Every choice that Trump or his select group of admin toadies makes is always the wrong one.
Always.
John Bolton was a disaster in the making and had done nothing to dispell my thoughts on this before, during or after his tenure as a member of the Trump team. Spineless.
Many medical pundits have spouted worry more about the flu. I get where they are coming from. But there is a shot. Treatment protocols.
Right now containment of coronvirus and isolation prevents it's spread. That is not a treatment. Watching motorcycles sanitizing S. Korean Streets made me wonder if that could work in America. Not. I just can't see people here staying home and in. Too many cowboys on the range in the US.
Trump and the GOP continue to undermine on every possible level. The CDC must be listened to about how to handle this. Yet he comes up with a stupidly spoken analogy and MSM prints it and off to the next chaos. Labradoodles.
One of my elementary teachers nursed people during the great flu epidemic in about 1918.
She told us they stacked the bodies like cords of wood in the streets where she lived in SWVA.
The CDC has fought for years to stop pandemics of that sort. One greedy imbecile and his party of greed could indeed resurface such a problem if not coronavirus, the next.
Big business and 1% tax cuts, military spending and the Space Force and a wall taking up money instead of funding needed programs for the people.
Hard to comprehend our nation in 2020. Scary. Scary. Scary.
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet's population—and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans.Oct 12, 2010
And yet modern science has given us so many ways to avoid the many deadly diseases that plagued the world and we still have people who would eschew them because they don’t believe in them. The 1918 flu pandemic was the equivalent of the plague and it can certainly happen again today with this fluid society we live in.
My first cousin, an elementary librarian died from H1N1 in 2009. She had the vaccine. Like this year, the flu shot did not necessarily work on the strand of flu.
My daughter tested positive for flu and was sick for a week in Dec. She had her flu shot in Oct.
Best plan but not always the most effective due to variations in strains.
There is NO vaccine for coronavirus at this time. Trump is whistling past the grave yard with his stupidity.
The only thing—the ONLY thing—Trump thinks about is himself. On everything. If there was even a shred if doubt he lacks empathy and humanity—there is no doubts anymore. The man has no soul.
*** are *** no doubts. Markets are crashing the world over, death toll mounting, schools closing, no one has any idea what they should be doing. And where is Trump? On his way to a fundraiser. Meanwhile, the leader for the Democratic nomination literally got his own name wrong in a 7-minute stop with the media Saturday night in St. Louis, calling himself an "O'Biden-Bama" Democrat. The future does not exactly look rosy right now.
As I read yet another disastrous "destroy the government" move by Trump and the Party of Greed, I can't help but think about the conversation I've been having with Never Trumper Republican friends, many of them doctors. They despise what Trump has done to this country, but they consider Bernie Sanders to be "one step too far." Better to leave a sociopath and his sycophants in office.
I've sent them this column and resisted the urge to add a snide comment—this emergency and out lack of preparedness is just too important to treat as just another political football. But my colleagues in the media bear a big part of the responsibility. Perhaps the worst aspect the daily Trump freak show is how many important stories like this that are going uncovered by the media who can't pull itself away from the shiny object Trump's throws out there every day, whether's it's an obnoxious tweet or another outrageous statement on the South Lawn. Think the moderators at tonight's debate will ask what happened to the people in our government tasked with responding to this kind of emergency?
I've been in the media business for 45 years, from small dailies to big metros to magazines. I have never seen such consistently poor reporting—especially for more than three years. Lots of reasons for this failure, but there is little doubt that this failure has contributed greatly to the mess we find ourselves in. It is also a reason why I subscribe to newsletters like this one, where the real issues are being reported. Thanks, Judd.
If it effects the economy, it will be interesting to see what distraction Trump admin can come up with to counter it on the news. Apparently the WHO now thinks it has reached it's Pinnacle in China, but is spreading to other countries.
In a world of approx 8 billion people, so far the % is extremely low. However, epidemic s are judged by 1person to the nth power in how many people they exposed. A flu epidemic that trekked the US back in the 90s through Truck Stops was like 1 to the 27th power and it spread across the entire country as drivers stopped at Truck Stops and infected others, then took it home. (If I can find the article I will post. Insomnia does this to me.) The South Korean 61year old church attendee, according to Reuters just now, may be 1 to the 20,0000th power. Which is a helluva huge number.
Our troops have been warned not interact much with South Korean countrymen and troops. Stay on base.
It's sad to see the U.S Public Health Service disappear. These officers are involved in health care delivery to underserved and vulnerable populations, disease control and prevention, biomedical research, food and drug regulation, mental health and rug abuse services, and response efforts for natural and man-made disasters as an essential component of the largest public health program in the world. This group of officers have been around for more than 200 years.
Every choice that Trump or his select group of admin toadies makes is always the wrong one.
Always.
John Bolton was a disaster in the making and had done nothing to dispell my thoughts on this before, during or after his tenure as a member of the Trump team. Spineless.
