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 […]
Tag: pandemic
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 […]
5/2/2020
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 […]
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 […]
4/28/2020
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/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 […]
4/23/2020
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 […]
4/21/2020
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 […]
4/20/2020
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 […]
4/18/2020
CORONAVIRUS/JARED KUSHNER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “There were three phases [of the coronavirus pandemic]. There’s the panic phase, the pain phase and then the comeback phase. I do believe that last night symbolized kind of the beginning of the comeback phase. That doesn’t mean there’s not still a lot of pain and there won’t be pain for a […]
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 […]
4/11/2020
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 […]
3/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[The Obama] administration spent a lot of time working with the incoming Trump administration, laying out exactly what could happen with a future pandemic, and that they were likely, not unlikely to occur… We set up an office within the White House directly to stay focused on this, in the president […]
3/31/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE (ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re in the middle of a global pandemic, and the Trump Administration is preventing people from getting health care. I can’t believe this needs to be said, but President Trump needs to reopen Obamacare enrollment, and he needs to do it now. Lives are at stake.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 31, […]
3/19/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I don’t view it as an act of God; I would view it as is something that just surprised the whole world. And if people would have known about it… It could have been stopped right where it came from — China… So we slashed red tape to develop vaccines and therapies […]
3/17/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our guidance yesterday urges Americans to take action for 15 days to help stem the outbreak… We’ll see what happens after that… our country can be rolling again pretty quickly… I’ve always known this is a — this is a real — this is a pandemic. I’ve felt it was a pandemic long […]
3/16/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN: “Thank you to our health care providers, first responders, grocery and other retail workers, and so many others that are keeping us safe and prepared. This coronavirus pandemic makes it clear that all workers deserve paid sick live, workplace protections and unemployment benefits.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 16, 2020 2:25 pm […]
3/11/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My fellow Americans: Tonight, I want to speak with you about our nation’s unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak that started in China and is now spreading throughout the world. Today, the World Health Organization officially announced that this is a global pandemic… To keep new cases from entering our shores, we […]
2/28/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “No one takes the president’s word for these things. He at a minimum exaggerates everything, and the idea that he’s going to stand there and say ‘everything’s fine, don’t worry?’ Who’s going to believe that? Let the experts speak like we did in our administration. Let the experts take this [coronavirus […]
2/23/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP PEOPLE: “There is an increasing probability of a full-blown COVID-19 pandemic that could infect as many as 100 million Americans, with a loss of life of as many as 1-2 million souls.” -Peter Navarro, Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, as quoted by Jonathan Swan and […]
1/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The lack of immune protection or an existing cure or vaccine would leave Americans defenseless in the case of a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on U.S. soil. This lack of protection elevates the risk of the coronavirus evolving into a full-blown pandemic, imperiling the lives of millions of Americans.” -Peter Navarro, Assistant to the […]
10/25/2019
[Note: On Oct. 25, 2019, Joe Biden retweeted an Oct. 24, 2020 Washington Post article, “None of these 195 countries — the U.S. included — is fully prepared for a pandemic, report says,” along with his own comment as shown below. Although COVID-19 was about two months away at the time of Biden’s quote, we decided to […]