straightstreet
Life is better in flip flops
I agree. Somber. Like he's speaking at a funeral.
CORONA POTUS is SCHEDULED to gather his dogs and ponies for the daily CV Update at 5:00 PM EDT today
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The Hammer
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Very understandable. We're all feeling worn down by the constant drumbeat - imagine how that must multiply for those on the front lines and in charge of leading the federal response...
The Hammer
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Birx looks very tired, stressed, and concerned. They're all on the somber side.
To sum it up so far, if we continue (and do even better) with the social distancing and measures we are doing, we can keep what's happening in New York City from happening in most other states. Still, 100,000 deaths possible in that scenario. But if we do even better, the number could go much lower. If we don't keep these measures, it could get much worse.
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The Traveler
Veteran Member
To me Pence looks pissed. I mean really pissed.
For the 20 yrs I have been on this forum, I have been told that our economy was a mirage. And I would look out my window, see new cars driving up and down the street and pretty girls walking on sidewalks newly built in front of new apartment buildings. Some mirage.
auxman
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit...
The Hammer
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Fauci also said that doesn't mean we should accept that number as inevitable and said we would work as hard as possible to make it significantly lower.
Bps1691
Veteran Member
Reporters hung up on the estimate of 100,000 to 200,000 deaths in USA from this pestilence with full mitigation (quarantines and businesses shut downs).
... 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications 2016-2017 flu season
… 100,000 Americans died of flu or complications 1967-68 season
… 116,000 Americans died of flu or complications 1957-58 season
… 675,000 Americans dies of the 1918-19 Spanish Flu - the disease's highest know death toll
And before some of you flame me, I know this isn't the Flu ok, just using these as a reference base to put CONVID-19 estimated deaths into perspective.
... 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications 2016-2017 flu season
… 100,000 Americans died of flu or complications 1967-68 season
… 116,000 Americans died of flu or complications 1957-58 season
… 675,000 Americans dies of the 1918-19 Spanish Flu - the disease's highest know death toll
And before some of you flame me, I know this isn't the Flu ok, just using these as a reference base to put CONVID-19 estimated deaths into perspective.
library lady
Veteran Member
Poor Dr. Birx--she just said there are half a million tests out in the states that are not even being used. She says doctors have already gotten used to newly introduced Roche laboratory tests and are not pivoting to the even newer Abbott tests.
Dobbin
Faithful Steed
Looking for ammunition to shoot at Trump when Congress goes to Impeachment2.0
Same motivation for "Where are all the tests" question.
Dobbin
I wish I could arm-twist everyone here to invest an hour to listen to this presentation...
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpA7nf3sibM
[CCP Virus] Virologist Steven Hatfill: Virus Origin, Local Government Failure & Guarding Your Health
RT 1:15:21
KEY POINTS OF INTEREST
02:07 Breaking down America’s pandemic preparations, and how many local governments failed to do their part
10:24 What are the origins of the coronavirus?
17:44 Impact of the Chinese regime’s cover-up and suppression of information on coronavirus
40:09 Should people be panicking? How severe is the situation really?
47:01 How important is social distancing?
51:03 Are masks effective?
1:01:04 Are drugs like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine a good idea?
1:10:12 How should the world prepare for future pandemics?
Through the eyes of virologist and professor of medicine Dr. Steven Hatfill, how did the Chinese Communist Party’s weeks-long cover-up of coronavirus, or CCP virus, contribute to the global pandemic? What are the likely origins of the virus? What structural problems have inhibited the US response? And how serious is CCP virus in the US? What’s in store for the near future?
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Steven Hatfill, a physician, virologist, bio-weapons expert, and an adjunct professor of emergency medicine at George Washington University Medical Center. He has studied the Ebola, Marburg, and Monkeypox viruses at the US Army Institute for Infectious Diseases, and he is the co-author of the prescient book on pandemics, “Three Seconds Until Midnight.”
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[CCP Virus] Virologist Steven Hatfill: Virus Origin, Local Government Failure & Guarding Your Health
RT 1:15:21
KEY POINTS OF INTEREST
02:07 Breaking down America’s pandemic preparations, and how many local governments failed to do their part
10:24 What are the origins of the coronavirus?
17:44 Impact of the Chinese regime’s cover-up and suppression of information on coronavirus
40:09 Should people be panicking? How severe is the situation really?
47:01 How important is social distancing?
51:03 Are masks effective?
1:01:04 Are drugs like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine a good idea?
1:10:12 How should the world prepare for future pandemics?
Through the eyes of virologist and professor of medicine Dr. Steven Hatfill, how did the Chinese Communist Party’s weeks-long cover-up of coronavirus, or CCP virus, contribute to the global pandemic? What are the likely origins of the virus? What structural problems have inhibited the US response? And how serious is CCP virus in the US? What’s in store for the near future?
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Steven Hatfill, a physician, virologist, bio-weapons expert, and an adjunct professor of emergency medicine at George Washington University Medical Center. He has studied the Ebola, Marburg, and Monkeypox viruses at the US Army Institute for Infectious Diseases, and he is the co-author of the prescient book on pandemics, “Three Seconds Until Midnight.”
jed turtle
a brother in the Lord
Yes, that was very disturbing that the camera refused to focus on the charts.
