WATCH LIVE: Trump addresses the nation amid coronavirus pandemic

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  1. LoneStarGal

    LoneStarGal Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    There will be a Presidential Address to the nation tonight from the Oval Office at 9PM EST.

    Trump will be speaking about the Coronavirus situation. The WHO officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic today.

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    Link to PBS live feed (Scheduled to start at 9PM):
     
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    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No need to waste watching live. I will check the forum tomorrow and see why people are angry!
     
  3. MrTLegal

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    My bet is that Trump is going to declare a national emergency. A full five days after saying "We stopped it."
     
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    Only question is if Trump will throw Pence under the bus ... you know he's going to have to blame someone ... else.
     
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    Hey logical question about the Corona Virus......

    If we only found out about the Corona Virus after China quartined 27 million people, how many Americans flew to China or were in contact with people who did?

    Also what if some of the flu cases we've had this year were Corona Virus just diagnosed as regular flu? It's not like the doctors would've know to test them for Corona right?
     
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    That or go to Salon, Vox or Rawstory and just read the headline!
     
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You really think it will be something other than, 'orange man bad'?
     
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    So he got bad info and now he got good info. If he still maintains we stopped it ....well a horse of a different color. And we are marching down the yellow brick road !!
     
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    Make or break time for Trump. His presidency is hanging in the balance. You're not going to hear rosy predictions and comparisons to the flu anymore. They told Trump to knock that **** off. Trump is going to prep the people for the awfulness to come.
     
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    Orangemanbad overreacted and caused a panic.

    Orangemanbad under reacted and caused deaths.

    No need for consistency, both positions will be "A, ~A" in shill world as usual.

    Watch.
     
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    I'll grade Trump fairly on it, and I already predict he'll do a decent job. It's going to be sober, measured, carefully worded, and will absolutely destroy the narrative that I've seen on far right websites like Breitbart and Redstate. They STILL think this is a nothingburger. They won't after Trump gets done tonight. It will be fascinating to see how Trump supporters go from being told it will go away, it's not as bad as the flu, we have it contained, etc., etc. to "there are dark days ahead", or whatever phrase Trump uses to convey that message.

    But yeah, I think he'll do all right. There might even be some policy proposals. He should have had something ready by this morning, but there's still time.
     
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    Oh, that one's easy:

    Trump did too much / too little!

    Trump was too calm / too panicked!

    Trump was too somber / too happy!

    Trump only cares about the financial markets / he doesn't care enough and the market is going to crash!

    We're all gonna run out of toilet paper and die!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Maybe for added theatrics, Pelosi can tear something up when Trump's done talking :p
     
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    So we found out about Corona in late Dec. because China told us. By late January they quartined 27 million people........

    So let's say the virus stared in November of 2019 then, how many people traveled to and from China during that 3 month span?

    In 2018 there were 611 million air passengers in China so let's divide 611 million by 12 then times that number by 3. We get an average of 152 million air passengers in China during that time.......

    It's probably already been here tbh
     
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    2 hours from now??? WE COULD ALL BE DEAD BY THEN!!!
     
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    It's been here for months now
     
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    From COVID-19 or Global Warming? I can't keep up with all the Imminent Death stalking us...

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    Oh, it was just the Baby Sniffer stalking us...
     
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    Rumor is he'll declare a national emergency.
     
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    Yes, the virus has been here since before China shut down Hubei. January is the month that Chinese who migrated to other countries travel back to China for family reunions and the big Chinese New Year's festivities. China did not want to miss out on that annual huge chunk of revenue, but finally had to. An estimated three million people who visited the Wuhan area left before they started shutting down cities.

    Hard to say how many Asian-Americans travelled for the annual event or picked up the virus, but a subset of the 2.8 million Chinese-born residents surely did.

    This is from the King County, WA website.

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    https://kingcounty.gov/independent/forecasting/King County Economic Indicators/Demographics.aspx
     
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    Plus you have business men who either fly directly to China or sit in the same seats and others who did.....

    I'd say it's been here since at least January
     
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    "Awfulness"?

    I don't think he's going to be pouring any napalm on the fires tonight.

    I think he's just going to try and calm people and the business community down and let everyone know the Feds are doing what they can, like rationing toilet paper. :wink:
     
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    She can dump gasoline on herself, burst into flame and go running off the cliff of Minas Tirith falling 700 ft into the hordes of Orcs below
     
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    That isn't what we say but I'm not surprised that's all you can hear.
     
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    A national emergency over a liberal hoax? ;)
     
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    I've heard the same rumor.

    If it enables the Feds to respond on a quicker and greater level it's probably a good move, but it'll give the Chicken Littles on Wall Street another excuse to crap their pants. :roll:

    There really aren't a lot of good options right now - everyone's in a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" scenario right now....
     
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    Thank goodness World War III was underwhelming, they promised us that too...
     

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