Sunday, April 5, 2020
חולה קורונה נתפס עם נוסעים באוטובוס לירושלים
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חוסר אחריות: כוח משטרה עצר היום חולה קורונה חרדי שברח מבידוד בחיפה ונסע באוטובוס 'אגד' לירושלים • עשרות הנוסעים נשלחו לבידוד • נהג האוטובוס קיבל קנס
Coronavirus Is Coming—And Trump Isn’t Ready
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/now-trump-needs-deep-state-fight-coronavirus/605752/
We all knew the moment would come. It could have been over Iran or
North Korea, a hurricane or an earthquake. But it may be the new
coronavirus out of China that tests whether President Donald Trump can
govern in a crisis—and there is ample reason to be uneasily skeptical.
The
U.S. government has the tools, talent, and team to help fight the
coronavirus abroad and minimize its impact at home. But the combination
of Trump’s paranoia toward experienced government officials (who lack
“loyalty” to him), inattention to detail, opinionated rejection of
science and evidence, and isolationist instincts may prove toxic when it
comes to managing a global-health security challenge. To succeed, Trump
will have to trust the kind of government experts he has disdained to
date, set aside his own terrible instincts, lead from the White House,
and work closely with foreign leaders and global institutions—all things
he has failed to do in his first 1,200 days in office.
Trump briefly withdrew from politics after his “birther” campaign
against President Barack Obama was discredited, but his next big public
splash was a virulent, xenophobic, fearmongering outburst over the West
African Ebola epidemic of 2014. Trump’s numerous tweets—calling Obama a
“dope” and “incompetent” for his handling of the epidemic—were both
wrongheaded and consequential: One study found that Trump’s tweets were the single largest factor in panicking the American people in the fall of 2014.
How paranoid and cruel was Trump? He blasted Obama for evacuating an
American missionary back to the United States when that doctor
contracted Ebola while fighting the disease in Africa. Fortunately,
Obama ignored Trump’s protests, and Kent Brantley was successfully
treated in the U.S.; he continues doing good works today.
Some of the world’s leading infectious-disease experts continue to
serve in the administration, led by the incomparable Tony Fauci at the
National Institutes of Health, and the level-headed Anne Schuchat at the
CDC. These two, along with other leaders at key science agencies (and
scores of men and women working for them), have decades of experience
serving under presidents of both parties, and are among the world’s best
at what they do.
Rush Limbaugh So Mad At Deep State Coronavirus Liars Like Dr. Fauci, He Just Might Die!
https://www.wonkette.com/rush-limbaugh-so-mad-at-deep-staters-like-dr-fauci-he-just-might-die
Rush Limbaugh is telling your Republican parents
that it's cool to go outside and play right now, because the so-called
"experts" in the White House are actually just Deep State plants sent
(probably by Hillary Clinton) to make Donald Trump look bad.
You know, Rush Limbaugh has advanced lung cancer and he's not dead yet -- clearly -- but if he keeps going like this, ignoring the actual science about coronavirus, he might end up killing himself at least seven minutes before God planned to, and he might take a bunch of his old-balls-ass listeners with him in the process.
Right-Wing Influencers Are Convinced Dr. Anthony Fauci Is Working With Hillary Clinton To Undermine Donald Trump
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/qanon-right-wing-influencers-fauci-deep-state-clinton
Right-wing influencers and QAnon supporters are waging
an information war against Anthony Fauci, the director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and top-ranking member of
the White House's Coronavirus Task Force. They are falsely claiming that
Fauci is working with Hillary Clinton and the deep state to cause an
economic collapse and discredit President Donald Trump.
Coronavirus: Fox News host criticises top health expert for 'national suicide plan'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-fox-news-tucker-carlson-dr-anthony-fauci-shutdown-national-suicide-a9447756.html
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has criticised infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci over his national recommendations to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Mr Carlson used time on his show on Friday evening to release a diatribe against the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and his suggestion of a nationwide lockdown.
"More than 10 million Americans have already lost their jobs," Mr
Carlson said. "Imagine another year of this. That would be national
suicide, and yet, that is what Anthony Fauci is suggesting, at least."
Anthony Fauci becomes a fringe MAGA target
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/24/anthony-fauci-fringe-maga-target-147401
The far-right’s most zealous Trump supporters have set their sights on Dr. Anthony Fauci.
