Example 12,385,648,485 that the truth is the opposite of whatever trump says.
and stuff like this is why
@colton created the impeachment thread. Trump has used his office to enrich himself. This is what happens when a president ignores the emoluments clause:
where have all the trump defenders gone?
@babe @Catchall @JazzyFresh would y’all be okay with this if Obama or Clinton were benefitting financially like this?
You're not rational, or helpful, in this thread, if anywhere.
People with speculative claims and misinformation hardly deserve much attention, let alone being taken seriously.
I've been in here for quite a while telling people that CoViD-19 is going to be a pandemic, and that it is potentially the most lethal for populations as a whole of the SARS/MERS/Coronavirus and flu varietie as well. Every year it is a huge undertaking to develop and test and get produce sufficient flu vaccines. One reason is the way this class mutates in its exterior structures, protein content, that makes getting a good vaccine so problematic, and short-term in efficacy.
I believe this variant was produced experimentally in a research laboratory. I don't know how it was released, but I consider all laboratory viral disease agents will one way or another eventually "get out". Early Warner professionals within China were ostracized and jailed, and some have died as a result. Patient 0 was likely a lab worker. Xi, and China's establishment authorities in general, did try to minimize public information, which meant more spreading of the virus than otherwise would have been the case.
Trump agitated Xi and China politically to get our experts in to see what they could figure out, and did an unprecedented travel ban from the area, stopping even Americans from returning. But I believe it was released in October and into the world sporting crowd that was having an event there, and was carried back home from there.
But Xi did get the viral genome posted world-wide and many labs began research on it, and there are now many vaccine candidates being developed. Some researchers seem pretty optimistic is won't take a year, maybe more like a couple of months.
Meanwhile, the plain fact is that this virus can be stopped by public health measures, even without a vaccine.
The success of that public health effort is quite likely. It's not really all that hard to do, and mass publicization of the seriousness of the disease is Project Number One in that effort.
Air in airplanes or ships or trains or buses can be decontaminated, and every contact surface disinfected, quite easily, and on a continuing basis. I think uv lights over crowded areas, and a light chlorine or ozone vapor, like a swimming pool smell, pretty safe to use in these places.
I've long agitated for online home schooling. There is no need to send kids to schools anymore. No need to bus, if local neighborhoods could just set up little groups of involved parents who would check on the kids at home while working parents keep their jobs.
A lot of jobs can be done online, too. So, whatever we can do to reduce human mobility and avoid actual concentrated gatherings of human beings would make a huge difference.
Lastly, the more serious cases are indeed elderly, or compromised health individuals. These at least should be minimizing their activities and stay at home more, and use some home uv lights and a little chlorine vapor.
Soap is still in good supply. Frequent hand washing, and washing surfaces people touch a lot, like a computer keyboard or phone, are all good ideas.
Given the attention being given, I am believing we can, in the USA, make this a fairly well-managed episode. I think Trump is doing all the right things, all the good things he can do, on this issue.
I'm more concerned about North Korea, the Chinese concentration camps, and Iran, and beyond that any area where public health information and resources are lacking.
