Pandemic 2020

[hanimmal]

Trump won't host his predecessor at the White House for traditional ceremony because it's Obama, report says

The decision to axe an official White House portrait ceremony follows mounting tensions between the two presidents

www.independent.co.uk

Trump couldn't get up enough humanity after the MAGA bomber tried to murder Obama, there is no reason to expect him to show any for this.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Obama Speaks Out About Trump’s Coronavirus Failures: A Closer Look

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Donald is going south among seniors, then there's minorities and women, who's left?
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Is The President Losing Support Among Older Voters? | Morning Joe | MSNBC

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

How is this shit any different than what goes on in China? Are american facts and data now suspect, did other other red state officials knuckle under to the pressure, or just go along? Boy the Russians would have fun hacking and playing with this shit, why not, Uncle Sam's head is buried in the sand and his asshole is up in the air catching the sun.
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Florida's scientist was fired for refusing to 'manipulate' COVID-19 data

Researchers fear a wave of data censorship after the manager of Florida's COVID-19 dashboard is removed from her post.

www.usatoday.com

Florida's scientist was fired for refusing to 'manipulate' COVID-19 data

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – The scientist who created Florida's COVID-19 data portal wasn't just removed from her position on May 5, she was fired on Monday by the Department of Health, she said, for refusing to manipulate data.

Rebekah Jones said in an email to the USA TODAY Network that she single-handedly created two applications in two languages, four dashboards, six unique maps with layers of data functionality for 32 variables covering a half a million lines of data. Her objective was to create a way for Floridians and researchers to see what the COVID-19 situation was in real time.

Then, she was dismissed.

"I worked on it alone, sixteen hours a day for two months, most of which I was never paid for, and now that this has happened I'll probably never get paid for," she wrote in an email, confirming that she had not just been reassigned on May 5, but fired from her job as Geographic Information Systems manager for the Florida Department of Health.
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[spek9]

It is funny what he says and then claims he never said. Here is the official timeline of everything that happened in the beginning and all of Trump's quotes/tweets from December of 2019 to March 25th, 2020 where he said "Nobody could see this coming". (Taken from EWOT)

December 31, 2019

• China alerts the World Health Organization that it has several cases of an unusual pneumonia in Wuhan Province. The virus that was causing it was unknown.

January 1, 2020

• Discovering that a number of those infected with the unknown virus all worked at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, China shuts the market down.
• Number of infections hits 40. Scientist go to work trying to identify the virus and its origin.

January 5, 2020

• Chinese Officials rule out the possibility that the virus was a recurrence of the SARS virus that killed over 700 people in 2002-2003.

January 6, 2020

• The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta issues a travel advisory for Wuhan, China. The CDC’s Level 1 advisory tells travelers to “practice usual precautions.” It added: Travelers to Wuhan “should avoid living or dead animals, animal markets, and contact with sick people.” (Source)

January 7, 2020

• China alerts the WHO that they have identified the virus. It is a novel virus of the coronavirus family (the same family as that of the common cold as well as the SARS virus) and it is named 2019-nCoV.
• The CDC announces it is following/monitoring the virus closely but that there are no known cases in the United States.

January 11, 2020

• China releases the genetic sequence of the virus to the world, allowing scientist world wide to begin researching and developing testing for the virus and a possible vaccine.
• China announces its first death from the virus: a 61-year-old man who had purchased goods from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.

January 13, 2020

• The WHO announces a case of Covid-19 in Thailand. It was a woman who had recently arrived from Wuhan, China. It is the first case known outside of China.

January 16, 2020

• The CDC holds a briefing on the virus and it is announced that the United States will begin screening people who arrived from or had passed through Wuhan, China.

January 17, 2020

• China reports a second death in Wuhan.
• The CDC announced “enhanced screening” for all people arriving from Wuhan, China at LAX, SFO, and JFK airports.

January 20, 2020

• China reports a third death and 200 additional cases of the virus.
• China confirms cases in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
• China confirms human to human transmission of the virus.

January 21, 2020

• First case of Covid-19 confirmed in the United States. It is a 35-year-old man in Seattle, Washington just back from visiting family in Wuhan.

