Coronavirus, It did not have to be this way- Trump's Dirty Deals

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Coronavirus, It did not have to be this way- Trump's Dirty Deals

Trump's filth fouls all, leaves nothing untouched.

March 25, 2020

He is a vet and a state representative, he cannot get tested-
Greater Boston/WGBH

Rep. Seth Moulton: Lack Of Coronavirus Testing 'A Massive Failure'
By Trump Administration

Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton announced Wednesday he's
self-quarantining after experiencing what he says are symptoms
consistent with coronavirus.

“When it became clear in the last 24 hours that the House of Representatives
might be called back in the coming days to vote on key legislation, requiring
me to travel back to Washington and potentially infect other people, I decided
to call the VA, which is my primary care provider, and the House’s Attending
Physician,” Moulton said. “I also spoke with a friend who is an ER doctor
who felt I should get tested immediately. But as the House doctor explained,
I am ‘symptomatic,’ but because the symptoms are minor and a test would
not change my treatment protocol, my wife and I don’t qualify for tests.”

His announcement comes just hours after the White House struck a deal
with Senate negotiators on a $2 trillion package to send relief to individuals,
businesses, and local governments affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The House is currently in recess, but Rep. Nancy Pelosi is hoping they
can approve the bill through unanimous consent. The tactic would not
necessarily require representatives to return to Washington, D.C. —
but does allow a single member to block the measure.

If that happens, the House will likely turn to a voice vote or a roll call vote
Thursday afternoon, according to Politico.

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2020/03/25/seth-moulton-coronavirus

 

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Let's Face It, Trump Declared War On Americans That Do Not Support Him

Trump and Evangelical Christians, have declared war on everyone -
that does not support their efforts. The money flowed thick and fast,
thanks to mega- temples, TV broadcasts, internet podcasts, and stores
that sell items with the seal of Religious on them. No lack of cash, land,
and riches- Plenty of cash to share with Trump at Prayer Breakfasts and
March For Life 2020.*

Mike Pence is their official religious leader in the White House, they are
free to pray their pleas to their Evangelical God/god inside the White
House, to vanquish "everyone that is not them."

The White House prayers sessions take place every Wednesday with
members of Trump’s Cabinet, including Mike Pompeo, Housing and
Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Education Secretary Betsy
DeVos and Health Secretary Alex Azar.

Ralph Drollinger, founder of Capitol Ministries –
who has been leading a weekly Bible-study group for members
of President Trump’s Cabinet, 52 Republican lawmakers have
taken part in Drollinger’s Capitol Hill Bible study.

What is Ralph Drollinger;s message ?

COVID-19:
it's God’s wrath for allowing the ‘unfaithful’ to gain undue influence
in America.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thefr...se-evangelical-blames-faithless-for-covid-19/

In 2010, Capitol Ministries arrived in Washington. There was already
a ministry called The Fellowship, which runs the National Prayer
Breakfast, but Drollinger felt it had "lost its marbles, Biblically".

The Fellowship, he says, believes legislators can do bible study
among themselves.

(Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald’s publication The Intercept
said Drollinger’s - "Evangelical lessons are carefully catered to
conservative ideology, with a focus on interpreting current events
through a partisan lens.")

"Trump started appointing to his cabinet all the guys that were in our
House and Senate bible study," says Drollinger, a trend he attributes
to Vice-President Mike Pence, who "knew who those strong believers
were".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43534724

January 2020 *
Thousands of anti-abortion rights activists prepared to march in Washington,
D.C., on Friday, President Trump was there to rally his base.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/798994515/president-trump-to-face-friendly-crowd-at-march-for-life

 

[KeithD]

The White House prayers sessions take place every Wednesday with
members of Trump’s Cabinet, including Mike Pompeo, Housing and
Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Education Secretary Betsy
DeVos and Health Secretary Alex Azar.

Do they hug and hold hands? Certainly hope so.

 

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Trump's Dirty Deals- Trump's filth fouls all, leaves nothing untouched.

Trump's Vultures Seek an Advantage In A Time of Crisis

The Environmental Protection Agency says it’s reviewing
a request from the oil and gas industry to ease enforcement
on hazardous air and water pollution during the coronavirus
pandemic.

The proposal is drawing objections from public health and environmental
advocates. A former Obama-era EPA enforcement official, Cynthia Giles,
says the request amounts to seeking a nationwide pass for the industry
on almost all environmental rules.

