[FYI* I have a diary full of PREPARATION and DIET hints as well as some Facts, Advice, Videos, URLs and Self Care Preparation for the COVID19 Virus - UPDATED]
Pence proudly tweeted this picture of mostly old white men and some men who have no expertise in anything related to the virus. Why is Carson there? Where are the women? At least there are some actual Doctors there… and Tony Fauci, a world renowned expert on infectious diseases.
Unlike civilized countries like Canada, this US administration seems to forget it is 2020, and women are also Doctors, scientists, experts in immunology and bio-threats. Dr. Fauci should have assembled a team of his peers, not Pence. The team should be ashamed. China tested million. Even South Korea tested 85k. B.C, a Province in Canada, tested more people than the entire USA.
On Wednesday, Pence did his first task of protecting Americans from the coronavirus, by speaking to a CPAC crowd … Cuccinelli denigrated immigrants and failed economic adviser Kudlow was also there reminding the crowd “You might think about buying the dip.” Kudlow has never been right so. Congrats Pence. What a team.
“President Trump has no higher priority than the health, safety, and well-being of the American people,” Pence told the MAGA hat-wearing crowd. He touted Trump’s “unprecedented actions” to prevent the virus’ spread in the United States, where the risk of contracting it “remains low.” He reassured the crowd, “We are ready for anything.”
There has been no WH team since 2018, and Obama set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries to protect against the next Pandemic — this one, and tRUMP closed 37 of them as well in 2018. Don’t trust AP “fact” checkers, FOX liars and MAGA minions sayng tRUMP didn’t slash programs. And how can tRUMP be given credit for setting up a task force when he is the once who assured the virus would be spread into the US and only started to mobilize once it does?
“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.”
tRUMP and his sycophants are down playing the virus, not to protect the people, but to protect tRUMP and the stock market. At the same time the who was upgrading the global status to its highest threat rating, very high, tRUMP and his minions are tellign Maerica all is fine…
VIDEO: As #coronavirus cases surge worldwide, @realDonaldTrump claims, "It's going to disappear one day it's like a miracle it will disappear.”
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."
tRUMP is not going to be doing enough. You can’t be sure how many cases are out there if you don’t test, and testing is still not adequate. The test kits often do not work, there are very few, there are only 12 state or local health departments able to test and, all must still be sent to CDC for confirmation! That is insane. (The fact that media transcript is a wall of text when the CDC have staff for that is freaking annoying. Your tax dollars at “work.”)
The numbers will change, and should tRUMP be as inept as the Chinese government was by muzzling Doctors and whistle-blowers, and not protecting the people and medical staff as a first priority, or preparing for the multitude of possible scenarios, it could spike. It may even be worse because people are unlikely to happily self quarantine. Few will want to be taken to quarantine areas. (especially as they are all military bases) His cult do not care, and are also protecting him.
You will need to care for yourself and stay informed via other resources. I wish you all the luck, because sadly, we are all going to need it…
Sunday, Mar 1, 2020 · 8:59:19 PM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
It occurred to me last night that since the air-force bases where quarantine of those infected and those being observed have been removed from the maps, only tRUMP, his taskforce and administration know pertinent information.
The John Hopkins MAP which just changed from 77 to 76 for some reason, is was a perfect resource as it is interactive, the coloured numbers in each column lead to the map and stats provided by data centres at WHO, CDC, ECDC, NHC and DXY. It also has a chart at the bottom right to calculate the ratios of confirmed/deaths/recovered. It is as accurate as the numbers given by countries, so is likely well below actual numbers. In China people died of the flu/pneumonia… untested. And that will happen in the USA as well, given less than a thousand tests have been done and only in the last 2 days were a few done on ANYONE who did not come from China.
They know where the other infected are, how many remain in each and how many were released as well, how many new cases are infected in the area, whether people are being tested in the area, etc.
The CDC will know because ALL of the tests are going to them from the measly 12 test sites to be evaluated and confirmed… by the CDC main lab. (Won’t that be fun if millions are infected? That is if the tests work. Many were unreliable and people were in the community before being recalled to be tested)
tRUMP will know where to rally and which states to avoid and the other candidates will not. The other implications are too heinous to contemplate. I won’t speculate but Millions of others will though. The airwaves are going to be full of it soon.
The Surgeon General Jerome Adams finally made himself heard today! Oh … wait, he made a TWEET. How informative and reassuring. Oh ... wait, it was to repeat the CDC saying masks are not effective… (They aren’t as your eyes are exposed) Perhaps the “task Force” should be talking to Bezos about limiting which masks will be sold to the public, FFS, so that medical personal have the respirators they need… But, who am I to make such bold statements when I am a mere layperson and a woman at that, so never allowed near Pence to be on the taskforce to use the decision making skills and critical thinking that are required of a leader… before makingTWITtweets…
"Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS!" Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted. "They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"
HHS Sec Alex Azar (Who made pharmaceuticals like insulin unaffordable) said last week that the U.S. has a stockpile of 30 million N95 masks but needs at least 270 million more for health care workers alone to prepare for a more widespread outbreak.
