Did anyone think something like this could happen?

"DipodomysDeserti" (dipodomysdeserti)
04/05/2020 at 20:13 • Filed to: None

Says the president with this guy sitting right next to him. This speech was given in 2017.

DISCUSSION (21)

AestheticsInMotion > DipodomysDeserti
04/05/2020 at 20:19

Do you think we’ll be prepared for the next one? Genuine question. On a scale of “do nothing” to “post-9/11 overkill” how will America get ready for future pandemics?

WilliamsSW > AestheticsInMotion
04/05/2020 at 20:22

If we re-elect this idiot, we will learn absolutely nothing.

WilliamsSW > DipodomysDeserti
04/05/2020 at 20:27

To be fair, *he* never thought it could happen, because he’s a moron.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > DipodomysDeserti
04/05/2020 at 20:30

But my aunt on facebook said this is all overblown! ?!?

DipodomysDeserti > AestheticsInMotion
04/05/2020 at 20:34

I think we’ll be better prepared, but c ivilization has yet to find a way to fit within natural systems sustainably, so these things will continue to happen. Industrial civilization is far less adap ted to this than any other in history. I predict a post 9/11 overkill situation. In other words, super strong response with no actual sustainable solutions. There are no short term, small scale solutions to something like this. We view the virus as some new threat, but the threat is that we can’t live with someth ing that’s been here long before people were around.

DipodomysDeserti > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
04/05/2020 at 20:36

I can’t wait to see the conspiracy theories when people realize this is something people said was going to happen a few years ago.

DipodomysDeserti > WilliamsSW
04/05/2020 at 20:37

It was just great because he motioned around the room and everything. I could only imagine what Dr. Fauci was thinking.

fintail > DipodomysDeserti
04/05/2020 at 20:41

And now everything will just be another “witch hunt”.

WilliamsSW > DipodomysDeserti
04/05/2020 at 20:43

Considering that Dr. Fauci has dedicated his life to fighting disease, it’s pretty sad to even think about it.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > DipodomysDeserti
04/05/2020 at 20:44

Oh the batshit is already out

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/1842686335

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-52164358

“ Mobile phone mast fires are being investigated amid conspiracy theories claiming a link between 5G and coronavirus.

There have been fires at masts in Birmingham, Liverpool and Melling in Merseyside.

A video, allegedly of the blaze in Aigburth, was shared on YouTube and Facebook, claiming a link between the mobile technology and Covid-19.”

My favorite are the same folks going “the chinese are lying on the death count” and “get back to work puss ies”

Just Jeepin' > DipodomysDeserti
04/05/2020 at 21:13

There are already conspiracy theories about the fact that Gates ran some simulation a year or two ago.

Thisismydisplayname > AestheticsInMotion
04/05/2020 at 21:42

Maybe they will actually implement some of the concepts laid out by 2017 Fauci. The fund would be one, then if there is understanding that this is not an us and them scenario, we’ve got to have global eyes and ears. Then maybe we can get ahead of the next one of these that comes around. SARS was the example that we actually kicked in the ass pretty quickly and it was basically contained. Instead of having someone in charge that doesn’t like to read things without lots of pictures and coloring pages, that doesn’t listen to the alarm bells that were being sounded last year and earlier this year. The Congress people got it, and started selling their stocks, so they knew the shit show was coming, but they still did fuck-all to convey that to the empty suit in the oval. And here we are. So hopefully we will get our collective shit together and maybe take our elected officials a bit more seriously and hold their feet to the fire to actually do what they are supposed to be doing for us.

PyramidHat > DipodomysDeserti
04/05/2020 at 22:09

Deep state/Hillary/China/etc...

Or - as someone pointed out to me a week go - nature has been coming up with things to kill people ever since there was people...it just finally got the combination right...

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
04/05/2020 at 22:22

“DON’T TRUST the Chinese numbers!!”

“What do you mean by ‘trust’? They’re just statistics based on the number of diagnoses. Since everyone’s testing slower than the spread of the virus, China’s numbers are as wrong as most other countries. Also, whether nobodies like us believe their number has no bearing on their extreme efforts to slow down the disease. ”

“But they lied at the beginning.”

“So did the US, and we had more than a month to prepare while watching China suffer and learn. We wasted that month thinking that we're 'Murica, that couldn’t happen to us. ”

“Yeah but China lies all the time.”

I’m no fan of the CCP but the constantly moving goalposts by which we judge China are as stale as the Cold War.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
04/05/2020 at 22:27

I agree all the numbers are being under eported as they are relying on positive tests, and deaths from the viurs. M y point I was trying to make is how some individuals will say “the chinese are lying how deadly this is” and yet at the same time, say the say “ stay home measures are overkill and we ned to get back to work” , as those are 2 diametrically opposed beliefs.

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
04/05/2020 at 23:12

Yeah, I get it. The only theory I have is the “this is ‘Murica, we don’t get sick from some third world disease ” mentality.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
04/05/2020 at 23:22

Oh I agree, at which point anyone should have looked at Italy and gone “oh fuck” . I work in the periphery of the healthcare industry, and there is a long list of “oh WTF” when de al ing with chinese healthcare, but a widespread epidemic is 3 steps ahead of when the healthcare system comes to being involved. By that time it playing catchup.

DipodomysDeserti > PyramidHat
04/06/2020 at 00:38

I think of it the opposite way. People are only here because our DNA arranged itself in a way to fit into mother nature’s puzzle.

LastFirstMI is my name > AestheticsInMotion
04/06/2020 at 00:40

We’ll use the post 9/11 playbook- attack the wrong problem with shock and awe. I do hope we increase funding for public health, and more importantly, actually follow the plan when it happens.

facw > WilliamsSW
04/06/2020 at 11:10

Given his minuscule attention span, I doubt his abysmal intellect even played a role.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > WilliamsSW
04/06/2020 at 14:35

His approval ratings are as high as they’ve ever been...

I understand that the country usually rallies around the president in time of crisis (see W after 9/11) , but COME ON! I’m fine with no one making political points from all this, but just tell the truth and accept the fact that this idiot and and his administration made us less prepared for this, they they reacted ridiculously slowly because they were afraid of the economic/ political fallout , and that he’s the worst person you’d want to be president right now.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/