The American Petroleum Institute made the request in a letter to Trump
last week, and to the EPA on Monday.

Giles says EPA policy explicitly prohibits the agency from promising
waiving of enforcement of environmental and public health laws.
She called the trade group’s request “alarming” and “wildly overbroad.”

lahainanews.com

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/20...c-us-virus-outbreak-oil-and-gas-industry.html

"Coronavirus Capitalism"

Author, activist and journalist Naomi Klein says the coronavirus crisis,
like earlier ones, could be a catalyst to shower aid on the wealthiest
interests in society, including those most responsible for our current
vulnerabilities, while offering next to nothing to most workers and
small businesses.

In 2007, Klein wrote -
“The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.”
Now she argues President Trump’s plan is a pandemic shock doctrine.
In a new video for The Intercept, where she is a senior correspondent,
Klein argues it’s vital for people to fight for the kind of transformative
change that can not only curb the worst effects of the current crisis but
also set society on a more just path.

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/19/naomi_klein_coronavirus_capitalism

"NAOMI KLEIN:
The Fed’s first move was to pump $1.5 trillion into the financial markets,
with more undoubtedly on the way. But if you’re a worker, especially a gig
worker, there’s a very good chance you’re out of luck.

If you do need to see a doctor for care, there’s a good chance no one’s
going to help you pay if you aren’t covered. And if you want to heed
the public health warnings to stay home from work, there’s also a chance
that you won’t get paid.

Of course, you still need to pay your rent and all of your debts —
medical, student, credit card, mortgage. The results are predictable.
Too many sick people have no choice but to go to work, which means
more people contracting and spreading the virus. And without comprehensive
bailouts for workers, we can expect more bankruptcies and more homelessness
down the road.

Look, we know this script. In 2008, the last time we had a global
financial meltdown, the same kinds of bad ideas for no-strings-attached
corporate bailouts carried the day, and regular people around the world
paid the price.

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/20...crificing-old-people-for-the-economy/comments

 

[Ziggins]

This can be seen as a practice run. As the world's growing population meets breaking supply chains, soil infertility, soil erosion, climate change, etc., the food shortages will weaken immune systems, and many disposable safety items will be unavailable. We will see much worse.

 

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bodysong comment-
After the last few days of Trump's bluster about "punishing the Libs"
for not worshipping at the altar of Trump, and offering him flattery
and praise for the work he is not doing, to alleviate the spread of
coronavirus, it would lead most to believe he is demonstrating his
power to banish a scientist (Dr. Anthony Fauci with the facepalm)
and force a mere woman scientsist to bow her proud head to his preferences...

That may also be true-

As far as I can figure out, it appears that Trump
is using Dr. Birx to deliver a counter-message to his insistence that
coronavirus is not serious threat-
Dr. Birx is an Evangelist Christian, an acceptable envoy to Trump's religious
base- she delivered an almost subliminal social distancing message.
Trump's base might create another hot spot because the religion-based
communities are being encouraged by their leaders to continue to gather
in large groups.

On Wednesday night, in an appeal to young Americans to take social
distancing seriously, she told a story about her grandmother during
the 1918 flu pandemic. Her grandmother who was 11 years old at
the time brought home the virus that ended up killing her great-
grandmother.

"I can tell you my grandmother lived with that for 88 years," she said,
as she called again for people to stay home. "This is the message that
is important to everybody. This is not a theoretic. This is a reality.
You can see the number of deaths that are occurring. We all have a
role in preventing them."

March 27, 2020

- Jason Beaubien

https://www.npr.org/sections/health...-force-deborah-birx-draws-praise-and-criticis

(Did his tech bros from FUX TV tell Trump that there
will be trouble with the vote, if most of his supporters
permanently non-functional, or dead ?)

Fuck head, Alabama's Roy Moore

My friend, I tell you, we must not give in to fear!

Throughout our history, America has faced numerous obstacles,
but has always remained strong and vigilant! We will survive this
Chinese virus just as we survived Yellow fever in Philadelphia in
1793, a terrible disease that took 5000 lives before being eradicated
by resilient Americans who eventually developed a vaccine.

P.S. I am writing a letter to pastors on the duty to continue church assemblies,
even in the midst of these trying times. Our faith requires it, our duty demands
it, and no law or government can prohibit it.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/...-to-stay-open/


Dr. Birx, who declined to be interviewed for this article, told a Christian
TV network popular with Trump’s evangelical base that she’s confident
that the president is, like her, a student of data.

