#CoronavirusCoverUp is underway.

[mia]

The Trump administration has restricted access to testing and information.

Rep. John Garamendi, whose constituent has been infected with coronavirus, slams the Trump administration's response to the outbreak. He says officials don't know who is ill and early testing is not allowed to be done. Garamendi says the result "God help us, could be deadly."

[malaise]

1. This is where States' Rights will matter

Fuck the fascists!

[mia]

3. Trump wants to limit States' Rights.

President Trump is once again threatening to derail medical cannabis access in the majority of U.S. states that regulate its access and use.

In his recently released 2021 federal budget proposal, the president has called for ending existing federal protections that limit the federal government from interfering in the state-sanctioned regulation of medical cannabis. Doing so would place thousands of medical cannabis providers and the millions of patients who rely on them at risk for criminal prosecution....

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/484540-congress-should-halt-trumps-plan-to-upend-states-medical-marijuana-laws

[rickyhall]

9. Get the motherfucker out of there now, please!

Thanx, I needed that....

[KT2000]

2. He was good on that interview

He is angry with the way this is not being handled by the administration.

[mia]

6. Yes.

I hope that others in Congress will speak out as he did.

[gab13by13]

4. No one is asking this question,

We should have been at full scale testing weeks ago, now we are testing with 2/3 of a test kit.

Trump doesn't want people tested, he doesn't want people to know that the coronavirus has spread in the US. When people die from coronavirus Trump wants to blame it on the regular flu. Believe me, Trump and his cult have no qualms about killing people to win re-election.

[mia]

5. Well said. His "perfect" press conference was designed to protect himself. ONLY.

Link to tweet

[usaf-vet]

7. Just another approach to voter suppression. Sick and dead people don't vote.

Poor and middle-class citizens are more likely to lack healthcare and likely are democratic voters.

If you are rich you have healthcare and would likely be republican voters.

And I bet the $700,000,000 would be used to fund his damn wall. A twofer, kill off sick folks while preventing other likely democratic voters to enter the country.

[Farmer-Rick]

8. Well, the most deaths have come from people 70 yr old or older

And from people with heart disease and diabetes. These are people in the South. He is going to end up killing off his own supporters.

I think they should go thank Trump after they get sick.

[usaf-vet]

10. They are willing to trade the 70+ voters because they are about to reach their "use by date".....

.... as long as they also grab some of the <60 voters who could swing several elections in the next ten years.

Poor and without healthcare potential voters and years from reaching Medicare coverage.

[wnylib]

15. Why the assumptions about the

politics of 70+ voters?

Several DU posters are in that category, including me. I bristle at the lumping togethet assumptions of who we are, how we think, and how we vote.

[usaf-vet]

16. Easy there I'm right in the middle of the 70 crowd myself.

It wasn't a shot at the 70+ voters of which I am one.

[wnylib]

17. But I hear it everywhere, don't you?

And DU is supposed to be my respite from it.

[usaf-vet]

18. I hear it as historical voting statistics.

The senior citizens are the most reliable voters. We always turn out to vote, unlike younger voters. We are usually conservative voters.
Not to mean we only/usually/always vote republican.

I interpret that to mean we often vote as we always have. If we grew up and voted like our parents we probably vote that way today.

My dad was a union worker. I grew up in a union family who voted Democratic. Even in the years when I was in the military (usually Republican voters) I still voted Democratic.

[wnylib]

19. My father had a union job until

he was promoted to a management position and continued to move up. Just before that happened, my mother went back to work on a union job in a related business that was a competitor. Made for some interesting dynamics as she refused to give up her job since she was progressing at it, too.

Both were solid Dems as I was growing up. My father got more conservative with time (and promotions), but my mother never did.

They were progressive (liberal in those days) on most issues except the anti war movement. Thought it was traitorous to oppose the call to war, due to their WWII experience. My brother, OTOH, was career Navy and spent 2 years in Vietnam. He supported the right of citizens to protest.

As a Dem, I am and always was, more to the left than either parent, especially on war, environment, and women's rights. So my views are only partially like theirs, but always a Dem.

[wnylib]

13. He knows that his cutbacks on pandemic

preparedness will come back to bite him. Wants to coverup the risks and lack of preparation.

Cut backs in health budget to pay for tax cuts to benefit the wealthy. Then spread of virus causes economy to tank, hurting wealthy investments in the end. Full circle.

Middle class and poor be damned.

Considering the amount of travel by the fascist dictator and his gang of thugs, surely some of them or their circle have been exposed.

[Duppers]

11. K & R

[yaesu]

12. wall street bankster "ANALysts" are joining in on the cover up & we all know tRump works for them nt

[mia]

14. Perhaps some will be fooled by a rate cut.

Ex-Fed Gov Warsh sees coordinated global central bank action soon in response to COVID-19

Former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh said Friday he expects the Fed and other central banks around the world to act soon in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Warsh, occasionally rumored to be a candidate for Fed chairman after Jerome Powell’s term expires, spoke Friday morning to CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” He recommended the Fed act as quickly as Sunday to assuage financial markets that have been in an aggressive swoon all week as the virus has spread.

“This thing’s moving pretty darn quickly,” he said. “At the very least, a statement on Sunday night before Asian markets open would buy them a little time and let us all learn a little bit more about where things are.”

He said the Fed doesn’t have a lot of ammunition to help markets and the economy, so it needs to act quickly in a coordinated fashion with other central banks like the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the People’s Bank of China and the Bank of Japan....

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/ex-fed-governor-warsh-sees-coordinated-global-central-bank-action-soon-in-response-to-coronavirus.html