re: OT: Corona Panic 2020

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People that were upset about restricting travel from a China were dumb, but I did not see that many people complaining about it. Could be wrong though.

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I am not going to get back in the middle of this but I am pretty sure back in January the left was not taking this seriously, either.

Trump sinks to racist panic as China mobilizes against disease

Health experts warn China travel ban will hinder coronavirus response

Trump’s travel ban expansion is an unexpected win — for China
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/01/...

The US coronavirus travel ban could backfire. Here's how

Trump Declares Coronavirus A Public Health Emergency And Restricts Travel From China

Says Sen. Chuck Schumer deleted a Feb. 5 tweet criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to ban some forms of travel to and from China.

Trump's expanded travel ban could tank the economy
Who was it saying conservatives were not concerned with lives...but only with stocks?


Add to these, what do y'all think about Cuomo insisting on keeping NY schools open when most of the country was closing them? I mean, looking back on it since NY is now the epicenter of Corona in the US.

NEW YORK — As schools across the U.S. shut down in hopes of helping to fight the coronavirus, New York City officials are arguing just the opposite: They’re keeping the nation’s largest school system open to ensure that health and emergency workers aren’t tied down with kids at home.

Or DeBlasio downplaying the Coronavirus...you know the way many people were criticizing Trump for?

Examples below:


“There is no reason not to take the subway, not to take the bus, not to go out to your favorite restaurant, and certainly not to miss the parade next Sunday.” Barbot said during a Feb. 2 press conference addressing the pandemic.

Barbot argued in a local TV interview on Feb. 7 that the city is “telling New Yorkers, go about your lives, take the subway, go out, enjoy life.” She did say that citizens must practice good hygiene, but suggested the biggest threat comes from family members and not large packs of people.

“We want to encourage” New Yorkers going out, the mayor said during a Feb. 10 MSNBC broadcast.

“If you’re under 50 & you’re healthy, which is most NYers, there’s very little threat here. This disease, even if you were to get it, basically acts like a common cold or flu. And transmission is not that easy,” de Blasio said at the time.

And it goes on and on. Have mistakes on the Federal level been made? Absolutely. But when you have mayors and Governors encouraging their people to go to the theater and attend parades....well, does it really surprise you that NY is the epicenter?

Add to that that Trump was roundly criticized for suggesting hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine might be a help, going so far as threatening "administration action" against doctors using those to combat the Coronavirus by the Governor of Michigan....now she is asking for some of those drugs. Irony.



It's simply useless and dumb to point fingers at the left or the right. Fact is both sides have made mistakes and done things that has allowed the virus to spread.

Hopefully I can now stay out of this thread again.