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    Quote Originally Posted by Zan15 View Post
    Round 3 of unemployment starting to hit. Furloughs are going to turn into permanent layoffs.
    Yeah...and it's not just the big companies. We've been talking a lot about small businesses not getting that help Congress authorized, haven't we? The system was clogged and there wasn't enough to go around. I don't have anything to cite -- this kind of thing doesn't happen very often -- but from what we've seen so far, including words like "minimum", I'd suspect that smaller businesses are more likely to go out of business than their larger counterparts because of this outbreak.

    Mom's Diner can't afford to keep people on payroll if they shutter for months. If they don't qualify for a loan, they're never opening back up.

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    If anyone is not watching the briefing right now... it's a really good one. Good questions, hilarious rants and melt downs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    24,000 preventable deaths and counting.
    preventable? are we living in a universe where people know the outcomes what might have happened in the future when a different action was made? This is reality not sci fi.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    Check it out, I just cited Kentucky in a favorable light.
    I don't know why people keep acting like Kentucky and Tennessee are comparable. Tennessee has nearly 2 million more people in about the same land area and is significantly more urban with 2 fairly large cities in Memphis and Nashville. Kentucky has no cities anywhere near their sizes (Lexington is maybe half the size of Memphis). Tennessee has also done nearly 3 times as many tests as Kentucky.

    Just as a counterpoint: Illinois shut down 2 weeks before Tennessee, doesn't even have twice the population, but has more than 5 times as many cases as Tennessee. So shutting down early made it worse?
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    Quote Originally Posted by tromage2 View Post
    preventable? are we living in a universe where people know the outcomes what might have happened in the future when a different action was made? This is reality not sci fi.
    Well, Trump overrode the CDC to bring infected people back on a full plane. Overrode the CDC on just about everything so far. So yes, most of them WERE preventable. We had 15 infected, and Trump claimed they were going to go down to zero, now 40,000 deaths later, EVERYTHING is on Trump's hands. He could have prepared, but nope, he fired the pandemic response team, didn't stock up on PPE equipment, hasn't instituted a federal stay at home order, and now he wants to send our equipment to other countries when we haven't even flattened the curve here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Inuyaki View Post
    If anyone is not watching the briefing right now... it's a really good one. Good questions, hilarious rants and melt downs.
    Sorry, I was too busy watching Pelosi on FOX News.

    No, really.

    Nervous Nancy is an inherently “dumb” person. She wasted all of her time on the Impeachment Hoax. She will be overthrown, either by inside or out, just like her last time as “Speaker”. Wallace & FoxNews are on a bad path, watch!
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    Quote Originally Posted by tromage2 View Post
    are we living in a universe where people know the outcomes what might have happened in the future when a different action was made?
    No. We are living in a universe where Trump was directly told by his own staff how bad this would be, and did nothing.

    We are living in a universe where Trump is telling people to get back to work, and to go to crowded Easter churches, as the body count breaks records.

    We are living in a universe where "it's just one person from China, it's going to be fine" was a prediction of what might have happened in the future, except one not based on history, science, or facts. Just feelings.

    And we are living in a universe where Trump said

    I’ve felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic
    on March 23, despite the WHO labeling it as such March 11, and the day I cited was March 9.

    Trump was told and he claimed he knew it would be that bad a week before he did anything. That's not sci fi. That's So Fat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tromage2 View Post
    preventable? are we living in a universe where people know the outcomes what might have happened in the future when a different action was made? This is reality not sci fi.
    We're living in a reality where we can model how much some policies could impact any desired outcome, in this case is the amount of corpses that the orange cancer has on his hands.
    And yeah, good policies could have saved at least 20k+ lives and counting.
    All of the death and suffering is Trumps fault.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thepersona View Post
    All of the death and suffering is Trumps fault.
    It's shared, but yes, Trump can and should have acted sooner and saved no-longer-countless lives. If a state's governor also didn't act, they're also responsible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tromage2 View Post
    preventable? are we living in a universe where people know the outcomes what might have happened in the future when a different action was made? This is reality not sci fi.
    Why do you think there is social distancing and quarantine? I think this might clear up a bit of the replies...