I asked the question in a previous Diary… Why is tRUMP making statements about the Corona virus COVID-19 when the Surgeon General has been tasked with that job in the past? tRUMP is controlling the message and you cannot trust tRUMP.
Meet the all female teaming working on the COVID-19 response team to develop a vaccine…
Sunday, Mar 1, 2020 · 11:23:32 PM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
VP Pence held a WH Coronavirus task force press conference on Feb 27th, the day after he was tapped to head the task force. He says the WH has had the team set up for weeks. (Sec Azar begs to differ) That is pretty amazing to hear being they seem to have been doing nothing but put people in danger by HHS meeting a Wuhan flight unprotected, and had not ordered supplies like respirators for medical staff, and the CDC had no proper tests available, and nothing had been done but to set up a quarantine for infected people.
It starts at 28:00 was LESS THAN 12 minutes long and was mostly set up as a tRUMP fluffer whereby Pence repeated the WH talking points of how tRUMP had everyone under control… It ends with a couple of reporters allowed to ask questions and several tRUMP staff SCREAMING at reporters to go…
Controlling the message, nothing more, nothing new. The WHO and HOPEFULLY the CDC are working without huge restraints but no messages will get to you unless there are whistleblowers. (And the first one was punished by being reposted)
Pence ‘s meetings behind close doors might look more like this…
Monday, Mar 2, 2020 · 2:40:02 AM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
Sunday Surprise! There are 2 task forces. Pence’s and Azar’s. At least Azar has a woman on his team, Debbie Birx, who worked with is an well-regarded in the infectious disease field. So Pence is the head of one team that rules over the other team, Azar is chair of the other group which may r may not have a staff and both are workign from the WH if I got that straight… Nothing like having nothing in place for years and then suddenly over compensating. I am sure there will be no backlash from that. /S The story
“We are now, what, 50 days into it? This is historic,” Azar said. “No administration, no CDC in American history has delivered like this.”
Delivered WHAT, FFS! These arseholes are making themselves historic figures before the disease even begins to make its mark. I hope real history will be written by sane people…
As I write this, there has been a second death. A 70 year old man from the Seattle area has passed away from COVID-19
Dr Dena Grayson is a Physician with a PHD working on Ebola and Bio-threat science. Here she is in a VIDEO answering questions and calmly telling you what to expect as the virus surges
Monday, Mar 2, 2020 · 10:43:28 PM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
This article (read it all here) tells why the US has been so slow in testing. It is not a good story. be prepared to be upset, as you should be. People are paying for test that may not have been accurate. We have all been referring to the lack of testing and now we know why… but now the CDC is covering up their snafus by removing valuable data. (The numbers referred to in the quotebox … CDC has done only 459 cases… are now gone) The story politely describes the bungling that is now costing lives.
Speed is critical in the response to COVID-19. So why has the United States been so slow in its attempt to develop reliable diagnostic tests and use them widely?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has shipped testing kits to 57 countries. China had five commercial tests on the market 1 month ago and can now do up to 1.6 million tests a week; South Korea has tested 65,000 people so far. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in contrast, has done only 459 tests since the epidemic began. The rollout of a CDC-designed test kit to state and local labs has become a fiasco because it contained a faulty reagent. Labs around the country eager to test more suspected cases—and test them faster—have been unable to do so. No commercial or state labs have the approval to use their own tests.
In what is already an infamous snafu, CDC initially refused a request to test a patient in Northern California who turned out to be the first probable COVID19 case without known links to an infected person.
This story also describes the bungling, but gets more to the point of who was to blame and names names. There will be finger pointing and lots of flinging of underlings under buses, but tRUMP hiring the antithesis of what was needed in every aspect of governance is to blame! tRUMP’s need to destroy anything Obama did out of ignorance and spite is to blame. Meanwhile Azar will be roasted and likely ousted.
This was a management failure,” said one administration official, charging that Azar didn’t adequately plan for a worst-case coronavirus scenario that’s grown more likely by the day — even though Azar touted his bona fides as a veteran of the George W. Bush administration, where he helped fight crises like SARS and an anthrax scare. "CDC and FDA should have been working hand-in-hand to get Plan B, Plan C and Plan D ready to go," the official said.
“The administration’s response has been reactive, not proactive,” added a former HHS official. “A lot of what has happened has been driven by outside pressure,” like public health labs sounding the alarm that they were unable to perform the CDC’s tests.