“He’s been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and
the data,” Birx told CBN. “I think his ability to analyze and integrate
data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a
real benefit during these discussions about medical issues because
in the end, data is data.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...b51_story.html

That is the Christian Broadcast Network...

The MSNBC anchor then played a clip of Brix appearing in an
interview on the notably Trump-friendly Christian Broadcasting
Network earlier that day.

“How would you describe the job President Trump is doing behind
the scenes and in front of the cameras during these daily briefings
that we’re seeing?” the CBN reporter asked. “What’s been your
perspective, Dr. Birx?”

https://www.mediaite.com/news/brian-...-north-korean/

 

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March 28, 2020

“The EPA uses this global pandemic to create loopholes
for destroying the environment. "

The Environmental Protection Agency, headed by former coal lobbyist
Andrew Wheeler, announced on Thursday a sweeping and indefinite
suspension of environmental rules amid the worsening coronavirus pandemic,
a move green groups warned gives the fossil fuel industry a “green light
to pollute with impunity.”

Under the new policy (pdf), which the EPA insisted is temporary
while providing no timeframe, big polluters will effectively be trusted
to regulate themselves and will not be punished for failing to comply
with reporting rules and other requirements.

The order—applied retroactively beginning March 13, 2020—
requests that companies “act responsibly” to avoid violations.

“Outrageous. Suspending all environmental regulations indefinitely?
This has nothing to do with coronavirus. This has everything to do
with protecting Big Business.”
—Rep. Mark Pocan

https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/ho...pa-indefinitely-suspends-environmental-rules/

 

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For fiscal year 2020, Trump proposed cutting the CDC budget by US$1.3 billion, nearly 20% below the 2019 level.

Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton eliminated
the National Security Council’s global health security and biodefense
directorate, and reshuffled its team of world-class infectious disease
experts. In response, two highly respected leaders in the field –
Rear Admiral Tim Ziemer, the NSC’s senior director for global
health security and biodefense, and Homeland Security adviser
Tom Bossert – left the White House.

http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com...ties-vulnerable-infectious-disease-outbreaks/

Report: Trump administration ended a pandemic early-warning program last year

Just months before the coronavirus outbreak began, the administration ended
a $200m early-warning program for infectious disease, the Los Angeles Times
reports.

The program was designed to help scientists in China and other nations
monitor and respond to disease threats.

From the LA Times:

The project, launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2009,
identified 1,200 different viruses that had the potential to erupt into pandemics,
including more than 160 novel coronaviruses. The initiative, called PREDICT,
also trained and supported staff in 60 foreign laboratories — including the
Wuhan lab that identified 2019-nCoV, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Field work ceased when the funding ran out in September, and organizations
that worked on the PREDICT program laid off dozens of scientists and analysts,
said Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, a key player in the program.

On Wednesday, USAID granted an emergency extension to the program.
But program leaders say the funding will do little to further the initiative’s
original mission.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...nemployment-democratic-convention-trump-biden

 

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Denmark locked down early, and moved to preserve jobs, and insured
that most would have a home to shelter in-

the exception- It’s important to point out that there are holes in the Danish
agreement, which if transposed directly to the UK would leave millions of
workers unprovided for. The self-employed, owner-managers and many on
casual contracts will not be covered by the Danish government’s scheme.
Although they make up a relatively small proportion of the working population
here, these groups, which include many of the bike couriers still whisking
through the streets of Copenhagen as I write, may well suffer as a result
some of the starkest economic consequences of the pandemic.

The Danish government will pay workers 75% of their salaries
while British employees face financial ruin

18 March 2020

Following negotiations with trade unions and employers’ associations,
the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, announced during a press conference
on Sunday evening that 2.6bn Danish kroner had been set aside to prevent
layoffs within private companies facing financial pressures from coronavirus.

