healthy people.
So who HAS been making statements?
On Jan 30, United States, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was the one who made the Health Emergency in a White House briefing. How is Azar’s supposed war on drug prices going? THAT is his job…
(REMINDER: tRUMP said that Alex Azar, his pick for Health and Human Services secretary, will "be a star for better healthcare and lower drug prices." tRUMP appointed Alex Azar who tripled the price of insulin at Lilly. Azar was also a Pharmaceutical lobbyist who KEPT the price of drugs high…
The new virus is declared a world health emergency given the worldwide spread. On the same day U.S. Commerce Sec. Wilbur Ross implied that the deadly corona virus could be good for American jobs … ‘I think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America’
There was no response, no warnings, and lots of conspiracy videos, social media info… The adminstration was unprepared for an outbreak.
“In 2018, when John Bolton assumed the role of national security advisor, Ziemer left, and Bolton disbanded his team, amid public outcry. No one has since filled the position. And Ziemer wasn’t the only public health advocate to jump ship: White House homeland security advisor Tom Bossert, a staunch advocate of infectious disease preparedness and the biodefense strategy, left soon after Bolton took over.” https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/01/coronavirus-white-house-public-health-cdc-hospitals/
That no one in the White House is coordinating a multi-agency response to the coronavirus is “worrisome,” says Asha George, executive director of the global public health advocacy group Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense. “Is it the CDC director?” she says. “
” Rebecca Katz, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Science and Security, echoed those concerns. “The decision to get rid of the directorate within the NSC, the pandemic response officer—people in our field found that really distressing,” she said.
tRUMP’s statements on the Corona virus
VIDEO: In Iowa rally, tRUMP gently and soft spoken voice he affects to sound more pious ands serious, reassures his base that all is just fine with the Wuhan virus… “its great”… and they cheer his idiocy FFS… “We only have 5 people … and hopefully its going to be great… we have somewhat of a problem… hopefully it’s going to be great” https://twitter.com/i/status/1223058447727579137
TRUMP: "We're working very strongly w/ China on the coronavirus that's a new thing that a lot of people are talking about... we have very little problem in this country at this moment. 5, and those ppl are all recuperating... we think it's going to have a very good ending for us …THAT I CAN ASSURE YOU.” Who needs the medical experts to speak to the American people when tRUMP can make a video saying it isn’t as bad as people are saying… (PS, China declined any outside help, so how is it possible they are coordinating anything together, other than trademarks for tRUMP businesses?)
REMINDER: The man who said Obama was doing everything wrong about Ebola, says all is well with the new Wuhan strain of Coronavirus spreading through millions in China… "We have it under control. It's gonna be just fine." tRUMP repeats… that “we” have the virus under control.
TWEET from @realDonaldTrump I don't know if President Obama isn't stopping the flights from Ebola torn West Africa because he is stubborn, stupid, or just doesn't care! 8:17 AM · Oct 12, 2014
tRUMP today, Feb 10, 2020, being an “expert” on anything and everything says about the new Corona Virus, VIDEO: "A lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat. As the heat comes in. Typically that will go away in April. We're in great shape, though.”
tRUMP got his morning briefing and totally misinterprets the viability of the disease by saying, VIDEO: "The virus ... in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. Hope that's true!"
Well NO! The Coronavirus will NOT go away. While it is possible it will become a seasonal illness just as the cold, and other flus, it is most likely that tRUMP was briefed that the virus is less viable with heat, which is presently true given what was previously used as disinfectant for Corona viruses… (UV germicidal irradiation, steam cleaning/chlorine dioxide for medical equipment and alcohol, ethanol, chlorine-containing disinfectants for us… only on non porous surfaces, NOT on your body)
Here are some stats for perspective. Hundreds of thousands died of ordinary flu in the last 3 years in U.S., with 2018 being the highest toll in 40 years. The ordinary flu.
More perspective… in this flu season alone: USA CDC says as of January 10, 2020, there were 15 million cases of flu with 8.2k deaths.
Proper hygiene, staying at home when you are ill, coughing, feverish would help a lot at ALL times to prevent spread of infections.
Want some good info? Stay alert, stay calm and listen to doctors, not the social media disinformation nutters who spread garbage and lies. (oddly enough those same trolls are why you have tRUMP)
* This site has 2 to 4 updates daily of confirmed numbers of infected, deceased and revovered. (released from WHO, CDC, ECDC, NHC and DXY. it also is interactive by country, region, city and clicking on ANY coloured number on the page gets you to the info, numbers or area on the map that you click on. Also on the bottom right, there are 3 sets of charts to track how the 3 sets of numbers correlate to infection/death/recovery ratios.
