OT: All Things Coronavirus Covid-19 - Part XI - MOD ADVISORY POST 1

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[Maine Fan]

What a mess the United States is in, the WH is all over the place, National test is a farce and funds for the States are a battle. It is conflict after conflict. Lie after lie. Inaccurate information and data after erroneous details and data.

Just get up, go about your day without listening or reading the news, go to bed.

America, we need Change.

We have the Coronavirus, the Donald J. Trump virus, and the Pre Donald J. Trump virus.

After we solve the Coronavirus with a national vaccine. When Donald J. Trump is replaced on January 20, 2021, and that virus is finished. Hopefully, we can start, as a Nation, fixing the Pre Donald J. Trump virus with honesty and full cooperation of all Americans.

The Coronavirus will be with us forever. It will take years to undo the damage done by Donald J. Trump to America. It will be a never-ending job undoing all the wrongs in America before Donald J. Trump, which negatively affected all Americans.

 

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Not a Joke: The Trump Admin Hired a Dog Breeder to Run Its Coronavirus Task Force

Don’t worry, Brian Harrison also has virtually no public health experience.

The unfortunate thing about the Trump administration, beyond the nepotism, incompetence, mass corruption, idiot kids, white nationalism, wholesale assault on the concept of truth, and pure evil, is that oftentimes it’s beyond parody.

For instance, we already knew the federal government’s response to the coronavirus crisis has been catastrophically bad, from the months of insisting the virus was fake news, to a criminal lack of early—and current!—testing, to listening to Dr. Jared Kushner’s advice on the matter, to pushing for a dangerously premature reopening of the country.

But despite everything we know, it would just be too much to learn that, at one point, a dog breeder was running the administration’s coronavirus task force. And yet!
Reuters reports the nearly impossible-to-believe news that back in January, Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar “tapped a trusted aide with minimal public health experience to lead the agency’s day-to-day response to COVID-19.”

The aide was Brian Harrison, 37, and the move was somewhat surprising, given that prior to joining the administration in 2018 as Azar’s deputy chief of staff, he spent six years running a company called Dallas Labradoodles, which is not, in fact, some kind of code name for a firm doing cutting-edge medical research or developing vaccines or doing anything remotely related to humans. Instead, Dallas Labradoodles, which Harrison sold for $225,000 in April 2018, pretty much does exactly what you’d expect: sells Australian Labradoodles, which are a cross between poodles and Labrador retrievers.

Which are actually quite cute dogs! They are supposedly “friendly, social, loyal, loving, smart, curious, and happy”! Which is nice for the people adopting them, though less helpful vis-à-vis the pandemic that has killed more than 47,000 Americans to date and infected over 850,000! Funny how that works!

Not a Joke: The Trump Admin Hired a Dog Breeder to Run Its Coronavirus Task Force

 

[Maine Fan]

The number of cases of Coronavirus on Military bases are not being reported.

 

[DaveFromNB]

The Canadian politicians can certainly receive criticism. We don't have a lot of respect for politicians, and although it is not as strong as the Republican/Democrat divide, we do have people entrenched in their parties who will always criticize their foes. But they seem to be doing the best they can, trying to base decisions on science, trying to work together at all levels, even trying to work together between all parties. Results are inconsistent, Ontario and Quebec in particular are having a real bad time of it, in spite of everyone working hard.

Watching the richest, most powerful nation on earth, full of the best scientists and organizations like the CDC with this performance, its just a horrifying Gong Show.

 

[Eddie Munson]

The Canadian politicians can certainly receive criticism. We don't have a lot of respect for politicians, and although it is not as strong as the Republican/Democrat divide, we do have people entrenched in their parties who will always criticize their foes. But they seem to be doing the best they can, trying to base decisions on science, trying to work together at all levels, even trying to work together between all parties. Results are inconsistent, Ontario and Quebec in particular are having a real bad time of it, in spite of everyone working hard.

Watching the richest, most powerful nation on earth, full of the best scientists and organizations like the CDC with this performance, its just a horrifying Gong Show.

Hubris is a dangerous disease.

This is a wake up call to America that things are so broken behind the scenes that we need to really think about meaningful change on so many levels: health care, education, social safety nets.

Still, I challenge the guy in charge. Make America Great Again? Finally....... here’s your chance.

