Surgeon general says coming week will 'be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment'

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Sunday that the coming week could be a national catastrophe comparable to Pearl Harbor or the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“This is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly,” Adams said in an appearance on Fox News. “This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it’s not going to be localized. It’s going to be happening all over the country."

He added that the next 30 days would be critical for slowing the coronavirus’s spread, noting that some early hot spots are actually starting to contain the virus.

Roughly 90 percent of the country has been implementing stay-at-home orders, Adams said, despite the absence of a federal order. Among the nine states without any formal stay-at-home orders in place are several in the Midwest, including Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Iowa, which account for a large portion of America’s agriculture.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/05/coronavirus-latest-news/#link-RRAGNYAYVFG6BJRG65NPA63EPM

[underpants]

1. Someone better get Trump working on his crocodile tears

Or at least show some compassion and empathy. The rest of his public life is going to depend on it.

[stillcool]

5. he just needs a sharpie.

[Jedi Guy]

24. Yeah, he can draw little Sharpie tears on his cheeks.

And if he deigns to meet with grieving families, he can hold an index card with questions like, "How do you feel?" You know, the same empathy and compassion he showed to the survivors of the Parkland shooting.

Obama cried real tears of grief and anger after the Newtown shooting, and quite a few people on the right mocked him for it. Then they turned around and gave us Dolt 45, who has probably only cried real tears in private, and only over the stock market and his personal fortunes. I imagine the only human being he'd genuinely mourn would be his darling daughter. The older one, that is. He wouldn't care about Tiffany.

[Squinch]

2. Well, yeah. It'll be the saddest week ever. Till next week.

This is only hitting it's stride in a few places in the US. It's going to get to all of them before its done. Many places are 3 weeks, a month away from their "saddest week."

[unblock]

3. Except we've already had the equivalent of about three 9/11s or 3 pearl harbors

And we're headed for a lot more.

[gibraltar72]

4. How is this sumbitch helping?

[turbinetree]

6. Do they know what happened on 12/7/41..............

I think someone else took the history test final for them...................

[Hugin]

7. And how did the GOP Senate and worthless WH respond?

By preemptively handing their cronies at least $2 Trillion (with a "T" ) tax dollars in an emergency legislative session and appointing a couple of unqualified far right wing ideologues as judges.

[Roy Rolling]

8. No Credibility

That’s the problem. I wouldn’t believe any of Trump’s team even if their tongues were notarized.

[sanatanadharma]

9. "Roughly 90 percent of the country has been implementing stay-at-home orders, Adams said..."

So, 10% of USAmericans (sic) are still pissing in the pool. Sick! Fools!

[spinbaby]

10. 677 deaths so far today

And more to come.

[BlueIdaho]

11. Zero Confidence

In that quack. He puts party in front of public health.

[CountAllVotes]

21. +1

This idiot needs to go and needs to go now!

What a fool he is.

What else can you possibly expect from a dump appointee?

Death death death death death!!!

[Cozmo]

12. Wait a minute

Do we even care what this bobbled head idiot of a Surgeon General has to say? Where did he come from, a Cracker Jacks box?

[EarthFirst]

13. Vote of No Confidence here...

You’re wasting your breath when action should have occurred.

We lost.

[Canoe52]

14. Two sneak attacks vs something we knew was coming for months...

Nice try doctor...but you are full of shit.

[Marthe48]

15. I will never go to those states

actions, or lack thereof, have consequences.

[jb5150]

18. I blame the Governors, and mayors ... and religious leaders.

What's so sad is, that they had an opportunity to get on top of it early, they saw what was happening in other states …

[dalton99a]

16. Jerome Adams is as useless as they come

[Haggis for Breakfast]

36. My template for THE surgeon general was

C. Everett Koop, MD. Anyone remember Koop ? He was a pediatric surgeon and a public health administrator. Known for being a gruff, no-nonsence, take no prisoners, kind of guy, He didn't tolerate tiptoeing around the numbers, the facts, or what he felt the American people needed to know. He was the first MD/SG to stand up to Big Tobacco and put then on notice.

