US Politics, February 2020. They want to kill your cows.

mother would not be pleased

If Pence got the virus he would pray humbly for a full recovery, and God would mercifully provide him with the finest possible medical treatment available at Walter Reed Army Hospital.

Given transmission in the non-symptomatic infected, decent chance COVID19 will become the fifth endemic human coronavirus, with 40-70% eventually exposed before acquired and herd immunity sets in.

Politicians are at rather high risk due to travel and campaign events. The Chinese experience is 15% mortality in those over 80, 8% in those 70-79. Perhaps more important, given the many weeks' long recovery, infected candidates could be forced to drop out. Maybe some crazy infection driven lottery out there this season.

If Pence really fucks up, and the underfunded CDC are overwhelmed, the US epidemic could resemble the current Iranian one. Conservatives downplayed the outbreak, claiming liberal party alarmists were trying to suppress turnout in the 21 Feb legislative elections (cue Limbaugh saying similar things). Now the health minister and at least one PM are sick. News and reported medical statistics are especially sketchy from Iran (perhaps Indonesia as well).

(Ok this is the pettiest bs ever but Walter Reed hasn't been an Army hospital for some time; it moved to (and merged with) Bethesda Naval Hospital.

Rushbo is on the case, I hope his last

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/02/24/overhyped-coronavirus-weaponized-against-trump/

may he live long enough to be immunocompromised to a permanent end by coronovirus

Surely we can find at least one person afflicted with coronavirus who will be willing to spit into Rush Limbaugh's mouth so we can at last put to bed the notion that this is any big deal.

good morning!!!

49% job approval? That can't be right.

http://news.gallup.com/interactives/185273/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx

lol at the 7% of Democrats approving of Trump.

That's over 3 million people.

Gallup has pretty consistently been on the high-end for trump in recent months

That's from the 2/3 - 2/16 poll. I don't think they've run a new once since

This may be a controversial opinion, I know, but it's my contention that anyone who self-identifies as a democrat and evinces support for Trump's job performance should be immediately muzzled and chained to a radiator. For their own good as much as the good of others.

hmm, that's my particular kink but I can't justify voicing support for Trump to get what I want

The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2020

"Working Hard And Very Smart"

Heckuva job, Pencey

'starting to look really good' does he have some other stock market he looks at because the one everyone else looks at most assuredly did not look anything remotely close to 'really good' today

it's from three days ago (still idiotic ofc)

here’s a current one, getting down to the serious issues

So, the Coronavirus, which started in China and spread to various countries throughout the world, but very slowly in the U.S. because President Trump closed our border, and ended flights, VERY EARLY, is now being blamed, by the Do Nothing Democrats, to be the fault of “Trump”.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 28, 2020

does this guy ever stop whining?

“Trump”

there’s a global pandemic and he’s worried about what democrats saying about him

Snowflake-in-Chief is a full-time job.

Such a fucking bitch ass

Multi-day sleep deprivation - the key to wise governance and general lucidity.

Mulvaney says Trump didn't sleep on flight home from India, then didn't sleep at all during the day before his Coronavirus press conference.

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) February 28, 2020

did anyone notice a difference though?

lol exactly how can you tell

haha this is the ideal situation for a germophobe to be president in, i hope he never sleeps again

Someone put a Filet o Fish in his mouth.

hard to imagine anyone more susceptible than these Dem candidates right now, several flights a day with all the crowds and handshaking (+ their generally advanced age)

wonder what kind of campaigning we're going to have in three or four months

otoh maybe this will put an end to Trump rallies

lol this will absolutely not stop Trump rallies, half the people who attend those believe Coronavirus is a deep state plot to make the President look bad

maybe for the best, actually

anyway we're talking about a guy who runs screaming at the sight of blood and bathes in Purell, is *he* going to show up?

half the people who attend those believe Coronavirus is a deep state plot to make the President look bad a Mexican beer

https://nypost.com/2020/02/27/americans-are-avoiding-corona-beer-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-survey-finds/

There was also some confusion as 16 percent of those surveyed said they were not sure whether the virus is related to Corona beer.

and 15% were POSITIVE it was related to corona beer

this is like 2003 when no one would go to a Peter Sarsgaard movie

ah the New York Post

the drinking of Corona by South Florida tourists is a virus.

The spread of the coronavirus couldn’t have come at a worse time for Constellation, which is spending $40 million to launch its new Corona-branded hard seltzer.

Part of the promotion includes a sponsored tweet that has sparked criticism for using the phrase “coming ashore soon.”

https://presswatchers.org/2020/02/big-media-is-covering-up-trumps-terrifying-incoherence-in-a-time-of-emergency/

I don’t think it’s inevitable. It probably will. It possibly will. It could be at a very small level or it could be at a larger level. Whatever happens, we’re totally prepared. We have the best people in the world. You see that from the study. We have the best prepared people, the best people in the world. Congress is willing to give us much more than we’re even asking for. That’s nice for a change. But we are totally ready, willing, and able to — it’s a term that we use, it’s “ready, willing, and able.” It’s going to be very well under control. Now, it may get bigger. It may get a little bigger. It may not get bigger at all. We’ll see what happens. But regardless of what happens, we’re totally prepared... View this the same as the flu. When somebody sneezes, I mean, I try and bail out as much as possible when there’s sneezing. I had a man come up to me a week ago, I hadn’t seen him in a long time, and I said, “How you doing?” He said, “Fine, fine,” he hugged me, kissed me. I said, “Are you well?” He says “No.” He said, “I have the worst fever and the worst flu.” And he’s hugging and kissing me. So I said, excuse me, I went out and started washing my hands. So you have to do that.

and I said, “How you doing?” He said, “Fine, fine, sir” he hugged me, kissed me.

fixed

I try and bail out

never forget

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-time-donald-trump-turned-away-in-disgust-while-a-man-bled-to-death-in-front-of-him

What happens is, these 10 Marines from the back of the room… they come running forward, they grab him, they put the blood all over the place—it’s all over their uniforms—they’re taking it, they’re swiping it

Mike Huckabee says Trump "could personally sick the virus out of every one of the 60,000 people in the world, suck it out of their lungs, swim to the bottom of the ocean and spit it out, and he would be accused of pollution for messing up the ocean." pic.twitter.com/X7xbC5ebDz

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 28, 2020

now we know who was hugging and kissing Trump

someone tell Trump the bottom of the Pacific Ocean smells like coronavirus vaccine

someone tell Trump the bottom of the ocean is made out of well-done steak

Put ketchup bottles down there too