OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

So were the other 90% of leaders dismissing it as under control, then blaming the media for inflaming the situation? While doing jack shit

 

That's kind of an empty question because when the US passes them in deaths, people will just say that China lied about their numbers

 

So you think it was unnecessary?

 

Unfortunately we'll never know as China won't share accurate information. Personally I think they will have far more deaths than the US. China is now relaxing their restrictions and I believe that is purely economically driven.

 

I could, in theory, argue that the ant colony in the field out back has better intelligence if I want too. We really don't have any idea how "good" or "bad" US Intelligence is we just pretty much get to take them at their word for it. I've always heard that Isreal's intelligence agencies are always way ahead of the curve compared to the US's but I have no real tangible proof.

I know everyone hates Trump and I'm no fan, but all I see is a split country, that can't find common ground on anything, kind of doing exactly what I thought they would do. Fighting and pointing the finger at every turn, blustering about with little to no plans. Saying it's all the fault of the guy at the top, even though half of those people have been hacking away at him for years. So far all our politicians have figured out how to do throughout all this is, shut down the economy, "stimulate it", by tossing out pseudo-socialist one-time payments to the voters, while robbing the country for hundreds of billions to their corporate sponsors, and political agenda's. They haven't even figured out how to successfully get people off of their spring break beaches. Sure you can blame Trump for his failure to do more, but even Cuomo with all of his wonderful bluster hasn't managed to actually do much of anything in a timely manner, but at least he has the excuse that he can say he was waiting for Trump to do it for him.

 

.....and probably the most world travelers.

At this point, I'll agree to disagree.

 

All Presidents have Failed to Act on important critical happenings.
Everyone one of us also has failed to act on something and maybe with bad consequences. But we need to THRIVE & SURVIVE through persistence & fortitude as a people and that can change the very character of all of us if we do it as team.

 

I'd agree but the thing is there are two teams here and if you choose to support one side then the other really doesn't want you to Thrive and Survive. It's kind of like having an inner-squad scrimmage and the two teams scrimmaging each other have forgotten their supposed to want what's best for the team overall, our teams basically don't care about the team over-all it's about their team. Has been that way for years, doesn't appear to be changing. It's nice that they picked team captains for the inner-squad matchups so us fans of the crappy team have some faces to be pissed off at though.

 

Oh I think it will become an economic decision even here eventually. When that is I'm not sure, but economics will be a huge driver in the decision.

 

I hope the best outcome for us all.
I just found out that my cousin who passed yesterday morning, did pass from the virus. She went to the hospital in Lebanon and they sent her home saying she had a bad case of bronchitis, she died in her sleep.
Now they are saying she it was the virus and she should have been admitted. Did someone make the wrong call? It doesn't matter now, what matters is we learn from it and try to prevent other tragedies.

 

Thanks barfo. It is now sunshinning at my house.

 

Everyone fails, that's a given.

So, do you then take responsibility and try to fix? Or blame others, praise yourself, throw temper tantrums, demand everyone be nice to you?

 

I agree. So together, we need to learn from this disaster and vote better than last time. Wanting an outsider is not a good enough criteria for election if that someone is not competent. Voting for someone because he is against abortions is worthless if it results in thousands of born people dead. That is the whole point - and frankly, it is hard to argue for unity when the idiot at the top will only help you if you are nice to him... the buck needs to stop somewhere, otherwise, what's the point of the idea of having someone in charge?

 

The point is so we have someone to get mad at when things dont go the way we wanted.