[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #743 letkeep Minnesota red beyond the virus

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CNN twitterde op donderdag 02-04-2020 om 01:35:04 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said religious services conducted in churches, synagogues and houses of worship are “essential business” and therefore exempt from this stay-at-home executive order https://t.co/XMGpHMl9cz reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 02-04-2020 om 02:20:29 WaPo: Dr. Anthony Fauci is facing growing threats to his personal safety, prompting the government to step up his security, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Fauci has become a public target for some right-wing commentators and bloggers, who exercise influence over parts of the president’s base. As they press for the president to ease restrictions to reinvigorate economic activity, some of these figures have assailed Fauci and questioned his expertise.

Last month, an article depicting him as an agent of the “deep state” gained nearly 25,000 interactions on Facebook — meaning likes, comments and shares — as it was posted to large pro-Trump groups with titles such as “Trump Strong” and “Tampa Bay Trump Club.”

Alex Azar, the HHS secretary, recently grew concerned about Fauci’s safety as his profile rose and he endured more vitriolic criticism online, according to people familiar with the situation. In recent weeks, admirers have also approached Fauci, asking to him sign baseballs, along with other acts of adulation. It was determined that Fauci should have a security detail. Azar also has a security detail because he is in the presidential line of succession.

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The Big Lie that President Trump’s campaign will employ to rescue his reelection chances amid his catastrophic mishandling of the biggest U.S. public health emergency in modern times is edging into view.

Fittingly, it is being telegraphed by the author of the perfect catchphrase of the Trump era — “alternative facts.”

White House spinner Kellyanne Conway has offered a new defense of Trump that telegraphs the coming strategy. It doesn’t rest simply on the idea that Trump’s handling of coronavirus has been a decisive success, but also on the crucial idea that this crisis could not have been anticipated.

This new defense of Trump comes amid a truly seismic event: a massive capitulation to reality, in which Trump acknowledged that coronavirus deaths could be far higher than anyone can bear, leading him to extend strict social-distancing guidelines until at least the end of April.

The extraordinary emerging accounts of this abrupt reversal all tell a similar story. Horrifying TV imagery (mounting corpses in Queens) and attention-grabbing statistics (advisers told him a best-case scenario involves 100,000 to 200,000 U.S. deaths) finally penetrated for Trump.

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Op donderdag 2 april 2020 03:27 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:
Kellyanne Conway’s ugly deceptions preview the Big Lie to come

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Op donderdag 2 april 2020 05:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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joelockhart twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 21:29:10 Governor DeSantis now says he'll take the 49 Floridians off the cruise ship sitting of his shores. He won't take the other 250 Americans or the 400 Canadians. So much for the country pulling together. Thanks for the national leadership @:realDonaldTrump reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 2 april 2020 05:24 schreef DonDruiper het volgende:

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Als alles achter de rug is gaan ze de naam veranderen in de 'Not So United States of America'

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Op donderdag 2 april 2020 05:30 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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politico twitterde op donderdag 02-04-2020 om 03:45:02 President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has emerged as perhaps the most pivotal figure in the national fight against the coronavirus pandemic

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Goede keuze. Hij wist vrede te brengen in het Midden-Oosten. Dit zal helemaal appeltje-eitje voor hem zijn. Ja.

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Jared Kushner, who’s often been in competition with Trump’s chiefs of staff, continues to be the central West Wing player, leading a shadow coronavirus task force that is more powerful than the official group led by Vice President Mike Pence. In conversations Kushner has blamed HHS Secretary Alex Azar for the criticism Trump has received, according to a person in frequent touch with the West Wing. “This was a total mess,” Kushner told people when he got involved last month. “I know how to make this government run now,” he said, according to a source.

The White House downplayed tensions between Kushner and the task force. “The vice president and Jared work so well together because they both view their roles through the lens of what’s best for the American people and how do we best serve the president,” deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said. “The task force has orchestrated a massive historic partnership between the public and private sector, coordinated the federal government’s urgent response, and has unleashed a whole-of-America approach that will save lives.”

In recent days Kushner has advocated for his usual, iconoclastic public-private approach, drawing on business contacts. Last week he called Wall Street executives and asked for advice on how to help New York, people briefed on the conversation said. Kushner encouraged Trump to push back against New York governor Andrew Cuomo after Cuomo gave an emotional press conference during which he said New York was short 30,000 ventilators. In a White House meeting around this time, Kushner told people that Cuomo was being an alarmist. “I have all this data about ICU capacity. I’m doing my own projections, and I’ve gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn’t need all the ventilators,” Kushner said, according to a person present. During an interview on Hannity on March 26, Trump said: “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators.”

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Op donderdag 2 april 2020 08:06 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Werk je voor Trump's campagne?

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Op donderdag 2 april 2020 08:15 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Djeez....

Gouverneur Brian Kemp (Georgia) heeft nu eindelijk ook een order uitgevaardigd thuis te blijven omdat zoals hij zelf zegt tijdens zijn persco ze er in de laatste 24 uur pas achter kwamen dat geinfecteerde mensen zonder symptomen ook het virus kunnen overdragen.

Op 01.01.10 uur:

Gov. Brian Kemp, government partners provide Georgia COVID-19 response update

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Exacte gegevens over de besmettelijke periode ontbreken. Een patiënt is in ieder geval besmettelijk tijdens de symptomatische fase (Huang 2020). Zowel patiënten met milde als ernstige klachten kunnen virus uitscheiden (Zhang 2020). Ook in de feces van de patiënt is het virus met PCR aantoonbaar (WHO 2020b, ECDC 2020b). Na het verdwijnen van de klachten kan het virus met PCR nog aantoonbaar blijven in zowel de keel (7-14 dagen) als feces (4-5 weken). Ook is virus met PCR aangetoond in de keel 1-2 dagen voordat ziekteverschijnselen optreden (Tong 2020). Bij sommige asymptomatische personen is het virus met PCR aantoonbaar in de keel zonder dat zij zelf later ziek werden (Bai 2020, Hoehl 2020, Pan 2020, Zou 2020).

Onduidelijk is of het aantonen van virus bij asymptomatische personen gerelateerd is aan besmettelijkheid. Op basis van de huidige literatuur zijn het voornamelijk symptomatische personen die bijdragen aan de verspreiding en lijkt de bijdrage van de asymptomatische personen aan de verspreiding beperkt (Ghinai 2020). Slechts bij één asymptomatische persoon met PCR aangetoond virus in de keel was het mogelijk het virus ook daadwerkelijk te kweken (Hoehl 2020). Tevens zijn op dit moment geen aanwijzingen dat faeco-orale overdracht bijdraagt aan de verspreiding.

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Op donderdag 2 april 2020 08:38 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ligt het trouwens aan mij of zijn de meeste Trumpisten door de pandemie nog dommer dan normaal aan het doen? Het lijkt alsof Trump's idioterie goedpraten nu echt een instictieve reactie is geworden.

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Op donderdag 2 april 2020 00:09 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Onze factchecker vraagt zich af wat hij daarmee bedoelt: 'he's not most-followed'

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ddale8 twitterde op donderdag 02-04-2020 om 00:06:21 Trump: "I have hundreds of millions of people. Number one on Facebook...did you know?...I just found out." (He's never explained what "#1" means; he's not most-followed.)

Shortly before that comment, CNN cut away from live-airing this not-coronavirus-so-far Trump session. reageer retweet

En toen hield CNN het ook voor gezien