[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #735 Reddeloos, radeloos, redeloo

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2020 21:58 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Het presidentschap van Trump is over.

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Peter_Wehner twitterde op vrijdag 13-03-2020 om 16:28:51 "The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over."
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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2020 22:23 schreef Scarface88 het volgende:
De Trump derangement syndrome is weer aanwezig.

- Trump neemt geen maatregelen tegen corona = slecht.
- Trump neemt maatregelen tegen corona = slecht.
- Economie draaide fantastisch = erfenis van Obama.
- Economie stort in vanwege corona = schuld van Trump.

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2020 22:31 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Zijn aanpak is dan ook desastreus te noemen. De lading misinformatie die Trump liep te verspreiden is gewoon schandalig te noemen, en dan heb ik het nog niet eens over het gebrek aan beleid vanuit deze administratie. Jij woont in de VS toch? Succes. Je zult het nodig hebben.

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2020 22:28 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Punt 1, 3 en 4 kloppen.

En welke maatregelen komen er nu? Concrete maatregelen, niet aankakken met "lagere belasting en grenzen dicht" want dat zal dat virus een rotzorg zijn.

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2020 22:39 schreef OMG het volgende:

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Ook wel tof dat bedrijven en staten het zelf maar regelen. Hier op werk werkt iedereen vanaf maandag thuis, bijeenkomsten van meer dan 250 mensen worden al enorm afgeraden.

Ik keek uit naar een band die hier in april zou spelen, maar helaas. Nog wat meer evenementen afgelast nu meer staten dezelfde soort regels hanteren. Was er maar een standaard in plaats van die uit de lucht gegrepen nummers per staat.

Tijdens m'n lunch nog wel een pak extra toiletpapier gehaald bij Costco en een uur in de rij gestaan.

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2020 21:51 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Krachtig leiderschap, dit.

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2020 22:50 schreef Hexagon het volgende:

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Jammer dat hij het internet naar St Petersburg ook niet gelijk even op zwart heeft gezet

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2020 22:23 schreef Scarface88 het volgende:

- Trump neemt geen maatregelen tegen corona = slecht.
- Trump neemt maatregelen tegen corona = slecht.
- Economie draaide fantastisch = erfenis van Obama.
- Economie stort in vanwege corona = schuld van Trump

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rgoodlaw twitterde op vrijdag 13-03-2020 om 23:31:07 American Society for Microbiology raises concern over "supply shortage" of reagents necessary for #COVID19 tests.

Following President Trump's remarks, @BethCameron_DC brought attention (on CNN with @jaketapper) to this statement by @ASMicrobiology.👇
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rgoodlaw twitterde op vrijdag 13-03-2020 om 23:31:07 2. "We are deeply concerned that as the number of tests increases dramatically over the coming weeks, clinical labs will be unable to deploy them without these critical components."

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2020 21:11 schreef kipknots het volgende:

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Mikel_Jollett twitterde op vrijdag 13-03-2020 om 20:48:48 Calling human beings facing the risk of death in the middle of a global pandemic "CONSUMERS" is some dark, dystopian shit. https://t.co/ubntmRaiOV reageer retweet

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Deze plaatjes van de persconferentie vatten het wel redelijk samen.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 14-03-2020 om 01:35:09 Trump caught Google off guard with a bogus coronavirus site announcement.
Google's not making a nationwide coronavirus testing website. And the company had no idea the president would say it was. https://t.co/eopL7awVs8 reageer retweet

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President Donald Trump announced Friday that the US government’s coronavirus testing apparatus, which has lagged badly behind other developed nations, would soon get an assist from Google. The search and advertising giant will create a website, Trump said, that would help Americans figure out if they need a test for the virus, and if so where they can find one.

The only problem: There is no nationwide site like the one Trump described. And Google had no idea the president was going to mention one.

