Trump Says He Will Label Regions by Risk of Coronavirus Threat

[Kablooie]

Source: NY Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump said Thursday that he planned to label different areas of the country as at a “high risk, medium risk or low risk” to the spread of the coronavirus, as part of new federal guidelines to help states decide whether to relax or enhance their quarantine and social distancing measures.
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In the call, he rebuffed a plea from Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington for a more forceful response to the outbreak, according to two officials familiar with the conversation. Later, during an interview with the Fox News host Sean Hannity, the president singled out Mr. Inslee as well as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan for requesting federal aid at all. We have people like Governor Inslee, he should be doing more,” Mr. Trump said. “He shouldn’t be relying on the federal government.” The president called Mr. Inslee a “failed presidential candidate” who was “always complaining.”
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He also reiterated his desire to start opening up some parts of the country in the near future. “I think we can start by opening up certain parts of the country, the farm belt, certain parts of the Midwest, other places,” he said.
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Mr. Trump has been eager to send a message to the business community and to the markets that there is an end date to the economic standstill caused by the coronavirus and the response to it.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-threat-labels.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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Good God! State Governors shouldn't be asking for Federal help!!???

Trump really needs to try a good, deep sample the coronavirus for himself.
How will we survive until Jan 20 of next year? (And that assumes he loses the election which is not anywhere near a sure thing.)

[Thekaspervote]

1. He can't order governors to do anything! Bluster and bull shit

[Kablooie]

4. But he can block they getting Federal help.

And he seems to be doing that and letting people die simply because they didn't talk nice to him.

[DENVERPOPS]

24. Exactly

He will use the determination more for the purpose of who to send help to, and who not to.

He is a vengeful, nasty Psychopath.........

You need look no further than New York city to prove it without a doubt.

[beachbumbob]

32. there will be a political price to be paid as this crosses the line on so many levels

[Thekaspervote]

44. He's already doing that to the blue states ....long b4 covid19

We can’t relax lockdowns...talk about asking for it

[Freethinker65]

2. Trump loves ratings, and rating things

And rating women, and rating teen age girls

He gets a kick out of it.

[msongs]

3. He is trying to undermine governors and local people to make himself look good nt

[pazzyanne]

42. Bingo! We have a winner.

He knows he is totally out of control, and is using his usual playbook to try to regain control. It isn't going to work. We have seen him in action up close for three and a half years. He is an impeached loser. That is all!

[Farmgirl1961]

5. Coup time

Time for some state governors to rally and over throw this public menace. Let’s get Cuomo in there for starters.

[sop]

6. It cannot be stated often or strongly enough...Trump is a despicable piece of human excrement.

[DENVERPOPS]

25. "sub human, despicable piece of excrement" N/C

[catbyte]

7. We Michiganders will remember that POS's dick moves in November.

That thing is toast here.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I've got a label for him: UNQUALIFIED LOSER. n/t

[ZZenith]

9. I label Trump a dumbass pompous windbag.

[patphil]

10. Using current data to determine the level of risk is worthless.

The new cases we see today are based on infections that occurred as much as a week ago.
Look at how quickly things changed in Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, and even Texas.
A week ago there were very few cases there. Now each of those states has at least 1,600 confirmed cases of Covid-19; some well over 2,000.
A week from now these current numbers will seem very small.
A week from now, there will be another group of states that are at the same point as the states I mentioned above are now.

Current numbers of infected people in any given state are just a window into the past as far as this virus is concerned.
Calling on states with very few reported cases to open for business will just insure that those states will be in disaster mode within one month.

The Trump administration isn't just refusing to take responsibility, they are advocating for actions that are extremely irresponsible.

[FormerOstrich]

11. and what is the criteria?

Exactly how is he going to rate them without TESTING en mass.

I'd love to see some accurate data and the risk assessment. Start testing and SHOW US

[LudwigPastorius]

12. They'll be rated by just how much the political leadership in a region is willing...

to fellate him with praise.

[DENVERPOPS]

27. His boss in Russia

isn't giving out ANY statistical information on their country either, and is demonstrating to Trump how it's done.........

No testing, no results, no problem........

Until the bodies start stacking up higher than you can see.......

New York city has filled all their morgues, and has started filling up refrigerated semi trucks, just stacking the bodies like sardines in a can and the worse is yet to come for that poor city........

[flibbitygiblets]

13. He can stick his "labels" up his cornhole.

[moonscape]

14. If only Fred, early on, had

told his son that he shouldn't ask for so much help, that he needed to do more, he would've raised a different son and we wouldn't be in this f'in' mess

[C Moon]

15. This is why he's buying up all the goods needed by states.

So he can control what they do, so he can get re-elected.
He's more than a monster, he's 666.