Mark Sumner has the best information here, supplying charts and news, so be sure to read him for information without scary conspiracies and misinformation.
Dr Mike talks about the Coronavirus: common sense
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI90iqFqLXs
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YscZRozTN9s
Saturday, Feb 29, 2020 · 8:02:34 PM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
Doctors, experts and whistle-blowers are being muzzled so tRUMP can control the messaging. Beware of a government so intent on protecting the stock market, and tRUMP’s ego, that they are willing to let people die for lack of candor and information…
President Obama set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries, as a way to protect against something just like Coronavirus breaking out across the world. Experts begged Trump to keep them open. He closed 37 of them. — Chris Murphy CT February 27, 2020 STORY
After firing their WH response team last year, tRUMP put PENCE in charge of his “new” team. AP Pence does not believe in science, does not think tobacco causes cancer or can kill you, thinks gave conversion therapy works, and let many dies of HIV as he “prayed” on whether or not to provide sterile needles to addicts to stop the epidemic… And then next day, Pence appointed Larry Kudlow, the failed economic advisor of tRUMP to be on the team!
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney sent a brief, government-wide email on Thursday saying that all coronavirus-related communications must now go through Katie Miller, Pence's press secretary who recently married White House senior adviser Stephen Miller https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/politics/pence-messaging-coronavirus/index.html
VIDEO: @tedlieu: Do you think #coronavirus is a ‘hoax’? @SecPompeo REFUSES to answer the question, then feebly responds: It’s a ‘gotcha’ moment, it’s not useful.
VIDEO: Mulvaney downplays the #coronavirus, saying it's "not #Ebola," but then admits, "Are you gonna see some schools shut down? Probably. Will you see impacts on public transportation? Sure."
VIDEO: When asked about the coronavirus: "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."
VIDEO: As coronavirus cases rise dramatically, tRUMP claims, "It's going to disappear one day it's like a miracle it will disappear.”
VIDEO: After calling the corona virus information from Democrats a “Dem Hoax” yesterday, today the first American died. tRUMP’s press conference was supposed to be a fluffer for himself extolling his expertise on Afghanistan[25:50] and getting rid of ISIS for the thousandth time. (Mission Accomplished, AGAIN...) He hastily put forth the “team” of experts [31:50] while lying there were only 22 cases, followed by Pence fluffing up tRUMP and telling lies about the lies that he is also an expert on epidemics.
If you can stomach him, here is the whole thing. Oh and BTW, your Surgeon General of the US is there on the right as they take the stage… looking awfully handsome in his uniform! I guess that is his job then, silly me…
The patient was a man in his 50s who had underlying health conditions, according to Dr. Jeffrey Duchin, health officer for Seattle and King County, Washington state. President Donald Trump and US officials previously said in a press briefing that the patient was a woman.” A wonderful woman” tRUMP said, as though he knew her as personally as all of the Greek Americans who he previously said he knows personally…
Wednesday, Mar 4, 2020 · 3:18:05 AM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
tRUMP continues to interfere and insists on being involved with the Corona virus team as their inept and clueless leader. He wants a vaccine before the election to crow about? What a selfish idiot!
VIDEO: tRUMP has no clue about antibodies, vaccines or ANYTHING FFFFFFS.. tRUMP asks a pharmaceutical CEO: "This would be a combination of a vaccine and also it will -- put it in a different way -- make you better, quicker?" The Videos after this are shocking. tRUMP asks about the flu vaccine, wondering why they don’t use it for the coronavirus, FFS! “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
VIDEO: tRUMP has no idea that a phase one trial is necessary and the vaccine cannot go into public use until usually a year after that. (The FDA may approve for people who are dying) tRUMP, Who knows all, thinks 2 months is better. WTAF Trump on it taking up to a year to develop a coronavirus vaccine: "I mean, I like the sound of a couple months better, if I must be honest."
VIDEO: The know-nothing know-it-all-in-chief says, "Therapies are sort of another word for cure."
Holy HELL
AUDIO to Hannity: tRUMP on WHO saying coronavirus death rate is 3.4%: "I think the 3.4% number is really a false number. Now this is just my hunch, but based on a lot of conversations ... personally, I'd say the number is way under 1%."
