Trump ignored repeated virus warnings in Jan. and Feb.: US media
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Via: buzz-of-the-orient • 6 years ago • 44 commentsBy: msn news - No Author Indicated
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Trump ignored repeated virus warnings in Jan. and Feb.: US media
President Donald Trump was repeatedly warned about the dangers of the coronavirus in January and February, US media said.
The warnings were made in “more than a dozen classified briefings” known as the President's Daily Brief, The Washington Post reported late Monday.
Trump is under fire for publicly downplaying the threat of the pandemic when it broke out in the US in late February, and his handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
The Post said the president had received multiple heads-up about the looming catastrophe as the coronavirus started to spread, but failed to mobilize for a major pandemic.
Officials told the Post that Trump often does not read the briefings and bristles at having to listen to oral summaries.
For weeks, the president’s Daily Briefs traced the spread of the virus and mentioned the frightful political and economic consequences, The Washington Post said.
Trump claimed in late February that coronavirus cases would soon “be down to close to zero,” and did not declare a national emergency over the pandemic until the end of March, as virus cases were on the rise in New York and the stock market nosedived.
The US president’s disregard for the intelligence community’s warnings has now resulted in tens of thousands of American deaths, a battered economy, nationwide lockdowns and overwhelmed hospitals.
Senior US intelligence officials told TIME in 2019 that Trump often has a “stubborn disregard for their assessments” when presented with their analyses, particularly when it comes to anything that goes against his existing beliefs.
US virus cases nearing one million
The US recorded 1,303 more virus deaths in the 24 hours to late Monday, with confirmed cases nearing one million, according to figures reported by the Johns Hopkins University.
The country now has an overall death toll of 56,144, with 987,022 infections. At least 111,109 people have recovered.
As states of Colorado, Minnesota, Mississippi and Tennessee were among the latest states to ease pandemic shutdowns, governor of New York, America's coronavirus epicenter, signaled that even limited restarting of business activities was at least weeks away as hospitalization rates are still high.
New York recorded more than 17,300 COVID-19 deaths out of almost 292,000 confirmed infections as of early Tuesday morning.
Trump, who is seeking reelection in November, said he expected to see US schools reopen before the end of the school year, “even if it's for a very short time.”
Business shutdowns have led to a record 26.5 million Americans losing their jobs since mid-March, with the Trump administration projecting that the jobless rate will likely hit 16% or more in April.
Almost a third of all US adults have already reported seeing their jobs or finances diminished by the coronavirus, according to a Gallup survey released on Monday.
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Let me make it perfectly clear that I do not deny China's cover-ups and delays concerning the virus, but on the other hand, people in glass houses should not throw stones (unless, of course, it is meant to deflect blame to another in order to not affect Trump's chances for reelection).
Yea, so many crying about China's higherarchy Lying, all while
WE have the LIAR in Chief, screaming at what's
up chuck, besides more than throw in up
hands ,\down
the biggliest
GOOD GRIEF
Charlie Brown,
what the Hell is up with the Lying Orange Clown...grabbin Snoopy's bitch, like it's just another scratch to itch, rattin out his cronies cause he's the loan ranger, he;ll never pay back, or interest in/on.
.
He has allowed, in real hoax life time, the death of perfectly avoidable American citizens, ALL due to his obsession with his power, and re-election campain N sufferin inflicted upon US citizens, that he prefers divided, while his parents should have never had permission to multiply, cause, what a guy.
What a Dick
such an embarrassment
unstable NOT Genius
but,
how bout that hair... ?
or
how bout if f'n Trump gave a care
about more than hair, and heir, and Air..
cause, he has sucked it out of ventilators, while never venting
the hollow cranium that used to house a garage door opener that would never close, till closing was opened
to new idear ?
under the renbow
gibbity gertity
hollerin at the mowntan
goats
Because that's what people assumed, or at least hoped. They didn't realize there was community spread happening anywhere in America until February 26. At the time, Nancy Pelosi and others were encouraging people to go out and live life normally, interacting with people.
Travel restrictions from China, intended to limit the spread of the disease, were effective February 2. And while they weren't total, they were the most restrictive such restriction in about 50 years. The restrictions were in line with expert recommendations.
Well, that's kind of a lie and pretty easy to check. First of all, Trump's Department of Health and Human Services declared a Public Health Emergency on January 31. Trump, himself, declared a national emergency on March 13. I don't think any reasonable person would call that the "end of March."
The first case in NY wasn't even identified until March 1. On March 2, the mayor told people to ignore the virus and go on with their lives. On March 3, the city Commissioner of Health said the same thing.
There is a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on with this pandemic. Acting like everyone saw this coming in January or February and only Trump blew it off is just telling lies.
only play Monday mornin quarter back up front, a third of the time, Wednesday mourning
i was a fullback of BBQ rib rack when i looked back at pandemic
Well yes, many DID WARN of a quite possible pandemic, back in January and or February
one might have possibly glanced at China, then Europe.
"and only Trump blew it off is just telling lies."
F Trump, could bother to have someone read to him the warnings that \it is reported were explained to him at intelligence briefings, but Trump preferred to not heed or b\e\lieve , as he consistently proves he doesn't
doesn't even attempt
to LEARN, then,
to accuse others
of telling lies in a potential death sentence sentence
is quite the irony
Then WHY did US Senators start selling stocks after the Jan. 24th Senate briefing? Sure as hell doesn't look like they were told to 'assume' that there was even a 'hope' that is was just going to blow over or magically disappear. In Sen. Kelly Loeffler's case, she started to sell THAT DAY.
I don’t know. Why does the phone always ring when you’re in the shower?
If you have a point of your own to make, why don’t you make it instead of asking questions that have nothing to do with anything I said and expecting me to make your point for you?
Because the radical playbook says to argue something your opponent never said.The funny thing is they usually lose that argument, too.
Your inability to see a connection is on you.
What connection?
No it actually isn’t. I am not responsible for your inability to communicate. I’m not surprised you want to blame the emptiness of your comments on me, though.
I communicated my point just fine. You just refuse to accept that your claim that 'people assumed or at least hoped' that the 'coronavirus cases would soon “be down to close to zero' is belied by the FACT that our IC were briefing the Senate and the Administration in JANUARY that it a pandemic was eminent and that there is overwhelming evidence that Senators took personal financial actions based on those JANUARY briefings and that Trump's actions were and have continued to be too little, too late.
Lots of talk about ignored info. No talk of how anything Trump did, or did not do, would have had an impact. Shit, if we are going to promote New York's numbers, why isn't a portion of this article dedicated to De Blasio's tweet, in March, encouraging people to go out on the town? I'll answer that. Because it wasn't Trump.
The only thing that would have possibly had an impact is an immediate and complete shut down...in January. That wasn't going to happen.
Cuomo mid-March.
Cuomo, March 1 tweet. "The general risk remains low in New York." Apparently not.
There is, but it’s all wild claims rooted in politics and they can’t possibly be proven one way or the other.
The best kind of claim for politicians.
Ya, cuz everyone looks to Ted Cruz for leadership,
!
And can't you take a minute to clean up your C/P's ? It's not that hard.