Leslie

Feel better now? No idea what that has to do with anything that was referenced. I can't even make a tenuous connection. But as long as you get to vent your spleen on random grievances ... well that's what's really important isn't it?

carcajou

Thank you for that check-in from Crazytown.

Leslie

Crazytown has been waiting 6 days for you to show the basis for the lunatic assertions you made above. Maybe you should just try to refrain from making up crap and then accusing other posters of the crap you just made up? Novel idea, I know.

carcajou

I'm not going to go do your work for you. But I'm well aware that this is all just the famous Leslie Schtick. Stale as it has ever been.

Leslie

In other words, you lied.

robin1234

+1

That poster lost his/her credibility some time ago.. I don’t know why he/she doesn’t just go away and spread poison somewhere else.

Jerseygirl

OMG Trump’s press conference today. I have lots of very rich friends, very rich friends, there are lots of very rich men, but non of them could do a better job than me. Then he went on to say running for prez has cost him billions, he could have made billions in the last few years had he not been prez. Lots of people say bad things about me, it is not true and it is not fair.

FFS we are not interested in you, you, you...it’s the Coronavirus stupid.

scrubbedexpat091

He seems to be losing it. Probably can't handle the stress.

He went off on the NBC reporter a day or 2 ago for what seemed to me a pretty benign question.

I also notice the Trump supporters across various forums I go to are silent these days.;

Leslie

I don't watch them anymore. There's no information from him at all and the experts keep saying the same thing over and over. He's holding back the full force of the federal government in a miserly and strange way.

I've found the Cuomo briefings to be informative. He puts out a lot of information. It's New York centric but Dallas is only a few weeks behind. Because we don't have the same density and little public transportation it might be different but I'm troubled at how late they took it seriously here.

Jerseygirl

I am appalled at how the UK/US/Canada aren’t taking the virus seriously enough.

Steerpike

Surreal moment tonight as I walked around my very quiet neighborhood ... suddenly saw this monstrosity in the parking lot of a grocery store, playing a 'country music' song who's lyrics seemed to be extolling the values of 'Donny'.





Note the "Ivanka 2024" near the back! You saw it here first, guys

scrubbedexpat091

For the US and Canada, I wonder if its in part due to how the countries are set up, provincial and state rights and responsibilities etc.

BC I will give credit to, the provincial government has been doing a good job, and starting doing their own testing pretty early on at BC CDC and didn't rely on Winnipeg (although for a short time the feds were forcing them to also send a sample there) and were giving regular updates to the public, they called for a ban on cruise ships close to 2 weeks or more before the federal government got around to actually doing it, the province was asking people not to come to BC before the feds got around to border restrictions, overall BC has been on the ball.

They caught the community spread pretty quickly because they had relaxed testing rules and allowed testing for people with no history of travel to China when other parts of Canada and the US had not, which is how they discovered the many cases linked to Iran which was the biggest source of local infections and likely the source of the community spread.

But the Canadian federal government not impressed at all, and their help for people is lacking big time and relies too heavily on having kids or qualifying for EI.

Some states seem to be doing a decent job, but hamstrung but the idiot in charge.

Steerpike

I think you are onto something here. I'm also fairly impressed by how CA (California) has been handling things. So I think, in countries with strongly decentralized governments (US/Canada), we need to measure the component states/provinces perhaps. Which really sucks, though, because this virus requires a coordinated response. Many people have said that Obama didn't live up to his promise as President, but I would hazard a guess that he would have been absolutely perfect in this specific situation. He could deliver a message like no other.

robin1234

Something to be thankful for.

moneypenny20

Add Australia to that list.