CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “You know, the virus will pass. There’ll be more death, that the virus will pass, with or without a vaccine. And I think we’re doing very well on the vaccines but, with or without a vaccine, it’s going to pass, and we’re going to be back to normal. But it’s been a rough process. […]
Category: COVID-19
5/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Look. Our country has to go back to being our country again. You have people that are not going to stand for this. And I understand them very well. And we are going to put out little embers and little fires and maybe some big fires, but we still have to go back to […]
5/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “I think actually the decision to close the country was the biggest decision I’ve ever had to make, and I’ve said that very loud and clear. I mean, we had the greatest economy in history, in the history of the world, not only our economy, it was our greatest economy. Best employment numbers, best […]
5/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The choice between the economy and public health is a false one—if we don’t beat the virus, we’ll never get back to full economic strength and will lose countless lives. We have to get the number of new cases down and scale up testing before we return to some sense of […]
5/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/SANCTUARY CITIES/TAXES: “Well run States should not be bailing out poorly run States, using CoronaVirus as the excuse! The elimination of Sanctuary Cities, Payroll Taxes, and perhaps Capital Gains Taxes, must be put on the table. Also lawsuit indemnification & business deductions for restaurants & ent.“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 5, 2020 8:37 am […]
5/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “Exciting to see our Country starting to open up again!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 5, 2020 2:33 am […]
5/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I’ve had tremendous lack of support from Democrats…I thought the Democrats — because this is a crisis. I thought the Democrats would come together and work with us. They really don’t… They said I called it a hoax. No, I called the Democrats a hoax because of what they were saying […]
5/5/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This is a situation — who would have ever thought a thing like this could happen? Frankly, I’ve read about and heard about, in 1917, The Great Flu. They call that the Flu, right? The Spanish flu, and it might have killed 100 million people. Probably stopped the First World War ‘cause […]
5/4/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Every morning I start off like I did this morning, with leading medical advisors for an hour, an hour and a half briefing on the state of the coronavirus in the United States. And guess what? Nursing homes and meat packing plants, are the most dangerous places there are right now. That’s not […]
5/4/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a rash of racist messages, verbal and physical attacks, and other incidents of hate directed against AAPIs [Asian American and Pacific Islander]. Such assaults strike at the heart of our country — all the more so at a time when so many AAPIs […]
5/4/2020
AFRICAN AMERICANS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “The data we’ve seen so far suggests that African Americans are dying from COVID-19 at a far higher rate than whites. African Americans represent an especially high percentage of the front-line workers putting themselves at greater risk to sustain the economy and keep the rest of the country safe and fed — […]
5/4/2020
BORDER/CALIFORNIA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEXICO/WALL: “Mexico is sadly experiencing very big CoronaVirus problems, and now California, get this, doesn’t want people coming over the Southern Border. A Classic! They are sooo lucky that I am their President. Border is very tight and the Wall is rapidly being built!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 4, 2020 3:42 am […]
5/4/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Getting great reviews, finally, for how well we are handling the pandemic, especially our strong production of desperately needed ventilators, the building of field hospitals & beds, and soon, the great things we are doing on testing. People are really working well together!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 4, 2020 2:19 am […]
5/3/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On January 23rd, I was told that there could be a virus coming in, but it was of no really import. In other words, it wasn’t, ‘Oh, we’ve going to do something. We got to do something.’ It was a brief conversation, and it was only on January 23rd. Shortly thereafter, I […]
5/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are very confident that we’re going to have a vaccine at the end of the year… Now, the doctors would say, ‘Well, you shouldn’t say that.’ I’ll say what I think. I’ve met with the heads of the big companies. These are great companies. Yeah, I think we’re going to have […]
5/3/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: “The World Health Organization has been a disaster. Everything they said was wrong. And they’re China-centric. ll they do is they agree with China, whatever China wants to do. So our country, perhaps foolishly, in retrospect, has been paying $450 million a year to the World Health Organization. And China has been […]
5/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “We are very confident that we are going to have a vaccine at the end of the year.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum Host a Town Hall with Donald Trump – May 3, 2020,” factba.se, May 3, 2020 […]
