Trump Hopes 'Warm Weather' Will Weaken Coronavirus After Talking to Chinese President Xi
Source: Mediaite
President Donald Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping early Friday morning, who he mightily praised afterward to his millions of Twitter followers. Trump and Xi have been engaging in trade talks for years now, and Trump has consistently flattered the Chinese leader and this was no different. But his comment about how the coronavirus may grow or abate due to weather patterns may raise some eyebrows.
Trump lauded Xi by describing him as strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus.
But in the second part of the two-tweet thread, Trump suggested that Xi will be successful in fighting the virus that is now being called a pandemic, because it will get weaker as the weather starts to warm:
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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-hopes-warm-weather-will-weaken-coronavirus-after-talking-to-chinese-president-xi/
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Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)Idiotic president ever.
Lefta Dissenter
(6,622 posts)☹️
denem
(11,045 posts)and Bolton was shown the door.
sarge43
(28,940 posts)Steven Miller.
denem
(11,045 posts)but not a warmonger AFAIK.
sarge43
(28,940 posts)atreides1
(16,064 posts)Steven Miller is to Trump, what Martin Bormann was to Hitler.
Cheney was a war profiteer, Bolton only wanted a war against Iran!!!
denem
(11,045 posts)Alois Brunner: One Of The Most Notorious Nazi Officers He Died Unpunished
One of (Bornmann's) most loyal associates whose dreadful fanaticism was beyond belief was Alois Brunner. The Austrian-born Nazi Party member was responsible for the internment, deportation, and execution of Jews all over Europe.
Brunner became a member of the Austrian Nazi Party early; in 1931. In 1938 he joined the SS and was assigned to the staff of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Austria. Rising quickly through the ranks due to his cold-blooded stand towards the Jewish community, he was made the director of the Jewish Emigration Office the following year.
During 1939, as the war broke out, he worked closely with Eichmann on the Lublin und Nisko Plan. They intended to form a reservation for Jews in Eastern Europe in an area between those two cities. Belzec, Majdanek, and Sobibor death camps were established there.
The German Order Police Orpo descending to the cellars on a Jew-hunt, Lublin, December 1940;
Alois Brunner reached infamy in 1942 when he organized large-scale deportations from Austria and Greece. He was responsible for the removal of 46,000 Jews from Vienna and 43,000 more from Salonika. ...
In 1944, Brunner was asked by Eichmann to supervise the deportation of 13,500 Jews from Slovakia to Theresienstadt, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, and Stutthof. Almost none of those deported survived. The children from the Slovakian group were segregated from the grown ups and sent to Auschwitz where they perished. There are no known accounts of any of them surviving.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/alois-brunner.html
pandr32
(11,548 posts)Chilling! It is hard to fathom how some human beings can be so utterly inhuman.
yardwork
(61,533 posts)Trump is guilty of war crimes, not to mention crimes against humanity on our southern border.
a Steve Miller the last I knew. Hes as bad as Chaney or possibly worse.
WhiteTara
(29,692 posts)they showed us things could be a lot worse then *co. Don't tempt them again, there could be worse than trump!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)I didn't think I'd ever say that.
brush
(53,726 posts)if that's even a remedywhich probably isn't anything but someone's guess.
What an ineffectual fool.
Ohiogal
(31,895 posts)he knows more about viruses than anyone else, ever
Botany
(70,442 posts)BTW many microbes do better in warmer weather.
EndlessWire
(6,450 posts)Botany
(70,442 posts)n/t
irisblue
(32,916 posts)Chakaconcarne
(2,429 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)It would be nice if he talked to the head of the CDC. He probably thinks that stands for China Disease Control and Xi is the head.
durablend
(7,455 posts)Right before they were fired
dhill926
(16,307 posts)I feel better now. Probably no need to quarantine then. Why maybe the asshole can go to China himself to prove his theory...
underpants
(182,585 posts)Going back to SARS, the Chinese government has spread the weather story as the explanation. In fact it was a massive quarantine program that helped in SARS they just dont want to talk about it.
