Some Covid-19 thoughts
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UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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Despite his abysmal rhetoric and mostly backwards response to SARS-COV-2, Trump has done some extraordinary things right.
BORDER CLOSURES
Once again, I give him credit for closing the borders to people coming from places with high infection levels - first China (despite democrats calling him racist), then Iran, the European Schengen area, the UK, Ireland, and Brazil. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/from-other-countri
es.html
The original China ban was (obviously) too little, too late. But the idea was more than sound. And it was well-worth repeating.
VACCINE INVESTMENT
He's also invested more than a billion of government money into the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine quite early, to secure the first 300M doses. https://bgr.com/2020/05/21/coronavirus-vaccine-us-secures-oxford-astra
zeneca-covid-19-drug-supply/
And if you believe the news, the US government is invested in 6 vaccines total. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/health/us-coronavirus-vaccine-funding/i
ndex.html
Rhetoric aside, this is all extremely good ACTION on Trump's part. By his actions, he apparently understands that the virus is a threat, and the way to ultimately defeat it is vaccination. And sooner is far better than later. (Though scientifically this is still a gamble, nevertheless, Trump has put significant money on the table.)
FINE CHEMICALS PRODUCTION INVESTMENT
"Eastman Kodak received a $765 million U.S. government loan under the Defense Production Act to help produce ingredients for drugs"
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Kodak Soars After Government Loan To End China Medical Supply Chain Reliance
In an apparent retaliation over rising rhetoric over the "China Virus" in April, American firms producing medical goods in China were slapped with new export restrictions, stranding much of the supplies in warehouses across the country.
This move highlighted to many just how precarious the US medical supply chain was, and more critically, how dependent on new 'Enemy #1' China the American healthcare system was.
As we detailed previously, according to research and US Congressional hearings, something like 80% of present medicines consumed in the United States are produced in China. This includes Chinese companies and foreign drug companies that have outsourced their drug manufacture in joint ventures with Chinese partners. According to Rosemary Gibson of the Hastings Center bioethics research institute, who authored a book in 2018 on the theme, the dependency is more than alarming.
Gibson cites medical newsletters giving the estimate that today some 80% of all pharmaceutical active ingredients in the USA are made in China.
“It’s not just the ingredients. It’s also the chemical precursors, the chemical building blocks used to make the active ingredients. We are dependent on China for the chemical building blocks to make a whole category of antibiotics… known as cephalosporins. They are used in the United States thousands of times every day for people with very serious infections.”
The made in China drugs today include most antibiotics, birth control pills, blood pressure medicines such as valsartan, blood thinners such as heparin, and various cancer drugs. It includes such common medicines as penicillin, ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), and aspirin. The list also includes medications to treat HIV, Alzheimer’s disease, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, cancer, depression, epilepsy, among others. A recent Department of Commerce study found that 97 percent of all antibiotics in the United States came from China.
And so, the Trump administration has begun to do something about this over-reliance with today's first of its kind loan "to help expedite domestic production of drugs that can treat a variety of medical conditions and loosen the U.S. reliance on foreign sources."
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During his campaign to become president, Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that other countries were "laughing" at the United States. Of course, Trump never cited any evidence for this. Today, those countries are treating Americans like lepers. The dark blue US passport used to open pretty much every door around the globe; now those doors are slammed shut. A roll call of some of America's closest allies that won't let Americans visit include Canada, France, Germany and Italy. And for good reason: This past week, 18 American states set records for their numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases. There are now more than four million confirmed cases in the US; a quarter of the total number of known cases in the world, yet Americans make up just over 4% of the global population.
A brief history of world leaders laughing at Trump
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/04/brief-history-world-leaders
-laughing-trump/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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Everything is fine.
It's actually quite sad to see Trump waver on that.
I'm thinking it's part of a long game though. He hasn't let me down so far.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:3 posts in between your last posts. I wonder how can anybody fathom what you are talking about.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Everything is fine.
It's actually quite sad to see Trump waver on that.
I'm thinking it's part of a long game though. He hasn't let me down so far.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Deaths
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
A defiant Trump defended sharing a video promoting the debunked drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 from a conspiracy theory-promoting doctor who also reportedly believes in 'demon sperm' and 'alien DNA.'
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Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:3 posts in between your last posts. I wonder how can anybody fathom what you are talking about.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Everything is fine.
It's actually quite sad to see Trump waver on that.
I'm thinking it's part of a long game though. He hasn't let me down so far.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Ted's video.
It's titled: "Trump spent months saying everything is fine".
It's the post immediately before the reply you just quoted.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Deaths
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
A defiant Trump defended sharing a video promoting the debunked drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 from a conspiracy theory-promoting doctor who also reportedly believes in 'demon sperm' and 'alien DNA.'
All that does is further affirm my stance that maybe you shouldn't just trust somebody because they're wearing a clean white lab coat.
They're all religious practitioners. Most of them polytheistic, with God Money sitting at the head of the table.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Poor fascist died from a Democratic hoax!
Pro-Trump youth group TPUSA deleted a tweet mocking protective masks after its cofounder died of the coronavirus
https://www.businessinsider.com/tpusa-deletes-tweet-mocking-masks-afte
r-montgomery-coronavirus-death-2020-7?utm_source=reddit.com
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And another.
Herman Cain dies from coronavirus
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/30/politics/herman-cain-dies-coronavirus/i
ndex.html
Way to own the libs, Herman!
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