5/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “[T]he one thing about this disease that everybody’s learned very easily and very quickly is, it’s so contagious. It is the most contagious thing people have seen. So, in 1917, we had a horrible – in that case it was the flu, right, you remember, the Spanish Flu, so much has been written about […]
5/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “I think we’re going to have a vaccine by the end of the year. Now, the doctors would say, well, you shouldn’t say that. I will say what I think.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum Host a Town Hall with Donald Trump – May 3, 2020,” factba.se, […]
5/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS: “The Democrats, the radical left, whatever you want, would rather see people — I’m going to be very nice. I’m not going to say die. I’m going to say would rather see people not get well, because they think I’m going to get credit if, you know, hydroxychloroquine works. And I don’t want the […]
5/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “I used to say 65,000. And now I’m saying 80,000 or 90,000. And it goes up. And it goes up rapidly. But it’s still going to be, no matter how you look at it, at the very lower end of the plane, if we did the shutdown.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: […]
5/3/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “It came from China. It should have been stopped. It could have been stopped on the spot. They chose not to do it or something happened. Either there was incompetence or they didn’t do it for some reason. And we’re going to have to find out what that reason was.” -Donald Trump as quoted […]
5/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “I think a lot of people want to go back. They just want to go back. You see it every day. You see demonstrations all over the country and those are meaningful demonstrations. It’s big stuff. But you also have some people that are very scared. Probably everybody’s scared when you get right down […]
5/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/ELIZABETH WARREN: “The coronavirus rescue package imposed some oversight of these programs, but when he signed it, Trump said he’d ignore the law and prevent a new inspector general from communicating with Congress. He then appointed a White House loyalist to serve in that role. And just to be sure there was no […]
5/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/ELIZABETH WARREN: “Relief legislation passed by Congress provides critical support for hospitals, families, small businesses and local governments — efforts that will save lives and help cushion the economic blows of this pandemic. As the price of their support for these measures, Trump and the Republicans insisted on a $500 billion slush fund […]
5/3/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Look, we’re going to lose anywhere from 75, 80 to 100 thousand people. That’s a horrible thing. We shouldn’t lose one person over this. This should have been stopped in China. It should have been stopped. But if we didn’t do it, the minimum we would have lost is a million-two, a million-four, a […]
5/3/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/INTELLIGENCE: “Intelligence has just reported to me that I was correct, and that they did NOT bring up the CoronaVirus subject matter until late into January, just prior to my banning China from the U.S. Also, they only spoke of the Virus in a very non-threatening, or matter of fact, manner… ….Fake News got […]
5/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….And then came a Plague, a great and powerful Plague, and the World was never to be the same again! But America rose from this death and destruction, always remembering its many lost souls, and the lost souls all over the World, and became greater than ever before!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]
5/2/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On March 6th, Donald Trump said: “Anybody that wants a test can get a test.” It was a lie then, and it’s still not true nearly two months later. It’s a disgrace, and it’s slowing efforts to reopen safely. This administration needs to act immediately to surge testing nationwide.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, […]
5/2/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We left a playbook. He ignored it. We created an office to prepare for pandemics. He gutted it. We had CDC officials in China to detect and contain outbreaks. He pulled them out. Trump can try and shift blame all he wants, but the fact is his actions left us unprepared.” -Joe […]
5/2/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MITCH MCCONNELL/NANCY PELOSI: “No reason to turn it down, except politics. We have plenty of testing. Maybe you need a new Doctor over there. Crazy Nancy will use it as an excuse not to show up to work! RT @senatemajldr The time is now for all Americans to engage in basic common-sense measures, and for […]
5/2/2020
ANTHONY FAUCI/CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/SENATE: “The Democrats are just, as always, looking for trouble. They do nothing constructive, even in times of crisis. They don’t want to blame their cash cow, China, for the plague. China is blaming Europe. Dr. Fauci will be testifying before the Senate very soon! #DONOTHINGDEMOCRATS“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 2, 2020 1:00 pm […]
5/2/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HOUSE OF REPS/NANCY PELOSI/SENATE: “There is tremendous CoronaVirus testing capacity in Washington for the Senators returning to Capital Hill on Monday. Likewise the House, which should return but isn’t because of Crazy Nancy P. The 5 minute Abbott Test will be used. Please inform Dr. Brian P. Monahan. @MarkMeadows“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 2, 2020 […]
5/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Because we’ve flattened the curve, slowed the spread, and massively expanded our healthcare capacity, we’re now in the process of gradually reopening our country. And it’s being done with a tremendous — a tremendous gusto and vigor… It’s a strategy guided by science, evidence, facts, and reason. A never-ending lockdown would inflict […]