January 22, 2020

January 23, 2020

• China puts the cities of Wuhan, Xiantao and Chibi in Hubei province under effective quarantine. All air and rail travel in or out is stopped.
• The WHO says that the outbreak doesn’t constitute a public emergency of international concern and there was “no evidence” of the virus spreading between humans outside of China.

January 24, 2020

January 29, 2020

• The Coronavirus Task Force is created headed by Alex Azar of the Department of Health and Human Resources.

January 30, 2020

• The WHO declares Covid-19 as “a public health emergency of international concern.
• China’s death toll reaches 170 with over 7,700 cases.

January 31, 2020

• Trump issues an executive order blocking entry to the US from anyone who has been in China in the last 14 days. It does not apply to US residents and family members or spouses of US residents or citizens. The law doesn’t become effective until February 2nd.
• HHS Secretary Azar declares the coronavirus a public health emergency.

February 2, 2020

• The Philippines report the first death from Covid-19 outside of China. He was a Chinese man from Wuhan.

February 3, 2020

February 4, 2020

• The Food and Drug Administration gives emergency use to CDC test kits for Coronavirus.

February 5, 2020

• The CDC begins shipping test kits for the coronavirus to select labs. It is soon discovered that one of the elements in these test kits is faulty.
• The United States Senate acquits President Trump in his impeachment trial.

February 6, 2020

• Malaysian authorities report the country’s first known human to human transmission.
• The number of people infected with Covid-19 in Europe hits 30.

February 7, 2020

• Li Wenliang, the doctor that was the first to sound the alarm over the coronavirus in China, dies of it.
• Hong Kong announces prison sentences for anyone breaking quarantine rules.

February 9, 2020

• The death toll in China surpasses that of the 2002-03 SARS epidemic as they reach 811 deaths and 37,198 infections.
• An investigative team led by experts from the WHO departed for China.

February 10, 2020

• The death toll in China speeds up as they reach 908 confirmed deaths and a total of 40,171 infections.

Continued in next post.

January 15, 2020 - Canada enacts its emergency pandemic response after paying close attention to the information coming out of China since mid-December.

 

[schuylaar]

February 11, 2020

• The WHO announces that the disease caused by the new coronavirus would be called “COVID-19”.

February 12, 2020

February 13, 2020

• Japan confirms its first death from Covid-19.

February 14, 2020

• Egypt becomes the firsts country in Africa to announce a case of Covid-19.
• France becomes the first Nation in Europe to report a death from Covid-19.

February 16, 2020

• Taiwan reports its first death from Covid-19.

February 19, 2020

• Just hours after reporting its first cases of Covid-19, Iran reports its first deaths from the virus.

February 21, 2020

• Israel reports its first confirmed case of Covid-19.
• Death toll in China passes 2,000 with over 70,000 confirmed cases.

February 23, 2020

• Italy confirms it’s third death.
• Italy effectively shuts down the Venice Carnival and suspends all sporting events.

February 24, 2020

• The Stock Market drops 1,000 points on coronavirus fears.
• The Trump administration asks Congress for $2.5 billion in emergency funding to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Congressional Democrats and even some Republicans immediately say this isn’t enough.

February 25, 2020

• Iraj Harirchi, Iran’s Deputy Health Minister, confirms he has Covid-19 just a day after giving a briefing on it.

February 26, 2020

• The first known case of community transmission of the coronavirus is identified in California. The person never traveled to any hotspot and had no contact with anyone known to be sick from Covid-19.
• President Donald J. Trump names Vice President Pence to lead the coronavirus response, replacing Azar as the top official on the coronavirus task force.

February 28, 2020



February 29th, 2020

• In an effort to increase testing capacity, the FDA allows Universities and State Lab facilities to start developing their own testing methods.
• Health officials confirm the first death from Covid-19 in the United States. (It is later found that two deaths occurred earlier in the month.)
• Trump suspends travel to the U.S. by people who have been in Iran in the previous 14 days. There are exceptions, including for U.S. citizens.

March 3, 2020

• Vice President Mike Pence announces the CDC will issue new guidelines that say anyone can be tested for Covid-19, subject to a doctor’s orders. The truth is far different as most states do not have the ability to test even all of those with symptoms.

