I'm guessing no one else would be stupid enough to loosen federal rules designed to control the spread of infections in nursing homes.
Except possibly for you. --Bob
I'm guessing no one else would be stupid enough to loosen federal rules designed to control the spread of infections in nursing homes.
As usual, only the batphone side of the story. The critics are correct, until they get the power and the unintended consequences can be used against them.Bob78164 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:24 pmI'm guessing no one else would be stupid enough to loosen federal rules designed to control the spread of infections in nursing homes.
Except possibly for you. --Bob
So, by an odd coincidence, organizations concerned with senior care safety are opposed to Trump's new guidelines, while the nursing home industry is in favor of them because "cutting red tape" is usually a synonym for increasing profits by ignoring safety and hoping nothing goes wrong.
Oh, trust me. "People" are laughing. At "someone."flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:36 pmOf course he is, bobby. And we all know that if he did what you just suggested, you would have found something else wrong with it or how he said it, and let us all know about it. Keep going. Tell us how it would be different, and we'd all be living in shangra-la with not a worry in the world if only hillary or joe or bernie or you were pres. And we'll all laugh at you.Bob78164 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 10:42 amThis "compromise" is going to force sick workers who should stay home to choose between staying and their paycheck. Some of those workers are going to go to work, spreading the disease. And if Donny had, for once, used the bully pulpit afforded by the Oval Office to push for a clean bill that provides sick leave for everyone, it would have passed that way.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 10:12 am
But that was the bill that was passed, Mr President. It's called compromise. It's what the congress is supposed to do.
In deference to ms beebs, I will leave you alone, mr president, to continue your whining and complaining about mr trump. I hope you can extrapolate my point. You can continue your politicizing of a national emergency for all to see how shallow your thinking is. It is so easy for those who have one goal: to accumulate power for themselves, to criticize those who actually have to deal with the emergency. To say: if only we had the power, things would be better. We have been doing this bullshit ever since I have been aware, and when the power shifts from one party to another, the roles reverse.
It would be nice, for a change, for the federal government to work together to solve what they can, and have the wisdom to know what they should leave to the states or the people, like the constitution advises.
But even in this national emergency, he's more worried about big corporate profits than he is about the health and wellbeing of the American people. --Bob
What's terrifying about this graph is that it measures only confirmed cases. Given the lack of available testing, the number of actual cases is surely many times this number.silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 5:07 pmHere's a graphic of the coronavirus spread that's so simple that even Flock might understand it:
Are you aware that about 90% of McDonald's locations world-wide are owned by franchisees? Please enlighten us to what you know about all of their finances.
Do you know what the blowback will be against McDonalds if one of a franchisee's employees infects hundreds of people because he stayed at work because he didn't have sick leave? I don't think McDonalds would get very far trying to shift the blame to some franchisee. They can certainly help those franchisees out in a crisis if they wanted to.
I know that the Obama Labor Department held that McDonald's itself was responsible as a joint employer. And I know that Donny's Labor Department (headed by Mitch McConnell's wife) reversed that decision. --Bob
Uh, oh.... looks like Flock is going to have to change his tune now that his boss has spoken. Of course, one good day on the stock market could get Trump to change his mind again. It's times like this that I feel sorry for Flock and his fellow true believers, not sure what to say from one day to the next.Donald Trump wrote:People are talking about July, August – or something like that
The Dow plunged another 1000 points while trump was speaking.silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:07 pmUh, oh.... looks like Flock is going to have to change his tune now that his boss has spoken. Of course, one good day on the stock market could get Trump to change his mind again. It's times like this that I feel sorry for Flock and his fellow true believers, not sure what to say from one day to the next.Donald Trump wrote:People are talking about July, August – or something like that
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Are you happy?Bob Juch wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:12 pmThe Dow plunged another 1000 points while trump was speaking.silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:07 pmUh, oh.... looks like Flock is going to have to change his tune now that his boss has spoken. Of course, one good day on the stock market could get Trump to change his mind again. It's times like this that I feel sorry for Flock and his fellow true believers, not sure what to say from one day to the next.Donald Trump wrote:People are talking about July, August – or something like that
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
No, I've lost a shipload.Beebs52 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:43 pmAre you happy?Bob Juch wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:12 pmThe Dow plunged another 1000 points while trump was speaking.silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:07 pm
Uh, oh.... looks like Flock is going to have to change his tune now that his boss has spoken. Of course, one good day on the stock market could get Trump to change his mind again. It's times like this that I feel sorry for Flock and his fellow true believers, not sure what to say from one day to the next.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Marco Rubio wrote:Please stop spreading stupid rumors about marshall law.