5/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Not long ago, models predicted that between 1.5 million and 2.2 million people would have died in the United States without the mitigation. Through our aggressive response and the remarkable commitment and bravery of American people, we have saved thousands and thousands of lives… And hopefully, we’re going to come in below […]
5/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS: “So, what’s happening is the Democrats have come to us… They want to help the states. They want help — bailouts. And, you know, bailouts are very tough. And they happen to be Democrat states. It’s California. It’s New York. It’s Illinois. You start with those three. And the Republican states are in strong […]
5/1/2020
AOC/CHUCK SCHUMER/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEDIA/NEW YORK: “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer was on a late night show using a false talking point over & over again. ‘We don’t have enough testing ,’ he would repeat, when he knows we have done a great job on Testing, just like we have on Ventilators and everything else. He lied, gave NY SALT. […]
4/30/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “We need more tests. Our front line workers need protective equipment. Americans need additional economic relief. Yet the Trump Administration is spending time and energy on President Trump’s wasteful border wall. Unbelievable.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 30, 2020 9:00 pm […]
4/30/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/INTELLIGENCE/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump either read his daily briefings and ignored the warnings, or didn’t read them at all. Either way, it’s a complete and unjustifiable dereliction of duty.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 30, 2020 3:17 pm […]
4/30/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOBS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than 30 million Americans have now lost their jobs since this pandemic seized our nation… Millions upon millions of Americans are suffering economically, there are more than a million confirmed COVID-19 cases nationwide, and we have now lost more American lives to this virus in just a few weeks than we […]
4/30/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We just got hit by a vicious virus that should have never been allowed to escape China. They should have stopped it at the source. They didn’t do that. A hundred and eighty-four countries have been devastated by it, including China, by the way. Because I looked at their numbers, and their […]
4/30/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/SENIORS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our cherished seniors enrich every aspect of our national life… We’ll show them the same love and loyalty they’ve shown us and they’ve shown our nation every day of their lives. No effort will be spared to give America’s seniors the care and support and devotion and love they have earned and […]
4/30/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Through aggressive actions and the devotion of our doctors and nurses, however, we have held our fatality rate far below hard-hit other countries such as Spain and Italy and United Kingdom and Sweden. We’re way below other countries… [O]ur death totals — our numbers — per million people are really very, very […]
4/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump Admin failed to provide enough testing, PPE, and safety enforcement. Workers have gotten sick, plants have closed, and the meat supply is at risk. It’s past time workers have the protections they need to stay healthy and do their job safely.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 29, 2020 7:16 pm […]
4/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: “Mr. President, on testing: Yesterday, you said that we will very soon be testing 5 million people…”] “Everyone kept saying, ‘You said there’d be five.’ That was a study that came out. Somebody came out with a study of 5 million people… Do I think we will? I think we will, […]
4/28/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/INTELLIGENCE/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I did the foreign policy brief this morning which I do every morning… And they were reading to me and we were talking about what happened, that article in the Washington Post yesterday and how many times, how many times the president was explicitly by his national security team warned of this […]
4/28/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress gave president Trump the tools, people on payroll, and the Cares Act, how they could help. But he hasn’t fully used them. President Trump, in my view, should be expanding short term compensation programs for workers rather than laying off people… And I think we should immediately freeze rent for […]
4/28/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/EXECUTIVE ORDERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is important that processors of beef, pork, and poultry (“meat and poultry”) in the food supply chain continue operating and fulfilling orders to ensure a continued supply of protein for Americans… Under the delegation of authority provided in this order, the Secretary of Agriculture shall take all appropriate action under […]
4/28/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: Some health experts say the U.S. needs 5 million tests per day by June in order to safely reopen.] “Well, it will increase it and it’ll increase it by much more than that in the very near future. We’re way ahead of everyone on testing. We haven’t been given the press […]
