#trump pandemic

[chaoticace22]

don’t worry guys i have eurovision covered in here

#tumblr news update #elon musk #twitter #donald trump #e jean carroll #jenna ortega #beetlejuice 2 #marissa mayer #critical role #doctor who #good omens #the winchesters #lockwood and co #pandemic #tears of the kingdom

[saywhat-politics]

#former president #donald trump #covid pandemic

[feckcops]

Joe Biden Is Shrinking the Welfare State

“By the estimates of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 15 million people are going to lose their health insurance over the next few months, including 5.3 million kids. Worse, based on historical trends, 6.8 million of those people will lose their Medicaid coverage in spite of still being eligible for it simply because of bureaucratic trifles ...

“The effects of the declaration’s end will go well beyond this, affecting working people’s ability to get free tests, vaccines, and affordable treatment for the virus. It also means the end of extra food stamps, another generous program set to continue as long as the emergency exists and a vital lifeline for working people struggling to keep up with grocery bills in the face of inflation ...

“From a practical and moral standpoint, this is obviously a travesty. But it’s also a needless own goal for the president, putting an already deeply unpopular Biden in the position of running for reelection in a year’s time with millions of people losing their health insurance — and his potential Republican opponent being able to boast he’d been the one to extend it to them in the first place. More than that, it makes a mockery of his frequent public statements insisting that his administration will ‘continue to fight for racial justice,’ since, as the HHS, acknowledges, 15 percent of those who are about to lose their coverage as a result of his decision are black and one-third are Latino ...

“If the idea is that Americans are now tired of thinking and caring about the pandemic, making supporting any COVID-related policies politically toxic, then this is the wrong way to go about unwinding those. Americans didn’t hate that the pandemic response included protecting them from being kicked out of their homes by greedy landlords, getting financial support for the government while they were unemployed, or having health insurance and a variety of other health care needs guaranteed.”

#welfare #benefits #food stamps #welfare state #healthcare #health insurance #medicaid #health #pandemic #covid #joe biden #biden #donald trump #trump #usa #america #american politics #north america #politics

[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

[margareturtle]

My new theory is that Cassie doesn’t want to write contemporary period books anymore and that’s why she had to wait till 2026 to release book 1 of twp bc by then TLKOF is historical fiction as 2015 was over a decade before.

#like think about it #the american shadowhunters living in a pre trump world #living in a pre pandemic world #living in a pre taylor swift rerecording world #living in the year gay marriage became legalized in the US #when things were looking more up #living in a pre/early hamilton world #SEE #HISTORICAL FICTION #twp is gonna be so nostalgic #twp #nostalgia #the wicked powers #the shadowhunter chronicles #tsc

[aunti-christ-ine]

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#covid #pandemic #hydroxychloroquine #lyin donnie dotard #tRUmp #(the RU is for RUssia) #covid19

[captainzontar]

Belief in a LITERAL god is a mental illness that affects millions around the globe, yet nothing is done to ease the suffering. Generations of children taught to fear the dark and pray to a malevolent creature in the sky. Sounds like child abuse to me.

#god #religion #child abuse #mental illness #pandemic #maga #trump #republicans

[queerism1969]

#twitter memes #twitter post #twitter #facebook #republican party #republicans #republican #gop #donald trump #maga #trump #covid news #covid19 #covid pandemic #covid booster #china covid #fuck covid #pandemic #coronavirus #vaccine

[meandmybigmouth]

BUT, NOT THEIR HANDLING OF COVID? ALMOST A MILLION AMERICANS KILLED? PEOPLE OPENLY PRACTICING MEDICINE WITHOUT A LICENSE DISPENSING MEDICAL ADVICE? 8 TRILLION DOLLARS TAKEN OUT IN THE NAME OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WHO'S STUCK PAYING IT BACK? WHO BENEFITED THE MOST FROM THAT STOLEN MONEY? WHERE'S THE INVESTIGATION? AND NOT BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO FAILED AMERICA DURING THAT TIME? THE GOP!

#donald trump #republicans #congress #covid pandemic #death by covid

[krissiefox]

(originally from here: https://twitter.com/adamtotscomix/status/1279329941147004930 )

#pee pee poo poo #maga #trump supporters #stupid americans #covid 19 #pandemic #coronavirus #face masks #bitch baby americans

[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

[carsonjonesfiance]

This is on a post about Biden appointing a gay epidemiologist who became an epidemiologist because of the HIV/AIDS crisis to head the government response to monkeypox. Like I know these people the every opportunity to act like elections are useless but would you rather have Dr. Doulalakis or Dr. Ronny Jackson in charge of pandemic response right now?

When the choice is between the bare minimum (which to be clear, this is not, this is a thoughtful appointment of someone well suited for the job in a professional and personal sense) and less than nothing, it is the responsibility of voters to choose whatever helps the most people.

#considering the pisspoor response the Trump administration had to COVID (in part because they dismantled the Obama era pandemic team) #you'd think this would be uncontroversial for Leftists who are so so empathic /s

[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

[thundergrace]

Damn. 45's announcement didn't even take its coat off yet and Biden said let's fucking go!

#Donald Trump #joe biden #also it's 2022 why is this man bothering us with this a year early? #but also? a dirty cheap shot from Biden to keep attacking 45's jobs record #we know that was likely due to the pandemic #but i support dirty cheap shots at this particular candidate

[mitchipedia]

Pandemic revisionism

Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina discusses school closures, mask mandates and the pandemic response, on the Ezra Klein show, with guest host David Wallace-Wells, a New York Times science and public policy journalist

Political discussions today focus on school, shut-downs, lockdowns, masking, and whether the economic stimulus was too big. We're not discussing the big question of whether we could have prevented 1.1 million deaths in the US alone.

Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and the author of the popular newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. She argues that we've entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: "pandemic revisionism." In her telling, the revisionist impulse seduces us into swapping cheap talking points for the thorny, difficult decisions we actually faced -- and may face again with the next novel virus.

No maybe about it. We will face those questions again.

In the 2020 election, Biden rightly said that Trump was unfit for office because Trump's handling of the Covid crisis resulted in 200,000 dead Americans. During the Biden administration, far more Americans have died than while Trump was in office, and many of those deaths were preventable

Biden's Covid policy has been to pretend that the vaccine solved the problem. 900,000 dead Americans disagree.

#covid #covid 19 #pandemic #public health #donald trump #joe biden