To the vast majority of Republicans,
the entire medical community and the country at large, Fauci is the
government’s leading infectious disease expert, respected for providing
Americans with consistent, factual information about the coronavirus
pandemic — even if it means contradicting President Donald Trump while
he hovers feet away.
But to a vocal minority of right-wing
blogs and pro-Trump pundits, Fauci is the embodiment of the
establishment forces that have been arrayed against the president since
he came to Washington. And those voices are getting louder amid
rumblings about Fauci’s standing with Trump as the president itches to
get the economy restarted in the coming weeks.
Another Thing to Fear Out There: Coronavirus Scammers
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/politics/coronavirus-scams-fraud-price-gouging.html
The white banner with images of red
crosses had been hastily erected in front of two pop-up tents at a
convenience store parking lot in central Louisville, Ky. “Covid-19
testing here,” it read.
A clutch of
workers in white hazmat suits swabbed the mouths of drivers, who had
each forked over $240 to learn whether they had been infected with the
coronavirus.
“I have managed hospitals for years,” a man in charge told journalists and skeptical community activists at the scene on Wednesday. “We are doing things the right way.”
Jared Kushner and his shadow corona unit: what is Trump's son-in-law up to?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/jared-kushner-coronavirus-aid-trump-governors
His vast responsibilities include weighing requests from governors for aid and coordinating with private companies to obtain medical equipment, work he carries out from a special post
created for him inside the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where
his team is called “the Slim Suit crowd” for their distinctive
tailoring, the New York Times has reported.
First shipment of emergency eggs arrives in Ashdod
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/First-shipment-of-emergency-eggs-arrives-in-Ashdod-623633
The first shipment carrying millions of eggs arrived at Ashdod Port on
Sunday, after the government worked to import millions of eggs from
Spain after Israel was hit by a nationwide egg shortage.
The
second ship is expected to arrive on Tuesday. Government agencies
prepared trucks and logistics centers in order to bring the eggs to
stores starting on Sunday.
Trump spars with reporter over Kushner's 'our stockpile' remark
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/491124-trump-spars-with-reporter-over-kushners-our-stockpile-remark
President Trump defended his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner
on Friday for suggesting the federal stockpile of medical resources was
not for states, lashing out at a reporter for asking about the comments
and accusing her of having a “nasty tone.”
CBS News reporter
Weijia Jiang asked Trump what Kushner meant when he referred to the
national stockpile as “our stockpile” and implied it wasn’t for states
while appearing at the administration's daily coronavirus press
conference the previous day.
Donald Trump's murder math: Any death toll under 2 million is a "very good job"
https://www.salon.com/2020/03/31/donald-trumps-murder-math-any-death-toll-under-2-million-is-a-very-good-job/
The only thing more stunningly dumb than the willingness of
Donald Trump's disciples to die for the sake of their cult leader's
approval poll numbers is the fact that Trump, this past weekend,
established a new and terrifying benchmark for "success" in fighting the
COVID-19 outbreak.
During a presidency that's beyond satire, no one really
anticipated that Trump's Red Hat militia would end up being a death
cult, but here we are. The cult's warped calculus is basically this:
Trump will only be re-elected with a prospering economy, but if COVID-19
decimates the economy, Trump could lose. So we have to save the
economy, literally at any cost, even if it means we have to sacrifice
older Americans (who typically vote Republican).
That was the starting point — the first idea floated by several of Trump's propaganda flacks, including Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Glenn Beck and Fox News' Brit Hume.
However, during the Sunday edition of the Trump Show, the
president swerved into Mad King territory once again with a remarkably
desperate and perhaps psychotic attempt to rescue his chances for
re-election. As the U.S. death toll nears 9/11 territory, Trump blurted
out that forecasts suggested the death toll could have been as high as
2.2 million Americans had nothing been done to mitigate the spread of
the virus.
From there, he landed on a startling new range for acceptable pandemic deaths in America.
"So you're talking about 2.2 million deaths, 2.2 million people from this," the president began.
"And so if we could hold that down, as we're saying, to 100,000 — it's a
horrible number, maybe even less — but to 100,000. So we have between
100 and 200,000, and we all together have done a very good job." Cutting
through his usual refrigerator-magnet sentence structure, Trump
preemptively congratulated himself for presiding over the deaths of
100,000 to 200,000 Americans.
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