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Friday, July 3, 2020 10:11 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


"Trump’s Virus Is Spreading, and His Economy Is Stalling"

https://web.archive.org/web/20200703002205/https://www.nytimes.com/202
0/07/02/opinion/trump-covid-economy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage


It's not Trump's virus, and it's everyone's economy.

Asshole.

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Saturday, July 4, 2020 5:54 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


According to Trump officials and sycophants, we were supposed to be seeing a fading pandemic and a roaring recovery. Instead, we have a fading recovery and a roaring pandemic.

Vice President Mike Pence wrote an article titled “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave.’” The Pence article cheerily declared that “cases have stabilized,” with the daily average number of new cases only 20,000. Since then, however, new cases have soared, hitting more than 50,000.

The thing is, Covid-19’s resurgence was utterly predictable — and predicted. When Donald Trump declared that we would “transition to greatness” — which is to say, rush to reopen the economy despite a still-rampant pandemic — epidemiologists warned that this could set off a new wave of infections. They were right.

And economists warned that while relaxing social distancing would lead to a brief period of job growth, these gains would be short-lived, that premature reopening would be self-defeating even in economic terms. They were also right. A variety of real-time indicators suggest that the recovery has stalled or even gone backward. Indeed, things started falling apart even before states began reversing some of their previous moves to reopen. Fear of infection will do that: Many people will avoid going out whatever their governors may say.

Activities we could have safely resumed two months ago, when infection rates were low, aren’t safe to continue given today’s much higher Covid-19 prevalence. That is, we’re in worse shape, even economically, than we would have been if Trump and his allies had taken the pandemic seriously early on.

The really frightening aspect about where we are is that Trump and his people don’t seem to have learned anything from their coronavirus debacle. On Wednesday — Wednesday! — Trump insisted, as he has at every stage of the pandemic, that the coronavirus will “sort of just disappear.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20200703002205/https://www.nytimes.com/202
0/07/02/opinion/trump-covid-economy.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, July 4, 2020 10:22 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Wrong.



But good on you for linking archive.org.

Some websites archive.org isn't allowing you to archive anymore. Use archive.today if they block the site.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, July 4, 2020 3:33 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wrong.

After several months of mixed messages on the coronavirus pandemic, the White House is settling on a new one: Learn to live with it. On Thursday, the United States reported more than 55,000 new cases of coronavirus and infection rates were hitting new records in multiple states.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/we-need-live-it-white-house-rea
dies-new-message-nation-n1232884


Much of the public can't imagine the scale of either medical intervention or fiscal stimulus that other countries undertook as a matter of course. It would have required strong leadership from the federal government to overcome America’s cultural challenges. Instead, the Trump administration actively downplayed the threat of the virus, hoping to minimize even a temporary economic impact. They polarized Republican America against taking necessary measures.

Now? They’re just giving up. Faced with the reality that truly defeating the virus would require mobilization of medical resources, contact tracing and social assistance that Republicans simply will not tolerate, the Trump administration has declared defeat. The president himself is still engaged in wishful thinking that the virus will simply magically disappear. The rest of the Republican leadership is assuming that people will be desperate enough to go to work and live their normal lives even if it means possibly killing themselves and vulnerable people around them, or becoming violently ill for weeks with possible lifelong health repercussions.

America, with four percent of the world’s population, has 25 percent of the cases of the disease. (25 percent of deaths, too, 132K US deaths to 525K World deaths) And the president of the United States is simply giving up because it would too politically inconvenient to do anything else.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/07/04/the-trump-administration-is-g
iving-up-on-fighting-the-pandemic
/


https://www.bradford-delong.com/2020/05/worst-coronavirus-response-in-
the-world-by-the-most-incompetent-ignorant-and-undisciplined-president-imaginable-donald-tru.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, July 4, 2020 10:08 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


OK Karen.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Monday, July 6, 2020 6:40 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
"Trump’s Virus Is Spreading, and His Economy Is Stalling"

https://web.archive.org/web/20200703002205/https://www.nytimes.com/202
0/07/02/opinion/trump-covid-economy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage


It's not Trump's virus, and it's everyone's economy.

Asshole.

What kind of retardation did you EXPECT from NYT?

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Monday, July 6, 2020 7:11 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
What kind of retardation did you EXPECT from NYT?

Trump is the idiot.
The USA is doing badly because Trump is in charge and making it worse everyday:

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?casesMetric=true&
amp;dailyFreq=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&country=USA~CAN~AUS~DEU~FRA&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, July 6, 2020 7:24 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
What kind of retardation did you EXPECT from NYT?

When did America start losing its war against the coronavirus? How did we find ourselves international pariahs, not even allowed to travel to Europe?

I’d suggest that the turning point was way back on April 17, the day that Donald Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MINNESOTA,” followed by “LIBERATE MICHIGAN” and “LIBERATE VIRGINIA.” In so doing, he effectively declared White House support for protesters demanding an end to the lockdowns governors had instituted to bring Covid-19 under control.

As it happens, the Democratic governors Trump was targeting in those tweets stood firm. But Republican governors in Arizona, Florida, Texas and elsewhere soon lifted stay-at-home orders and ended many restrictions on business operations. They also, following Trump’s lead, refused to require that people wear masks, and Texas and Arizona denied local governments the right to impose such requirements. They waved away warnings from health experts that premature and careless reopening could lead to a new wave of infections.

And the virus came.

Those anti-lockdown demonstrations weren’t spontaneous, grass-roots affairs. Many were organized and coordinated by conservative political activists, some with close ties to the Trump campaign, and financed in part by right-wing billionaires.

The main driving force behind reopening was the administration’s desire to have big job gains leading into November, so that it could do what it knew how to do — boast about economic success. Actually dealing with the pandemic just wasn’t Trump’s kind of thing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200706231617/www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/
opinion/covid-19-trump.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, July 6, 2020 8:11 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

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When did America start losing its war against the coronavirus?



Never.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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