Surgeon General Warns Coronavirus Outbreak ‘Going To Get Bad’ This Week

On Monday morning, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams warned Americans to prepare for the COVID-19 outbreak to get even worse as soon as this week.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1298999

He’s off script! He’ll be gone by Tuesday.

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Wasn’t it supposed to go away by April? That is just a week away.

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Wait, but the Fuckstick in chief got his marching orders from some not-good-enough for a weeknight-spot Fox news pinhead and decided that we need to ignore the doctors now! What to do…

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Under the Presidents’ “decisive leadership”…

“I want America to understand this week, it’s going to get bad,”

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From 15 going to 0 - Act II

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YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID THIS THREE WEEKS AGO YOU PANDERING COWARDLY ASSHOLE.

Okay, discobot: “You should have this three weeks ago, you pandering cowardly asshole.”

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Is he speaking subliminally, but not directly enough, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

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“We really, really need everyone to stay at home.”

Um, Trump is now broadly hinting that stay-in-place measures should be gone in 15 days.

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So this is the long awaited pivot?

Towards death?

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Today’s Learn Italian at Home daily useful phrase is “Siamo inculati,” which means “We’re fucked.”

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Pictured: Some of the people not taking it seriously enough

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But if were getting fucked by Donnie, don’t we have to sign an NDA before Mikey Cohen pays us?

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Pretty sure the agreement’s nullified if you die.

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“Everyone needs to act as if they have the virus right now,” he said. “So test or no test, we need you to understand you could be spreading it to someone else, or you could be getting it from someone else."

Exactly, once the testing shortages were clear and obvious – making true contact-tracing all but impossible, since most carriers were entirely unknown – the above was the only reasonable advice. Of course we couldn’t admit we had a testing shortage, so…

Trump may get mad at him for saying this, but within a few days the truth of the statement will be self-evident.

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Wonder when Donnie is going to declare bankruptcy on COVID-45?

It’s been his go-to move all the times he’s fucked things up before.

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A goof at my work wondered out loud if we’d all have been better off to all get exposed to the virus and get over it in a week or so…moran!

And of course not!

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The Surgeon General knows these kinds of outbreaks are going to happen nationwide.

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Don’t tell me, let me guess, all he heard was that this is sort of a bad flu. He hasn’t really hoisted it aboard that people die from it.

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