4/28/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now that our experts believe the worst days of the pandemic are behind us, Americans are looking forward to the safe and rapid reopening of our country.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Supporting our Nation’s Small Businesses Through the Paycheck Protection Program,” whitehouse.gov, Apr. 28, 2020 […]
4/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are now several months into this crisis, and this administration refuses to own up to the original sin of its failed response — the failure to test. Failed leadership, bureaucracy, and a lack of urgency have slowed the testing production process and continue to put us behind nations like Italy, […]
4/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN: “We all agree on the need to reopen the economy and allow some semblance of normalcy as soon as possible. The economic pain and suffering are simply too great to delay unnecessarily. But it is wrong to talk about ‘choosing’ between our public health and our economy. That’s a false choice. If we […]
4/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]e continue to mourn with thousands of families across the country whose loved ones have been stolen from us by the invisible enemy. We grieve by their side as one family — this great American family… We also stand in solidarity with the thousands of Americans who are ill and waging a brave […]
4/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID/FEDERAL FUNDING/LEGISLATION: “Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act [H.R. 266] Became law April 24, 2020 [signed into law by Donald Trump] At $483 billion, the measure authorized more funding for the Paycheck Protection Program and funding for COVID-19 testing.” -Nicholas Wu and Javier Zarracina, “All of the COVID-19 stimulus bills, visualized,” usatoday.com, Mar. […]
4/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: “Mr. President, can you clarify your comments about injections of disinfectant? They were quite provocative.”] “No, I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen. Now, disinfectant for doing this maybe on the hands would work. And I was asking the question of the […]
4/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I want to thank Congress for answering my call to pass this critical funding. And the bill includes, as you probably know — you’ve been watching it over the last week as it matured unto this this point — $320 billion to refill the Paycheck Protection Program, helping keep millions and millions […]
4/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “The U.S. passed 50,000 coronavirus deaths on Friday [Apr. 24, 2020] and is closing in on nearly 1 million infections as several states around the nation begin implementing plans for reopening businesses and easing social distancing.” -Michael James, “U.S. hits 50,000 deaths from coronavirus – just as many states announce plans to ease social […]
4/23/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS: “I once mentioned that maybe it does go away with heat and light. And people didn’t like that statement very much. The — the fake news didn’t like it at all. And I just threw it out as a suggestion, but it seems like that’s the case, because when it’s on a surface […]
4/23/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “UV light? Injecting disinfectant? Here’s an idea, Mr. President: more tests. Now. And protective equipment for actual medical professionals.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 23, 2020 8:41 pm […]
4/23/2020
CONGRESS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOBS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress gave President Trump the tools to keep people on payroll in the CARES Act, but he hasn’t fully used them. Instead of standing by while the economy sheds millions of jobs each week during this pandemic, Trump should be working around the clock to keep as many people as possible […]
4/23/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOBS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, we learned that another 4.4 million people filed new unemployment claims last week, bringing the total number of Americans filing new unemployment claims to 26 million since this crisis started, with many more feeling the direct economic impact of this pandemic. These aren’t just overwhelming numbers or aggregate statistics — […]
4/23/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So I asked Bill [Bryan, acting undersecretary for the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate] a question… So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light… And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can […]
4/22/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Workers, like grocery store cashiers, are on the front lines of this crisis risking their lives every day to combat COVID-19 and keep this country running. President Trump is refusing to do his job, but we’ve got to do ours.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 22, 2020 8:45 pm […]
4/22/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “This year, Earth Day comes amid global crises: the difficult, immediate, and undeniable reality of pandemic disease, and the existential threat of climate change — which we are already experiencing and which threatens equally deadly results in the near future if we fail to act. COVID-19 and the climate emergency both underscore the […]
4/21/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “I know COVID-19 is causing many people to feel anxious about what the future holds or lonely during this time of social distancing — and that’s okay, just know that you’re not alone.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 21, 2020 4:15 pm […]
4/21/2020
CONGRESS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “As Congress reaches a new deal on economic relief measures, including more funds for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for small businesses, I am grateful to Democratic leaders for securing more funds for hospitals and testing, and more resources for smaller lenders and community-based financial institutions, as well as the depleted Emergency Injury […]