Under the scheme, which will last for three months, the state will cover 75%
of the salaries of employees paid on a monthly basis who would otherwise
have been fired, with companies paying the remaining amount. For hourly
workers covered by the agreement, the government will cover 90% of their
wages, up to 26,000 Danish kroner (£3,162) per month. And the agreement
is retrospective, which means that for my friend Jan, who was laid off from
his job at a hotel in Copenhagen last week, there is every chance he’ll be able
to go back to work.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...k-coronavirus-uk-government-workers-employees

 

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It is almost certain that 2020 will be a recession year in every advanced economy.
-Ricardo Reis
3 Apr 2020

A harder question is whether giving liquidity to businesses should take the form
of credit or grants. Germany has done the former, putting no limits on how much
firms can borrow from the state, but the loans must be paid back, even if over
many years-
Denmark has opted for the latter, paying companies up to 90% of their wage bill,
as well as sick leave, rent and other fixed costs. The question is who should ultimately
pay for all the money that businesses are getting: is it the ones who receive help now,
paying it back over the next few years out of their revenues? Or, rather should all
the taxpayers in the country pay for it, especially the future generations who will
inherit the exploding public debt? For most countries, the answer lies somewhere
in between, since at least some of the credits won’t be repaid. But where exactly
in between should it be is a question not just of economics but of intergenerational
ethics and justice.

Finally, policymakers must stimulate the economy as soon as we can get back
to work. One trade-off for many highly indebted countries is that the surge in
spending now might leave no money for public investments for this near future.
For all countries, the disruption in the production and supply chains might lead
o large increases in prices. Responding to the bottlenecks that arise sector by
sector will provide the grounds for targeted industrial policy, while a tempting
way to deal with inflation is the imposition of price and wage controls. These
policies are sometimes adopted during wartime, and there is a battle today –
against a virus – but more often than not these policies lead to economic disaster.

Across all these trade-offs, the urgency of doing something has drawn in
the usual ideologues. For them, there are no trade-offs (now or ever).
The emergency either requires a huge permanent expansion in the role
of the government, or bailouts to failed but politically connected businesses.
This is the last trade-off that moderate policymakers face today:
to separate the temporary exceptional measures from permanent
long-lasting revolutions.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/03/coronavirus-economic-crisis-financial-impact

 

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King Donald the Goon harped on the premise that each of our states is a separate
country (in his own deranged brain). The fucked-up part of his thinking, is that
it was perfectly acceptable for the central government to confiscate a state's
resources for the federal stockpile. After Trump had told states to find their
own suppliers and supplies- leaving states to bid against each other, instead
of puchasing supplies at a steady price. Not only that, bidding against other
countries, as well as our own damned government for supplies that would save
lives. (The manufacturers are obligated to do Donald a favor, though...) Rico
Suave is waiting in the shadow- The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

March 31, 2020

Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing federal officials for answers on why
they seized at least two of Massachusetts’ recent orders for protective
equipment, charging that it appears they are still interfering with states’
efforts to track down medical supplies amid the coronavirus pandemic.

In a five-page letter Monday, Warren asked Peter Gaynor, the Federal
Emergency Management Agency administrator, to outline how the
agency is ensuring states aren’t outbid for supplies by the federal
government, which she called a “new and inexplicable obstacle.”

Warren also pointed to at least two instances in which Massachusetts
lost orders for ventilators and hundreds of respirators after the federal
government stepped in — a situation Marylou Sudders, the state’s
health and human service secretary, described as:

"They take what we order.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03...did-you-take-massachusettss-medical-supplies/

China Airlift -Robert Kraft has been kissing the toe, for a purpose

The news of the extraordinary delivery was first reported by Politico
and The Wall Street Journal Thursday morning.

Gov. Baker’s victory in the state’s intense hunt for masks and other protective
gear, or PPE, follows weeks of increasingly public frustration from the normally
even-keeled governor. His administration has hit numerous roadblocks thrown
up by the federal government, which has repeatedly snatched supplies from the
states’ hands and directed governors to find their own source.

Even now, Baker administration officials are still waiting on the federal
government to deliver promised help. Earlier this week, Baker announced
hat the state had ordered 1,000 ventilators from the federal government
and that he expected the delivery by the end of this week. On Thursday,
Baker said Massachusetts still hasn’t gotten any of the equipment and
he no longer expects them by the end of the week.

Gov. Baker didn’t criticize the federal government, however, when asked
what the unusual delivery by the Patriots plane says about the state of the
federal pandemic response. And he said the government lent some help by
designating the flight as a humanitarian effort. As an example, that federal
blessing helped the Patriots plane “hopscotch” through Alaska on the way
to and from China, allowing the state’s governor to cut through some red
tape to let that happen, Baker said at the news briefing Thursday.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04...le-protective-masks-china-boston-wsj-reports/

(sorry! Trump gave at the Florida Golf Course, and his favorite Hate Rally states.)

