#covid pandemic 2020

[tomorrowusa]

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!

#covid-19 #coronavirus #pandemic #public health #donald trump #trump's incompetent response to the pandemic #covid state of emergency #2020 #trump recession #51 days of trump pandemic dawdling #obama pandemic playbook #2010s ebola outbreak #nostalgia for trump administration #republicans #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[penumbrapolaroid]

august 4th, 2020

#penumbrapolaroid #memories #aesthetic #personal photography #photo archive #photoblog #photoblr #photography #a e s t h e t i c #farmcore #fairycore #fairy aesthetic #cottage core #cottagecore #cottage aesthetic #pastel #farmhouse #2020s #covid pandemic #vibrant #summer #maryland #summer 2020 #2020 #original photography #photographers on tumblr #naturecore #nature

[i-still-mask-because]

the reasons i still mask are numerous and interconnected:

because my grandmother is in hospice and i’ll be damned if i’m the one to kill her by getting her sick, i want her to live the rest of her life as healthy as she can be with cancer and dementia

because my mother works with covid+ patients every shift and i don’t want to spread a hospital-borne infection into the public, or get my mother sick and have her bring something into work or further disable her

because my city website lied about there being no covid+ patients in hospitals or ICUs, meaning that their statements about why they relax covid precautions cannot be trusted

to demonstrate to unmasked people around me that they can (and should) choose to resume masking at any point, though the sooner the better

because part of being queer for me is caring about others around me even when it goes against the status quo or “common sense”, knowing that the societal conventions of heterosexuality/cisgenderism/able-bodiedness do more harm than good

because i enjoy the fact that wearing a mask makes me look mysterious and frees me from having to care about controlling social cues for the bottom half of my face

😷

#ALL of this!!!!!!!! #that fifth point about embracing queerness and the queerness of being different as we choose to mask up!!! #EXACTLY!!!!!! #we HAVE to embrace the fact our survival depends on us not fitting in right now. we HAVE to. #our survival and the survival of marginalized folks depends on us rejecting the temptation of giving into eugenics in order to fit in #we have to ACTIVELY reject participating in the normalization of eugenics in order to save & protect each other #and 110% none of their statements about relaxing covid precautions can be trusted. #i recently found out the WHO straight up lied about covid not being airborne BACK IN MARCH 2020. #SINCE DAY 1. #i DO NOT trust these people with my life and the lives of the marginalized & vulnerable #thank you for sharing 😷💛 #covid #i still mask because #covid is airborne #covid isn't over #covid pandemic #covid awareness #ask queue

[peachfolk]

I'm so happy that Dadi Freyr is finally getting to perform live in a Eurovision finale

#eurovision #dadi freyr #remember in 2021 when he and his group had to use a rehearsal video because they had covid #and of course 2020 was cancelled because of the pandemic #justice for dadi achieved 🥲

[alwaysbewoke]

#worst year #2020 #covid-19 #pandemic #economy #unemployment #isolation #fear #hand sanitizer #toilet paper #hoarding #cleaning #republican party #ronald reagan #debate question #better off #elise stefanik #lara trump #tim scott #state of the union address #katie britt #joe biden #donald trump #presidency #responsibility #leaders #gasoline prices #ukraine #gaza #government

[dyingroses]

#lols #covid19 #covid 19 #covid pandemic #2020s

[vfdinthewild]

"But fortresses are also placed up high, with views for days and Napa Valley wine farms don't usually come with security patrols and electric fencing and five stories of underground bunker."

-from Afterland by Lauren Beukes, pg. 133

#vfd #lemony snicket #asoue #a series of unfortunate events #lauren beukes #views for days #afterland #book #the concept of this book was interesting: it's set three years after a pandemic that killed 99% of men #it was published april 6 2020 so it was written before covid #and it was interesting to see how this fictional modern pandemic compared #and I was interested how society rebuilt itself as matriarchal #but what the book actually focused on was a very long escape and car chase #four out of five stars #views #for #days

[unganseylike]

random question that i’ve been thinking about

#this question is not implying covid is over! i just mean compared to pre outbreak #i guess tracking response to disease media over the course of covid 2020-2023 wld be fascinating too #im wondering bc sometimes i just immediately see something is about pandemic and cannot make myself check it out #but sometimes thats bc its post 2020 and feels like cheap shot at getting attn #but sometimes pre 2020 its too eerie or too inaccurate yknow #other times its just like how many cheap shots they try to make toward covid #for further self context i study infectious disease so its not #real world stuff that bothers me

[striderthefrog]

Damn it's 2024?

I can't believe the covid lockdowns started 4 years ago.

Now I feel old.

