Well, I live just a few miles east of Seattle in Redmond. About 3 mi. from the nursing home where quite a few elderly died a week or so ago. I’m still working, going to the store etc. no zombie apocalypse so far. I’m diggin’ the lack of traffic though, like riding around 20 years ago! I am taking this serious although.
The Emperor has closed the Imperial State, and if it's dry enough to roll the bike out after the few inches of snow monday, Tuesday promise a a high of 45f and I'll go buzz around the city, stopping at the first police car I see parked, and politely inquire if the Courts closing means the judge won't want to see frivolous speeding tickets?
Not that a LEO can openly admit it's open season on anything...
I’m at a friend’s weekly bbq having a few beers and some good food. Frankly, I think I’ve had it already and didn’t know it. I was in a weeklong meeting back in January and everyone in the meeting got sick.
The constant drone of “we inherited a broken system”......regardless of accuracy .....sounds too much like evasion and excuse making. I fear President Trump is doing himself few favors in all of this.
This is serious .... particularly to folks of diminished health .....
As is the case every flu season.
As of this afternoon, the USA has averaged 7 fatalities from WuFlu per state.
Pause a moment, and read this ^ again.
So far, there's been something like 1 fatality per 1,000,000 Americans.
Not surprisingly, most of the deceased were technically "elderly," and nearly 100% had significant existing comorbidities.
The alleged severity and lethality of the ChiCom flu is a hoax.
Wag the dog.
Trayvon Martin on steroids.
"OMG, our president is a Russian agent!" didn't work.
Impeaching him for abuse of power and obstruction of justice (I still wonder how one can obstruct an investigation that was founded with no predicate...) didn't work.
And dammit, none of the Democrap candidates have gained enough traction to seriously threaten at the polls P45 come November.
(On a positive note for the Dammitcraps, however, is that they've been able to put Corn Pop on a shelf for the time being - out of sight, out of mind - and have precluded, temporarily at least, P45 from holding anymore MAGA/KAG rallies (which routinely receive north of 100,000 ticket requests...)
So what do you do, if you're trying to avoid justice, in the lead-up to one of the most important presidential elections in the history of our nation?
Drop an economic MOAB on America, with the giddy, breathless assistance of the Fake News? (Not "fake," as in they lie ((although they routinely do)), but "fake" in that they're actually front agencies pretending to be news agencies. Y'all understand this distinction, right? What exactly do you suppose P45 is trying to convey when he so often calls them out as "fake news" and "enemies of the people"?)
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As always, I give all due credit to the Bad Guys: they certainly know how to fight. And lie. And cheat.
It's a lot easier, of course, when you own 90% of the ENTIRE FRIKKIN' MEDIA MACHINE in this country.
The D'rats are desperate to avoid justice.
So much so, they've emptied a 12-gauge into the economic heart of America, hoping we'll bleed out long enough to impact the upcoming election.
It's P45 they want, but they've been unsuccessful (until now) in slowing him down.
So, they're attempting to murder enough of US instead, in the hopes it damages our President enough come November to give them even the slightest chance to insert another fundamental change agent who'll say "How high?" when they say "Dance!"
All to keep the $oylent greenbacks flowing, and..........toavoidjustice.
Many of our previous government officials are guilty of treason, IMO.
Some, based on my read, are guilty of crimes even worse than that.
What would YOU do, if you were one of these people, and had the power to avoid justice? How far would YOU go?
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When we recover from this (which we will, and it'll happen quickly), what's the next "Hands up, don't shoot!" lined up and ready to load into the media breach?
It'll have to be even worse than what's presently taking place (as hard as this is to believe) for it to have any effect.
If they, and I mean everyone who is posting numbers for the Corona virus, would post the same numbers for flu along side the panic would likely end within two weeks.
Yes it is, but don't be an ass about it. When/If Badweb ever legally belongs to you, you can issue orders by way of being a passive aggressive prick. Until then don't come at me like that, I WILL NOT put up with it.
This is one of the rubs for Trump right now in his re-election effort – hard to negotiate a trillion dollar bailout package while decrying “socialism.”
— Maggie Haberman, New York Times
Brilliantly savage. A typically hard-left and disgusting comment from this typically hard-left and disgusting newspaper (pretending to be a newspaper) and reporter (pretending to be a reporter), but brilliantly savage nonetheless.
Maggie's probably also the source for today's "I fear he's not doing himself any favors" meme...