 

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April 4, 2020

Jared Kushner has recruited friends with business and start-up backgrounds to
create what he calls an "impact team," but administration officials describe it
as "the Slim Suit Crowd" and the "shadow" White House coronavirus task force.

Kushner has enlisted Adam Boehler, a former start-up founder who now heads
the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, and software entrepreneur
Nat Turner, who founded the technology company Flatiron Health. Turner has
brought his own former employees into the fold-
some of whom have "issued orders to health agencies,"
leading to "resentment" among senior officials,
The Times reported.

One senior official described Kushner's team as a "frat party" that "descended
from a UFO and invaded the federal government," according to the report.
Officials have also been alarmed by the group's use of personal email account
in "delicate policy exchanges" and their decision to use FreeConferenceCall.com
to "arrange high-level meetings."

Their indifference to government protocols has led to criticism from the
government watchdog group Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in
Washington (CREW).

"There is no excuse for hiding information from the public that affects their lives
in an extraordinary time," CREW chief Noah Bookbinder told The Times.

FEMA officials told the outlet The Times that Kushner's team has ordered supplies
to be delivered to locations where the agency feels they are not most needed.
But the agency's spokesperson said Kushner's team was playing a key role.

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/03/ku...al-email-and-freeconferencecallcom-officials/

"...in the port of New York, 3 million masks purchased for the state of Massachusetts
were taken away by an unnamed federal agency. In seizing the supplies, the government
employed what state officials described as “force majeure” to breach existing contracts
and carry off the goods."

Who is buying these supplies? And what the hell are they doing with them?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...ther-nations-but-who-And-where-are-they-going

 

[bodysong]

Thanks to Jared Kushner, who handed over federal goods bought with tax payer money
to private sector opportunists, states and hospitals are bidding over each other to get
masks, gowns, gloves.

Some of the issues Moskowitz is pointing to surfaced after we learned
that the federal government, probably under the direction of Jared Kushner,
has turned the supply chain for these critical supplies over to the private sector.
Josh Marshall documented the issues that raises.

First is that there’s no clear mechanism to allocate these supplies on the basis
of need based on a coherent national plan or framework. Secondly, it opens
the door to massive profiteering. Even if companies aren’t technically gouging,
that’s what bidding is. And you really can’t call this a legitimate private sector
market if every state is having to bid with private companies to secure medical
supplies during a historic national health emergency. The private sector rationale
is also undermined if the US military has taken over a significant part of the
fulfillment process.

After hearing the White House say critical supplies are going to commercial
distributors who are then selling them to the states which are begging for help,
I called @ltgrusselhonore who commanded federal troops after Hurricane
Katrina to get his reaction.

(link)

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) April 3, 2020

https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/trump-continues-to-base-policy-on-what-he-hears-on-fox-news/

Buyer beware-

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...k_inline_manual_111&itid=lk_inline_manual_111

Reminder: the Trump admin is sending #PPE into the *commercial* market,
who are then causing a bidding war and driving up costs for states who are
desperate for it.

It' Un-American. It's criminal. It's a death warrant for our healthcare workers.

Nick Knudsen #DemCast (@DemWrite) April 5, 2020

 

[bodysong]

The White House changed the text and the meaning of the message at the government agency site.

The original exhibited Jared Kushner's words to the public, as those of a liar-
Can't have that- Now the agency itself is lieing to the public.

John Oliver Exposes ‘Alt-Right Pinocchio’ Jared Kushner’s Coronavirus Idiocy

“Wait, our stockpile? It's not your stockpile!” Oliver exclaimed.
“It's a national stockpile for use by the United States you f*cking moron.

April 6, 2020

The comedian then threw to a clip of Kushner during a press conference
saying, “The notion of the federal stockpile [of ventilators] is it’s supposed
to be our stockpile, it’s not supposed to be states’ stockpile that they then use.”

Following Kushner’s untrue comments—
the federal stockpile is indeed for the states’ use—the website for the Department
of Health and Human Services changed its language to echo Kushner’s concerning
the federal stockpile.

“Wait…our stockpile? It’s not your stockpile, it’s a national stockpile for use
by the United States, you fucking moron,” exclaimed Oliver. “And here’s
the interesting thing about the United States: it’s almost entirely made of states!
There’s states everywhere! I’d say more than forty of them, Jared!
And some parts of them badly need supplies right now, like the city
that you used to live in, and which I pray you never show your polished
fucking face again.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-...t-pinocchio-jared-kushners-coronavirus-idiocy

Earlier this week, Donald Trump said that the White House is projecting
100,000-240,000 deaths due to the coronavirus in the next two weeks.
Besides leading disease forecasters being mystified by these numbers,
Trump somehow tried to spin the numbers as a good job on his part
because it’s not millions.

