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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[josh]

https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20200301/update-man-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-after-saint-raphael-academy-field-trip-to-europe-students-chaperones-on-trip-quarantined

Yeah, we sure have this under control!

Nothing to worry about.

(But just because we are concerned about this is no reason to stop being concerned about the terrorists - after all, New Jersey has acknowledged the white supremacists are as dangerous to them as ISIS.)

[josh]

We should be scared shitless of this disease but not of terrorist activity.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/opinions/trump-downplay-coronavirus-ghitis/index.html

The economy will be affected. Even if the virus had stayed in China, it would have been, but it's now in dozens of countries and the control over it is a lot less than needed to keep it from spreading.

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20200301/update-man-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-after-saint-raphael-academy-field-trip-to-europe-students-chaperones-on-trip-quarantined

Yeah, we sure have this under control!

Nothing to worry about.

You are a sad, sick human.

[REDSTATEWARD]

South Bend Pete drops out of the democrat race.

[REDSTATEWARD]

We should be scared shitless of this disease but not of terrorist activity.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/opinions/trump-downplay-coronavirus-ghitis/index.html

The economy will be affected. Even if the virus had stayed in China, it would have been, but it's now in dozens of countries and the control over it is a lot less than needed to keep it from spreading.

What’s your advice?

[kiidcarter8]

I like when the writers use the world COULD so adeptly

"This COULD be Trump's black swan........"

Can't be wrong.  And if he loses you can pat yourself on the rump.

[kiidcarter8]

Mike's not planning to spend money on anybody but Mike and anti-Trump between now and the convention, last I heard.

Have you heard otherwise?

Well, yes - in fact I have heard others PRESUME - as I stated.

[barton]

 

We should be scared shitless of this disease but not of terrorist activity.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/opinions/trump-downplay-coronavirus-ghitis/index.html

The economy will be affected. Even if the virus had stayed in China, it would have been, but it's now in dozens of countries and the control over it is a lot less than needed to keep it from spreading.

What’s your advice?

Mine would be task forces staffed and run by epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists,  not some dimwit from Indiana who thought his personal religious pieties were good public policy thus blocking syringe exchange programs for years until it blew up in his face and he quickly covered his ass with a sudden volte face.   

[kiidcarter8]

Pence's views on sharing needles has little to do with how well he would organize a group to fight this corona virus crisis on US soil.  I think you are smart enough to know this, Barton.  You'd have appeared all the wiser if you'd have gone against the flow of your mates on this one.

[josh]

Mike's not planning to spend money on anybody but Mike and anti-Trump between now and the convention, last I heard.

Have you heard otherwise?

Well, yes - in fact I have heard others PRESUME - as I stated.

And failed to substantiate, making it innuendo from you, not fact. Not even opinion.

[REDSTATEWARD]

We should be scared shitless of this disease but not of terrorist activity.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/opinions/trump-downplay-coronavirus-ghitis/index.html

The economy will be affected. Even if the virus had stayed in China, it would have been, but it's now in dozens of countries and the control over it is a lot less than needed to keep it from spreading.

What’s your advice?

Mine would be task forces staffed and run by epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists,  not some dimwit from Indiana who thought his personal religious pieties were good public policy thus blocking syringe exchange programs for years until it blew up in his face and he quickly covered his ass with a sudden volte face.

How would that have changed anything so far?

[josh]

Pence's views on sharing needles has little to do with how well he would organize a group to fight this corona virus crisis on US soil.  I think you are smart enough to know this, Barton.  You'd have appeared all the wiser if you'd have gone against the flow of your mates on this one.

No, actually, Pence's views on religion and on science have much to do with how well he would organize a group to do MEDICAL research, containment, and treatment.

And Pence's views (and his boss's) on government covers the rest of it - the muzzling of government scientists is likely responsible for the fact that the CDC is not promulgating information about extant cases in the US to doctors who are newly dealing with patients who've been freshly diagnosed.

Kid, you accused me of being "one sick human" for my providing an example that our president LIED and lies to the public about this disease and our nation's situation.

YOU, Kid. You are sick in your blind faith in Trump and Pence when they have demonstrated repeatedly that the one is a pathological liar with little ability to handle a crisis and the other has no understanding of science or how scientists work. Nor could he even bring himself to admit that the Democrats in Congress are not hoping for the deaths of millions, instead defending Donnie Jr, claiming that that was not a political statement.

Yeah, if I get sick, it will be because this president and this VP grossly underestimated the novel coronavirus and failed in their jobs, while not heeding what the CDC, WHO, and NIH told them.

[josh]

We should be scared shitless of this disease but not of terrorist activity.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/opinions/trump-downplay-coronavirus-ghitis/index.html

The economy will be affected. Even if the virus had stayed in China, it would have been, but it's now in dozens of countries and the control over it is a lot less than needed to keep it from spreading.

What’s your advice?

Mine would be task forces staffed and run by epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists,  not some dimwit from Indiana who thought his personal religious pieties were good public policy thus blocking syringe exchange programs for years until it blew up in his face and he quickly covered his ass with a sudden volte face.

How would that have changed anything so far?

It might have meant we had trained, equipped people handling the retrieval of folks from overseas instead of people with zero knowledge or equipment doing it.

It might have meant we started producing and distributing testing kits faster.

And if Trump had not canned so much of our international pandemic team to start with, this might have been being studied a lot faster here.

Not that you care about facts or logic, just asking inane questions.

But in addition to having an appropriate medical team to handle this, he might also have had a better economic team in place to discuss what the public should or should not do in the face of likely economic problems arising from the slowing world economy and other ripple effects from the virus.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Pence's views on sharing needles has little to do with how well he would organize a group to fight this corona virus crisis on US soil.  I think you are smart enough to know this, Barton.  You'd have appeared all the wiser if you'd have gone against the flow of your mates on this one.

No, actually, Pence's views on religion and on science have much to do with how well he would organize a group to do MEDICAL research, containment, and treatment.

Pence was not asked nor does he have any power to organize a group to do MEDICAL research, containment, and treatment.

[josh]

"We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we are ordering a lot of different elements of medical."

~President Donald J. Trump