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Former President Donald Trump's United States of America

Towered said:
LOL. Ok, what do you think of the job Trump has done so far in response to this crisis?
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It's irrefutable the number of positive actions Trump has undertaken during this crisis. He was one of the first world leaders to issue a travel ban for instance way back in January before the world even took coronavirus that seriously, that saved potentially millions of lives. Here's some of what a quick Goggle search has pulled up:

Funding
  • The president is taking action that will give states, territories and tribes access to over $42 billion in existing funding to combat the virus, according to a White House press release.
  • The Small Business Administration has also been given authority, and funding, to make over $7 billion in loans to qualifying small businesses to help bolster the economic recovery.
Medicare/Medicaid
  • The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced guidance on limiting medically unnecessary visits to nursing homes to protect vulnerable elderly Americans.
Student loans
  • The Secretary of Education will be waiving interest on all student loans held by the federal government.

Energy
  • The president is directing the Department of Energy to purchase large quantities of crude oil in an effort to boost the strategic reserve.
Health care
The White House claimed the president’s emergency declaration will give healthcare providers more flexibility to respond to the virus, by loosening regulations and waiving certain federal provisions through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The declaration will provide HHS the power to waive:
  • Certain laws to enable telehealth, remote doctors’ visits and hospital check-ins
  • Licensing requirements so doctors from other states can provide services in areas with the greatest need.
  • Critical Access Hospital requirements to allow those hospitals to have more beds and longer lengths of stay
  • The requirement of a three-day hospital stay, prior to admission to a nursing home.
  • Rules hindering hospitals’ ability to bring additional physicians on board or obtain needed office space.
  • Restrictions on where hospitals can care for patients.
The president is urging every state to set up emergency operational centers and is asking every hospital to activate its emergency preparedness plan.

Testing
The administration claimed to be rapidly expanding coronavirus testing across the nation and providing greater access to the tests in partnership with the private sector.
  • The administration is also working with Google to develop a website that can determine whether someone needs to be tested for the virus or not. If they require a test, they are given the location of a facility nearby, where they can be examined.
  • HHS recently announced it is providing funding to help accelerate the development of two rapid diagnostic tests.
  • The Food and Drug Administration is issuing emergency authorization for new commercial coronavirus tests that will help expand testing.
  • And up to 2 million additional tests are expected to be available next week, according to the White House.
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Plus look at all the big corporations the White House has partnered to mass produce masks, gloves and ventilators and hydroxychloroquine. Give the man a break. If that's not being a good President steering the entire world through turbulent times, I don't know what else is.
 
Looks like someone needs to move when the border is reopened. When Doug Ford and Jason Kenney are on the same side as Trudeau when it comes to Trump, praising him is unwise. If anyone is doing a good job, it is the Governors, from both parties. Just not Tate Reeves.

Also, I do think Trump is pushing dangerous "cures" because he stands to profit from them.
 
AlvinofDiaspar said:
Steering, or screwing?

AoD
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Many people think the pandemic has already peaked and several nations including China (ground zero) are lifting their restrictions as we speak. Others think coronavirus will be a seasonal re-occurrence that can be inoculated against with new medicines as simple as a flu shot. But specific to America, Andrew Cuomo was sadly mistaken as 40,000 ventilators in NY were not needed. He exaggerated i.e. LIED! Many states have in fact an overstock of ventilators e.g. Oregon meaning the media's hype that Trump wasn't helping out the state governors was again a lie. The idiot who drank fish aquarium cleaner and mistook it for medical grade hydroxychloroquine and passed away was an idiot so how that's Trump selling snake oil to the masses, I don't know. The media made it sound like Trump was murdering people. And very liberally Trump has signed off on trillions of dollars in aid. Any other politician doing what Trump has done would've been praised, methinks.
 
Hopkins123 said:
It's irrefutable the number of positive actions Trump has undertaken during this crisis. He was one of the first world leaders to issue a travel ban for instance way back in January before the world even took coronavirus that seriously, that saved potentially millions of lives. Here's some of what a quick Goggle search has pulled up:

Funding
  • The president is taking action that will give states, territories and tribes access to over $42 billion in existing funding to combat the virus, according to a White House press release.
  • The Small Business Administration has also been given authority, and funding, to make over $7 billion in loans to qualifying small businesses to help bolster the economic recovery.
Medicare/Medicaid
  • The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced guidance on limiting medically unnecessary visits to nursing homes to protect vulnerable elderly Americans.
Student loans
  • The Secretary of Education will be waiving interest on all student loans held by the federal government.

Energy
  • The president is directing the Department of Energy to purchase large quantities of crude oil in an effort to boost the strategic reserve.
Health care
The White House claimed the president’s emergency declaration will give healthcare providers more flexibility to respond to the virus, by loosening regulations and waiving certain federal provisions through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The declaration will provide HHS the power to waive:
  • Certain laws to enable telehealth, remote doctors’ visits and hospital check-ins
  • Licensing requirements so doctors from other states can provide services in areas with the greatest need.
  • Critical Access Hospital requirements to allow those hospitals to have more beds and longer lengths of stay
  • The requirement of a three-day hospital stay, prior to admission to a nursing home.
  • Rules hindering hospitals’ ability to bring additional physicians on board or obtain needed office space.
  • Restrictions on where hospitals can care for patients.
The president is urging every state to set up emergency operational centers and is asking every hospital to activate its emergency preparedness plan.

