For Trump the Optics of how things look is everything.
*** Storytelling and Stories
Trump protects his money, power and image that is all that ever matters here.
People can just go on and drop dead.
- 2020 Democrats get a bill passed to give everyone COVID-19 testing for free and hospital care w/o insurance
- The final House vote on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 took place on Oct. 3, 2008. The bill passed, 263-171.
- PERFECT OPTICS
Trump has granted pardons or clemency to a number of people in recent weeks, including former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward J. DeBartolo Jr. and former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernard Kerik. There had been speculation that the president could pardon Flynn, as well as former associate Roger Stone, who was sentenced in February to 40 months in prison
The U.S. Isn’t Ready for a Global Pandemic
WHY WEREN’T WE READY?
PROOF OF SABOTAGE
BECAUSE TRUMP BLEW IT
Obama anointed a former vice presidential staffer, Ronald Klain, as an “epidemic czar” inside the White House, who defined the roles and budgets of various agencies, and placed incident commanders in charge.
OPTICS
*** Storytelling and Stories Trump – “I didn’t do it”
Trump protects his money, power and image that is all that ever matters here.
People can just go on and drop dead.
Yes TRUMP did do it! #TrumpPlague
Rich People Have Always Been Assholes During Plagues
British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read
Trump sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response, Trump fired the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs. There was NO clear chain of command for a pandemic response.
WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW NOW
The office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was scheduled to deliver the Worldwide Threat Assessment to the House Intelligence Committee on Feb. 12 and the hearing has not been rescheduled !!!!!
The 2019 warning was the third time in as many years that the nation’s intelligence experts said that a new strain of influenza could lead to a pandemic, and that the U.S. and the world were unprepared.
The 2019 report warns on page 29 that, “The United States will remain vulnerable to the next flu pandemic or large-scale outbreak of a contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls on the United States for support.”
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced two members Helene Weinstein and Charles Barron of the New York State Assembly has tested positive for coronavirus.
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO HAS THE CORONAVIRUS AND WHO DOESN’T?
The US representative Katie Porter has secured free coronavirus testing for all Americans after presenting compelling evidence in the US House of Representatives on Thursday.
According to her calculations, coronavirus testing would cost a citizen a minimum of $1,331. She pressed a member of the administration to commit to making all testing immediately free and he conceded
EVERYONE CAN NOW CAN GET A TEST FOR FREE AND GET SICKNESS COVERED WITHOUT INSURANCE thanks to
Katherine Moore Porter is an American law professor, attorney, and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California’s 45th congressional district since 2019.
TRUMP is depraved.
The German government confirms that Trump apparently tried to bribe German scientists into giving him exclusive rights to the Covid-19 vaccine they were working on developing. He wanted it “for the US only.” How many new lows will he set for the United States?
Bernie Sanders “Once a vaccine for coronavirus is developed, it should be free.“
Is profiting off a global emergency like this considered the same as war profiteering?
Big Pharma Prepares to Profit From the Coronavirus
“Pharmaceutical companies view Covid-19 as a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity,” said Gerald Posner, author of “Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America.” The world needs pharmaceutical products, of course. For the new coronavirus outbreak, in particular, we need treatments and vaccines and, in the U.S., tests. Dozens of companies are now vying to make them. “They’re all in that race,” said Posner, who described the potential payoffs for winning the race as huge. The global crisis “will potentially be a blockbuster for the industry in terms of sales and profits,” he said, adding that “the worse the pandemic gets, the higher their eventual profit.”
This awesome company worried about China giving away medicine to people for free is based in… you guessed it… San Francisco
US pharma company Gilead, which owns the most promising COVID-19 vaccine, is booming in “pandemic stock sales,” preparing to sell it for $50-100/person, and in a legal battle to deny the Chinese gov access, because China would make the vaccine free and ship it to the global south.
China’s medical system is STATE RUN & NATIONALIZED, so every doctor is employed by the state and every hospital & mask/supply factory is state-owned. This why China can produce & distribute healthcare & resources for FREE.
Flipside of communism dictatorship is their surveillance is total! Will Shoot you dead if you leave the house w/o permission.
Here’s what you should know about Gilead In January 1997, Donald Rumsfeld, a board member since 1988, was appointed Chairman,[11] but left the Board in January 2001 when appointed United States Secretary of Defense at the start of George W. Bush’s first term as President.
Interview with Chinese respiratory disease expert: Clinical drug trials for COVID-19 going smoothly. Their drug tested on the Chinese population.
How tight China’s grip is on the global medicine supply chain
3/12/2020 #1 First Place Bat Shit Crazy Award goes to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman – Zhao Lijian
China Manufacturing of Most US Medicine and Vitamins Poses Security Threat, Researchers Say
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is inspecting only a small number of the Chinese companies that manufacture U.S. drugs, and those it does inspect are often found to have serious health violations. Meanwhile, the drugs that are making their way into the United States from China, either as finished products or as ingredients, are often falling far below U.S. safety standards. And some of these drugs are not being inspected at all. The failure of Chinese drugs to meet U.S. quality standards is exacerbated by the volume of imported drugs. China has become the primary source of many crucial medical drugs, including penicillin, heparin, and medications essential for surgeries.
It’s unclear just how many drugs in the United States come from China, since many drug companies choose to keep their sourcing under wraps or fail to take due diligence in identifying the sources of their ingredients. A short list of medications made in China and sold in the United States that the authors traced includes medications to treat HIV, Alzheimer’s disease, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, cancer, depression, epilepsy, and high blood pressure, among others.
Even drugs not directly sourced from China often have Chinese chemicals as their ingredients. The authors state, “China is the largest global supplier of the active ingredients and chemical building blocks needed to make many prescription drugs, over-the-counter products, and vitamins.”
Why new diseases keep appearing in China
Journalist goes undercover at “wet markets”, where the Coronavirus started | 60 Minutes Australia
Harvard Professor Arrested and Two Chinese Spies Charged
Harvard department chair arrested; charged with concealing ties to China
China’s 1000 talents spy program
#ChineseSpies #Harvard
K-12 COVID-19 (Coronavirus) information and resources web page for schools and school personnel.
Coronavirus on the high seas: Why the U.S. can’t touch cruise lines
The coronavirus reveals the power of industry and holes in regulation.