Trump Hopes 'Warm Weather' Will Weaken Coronavirus After Talking to Chinese President Xi

[highplainsdem]

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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[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

1. I swear I take back all my GW Bush is the most

Idiotic president ever.

[Lefta Dissenter]

5. Little did we know. 😳 (n/t)

☹️

[denem]

10. At least trump doesn't have a Cheney

and Bolton was shown the door.

[sarge43]

13. He has his very own Cheney

Steven Miller.

[denem]

15. Steven Miller is a sadist yes, like his boss,

but not a warmonger AFAIK.

[sarge43]

23. He's declared war on POCs in this country. n/t

[atreides1]

27. You know what?

Steven Miller is to Trump, what Martin Bormann was to Hitler.

Cheney was a war profiteer, Bolton only wanted a war against Iran!!!

[denem]

45. & Alois Brunner, Bornmann's right hand man.

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]

52. Thank you for posting this

Chilling! It is hard to fathom how some human beings can be so utterly inhuman.

[yardwork]

58. Trump handed our Kurdish allies to their enemies to be massacred.

Trump is guilty of war crimes, not to mention crimes against humanity on our southern border.

[Rebl2]

25. He does have

a Steve Miller the last I knew. He’s as bad as Chaney or possibly worse.

[WhiteTara]

20. The gods were tempted and

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]

26. In comparison, GWB actually looks coherent and rational.

I didn't think I'd ever say that.

[brush]

54. Yep, it's fu_king Feb. and he's talking about warm weather. How many may die before it warms up...

if that's even a remedy—which probably isn't anything but someone's guess.

What an ineffectual fool.

[Ohiogal]

2. Because

he knows more about viruses than anyone else, ever

[Botany]

12. Donald Trump, Microbiologist

BTW many microbes do better in warmer weather.

[EndlessWire]

43. I'd like to rub his face in the petri dish come Spring. n/t

[Botany]

44. Can't wait until Trump says we need more antibiotics to fight the coronavirus.

n/t

[irisblue]

46. And then realizes how many medical devices were made in Puerto Rico...

[Chakaconcarne]

3. With Trump... who needs experts?

[Midnightwalk]

4. What an idiot. We're doomed.

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]

14. He probably *did* talk to the CDC head

Right before they were fired

[dhill926]

6. oh good...

I feel better now. Probably no need to quarantine then. Why maybe the asshole can go to China himself to prove his theory...

[underpants]

7. Democracy Now this morning- this is a common belief and state line in China

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 don’t want to talk about it.

Very interesting conversation Laurie Garrett

https://www.democracynow.org/

[Wellstone ruled]

29. How soon the public forgets.

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.

[58Sunliner]

39. +1

[Blues Heron]

8. Break out the sharpie!

Here comes the warm front!

[Canoe52]

37. My chuckle for the morning, thanks!

[Farmer-Rick]

9. Trump should go visit the quarantined Americans

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.

[Ohiogal]

16. LOL!

[Canoe52]

38. He stares at the eclipse, he just might do this too. Let's hope!

[Pachamama]

11. That's IMPotus Trump's plan for fighting the Coronavirus? Trusting the word of the leadership that

....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]

17. Doctor Donald's diagnosis.

Doctor Donald's diagnosis.

[Moostache]

53. He has all the best diagnoses...no one maybe ever, knows more about this virus than he does... (n/t)

[dalton99a]

18. President Xi is strong, sharp and powerful. Extremely strong and powerful

[Mrs. Overall]

19. If you have any coronavirus symptoms, Trump admin advises mustard plaster, hot toddy, and a leech.

[Ghost Dog]

30. Well, to be fair, a proper hot toddy, consisting of

good Irish whiskey, honey, lemon, cloves, maybe some cinnamon, hot clean spring water, is always good for whatever ails you.

[Mrs. Overall]

32. Yes, Ghost Dog, you are absolutely correct!

Mine usually consist of a base of hot chamomile tea, plenty of brandy, lemon, honey, and a dash of cayenne.

[Ghost Dog]

33. Mmmm sounds good!

... 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]

40. I heard elderberry

now cures everything.

I’m getting drunk.

[splat]

21. Facts from NIH

Flu Virus Fortified In Colder Weather

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]

34. The experts I've read opined that this will possibly become endemic.

[splat]

48. Endemic to China?

[58Sunliner]

49. World wide.

[splat]

50. Endemic is limited to a certain place, pandemic is worldwide

So I guess you meant pandemic. I was hoping you didn't!

[dalton99a]

42. +1

[PatSeg]

22. Oh yes, of course

Everyone knows that viruses hate warm weather. It is sure to kill it off.

[ibegurpard]

24. He needs to go the epicenter of it all

And figure out what's going on

[MH1]

35. Yup I'm pretty sure only he can fix it, and must be right there on top of it.

[BusyBeingBest]

28. That's cool. They totally got it under control.

[58Sunliner]

31. What a moron. Brain dead junkie.

Maybe he should test this theory. Warm room, and the virus. Wait a month.

[MBS]

36. Wow, he is really, truly an idiot. n/t

[iluvtennis]

41. What a stupid idiot trump is. Now he's an expert in epidemic diseases - ENOUGH of this BS. nt

[LudwigPastorius]

47. I wonder if the assholes in the Senate who propped up Trump will...

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]

51. That is his way of telling

His right wing base the repetitive lie that global warming is a good thing.

[onenote]

55. Outlandish, but not as much as some may think.

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]

56. In 1918

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.

[sakabatou]

57. *facepalm*