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Excellent point on HIV.

If, I am drinking and my judgement is impaired, and I get behind the wheel and accidentally kill someone I will be charged with manslaughter. If I make a conscious, unimpaired decision to refuse to wear a mask and accidentally give someone the Coronavirus who later dies, should I not be charged with manslaughter?

The US Government has abdicated authority on combating Covid. US retail stores has had to step up to fill the vacuum. Publix, Walmart, CVS, Target, Kroger, Kohl’s, Best Buy, etc. are all requiring the wearing of masks. What a dysfunctional, gutless government.

If Trump sees himself as a "wartime president", maybe he should start prosecuting some of these "war crimes".

"Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp forbids cities, counties from requiring masks as coronavirus surges in the state" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/16/kemp-georgia-mask-mandates/ WTF is wrong with these people?

Meanwhile back at the White House, Trump has nothing better to do than to use the Oval Office to pose for pictures in front of a bunch of canned beans to make a promotion for a private company! One hundred thousand dead citizens and he uses his position to advertise canned beans. Makin' America Great Again. More like making a laughing stock of the country. Will we ever wake up from this satire?

"Most of the excess deaths from Covid are from NY and states around NY." So far. "I wont call anyone a pedophile " No one did.

Is there any rational person who doesn’t think Trump’s handling of Covid-19 has been deplorable? There is indeed such a group. The only group that I find more deplorable than pedophiles. Trump supporters. Apologize and delete immediately While Vinod1's reply might be a little extreme Investor 20, I note that you avoided the question.

“what exactly is he supposed to do?” You can’t be serious. Telling states to reopen before they are ready? Remember “Liberate Michigan!”? Politicizing face masks “...Americans might wear face masks not as a way to prevent the spread of coronavirus but as a way to signal disapproval of him.” I don’t think that Americans understand how pissed off the rest of the world is at the US. This epidemic is a world epidemic. Allowing the virus to run rampant among 328,000,000 people is a threat to the whole world. Wouldn’t you be pissed off if the people living next to you all had Covid-19 and they just continued to go about their daily business while you bit the bullet and did everything you could to protect yourself and stop the spread? Is there any rational person who doesn’t think Trump’s handling of Covid-19 has been deplorable? Is it not the Presidents responsibility to lead the country and set an example. Yet his approach is to “ignore it and it will just go away”. There is no way Trump gets a free pass on this.

It would be nice if there was some way to link stocks being discussed with their market listing so a simple click would take you to the ticker where you could immediately see current price, graph, etc. Or even better, have a display of the current price automatically appear with the heading.

"Plus my boating hobby. " In that case you're just lucky to be able to afford to eat. I know the hard way. There is more than a little truth in the old definition that a boat is a hole in the water that you try to fill up with money. :)

That's an interesting concept and makes sense. The money's still there it is just going in different places. Restaurants are having a rough time, grocery stores are booming. Thanks for that.

Meanwhile Trump says "we are doing very well" in the fight against Cronavirus. And there are still people who want to keep these lunatics in office? The decreasing IQ of some people is amazing.

"This is so true, most grocery store vegetable/fruits have no flavour here in Canada as well Most fruit is usually tasteless and hard as a rock. Yes, supermarket prices are going up sharply and there are quite a few empty shelves. As Covid-19 spreads one has to be concerned about the food chain. The other thing I have noticed recently is that the supermarket's policy of cleaning carts, providing sanitizer, etc is sadly slipping quickly, but if you go into a Dollar store or many other stores, they have someone at the door wearing a mask and they spray every customer's hands as they enter.

Okay, here is what Mr. Trump supporters need to know.... Many other countries have sucked it up, locked down, paid the price and have been reasonably succesful in controlling this disease. On the other hand, as you admit the US has been too greedy and too selfish to do their part to help stop a worldwide pandemic. And because US can't get their shit together they are quite willing to put many, many people in other countries at risk. And “the government can't tell me what to do" crowd in the U.S. needs to grow up, suck it up and get with the program or suffer the consequences as they count up their dead relatives.

“...120k deaths and all is tragic from a human being emotional perspective, but in terms of the markets and the economy, its pretty meaningless...” Okay, so I can understand that you feel that a certain number of lives must be sacrificed to keep the economy from being damaged any more than necessary. To help me further understand, just what is the exact price you put on each person that you want to sacrifice? The number of dead Americans is 128,007, so could you translate that into dollars saved per person who has died? Also do you have a number of dead that that is acceptable 200,000, 300,000?

“Pinning the problem on Cuomo is easy. Research indicates that infected travelers from New York transmitted nearly 65% of new coronavirus cases across the US, according to The New York Times.” So you are suggesting that it is New York’s fault that the other states didn’t lock down? “Check out excess deaths by state. Florida, Arizona and Texas didnt have any more excess deaths than in 2018 winter. While NY, NJ have huge excess deaths. Plots for NY and Texas excess deaths shown below.” Apparently you have not been watching the news lately.

While this might seem unrelated to the Corona virus, this gives some insight into the man running the country. The F-35 stealth fighter jet has a low radar signature making it difficult to pick up on radar. However, Trump believes the plane is actually invisible to the naked eye. “You could be right there beside it and you can’t see it!” So are the pilots invisible too or would you just see a bunch of guys flying through the clouds? Must be a bitch to service, do people keep walking them on the ground? So with that level of naivety it should be no surprise that the president thinks the Coronavirus would go away if we stopped testing or if, well you know, the bleach thing, or sticking a light up your ass.

Careful Cubs, you know where Jim Jones’ cult ended up. Your cult leader is doing the same with Covid-19.

Well Cubs, why don't you tell us what a great job Trump and Pence are doing handling the pandemic. You know the guy who said it would just disappear. Or what a great job Florida, Arizona and Texas are doing.

Is this how you make America great again? How much has to happen before people wake up to see what a disaster is taking place and realize there is a serious problem stemming from the top?

Lockdowns do work. P.E.I., Canada. Smallest and most densely populated province. Population - 160,000, 1.6 million yearly visitors. Locked down mid March. Covid-19 cases - 27 Community spread - 0 Recovered - 27 Hospitalizations - 0 Deaths - 0 Applying US statistics, deaths would have been 60+ Last Covid-19 case was about 3 months ago. Reopening cautiously.

"The EU will not be alone" in doing this. Canada keeps extending severe border restrictions with US and it is hard to see why they would be lifted with the spike in US cases." I wonder if keeping the Canadian border closed is going to piss off Trump and will he threaten to retaliate? Then again, that didn't work out very well for him when he tried to steal the Canadian masks.

Today it seems that the EU is discussing refusing entry to travelers from the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/world/europe/coronavirus-EU-American-travel-ban.html

“Common sense to a Trump supporter - Injecting with bleach” Or stick a flashlight up your a$$ But as the great man himself said... "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any," And people vote for this twit.”