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multidimensional-trashcan · 7 days

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if the world had protected itself half as much against the spreading of Corona as tumblr apparently protects itself against the spreading of posts via reblogs then summer 2020 would just be a vage memory of some beach vacation

#REBLOG THINGS PEOPLE!!!#coronavirus #corona #2020 #my post

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tomorrowusa · 1 month

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Four years ago today (March 13th), then President Donald Trump got around to declaring a national state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic. The administration had been downplaying the danger to the United States for 51 days since the first US infection was confirmed on January 22nd.

From an ABC News article dated 25 February 2020...

CDC warns Americans of 'significant disruption' from coronavirus

Until now, health officials said they'd hoped to prevent community spread in the United States. But following community transmissions in Italy, Iran and South Korea, health officials believe the virus may not be able to be contained at the border and that Americans should prepare for a "significant disruption." This comes in contrast to statements from the Trump administration. Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Tuesday the threat to the United States from coronavirus "remains low," despite the White House seeking $1.25 billion in emergency funding to combat the virus. Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, told CNBC’s Kelly Evans on “The Exchange” Tuesday evening, "We have contained the virus very well here in the U.S." [ ... ] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the request "long overdue and completely inadequate to the scale of this emergency." She also accused President Trump of leaving "critical positions in charge of managing pandemics at the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security vacant." "The president's most recent budget called for slashing funding for the Centers for Disease Control, which is on the front lines of this emergency. And now, he is compounding our vulnerabilities by seeking to ransack funds still needed to keep Ebola in check," Pelosi said in a statement Tuesday morning. "Our state and local governments need serious funding to be ready to respond effectively to any outbreak in the United States. The president should not be raiding money that Congress has appropriated for other life-or-death public health priorities." She added that lawmakers in the House of Representatives "will swiftly advance a strong, strategic funding package that fully addresses the scale and seriousness of this public health crisis." Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also called the Trump administration's request "too little too late." "That President Trump is trying to steal funds dedicated to fight Ebola -- which is still considered an epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- is indicative of his towering incompetence and further proof that he and his administration aren't taking the coronavirus crisis as seriously as they need to be," Schumer said in a statement.

A reminder that Trump had been leaving many positions vacant – part of a Republican strategy to undermine the federal government.

Here's a picture from that ABC piece from a nearly empty restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown. The screen displays a Trump tweet still downplaying COVID-19 with him seeming more concerned about the effect of the Dow Jones on his re-election bid.

People were not buying Trump's claims but they were buying PPE.

I took this picture at CVS on February 26th that year.

The stock market which Trump in his February tweet claimed looked "very good" was tanking on March 12th – the day before his state of emergency declaration.

Trump succeeded in sending the US economy into recession much faster than George W. Bush did at the end of his term – quite a feat!. (As an aside, every recession in the US since 1981 has been triggered by Republican presidents.)

Of course Trump never stopped trying to downplay the pandemic nor did he ever take responsibility for it. The US ended up with the highest per capita death rate of any technologically advanced country.

Precious time was lost while Trump dawdled. Orange on this map indicates COVID infections while red indicates COVID deaths. At the time Trump declared a state of emergency, the virus had already spread to 49 states.

The United States could have done far better and it had the tools to do so.

The Obama administration had limited the number of US cases of Ebola to under one dozen during that pandemic in the 2010s. Based on their success, they compiled a guide on how the federal government could limit future pandemics.

Obama team left pandemic playbook for Trump administration, officials confirm

Of course Trump ignored it.

Unlike those boxes of nuclear secrets in Trump's bathroom, the Obama pandemic limitation document is not classified. Anybody can read it – even if Trump didn't. This copy comes from the Stanford University Libraries.

TOWARDS EPIDEMIC PREDICTION: FEDERAL EFFORTS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN OUTBREAK MODELING

Feel free to share this post with anybody who still feels nostalgic about the Trump White House years!

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changing-my-username · 4 months

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Imagine when they start teaching about Covid in history in school.

"Hey dad, what happened during the Coronavirus pandemic?"

"I can't remember, son. I don't have 2020 vision."