Oliver said it’s the most callous way to minimize the death of Americans as much as possible.

https://deadline.com/2020/04/last-w...-kushner-hbo-coronavirus-covid-19-1202901103/

Intelligencer ✓
Twitter › intelligencer

Trump’s fervor over hydroxychloroquine is altogether
disconnected from science. @jonathanchait writes

Jonathan Chait ✓
Twitter › jonathanchait

Why Trump is overriding public health officials in pursuit of one unproven
coronavirus drug ?

2 hours ago

I remain stunned by Trump's admission that he held back medical supplies,
in order to give them to the private sector, and give them a chance to gouge
the public.

The cherry on top, is the fact he did not order the government to order
coronavirus test kits for the stockpile, because he wanted to give the
private sector a chance to profit off of it.

Now, he is insisting on promoting drugs that already exist, as coronavirus cures,
and no proof. At the least, he admits he is not a doctor.

hmmm, Propaganda pleases Trump

John Oliver Examines How One America News Spreads Dangerous Pandemic Misinformation

John Oliver takes on OAN: 'Fox News with even less shame and even fewer scruples'

6 April 2020

“When you hear the kinds of questions that they ask, you begin
to see why Trump calls on them so much,” Oliver explained.
For example, OAN correspondent Chanel Rion has praised the
(presiderp) for his approval rating, and defended his choice to
repeatedly and inaccurately call the coronavirus the “Chinese virus”
with a “question” that somehow invoked “Latin gangs” and
“foreign state actors” in what Oliver labeled an “asshole sandwich”.

It’s easy to dismiss OAN as little-watched and “borderline self-parody,”
Oliver continued, but “the problem is, if we’re learning one thing right now,
it’s that toxic things that start small can get big fast, and it’s dangerous
to ignore them”.

The point is, Oliver concluded, that “the kind of misinformation OAN
is spewing right now could end up getting people killed. And sadly,
their message is being actively spread by the White House, so it is
more important than ever to be on the lookout for OAN’s bullshit
and to make sure no one that you know is falling for it either.”

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...oan-one-america-news-fox-with-even-less-shame

 

[bodysong]

bodysong comment- The report recorded what people on the front lines
of the battle against corornavirus are saying about supplies. Of course,
Trump is attacking the report.

/end bodysong comment

"In a sense, what’s really going on here is that Trump is in a rage
because medical professionals battling on the front lines of the coronavirus
candidly described the hardships they’re facing, in part due to his own
catastrophic failures."

- Greg Sargent

bodysong comment- Jared Kushner is telling the public that the Strategic
National Stockpile is for the government's use and protection, not for the
people of this nation. The Strategic National Stockpile received $16 billion
in the most recent emergency coronavirus bill. (Last week!)

'Swept Up by FEMA': Complicated Medical Supply System Sows Confusion

New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-fema-medical-supplies.html

(What happened to FEMA ? )

April 7, 2020

The Times reports that a “hybrid” distribution system has evolved.

Federal officials are relying on private health-care providers to procure supplies
and then sell roughly half of them to companies and localities that have placed
orders. The feds are directing the sale of the other half based on need.

Exacerbating all of this, the administration simultaneously has “repeatedly
called on states to find medical supplies on their own without relying on the
federal government," as the Times puts it, creating all the confusion.

As Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) of Illinois told the PBS News Hour, this means
the federal government is procuring equipment and delivering it to private
companies, and then letting states “bid against each other for those goods.”


All this has contributed to the shortages urgently documented in the inspector general’s report Trump raged about.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...test-depraved-display-could-lead-more-deaths/


Media has been documenting Trump's attacks and accusations
directed at hospitals that have begged for supplies. The latest failure of Trump's
administration is sending expired, deteriorated masks from 2010, and children's
masks. Trump can say that he sent thousands of masks, but they are not masks that
hospitals needed. The strings meant to hold the masks onto their faces had rotted
away and disintergrated. The federal government is providing masks to hospitals
that are not meant for defense against a highly contagious unique virus.

(If someone had included these details in a science fiction story, no one
would find it believable. Yet, this is where we are. The hospitals are running out
of disinfectant, FFS.)

No one checked the contents before they shipped them out ?

