Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/18/trump-to-visit-fema-do-corona.html
Oh no, not this crap again
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**“We expect him to make at the 11am coronavirus Task Force briefing”
So no “Price is Right” Thursday?!
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My prediction:
11am: Trump says FEMA has a perfect plan, a beautiful plan, to deal with china virus and that they are ready to start it tomorrow.
12pm: FEMA clarify that, in fact, they don’t.
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I think you mean 12pm. To wait thirteen hours to clear up a Trump falsity would be an irresponsibly long time. Nick one ASAP, because there’s no telling what the cumulative effect of all that misinformation wafting through the ether is going to be on our psychic health.
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He didn’t disband FEMA yet? I thought they were gone after I saw the reaction in Puerto Rico.
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Noon: “No really, we don’t have all those FEMA camps that the conspiracy theories say. That’s just crazy-talk. The President misspoke.”
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No, but this will be the soundtrack for us all.
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FEMA should have been activated a month ago; gathering resources, making local connections and identifying infrastructure and supplies.
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By the timeline that I saw, South Korea identified its very first case of the virus on the same day that the US did. So Dear Leader dithered and downplayed the problem “it’s a hoax by the Dems and also fake news!”, while South Korea ramped up immediately to begin extensive testing and preparations for treatment.
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And there was no reason not to. I understand by how his twisted logic he wanted to downplay and suppress the numbers, but activating FEMA would have been like checking the oil before a long trip. He wouldn’t even have to have made an announcement.
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Oh man, I can’t wait for the photo op of Trump throwing rolls of toilet paper to the crowd at a disaster relief centre.
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If the pres was Christopher Walken the announcement would be for more cowbell.
If only.
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A French study of 48 people was released yesterday that showed an anti-malarial drug improved the recovery time of COVID-19 patients by ~50%. Maybe someone told trump about it and he will announce that a cure was found and the pandemic is now over.
Or maybe he’ll just talk about how perfect his response has been and double down on the fictitious google website that Jared Kushner’s using to profiteer from the pandemic.
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Exactly. He could have insisted that testing capabilities be immediately increased. He could have required CDC to acquire the WHO tests until we developed our own version. Because he is only capable of viewing everything through the lens of himself, his initial reaction was to downplay the threat and deny the problem. And blame it on the Dems and the media.
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Is it too late for Walken to run?
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As much as I dislike Trump, I would like to hope he (or someone in his administration) has finally gotten their shit together, simply because of the human lives at stake.
But I have yet to see evidence that he ever knows what he’s doing. He cares about the image of competence, not actual competence. And as long as Sean Hannity is there to back him up, at least half of the population will approve.
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Available from Ivanka’s company.
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Or better yet, hand off management of the crisis to someone who does know what the hell they are doing.
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Deat ghod, how I wish we had Joe Biden in the driver’s seat right now.