March 4, 2020

• House of Representatives passes an 8.3 billion dollar emergency bill to help fight Covid-19.
• President Trump faces increasing criticism for his administration’s lack of response to the virus. The president criticizes the Obama administration in an interview with TV network Fox News, saying the Obama administration “didn’t do anything about” swine flu. (This statement is, of course, completely false.)

March 5, 2020

• Saudi Arabia announces its first case of Covid-19.

March 6, 2020

• Trump signs the 8.3 billion dollar Covid-19 response bill into law. It is more than three times the amount the Trump administration had suggested.

March 8, 2020

• Saudi Arabia locks down the eastern Qatif region and closes all schools and universities across the country until further notice.

March 10, 2020

• Lebanon and Morocco announce their first deaths from Covid-19.

March 11, 2020

• The WHO declares Covid-19 a global pandemic.
• Trump restricts travel from 26 European nations. As with the previous travel bans, there are exceptions for U.S. citizens and others. Initially, the United Kingdom and Ireland are exempt from the ban. They are later added albeit with the same exemptions for U.S. citizens and others.
• Turkey, Ivory Coast, Honduras, Bolivia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Panama and Mongolia confirmed their first cases.
• In Qatar, infections jumped drastically from 24 to 262 in a single day.

March 12, 2020

• The FDA authorizes the use of privately developed Covid-19 test kits for the first time.

Continued in next post.

April 8, 2020

• Schuylaar delivers first test kits and virus re-agent to Long's Peak, MCR and PVH. Lab personnel are anxiously waiting by the door 'we've been waiting for this'. Covid re-agent is leaking in it's bag when unpacked.

 

[Fogdog]

How is this shit any different than what goes on in China? Are american facts and data now suspect, did other other red state officials knuckle under to the pressure, or just go along? Boy the Russians would have fun hacking and playing with this shit, why not, Uncle Sam's head is buried in the sand and his asshole is up in the air catching the sun.
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Florida's scientist was fired for refusing to 'manipulate' COVID-19 data

Researchers fear a wave of data censorship after the manager of Florida's COVID-19 dashboard is removed from her post.

www.usatoday.com

Florida's scientist was fired for refusing to 'manipulate' COVID-19 data

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – The scientist who created Florida's COVID-19 data portal wasn't just removed from her position on May 5, she was fired on Monday by the Department of Health, she said, for refusing to manipulate data.

Rebekah Jones said in an email to the USA TODAY Network that she single-handedly created two applications in two languages, four dashboards, six unique maps with layers of data functionality for 32 variables covering a half a million lines of data. Her objective was to create a way for Floridians and researchers to see what the COVID-19 situation was in real time.

Then, she was dismissed.

"I worked on it alone, sixteen hours a day for two months, most of which I was never paid for, and now that this has happened I'll probably never get paid for," she wrote in an email, confirming that she had not just been reassigned on May 5, but fired from her job as Geographic Information Systems manager for the Florida Department of Health.
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Republicans haven't yet learned they can't gaslight an epidemic. I know it's not even close to a realistic scenario, BUT, if Trump had been proactive about this virus in the early days, he'd be a hero right now. Maybe not to Democrats but to enough to matter in November. Instead, tens of thousands are dead and they still haven't caught on to the harm they are doing to themselves.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Republicans haven't yet learned they can't gaslight an epidemic. I know it's not even close to a realistic scenario, BUT, if Trump had been proactive about this virus in the early days, he'd be a hero right now. Maybe not to Democrats but to enough to matter in November. Instead, tens of thousands are dead and they still haven't caught on to the harm they are doing to themselves.

Unfortunately there is a lot of time between now and november to find out, as this virus ravages the red states that drank the Koolaid. Donald is doing a Jim Jones on his base from here on out, the wise will protect themselves as much as they can, it's gonna be a darwinian tragedy, many innocent will die along with the stupid.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

As governors react to the rising death counts the protests will most likely start up again. If your small rural town has one of these MAGA clowns traveling 200 miles to attend a lock down rally, you are in deep shit as cell phone data is revealing about the recent protests in Michigan. It seems these morons brought a little something back home to their families and communities, death, illness and calamity at the local hospitals. Thanks guys MAGA, you might need your guns if your community finds out it was you, folks in small towns can get ornery when ya kill their kin folk.

 

[CunningCanuk]

Republicans haven't yet learned they can't gaslight an epidemic. I know it's not even close to a realistic scenario, BUT, if Trump had been proactive about this virus in the early days, he'd be a hero right now.