Friday, Mar 6, 2020 · 7:41:18 AM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
March 04, 2020, and tRUMP and Pence are speaking to airline CEOs. AIRLINES . that fly . a lot .internationally. and are losing money like never before. and tRUMP says this:
In a certain way, you could say that the borders are automatically shut down, without having to say “shut down.” I mean, they’re, to a certain extent, automatically shut down. But it’s affecting the airline business, as it would. And a lot of people are staying in our country, and they’re shopping and using our hotels in this country. So, from that standpoint, I think, probably, there’s a positive impact. But there’s also an impact on overseas travel, which will be fairly substantial.
All is well because of his America first agenda and his hotels are filling up? What a blowhard ignoramus .
March 05 2020, VIDEO: During Fox News town hall tRUMP says he likes that people are staying in the US:
"I have to say, people are now staying in the United States, spending their money in the US -- and I like that."
Saturday, Mar 7, 2020 · 3:24:16 AM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
Aaron Rupar usually watches tRUMP so we don’t have to and he breaks the infuriating into bearable snippets. Here are the highlights low-lights. Clicking on the first video gives you the thread if you wish to actually watch the idiot-in-chief, and if you wish to watch it in its entirety as you are a masochist, I included the entire fiasco in my bottom link.
VIDEO CDC Atlanta: Director Redfield is a boot-licking sycophant… and in case once is not enough, he fluffs up tRUMP again…
VIDEO CDC Atlanta: tRUMP in golf gear interrupts talk about the coronavirus to ask Fox News reporter whether his townhall show on Fox last night got good ratings. He is asking because it got amazing ratings. And how will people know unless he interrupts the virus talk to say HE went viral on FOX! ME ME ME First… and the 11 people who died (it was 12 then, he lied, 14 now) are nothing to this psychopath …
VIDEO CDC Atlanta: tRUMP says coronavirus tests are there for anyone who asks , and they are beautiful, even though there are so few tests no one who asks is going to get tested… “Anybody that needs a test gets a test. Any Doctor that wants to test.” O M G "The [coronavirus] tests are all perfect. Like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. This was not a perfect as that, but pretty good." – That was tRUMP talking about his impeachment from his Ukrainian call FFS…
VIDEO CDC Atlanta: He also wants to leave the cruise ship people quarantined in their cabins… as those numbers will not be considered in the American numbers (like in Japan) "I like the numbers being where they are. I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship" its about tRUMP not the people…
VIDEO CDC Atlanta: After demolishing Obama’s WH bio-threat response team, overseas teams and initiatives and trying to cut budgets for CDC overhis 4 years … tRUMP says he is doing s really good job… and “who would have thought” it would happen when theDOW was so good… "I just think this is something that you can never really think is going to happen." Andbe calm, because you are the greatest people in the world…
VIDEO CDC Atlanta: OMFG, tRUMP now talks about how much he know about viruses, “And his uncle was at MIT and a super genius don’t you know … CDC: "You know my Uncle was a great -- he was at MIT. He taught at MIT for a record number of years. He was a great super genius, Dr. John Trump. I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it...Maybe I have a natural ability and maybe should have done that instead of becoming president. “ We can’t wish that on the world; he might have killed everyone then. BTW, Uncle John tRUMP, was NOT a medical doctor. He was a physicist, electrical engineer, inventor with a PhD.
Twitter messed up the thread so you may have to scroll down a bit to find the right snippet.
VIDEO CDC Atlanta: The entire scrum, tRUMP at CDC, 47 minutes of hell
Sunday, Mar 8, 2020 · 9:51:11 PM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
UGH… I have the answer now. Dr Jerome is a sycophant. “Here's Surgeon General Jerome Adams telling Jake Tapper that President Trump "sleeps less than I do and he's healthier than what I am.”
PLUS he refuses to give even a ballpark figure about how many were tested and lies again a that any Doctor who requests a test will get one. Dr. Adams is as reliable as Kellyanne Conway FFS...
Surgeon General Jerome Adams was was chosen not for his oratory skills and being a respected doctor, but because he was Mike Pence’s Health commissioner who supported Pence’s decision to let people die of Aids, rather than stop an epidemic and that the CDC Director Redfield did the same to a group of HIV in the military while exploiting them as test subjects for a sham vaccine that Redfield touted and lied about.
Redfield recruited his sidekick, Debbie Birx, who was with him in the army and also is on Azar’s coronavirus taskforce. Azar was President for Lily, who made life saving medications unaffordable and a pharmaceutical lobbyist who assured to keep them that way. All 6 of the people mentioned make up most of the White house coronavirus taskforce. It is a circus.
Here is the Surgeon General’s very professional twitter bio…/S
While I am sure he thought was amusing, but not in a crisis. He has since removed it after criticism. A clown in a clown show is apropos…