Category Archives: Fail!

China Hawks in Congress See an Opportunity in Coronavirus – The New York Times

Lawmakers who have long lobbied for the United States to be tougher on China are using the pandemic to press for punitive measures against Beijing.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/us/politics/coronavirus-congress-china.html

Love your neighbor as you would love yourself

White House rips U.S.-funded outlet Voice of America in daily newsletter – POLITICO

White House rips U.S.-funded outlet Voice of America in daily newsletter – POLITICO
— Read on www.politico.com/news/2020/04/10/white-house-attacks-voice-of-america-daily-newsletter-179191

Does he even know what he is saying? Maybe he knows his followers only listen to what he says now and doesn’t care if it’s true or jives with what he said yesterday…

The US was warned it could run out of ventilators. So why wasn’t its healthcare system prepared for coronavirus? – ABC News

The United States has about a fifth of the ventilators it’s likely to need to treat COVID-19 patients during the pandemic. But the reasons behind the nationwide shortage are complicated and can’t be solved overnight.
— Read on mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-12/why-is-the-us-out-of-ventilators-amid-coronavirus/12137178

Poultry Worker’s Death Highlights Spread of Coronavirus in Meat Plants – The New York Times

Some employees are coming in sick, and one woman died after being ordered back to work. “Our work conditions are out of control,” a longtime Tyson employee said.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/us/coronavirus-chicken-meat-processing-plants-immigrants.html

Tyson better get it’s act together – test workers as they come to work help them if they become ill. Or guess what happens to their reputation and certification…

Trump scapegoating of WHO obscures its key role in tackling pandemic | World news | The Guardian

The World Health Organization has a tiny budget – for which the US is in arrears – but experts have praised its response to the coronavirus crisis
— Read on www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/world-health-organization-coronavirus-donald-trump

Totally self-serving and wrong

RSF calls on Trump to end attacks on journalists, encourages news outlets to assess coverage of COVID-19 briefings | RSF

After abandoning the daily press briefing for more than a year, the White House decided to conduct daily COVID-19 task force briefings once the pandemic swept through the United States. President Trump has, however, exploited these briefings for political gain and attacked at least eight journalists from NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN, PBS and CBS since the briefings started airing daily
— Read on rsf.org/en/news/rsf-calls-trump-end-attacks-journalists-encourages-news-outlets-assess-coverage-covid-19-briefings

Feds are seizing coronavirus supplies, hospitals say – Los Angeles Times

In Florida, a large medical system saw an order for thermometers taken away. And officials at a system in Massachusetts were unable to determine where its order of masks went. “Are they stockpiling this stuff? Are they distributing it? We don’t know,” one official said. “And are we going to ever get any of it back if we need supplies? It would be nice to know these things.” PeaceHealth, a 10-hospital system in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, had a shipment of testing supplies seized recently. “It’s incredibly frustrating,” said Richard DeCarlo, the system’s chief operating officer.

Source: Feds are seizing coronavirus supplies, hospitals say – Los Angeles Times

Trump stokes fresh coronavirus row as Wuhan reopens | US news | The Guardian (Not my fault, I don’t know what to do but blame others for my stupidity – Trump)

US president accuses World Health Organization of China bias as New York records its highest daily death toll and Wuhan lockdown eases

Source: Trump stokes fresh coronavirus row as Wuhan reopens | US news | The Guardian