A source at Google tells WIRED that company leadership was surprised that Trump announced anything about the initiative at the press conference. What he did say was also almost entirely wrong. There will be a coronavirus testing site, not from Google but from Alphabet sister company Verily. “We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing,” Google tweeted in a statement. “Verily is in the early stages of development, and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time.”

Even that, though, was not the original plan. The Verge reported Friday afternoon, Verily had intended the site for health care workers only. After Trump unexpectedly publicized the effort, Verily decided it will let anyone visit it, but can still only provide people with testing site information in the San Francisco area.

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2020 23:34 schreef speknek het volgende:
Ach ja terwijl het MKB zichzelf failliet verklaart en iedereen doodgaat hebben we altijd de memes nog.

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maggieNYT twitterde op zaterdag 14-03-2020 om 01:44:33 “Tonight I was asked by Jared through my son-in-law for my recommendations,” said Karlie Kloss’s dad on Facebook, referring to how to grapple with the Coronavirus mitigation in the US. https://t.co/05vcQWPq4j reageer retweet

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One night this week an urgent appeal went out to a Facebook group of emergency room doctors. “If you were in charge of the Federal response to the Pandemic what would your recommendations be?” asked Dr. Kurt Kloss, a physician based in New York.

The question was hardly theoretical. “I have direct channel,” he added, “to person now in charge at White House and have been asked for recommendations.”

That person, he said, is Jared Kushner, a top adviser to President Trump who has become increasingly involved in the administration’s response to the coronavirus and is also the brother-in-law of the doctor’s daughter, the model Karlie Kloss. Ms. Kloss is married to Joshua Kushner, Mr. Kushner’s brother and a venture capitalist who in 2012 helped found a start-up insurer called Oscar Health.

“Tonight I was asked by Jared through my son-in-law for my recommendations,” Dr. Kloss wrote on Wednesday evening. “That’s when I turned to you guys my fellow BAFERDs for help.” BAFERD is an acronym for emergency room doctors, joined by a number of expletives.

Among the laundry list of suggestions Dr. Kloss listed on his personal page were ideas like nationalizing testing devices “as in wartime,” activating the Federal Emergency Management Agency, creating pop-up field hospitals and canceling mass gatherings, according to the post.

Other ideas included using emergency funding to compensate those who were quarantined, and “draconian” travel restrictions. Screenings, Dr. Kloss mused, could be done over telemedecine-based video services.

In recent days, Jared Kushner has assumed large portions of the portfolio managing the coronavirus crisis and by Dr. Kloss’s account, was highly interested in the doctors’ recommendations.

In a series of follow-up posts on Wednesday evening, Dr. Kloss posted updates to the Facebook group, which includes more than 20,000 medical professionals. “Jared is reading now,” one message said.

Dr. Kloss ended the post with the phrase “got to turn this in now,” though a series of commenters who apparently knew his connection to the Trump administration urged him to send the list of ideas to the president.

“Send it to TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!” one commenter wrote, followed by more than a dozen exclamation points and three bicep emojis. “Done,” Mr. Kloss responded.

A person close to Mr. Kushner said he was unaware of Dr. Kloss’s activities and a White House spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. Messages to Dr. Kloss went unanswered.

The Spectator earlier reported news of the Facebook group.

Turning to Dr. Kloss is not entirely without merit. A graduate of the University of Miami medical school, he is an emergency medicine specialist who has practiced for more than 30 years.

But Dr. Kloss is also outside the purview of the government, where officials have struggled to get on the same page. By midday Friday, news of Dr. Kloss’s crowdsourced knowledge gathering had hit the internet.

The exchange alarmed at least some of the doctors in the group, according to a person who viewed the discussion. The only requirement to be let into the private Facebook group was showing the administrator proof of practicing medicine; anyone part of the group could comment on or view the exchange.

One person described the group as “far from a group of experts,” but more a “collection of rando doctors on social media.”

The Facebook post was deleted from Dr. Kloss’s page later Thursday evening, after reporters inquired about the matter.