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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Trump's Timeline - WHOOPS!

 timeline


May 2018The Trump Administration disbands the White House pandemic response team.
July 2019The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency left the post, and the Trump Administration eliminated the role.
Oct. 2019
“Currently, there are insufficient funding sources designated for the federal government to use in response to a severe influenza pandemic.” [Source: The results of a Department of Health and Human Services 2019 influenza pandemic simulation]
Jan. 22, 2020“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Jan. 24, 2020
Trump praises China’s handling of the coronavirus: “China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”
Jan. 28, 2020“This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency...This is going to be the roughest thing you face" Trump’s National Security Advisor to Trump
Jan. 30, 2020
"The lack of immune protection or an existing cure or vaccine would leave Americans defenseless in the case of a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on US soil,...This lack of protection elevates the risk of the coronavirus evolving into a full-blown pandemic, imperiling the lives of millions of Americans.” [Memo from Trump Trade Advisor Peter Navarro]
Feb. 2, 2020“We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
Feb. 7, 2020“It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu... This is deadly stuff” [Trump in a private interview with Bob Woodward from The Washington Post made public on Sept. 9, 2020]
Feb. 10, 2020“I think the virus is going to be—it’s going to be fine.”
Feb. 10, 2020“Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”
Feb. 24, 2020“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… the Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb. 25, 2020“CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
Feb. 25, 2020“I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
Feb. 26, 2020“The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb. 26, 2020“We're going very substantially down, not up.”
Feb. 26, 2020“Well, we're testing everybody that we need to test. And we're finding very little problem. Very little problem.”
Feb. 26, 2020"This is a flu. This is like a flu."
Feb. 27, 2020“It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Feb. 28, 2020“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're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
March 2, 2020“You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” [Trump to health officials who answered "No."]
March 2, 2020“A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 4, 2020“Now, and this is just my hunch, and — but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this. Because a lot people will have this and it's very mild.”
March 4, 2020“If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5, 2020“I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5, 2020“The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6, 2020“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6, 2020“You have to be calm. It’ll go away.”
March 6, 2020
“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6, 2020
“I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 6, 2020“I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
March 7, 2020“No, I’m not concerned at all.

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Whoops! - Trump Prediction Feb 2020

 


The New York Daily News marked the grim national 500,000 death toll from COVID-19 on its front page Tuesday with an old quote from ex-President Donald Trump.

The tabloid newspaper’s cover recalled the then-president boasting on Feb. 26 last year that there were only 15 cases of the coronavirus in the United States and that those infections “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”

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USA Deaths

 

USA Deaths - War and/or DiseaseYearsDeathsAnnualized
Flu 1918 Would be 2,146,491 todays population1918-19675,000337,500
War on Covid-19 - Deaths Through:Feb 22, 2021500,000550,000+-
World War II - Combat1941–45291,55783,302
HIV/AIDS1981-2020675,00017,308
American Civil War US Disease & Other1861–65250,000
American Civil War Confederate Disease1861–65165,000
World War I - All, disease, etc includes flu1917--18116,516
American Civil War US Combat1861–65111,000
War on Covid-19 - Deaths Through:May 27, 2020102,107
American Civil War Confederate Combat1861–6595,000
World War I - Disease mostly Spanish Flu1917--1863,114
Vietnam War - All - accidents, disease etc1955–7558,220
World War I - Combat1917–1853,402
Vietnam War - Combat1955–7547,424
War on Covid-19 - Deaths Through:Apr 18, 202037,175
Korean War1950–5333,686
American Revolutionary War1775–838,000
Iraq War2003–113,836
Polio19523,000
911Sep 11, 20012,977
War of 18121812–152,260
War in Afghanistan2001–present1,833
Mexican–American War1846–491,733
First Covid-19 Death in US

Feb 29, 20201


Sources Below and in Left Column of This Blog



Tuesday, February 23, 2021

LA Times - Today's Headlines

 

Los Angeles Times
Today's Headlines
February 23, 2021

More than half a million people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19. Hope is in sight, but devastation remains.

TOP STORIES

‘Not Just Another Number’

COVID-19 deaths in the United States have officially surpassed 500,000 — a toll that is hard to fathom. It’s as if all the people in a city the size of Atlanta or Sacramento simply vanished. The number is greater than the combined U.S. battlefield deaths in both world wars and Vietnam.

“You see that number, and it’s not just another number,” said Bettina Gonzales, 39, whose 61-year-old father, David Gonzales, a football and basketball coach in Harlingen, Texas, died in August. “It’s a lot of tragedy that goes behind that number.”

Recorded COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. account for about one-fifth of the world’s nearly 2.5 million known fatalities from the disease, twice as many as in Brazil, the next hardest-hit country. California alone accounts for almost 50,000 deaths, about 10% of the country’s total. Nearly 20,000 of those were in Los Angeles County, where about 1 in every 500 people has died.

On Monday evening, President Biden urged the nation to honor the dead by observing public health measures to help bring an end to the pandemic.

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https://www.latimes.com/


Sunday, February 21, 2021

What Percent Vaccinated in the USA

 



Click to see your State


https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/28/960901166/how-is-the-covid-19-vaccination-campaign-going-in-your-state


Friday, February 19, 2021

Vaccination By State

 



https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/28/960901166/how-is-the-covid-19-vaccination-campaign-going-in-your-state



Doomscrolling




Doomscrolling is the act of viewing lots of negative news online. It is hard not to do given our current pandemic and angry political fights. You need to strike a healthy balance between being well informed versus being overwhelmed with all the negativity.

Plan:

Stay informed but not obsessive 

Read from a variety of sources

Believe little of what you see on Facebook and Twitter unless it has reliable sources

Don't watch too much news

Read a good book or watch a good movie


Remember, This too shall pass




U.S. Life Expectancy Drops 1 Full Year Due to COVID-19

 U.S. Life Expectancy Drops 1 Full Year Due to COVID-19



Source

  New York Times Jan 6, 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases-deaths-tracker.html