Medical Community Demands Trump Declare COVID-19 A National Emergency | Talking Points Memo

In an unprecedented move, three of the country’s largest medical organizations demanded on Thursday that President Trump declare the coronavirus outbreak a national emergency.


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Good luck with that. Just because the WH is in lockdown over this and flights from Europe just got banned doesn’t mean that there’s an emergency, folks.

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Donnie Trump plays a Doctor on TV, but in real life, he’s just a Dotard.

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If you don’t say it’s an emergency, it’ll go away. That’s just basic science.

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Trump is sinking ever deeper into his psychotic break from reality. He was never too attached to reality to begin with but, at this point, anyone who tells him anything he doesn’t wish to hear is the enemy now. Nothing anyone says to him will matter from now on. It’s actually been this way for a while now.

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Wow. This is a big f’ing deal. The times, they are a-interesting-ing.

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Basic math more than science. Like 90% of Emergency Room care is actually for non-emergent issues.

Therefore, 90% of “Emergencies” overall must not be.

Duh.

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It is hard to imagine the US president waffling on the implications of Pearl Harbor, so why would the president have any doubts about the implications of a once-in-a-century pandemic event? What is he waiting for?

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Damn. That is solid. Cannot refute.

So 90% of ER visits are about hangnails. Shocking news!

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Errr, I think the term you’re looking for is “Alt-Science”

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Who in the hell is in charge here? Certainly not the Trump administration!

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We are. We ourselves. Sinn féin amháin. Just us chickens.

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The animals at the research labs who do not want to participate in any form of testing?

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… people slicing their bagels with butter knives!

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Sharing a border with Mexico is a national emergency. The coronavirus is not, apparently.

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Jared is going to do the research? As a taxpayer, I want professionals in charge. A dangerous, selfish, narcissistic moron runs the country,

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A clue.

(He hasn’t got one.)

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tRump still thinks he can keep all the numbers secret to prove it’s really no big deal in the States. He is going to lose this battle.

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“There are rules, Smokey.”

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It’s time to lead, follow, or get out of the way. But there’s no one there with the guts to tell him.

This chapter in American history is going to be very ugly.

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