Thursday, Mar 5, 2020 · 4:25:50 AM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
VIDEO: tRUMP has no clue about antibodies, vaccines or ANYTHING .. 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?" and “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” The Know-it-all-in-chief thinks the coronavirus is the flu…
The Videos after this are shocking.
tRUMP has no idea that a phase one is necessary and the vaccine cannot go into public use until usually a year after that. 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."
The anti-vaxxer-in chief suddenly knows everything about vaccines, and now knows the flu kills. Thank goodness he told us because he assured us nobody knew that … (Which always means he didn’t know) "I told the pharmaceutical companies that they have to do a better job on that vaccine" -- Trump admits he just learned that the flu can be deadly and says he wants the pharmaceutical companies to do something about it
March 4th, 2020 as US now has 158 infected and 11 deaths, tRUMP and Pence lie to Americans:
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%." Your “president” is lying and making hunches about an epidemic…
VIDEO: Pence lies saying"the risk of the coronavirus to the average American remains low," then walked off w/o answering Brian Karem’s question about "can the uninsured get tested?!" The risk is very high and most people will get it. It is whether they can fight it OFF that matter and most healthy likely will. It will become an epidemic soon… Please watch the video to the end, as a WH staff member yells at reporters for yelling as Pence retreats. You pay that bitch… Annnnd I just read that is she is Katie Miller, Stephen Miller’s wife!
Thursday, Mar 5, 2020 · 8:41:41 PM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
The CDC has placed the number of infected travelers or “repatriated travelers” as they call them as though they are not Americans… even further down the page and are STILL NOT included in their total infected. They have placed even more information between the stats so you will not notice. They are somewhere in the US at one of the air force bases in quarantine, as are suspected cases of unknown numbers. Where are they? It is Unconscionable.
On that same page the CDC explains they no longer tell you about how many are tested as that is available regionally. Note it doesn’t say WHERE/HOW to get that information from your region…
† CDC is no longer reporting the number of persons under investigation (PUIs) that have been tested, as well as PUIs that have tested negative. Now that states are testing and reporting their own results, CDC’s numbers are not representative all of testing being done nationwide.
‡ As of March 4, 2020 1,526 patients had been tested at CDC. This does not include testing being done at state and local public health laboratories, which began this week.
‘Here's a CDC official repeatedly dodging straightforward questions about why the US has been so slow to test people for coronavirus.’ Azar then says the USA is not South Korea, as an excuse for not having 10k tests a day as Korea has done.
The John Hopkins site has changed its method of reporting data (although it always had total numbers for the US) and is (sort of) including “repatriated Americans.” Click on the US numbers in colour, then click lower down on regional. The number there has increased to 45. There are they? It removed the infected travelers from its map location (Nebraska and other air force bases) after the HHS whistle-blower fiasco.
Saturday, Mar 7, 2020 · 2:51:48 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.
VIDEO CDC Atlanta: The entire scrum, tRUMP at CDC, 47 minutes of hell
Saturday, Mar 7, 2020 · 11:04:17 PM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
ACK, it is even worse. CDC Director Redfield gladly displayed his boot-licking sycophantic tRUMP-fluffing HERE in case once was not enough, he fluffs him up again HERE … for the world to see.
That was embarrassing but, he was a homophobic POS fake “religious and GOP sycophant for a living. As an army doc, he displayed his “compassion” by leaving those with AIDs jobless and dying, while using a shady “remedy” to profit from them as well. The reason why Obama’s administration had the FDA approve medical tests was to avoid scams like that perpetrated by Theranos and, it appears, Redfield.
PLUS, his sidekick, Debbie Birx was with him in the army and also is on Azar’s coronavirus taskforce. She is not only aware but complicit. These are people that saw the sick, gave false remedy and watched them die on their watch. No wonder tRUMP and Pence approve. I won’t/can’t put the BLAME there, but damn … he is NOT the person to be in charge of a Pandemic.
Monday, Mar 9, 2020 · 12:20:48 AM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
Sigh…
Surgeon General Jerome Adams is a sycophant, fluffing up tRUMP HERE, saying tRUMP "sleeps less than I do and he's healthier than what I am," when his job is to work for the USA not tRUMP. W T A F! Also his statement that some 70 year olds who run marathons are healthier than some 30 year olds. Yes, if the 30 year old is sickly with has chronic diseases. He gulped hard after saying that…
He is unable to give a ballpark figure of how many were tested, lying about the FDA giving any figures about them, and lying that any Doc will get tests when they ask for them and lying that some areas have been contained. WHere? Where no one has yet been tested? He also gulps loudly when he sai that 75k tests are now available. Is that even true? UNTRUE! Then he ends it by saying “Facts over fear, Jake.” See the whole mess of lies HERE
Surgeon General Jerome Adams was not chosen for his oratory skills and being a respected docto, 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 and his sidekick, Debbie Birx 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.