Yes it is, but don't be an ass about it. When/If Badweb ever legally belongs to you, you can issue orders by way of being a passive aggressive prick. Until then don't come at me like that, I WILL NOT put up with it.
Fair enough, I edited my post, but my question still stands: What other option/s did President Trump have?
So far, there's been something like 1 fatality per 1,000,000 Americans.
Reminds of the joke about the guy falling from a building saying "so far, so good". The end is kind of obvious though. World cases, excluding China, have doubled in the past 3 days. Do the math on that rate of growth for the next few months.
Have you seen what's happening in Italy? Numerous other countries? There's no doubt this will be a political lever used against Trump, but it's not a fake crisis.
So the question is...is it a crisis at all or just great marketing?
Would be interesting to see....in a side by side format.... new flu cases and deaths daily.
I, personally, am taking great precautions ......cancelled a flight back to NY 2 weeks ago and am staying here in FL ....told work I’d be back no later than the 4th of July.
Look at Italy, think it’s a political hoax we somehow convinced the Italians to support? 793 deaths in 24 hours, 650+ in the next 24....
Yes President Trump, I don’t care if you like him, support him or hate him... inherited a broken system, if 90+% of our medical supplies come from China it’s a BROKEN SYSTEM.... the deals were made to support and ignite a fast track towards globalization, however ITS BROKEN!
It’s not the flue.... it’s idiots like you spreading this in high density populations. Eh it’s just the flue... weird another 700+ people died. Wow wonder what they did wrong...
It’s times like this I forget why I served 30 years in the military and retired out of two back to back operational command tours (a rarity) and look around and think, wow, these are the people I was defending?
This isn’t something that sitting around on your couch eating cheese puffs and spouting uninformed inexperienced opinions helps anyone. Parroting bad info is still just simply parroting bad info.
Check your facts....
And leave your bi-partisan politics at home. You hate President Trump, so what!! He’s the President, respect him, or leave, hell I’ll buy you a ticket.... to Italy!!
A lot of folks want President Trump to do more... our Constitution limits the powers of the President inside the borders of the US! The president can’t call up the National Guard, the only tool the President has is to activate Guard forces to title 10 status, that’s Federal Status, which places those forces in violation of Posse Comitatus act of 1878, by President Hays, a Republican, with the goal of limiting federal power and authority over the people, which prohibits Federal Forces from providing police actions. It’s a federal law.. only the state Governor can activate Guard forces in a title 32 (state status NOT Federal) which is how we avoid violation of the federal law.
Governors need to provide state level direction from the recommended of the President and hold Mayors responsible.
We are bound and hindered by our constitution that allows the uninformed and idiots to banter without repercussion.
I’d write much more and in-depth, from professional and personal experience and actual training and execution not parroting what I read or hear, but honestly I no longer protect the masses, I simply have a family to protect.
The end is kind of obvious though. "The end" is not obvious to me, amigo. Can you enlighten?
World cases, excluding China, have doubled in the past 3 days. Do the math on that rate of growth for the next few months. What's the rate of growth on testing for the past three days? Higher than the rate of growth of cases?
And what's the mortality rate for folks who've tested positive? Today's rough average of 1 death per 1,000,000 Americans seems pretty modest, no?
Finally, I hope that China's numbers are decreasing, but who's providing these numbers? Is the source trustworthy?
Have you seen what's happening in Italy? Sure, I'm reading everything I can find. Are you comparing Italy's healthcare system to ours?
There's no doubt this will be a political lever used against Trump... It already is. This is a massive escalation of the ongoing multi-year coup.
...but it's not a fake crisis. Respectfully disagree.
You are right, in that I should have written President Trump. I usually do, I was just being lazy and I admit it, it wasn't my way of slighting or disrespecting him in any way.
And I'll admit to being touchy. Been a bad day. I do think you were being a bit passive aggressive, but I knee jerked reacted instead of calmly responding and I apologize for that.
As to your question, I really don't know. He's between a rock and a hard place. Some say he didn't do enough soon enough, others that he is overreacting. I personally think it's better to be safe than sorry. I do believe this is a targeted attack on the President, the Country, and Western Civilization as a whole. A biological attack followed by massive leftist propaganda and a push for national socialism. But I have no proof of this, and could be completely out of my mind paranoid. It wouldn't be the first time my paranoia got the best of me. I do know one thing for sure: President Trump has asked us to hunker down for two weeks, and I'll give him that time.