Many medical pundits have spouted worry more about the flu. I get where they are coming from. But there is a shot. Treatment protocols.
Right now containment of coronvirus and isolation prevents it's spread. That is not a treatment. Watching motorcycles sanitizing S. Korean Streets made me wonder if that could work in America. Not. I just can't see people here staying home and in. Too many cowboys on the range in the US.
Trump and the GOP continue to undermine on every possible level. The CDC must be listened to about how to handle this. Yet he comes up with a stupidly spoken analogy and MSM prints it and off to the next chaos. Labradoodles.
One of my elementary teachers nursed people during the great flu epidemic in about 1918.
She told us they stacked the bodies like cords of wood in the streets where she lived in SWVA.
The CDC has fought for years to stop pandemics of that sort. One greedy imbecile and his party of greed could indeed resurface such a problem if not coronavirus, the next.
Big business and 1% tax cuts, military spending and the Space Force and a wall taking up money instead of funding needed programs for the people.
Hard to comprehend our nation in 2020. Scary. Scary. Scary.
Fyi
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet's population—and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans.Oct 12, 2010
My grandmother was one of those who died. I don't want to see a pandemic like that one - ever.
And yet modern science has given us so many ways to avoid the many deadly diseases that plagued the world and we still have people who would eschew them because they don’t believe in them. The 1918 flu pandemic was the equivalent of the plague and it can certainly happen again today with this fluid society we live in.
My first cousin, an elementary librarian died from H1N1 in 2009. She had the vaccine. Like this year, the flu shot did not necessarily work on the strand of flu.
My daughter tested positive for flu and was sick for a week in Dec. She had her flu shot in Oct.
Best plan but not always the most effective due to variations in strains.
There is NO vaccine for coronavirus at this time. Trump is whistling past the grave yard with his stupidity.
The only thing—the ONLY thing—Trump thinks about is himself. On everything. If there was even a shred if doubt he lacks empathy and humanity—there is no doubts anymore. The man has no soul.
*** are *** no doubts. Markets are crashing the world over, death toll mounting, schools closing, no one has any idea what they should be doing. And where is Trump? On his way to a fundraiser. Meanwhile, the leader for the Democratic nomination literally got his own name wrong in a 7-minute stop with the media Saturday night in St. Louis, calling himself an "O'Biden-Bama" Democrat. The future does not exactly look rosy right now.
As I read yet another disastrous "destroy the government" move by Trump and the Party of Greed, I can't help but think about the conversation I've been having with Never Trumper Republican friends, many of them doctors. They despise what Trump has done to this country, but they consider Bernie Sanders to be "one step too far." Better to leave a sociopath and his sycophants in office.
I've sent them this column and resisted the urge to add a snide comment—this emergency and out lack of preparedness is just too important to treat as just another political football. But my colleagues in the media bear a big part of the responsibility. Perhaps the worst aspect the daily Trump freak show is how many important stories like this that are going uncovered by the media who can't pull itself away from the shiny object Trump's throws out there every day, whether's it's an obnoxious tweet or another outrageous statement on the South Lawn. Think the moderators at tonight's debate will ask what happened to the people in our government tasked with responding to this kind of emergency?
That's why I call the MSM Labradoodles. They chase ever ball Trump Adm throws. Just drives me nuts.
I am just an old community news reporter. We try to give you what you need on the local level. Our egos and ad rates are smaller, too🤸
I've been in the media business for 45 years, from small dailies to big metros to magazines. I have never seen such consistently poor reporting—especially for more than three years. Lots of reasons for this failure, but there is little doubt that this failure has contributed greatly to the mess we find ourselves in. It is also a reason why I subscribe to newsletters like this one, where the real issues are being reported. Thanks, Judd.
Yes. It is a news shamble out there.
Love your mind. Thanks for sharing.
If it effects the economy, it will be interesting to see what distraction Trump admin can come up with to counter it on the news. Apparently the WHO now thinks it has reached it's Pinnacle in China, but is spreading to other countries.
In a world of approx 8 billion people, so far the % is extremely low. However, epidemic s are judged by 1person to the nth power in how many people they exposed. A flu epidemic that trekked the US back in the 90s through Truck Stops was like 1 to the 27th power and it spread across the entire country as drivers stopped at Truck Stops and infected others, then took it home. (If I can find the article I will post. Insomnia does this to me.) The South Korean 61year old church attendee, according to Reuters just now, may be 1 to the 20,0000th power. Which is a helluva huge number.
Our troops have been warned not interact much with South Korean countrymen and troops. Stay on base.
It's sad to see the U.S Public Health Service disappear. These officers are involved in health care delivery to underserved and vulnerable populations, disease control and prevention, biomedical research, food and drug regulation, mental health and rug abuse services, and response efforts for natural and man-made disasters as an essential component of the largest public health program in the world. This group of officers have been around for more than 200 years.
Can Trump use this fear to his advantage?
He will blame the Democrats, Bernie Sanders's Socialism, and Fox News and Rush will ditto it all day and night.