Coronavirus politics and news.

How many hours is Pelosi working per week?

She needs a paycut or get back to work!

Thst is for all Congress!

What a joke!

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Originally Posted by rrzubnyy

Flatten the curve so we don’t swamp the heath care systems.

Now they want it to be at ZERO before opening up.

I get it that we need to eradicate this. But do we need to be on shutdown until the vaccine is ready?

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As long as there are old people and sick people , there will always be people infected with this virus

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Originally Posted by Posada20

And you don’t think tens of millions of more people will lose their jobs over the next month or two of this shutdown ? Over 20 million lost their jobs , not even a million got sick from this virus , now tell me what has hurt this country more , the virus or the economy as a result of these lock downs ?

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If that saves tens of thousands of lives so be it. Again there are ways to fund small/big businesses, aid American citizens, etc in the interim. They'll be over a million in quite a short period of time and if you end these shelter place orders/reopen the country too soon, we'll be right back here again closing states down because of coronavirus casualties.

You don't get it. The only way to slow this down until there is some kind of vaccine or treatment is a lockdown similar to South Korea and China (when the news became public).

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Originally Posted by metswon69

That's not true. There are over 152 million American workers. 22 million lost their jobs in the last 4 weeks. A vast majority of the American workforce is still out there.

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22 out of 152 is 14.5% lol

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Originally Posted by Posada20

I would take the word from an official in the pentagon that no such report exists over an unnamed source That says there may be more than one official report but it’s unclear if there is more than one

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No chance they might be trying to sweep it under the rug to protect and save Trump's azz? Nah..no chance.

How about the word of the former acting undersecretary of DHS?

ABC News contributor John Cohen, who used to oversee intelligence operations at the Department of Homeland Security, said even the best information would be of no use if officials do not act on it.

"When responding to a public health crisis or any other serious security threat, it is critical that our leaders react quickly and take steps to address the threat identified in the intelligence reporting," said Cohen, the former acting undersecretary of DHS. "It’s not surprising to me that the intelligence community detected the outbreak; what is surprising and disappointing is that the White House ignored the clear warning signs, failed to follow established pandemic response protocols and were slow to put in place a government-wide effort to respond to this crisis."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/inte...ry?id=70031273

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Originally Posted by Posada20

Move to South Korea then . Geez

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How about holding this idiot accountable for once? Is that possible? Is your partisanship blinded by complete ignorance?

I guess its okay to you that our president lies, puts out misinformation, and tries to rewrite history on how this was handled while only taking accountability for things that go right and suggesting anything that goes wrong is someone else's fault.

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Originally Posted by Posada20

As long as there are old people and sick people , there will always be people infected with this virus

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But not in Florida! Let's be clear about that!

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Originally Posted by metswon69

If that saves tens of thousands of lives so be it. Again there are ways to fund small/big businesses, aid American citizens, etc in the interim. They'll be over a million in quite a short period of time and if you end these shelter place orders/reopen the country too soon, we'll be right back here again closing states down because of coronavirus casualties.

You don't get it. The only way to slow this down until there is some kind of vaccine or treatment is a lockdown similar to South Korea and China (when the news became public).

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And clearly you have no idea how the economics works if you honestly think this country can literally survive with the economy being shut down for a year . And btw China has already reopened their economy and there is no vaccine yet .

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Originally Posted by metswon69

How about holding this idiot accountable for once? Is that possible? Is your partisanship blinded by complete ignorance?

I guess its okay to you that our president lies, puts out misinformation, and tries to rewrite history on how this was handled. While only taking accountability for something goes right and suggesting anything that goes wrong is someone else's fault.

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Then vote against him in the election . Until then shut the hell up and go out and help your fellow man .

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Originally Posted by Posada20

And clearly you have no idea how the economics works if you honestly think this country can literally survive with the economy being shut down for a year . And btw China has already reopened their economy and there is no vaccine yet .

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I didn't say a year. Can the American economy survive this into late May or June though? Yeah with the right legislation.

China had a huge head start. Their infection rates have dropped significantly through people staying at home. New York has more confirmed cases than China. Do you understand that? Even if you don't believe China's numbers (I don't either), New York is a state with 19 million people while China is a country of 1.4 billion people.

That's a ridiculous rate of contraction for an area exponentially smaller than the entirety of China.

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Originally Posted by metswon69

I didn't say a year. Can the American economy survive this into late May or June though? Yeah with the right legislation.

China had a huge head start. Their infection rates have dropped significantly through people staying at home. New York has more confirmed cases than China. Do you understand that? Even if you don't believe China's numbers (I don't either), New York is a state with 19 million people while China is a country of 1.4 billion people.

That's a ridiculous rate of contraction for an area exponentially smaller than the entirety of China.

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It takes a year to 18 months to develop a working vaccine . And you said the economy should be locked down until then

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Originally Posted by metswon69

I didn't say a year. Can the American economy survive this into late May or June though? Yeah with the right legislation.

China had a huge head start. Their infection rates have dropped significantly through people staying at home. New York has more confirmed cases than China. Do you understand that? Even if you don't believe China's numbers (I don't either), New York is a state with 19 million people while China is a country of 1.4 billion people.

That's a ridiculous rate of contraction for an area exponentially smaller than the entirety of China.

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Huge head start?! They spent the first 3 months of Their pandemic covering it up and making the medical professionals who disagreed with the govt disappear . We will never know the true impact the virus has on their country and yet you are saying their reaction was much better than the US .

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Originally Posted by Posada20

It takes a year to 18 months to develop a working vaccine . And you said the economy should be locked down until then

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Where? Find me the post where I said that. I'll wait.

Newsflash you're going to be here a while because i never said that. The idea of being closed for another month to 6 weeks is to drive the number of cases down which limits potential exposure on a larger scale. Lesser cases means lesser infected people in the future. With that comes the need for patience which will lead to further flattening of the curve.

That's all people have tried to tell you through the entirety of this thread but its something you obviously don't understand.

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Originally Posted by Posada20

Huge head start?! They spent the first 3 months of Their pandemic covering it up and making the medical professionals who disagreed with the govt disappear . We will never know the true impact the virus has on their country and yet you are saying their reaction was much better than the US .

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China started their lockdown in January. I would call that a considerable head start. I'm not arguing the handling of the disease and the numbers are obviously fabricated. That said, the reason why they've been able to open cities like Wuhan again (which has a population of 11 million people) is because they've done a better job of limiting the spread.

That's obvious by the amount of new cases in the US today (29,000) meanwhile China's largest day of new cases peaked in February.

I'm aware that misinformation comes from China. You don't have to tell me that but their citizens have done a better job of handling this than Americans have.

BREAKING: Fox News is getting sued for providing FAKE News concerning Coronavirus.

Their Lawyers, argued their case:

“First Amendment does not permit censoring this type of speech based on the theory that it is ‘false’’

There we have it, Fox just admitted to being FAKE NEWS!

Forbes.com/sites/legalentertainment/2020/04/10/covid-19-lawsuit-against-fox-news/#2c08da805739