Thread by @farhip

President Trump, on the coronavirus, a timeline: google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…

Feb. 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China...so, we’re going to see what happens, but we did shut it down, yes.” More...

Feb. 14: “There’s a theory that, in April, when it gets warm — historically, that has been able to kill the virus. So we don’t know yet; we’re not sure yet.” (Warmer weather doesn’t “kill” a virus).

Feb. 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA...

...Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

Feb. 25: “ Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is complaining, for publicity purposes only, that I should be asking for more money than $2.5 Billion to prepare forCoronavirus.“ (Congress approved $8.3 billion on March 4).

Press conference: “At that time, nobody had ever even heard of Ebola or ever conceived of something where you basically — the people would disintegrate. And we’re still working on Ebola...

The level of death with Ebola — you know, at the time, it was a virtual hundred percent.” (Ebola death rate 27-88 percent).

Feb. 26: “I don’t think it’s going to come to [closing schools]...especially with the fact that we’re going down, not up.

We’re going very substantially down, not up.” He added: “We have it so well under control. I mean, we really have done a very good job.”

March 2: “We had a great meeting today with a lot of the great companies, and they’re going to have vaccines, I think, relatively soon...

And they’re going to have something that makes you better, and that’s going to actually take place we think even sooner.” (Experts say a vaccine is a year or more away).

March 3: “There’s only one hot spot, and that’s also pretty much in a very — in a home, as you know, in a nursing home.” (CDC had already announced “community spread” in Oregon and California).

March 4: “ The Obama administration made a decision on testing and that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing, and we undid that decision a few days ago.” (Not true).

Hannity interview: “So, 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.” (And they infect other people by doing so).

March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it... People are really surprised I understand this stuff.... “Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.” google.com/amp/s/www.wash…

“Anybody that needs a test gets a test. Anybody that needs a test...As of right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test can get one.” (Production is ramping up, but tests — and the labs and equipment necessary to run them — are still very limited.) google.com/amp/s/www.wash…