[du_grad]

16. This chilling video was posted on FB tonight by a nurse in Novi, MI

Novi is a Detroit suburb. Sorry that the URL is from Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/191709277934/videos/506243943403714/

Main points if you're not on FB:

The hospital she works at used their last ventilator at 7 a.m. on 3/26/20.
She was issued ONE N95 mask to reuse over and over. That's all she gets. She keeps it in a paper bag.
She was called into work a third shift because the ER was so swamped.
They are out of drugs to use to sedate people while they are on ventilators.
People are going to die needlessly because they have no supplies.

[progree]

20. "They are out of drugs to use to sedate people while they are on ventilators."

which means in many cases they are suffering from a slow-motion days or weeks-long drowning plus unbearable pain.

I had not heard of that particular shortage before. It sure makes suicide before getting to the point of needing to go the E.R. for respiratory distress a very rational idea.

(She did say that if you go to the hospital and are not in respiratory distress, it's a wasted trip -- they will just tell you to go home and self-isolate, and needless to say, you won't get tested either)

[Progressive Jones]

17. He has the best labels. Believe me, the best. nt

[Corgigal]

18. Aaaah,

someone gave him a map and a crayon. Well, if he keeps him busy.

[pecosbob]

19. Problem is Donald that no one is listening to you any longer

Just go back into the bathroom and snort Adderall until you stroke out.

[TeamPooka]

21. Trump should start to hold rallies again ASAP. Only in red states.

[cstanleytech]

22. I suspect Trump is going to only provide meager assistance to any state that did not vote for him

and he will focus on the ones that did and especially on the swing states because he knows if he loses the election he will likely end up in prison or have to flee to Russia to escape it and be trapped there due to the fear of being extradited to the US and I think both options terrify him.

[rockfordfile]

23. This shows how trump is corrupt and up to no good

[Canoe52]

26. Stupid shit, all areas will become high risk if you don't shut them down.

Also I’m in Washington and so grateful Gov Inslee got ahead of this or we would be like New York now.

[Skittles]

28. it's just his way of pitting red against blue

he should be uniting the country but all he is doing is catering to the MAGAts - he thinks somehow the virus will go easy on his base - he is batshit INSANE

[duforsure]

29. trump wants the states divided

And is weaponizing his crisis response now to do that. Only those that'll praise him and obey his every demand get help. Now they know what P.R. felt like when trump refused to help them and lied claiming his response was great , the total opposite of the truth. Only a monster would do this and his intentionally hurting people is a national disgrace .

[needledriver]

30. And now we know how the Hunger Games Districts were drawn up.

[deminks]

31. Red county/blue county. Red counties will only get a trickle of help to keep them in line.

You watch.

He's so predictable.

[ashredux]

33. Trump: "I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators."

Nuff said....he will blackmail Governors with OUR LIVES!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

34. Does this dumbass

and his minions understand the virus doesn't respect borders?

[Maxheader]

35. Democrats will sic their attorney's on stumpy..

I don't understand how "it" can legally make that mandate..Is the little thief trying to direct emergency funds
to it's preference?

[Javaman]

36. why do I get the feeling this will be like the 9/11 color alert system

which was politically motivated..

he will make sure all the blue states and states leaning against him will suddenly be only the high risk states and all the red poor states in the south with shitty healthcare will be low risk.

he's a fucking piece of shit.

[MissMillie]

37. Government crises need government response

This is exactly the kind of thing that the Federal Government is supposed to be set up to do.

One of the reasons 45 knows this is because his team was briefed on it during the transition.

[OnlinePoker]

38. I think top of the list should be the White House

That one place is the biggest threat to anything getting accomplished in combating the virus.

[MissMillie]

39. Um.... Mr. "Wartime President"

states don't fight wars. That's what the Federal Government is for.



(I love it when his words come back to bite him in the butt.)

[marble falls]

40. We haven't seen the worst of this yet. There is nowhere "low risk". He's making it worse.

[Initech]

41. This is a "fuck you" to places that didn't vote for him.

[SWBTATTReg]

43. Idiot.

[Thekaspervote]

45. Look at red FL...their idiot gov refused to shut down beaches etc. Numbers their are exploding

It won’t matter how many masks and vents he sends to his big red state, because they didn’t lock down, at this rate they are going to catch or surpass N.Y. in numbers

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

46. Regarding a county's risk assessment, "Only I can label it."

It sounds like Trump will make the low-medium-high decisions on his own. There's no chance that would be affected by political considerations, right?

Regarding his attacks on Gov. Inslee, Cuomo and others, how many people will die because of Fat Donnie's fragile ego? "If you don't worship me satisfactorily, you get nothing!"

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

47. He can do this. All he needs are three colored Sharpies.

Green, Yellow, Red. Way simpler than DHS's five-color scheme.

Trump is a genius. Who else could associate color with risk? He'll go down in history.