Testing
The administration claimed to be rapidly expanding coronavirus testing across the nation and providing greater access to the tests in partnership with the private sector.
  • The administration is also working with Google to develop a website that can determine whether someone needs to be tested for the virus or not. If they require a test, they are given the location of a facility nearby, where they can be examined.
  • HHS recently announced it is providing funding to help accelerate the development of two rapid diagnostic tests.
  • The Food and Drug Administration is issuing emergency authorization for new commercial coronavirus tests that will help expand testing.
  • And up to 2 million additional tests are expected to be available next week, according to the White House.
----

Plus look at all the big corporations the White House has partnered to mass produce masks, gloves and ventilators and hydroxychloroquine. Give the man a break. If that's not being a good President steering the entire world through turbulent times, I don't know what else is.
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Is this...a parody?
 
Hopkins123 said:
. . . He exaggerated i.e. LIED! . . .
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And . . . there you have it. I suppose from that perspective, Trump's downplaying the impact (open for business by Easter), infighting in his administration (Navarro vs. Fauci), up-selling an imminent vaccine, fighting with governors, you could say: 'He equivocated; i.e. LIED'.
 
The United States has half a million confirmed cases, the most in the world:

www.worldometers.info

United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer

United States Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.
www.worldometers.info www.worldometers.info
 
PinkLucy said:
Yes, the most by number, but not the most per capita.
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Most per capita goes to Vatican City with approximately 1% of its entire population:

ourworldindata.org

Daily vs. total confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people

Shown is the 7-day rolling average of confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people. The number of confirmed cases is lower than the number of total cases. The main reason for this is limited testing.
ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org

It has eight cases in a country of approximately 800 people.
 
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Meanwhile...

Hilton Corporate Response to COVID-19

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  • President and CEO, Christopher Nassetta, will forgo his salary for the remainder of 2020;
  • The Executive Committee will take a pay cut of 50 percent for the duration of the crisis;
  • Beginning April 4, many of Hilton’s corporate Team Members will have reduced schedules or be furloughed for up to 90 days. During this time, these Team Members will maintain their health benefits and subject to local regulations, will also be eligible for unemployment benefits;
  • Corporate Team Members who are not furloughed will have their pay reduced by up to 20 percent for the duration of the crisis;
  • Eliminating non-essential expenses, including capital expenditures; and
  • Suspending all share buybacks and suspending the payment of dividends – other than those previously declared.
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  • Across the world, hotels have been donating excess food to local pantries.
  • Hilton is assisting local and national governments to provide housing for first responders and health care workers.
  • The Hilton Effect Foundation, the company’s charitable arm, is investing in grants to support organizations fighting the spread of infection and aiding communities in need. World Central Kitchen, Direct Relief, and Project Hope, are among the charities whose work will directly help those harmed by the pandemic.
  • Hilton also has made it easy for Hilton Honors members to donate their points (converted to cash) to these worthwhile organizations.
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Trump’s Hotels Aren’t Housing Coronavirus First Responders Because That Would Require Him to Grow a Conscience

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Of the many industries that have taken a massive economic hit due to the coronavirus, the hospitality industry is up there; hotels and resorts have likely lost billions considering most people on the planet have been told to stay home. As a result, thousands of hotels remain virtually empty, save for the ones that have chosen to lend a hand during the crisis. In New York City, for example, at least 20 hotels have responded to Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s call to use vacant rooms to house medical workers, to shelter the homeless, and to serve as makeshift hospitals as the existing ones quickly run out of space. (In NYC, an epicenter of the crisis, the government is hoping to triple its existing 20,000 hospital beds by May.) Among those volunteering are the storied Plaza Hotel and St. Regis. Yet while the city is home to Trump International Hotel & Tower, the president’s company has chosen not to open its doors to those most in need because that would require Donald Trump to grow a conscience, a medical breakthrough that might prove even more elusive than a vaccine for COVID-19.

Yes, Politico reports the not-at-all-surprising news that despite Trump’s New York, Chicago, and D.C. hotels remaining open, and despite pleas from public officials, none of them have offered up any rooms. The lack of charity comes as the president has lauded private businesses for helping the federal government respond to the crisis, and as the White House’s Twitter account has praised the hotels actually lending a hand during the pandemic. (“Thank you to hotels around the country for providing healthcare workers and first responders a place to stay while they’re on the front lines of the pandemic,” it wrote earlier this week.) But even a chance to brag about how incredibly generous he is apparently hasn’t been enough to move Trump. “It’s entirely unsurprising,” Representative Jamie Raskin told reporter Anita Kumar. “It never occurred to me the business would engage in philanthropic activity.”

Of course, Trump’s hotels are far from the only ones that have failed to offer up space. But his are the only ones currently owned by the president of the United States, who could take this opportunity to shock the world by doing something altruistic.
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Coronavirus: Trump feuds with governors over authority

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo accused President Donald Trump of "spoiling for a fight", as the US leader lashed out at "Democrat Governors".

Several states, including New York, have begun cautious talks on reopening, but Mr Trump has claimed he has "total" power to lift virus lockdowns.

Mr Cuomo refuted the claim on Tuesday as Mr Trump took to Twitter to criticise the governor.

www.bbc.com

Coronavirus: Trump feuds with governors over authority

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the president was "spoiling for a fight".
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
 
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