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

Dow has rebounded since this morning's lows...but it's safe to say that the virus will have a global effect on the markets/economy.

 

That depends on how long this virus takes to play out across the planet. China is much of the worlds supply line, and they have slowed manufacturing over this outbreak. There will be a recession at some point, how big it will be all depends on how long it takes to get these supply lines up and running again, as well as getting the workers, who will use them down the supply lines, back to work.

I am hoping that the worlds first pandemic will wake people up to how fragile our world truly is.

 

It'll be nuts if there are nationwide quarantines.

Thankfully, a good number of work can be done online now.

Need robot food delivery though.

 

Wow, Dow Jones down almost 11% in the last week...gotta believe that online shopping will sky rocket.

 

Lots of the suppliers in China are prob getting hammered. Effects will probably be in the near future.

 

Yup....Amazon, et al, will certainly benefit...Dow down 1200 points today..terrible week to say the least.

 

I do wonder how much of Amazons products are made in china though. Tons of drop shippers or Amazon FBA (fulfilled by Amazon sellers).

 

Lying Dems are deliberately holding back the money needed to protect Americans. They want dead Americans to blame on Trump.

AP fact check dings Democrats for false coronavirus claims
By Sam Dorman | Fox News

The Associated Press is calling out two leading Democratic presidential candidates for what the outlet says were inaccurate comments about the government's ability to address diseases like the coronavirus.

Former Vice President Joe Biden and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg were "both wrong" to say critical health agencies faced funding cuts. While discussing the coronavirus during Tuesday's debate, those candidates blamed President Trump for restricting resources for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH).

“There’s nobody here to figure out what the hell we should be doing. And he’s defunded — he’s defunded Centers for Disease Control, CDC, so we don’t have the organization we need. This is a very serious thing," Bloomberg said.

Biden similarly indicated Trump reversed the Obama-Biden administration's budget increases to those agencies.

“We increased the budget of the CDC. We increased the NIH budget. ... He’s wiped all that out. ... He cut the funding for the entire effort," he said.

But according to the AP, Trump's proposed budget cuts never went into effect. Funding to fight the latest outbreak also came from a congressional fund created for health emergencies.

Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness — the front lines in detecting and battling new disease. But that decline was set in motion by a congressional budget measure that predates Trump.

The broader point about there being “nobody here” to coordinate the response sells short what’s in place to handle an outbreak.

Biden's and Bloomberg's campaigns didn't immediately respond to Fox News' requests for comment.

The fact check came as the administration criticized Democrats over their handling of the issue.

During a press conference on Wednesday, Trump derided House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., over the issue.

"She wants to do the same thing with cryin' Chuck Schumer. He goes out and he says the president only asked for $2.5 billion, he should have $8.5 billion. This is the first time I've ever been told that we should take more. Usually, it's we have to take less," Trump said.

The White House is requesting $1.25 billion in new funding and wants to transfer $535 million more from an Ebola preparedness account — a move opposed by Democrats. The administration anticipates shifting money from other Department of Health and Human Services accounts and other agencies to complete the $2.5 billion response plan.

On Thursday, Schumer and Pelosi issued a statement calling for additional action in response to the crisis -- warning that "lives are at stake -- this is not the time for name-calling or playing politics."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

Hate the fact were politicizing a deadly virus...

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cn...nitoring-8400-people-for-the-coronavirus.html

California is monitoring at least 8,400 people for the coronavirus

 

Trump administration has put gag order on all doctors and scientists working for federal government. Any public statement must be pre- cleared with Pence. If you can't stop facts, at least try to stop knowledgeable people from talking about them.

 

Next they will be telling us to just "drink a different brand of beer and everything will be ok".

 

You know what this means? It means the death rate ain't so bad, probably only 1 in 100. Whew, that's a sigh of relief.

 

He belongs in the under age 10 category.