Subj : Re: Pandemic
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Dan Cross
Date : Tue Mar 17 2020 10:26:54

On 16 Mar 2020 at 01:07a, Dale Shipp pondered and said...
 
 DS>  -=> On 03-15-20  08:41,  Gregory Deyss <=-
 DS> 
 DS>  GD> Someone like Obama, perhaps? who did not stop travel and what happene
 DS>  GD> thousands died.  No thanks, I will keep my President who is a busines
 DS>  GD> man, not a clueless black man, who was a community organizer. 
 DS> 
 DS> Which pandemic are you talking about?  Try looking up the statistics on
 DS> the Ebola pandemic and compare the number of infections and deaths in
 DS> the USA to the number of same from Covid-19 as of today -- and we are
 DS> just getting started.

They are usually talking about H1N1.  They don't like to
talk about Ebola because it doesn't fit their narrative.
Oddly enough, they're wrong about H1N1, though.  A timeline
of events:

Apr 15, 2009: First case of H1N1 diagnosed in the US.
Apr 22, 2009: CDC activates emergency operations.
May 15, 2009: Over 1,000,000 tests released
Aug 31, 2009: Prototype vaccine developed

So. Four and a half months from first case to an early
vaccine.  Compare to Trump on COVID-19:

Jan 22, 2020: "We have it totally under control.  It's one
  person coming in from China.  It's going to be just fine."
Feb 02, 2020: "We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
Feb 24, 2020: "The Coronavirus is very much under control in
  the USA... Stock Market starting to look very good to me!"
Feb 25, 2020: "CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job
  of handling Coronavirus."
Feb 25, 2020: "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."
Feb 26, 2020: "The 15 (cases in the US) within a few days is
  going to be down to close to zero."
Feb 26, 2020: "We're going very substantially down, not up."
Feb 27, 2020: "One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear."
Mar 04, 2020: "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."
Mar 06, 2020: "Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that
  needs a test gets a test."  (As of Mar 15, 2020, the US had
  administered less than 5,000 tests, according to the CDC.)
Mar 06, 2020: "I don't need to have the numbers double because
  of one ship that wasn't our fault."
Mar 09, 2020: "This blindsided the world."

Well, it blindsided the president!  He's in way, way over
his head.  For the good of the country, he should at least
admit it and find someone competent to manage the crisis.

World-wide cases just topped 182,000 cases.  In the US, we've
topped 4,200 and are doubling roughly every three days.  Since
we do not have wide-scale testing, because Trump turned down
tests from the WHO, we have no idea whether the social distancing
measures put into place over the last week and a half are
working, let alone sufficient.

This isn't funny anymore, guys; it's time to let the adults
take over and fix the mess.

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