By "pandemic", I refer to the WHO designation.
By that definition, there are always several ongoing. HIV, for example, is an ongoing pandemic.
I don't think you looked up what the WHO has identified as a pandemic before making that statement.
My point goes to the inconsistency of response to our last 2 pandemics. You say both were more deadly, and the numbers do indeed bare that out. Yet I don't remember NEARLY the response, from the media or government, to those situations. Why?
Your memory and mine on media response don't align. But again: are you asking about Zika? Ebola? MERS? MERSA? What?
Each disease is different, and there are different answers for each.
If the virus can exist in water droplets that travel through the air, is it is or is it ain't airborne? My point here was that the "experts" within this very forum differ on whether they think it's airborne or not. So what to believe?
There's no data I've seen that the the virus meets the proper definition of airborne.
I suspect, however, that you are defining the word differently and that's causing your confusion.
You seem to agree with Trump's "social welfare" actions, but try to hide your approval by pointing out how they conflict with your notions about what he believes. I'll just remind you there is a difference between help in a time of trouble, and perpetual handouts.
OK. Which is it when someone gets cancer, say, last month, when Trump opposed all of these things as "communism"?
It's really weird to me that those on the right think that when one person suddenly gets a disease "too bad", but when an epidemic hits "we have to help these individuals". If Katrina had hit 100 houses; those owners would not have gotten nearly the financial relief because "not enough people were involved".
Do you understand the timeline of actions taken by Trump and criticisms to those actions from the Left? We on the Right are used to it. Trump limited travel from China, and the Left chastised him for overreacting, (January). He asked for money and the Left chastised him for not asking enough. Trump has taken substantive and aggressive actions for this virus, starting back in January before this virus even had a name. Have you seen the list? I doubt you'll see it on CNN.
Oh. You want to discuss Trump? OK.
Trump didn't know that the flu killed people.
Trump said sick people should keep going to work.
Trump has, every year, attempted to cut funding for the NIH and CDC
Trump has said he should be a doctor because he knows so much about illness.
"Fake sources of information"? To what in your quotes do you refer?
I refer to Donald Trump. Those are Donald Trump quotes (and they are wrong and/or politicizing, which is what I was responding to you said). Those are things he literally said.
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“Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is complaining, for publicity purposes only, that I should be asking for more money than $2.5 Billion to prepare for Coronavirus. If I asked for more he would say it is too much. He didn’t like my early travel closings. I was right. He is incompetent!” " - Trump.
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“We should all be working together,” he said. He added:
“All they’re trying to do is get a political advantage. This isn’t about political advantage. We’re all trying to do the right thing. They shouldn’t be saying: ‘This is terrible. President Trump isn’t asking for enough money.’ How stupid a thing to say. " - Trump.
Of course: he reversed his "they are giving me too much" position with "they aren't giving me as much as I'm doing" later... "
“The Do Nothing Democrats were busy wasting time on the Immigration Hoax, & anything else they could do to make the Republican Party look bad, while I was busy calling early BORDER & FLIGHT closings, putting us way ahead in our battle with Coronavirus. Dems called it VERY wrong!” "- Trump
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“I think every aspect of our society should be prepared. I don’t think it’s going to come to that, especially with the fact that we’re going down [infection rates declining], not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up. But, yeah, I think schools should be preparing and, you know, get ready just in case.” He added: “We have it so well under control. I mean, we really have done a very good job.” " - Trump
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“Congratulations and thank you to our great Vice President & all of the many professionals doing such a fine job at CDC & all other agencies on the Coronavirus situation. Only a very small number in U.S., & China numbers look to be going down. All countries working well together!” " - Trump
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“From 27,000 to 70,000 people get infected, and many people die. Think of it, 27,000. You lose 27,000 people to the common flu.” " - Trump (technically accurate; but he's downplaying the much more deadly coronavirus.
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“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.” "
"If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better." - Trump
"They [The WHO] don't know about the easy cases because the easy cases don't go to the hospital. They don't report to doctors or the hospital in many cases. So I think that number is really high. Personally, I would say that number [of people who die once infected with coronavirus] is way under 1%," - Trump
