Siouxphan27

Great post. Great examples given with FDR and Carter. I would add Obama and 12000 Americans dead from Swine Flu. It’s unfortunate that just 10 years later, one side has decided to make a serious health threat political.

You’re blaming trump for the extent of the outbreak, but I am the one being political. Lol. Do you remember all the fear mongering, panic, and political outrage during the swine flu epidemic that killed 12,000 Americans? Yeah, neither do I.

So to recap, Trump wasn't taking it seriously early enough, even though the media and democrats laughed at him for shutting off travel from China in early February. You say he didn't take it seriously until the stock market fell, which just happened; and btw it's currently not early February. Just out of curiosity I would genuinely like to know how do you, and others, perform the mental gymnastics required to believe the same people laughing at Trump for banning travel from China would've spent the remainder of February stocking our country full of test kits and everything else necessary to essentially prevent any outbreaks here in the U.S.?

I am not protecting the president. I’m separating the facts from your fiction. My only viewpoint is anyone who believes this is a serious, worldwide pandemic and is trying to make political hay out of the situation by second guessing everything, is pathetic.

I provided you with the facts of the ‘hoax’ situation. when proven wrong, instead of admitting you were misled and wrong, you just move the goal posts. Neither you or the president can admit when you’re wrong. The WHO and democrats admonished the president for shutting off travel from China on February 1st. It turned out to be an excellent decision. If the U.S. would’ve taken all those test kits, you would’ve complained orangemanbad took resources away from 3rd world countries that do not have the ability to manufacture their own test kits. This is Siouxsports, not a political site. If you want to continue spreading lies about hoaxes, and bitching and complaining about things you have no idea if they will make a difference, go ahead. Just don’t breathe on anyone.

I wonder what that guy sitting alone in Ward county thinks of all this.

Joe and Bernie will have it all figured out by then.

Spit it out, Doug.

He was referring to the media, who were accusing him of doing nothing to prepare for the corona virus. He called it their newest attempt to discredit him, aka their latest hoax. Listen to the entire clip of his statement sometime instead of the carefully edited videos from CNN. Or, just ask yourself, why would he order the first quarantine in 50 years when he ordered no travel from China on February 1st. And then, on February 28th, call the Corona virus a hoax? Hint: the timeline of the main stream media's ridiculous accusations make zero sense.

How about the black banner, illuminated from behind with a soft kelly green light/glow. You know, like a corona??

Nobody. Ever. Called it a hoax. If you can’t get past that simple fact, no wonder you can’t look at any of the work being done to fight corona objectively.

By putting politics aside, I assume you mean one side will quit blaming the other for a futuristic worst case scenario outcome of a crisis that has barely started, and the other side will not have to waste time defending it's prior decisions to armchair quarterbacks. I sure hope you are right. Although I have a hunch tonight at 7pm central on CNN you'll be proven wrong.

idk. it's possible in these crazy times.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html World map from Johns Hopkins of the verified cases, recoveries, and deaths.

this could end up being really tough on bison fans.

Probably when our confirmed cases double.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=toilet+paper+fight&&view=detail&mid=B8D3275C935D558EDC19B8D3275C935D558EDC19&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dtoilet%2Bpaper%2Bfight%26FORM%3DHDRSC3 At least people around the world are remaining calm.

I’ve been hearing for about 3 years now that not allowing anyone into our country for any reason is extremely racist. So it’s clearly a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.

Thanks. That’s all I have heard as well, is regarding the test kits. Seems to be a lot of criticism of the handling of the entire situation if test kits is the only problem. Again, I wish someone would put out their numbers for infections and deaths if we would’ve had test kits earlier. And then subtract from that number the estimated lives saved by halting travel from China at a time when the WHO admonished the administration for making that decision

Not to worry; if Corona doesn't end up being as bad as these prognosticators suggest, they will be the first to come forward and walk back their critical comments of the handling of it all, and instead praise the President and everyone involved in making the difficult decisions surrounding this crisis. Right?? ****** Also, i'm curious, with all these experts being able to predict the future under the current administration's handling of the situation, what are their estimates for infections/deaths if someone else would have been running the country, relying on their set of experts to make the hard decisions? It should be just as easy to come up with those estimates. No deaths? March Madness in full swing next week? #9 hanging in the Ralph a month from now? Let's hear those estimates.

I think it depends largely on which media outlet employs your "expert."

Interesting article. I wish it would explain how things would be different if the proposed funding cuts and other actual cuts had never occurred. More test kits? Fewer travel or group bans? I see it was written Jan. 31st. It reads more like someone trying to Monday morning quarterback a crisis, before said crisis happens. I miss the swine flu. You know, those good old days when an epidemic could occur without half the country finger pointing, manufacturing outrage, and inducing panic by claiming those in charge aren't doing enough before the apocalyptic event even began.

LOL

What?

Thank you. Some people here prefer "truth over facts." I prefer both.