Take a gas pump..or a bank teller..McDonald's window worker..pump says I got 10 gallons,I pay for it..next day car konks out..turns out pump reading was 10 gallons but only a gallon and a half came out..bank teller transferred money from checking to savings,you go out to eat or to the market to discover you have negative balances in all your accounts..teller transferred into someone else's account..
Order 2 Big Macs w fries and a chocolate shake, get home to open bag and discover a water ,used napkins and a half eaten fish sandwich..
Now imagine that this level of contempt,incompetence and stupidity was working in the US government officially giving out information and "assistance"
And the clowns were in charge of strategy and implementation..
that is our reality in the United States..
Check the facts back from February..see the action our government officials took when they were notified about Covid 19..
For ten weeks President Trump downplayed the threat of and ignored warnings about the potential severity of COVID-19 with a series of lies, exaggerations, and outright fabrications that have been well documented. And yet despite the video record of the president’s words, the White House is...
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Garbage post. Literally and figuatively.
When political leaders were calling travel restrictions from China racist and xenophobic, When other leaders were in NYC downplaying the virus, when on the left coast the speaker of the house was encouraging San Franciscans to party like it’s 1999 in Chinatown....
“We have the best health care system on the planet right here in New York. So, when you’re saying, what happened in other countries versus what happened here, we don’t even think it’s going to be as bad as it was in other countries.”
– Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on
March 2
“If you’re under 50 and you’re healthy, which is most New Yorkers, there’s very little threat here. This disease, even if you were to get it, basically acts like a common cold or flu.”
– New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, on
March 10
“We have to accept that unless a vaccine is rapidly developed, large numbers of people will get infected. The good thing is greater than 99 percent will recover without harm. Once people recover they will have immunity. The immunity will protect the herd.”
– Mitchell Katz, president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals,
on March 10
“In powerful show of defiance of #coronavirus scare, huge crowds gathering in NYC's Chinatown for ceremony ahead of annual #LunarNewYear parade. Chants of "be strong Wuhan!"
If you are staying away, you are missing out!"
– New York City Councilman Mark Levine, on
Feb. 9
“We’re telling New Yorkers, go about your lives, take the subway, go out, enjoy life."
– New York City Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot, on
Feb. 7
“but we do want to say to people ‘Come to Chinatown.’ Here we are, careful, safe and come join us.”
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on February 24
“On Jan. 24, at the urging of Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), administration officials held a briefing for the full Senate.
But the classified session was sparsely attended, two Senate aides said, because it was put together at the last minute and was held on the same day as a deadline for senators to submit their impeachment questions. Only about 14 of them showed up.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/30/how-coronavirus-shook-congress-complacency-155058
So anyway...