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CORONAVIRUS - What are the consequences?

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Questions now being asked include "Is this virus truly a threat to U. S. Citizens or to the world?" Another question asked is whether a panic regarding the virus could be worse than the virus itself.
I noticed some discussion on the basketball board with respect to the possibility of limiting fan support at basketball games, but I think it deserves a discussion within a much broader context.

Following are five links to articles from publications expressing their concerns and citing facts in support of their views:

Media, Fear, and the Coronavirus Outbreak - Psychology Today

Why the Coronavirus Could Threaten the U.S. Economy Even More Than China’s - New York Times

Coronavirus Fears Are a National Security Crisis - Foreign Policy

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Summary - CDC

Coronavirus Infections—More Than Just the Common Cold - JAMA

 
have always thought that if mankind is wiped out, it will be either a virus or a big space rock hitting the earth. if jeff bezos wants to give money to save man, needs to give it to the cdc or to nasa not climate change. luckily, this strain is not an ebola like deal which could kill us all but this one is doing a lot of damage too. we have 18 or 19 cases here in houston presently, all rice univ people who just returned from a trip to egypt, think all are doing well at the moment. until it begins to dissipate, probably prudent to do what they say, wash hands a lot stay away from crowds and the like. unless this thing morphs, which it could, we will probably be on the downside of it in the next month to six weeks. lot of financial recovering to do once that happens and we will lose some small businesses for sure.
 
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have always thought that if mankind is wiped out, it will be either a virus or a big space rock hitting the earth. if jeff bezos wants to give money to save man, needs to give it to the cdc or to nasa not climate change. luckily, this strain is not an ebola like deal which could kill us all but this one is doing a lot of damage too. we have 18 or 19 cases here in houston presently, all rice univ people who just returned from a trip to egypt, think all are doing well at the moment. until it begins to dissipate, probably prudent to do what they say, wash hands a lot stay away from crowds and the like. unless this thing morphs, which it could, we will probably be on the downside of it in the next month to six weeks. lot of financial recovering to do once that happens and we will lose some small businesses for sure.
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You need to be careful, given your age. Seriously. Not joking a bit.
Most all of the casualties have been 65 and over, unlike the previous SARS pandemic virus which targeted mostly children.
 
understand, can read and hear and know we are in the target area other than we are in good health and have no pulmonary probs either. so far the flu is killing thousands again this year, like every year and nobody talks about that. this is just not the killer that some virus strains are, like ebola, and for that we can be thankful. think this has been blown way out of proportion compared to the swine flu a few years ago which killed thousands of americans and over 20000 were infected. we did not go crazy back then but we are now. have to ask why? pretty sure i know why but everyone can figure it out on their own.
 
Transparency-my ass.Agent Orange hiding again.No time for an Apprentice.Change the channel and cancel program.A dolt.

The White House reportedly made coronavirus meetings classified, keeping out 'very critical people'

Tim O'Donnell
The WeekMarch 11, 2020
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Reuters the White House, on the advice of the National Security Council, has held classified meetings about the response to the novel COVID-19 coronavirus since January. In the process, the officials said, "some very critical people," including government experts, have been held out of the meetings because they don't have the necessary security clearance.
 
Spring break has been extended a week at UR so that the professors can prepare for remote (online) classes. Looks like the Spider’s spring seasons may be shortened as well.
 
Dolt-In-Chief can’t even read a TelePrompTer correctly.

An unparalleled embarrassment.

White House forced to correct three mistakes in Trump’s coronavirus travel ban address

Andy Gregory
The IndependentMarch 12, 2020
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Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening Coronavirus crisis: Getty Images


Mr Trump announced he was shutting down “all travel from Europe”, except the UK, in a speech as notable for the underlying tones of nationalism in the president’s reference to a “foreign virus” as it was for his apparent unease.

The 73-year-old sniffed heavily, suppressed several coughs and appeared to be struggling with the teleprompter throughout his short but laboured speech, which immediately saw members of his administration scramble to correct his errors.

First, the president risked sending markets tumbling even further when he announced, seemingly by accident, that “these prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo, but various other things as we get approval”.

Shortly after his address, the White House clarified the travel ban “only applies to human beings, not goods and cargo ... the people transporting goods will not be admitted into the country, but the goods will be”.

Mr Trump also corrected himself on Twitter, in a post dressed up as a reminder.

“Please remember, very important for all countries and businesses to know that trade will in no way be affected by the 30-day restriction on travel from Europe,” he wrote. ”The restriction stops people not goods.”

Second, Mr Trump failed to mention that the ban would not apply to American residents, citizens, or “generally” citizens’ immediate family members.


Dublin Airport directed their customers to the statement on Twitter, because it made clear Ireland was exempt from the ban, which Mr Trump had also failed to mention.

Third, the president claimed health insurance providers had agreed to waive their customers payments for coronavirus-related treatment.

“Earlier this week I met with the leaders of health insurance industry who have agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments, extend insurance coverage to these treatments, and to prevent surprise medical billing,” he said.

But this was rebutted by a spokesperson for health insurance lobby group AHIP, senior figures of which had met Mr Trump at the White House earlier in the week.

A White House official also confirmed to CNN that insurers had only agreed to waive co-payments on testing, not treatment.

The EU’s two presidents reacted angrily, issuing a joint statement on Thursday condemning the ban as potentially counterproductive.

“The coronavirus is a global crisis, not limited to any continent and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action,” they said.
 