4/22/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I do want to mention a man who’s done a very good job for us: Dr. Robert Redfield. He was totally misquoted in the media on a statement about the fall season and the virus. Totally misquoted. I spoke to him. He said it was ridiculous. He was talking about the flu […]
4/21/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have a solemn duty to ensure these unemployed Americans regain their jobs and their livelihoods. Therefore, in order to protect American workers, I will be issuing a temporary suspension of immigration into the United States… It would be wrong and unjust for Americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with […]
4/21/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re opening up America again. Twenty states representing 40 percent of the U.S. population have announced that they are making plans and preparations to safely restart their economies in the very near future… My administration has worked aggressively with Congress to negotiate this critical 482-billion-dollar funding package. We reached a deal that […]
4/21/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was clear to me that when the Trump administration transitioned from [the Barack Obama administration], they had no interest in talking about pandemics. We warned them about them. We had been concerned there would be future pandemics. We had set up an office within the White House to have a […]
4/21/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The frustration is, he’s leaving so many people behind. Look at all the first responders. Look at all the people who are putting themselves in harm’s way. Literally, they’re risking their lives, and some are losing their lives. … What I focus on is, look at the damage being done to […]
4/20/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This pandemic has reaffirmed the importance of keeping vital supply chains at home. We cannot outsource our independence. We cannot be reliant on foreign nations. I’ve been saying this for a long time. If we’ve learned one thing it’s: Let’s do it here, let’s build it here, let’s make it here. We’ve […]
4/19/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ENVIRONMENT/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At a time when studies are linking air pollution with COVID-19 mortality rates for the most vulnerable in our society, the Trump Administration is rolling back environmental protections — allowing more poison into our air.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 19, 2020 11:01 am […]
4/19/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: “If there were groups of people planning to protest tomorrow against the government shutdown, what would be your advice?”] “People feel that way. You’re allowed to protest. I mean, they feel that way. I watched a protest and they were all six feet apart. I mean, it was a very orderly […]
4/19/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We also are going to be using, and we’re preparing to use, the Defense Production Act to increase swab production in one U.S. facility by over 20 million additional swabs per month… You must remember that the governors wanted to have total control over the opening of their states, but now they […]
4/18/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump left our country unprepared and unprotected for the worst public health and economic crisis in our lifetime — and now we’re paying the price.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 18, 2020 2:44 pm […]
4/18/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump may not like it, but it’s his responsibility to step up and lead our nation’s testing strategy. Mass testing is key to reopening the economy and returning to some semblance of normalcy.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 18, 2020 10:30 am […]
4/18/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “While we mourn the tragic loss of life — and you can’t mourn it any stronger than we’re mourning it — the United States has produced dramatically better health outcomes than any other country, with the possible exception of Germany… So when the fake news gets out there and they start […]
4/17/2020
CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY: “I hope we can do rallies. It’s great for the country. It’s great spirit. It’s great for a lot of things. It’s a — for me, it’s a tremendous way of getting the word out. If you look at our success rate, we’ve had tremendous success. We win where we have rallies, including endorsements of […]
4/17/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The uncomfortable truth is that Donald Trump left America exposed and vulnerable to this pandemic. He ignored the warnings of health experts and intelligence agencies and put his trust in China’s leaders instead. Now, we’re all paying the price.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 17, 2020 2:02 pm […]
4/17/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “We’re in the middle of a global pandemic. No one feeling ill should have to choose between earning a paycheck or staying home to recover. We need to provide paid sick leave to everyone who needs it immediately.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 17, 2020 10:00 am […]
4/17/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: The investigation into whether the virus escaped from this lab in Wuhan, how active is that?] “A lot of people are looking at it. It seems to make sense. They talk about a certain kind of bat, but that bat wasn’t in that area. If you can believe this, that’s what […]
4/17/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’ve got to open up our country. We’re going to open it up in quadrants. We’re going to open it up in states. Some of the states should get together and they should work on their own borders and everything, because you don’t want to have people pouring through the border of […]