 

[caz16]

The Canadian politicians can certainly receive criticism. We don't have a lot of respect for politicians, and although it is not as strong as the Republican/Democrat divide, we do have people entrenched in their parties who will always criticize their foes. But they seem to be doing the best they can, trying to base decisions on science, trying to work together at all levels, even trying to work together between all parties. Results are inconsistent, Ontario and Quebec in particular are having a real bad time of it, in spite of everyone working hard.

Watching the richest, most powerful nation on earth, full of the best scientists and organizations like the CDC with this performance, its just a horrifying Gong Show.

I agree, in Canada I think they are all working together as best they can under these circumstances. I didn't like the road Canadian politics was going down at all. I am glad that Trudeau ended up at the top when all hell broke loose though, I was not a supporter of him in general, and while I am highly critical of Ford here in Ontario, he has actually done a full about turn and is doing everything he can to save lives. It is quite incredible because prior to this, Ford supported Trump & praised him, now he has nothing good to say about him at all.

 

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Home Alone at the White House: A Sour President, With TV His Constant Companion

As his administration grapples with reopening the economy and responding to the coronavirus crisis, President Trump worries about his re-election and how the news media is portraying him.

WASHINGTON — President Trump arrives in the Oval Office these days as late as noon, when he is usually in a sour mood after his morning marathon of television.

He has been up in the White House master bedroom as early as 5 a.m. watching Fox News, then CNN, with a dollop of MSNBC thrown in for rage viewing. He makes calls with the TV on in the background, his routine since he first arrived at the White House.

But now there are differences.
The president sees few allies no matter which channel he clicks. He is angry even with Fox, an old security blanket, for not portraying him as he would like to be seen. And he makes time to watch Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s briefings from New York, closely monitoring for a sporadic compliment or snipe.

Confined to the White House, the president is isolated from the supporters, visitors, travel and golf that once entertained him, according to more than a dozen administration officials and close advisers who spoke about Mr. Trump’s strange new life. He is tested weekly, as is Vice President Mike Pence, for Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

Home Alone at the White House: A Sour President, With TV His Constant Companion

 

[LSCII]

Not a Joke: The Trump Admin Hired a Dog Breeder to Run Its Coronavirus Task Force

Don’t worry, Brian Harrison also has virtually no public health experience.

The unfortunate thing about the Trump administration, beyond the nepotism, incompetence, mass corruption, idiot kids, white nationalism, wholesale assault on the concept of truth, and pure evil, is that oftentimes it’s beyond parody.

For instance, we already knew the federal government’s response to the coronavirus crisis has been catastrophically bad, from the months of insisting the virus was fake news, to a criminal lack of early—and current!—testing, to listening to Dr. Jared Kushner’s advice on the matter, to pushing for a dangerously premature reopening of the country.

But despite everything we know, it would just be too much to learn that, at one point, a dog breeder was running the administration’s coronavirus task force. And yet!
Reuters reports the nearly impossible-to-believe news that back in January, Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar “tapped a trusted aide with minimal public health experience to lead the agency’s day-to-day response to COVID-19.”

The aide was Brian Harrison, 37, and the move was somewhat surprising, given that prior to joining the administration in 2018 as Azar’s deputy chief of staff, he spent six years running a company called Dallas Labradoodles, which is not, in fact, some kind of code name for a firm doing cutting-edge medical research or developing vaccines or doing anything remotely related to humans. Instead, Dallas Labradoodles, which Harrison sold for $225,000 in April 2018, pretty much does exactly what you’d expect: sells Australian Labradoodles, which are a cross between poodles and Labrador retrievers.

Which are actually quite cute dogs! They are supposedly “friendly, social, loyal, loving, smart, curious, and happy”! Which is nice for the people adopting them, though less helpful vis-à-vis the pandemic that has killed more than 47,000 Americans to date and infected over 850,000! Funny how that works!

Not a Joke: The Trump Admin Hired a Dog Breeder to Run Its Coronavirus Task Force

So a dog breeder is running the coronavirus task force now and a homeland security director with a BS in logistics and a MS in strategic intelligence is giving scientific presentation on sunlight and it's impact on the virus? And Larry Ellison of Oracle is pushing Trump to have people use hydroxychloroquine as a medical treatment?

I guess there's only one logical question to ask: What does the my pillow guy think of injecting rubbing alcohol? Does he think it will work?

I'm just happy that Dr. Seuss is dead, because I have a feeling that if he were still alive, he'd have been on this shit show of a task force. I mean crap, he is a doctor...