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We should all be proud of our kids and grandkids regardless of their political position. They maybe in sync with ours or not but it demonstrates their thought progress is in engaged and likely our future leaders. Wishing the best for your daughter!
 
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Agent Orange didn’t want aggressive coronovirus testing.It would hurt his re-election.

Don’t tell me he ain’t looking out for the little,common people.What a leader.

Trump reportedly rejected aggressive coronavirus testing in hopes it would help his re-election

Peter Weber
The WeekMarch 13, 2020
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Politico's Dan Diamond told Fresh Air's Terry Gross on Thursday that politics also seems to have played a role, along with mismanagement and infighting between, for example, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Seema Verma, the Medicare chief.
 
Presser from King Dolt


Trump just gave the worst speech of his presidency

Matthew Walther
The WeekMarch 13, 2020
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On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump gave the worst speech of his political career.

He appeared at the podium in the Rose Garden half an hour late. He looked and sounded exhausted. He stumbled over the word "coronavirus" in his very first sentence and seemed to struggle at a number of points throughout his address. His wonted improvisations and other departures from the script did not suggest his usual ease. He sounded very much like what one suspects he is: a tired and confused senior citizen.

The problems with Trump's speech were not limited to the manner in which it was delivered. Among other things, he ought to have secured a deal with Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats before speaking. His emphasis on the extraordinary achievements of such noted public servants as the CEO of Walmart (whose stock price is surging as I write this) did not exactly inspire confidence that the most important thing in this ordeal is public health and safety, as opposed to corporate profits. The bizarre round-table approach that brought everyone from public health officials to business leaders to the vice president (who said some genuinely touching things about the elderly) before the podium was confusing. It was nice of the president to remind us that "so many of the great sports we've gotten used to" have been put on hold. I was surprised that he did not once mention the 41 Americans who have already died of the virus until well into the question-and-answer portion of the proceedings, when he misstated the number.

It is too early to say whether the various new measures Trump announced will be effective. (Some of the obviously sensible ones — waiving interest on federal student loan debt, for example — are likely to be lost in the confusion.) I, for one, think it is still likely that much of the media response to the virus has been hysterical, and that in two months schoolchildren across the country will longingly remember the time they got three extra weeks of spring break. But that is not relevant to my assessment of Trump's performance on Friday. On arguably the biggest stage of his presidency, he not only failed to give the impression that he was in control of the situation, he looked about as ready to handle a crisis as Joe Biden is to speak calmly to elderly voters in Iowa or quote the Declaration of Independence.


These impressions will not go away. They will certainly outlast the pandemic. No American will remember the day that President Trump addressed the nation on the subject of the coronavirus pandemic the way they remember Ronald Reagan's response to the Challenger disaster. If we have any lasting impressions they will be of an enervated, verbally infelicitous elderly man attempting to speak to realities that he is only half aware of ("unlike websites of the past"). The best thing he can hope for is that many of us will feel that Trump perfectly captured the national mood of alternating feverish speculation and exhaustion.
 
Agent Orange reality show bullshit flowing from 1600.Pictured with 3rd rate asskissers (except for Fauci).



The real reality show

 
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Chiner is a new country.A phony and a fraud and pathological liar.Doesn’t read,doesn’t listen.If Americans re-elect this Dolt-In-Chief in November,time to look at Iceland real estate.

 
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Fauci is the only honest broker in this whole mess.Agent Orange as an intentional laggard doesn’t want people tested,plain and simple.More exposure of illness is more exposure of his ineptitude.Governors of States have been prepared and are way ahead of the Agent Orange hoax philosophy.Send them tests kits,get a vaccine,and send ventilators and stay out of their way.Photo ops in the Rose Garden with Pence and others in the entourage kissing Agent Orange ass publically is pathetic,shallow and irrelevant.Background “experts” that continually and involuntarily affirmatively nod to Agent Orange is a veiled attempt at appeasing the boss of failed strategies du jour.



 
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Stock-market futures sink after emergency Fed rate cut — ‘if this doesn’t work, what will?’
U.S. stock-index futures tank, Treasury futures rally and oil sells off after the Federal Reserve on Sunday delivers an emergency rate cut in an effort to cushion the economy from the effects of global coronavirus pandemic.

Read in MarketWatch: https://apple.news/ADTccfFetSc6adMhLW7Dnsg
 
Agent Dolt disciple who thinks South Korea is an authoritarian state.
Not surprised.And this guy is our Surgeon General.God bless America.

 
Dopey Surgeon General believes a dictator runs South Korea.Call Seoul and learn something about what you should be doing,dopey.

 
Prelude to this disaster

Before Trump’s inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918'
In a tabletop exercise days before an untested new president took power, officials briefed the incoming administration on a scenario remarkably like the one he faces now.

Read in POLITICO: https://apple.news/A4e3jaDcbTYe9pJg7Ikt8Ig
 
King of equivocation and deflection

Collins presses Trump on Nunes' coronavirus comments
CNN's Kaitlan Collins presses President Trump on messages from GOP leaders Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt about going out to bars and restaurants amid the coronavirus outbreak. These comments contradict guidelines from the White House about how to contain the spread of the virus.

Read in CNN Politics: https://apple.news/AvhQpjxyKQRuJS2QEdnDS_g
 
Forget the ridiculous daily ass kissing podium get togethers where King Dolt presides along with Prince Pence.

Preparedness,my ass.10 out of 10.My ass.

 
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