What pretenses? The only pretending occurring during the entire impeachment ordeal was by Bozo and his Republican ass kissers, who had to pretend that facts don’t matter and that he did nothing wrong. You don’t consider it a loss to the country that the current leadership of the Senate and Executive branch are composed of corrupt individuals and a criminal?
I almost detailed them in my last post, but figured I let people quell their own cognitive dissonance unless asked. Having been asked...
All relevant Ukrainian officials denied ever feeling pressured or being aware of any quid pro quo at all. Hence why no such Ukrainian investigation of Biden ever materialized. If such crimes did occur, it was the onus of the House Democrats to show not only means but also motive, which no one is foolish enough to claim they even remotely did. Thus they had no case going into the Senate trail, the majority of Americans understood that, and the President's approval rating rose after the impeachment.
But do ignore all that, reread your Democrat talking points, and put your head back in the sand.
When a Democratic president is in a similar position to fail as Trump did, then you can criticize their conduct. Bozo had the chance to get ahead of the game when he took over three years ago, but instead decided to ignore warnings to prepare for the inevitable pandemic and now has to accept the blame he deserves. Stop trying to excuse your president’s actions and start demanding he do his fucking job.
No, I can criticize every Democrat who pretends they would do better, while spouting obviously bad policy on the matter, especially those seeking the presidential nomination. What warnings of an inevitable pandemic? The ones Obama must have obviously ignored too? Having depleted the federal stock of things like N95 masks and not replenished them:
We rate this claim TRUE because it is supported by our research. There is no indication that the Obama administration took significant steps to replenish the supply of N95 masks in the Strategic National Stockpile after it was depleted from repeated crises. Calls for action came from experts at the time concerned for the country’s ability to respond to future serious pandemics. Such recommendations were, for whatever reason, not heeded.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ation-deplete-n-95-mask-stockpile/5114319002/
Whereas Trump was ahead of every Democrat in this crisis. Not only did Democrats, including Biden, excoriate him for the China travel ban, which health experts credit with lowering the death toll, Democrats from Pelosi to De Blassio were busy encouraging people to gather in large groups and negligent in shutting down things like subways.
The whole world was ill-prepared, because China repeatedly lied.
Who else of prominence has been calling it the Chinese virus? We all know that the childish person playing US President was going out of his way to take a dig at the Chinese government. And you and your infantile leader need to get up to speed on the current policy for naming diseases.
“ Under agreed guidelines between WHO, the World Organisation for Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, we had to find a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual or group of people, and which is also pronounceable and related to the disease,” Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus explains. “Having a name matters to prevent the use of other names that can be inaccurate or stigmatizing. It also gives us a standard format to use for any future coronavirus outbreaks.”
The caution in naming the disease somewhat stems from controversy surrounding past names of new diseases, in particular MERS in 2013. MERS, or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, was initially labelled 2012-nCoV (2012 novel coronavirus), much like the latest disease was first dubbed 2019-nCoV.
https://newatlas.com/medical/who-names-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/
And? Do you think the dishonesty of the Chinese government doesn't warrant any dig at all? The political correctness of the WHO contributed to their faulty recommendations and many European countries being so worried about seeming xenophobic led to missteps in their responses as well. That's some bad priorities.
No, the WHO said this on 1/12/20:
According to the preliminary epidemiological investigation, most cases worked at or were handlers and frequent visitors to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. The government reports that there is no clear evidence that the virus passes easily from person to person.
Based on information provided by national authorities, WHO’s recommendations on public health measures and surveillance for novel coronaviruses apply.
https://www.who.int/csr/don/12-january-2020-novel-coronavirus-china/en/
Yes, that it was not "easily" human transmissible was a lie from the Chinese government spread under the authority of the WHO, which misled many countries responses.
And what has the WHO recommended regarding novel coronavirus transmission since 2012?
What can I do to protect myself?
Exactly how people become infected with this virus is not known at this time. However, some general measures that would be prudent and help prevent the acquisition of any respiratory illness are to avoid close contact, when possible, with anyone who shows symptoms of illness (coughing and sneezing), and to maintain good hand hygiene.
https://www.who.int/csr/disease/coronavirus_infections/faq_dec12/en/
In other words they recommend that the virus should be treated as if it were transmitted person to person.
But if you happen to get your information from an unreliable source, it’s understandable that you would tend to repeat their nonsense.
WHO haunted by January tweet saying China found no human transmission of coronavirus
https://www.foxnews.com/world/world...ry-tweet-china-human-transmission-coronavirus
Digging up guidance on earlier coronaviruses doesn't change the guidance they actually gave for this one.
While the WHO did not recommend travel restrictions back in late January, they did recommend this:
The Committee believes that it is still possible to interrupt virus spread, provided that countries put in place strong measures to detect disease early, isolate and treat cases, trace contacts, and promote social distancing measures commensurate with the risk. It is important to note that as the situation continues to evolve, so will the strategic goals and measures to prevent and reduce spread of the infection. The Committee agreed that the outbreak now meets the criteria for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and proposed the following advice to be issued as Temporary Recommendations.
https://www.who.int/news-room/detai...the-outbreak-of-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)
Thanks for verifying exactly what I said.
Was there a concerted effort by Bozo and company to detect and trace the virus by way of international travel other that associated with China? Apparently not.
Every early positive test was tracked to a plausible source, until we started getting cases that could no longer be so tracked. If you think such measures can be made foolproof, you may be the fool.
How about this nugget from the same article.
But the emergency announcement created a new barrier for hospitals and laboratories that wanted to create their own tests to diagnose the coronavirus. Usually, they faced minimal federal regulation. But once Mr. Azar took action, they were subject to an F.D.A. process called an “emergency use authorization.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/testing-coronavirus-pandemic.html
Yeah, that was a problem with preexisting FDA bureaucracy. That was not a consequence of the Trump administration itself, which has sought to remove such regulation.
Unfortunately Trump is the leader of the federal government tasked with dealing with health threats and emergencies like the one we are currently experiencing, so who else am I supposed to blame when he fails at that task? President Pelosi?
Uh, maybe an adult would realize that neither the government nor the information we initial had were perfect. What we do know is that every plan espoused by Democrats would have been far worse. At the very least, partisan attacks and political advantage taking during a crisis are far less helpful than coming together to find solutions.
you say stupid shit like this and than act confused when being think your a gormless moron. its only easy if your a delusional nut bag like you. for sane rational people we can see just about any democrat would have done a much better job. that's not an opinion its a fact. also a fact is 10's of thousands of people are going to have died because of trump and his brainless supporters. the dead on your hands not that a conservative like yourself will ever take any responsibility for them.
Lots of invective, but no substantive refutes anywhere in sight. I guess we just have to chalk this up to a desperate attempt to quell your own cognitive dissonance.
