The media would have given Obama a thorough ass kissing....always did, always will.

Why do you keep deflecting with Hillary and Obama?

They haven't had government positions in years, so why do you want to bring up hypothetical BS?

Do you know who the current President is? Why don't you talk about him and how he is managing this crisis?

Did Grits consider the Corona Virus a hoax at first?

Flat, the first pic is per capita-it takes population into consideration.

All I see is a bunch of armchair quarterbacking by people who have nothing but 20/20 hindsight and an almost insane desire to see the current president fail. I honestly believe if there was a Democrat in the office with the same results as today their attitude would be 180 degrees different.

This is a major crisis like we've never seen.
Mistakes have been made, but I believe they would have been made by any president....another president might have been more apologetic...would that have saved any lives?

If the majority here want to stomp their feet and throw fits because they hate Trump, that's their choice.

I choose to look for the best way forward.

What do you think? You must have an opinion since you've asked the question so many times.

The fact that he has also not once, to my knowledge - not one time - mentioned that people have died, or offered his condolences to the families of those victims only illustrates the kind of person he is.

The population adjusted numbers will tell the true story of how this was managed in the US versus other countries.

I just heard him speak of it in today's briefing.


But it's your house, go ahead and be right.

Population adjusted numbers as of the date and time of this post:

Cases per 1M population:
World average - 163
US - 1,016
And for comparison Canada - 411jj

Deaths per 1M population:
World average - 8.9
US - 29
Canada - 7

Source

World average deaths to cases rate:6%
US: 3%
Spain:9%
France"11%
Korea-2%-although I'm not sure if this includes N Korea.
Germany:1%.

Clearly of the countries that have the most cases, we are on the lower end of mortality rate spectrum.


WHO Situation Report 4/5/2020

I have to wonder how a November re-election campaign has impacted trump's spin on facts and figures he surely must have had at his easy and early disposal.

Another of my big questions, is why is there such a shortage of face masks and gloves. People are making them at home. It's unimaginable that the federal government's longtime spin was, "healthy people don't need them, just sick people". Even this week, the local grocery store was full of people without masks.

I emailed the office of the Governor (Abbot in Texas) and the State Department of Health noting the shortage of masks in Dialysis Clinics. I got fairly prompt responses from both - but not pointing me to a source, or even reassurance that some are on the way, just blah-blah-blah links to general information sites.

A coherant, cohesive national policy would be nice, but trump has let each state take their own direction - I'm guessing just so he can point the finger at them for their inevitable failure to save lives.

We're on our own, at every level of government.

The population adjusted numbers will tell the true story of how this was managed in the US versus other countries.

World average deaths to cases rate:6%
US: 3%
Spain:9%
France"11%
Korea-2%-although I'm not sure if this includes N Korea.
Germany:1%.

Clearly of the countries that have the most cases, we are on the lower end of mortality rate spectrum.


WHO Situation Report 4/5/2020

President Trump doubled down on Sunday on his push for the use of an anti-malarial drug against the coronavirus, issuing medical advice that goes well beyond scant evidence of the drug’s effectiveness as well as the advice of doctors and public health experts.

Mr. Trump’s recommendation of hydroxychloroquine, for the second day in a row at a White House briefing, was a striking example of his brazen willingness to distort and outright defy expert opinion and scientific evidence when it does not suit his agenda.

Mr. Trump suggested he was speaking on gut instinct, and acknowledged he had no expertise on the subject.

“But what do I know? I’m not a doctor,” Mr. Trump said, after recommending the anti-malaria drug’s use for coronavirus patients as well as medical personnel at high risk of infection.

“If it does work, it would be a shame we did not do it early,” Mr. Trump said, noting again that the federal government had purchased and stockpiled 29 million doses of the drug.

“What do you have to lose?” Mr. Trump asked, for the second day in a row.

When a reporter asked Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to weigh in on the question of using hydroxychloroquine, Mr. Trump stopped him from answering. As the reporter noted that Dr. Fauci was the president’s medical expert, Mr. Trump made it clear he did not want the doctor to answer.

“He’s answered the question 15 times,” the president said, stepping toward the lectern where Dr. Fauci was standing.

On Saturday, Dr. Fauci had privately challenged rising optimism about the drug’s efficacy during a meeting of the coronavirus task force in the White House’s Situation Room, according to two people familiar with the events. The argument was first reported by the website Axios.

Peter Navarro, the president’s trade adviser who is overseeing supply chain issues related to the coronavirus, plopped a sheaf of folders on the table and said he had seen several studies from various countries, as well as information culled from C.D.C. officials, showing the “clear” efficacy of chloroquines in treating the coronavirus.

Dr. Fauci pushed back, echoing remarks he has made in a series of interviews in the last week that rigorous study is still necessary. Mr. Navarro, an economist by training, shot back that the information he had collected was “science,” according to the people familiar with what took place.