COMPLETELY FALSE
We will continue to see closings & restrictions on hours of non-essential businesses in certain cities & states. But that is NOT marshall law.
Marco Rubio (8 hours later) wrote:I apologize for the typo.
I meant to type stupid rumors about marital law not marshall law
My bad
Now their going to dictate restrictions on married people? Fed Gov is totally out of control.jarnon wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:01 amMarco Rubio wrote:Please stop spreading stupid rumors about marshall law.
COMPLETELY FALSE
We will continue to see closings & restrictions on hours of non-essential businesses in certain cities & states. But that is NOT marshall law.Marco Rubio (8 hours later) wrote:I apologize for the typo.
I meant to type stupid rumors about marital law not marshall law
My bad
There are a lot of married couples who could use some social distancing from each other.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:22 amNow their going to dictate restrictions on married people? Fed Gov is totally out of control.
Donald Trump 1/22/20 wrote:[Q: Are you concerned about a possible pandemic?] No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.
Donald Trump 1/24/20 wrote:It will all work out well.
Donald Trump 1/30/20 wrote:We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment—five. And those people are all recuperating successfully.
Donald Trump 2/2/20 wrote:Well, we pretty much shut it down coming in from China
Donald Trump 2/10/20 wrote:Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.
Donald Trump 2/19/20 wrote:I think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along
Donald Trump 2/23/20 wrote:We have [coronavirus] very much under control in this country. We had 12 [people with the disease], at one point. And now they’ve gotten very much better. Many of them are fully recovered.
Donald Trump 2/26/20 wrote:The level that we’ve had in our country is very low, and those people are getting better...[W]e’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.
Donald Trump 2/28/20 wrote: If we were doing a bad job, we should also be criticized. But we have done an incredible job. We’re going to continue. It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.
Donald Trump 2/29/20 wrote:Since the early stages of the foreign outbreak, my administration has taken the most aggressive action in modern history to confront the spread of this disease. We moved very early. That was one of the decisions we made that really turned out to be a lifesaver, in a sense. A big lifesaver.
This is now:Donald Trump 3/10/20 wrote:And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.
Donald Trump 3/17/20 wrote:I've always known this is real. This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.
Just wait another eight months. You'll get your wish.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:13 pmGeez, with all the business closings, layoffs, school closings, talk of sending taxpayer money to everyone, spending out the wazoo, it seems just like a democrat has just been elected president.
Of course they are. Idiots.Beebs52 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:43 pmAre you happy?Bob Juch wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:12 pmThe Dow plunged another 1000 points while trump was speaking.silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:07 pm
Uh, oh.... looks like Flock is going to have to change his tune now that his boss has spoken. Of course, one good day on the stock market could get Trump to change his mind again. It's times like this that I feel sorry for Flock and his fellow true believers, not sure what to say from one day to the next.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Maybe if the president were not being impeached by the house at that time, he might have been able to give it more attention. That being said, he did order travel restrictions from china which have saved a lot of lives and delayed the spread during that time that the dems in congress were tied up and 'dawdling' with their impeachment obsession.Bob78164 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 11:40 amThe Administration ran an exercise late last year. They knew we weren't ready. They knew we weren't adequately funded. They knew coordination between agencies was utterly inadequate. And yet Donny dawdled for months, months that could have been used to get the country a lot closer to ready.
Elections have consequences. What we're now living through is one of those consequences. And what we'll see in the next several months is another. --Bob