President Trump’s Coronavirus Press Conference

Here’s President Donald Trump’s press conference on fighting the coronavirus:

Some takeaways:

  1. Vice President Mike Pence will lead the task force on fighting the virus.
  2. President Trump talks as though the he takes virus figures coming out of China at face value. That may be the right decision to avoid causing a panic, but I hope he doesn’t treat those figures as gospel, as most observers seem to feel the real numbers are 5-10x higher.
  3. America is rated the country best prepared for a pandemic.
  4. There are plans to address a larger nationwide outbreak “if needed.”
  5. Calls Nancy Pelosi incompetent.

A few other Coronavirus tidbits:

  • The outbreak continues to widen in South Korea, and both China and Japan have closed all their schools to stop the virus spread.
  • How coronavirus could have leaked from the Wuhan virus lab:

    Add to this China’s history of similar incidents. Even the deadly SARS virus has escaped — twice — from the Beijing lab where it was — and probably is — being used in experiments. Both “man-made” epidemics were quickly contained, but neither would have happened at all if proper safety precautions had been taken.

    And then there is this little-known fact: Some Chinese researchers are in the habit of selling their laboratory animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on them.

    You heard me right.

    Instead of properly disposing of infected animals by cremation, as the law requires, they sell them on the side to make a little extra cash. Or, in some cases, a lot of extra cash. One Beijing researcher, now in jail, made a million dollars selling his monkeys and rats on the live animal market, where they eventually wound up in someone’s stomach.

  • By an amazing coincidence, Nancy Messonnier, the CDC official saying that a coronavirus outbreak is “inevitable” just happens to be Rod Rosenstein’s sister. Evidently undermining Republicans is the family business…
  • This is not good:

  • Is Coronavirus 1000 times more infectious than SARS?
  • Chinese car sales drop 92%.

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    2 Responses to “President Trump’s Coronavirus Press Conference”

    1. Howard says:
      February 27, 2020 at 10:59 AM

      He took shots at Pelosi? Huh. I didn’t hear that part. I kinda wish he hadn’t, but I can understand why he would.

      One of the smartest parts was this:

      With respect to the money that’s being negotiated, they can do whatever they want. I mean, again, we’ll do the two and a half. We’re requesting two and a half. Some Republicans would like us to get four, and some Democrats would like us to get eight and a half and we’ll be satisfied whatever it is.

      He washed his hands. He laid out how both sides are angling for some amount or other, and he said they can do whatever they want, and he expects to be content with whatever they decide (i.e. as they work together / fight, the result is on them, not him).

    2. Brian says:
      February 27, 2020 at 6:03 PM

      Some Chinese researchers are in the habit of selling their laboratory animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on them.

      That is scary as hell.

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