WE get Dr. Ronny ("Feelgood&quot Jackson and Dr. Jerome ("It's Pearl Harbor&quot . Bring Back Dr. Vivec Murtha or Dr. Antonia Novella, or anyone who doesn't believe that they have to fellate the orange pustule to be able to keep/perform their jobs.

[Blues Heron]

17. Coronavirus determined to strike within the United States

So do something fool - lock down the country for starters, close the churches, get some tests and masks and ventilators, get a fucking plan you loser!

[CountAllVotes]

22. +1,000+++++

God damned useless idiot!

This damn fool must go and must go NOW!

[Botany]

19. Trump 1/22/20 "And -- we're -- we have it totally under control. It's going to be just fine."

Fact check: Trump tries to erase the memory of him downplaying the coronavirus

Facts First: From January until last week, Trump consistently minimized the risk the coronavirus posed to the country. He claimed to have the virus under "control," that the number of US cases would go "down, not up," that the virus might "disappear" through a "miracle" or something of the sort, that the virus might well vanish by April with the warmer weather, that the media and Democrats were overhyping the situation, and that "this is their new hoax," leaving it unclear whether he was calling the virus itself a hoax. (He later said he was talking about Democrats' coronavirus-related criticism, not the virus.)
Fact check: Trump tries to erase the memory of him downplaying the coronavirus

On Monday, Trump acknowledged that the situation is "bad," that the virus is not under control, that the country might well be heading into a recession, and that American life would not get back to normal for months. He had not made such statements before.
Trump has pointed to his late-January decision to restrict travel from China as evidence that he had always considered the situation "urgent." But he certainly had not clearly communicated that he felt such urgency.

Prior to the World Health Organization's official pandemic declaration on March 11, Trump had never told Americans that he viewed the situation as a potential pandemic. When he was asked by CNBC in an interview that aired January 22 if there were worries about a pandemic, he responded, "No. Not at all. And -- we're -- 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."

On March 9, Trump tweeted, "So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!" On March 10, the day before the WHO's pandemic declaration, Trump said, "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."

He added: "It's really working out. And a lot of good things are going to happen."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/politics/fact-check-trump-always-knew-pandemic-coronavirus/index.html

[yaesu]

20. I dusted off my digital police scanner & started listening. Normally, in my area, its just cats in

a tree type of stuff so I only listen mainly during long Holiday weekends. We have the only hospital in the county. Its the first time I have heard real fear in the voices of emergency service personnel. The calls are starting to come in with people showing covid symptoms, even as young as 3 years old having a hard time breathing. They have set up covid tents outside the hospital. They had one problem earlier with a fox news QAnon conspiracy guy(yes, they called for people to do this) trying to take pictures to prove its all a hoax. The number of domestic disputes have skyrocketed do to everyone trapped together.

[Wuddles440]

23. Actually..

our "Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment" occurred November 2016 and we've been battling this pestilence ever since. It's literally been a life and death struggle for humanity from then until now.

[Ad Infinitum]

33. Donny Dip shit

Agree.



This is deliberate.

[Igel]

35. There are LIHOPers for both. n/t

[msongs]

26. the point of this statement is to make trump look like a nation saving hero nt

[brewens]

27. Pearl Harbor? That was a sneak attack. What if our government had known the Japanese were

coming and still let them whack us like that? I don't think we would have won the war with people that stupid in charge. I hope this is different.

[RandySF]

28. That was Jan. 20, 2017

[MurrayDelph]

29. 9/11? Wasn't that the incident

where the Republican was told in advance that it was coming but ignored the warnings, when it happened sat on his ass doing nothing, and came out of hiding later trying to pretend to have been strong from the beginning?

[RobinA]

30. This Kind Of Talk

is so not helpful. The lack of leadership is appalling. I’d suggest a book about the war years of a Churchill or an FDR, but I’m sure it would sail right over their heads. And their analogies are horrible.

[EllieBC]

32. Yes he told everyone not to wear a mask.

They would do no good.

3 weeks later, Ooops we lied. Wear a mask.

[jeffreyi]

34. George Takei's take on this:

Link to tweet

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