Coronavirus Thread: Trump White House Cuts All Funding For The Program Meant To Prevent The Next Viral Pandemic.

[cytg111]

Cuomo here, btw comes off as super competent, has to cast him self at the mercy of Trump and co ... lets see how that works out for him.

Basicly he says you need the army to build new infrastructure to handle to incoming wave of sick people.

 

[brycejones]

Cuomo here, btw comes off as super competent, has to cast him self at the mercy of Trump and co ... lets see how that works out for him.

Basicly he says you need the army to build new infrastructure to handle to incoming wave of sick people.

I thought the Guard had a number of medical units. Activate those, activate the engineering aspects of the guard to construct field hospitals. etc etc etc.

 

[cytg111]

This is what everyone needs to be doing right now :

Coronavirus: UK manufacturers urged to consider switching to making ventilators

Matt Hancock claims PM is talking to carmakers but some question move without more specialist medical staff

www.theguardian.com

 

[Brainonska511]

Cuomo here, btw comes off as super competent, has to cast him self at the mercy of Trump and co ... lets see how that works out for him.

Basicly he says you need the army to build new infrastructure to handle to incoming wave of sick people.

I thought the Guard had a number of medical units. Activate those, activate the engineering aspects of the guard to construct field hospitals. etc etc etc.

Yeah - I would think that he could mobilize the National Guard for those tasks on his own, under the state of emergency. But perhaps, he wants federal action too, in order to muster even more resources.

 

[cytg111]

Yeah - I would think that he could mobilize the National Guard for those tasks on his own, under the state of emergency. But perhaps, he wants federal action too, in order to muster even more resources.

You also have to question if the National Guard is actually up to the task. Not putting the NG down or anything.

 

[brycejones]

Yeah - I would think that he could mobilize the National Guard for those tasks on his own, under the state of emergency. But perhaps, he wants federal action too, in order to muster even more resources.

I also wonder if getting the feds to do it would mean it wouldn’t come out of the state budget.

 

[glenn1]

You also have to question if the National Guard is actually up to the task. Not putting the NG down or anything.

Depends on what you need done. Best to think of them as extremely versatile semi-skilled labor who can handle most physical tasks without training and can easily be uptrained for more specialized physical work. If you smartly demarcated the work into well-decomposed tasks then you could probably train most to do some limited amount of skilled labor work in short order as well via smart division of labor.

 

[sportage]

Funny how Trump is only concerned with the stock market. If stocks are high then everything is just peachy in America in the mind of Trump. Market’s will not save the waiter’s or cashiers or fast food workers nor most every hourly worker in America. The markets WILL CRASH. It is inevitable. America can not shut down without the eventually of a 1929-like crash. And as in 1928, then too the wealthy tried to rally the markets by playing tricks to give temporary illusions that the market were stable. They weren’t... they crashed. Nearly everyone in America has direct deposit including those on social security. The day will come most likely this summer when debit cards won’t work, ATMs no longer dispense, and banks close.
We are concerned about empty store shelves and out of stock goods so we hoard when and if we can. People might want to consider hoarding some cash along with that toilet paper. In any depression it is cash that determines who eats and who starves.
Everyone needs a cash stash. EVERYONE.
CASH STASH.
EVERYONE.
START WORKING ON THAT NOW.
Seriously, that is the best advice you will ever get considering the current situation.
In 1929, my grandparents had $3000 stashed away. That $3000 got them through the Great Depression. Back then, bread was ten cents. If America has another Great Depression, goods will fall back to 1929 prices. Even a hundred dollars stashed away now might save your family from becoming homeless. Or starving.

 

[glenn1]

Funny how Trump is only concerned with the stock market. If stocks are high then everything is just peachy in America in the mind of Trump. Market’s will not save the waiter’s or cashiers or fast food workers nor most every hourly worker in America. The markets WILL CRASH. It is inevitable. America can not shut down without the eventually of a 1929-like crash. And as in 1928, then too the wealthy tried to rally the markets by playing tricks to give temporary illusions that the market were stable. They weren’t... they crashed. Nearly everyone in America has direct deposit including those on social security. The day will come most likely this summer when debit cards won’t work, ATMs no longer dispense, and banks close.
We are concerned about empty store shelves and out of stock goods so we hoard when and if we can. People might want to consider hoarding some cash along with that toilet paper. In any depression it is cash that determines who eats and who starves.
Everyone needs a cash stash. EVERYONE.
CASH STASH.
EVERYONE.
START WORKING ON THAT NOW.
Seriously, that is the best advice you will ever get considering the current situation.
In 1929, my grandparents had $3000 stashed away. That $3000 got them through the Great Depression. Back then, bread was ten cents. If America has another Great Depression, goods will fall back to 1929 prices. Even a hundred dollars stashed away now might save your family from becoming homeless. Or starving.

Your premise (keeping some physical currency on hand) is good but you went a bit overboard by the end.

 

[HomerJS]

More conservative homophobia and bigotry. This time related to COVID-19

Limbaugh Guest Host: San Francisco Ordering Coronavirus Lockdown Because It’s a ‘Big Gay Town’

Filling in for President Donald Trump’s most recent Medal of Freedom honoree Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday, conservative radio host Mark Steyn claimed that the reason why San Francisco announced a “shelter-in-place” order to contain the coronavirus outbreak is because it’s a “big gay town.”On Monday...

www.yahoo.com

 

[HomerJS]

Republicans behind the scenes to their rich donor friends telling people how bad it really is while Trump in public claiming everything will be fine when weather turns warm. After all the rich and well connected need to get to the front of the line for what little we have of testing kits.

To Many Republican Politicans, the World Is Divided Into Two Groups

People who write checks and Them. We are Them.

www.esquire.com

 

[hal2kilo]

Oh crap, another presser, this time with FEMA, and unfortunately Mr. Incompetence.

 

[HomerJS]

Oh crap, another presser, this time with FEMA, and unfortunately Mr. Incompetence.

Pence's saliva must be dripping off Trump's ass after this many weeks

 

[hal2kilo]

This is getting to absolute ridiculousness. He's giving medical advise now, for a drug that still hasn't officially approved for use by the FDA. Why was he spared?

 

[Fenixgoon]

Oh crap, another presser, this time with FEMA, and unfortunately Mr. Incompetence.

Will the market take another Trump dump?

 

[hal2kilo]

Will the market take another Trump dump?

Not unless you, and a whole lot of other people feel more confident when he insists on opening his ignorant pie whole.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Not unless you, and a whole lot of other people feel more confident when he insists on opening his ignorant pie whole.

i don't quite follow - shouldn't the market go up if people felt more confident?

 

[hal2kilo]

i don't quite follow - shouldn't the market go up if people felt more confident?

Are you feeling more confident is the question. I know we haven't begun to get a handle on the situation. Talking about vacines at this stage is a waste of time (not the actual work). Basics lack of necessities are going to get the medical staffs infected. Lack of PPE is critical.

 

[snoopy7548]

I think once we actually start testing and see the infection rates skyrocket, the market will do the opposite.