 

[bodysong]

FEMA is now distributing medical supplies, but it's still the Trump-and-Jared
corrupt clown show
April 7, 2020 10:13 AM

The Trump administration has gone from telling governors they're on their own
in fighting coronavirus to sweeping in and taking equipment that state or local
governments or hospitals—or other countries—have ordered.

But as the federal government, in the form of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, finally, finally gets ramped up to obtain the amount of personal protective
equipment and ventilators that it should have been acquiring in January or early
February, it’s repeatedly screwing over states, local governments, and hospitals.

(cites NY Times article from April 8, 2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/...l-supplies.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytpolitics

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...dared-report-on-failures-in-COVID-19-response

 

[bodysong]

Hydroxychloroquine: The unproven 'corona drug' Trump is threatening India for

7 April 2020

On Saturday, India banned the export of the drug "without any exception".

US President Donald Trump has said the US could "retaliate" if India
does not release stocks of a drug he has called a "game-changer" in the
fight against Covid-19.

"If it truly has a dramatic effect on the clinical course of Covid-19
we would already have evidence for that. We don't, which tells us
that hydroxychloroquine, if it even works at all, will likely be shown
to have modest effects at best," Dr Joyeeta Basu, a senior consultant
physician, told the BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52180660

(Trump used his bulky body to block Dr. Fauci , in order to stop Dr. Fauci
from speaking about hydroxychloroquine, and directly, verbally blocked
Dr. Fauci from speaking

- "Before Dr. Anthony Fauci could respond to the question about hydroxychloroquine,
Trump—who was standing back and off to the side of the podium—
complained that Fauci had already spoken about the drug "15 times."

"You don't have to ask the question again," said Trump, stepping forward
and moving closer to Fauci as another reporter began asking a separate
question.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...estion-dangers

Mar 24, 2020- Fauci acknowledged the difficulties of fact-checking the
commander in chief in real time, saying, “I can’t jump in front of the
microphone and push him down.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...tension-146035

 

[walleyemaniac2]

Lol. And the best thing is his ratings continue to climb! Lmao. And better yet...there isnt one fucken thing you commies can do about it! Want war? Lets go! And even a better thing...BIDEN!!!! Lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao!

 

[KeithD]

Lol. And the best thing is his ratings continue to climb! Lmao. And better yet...there isnt one fucken thing you commies can do about it! Want war? Lets go! And even a better thing...BIDEN!!!! Lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao!

Love that "maniac" is included in your account name.

 

[bodysong]

April 7, 2020

Although President Trump has directed states and hospitals to secure what
supplies they can, the federal government is quietly seizing orders, leaving
medical providers across the country in the dark about where the material
going and how they can get what they need to deal with the coronavirus
pandemic.

Hospital and clinic officials in seven states described the seizures in interviews
over the past week. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is not publicly
reporting the acquisitions, despite the outlay of millions of dollars of taxpayer
money, nor has the administration detailed how it decides which supplies to
seize and where to reroute them.

Officials who’ve had materials seized also say they’ve received no guidance
from the government about how or if they will get access to the supplies they
ordered. That has stoked concerns about how public funds are being spent
and whether the Trump administration is fairly distributing scarce medical
supplies.

“In order to have confidence in the distribution system, to know that it is
being done in an equitable manner, you have to have transparency,”
said Dr. John Hick, an emergency physician at Hennepin Healthcare
in Minnesota who has helped develop national emergency preparedness
standards through the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering
and Medicine.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-supplies

 

[bodysong]

Vote for Trump's favorite candidates, or Trump and Jared Kushner
will kill your family... praise Trump, and your family may live-

This Is Blackmail! This is political.

(Trump is attempting to save his voter's lives with supplies
and ventilators stolen from other states

Trump- "I wanted to give the private sector a chance."

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, has been pleading for the federal
government to provide his state with 10,000 ventilators since last month.

Not only did the federal government not respond to the request, but Polis
also told CNN just days later the federal government seized an order of
500 ventilators bought by the state.

But Trump announced Wednesday that his administration would be
"immediately sending 100 Ventilators to Colorado at the request of
Senator [Cory] Gardner," a vulnerable Republican up for re-election.

The announcement came after Gardner spoke with the president personally,
he told Fox News.

Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo. who has served in Congress for more than
two decades, told the network that "this thing that happened with Sen.
Gardner and President Trump is very disturbing."

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/09/tr...rs-it-needs-after-gop-senator-asked-for-them/

hmmm.

