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DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 07:16 PM Mar 2020

Everything Is Shutting Down Because Trump Held Up Testing - Current Shutdowns Are 100% His Fault

Every responsible person is taking worst case scenario precautions because they don't know how many people in their cities, or states have the virus. Why don't they know? Because of DONALD TRUMP, not wanting "the numbers" to show up, and stalled, and is still stalling testing for the virus. Now he is rightly taking heat, so he is "acting" like he cares about us.

Maybe we would be here eventually with everything shut down, and maybe we should be here now anyway, but we are here because no one knows how widespread the virus is because of DONALD TRUMP. Period.

This is the only message that matters other than KEEP YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY SAFE.

Since we don't know, we can't take any chances. No chance to contain anyone because it has been spreading for weeks with no testing of any volume available.

Everyone should understand this.

It is obvious.

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Everything Is Shutting Down Because Trump Held Up Testing - Current Shutdowns Are 100% His Fault (Original Post) DanieRains Mar 2020 OP
Now if we could just convince his base of that FiveGoodMen Mar 2020 #1
When they get sick will they wake up and smell the coffee? Doubt it. BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #5
No, it is Obama's fault and Swine Flu, didn't you hear? BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #2
The shutdowns are the product of 'THE TRUMPVIRUS'! empedocles Mar 2020 #3
A Lot Of This Nightmare Could Have Been Avoided If Trump Didn't Dismantle The Pandemic Team DanieRains Mar 2020 #4
And I blame those in the media crickets Mar 2020 #8
she was a brave woman. riversedge Mar 2020 #9
+1 uponit7771 Mar 2020 #17
Agree totally DonaldsRump Mar 2020 #6
People are panicking in stores because Trump is a liar and a fool. C_U_L8R Mar 2020 #7
Trader Joe's In Shoreline / Seattle Still Has Some Food Left! DanieRains Mar 2020 #10
Stupidity Kills DSandra Mar 2020 #11
I doubt testing would have kept life as normal - Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #12
More Like Normal In Areas Where No One Has The Virus But With Precautions DanieRains Mar 2020 #13
It would've been close, we could isolate the sick more uponit7771 Mar 2020 #19
I agree. We'd still be in a major mess of a situation, but their ineptness just makes a bad Sapient Donkey Mar 2020 #20
He can go shove those numbers up his big fat ass. Initech Mar 2020 #14
This should be the mantra Ligyron Mar 2020 #15
THANK YOU !!! He still ... TO THIS DAY ... hasn't gotten the US unfettered testing !!! uponit7771 Mar 2020 #16
I saw this chart... BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #18
 

DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
4. A Lot Of This Nightmare Could Have Been Avoided If Trump Didn't Dismantle The Pandemic Team
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 07:19 PM
Mar 2020

Say it over and over.

Trump fired the people who's job it was to prepare us for what is happening RIGHT NOW.

It was a perfect layoff right Donald?

Perfect.

crickets

(25,952 posts)
8. And I blame those in the media
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 07:25 PM
Mar 2020

who are not making this plain every single day. Yamiche Alcindor shows how it's done.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
6. Agree totally
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 07:20 PM
Mar 2020

I don't watch too much in the way of broadcast TV or YouTube, but are the Ds (Joe, Bernie, Bloomberg) running ads on Trump's utter failures with COVID-19? A few ads on Fox might help too.

You are right. My job is to take care of my family, since he federal government sure as hell ain't. I'm thankful I live in the Bay Area with a proactive, responsive state and local government.

C_U_L8R

(44,992 posts)
7. People are panicking in stores because Trump is a liar and a fool.
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 07:22 PM
Mar 2020

No one, republican or democrat, can trust Trump and his brown-nosing cabal of incompetent idiots to do anything right. The damage our country is sustaining is entirely his responsibility.

 

DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
10. Trader Joe's In Shoreline / Seattle Still Has Some Food Left!
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 07:31 PM
Mar 2020

For how long? Who knows.

They are stocking away.

Frozen food almost all gone. That and most meat.

DSandra

(999 posts)
11. Stupidity Kills
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 07:34 PM
Mar 2020

it IS my goddamn business if stupid people are voting for stupid people to lead this country.

Ms. Toad

(34,004 posts)
12. I doubt testing would have kept life as normal -
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 07:47 PM
Mar 2020

But holding up testing definintesl exascerbated the problem, and made more dramatic measure necessary on very short notice.

 

DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
13. More Like Normal In Areas Where No One Has The Virus But With Precautions
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 07:55 PM
Mar 2020

Shutting everything down just because you don't know is insane, and necessary.

Because we don't know.

Use the WHO tests until we develop something better.

Not that too hard to wrap your brain around.

Sapient Donkey

(1,568 posts)
20. I agree. We'd still be in a major mess of a situation, but their ineptness just makes a bad
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 04:03 AM
Mar 2020

situation even worse.

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