Ya know, back in the start of this blog it was my every intention to steer around politics but lately I just can’t seem to help myself . In light of our new press secretaries statements, in particular those pertaining to Corona Virus…. I just can’t help but let loose again.
So… lets look at the Corona Virus time line since January … with quotes from the man himself who our new press secretary describes as being the “best authority “
Jan 8 – First CDC warning on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Jan 9 – Trump campaign rally
Jan 14 – Trump campaign rally
Jan 16 – House sends impeachment articles to Senate
Jan 18 – Trump golfs
Jan 19 – Trump golfs
Jan 20 – first case of COVID-19 in the US, Washington State.
Jan 22 – “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Jan 28 – Trump campaign rally
Jan 30 – Trump campaign rally
Feb 1 – Trump golfs
Feb 2 – “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
Feb 5 – Senate votes to acquit. Then takes a five-day weekend.
Feb 10 – Trump campaign rally
Feb 12 – Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551.42
Feb 15 – Trump golfs
Feb 19 – Trump campaign rally
Feb 20 – Trump campaign rally
Feb 21 – Trump campaign rally
Feb 24 – “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb 25 – “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
Feb 25 – “I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
Feb 26 – “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb 26 – “We’re going very substantially down, not up.” Also “This is a flu. This is like a flu”; “Now, you treat this like a flu”; “It’s a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we’ll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner.”
Feb 27 – “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Feb 28 – “We’re ordering a lot of supplies. We’re ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn’t be ordering unless it was something like this. But we’re ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
Feb 28 – Trump campaign rally
Feb 29 – First COVID-19 death in US
Mar 2 – “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
Mar 2 – “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
Mar 4 – “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
Mar 5 – “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
Mar 5 – “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
Mar 6 – “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
Mar 6 – “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
Mar 6 – “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
Mar 6 – “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”
Mar 7 – Trump golfs
Mar 8 – Trump golfs
Mar 8 – “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
Mar 9 – “This blindsided the world.”
Mar 13 – [Declared state of emergency]
Mar 15 – 3,613 COVID-19 cases, 69 deaths
Mar 17 – “This is a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