If he acted even remotely like a leader he would have won the election hands down.

Thankfully he isn’t able to hide his narcissism and it should cost him the election.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

If he acted even remotely like a leader he would have won the election hands down.

Thankfully he isn’t able to hide his narcissism and it should cost him the election.

Yer not from the east coast are ya Bubbles? The guy who plays him is from my neck of the woods, as are most of the "Boys"

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

If he acted even remotely like a leader he would have won the election hands down.

Thankfully he isn’t able to hide his narcissism and it should cost him the election.

Even at this late date, if he were to get hit in the head with a large object ( say the chopper broke a blade) then changes his behavior to semi comatose and stopped appearing on TV and tweeting, he would still get elected, the stupid runs deep in America, as does the fear and hate that drives most of it. Any blows to the forehead would result in little behavioral change though, he has nothing to lose in the prefrontal area of the brain.

 

[schuylaar]

Republicans haven't yet learned they can't gaslight an epidemic. I know it's not even close to a realistic scenario, BUT, if Trump had been proactive about this virus in the early days, he'd be a hero right now. Maybe not to Democrats but to enough to matter in November. Instead, tens of thousands are dead and they still haven't caught on to the harm they are doing to themselves.

and if you repeat a lie enough times..?

he..just..won't..stop.

 

[Fogdog]

If he acted even remotely like a leader he would have won the election hands down.

Thankfully he isn’t able to hide his narcissism and it should cost him the election.

For the sake of those mourning the loss of a loved one due to his negligence and malfeasance, I wish he'd been better.

Then again, I wish Republicans were better too. There is a reason for partisan divide and it's not Democrats.

 

[Fogdog]

and if you repeat a lie enough times..?

Can't gaslight an epidemic. They keep lying and the result just keeps getting worse. We are looking at a large second wave of infections beginning late summer and peaking some time between the end of October and mid winter. They can gaslight a lot of their crappy results and corrupt acts but dead people aren't going to magically disappear.

 

[schuylaar]

Even at this late date, if he were to get hit in the head with a large object ( say the chopper broke a blade) then changes his behavior to semi comatose and stopped appearing on TV and tweeting, he would still get elected, the stupid runs deep in America, as does the fear and hate that drives most of it. Any blows to the forehead would result in little behavioral change though, he has nothing to lose in the prefrontal area of the brain.

if we go..you go too.

 

[schuylaar]

Trump couldn't get up enough humanity after the MAGA bomber tried to murder Obama, there is no reason to expect him to show any for this.

what is..MAGA bomber who tried to murder Obama? I never heard of this.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

if we go..you go too.

Yep, that's one of the reasons I'm here, not that it makes any difference, but it feels good to shit on the bastards and it's the only way I can get at em! If America goes down we go down too, we're a bit like California, but with political independence but not economic. We are in bed with with an elephant and no matter how mild mannered the beast we are sensitive to every grunt and twitch. With Trump burning the shining city on the hill down to the ground we are gonna choke on smoke and have embers flying.

If Trump gets elected we will need a wall and will have to bribe Trump to get you to pay for it and hire a Canadian contractor to build it. We are gonna need a large public works project to help us recover and you might as well pay for it. It's easy when the POTUS is in yer pocket, dirt on Joe would clinch the deal for sure!

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

what is..MAGA bomber who tried to murder Obama? I never heard of this.

The guy with the stenciled on hair who was all gooned up on roids and had his van plastered with Trump shit.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

I'm afraid it's gonna be the summer of the "Ugly American" as far as international travel is concerned and they are shunned from many countries, I doubt if Mexico will want any! Even though there are immune people among them... If we don't get our act together soon they won't want any Canadians either! The passport will be an equal infection rate and sensible responsible action at home, I hear the Grand Canyon is rather nice...
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Will the global tourism industry survive the pandemic? I Inside Story

The global tourism industry has all but ground to a halt because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Most international flights have stopped and hotel bookings evaporated as countries closed their borders and imposed lockdowns.
That has put 100 million jobs at risk, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.
However, countries with falling infection rates are now planning to ease some of those restrictions.
They plan to encourage travellers and their cash to venture abroad again.
So what's the future of the tourism industry?