4/17/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump is not responsible for COVID-19, but he is responsible for our slow, uncoordinated response. Experts say that if we had acted two weeks earlier, more lives could have been saved.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 17, 2020 6:20 pm […]
4/16/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/MINIMUM WAGE: “I think we have an opportunity now to significantly change the mindset of the American people, things they weren’t ready to do, you know, even two, three years ago. They’re now going ‘Oh, my Lord! Look at all those people out there making minimum wage or saving their lives, look at all […]
4/16/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Look, I think it’s a false choice to say you have to choose between the economy and our health. If you don’t fix the health side, the economy is never going to get right. You’re never going to be back in that place. You’re never going to be at a place […]
4/16/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s about testing, tracing, and treatment. And – and so we’re way behind on the testing piece. And I don’t quite – I don’t quite understand why we’re taking so long to do the kinds of things that that have to be done… I don’t know why we don’t set up […]
4/16/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A prolonged lockdown combined with a forced economic depression would inflict an immense and wide-ranging toll on public health. This includes a sharp rise in drug abuse, alcohol abuse, suicide, heart disease, and many other dimensions of physical and mental wellbeing… Therefore, my administration is issuing new federal guidelines that will allow governors […]
4/15/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The battle continues, but the data suggests that nationwide we have passed the peak on new [coronavirus] cases. Hopefully that will continue and we will continue to make great progress. These encouraging developments have put us in a very strong position to finalize guidelines for states on reopening the country, which we’ll […]
4/15/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The battle continues, but the data suggests that nationwide we have passed the peak on new cases… You already know we’ll be opening up states — some states much sooner than others. And we think some of the states can actually open up before the deadline of May 1st… Do you think […]
4/15/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “COVID-19 is amplifying so many inequities in our society. We have to ensure support gets to those who need it immediately, and then do the necessary work to rip out the structural racism that creates these inequalities.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 13, 2020 12:46 pm […]
4/14/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The plans to reopen the country are close to being finalized, and we will soon be sharing details and new guidelines with everybody… And I will then be authorizing each individual governor, of each individual state, to implement a reopening and a very powerful reopening plan of their state at a time and […]
4/14/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: “Today I’m instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus… The WHO pushed China’s misinformation about the virus, saying it was not communicable and […]
4/13/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: There’s a debate over what authority you have to order the country reopened. What authority do you have?] “When somebody is the President of the United States, the authority is total, and that’s the way it’s got to be… We will soon finalize new and very important guidelines to give governors […]
4/13/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/USPS: “Our U.S. Postal Service workers are at the front lines of this crisis. Millions of people are relying on them for things like medicine and other essentials. And the President is trying to let them fail. Congress should do everything it can to prevent this.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 13, 2020 12:46 […]
4/12/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Safe and effective treatment can help manage the risk of the coronavirus. But of course, the only complete solution is finding a vaccine to extinguish the threat it poses. Scientists are making great strides on this, but discovering and testing a vaccine is only the first step: Manufacturing sufficient doses and […]
4/12/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “First, we have to get the number of new cases of the disease down significantly. That means social distancing has to continue and the people on the front lines have to get the supplies and equipment they need. President Trump needs to use his full powers under the Defense Production Act […]
4/12/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What is the plan to safely reopen America? So far, the Trump administration hasn’t supplied an answer. The plan has to start with responding effectively to the immediate medical crisis and ultimately lead to the widespread availability and administration of a vaccine. But we can’t stay home and just wait for the […]
4/11/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re working very hard with Congress on stimulus and taking care of our workers and taking care of people whose fault this was not… And I think the stimulus coupled with this pent-up demand and everybody wanting to get out and go back to work, I think we’re going to have just […]
4/11/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE (ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are in the middle of a global pandemic — and people need access to health care now more than ever. Donald Trump should reopen Obamacare enrollment immediately.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 11, 2020 8:00 pm […]