Report: Trump Suggested Sending American COVID Victims To Guantanamo Early In Pandemic

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US rejects Cuba demand to hand back Guantanamo Bay base

[karlwlewis]

@mrbadcrumble

Not because it was was cruel or unscientific or lacking in any decency or common sense.

I’m so damned old, I remember back when COVID-19 was still “new”; and no one understood very much about it, and the first cases started appearing in Washington State, and the Federal Government actually interfered with local medical providers, trying to prevent any testing, so they could avoid having any cases of COVID-19 identified in the United States.

[matthew1961]

I know this is kind of out there, but sometimes it almost seems as if Mr. Trump may not be quite as wise and compassionate in reality as he appears to be.

[karlwlewis]

@steviedee111

Actually we elected Tommy Udo.

Well, like Tommy Udo, but lacking his grace, class, and basic human decency.

[steviedee111]

@karlwlewis

I’m so damned old, I remember back when COVID-19 was still “new”; and no one understood very much about it, and the first cases started appearing in Washington State, and the Federal Government actually interfered with local medical providers, trying to prevent any testing, so they could avoid having any cases of COVID-19 identified in the United States.

Sort of like when you hoped that burning sensation would go away.

[eaharrison]

I’m more amazed at THAT MAN’s comment “we import goods, not a virus”. Whatever happened to Make America Great Again? Wasn’t returning manufacturing jobs to the U S of A part of the plan?

[eggrollian]

I recall Kern County early in the pandemic. No testing. Zero. Everybody was still FedEx-ing to Stephen at the CDC for a 4-day turnaround. Maybe. By the time I was actually infected in late March, there was some testing (Qwest Diagnostics), but turnaround had increased to 8-10 days. the local hospital still was just getting covid protocols together. Masking was beginning to become commonplace. The Guantanmo idea Trump throws out in February was a just a typical not-too-bright Trumpy attempt to sweep things under the rug. However, his lament about testing is simply unforgivable. The PCR test kits were in reasonable distribution in numerous countries already in early February. It still is amazing that the public sector response was so poor in the case of the US, especially given that the first part of the pandemic is when the whole system has to mobilize quickly. Trump was suggesting his willingness to kill 900,000 Americans. And he did.

[steviedee111]

@karlwlewis

Well, like Tommy Udo, but lacking his grace, class, and basic human decency.

Netflix should have a Richard Widmark channel. Seriously.

[lastroth]

@benthere

We know that.

[chelsea530]

Another excerpt from WaPo:

Trump’s top deputies adopted a similar strategy of issuing threats or isolating their rivals, undermining efforts to manage the outbreak, Abutaleb and Paletta write.

Kadlec, who had overseen the purchase of 600 million masks, took the plan in late March to Kushner — who exploded in anger, throwing his pen against the wall in frustration when he learned the masks would not arrive until June.

“You f—ing moron,” Kushner reportedly said. “We’ll all be dead by June.”

Thanks, Jared. For nothing.

New book offers fresh details about chaos, conflicts inside Trump’s pandemic...

[karlwlewis]

@steviedee111

Sort of like when you hoped that burning sensation would go away.

TBH, that really only bothers me when I have to pee, otherwise it’s not that big a deal; I’m sure it’ll be fine.

[juvenal]

“The former president hadn’t kept his grievances with testing quiet; he often publicly blamed testing for the exploding cases across the country rather than acknowledging his and his administration’s negligent response to the pandemic that caused the spike in the first place.”

Remarkable. SO illogical that it defies both logic AND illogic.

[lastroth]

Back in Feb. of 2020 I flew to my father’s funeral in Phoenix. Getting on the plane in StL there was a young man with a gaiter on. I thought geeze. And now I’m sorry.
Part of what didn’t happen under Trump was acknowledging what a pandemic is, or could be. And two not understanding the psychology of getting a message out. Response to the burgeoning pandemic did not take into account the differences between urban and rural. But the biggest mistake was thinking and counting on Americans to understand the scientific process and update their thinking when new info became available.

[jinnj]

WITH A STRONG CASE OF COVID …

[steviedee111]

@lastroth

But the biggest mistake was thinking and counting on Americans to understand the scientific process and update their thinking when new info became available.

Americans still think it’s a miracle sugar cubes dissolve in hot coffee.

[katscherger]

Exactly. I came to make the same point.

[tigersharktoo]

Once again from the former guy: “It is all about me, how would I look?”

[storm]

so, if this were about infected cruise ships early in 2020, it might have made some sense to get people onto land but not mainland.

[dangoodbar]

This is not just a Trump problem but a Republican problem.

That is how many people are dead because to quote Donald Trump, “George W Bush lied America into a disastrous war in Iraq”.

The point being the only thing Bush and Trump really have in common is who their supporters hate.

[mattinpa]

@matthew1961

I know this is kind of out there, but sometimes it almost seems as if Mr. Trump may not be quite as wise and compassionate in reality as he appears to be.

Yeah, well, that’s easy to say when you don’t even know the person.

Seriously I wonder if I’ll ever quite accept the full reality of a president so insane he thought if you did nothing and simply didn’t count the numbers of the sick during a pandemic he could avoid having to take any responsibility for it. If you can’t see it it’s gone, the way an infant thinks about reality.