Prickly City by Scott Stantis for March 23, 2020

WOW !! This is about the truest depiction of the whole situation I’ve seen in a long time. Kudos, Mr. Stantis. Respect.

And inform the green guy about personal space boundaries. Getting more than a little handsy there.

“My guy” or My gut"?

Yep, another Dem Hoax, right?

Stantis, please DO NOT FORGET about Moscow Mitch and the other Repubican* enablers!

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*Now the Party Of Trump

Some trumpherroids are saying that it is a hoax that the mango Mussolini ever said the the virus was a Democrat hoax.

(Lets’ go to the tape(s), shall we?

Jan 20: "I know more about viruses than anyone.”

Jan 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

Feb 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”

Feb 24: “The Corona virus 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.” (There’s no 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.”

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: “And this (Corona virus) is their (Dems) new hoax!”

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.”

⏷(Continued)⏷

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 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.”

Mar 9: “This blindsided the world.”

Mar 13: “National emergency, two big words.”

Mar 15: “It’s a very contagious virus, it’s incredible, but it’s something we have tremendous control of.”

Mar 16: “We’ve done a fantastic job from just about any standpoint.”

Mar 16: “We have a problem that, a month ago, nobody ever thought about.” [about two months after he was first briefed on the epidemic]

Mar 16: “I’ve been very strongly tested.”

Mar 17: “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”

Mar 20: [What do you say to Americans who are scared?] “I say that you’re a terrible reporter, that’s what I say. I think that’s a very nasty question.”

Mar 20: “I’ve been right a lot”

Mar 20: [When will everyone who needs a corona virus test be able to get a test?] “No-one is talking about this except you, which doesn’t surprise me.”

My sense of humor is impaired this morning, after McConnell’s bait and switch on the relief bill last night.

Dr. Emily Landon is the chief infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Chicago Medicine.

Here are excerpts from the full speech below.

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Despite doing our best to prepare for a respiratory virus pandemic, we now find ourselves facing a brand-new virus with too little information, not enough personal protective equipment, changing protocols every single day and no second chances.

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This virus is unforgiving. It spreads before you even know you’ve caught it and it tricks you into believing that it’s nothing more than a little influenza.

For many of us, it may be just a little flu so it can be very confusing when schools are closed, restaurants are shuttered and now this virus is taking what’s left of our precious liberty.

The real problem is not the 80 percent who will get over this in a week.

It’s the 20 percent of patients, the older, those who are immunocompromised, those that have other medical problems who are going to need a bit more support- some oxygen or even a ventilator and life support.

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Our healthcare system doesn’t have any slack. There are no empty wards waiting for patients or nurses waiting in the wings. We barely even have enough masks for the nurses that we have.

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We need to fight this fire before it grows too high.

But these extreme restrictions may seem in the end a little anticlimactic because it’s really hard to feel like you’re saving the world when you’re watching Netflix on your couch but, if we do this right, nothing happens.

Yes. A successful shelter in place means that you will feel like it was all for nothing.

And you would be right. Because “nothing” means that nothing happened to your family and that’s what we are going for here.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-doctors-blunt-speech-about-covid-19-hit-home-across-the-country-read-her-full-speech/2241815

Yes, I like mindless followers that don’t get sick and die! You’re all weak! If you truly believed in me, I mean in GOD, yes, GOD, you wouldn’t get sick. No, you would just CARRY the virus to the weak and ignorant unbelievers. Rise, my my true believers and remember, it is all a hoax!

Wish I knew what to say, but today, Stantis has said it all!

“You are doing this on purpose to make me look bad!”

“No, Sir. You need no help from us to do that.”

Trump you have lost your reelection all by your self.

As recently as February 28th (February 28th for God’s sake!), Trump was publicly calling COVID-19 a “hoax.” What changed? My personal theory is that Ivanka climbed into daddy’s lap, and whispered the facts of life into his shell-like ears……..

This would have a bit more of an air of truth if it depicted Winslow there as well saying to Trump, “This is ALL YOUR FAULT!! You LET this happen!”

Trump did not call the VIRUS a “hoax.”

He called Democrats’/critics’ efforts to undermine him and blame everything wrong on him a “hoax.”

I understand and agree it’s hard to follow Trump’s train of thought any time he’s speaking, but like it or not that’s what he said.

Then the media proved his point by trying to claim he said the virus itself was a “hoax.”

If that doesn’t fit your “Orange Man BAD!” narrative, well, too bad.

The bubble is strong…

I liked the flying asterisks (*) better.

Oh no! The virus got Carmen!