This was Surgeon General Jerome Adams Twitter bio, before being shamed for it. Such childishness is appropriate for the circus tent of tRUMPists though…
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I have a few other COVID-19 blogs should you wish to look:
*This one has some preparation helpful hints and URLs
This one pertains to the 1918 FLU epidemic and how the President lied to the people…
This one is less important but reminds how much tRUMP is trying to control the message…
158 Infected and 11 Deaths, tRUMP and Pence Lie to Americans and the Daily Show Touches on Touching
If a MAGA Minion on social media says COVID-19 spread is Democrat's fault... show them this
Monday, Mar 9, 2020 · 1:19:51 AM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
VPPence acknowledged there was a shortfall in testing kits on Mar 05 "We don't have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward." That was honesty at least, but he said it after Azar said thousands of test kits were shipped out, after also saying many tests were defective. Where were they shipped? Were they defective one?
Some regions have been given permission to make their own. Which ones? Were all people tested with the defective kits retested? Are defective kits still in circulation or all recalled? Some labs are shipping out tests but some people say they are the shoddy labs (and after reading about Redfield scamming HIV infected people, did he and others invest in these companies? Is there any quality control requirements? )
It is confusing and upsetting, but gets worse.
Today I read this story HERE about Indonesia, which has denied outbreaks and says they have been testing has been ongoing. However, it is a very poor and densely populated country that relies on tourism and many from China would have landed there. Even today when 2 people were confirmed, they are still not lists by the government health ministry. This struck me cold…
Balitbangkes uses test kits provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that were recalled from many U.S. labs because they had a faulty reagent. Last week, in response to an urgent shortage of tests in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the CDC tests could still be used.
Gaslighting VIDEO:
STEPHANOPOULOS: The Grand Princess is docking tomorrow. What's the plan for the 3,500 people on board?
BEN CARSON: They're coming up with one
S: It docks tomorrow
C: The plan will be in place
S: Shouldn't you be able to say what it is?
C: It hasn't been fully formulated
Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020 · 3:05:49 AM +00:00
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After saying 1 million tests were
available March 02, the taskforce in charge of being CDC liaison with Whitehouse pulled back on that statement March 05 because less than 1,000 were carried out. The next day, they said
4 million tests would be available this week But in reality…
@CDCgov As of March 9, 78 state and local public health labs across 50 states now have the capacity to test up to 75,000 people for #COVID19. State/local public health staff determine which specimens should be tested. See updated interim testing guidance: https://bit.ly/331U9jY.
Also, Sec Azar said Feb 29th that a total of 93 labs should be able to process the tests by early March. Is that true? Previously regions were all allowed to test, but the final confirmation had to come from CDC Atlanta labs. if that has not changed it will be catastrophic. As of
Friday March 06…
To find out how many coronavirus tests are being conducted, BuzzFeed News contacted the public health departments of all 50 states and Washington, DC, between Tuesday and Friday.
The hard-hit Washington state, for example, says it can now test nearly 900 people a day. But Wyoming has yet to get state testing off the ground.
Even so, some common answers did come up: Few states have access to commercially produced tests, despite promises to the contrary from the FDA earlier this week.
As of Friday evening, BuzzFeed News confirmed that at least 2,187 people have been tested across the US, either at the state level or by the CDC. (Alabama and Pennsylvania did not provide information on how many tests they had done to date, and their information could not be found online.) An analysis published by the Atlantic on Friday found similar numbers.
Remember, if you read the entire story, that some states refer to TEST KITS:“test kits” refers to the large batches of materials sent to state public health labs by the CDC. Each test kit contains roughly enough material to test 350 patients, unless otherwise specified by a state health department.
Wednesday, Mar 11, 2020 · 8:23:04 AM +00:00
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South Korea has tested 140k people compared to the US count of 1.5k. South Korea within thier first week were doing 10k tests a day and can do them in a drive thru… with results in 10 minutes. The USA took the total number of people tested OFF of the CDC info site obviously to not embarrass themselves or lying tRUMP! It is ridiculous. People want and need to know.
Azar lies through his teeth. Not knowing the numbers keeps “tRUMP’s numbers” down. He insists TWICE they have a surplus when Doctors and nurses are saying N, they are being told when and who to test. “At no time, at no time… at no time… [3 repeats, how tRUMPish] could a public health official not be able to get an individual tested for novel corona virus [it is COVID-19 for some time now] been unable to get them tested through the CDC’s labs or other labs authorized by CDC.” WTAF? LIAR!