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I assume others pointed out that the case against the key Russian connection, the Internet Research Agency, was dropped this week. The case was too weak. Sorry, I never believed this from the beginning...It was the 24-7-365 coverage promising week after week the new evidence that would take Trump down. My poor wife hanging on Rachel's words for 2.5 years... I think it's not to difficult to figure out who is essential at providing the essentials. You gave a very simple definition.

Link?

WHO offered the test to many countries, the CDC declined to use it and instead create their own. That is a fact. That decision also led to delays in mass testing which is what allowed S. Korea to get ahead of the curve on this. I also have said that trump has been more focused on the stock market and economy than the virus itself. You think he's done everything right, so we'll never agree. As I said above, it's clear to me the light bulb went on sometime Monday for him coinciding with the second largest drop in the Dow ever. I thought he was at his best on the crisis so far at Tuesday's presser. On the other side, Pelosi has been abysmal in the response. When this is is all over, the media will deserve much of the blame as well. On one side, Fox downplayed it for weeks, thus making conservatives downplay it. On the other, CNN/MSNBC were cheerleading russiagate for 3 years and lost any credibility with conservatives and many moderates. A failure on so many levels...

It's too bad they declined to use WHO's test at this point in time, but you can't change what's happened. It's clear to some where his focus was at that time, and it's clear in the tweet. It's also clear to me that Monday's crash finally got him to change focus. He's been a different person on this since then, and I'm glad to see it. He's finally acting presidential, wrt virus.

I essentially said this 3 days ago, but some saw it as a political post. People still aren't getting the gravity of the situation. To say shut it down, does not mean essentials. What is needed is to shut down as much as is feasible for the next 30 days. As I said, declare a payment freeze. Make sure people can get food and water and their meds. This isn't the end either. Hopefully it will dissipate as the weather warms too, but that does not mean it won't be back in the fall. I've been distracting myself following the Bills' moves, but unfortunately I don't think there's going to be a season. Btw, it's nice to see the change in Trump that started with his Monday presser. Can't focus on past decisions, and I'm glad to see the change.

four guys who know the system too, so seemless.

Was thinking about this last night, add Norman and Klein to that last point, "knows the system." The D won't skip a beat...

You really are a douche. It has nothing to do with politics, rather how can society deal with a crisis of this magnitude? China brought in the military and shut Wuhan down. Maybe you'd rather see that? Btw, we do have a federal payments system dumbass. Of course, you still think it's all a hoax? Conspiracy? Yes, everyone is out to get your idol. Hahahahaha!

Make sure people have enough food and water, then suspend the payments system.

Banks are never prepared for something like this, but the Fed will provide all the liquidity they need. Hell, the Bank of Japan is buying equities...

As I said in the 2008 crisis, the Fed has no limit to its balance sheet. It can, is and will do everything necessary to ensure the financial system weathers this storm.

C'mon, I'm as asshat too! Sorry @TH3 I should've waited until it got closer to the close.

Looks like it will hit your mark by day's end.

I'm sure you've read the pieces on this tom. It's how they responded to keep it from getting out of control. Good luck you and yours.

We disagree. I'm done blaming and arguing. Stay safe.

That doesn't excuse our slow response to it. Several other Asian countries have shown how it should've been tackled because of their experience with SARs. It's all about what to do going forward now. We differ on the responses. I hope you come out of your self-quarantine fine. Stay safe.

Everything needs to be focused on limiting the impact of the virus. Shut the economy down for a month, just like Wuhan did. When you do that, then the focus is to make sure people's needs are met during that period. Once we get passed it, the federal government will step in to get the economy moving again. It's doable (the Chinese did it), it just requires actions as if we are in a war-time setting.

For someone who was just in Spain, I would think you'd be a little more aware of how quickly this is spreading. I wonder how many cases there would've been if China did not quarantine a city of 10 million? Or Italy shut down its country? If we simply let this play out like a flu, do you know how many people would die? Did you hear Fauci on TV yesterday? Vs Trump who was so giddy about the Fed cutting interest rates? He really is not fit to lead on this thing because he is such a narcissist. Great guy to go against the deep state, but not a virus...

Of course it's not a free lunch, and no person making decisions thinks so--It is cost-benefit. Do you really think the costs would be less if we went around doing business as usual? And it's not just those who get the virus, many needing any kind of critical care will not get it once the system hits capacity. It seems clear to me that the best course of action now--the one that will reduce the number of deaths intended or unintende--is to shut everything down like Wuhan and Lodi did.

Would you want to find out? Take a look at that graph on the two cities in Italy, one that shut down early and one that did not.

Not true. Declaring a state of emergency allows for circumventing things. They waited too long to take it seriously because trump has been more concerned about the stock market. Even yesterday he was so giddy about Fed rate cut, and said Wall Street would be happy. Apparently they aren’t...

Yes, I commented last night based on that, but you are correct. Ad for shutting down the economy, you can’t separate the two—it is being shut down because the number of cases is beyond control now. Time to shut it all down and stop the acceleration.

This is why... https://mobile.twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1239239417715396609 I don't think it should have anything to do with any economic criteria; it should be based on when we see the cases under control.

Btw, I won't be surprised if the markets are shut down at some point. Looks like the next month will be about simply getting through this....

Can't find it, but my twitter feed had some comments that "market signals were flashing red" before the rate cut was announced.