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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorge Takei: Sorry. This isn't our "Pearl Harbor" moment. That was a surprise...
Sorry. This isnt our Pearl Harbor moment. That was a surprise, dastardly attack by an enemy nation. This is our Chernobyl moment: a preventable catastrophe that was denied, downplayed and mismanaged until tens of thousands were dead.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/surgeon-general-warns-this-week-will-be-our-pearl-harbor-moment-as-coronavirus-death-toll-rises
thucythucy
(8,158 posts)SeattleVet
(5,487 posts)if you change it to 'Fucking Dumb Republi-Con'
fwvinson
(488 posts)meadowlander
(4,413 posts)We are all Puerto Rico now.
lapfog_1
(29,251 posts)instead of paper towels ( or even toilet paper!), he is tossing prescriptions for hydroxychorinquine at us.
msongs
(67,546 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,284 posts).
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Blue Owl
(50,665 posts)n/t
dalton99a
(81,747 posts)Jerome Adams is about as useful as a potted plant
leftieNanner
(15,218 posts)And for that matter, put Ben Carson in that question as well.
Hekate
(91,186 posts)"Doctor"
paleotn
(18,041 posts)Last in one's class from a lower tier med school. Then again, there's sleepy Ben. Good at one thing and one thing only. Absolutely lost at anything else. Not what I'd call "well rounded."
Hekate
(91,186 posts)But he took early retirement. No one ever says why. And when he reappeared, he was as you see him now.
Neema
(1,151 posts)Says he's shockingly dumb. I only recently learned he worked under Pence during the AIDs debacle in Indiana. Once I learned that I started to get a better picture of why he is where he is now.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)This!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,126 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,875 posts)calimary
(81,648 posts)That's a good analogy. It is our "Chernobyl moment." Even worse than a "Katrina moment," and that was HORRIBLE. But THIS tops it by miles.
zentrum
(9,866 posts)NotHardly
(1,062 posts)MichMan
(12,018 posts)agingdem
(7,890 posts)more like the"good" citizens living in the towns surrounding the concentrations camps who were "shocked" when told after WWII what the Nazis were doing to the Jews...the roundups, the trains, and the stench of burning flesh didn't give it away???
So this virus was a complete shock to the orange anus and his cult in Washington?...except two years of scientists and doctors and democratic senators begging the powers that be to pay attention...to start preparing...and yet, the drumbeat around the globe didn't give it away???
Hekate
(91,186 posts)spanone
(136,011 posts)paleotn
(18,041 posts)And terrible at metaphors.
KPN
(15,695 posts)ffr
(22,686 posts)Fuck that! I'll listen to what the scientists are and have been saying. They've been bang-dead-on so far.
I've not watched one dog n pony show, will even turn to anything else if it happens to cross my eyes and ears. A grifter owes no loyalty to my well being.
Yeehah
(4,614 posts)He's really very insightful.
klook
(12,178 posts)Ive been screaming this at my TV for days... well, not the Chernobyl part. Two points for George T. on that one.
But this is NOT fucking Pearl Harbor! Unless the history books are wrong and Pearl Harbor took months not hours.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,048 posts)liberalla
(9,290 posts)KPN
(15,695 posts)Americas history.
Under The Radar
(3,408 posts)A month before the Pearl Harbor attack, he would have been thrown out of office And certainly not re-elected
roamer65
(36,749 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Harker
(14,157 posts)is Trumpsky himself.
trotting out this uniform has not changed my mind. This crisis has been handled by trump's lying, blustering and truly pathetic attempt at being a leader we can all trust. Anyone appearing for the con man cannot be trusted to explain for us what most of us already knew, with Gov. Cuomo giving a prime example of leadership in a crisis, trump is a pathetic human being not worthy to be called POTUS.
dalton99a
(81,747 posts)The council was first notified of the outbreak on the morning of Dec. 31, according to one of the government officials involved, when an NSC official was forwarded an email from a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) attache in Beijing that had been sent to senior HHS officials the night before.
The pop-a-flare notice, as it is known, described strange cases of pneumonia that could not be definitively traced to seasonal flu, said the government official, who saw the message. The email said the Chinese would soon be notifying the World Health Organization, the official said.
On Jan. 3, Dr. Gao Fu, head of Chinas disease control agency, informed his U.S. counterpart, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, in an emotional telephone call that the outbreak was growing out of control, according to the same federal official and a former NSC official. Both said they had been informed of the details.
Gaos agency did not respond to a request for comment.
Ullyot, the NSC spokesman, disputed the timeline, saying the council did not learn of the coronavirus outbreak until Jan. 3. The CDC, a part of HHS, confirmed to Reuters that it learned of an outbreak in late December and that the call with Gao occurred Jan. 3.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-nsc/as-trump-administration-debated-travel-restrictions-thousands-streamed-in-from-china-idUSKBN21N0EJ
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