#pandemic #covid #2020

[dr3amofagame]

dsmp hot take: when people say dsmp lore (esp cdnf) is so tied to lockdown and covid-coded, hearing about the planned finale with foolish and eret finding out that they've been reliving and resetting all along is SO post-covid reactionary. the "how do we get back to old days?" mindset, the impending doom of repeating the cycle of hope and hurt, the meaning-finding (trying to figure out ho wto break the cycle)... it wouldv'e been SO compelling

strongly agree / agree / ambivalent / disagree / strongly disagree / don’t care whatsoever

very mild disagreement here ... but tbh imo it's less about reacting to a post-pandemic world straightforwardly and more to do with how certain relationships and like, even the dsmp itself developed over the course of the pandemic and then was affected by stuff reopening and such. i'd say that feeling of like, "missing what we had but we can't go back" that permeates the dsmp's ending definitely resonates w/ the feelings that are associated with missing dsmp (and by extension, to a certain extent, this whole fandom's) so-called glory days now that they're over, yaknow? and obviously all of that is impacted by lockdown and covid, which is what really made this fandom explode the way it did with people having little else to do whether they were ccs or fans, but now in a post-lockdown world looking back there's a lot that's bittersweet, ig?

#like...kinda? ig? #my asks !! #dsmp hot takes asks #like there's a lot to dsmp lore that's pretty tied to the time it was written #the entirety of lmanburg being tied to brexit and 2020 politics for example #stuff with c!dream mirroring certain things to do with cc!dream late 2020 #c!dnf and the distance between cc!dnf bc of visa delays #etc etc #but yeah id say a little less straightforwardly post-covid coded #and more connected to the way this fandom developed around the pandemic and after it #if that's what u meant tho sorry for misinterpreting AAKJSFLJS

[tomorrowusa]

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.

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

[hatchpaper]

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

[qqueenofhades]

Why the fuck is this "Republicans are good for the economy!!!" myth still sticking around?

Unemployment claims are at a historic low and new jobs are at a historic high. In one year under Biden, the US has reduced the federal deficit by over one trillion-with-a-T dollars and the economy recovered from Covid four years ahead of what was originally predicted. While inflation and gas prices are currently high in all developed countries, they are the lowest in America (average $4.46 a gallon, compared to highs of $10+ in places like Norway).

The GOP wants to cut more taxes for rich people and heap the burden onto working people, the end, while continuing to run up record-breaking deficits. Mitch McConnell is literally now on record worrying that if the Democrats made the child tax credit permanent, it would be too difficult for the Republicans to repeal. (Thanks Joe Manchin!) And yet this canard that Republicans Are Good For The Economy persists.... why? Is this somehow the only place where they don't look totally batshit (despite obviously being batshit) or is it because the media breathlessly reports on every single gas prices gas prices gas prices and nothing else exists?

Ugh.

#hilary for ts #politics for ts #apparently this is still going strong and i don't fucking get it #gas was at $2 a gallon in march 2020 because THERE WAS A FUCKING UNCONTROLLED PANDEMIC #PEOPLE WERE NOT GOING ANYWHERE #but good thing covid is fake too i guess #my day of rage continues #i will get over it eventually but yes

[barkbrained]

You have to think things will get better, otherwise what is the point!!! You have to hold out hope that things will get better and then maybe one day things will feel safe and be cool and everything will be fine (at least as fine as it can be)

#misc #rbs okay #I’m just so tired of the state of the world and I’m so tired of feeling unsafe every day #so tired of being tired. I have to hope my body will heal and I will feel better but it’s so hard #change has to come at some point and I have to hope I can make it to that point #I’m having a terrible time coping with the pain and fatigue and mental strain covid has left me with #I want to feel okay again so badly #all I want in the world is to make art and experience art and music and movies and live a little life with my partner in some place nice #I’m scared I’ll never feel okay enough to have that and I’m scared the world won’t ever feel safe enough again to have that #I just keep telling myself something has to change and trying to believe it so hard #if I make it through this pandemic with any semblance of health and stability I will be happy #I don’t even want to think about how much trauma the pandemic has given me and will continue to give me #I grieve everyday for the world that could’ve been and the person I will never get the chance to be because of this pandemic #my health anxiety has skyrocketed in the past four years and just keeps getting worse #I can’t hear people coughing or sneezing or sniffling without panicking for a few seconds every time #I already had emetophobia before 2020 but now I have the same panicked feeling from anyone exhibiting any signs of illness #it’s exhausting T-T everything is exhausting #sorry for vent-ish post on main ik it’s not very professional but whatever this is my blog #covid tw

[ketchupsandwichcomics]

2020

I’m a teenager and I still feel old.

#comic #comics #funny #cartoon #ketchup #sandwich #webcomic #webcomics #covid19 #pandemic #covid #2020s

[asherisawkward]

How would Belos react to Covid 19 and how humanity handled it?

Judging by Philip’s intelligence and how he knows much more than people of his time period did, he probably knows how diseases and viruses spread, as well as how to prevent them. I mean, that man lived in a cave with his brother’s corpse. He had to a lot about cleanliness and illness prevention in order to not get killed by that. He’d probably be pretty disappointed in the way we handled it. After all, it got thousands of people killed.

#The Owl House #TOH #Philip Wittebane #Emperor Belos #COVID-19 #2020 #Pandemic #Ask