US 103,000 INFECTIONS TODAY

Originally posted by watso: ↑

well spec-hope - you might not be as smart as watso, but for sure you are a lot smarter than a lot of others ..

bbc radio news and DW tv news give a totally different perspective than the bs peddled by the trump cultists ...

this is all going to blow up big time in trumpland -

bbc radio just carried a story of an ex doctor with pneumonia like symptoms - and she could not get a test - because she did not meet the criteria (something about not coming from some country where there was a problem, or in direct contact with someone who had the problem) ... BUT SHE HAD BEEN TO NEW YORK.. lol

anyway, after about the 3rd attempt, she was finally able to have the test - and expected the result in about 3 days - but that has now blown out to about 8 or 9 days ..

this is going to blow up big time in america - and very much the consequence of the clown at the top.

for the china haters - it seems that leon musk bought 1200 ventilators from china.. watso has noticed some posters advocating boycotting chinese products - obviously these people would rather die than be saved by a chinese made ventilator .. talk about candidates for the darwin award ..

ElonMuskacquires 1,200+ventilatorsto address ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2020/03/24/elon-musk-ventilators-tesla-coronavirus-covid-19-spacex/2905980001/
5 days agoTesla and SpaceX CEO ElonMuskhas acquired a trove ofventilatorsfrom China and shipped them to the U.S. for distribution to hospitals in need during the coronavirus.Musksaid on Twitter that ...

well maybe they were not made in china - but they seem to make everything else

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notice the low death rate in germany - well the germans are testing at the rate of 500,000 per week ... and trump just keeps lying about the amount of testing in america ..

How the United States fell dangerously behind in coronavirus testing
CNBC|4 hours ago
The U.S. is months behind in understanding the true scope of the coronavirus. Testing capacity is finally ramping up, but is it too late?

anyway the germans developed a test - which the americans did not want - who knows why - maybe trump wanted to MAGA and only use american rubbish

Trump Administration Rejected WHO Coronavirus Test - Why?
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a31677485/coronavirus-trump-administration-rejected-who-test/
German scientists developed the first test for COVID-19 and the World Health Organization offered the test to countries around the world and 60 countries accepted. We were not one of them.

Let’s guess why this happened, and let’s leave aside for the moment that Jared Kushner’s brother runs a company that’s involved in testing, because that should not be any kind of surprise. What I’m fairly convinced is also behind that decision is the administration*’s disdain for international organizations, alliances of any kind, and foreigners in general. Couple that with the Republican Party’s similar xenophobic impulses and overall dislike of any science that can’t be replicated with baking soda and Fizzies, and you’ve got a pretty good reason why help from overseas is more terrifying in many minds than viruses from overseas are. American exceptionalism now means “except us.”That’s not a good development.

the trump cultists are a laugh a minute - no wonder that watso looks down at them with utter contempt/disdain