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I don’t think people have fully digested this shocking fact:

Coronavirus was discovered in the U.S. on the SAME DAY it was discovered in South Korea.

They mobilized their entire society and it is now contained.

Trump called it a hoax and it’s now out of control.
It bears repeating,

THIS is why we need mass testing:

This is a very good illustration of Trump's massive failure to act leading us to the point of catastrophe:

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Mikel Jollett
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What’s the fucking point of allowing billionaires to accrue all this money if we have to pay them every time their companies lose value?

That’s what the BILLIONS we let you keep are for, dipshits.
Ok how about this:

No more billionaires. None.

After you reach $999 million, every red cent goes to schools and health care.

You get a trophy that says, “I won capitalism” and we name a dog park after you.
Instead of giving billions of dollars to the rich, how about we buy these nurses some basic fucking protective gear?

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Mikel Jollett
@Mikel_Jollett
Everyone sitting alone in their houses worried about loved ones, jobs, financial futures, we really need to understand something:

None of this had to happen.

We are facing a global crisis because a very stupid and selfish man was given the most powerful job in the world.
A competent President would've immediately mobilized for mass testing instead of rejecting it.

A competent President would've immediately instituted basic social distancing measures instead of calling it a hoax.

If we had a competent President, we wouldn't be in this right now.
The virus was discovered in the US on the EXACT SAME DAY it was discovered in South Korea.

Look how far behind the rest of the world we are.

People are going to DIE because of this utter incompetence:
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Mikel Jollett
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Every time Trump is cornered, he pivots to racism bc then it becomes a question of PERCEPTION (which his followers love him for) instead of FACTS of his mind-boggling mismanagement.

It’s a strategy.

We can't ignore racism. We just have to face that this argument helps him.
If the headline is about his racism that means it ISN'T about how he rejected testing, fired the pandemic response team, and called the virus a "hoax."

He can win (or tie) in an argument about racism because his followers are racists and that's exactly what they like about him.
What's so diabolical about this approach is the racism itself is ALSO very damaging so it can't be ignored. We simply can't let it highjack the entire conversation.

We are facing a crisis Trump CREATED through stupidity.

That has to be the big story right now.
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Jim Hanson
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The false narrative on South Korea v. US response to #CoronaVirus

We both got our 1st case the same day
Have they done better?

South Korea - 104 deaths 51 M people

US- 322 deaths 331 M people

They have twice as many deaths per capita

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The Left is desperate to blame @realDonaldTrump so they seized on lack of testing as the panacea

South Korea did tons of tests & isolated based on results

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@realDonaldTrump .@realDonaldTrump took a different approach based on available options

Stop as many cases from entering the US as possible

So he immediately banned travel fm China & added other areas when needed

He was attacked
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I have no choice but retweet everything.

Reborn account of @FanMatisse, @Fanmatisse,
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Yossi Gestetner
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Swine flu killed 12,469 people in the US from mid 2009 to mid 2010. Do you recall market meltdowns and OMG coverage of it daily? I don't. Globally a few hundred thousand people died. 2009 was the start of an economic recovery yet now we are potentially having an economic plunge.
Swine Flu killed on average 34 people a day from April 2009 to April 2010 per the CDC. Basically, three days of Swine Flu had more DEATHS than the total current #CoronaVirus cases in the US. Can Corona get worse than current levels? Sure but it is not anywhere close to it.
Coronavirus is not anywhere close to Swine Flu levels so I am not sure why people are spreading panic about it. Even if it reaches those levels, there was no OMG WE ARE DYING tone in mid 2009 during Swine. The economy in fact got out of a recession mid 2009 despite Swine Flu!
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This thread will be on why Italy had been seriously affected by this #coronavirus outbreak( #COVID19 )
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“ Chinese workers in Prato, Italy to make the world’s brand-name products”

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