#covid19 #coronavirus #2020 vision

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 17 days

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#us politics #republicans #donald trump #conservatives #gop #2020 election #2020 presidential election #covid 19 #covid #long covid #coronavirus #brain damage #brain fog #memes

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talistheintrovert · 8 months

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it's hard being a teenage girl in my 20s, and it's even harder when older people tell me my feelings aren't valid just because I'm young

#coronavirus #covid #covid 19 #2020 #2021 #2022 #2023 #humans #i'm just a teenage girl in my 20s #Youtube #my videos

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misscromwellsmonocle · 4 months

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Two Meters Apart (?) (2020s) by Akiomi Kuroda

#photography #Two Meters Apart #social distancing #Akiomi Kuroda #contemporary photography #coronavirus #pandemic #Miss Cromwell #art #contemporary art #2020s

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haintxblue · 1 year

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also, get your fucking flu shot. i am so exhausted at seeing people who firmly believe that there's no such thing as long-term effects from any virus other than covid and get really cavalier or hand-wavey about the flu. after i had the flu around 2018 (signing out of the hospital against medical advice and refusing oxygen because i was broke, firmly convinced i was probably going to die at home gasping for air or of the fever that put me in the ER), i coughed for six months, was very sick for a year, and still have permanent throat damage (and probably lung damage too). i coughed so much i had to temporarily wear incontinence pads because i lost all my pelvic floor tone and had to do pelvic floor therapy to not piss myself. i couldn't draw a full breath for months after the coughing stopped. i had episodes where eating was difficult because the scar tissue in my throat was choking me. I couldn't yell for over a year. i used to walk five to eight miles a day and even a year and a half after the flu could barely make a mile.

i saw multiple doctors during that time period and every single one of them told me that nothing i was experiencing was unusual after a bad flu and it does, in fact, often take multiple years to recover from an especially bad flu. every single one of them told me this was not the *usual* reaction to a flu, but it wasn't *abnormal* either.

get your flu shot.

#this also means i cough a lot and cough extremely violently #so i still get nervous when i cough in public let alone during 2021 or so #since i didnt really leave house during 2020 much #but even when i was masked and scrupulously covering my coughs people would fucking glare at me #like i cant help it leave me alone my throat is a ruined wasteland #covid #coronavirus #covid tw

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true-bluesargent · 3 months

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girl accidentally reads some of her diary entries from when she was 17 and can only distantly remember being that person 636 dead 3727 injured

#it's also so weird because they were from right at the beginning of 2020 #and they stopped on the 20th of march that year. like i stopped doing it because of lockdown because 'everyday is the same now'#was writing stuff like 'this coronavirus stuff is kinda stressing me out it feels like the world is ending :///' yeah girl #it did end <3

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toshootforthestars · 4 months

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#2020's america #covid-19 #coronavirus #please stay safe #please look out for each other #yes the vaccines are safe #covid is not over #covid is not a hoax #covid causes permanent damage to your body #news

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hatchpaper · 2 years

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Hamtaro - Stay Safe By Corbin Leach | June 8, 2020 (Age 27) This was on display at my job for a while.

#2020 #drawing #art #sketch #pen drawing #reciept drawing #hamtaro #hamster #hamsters #hamham #mask #masks #pandemic #coronavirus #covid-19 #covid #stay safe #lockdown #mask mandate

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tomorrowusa · 3 months

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Just so nobody can say this is out of context, here's a vid of the entire interview.

The Obama administration successfully contained the Ebola outbreak in the United States. The death toll for Ebola in the US was under a dozen. So before leaving office, the Obama National Security Council created a 69-page handbook on how to deal with a pandemic. Trump and his flunkies ignored it with disastrous results.

Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook

The US death toll from COVID-19 is in seven digits. Other industrialized countries with advanced technological infrastructure such as Canada, Taiwan, Germany, and New Zealand had lower fatality rates per capita.

Trump largely ignored the virus until well into March when it had a chance to spread across the US.

The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life The president was aware of the danger from the coronavirus – but a lack of leadership has created an emergency of epic proportions

The Trump administration, at best, was in denial; at worst, it sabotaged the pandemic response.

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Trump White House made 'deliberate efforts' to undermine Covid response, report says

Trump zombies who claim the economy was marvelous under Trump conveniently forget about everything that happened after February of 2020. Trump's early bungling of the pandemic plunged the economy into recession. The COVID supply chain problems and the economic stimulus required to prevent a depression led to the spurt in inflation which is finally receding.

People who are nostalgic about taking hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, drinking bleach, and sticking UV lights up their butts must be excited about the opportunity to vote for Trump again.

#donald trump #botched pandemic response #covid-19 #coronavirus #public health #anniversary of trump's awful covid-19 response #gross incompetence of the trump administration #the trump recession #trump tanked the economy #trump is a loser #vote blue no matter who #election 2020 #election 2024

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bikerlovertexas · 3 months

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