 

[DKH]

Radio stations are running public service announcements not to inject any type of disinfectant into your body.......WTF

 

[KrejciMVP]

I agree, in Canada I think they are all working together as best they can under these circumstances. I didn't like the road Canadian politics was going down at all. I am glad that Trudeau ended up at the top when all hell broke loose though, I was not a supporter of him in general, and while I am highly critical of Ford here in Ontario, he has actually done a full about turn and is doing everything he can to save lives. It is quite incredible because prior to this, Ford supported Trump & praised him, now he has nothing good to say about him at all.

Politics aside, Americans across the country are doing that too.

 

[Gee Wally]

Labradoodles are awesome dogs, if I could take five years of my life to bring that breed to life at it's absolute popularity peak BTW, I would.

That's his biggest knock, not that he isn't qualified from a business and organizational sense.

Not that he has experience with other White House Operations.

NOPE that moron was business savvy enough to rake in a ton of cash breeding awesome dogs at their peak!

Doodle Haters!

I've had two in my lifetime. Murray and Mia . Loved those dogs.

 

[Gonzothe7thDman]

The thing that worries me is that if you took 2015 me and showed them the headlines from the last 4 years I would assume there was some sort of revolt since we wouldn't put up with that sort of thing.

Instead I usually see a solid 40ish% approval rating. And theres a new outrageous headline every week.

Very eye opening.

 

[LSCII]

Labradoodles are awesome dogs, if I could take five years of my life to bring that breed to life at it's absolute popularity peak BTW, I would.

That's his biggest knock, not that he isn't qualified from a business and organizational sense.

Not that he has experience with other White House Operations.

NOPE that moron was business savvy enough to rake in a ton of cash breeding awesome dogs at their peak!

Doodle Haters!

First off, dogs are great, and I'd love to be in a position where I got to breed and play with them all day long instead of dealing with shitty people.

But being a businessman and an econ major in college absolutely does not qualify you to be in charge of a virus response team. You have no functional understanding of how the science behind the virus, it's testing, vaccines, how it's spread, what all the rates of infection mean, etc.., so right off the bat you're well behind and have a huge learning curve. If he had expertise in crisis management, that would at least be one positive, but no. He's just a businessman. It's great he was able to make a pile of money from selling his breeding business, but again, how does that translate to saving people's lives and containing a virulent virus like this?

I don't see it. And I think it's just another glaring example of the wrong people being appointed to key positions for the wrong reasons. For the record, I don't think Alex Azar has any business being the guy running HHS either because his background is econ and law, which has very little to do with health and human services.

 

[Gee Wally]

The thing that worries me is that if you took 2015 me and showed them the headlines from the last 4 years I would assume there was some sort of revolt since we wouldn't put up with that sort of thing.

Instead I usually see a solid 40ish% approval rating. And theres a new outrageous headline every week.

Very eye opening.

We've hit a point where people would rather believe in magic beans than admit they may be wrong.

 

[Gonzothe7thDman]

We've hit a point where people would rather believe in magic beans than admit they may be wrong.

Used to watch movies and would think that some of the antagonists were so over the top dirty/evil that there is no way they would exist in real life. I used to think we as a society wouldn't allow those kinds of things to happen or these type of people to be in power.

You see those Zombie movies and think there's no way people would be this dumb and get infected when they all know there is a deadly virus.

Then I see those protesters.

 

[Ladyfan]

I would love a reporter to just call him out. A moron idiot whatever they think is a good adjective to explain his insanity

I would love for NO ONE to show up at his daily trump idiot shows

 

[Spooner st]

Radio stations are running public service announcements not to inject any type of disinfectant into your body.......WTF

GFG

 

[caz16]

This is already on Lysol's website - I guess they can't just say "despite what the President of the United States" believes.... the bolded says it all, they have been asked about it. People are going to try it, you just know they will.

Frequently Asked Questions

Improper use of Disinfectants×
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As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion, or any other route). As with all products, our disinfectant and hygiene products should only be used as intended and in line with usage guidelines. Please read the label and safety information.
We have a responsibility in providing consumers with access to accurate, up-to-date information as advised by leading public health experts. For this and other myth-busting facts, please visit Covid-19facts.com.

 

[17of26]

Used to watch movies and would think that some of the antagonists were so over the top dirty/evil that there is no way they would exist in real life. I used to think we as a society wouldn't allow those kinds of things to happen or these type of people to be in power.

You see those Zombie movies and think there's no way people would be this dumb and get infected when they all know there is a deadly virus.

Then I see those protesters.

Or every disaster movie where the politicians ignore the scientists until it's too late.