    Funny enough, Trump is pretty much acting like every president in a sci fi movie... where everyone dies...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thepersona View Post
    All of the death and suffering is Trumps fault.
    Here is something to think about... WA state was the first epicenter in US. Instead of listening to Inslee, Trump called him a snake. Florida governor claimed he waited for Trump’s word and are at more than twice as many cases as WA. That’s just the reaction to it happening, if we talk prevention and access to healthcare, Trump actively attacked both.

    Beyond ‘the buck stops here’, I don’t think there is anyone that holds more responsibility. As a direct action and inaction, than Trump. Then if you consider his tweets that encourage breaking even the rules he set........
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zan15 View Post
    Inc flood of bankruptcies in retail.
    So a flood on top of the existing flood.

    Should we be buying stock in hip waders or snorkels?

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    Quote Originally Posted by tromage2 View Post
    preventable? are we living in a universe where people know the outcomes what might have happened in the future when a different action was made? This is reality not sci fi.
    Of course we could. San Francisco is the second densest city in the US (New York is #1). London Breed closed the city early in late February. The results? Total of 1,157 confirmed COVID-19 case as of today, 20 deaths, 50 in acute care and 27 in intensive care.

    Want to hear something even more amazing? Not a single confirmed case of COVID-19 in the 22-block San Francisco Chinatown. The most densely populated neighborhood in the US. Aaron Peskin, San Francisco supervisor that represent Chinatown, recognized what would happened if they had an outbreak in Chinatown. With full cooperation of the Chinese hospital and every single neighborhood institutions, all of whom were imprinted with memories of earlier outbreaks, the Chinatown community instituted stay-at-home policy voluntarily before San Francisco.

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    Contrast London Breed with Trump's latest attempt to rob states of PPE, mafia style.

    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2010025
    The White House Has Erected A Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE

    The chief executive of a MA hospital, outbid for PPE by the feds multiple times, cut a deal, paid extra, hired the trucks — and then was interrogated by the FBI and had to get his Congressperson to intervene to keep DHS from heisting the shipment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Milchshake View Post
    Contrast London Breed with Trump's latest attempt to rob states of PPE, mafia style.

    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2010025
    The White House Has Erected A Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE

    The chief executive of a MA hospital, outbid for PPE by the feds multiple times, cut a deal, paid extra, hired the trucks — and then was interrogated by the FBI and had to get his Congressperson to intervene to keep DHS from heisting the shipment.

    The US has become a failed state. While states are cooperating with each others, the Fed is putting up roadblocks at every turns.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rasulis View Post
    The US has become a failed state. While states are cooperating with each others, the Fed is putting up roadblocks at every turns.
    And Trump/his cronies won't explain where the stolen supplies are going. Five bucks says Trump is finding a way to profit off it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zaydin View Post
    And Trump/his cronies won't explain where the stolen supplies are going. Five bucks says Trump is finding a way to profit off it.
    And people still root for him. I just don't get it. States have to sign contracts in secrecy and ship their supplies in private airplanes because they are concerned that their own government may confiscate the supplies, and his supporters don't find anything wrong with that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Milchshake View Post
    mafia style.
    It's late and I'm tired, but...did that say that the FBI were thwarted from taking PPE from a hospital, but only because they called Congress?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    It's late and I'm tired, but...did that say that the FBI were thwarted from taking PPE from a hospital, but only because they called Congress?
    Congressional Representative. So his congressperson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    It's late and I'm tired, but...did that say that the FBI were thwarted from taking PPE from a hospital, but only because they called Congress?
    Sadly yes. Trump and Sessions/Barr have hollowed out most of the FBI. I wonder if Comey and Mueller feel a special pain over this.

    I mean what kind of FBI agent wants to steal medical supplies?

    If Biden wins, he needs to torch the "tradition" of always nominating a conservative law man for the FBI.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zaydin View Post
    And Trump/his cronies won't explain where the stolen supplies are going. Five bucks says Trump is finding a way to profit off it.
    Ten says it's going to states he needs in November.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zaydin View Post
    Five bucks says Trump is finding a way to profit off it.
    He's giving it to Iran.

    America First, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    And now JH has 38,910. Not far enough under 2,000 to celebrate.
    Total is now 40,679. Again, a bit under 2,000. If that stays down, that's actually good news.

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