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Dobbin
Faithful Steed
Doomer Doug
TB Fanatic
I watched it for a while until I couldn't stand the bs and drivel. For whatever reason Tump continues to act like Junior Emperor Xi the Merciless is our buddy, and "I called him and we had a great talk yadda yadda yada." Then he defers to VP Pence and they talk about Florida's De Santis and how great he is and doing a great job despite letting hordes of students party on the beaches etc. I just had to stop watching Trump at that point. He did show some emotion about sick people and he is dealing with a feral pack of dogs known as the dc press corpse.
I got a survey from in the mail yesterday from Trump I filled out, even wrote a $25 check. Likely all 12 Trump supporters in Portland got one.
I got a survey from in the mail yesterday from Trump I filled out, even wrote a $25 check. Likely all 12 Trump supporters in Portland got one.
Dobbin
Faithful Steed
Tweakette
Irrelevant
I think what is happening in NY is hitting Trump personally, in the feelz .
As a native New Yorker, I know what that feels like. 9/11 wasn't just a national crisis, it was personal for me, far more than the Pentagon was.
Same with this thing. I was born in Manhattan, at Mt Sinai, which now has patient pods in their lobby and refrigerated morgue trucks in front of it.
My dad and my sister were born in South Nassau Hospital, now owned by Mt Sinai and very near where my mother still lives. My dad was treated for pancreatic cancer there and I spent 5 months there on and off with him.
I was there when I broke my leg at age 13, for a week.
That hospital was all over Fox News today because of the tents out front and the patient load inside.
Today was a very hard day for me. I don't live there anymore but I am still a New Yorker and always will be. We're not all assholes either. heh.
I think Trump is getting hit like I am. His childhood hospital, Elmhurst, is a war zone. A friend of his is in a coma from this , it sounds like.
Yes, he is the leader of the free world, and this national emergency is his to manage. But I also think that sometime in the last few days it became very very personal for him.
As a native New Yorker, I know what that feels like. 9/11 wasn't just a national crisis, it was personal for me, far more than the Pentagon was.
Same with this thing. I was born in Manhattan, at Mt Sinai, which now has patient pods in their lobby and refrigerated morgue trucks in front of it.
My dad and my sister were born in South Nassau Hospital, now owned by Mt Sinai and very near where my mother still lives. My dad was treated for pancreatic cancer there and I spent 5 months there on and off with him.
I was there when I broke my leg at age 13, for a week.
That hospital was all over Fox News today because of the tents out front and the patient load inside.
Today was a very hard day for me. I don't live there anymore but I am still a New Yorker and always will be. We're not all assholes either. heh.
I think Trump is getting hit like I am. His childhood hospital, Elmhurst, is a war zone. A friend of his is in a coma from this , it sounds like.
Yes, he is the leader of the free world, and this national emergency is his to manage. But I also think that sometime in the last few days it became very very personal for him.
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
WHY CANT ANTIBODIES FROM SURVIVORS OF COVID-19 BE GROWN LIKE OTHER CULTIVATED CELLS GROWN IN TANKS?
Tweakette
Irrelevant
Today's presser seems more about how they are saying things rather than what they are saying . Very very sombre, all of them. And standing pretty far apart.
Dobbin
Faithful Steed
Reporter query "what if social distancing had been mandated earlier - would it have saved lives?"
Even this horse knows earlier is better - this a question calculated to put pressure on Trump.
Dr. Birx up now - explaining "confidence interval" which is the downside of starting too early. (what if you social distance too early - and potentially without reason?)
Dobbin
Even this horse knows earlier is better - this a question calculated to put pressure on Trump.
Dr. Birx up now - explaining "confidence interval" which is the downside of starting too early. (what if you social distance too early - and potentially without reason?)
Dobbin
Tristan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
What the reporters are really hung up on is finding the "Gotcha!" that they can attack the administration with.
Tristan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Yeah, the 'Goal' is to reduce the deaths to 100-200k.
I'm thinking the tweeter who posted that was a twit.
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Tristan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I wish he had taken it 'personal' at least a couple weeks earlier, but otherwise I think they're trying hard to thread the needle...
Kim99
Veteran Member
Of course. But it sounded like there would be important new guidelines presented today. I haven’t seen anyone mention that.
Kim99
Veteran Member
Jim Acosta. Enough said.
Ain't is female. She calls herself the bitchy granny on occasion.
You answered your own question. The media has been their shills. The media will remain their shills. The media, just like the NBA, kiss China's butt for economic reasons.
AlfaMan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I love my president and love the job he's doing with this press conference. He is genuinely trying to do the best he can; he's got good folks working with him. And he's facing 100k to 200k deaths projected. So yeah I can understand his somber tone. He's doing the best he can. We're all in this fight together is the message he's promoting, he's handling this very well.
But I'd SURE rather see him cutting loose at a Trump rally.
If you want a real nightmare scenario-think if Hillary or Osama were president, trying to handle this situation. I honestly think if they were in power; we would all pray!!! for only 100k to 200k dead. Neither one of them could manage their way out of a wet paper bag.
But I'd SURE rather see him cutting loose at a Trump rally.
If you want a real nightmare scenario-think if Hillary or Osama were president, trying to handle this situation. I honestly think if they were in power; we would all pray!!! for only 100k to 200k dead. Neither one of them could manage their way out of a wet paper bag.
Totally uncalled for.