Post inauguration Trump:

[Pies4shaw]

His delay looks to have condemned a couple of hundred thousand people to death. Why would anyone find fault with that?

[pietillidie]

^Yes, best to wait until people no longer feel they need to be supportive of an unhinged narcissist to save dying relatives.

Not only will people wake up to a massive death toll and mass job losses caused by denialism and incompetence, but also a pile of unproductive debt caused by idiotic billionaire tax cuts, vanity walls, a massive expansion in military spending, unprecedented trade destabilisation, and fed interference rooted in executive abuse.

Then again, it's easy to forget we're dealing with two different centuries in one country here. Perhaps the 1960s fantasists will vote for him again to stick it gay feminist vegans and pregnant teenage girls, as they did with George W. I. Who can be sure?

Way to go, Bankrupter-in-Chief.

[Jezza]

His delay looks to have condemned a couple of hundred thousand people to death. Why would anyone find fault with that?

Agree. Xi Jinping did nothing to stop the spread of the virus for weeks.

[watt price tully]

His delay looks to have condemned a couple of hundred thousand people to death. Why would anyone find fault with that?

Agree. Xi Jinping did nothing to stop the spread of the virus for weeks.

PTID isn’t saying China didn't lie, he is saying Trump reacted slowly too through denial & minimisation. Trump’s
tardiness let alone his policies will kill lots of Americans.

However by next week he’s assured us the problem especially the Economic one will be fixed.

[pietillidie]

^It's getting hard to keep the story straight, apparently.

Jezza, if the Chinese leadership denied and obfuscated, and Trump denied and obfuscated, that ought to set off warning bells in your head. Callous, reckless, self-serving, corrupt, bumbling and authoritarian; I'd say that describes them both quite well.

Even worse, though, Trump had the chance to learn from China's mistakes and the threat still failed to register above his own peurile self interest. Just a catastrophe.

Why you'd hitch your wagon to that is beyond me.

[Pies4shaw]

Whatever has happened in China is irrelevant to Trump’s culpability. By my estimation, the US just ticked over 1,000,000 cases of COVID-19.

You don’t get 6,803 deaths from 270,000 cases in a functional health system. The true figure is likely to be well over 1,030,000, as I write.

[pietillidie]

PR stunts and mismanagement instead of serious action as the clock ticked:

At least 430,000 people have arrived in the United States on direct flights from China since that country disclosed the existence of a pneumonialike illness to international health experts on New Year’s Eve, according to an analysis of data collected in both countries.

Nearly 40,000 of them have come in the two months since President Trump imposed travel restrictions.

...

And even with the restrictions, screening procedures have been uneven, interviews show.

“I was surprised at how lax the whole process was,” said Andrew Wu, 31, who landed at Los Angeles International Airport from Beijing on March 10. “The guy I spoke to read down a list of questions, and he didn’t seem interested in checking out anything.”

A dangerous and reckless conman in miles over his head, with the power to reduce the world to rubble.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/worl ... dates.html

[pietillidie]

Of course, there's always time for corrupt victimisation while people are dying:

President Trump is firing the intelligence community inspector general whose insistence on telling lawmakers about a whistle-blower complaint about his dealings with Ukraine triggered impeachment proceedings last fall, the president told lawmakers in a letter late Friday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/us/t ... fired.html

[Pies4shaw]

[think positive]

Whatever has happened in China is irrelevant to Trump’s culpability. By my estimation, the US just ticked over 1,000,000 cases of COVID-19.

You don’t get 6,803 deaths from 270,000 cases in a functional health system. The true figure is likely to be well over 1,030,000, as I write.

i doubt any american would tell you they have a functioning health care system

[Pies4shaw]

OK, then - they have now over 1.3M cases (updated with today's data) and no functioning health care system. That's going to end well.

[David]

[stui magpie]

Whatever has happened in China is irrelevant to Trump’s culpability. By my estimation, the US just ticked over 1,000,000 cases of COVID-19.

You don’t get 6,803 deaths from 270,000 cases in a functional health system. The true figure is likely to be well over 1,030,000, as I write.

i doubt any american would tell you they have a functioning health care system

We clearly move in different circles when in the States. I have spoken to people adamant that their health system is fine

[Pies4shaw]

[Wokko]

Whatever has happened in China is irrelevant to Trump’s culpability. By my estimation, the US just ticked over 1,000,000 cases of COVID-19.

You don’t get 6,803 deaths from 270,000 cases in a functional health system. The true figure is likely to be well over 1,030,000, as I write.

i doubt any american would tell you they have a functioning health care system

We clearly move in different circles when in the States. I have spoken to people adamant that their health system is fine

Yep, it's the best in the world by a country mile. People saying otherwise are just shilling for socialised medicine.