Where did the seized ventilators. and all of the supplies, go ?

Did the supplies get re-sold to the highest bidder, so that states are forced to
re-pay for supplies, that they have already paid for ?

 

[bodysong]

Health Nazi Pence said no doctor's advice for you!

April 9, 2020

CNN is reporting that the vice president’s office has reversed the ban
and permitted CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield to appear Thursday
night, and Dr. Fauci to appear Friday on New Day.


UPDATE 5:05 p.m. —
CNN is reporting that the vice president’s office has reversed the ban
and permitted CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield to appear Thursday night,
and Dr. Fauci to appear Friday on New Day.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/mike-pe...ntil-network-airs-full-white-house-briefings/

Ghouls are standing on the mountain of corpses ready for mass graves.
while demanding that America erase their own memories of coronavirus.

Apr 9th, 2020

Vice President Mike Pence’s office is apparently trying to force CNN
into airing the White House’s full press briefings again by refusing
to let top health care officials appear on the network.

A Pence spokesperson revealed the reason behind the apparent boycott,
telling Darcy that Fauci and Birx will only be allowed to appear if the
network resumes airing full briefings, including the parts where Pence
and task force members speak.

“When you guys cover the briefings with the health officials then you
can expect them back on your air,” the spokesperson told CNN.

 

[hogjack]

The cumstain of threads.

But it will wash out of your shirt.

 

[bodysong]

The White House pushed FEMA to give its biggest coronavirus contract to a company that never even had to bid

April 12, 2020

Canadian defense contractor predicted on an earnings call that it would lead to
a big business opportunity in the U.S. Thanks to the White House, that bet paid
off just a few weeks later in a $96 million no-bid deal.

In an unusual move, even in times of disaster, the White House stepped into the federal
purchasing process, ordering the Federal Emergency Management Agency to award
a contract to AirBoss of America. The Trump administration has rushed through
hundreds of deals to address the pandemic without the usual oversight, more than
$760 million reported as of this week, but the AirBoss transaction is the single
largest no-bid purchase, a ProPublica analysis of federal purchasing data found.

While FEMA placed the order, it was directed to do so by the White House,
ProPublica found.

It is unclear why the White House chose AirBoss for the protective equipment,
which is similar to products made by other vendors.

A rubber manufacturer that sells to the auto industry and militaries, AirBoss
targeted growth in U.S. federal contracts when it formed a new subsidiary,
AirBoss Defense Group in Maryland, in January. The new entity absorbed
AirBoss’ existing Maryland-based company, Immediate Response Technologies,
that has contracted with the Pentagon for years. The FEMA contract was awarded
to Immediate Response.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/th...ract-to-a-company-that-never-even-had-to-bid/

COVID-19 Patients Given Unproven Drug In Texas Nursing Home In 'Disconcerting' Move

He acknowledged that some families were not aware their relatives were
put on the drug, saying that "for the most part," he consulted with each
nursing home resident prior to giving them on the tablets.

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/8303...rug-in-texas-nursing-home-garnering-criticism

Republicans Experiment On Dementia Patients In A Texas Nursing Home To Support Trump

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/04/republicans-are-experimenting-dementia

 

[bodysong]

It has become obvious, that America's leader is crazy. The public is soothed
with false assurances that Dr.Fauci is sane, safe, and trustwothy- Fauci will
never shove Trump out of the way, and prevent Trump from telling lies to
the American public.

Fauci says 'rolling reentry' of US economy possible in May


In the US, Dr Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious diseases expert
and a key member of the White House coronavirus task force said on Sunday
that the economy in parts of the country could have a rolling reentry as early
as next month, provided health authorities can quickly identify and isolate
people who will inevitably be infected with the coronavirus.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...-us-death-toll-uk-boris-johnson-donald-trump-

April 12, 2020

L.A. County has extended its stay-at-home order through May 15th
to try to keep the number of coronavirus cases as low as possible.

The order was originally set to expire April 19th.

Dr. Christina Ghaly, the Director of the Los Angeles County Department
of Health Services, says we are bending the curve, but if physical distancing
doesn't continue:

"We would project that by middle of the summer, virtually all residents in
Los Angeles County would have been exposed or infected with COVID-19.
The projections show that up to 96% of people would have been exposed and
we know that for every hundred people exposed, 3% of those people need
hospitalization. And 1% of those people need ICU care."

https://laist.com/latest