Very interesting conversation Laurie Garrett
https://www.democracynow.org/
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)BTW,warm Weather and high Humidity is the Juice that fuel the spread of Viral Infections .
As per our Niece's Son on the ground in Vietnam,he said the Chinese Government is rounding up people to the tune of more than 25 million plus and put them in some type of Isolation Camps.
Blues Heron
(5,926 posts)Here comes the warm front!
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,134 posts)Really, he needs to visit them and shake hands with them. It will show how powerful and caring he is.
I bet if there was a porn queen quarantined with them he would visit. Maybe he should take his Slovenian sex worker with him. She could awkwardly reassure the women and children with her bad English and give out medals of freedom.
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)Pachamama
(16,884 posts)....has lied to its own people and still is not giving the correct data - and weather - to combat the spread????
WTF??
This scary as shit....
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)Doctor Donald's diagnosis.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)dalton99a
(81,386 posts)Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)good Irish whiskey, honey, lemon, cloves, maybe some cinnamon, hot clean spring water, is always good for whatever ails you.
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)Mine usually consist of a base of hot chamomile tea, plenty of brandy, lemon, honey, and a dash of cayenne.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)... If the brandy's one of quality. I used to prefer Armangac over Cognac, and there's a very good Catalan example, called Mascaró.
But I daren't touch that anymore.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)now cures everything.
Im getting drunk.
splat
(2,293 posts)Fwiw, from this 2008 nih.gov story:
...The researchers discovered that at temperatures slightly above freezing and below, the virus's lipid covering solidified into a gel. At about 70 degrees Fahrenheit, much of the lipid was still in gel form. At warmer temperatures, however, the gel melts to a liquid phase. At temperatures of about 105 degrees and higher, the coat was all in liquid form.
The virus's rubbery outer coat, the researchers believe, allows it to withstand cooler temperatures and travel from person to person. In the respiratory tract, the body's warmth causes the covering to melt so that the virus can infect the cells of its new host.
...The liquid phase, presumably, isn't tough enough to protect the virus against the elements, and so the virus loses its ability to spread from person to person in warm air. As the weather warms in spring, the flu viruses dry out and weaken, and the flu season wanes.
So is Trump saying this one will die in summer ( "gone" )? But flu strains vie to predominate... so yet another unweakened coronavirus strain could arise next year? How does that work, DU virologists?
58Sunliner
(4,372 posts)splat
(2,293 posts)58Sunliner
(4,372 posts)splat
(2,293 posts)So I guess you meant pandemic. I was hoping you didn't!
PatSeg
(47,239 posts)Everyone knows that viruses hate warm weather. It is sure to kill it off.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)And figure out what's going on
MH1
(17,573 posts)BusyBeingBest
(8,052 posts)58Sunliner
(4,372 posts)Maybe he should test this theory. Warm room, and the virus. Wait a month.
MBS
(9,688 posts)iluvtennis
(19,825 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,092 posts)have any regrets when this, or an as yet unseen, event grows into a full blown global crisis because the scientifically illiterate moron in the Oval Office decided that the best course of action was to just hope that a brewing shitstorm just goes away.
texasfiddler
(1,989 posts)His right wing base the repetitive lie that global warming is a good thing.
onenote
(42,531 posts)Yes it's outlandish to turn a blind eye to what will happen until the coronavirus is brought under control. And no-one can be sure how this outbreak will respond to warming temperatures. But, contrary to the assumptions underlying a number of posts on this thread, there is scientific support for the notion that some viral outbreaks weaken with warmer weather.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/spring-may-impact-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus/675372
MFM008
(19,803 posts)The virus hit in the spring.
Slacked off until it came roaring back by October
And continued to ravage until sputtering out in 1920.
Make no bets on the behaviour of a virus.