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In other words:

It is childish to provide a narrative for the thinking of others who are in disagreement with you.

Of course it's not - it's the typical armchair quarterback crap. Trump was the first world leader to close the borders, The WHO criticized him, the opposition party criticized him - since they love the Chinese Communist Party. Turns out, the President was correct - and just about EVERY major country followed suit. Any of them ROLL BACK their travel bans? NO These geniuses have all the answers. Agreed. With hindsight, that decision by Trump was a good one. I wish Canada had done the same thing at that time. I also think that his recent decision to extend ‘social distancing’ for 30 days was also a good move. I also like how he is being aggressive in removing government barriers to moving quickly with medical innovations (testing, medical equipment, vaccine etc). The China travel decision is a bit like congratulating the losing football team for making a first down in the first quarter.

Wear examination gloves so touching your face is unpleasant.

Remember what Trump sent to China? 17.8 tons of PPE Trump administration sent protective medical gear to China while he minimized the virus threat to US https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/opinions/coronavirus-personal-protective-equipment-obeidallah/index.html

Human ingenuity at work. Nude hand-sanitizer wrestling! Hahahaha

NRA sues California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials over gun store closures https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/us/nra-sues-california-over-gun-store-closures/index.html

Oh, yeah - don't disagree with the CoBF experts here. They have everyone's motivations figured out. And they just love to pile on. You begin with... "They have everyone's motivations figured out" And you follow with... "And they just love to pile on." It struck me as funny.

Trump announces that perhaps today a quarantine will be put into effect on all of New York and New Jersey and it could last for 2 weeks. Lock them up! https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/politics/trump-new-york-new-jersey-quarantine-coronavirus/index.html New York's governor said that he spoke with Trump this morning and they did not discuss any such thing. Why does Trump do this? I believe that Trump throws these random ideas out during appearances before the press just to see what the public response will be.

Underlying this political dance is Trump's tendency to talk about the government as though it's his own private business. The former real estate mogul often discusses government business like a transaction dependent on relationships or personal advantage, rather than a national obligation. https://news.yahoo.com/flatter-fight-governors-seeking-help-155038606.html

It is similar to oppositional defiance. And it's best to convince him that it was his great idea all along.

California's governor has been praising Trump's handling of the crisis, and the White House has been willing to work with him. Meanwhile, Trump has been belittling the requests of the governors of Washington and Michigan who have been sharply criticizing the Federal government's handling of the crisis. The Federal government would lead if the governors would stop maligning Trump -- he is fighting their requests because of this. Putin also recognizes that praising Trump goes a long way. You have to kiss the ring.

He cancelled the order for 80,000 ventilators and he thinks he is covering his ass: https://www.theroot.com/the-trump-administration-just-canceled-an-order-for-80-1842526968

'Governor Cuomo and others they say they want 30,000 of them. Thirty thousand!' Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview on Thursday night, speaking of the urgently needed ventilators. 'Think of this, you go to hospitals and they have one. And now all of a sudden everybody is asking for these vast numbers.' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8158745/US-coronavirus-Trump-claims-Cuomo-exaggerating-New-Yorks-need-ventilators.html

You're assuming tech is static though. Developments in screening have gone from virtually non existent to 10-minute tests being experimentally available in just weeks. Once you can screen people within minutes, why would you still need to shut borders? Because if you were exposed to the virus 10 minutes ago you won't test positive in 20 minutes?

This is so funny I don't know where else to put it: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/seattle-npr-station-says-no-171848492.html

Wow, Boris Johnson has it.

5% of their known cases are dead. And their cases are clearly growing exponentially (see link), but confirmation bias is a helluva drug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Washington_(state) Yes, and it's actually 147 dead (up 13% since Orthopa's 130 was posted).

5% of their known cases are dead. Higher than average death rate because of the Life Care Center where there were multiple deaths (37).

At the very bottom it reads: This editorial was published on February 28, 2020, at NEJM.org.

Today's market action may not be related to the jobless numbers at all. It just may be that people believe Trump can dictate to the governors, which he can't. So (potentially) you've got his followers moving their savings back into their mutual funds after liquidating them at lower prices last week. When Trump's wishes to pack churches goes ignored by the states, they'll sell lower again. And stimulus passed the senate as well.

Companies that look like they might not make it had their shares beaten up.

The Dow is a poor measure. The retail sector is represented by Walmart, for example. Consider, the current crisis helps Walmart sell more toys, being practically the only toy retailer (other than Target) still open on California's main street.

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Based on his way of operation so far (everything good is because of him, everything bad is someone else's fault who he then hardly even knew), here's what I think his plan is: He says he wants to reopen. When he can't because governors and cities and companies stay shut, he blames them for the bad economy, says it's not his fault, says they just do it to hurt him, so it shouldn't be held against him in election. Runs election as underdog who's being attacked by all, and all his great plans for the country would happen if not for all the obstruction. If the measures taken work and we beat this thing, he says "see, I was right, it wasn't a big deal, we went through this for nothing, if you had listened to me, everything would've been fine." (like those saying Y2K was no big deal without realizing it was exactly because of all the mitigation efforts... it's anti-vaxxer logic -- "who needs vaccines, there are so few infectious diseases these days?"). If we're lucky (heavy seasonality? great therapeutics?) and can actually reopen quickly after a peak, he also takes credit for having known it (even though it was a pure gamble with the lives of others). If things get really bad, he says he always knew it and it's all the fault of governors/mayors/deep state/democrats/etc who are incompetent/evil, as he's already been doing ("I always knew it was going to be a pandemic" "Cuomo could've bought more ventilators years ago" (everybody could've bought more of everything, that's not even wrong)). He sets things up so that the has something to say whatever happens, even if he's actually not trying to figure out what's best to do to beat this thing as quickly and painlessly as possible, because that may be inconvenient to his election and businesses and he doesn't have the intellectual tools to understand complex problems -- his skills as a salesman/BS artist don't help with pandemics. I think you are right. He can cherry pick later which of his past contradictory actions to bombard his supporters with. For example, he now chooses to bombard them with his support of the airlines' decision to restrict flights out of China, when he could have instead chosen to remind us that he later claimed the virus was a hoax. Further, the major US airlines had actually beaten him to it. (similar to his taking credit for California working with Google on a website)