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Eric, it’s clear you have a beef with Aerodyne. You’ve shared your reason here, but please don’t have your friends come to a bashfest, because this thread will get either locked or deleted. And I really hope your lawyer is taking the appropriate steps for you Wendy P.

Trump's messaging: Jan. 22: "We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It's going to be just fine." CNBC interview in Davos, Switzerland Jan. 29: 5 cases confirmed in U.S. We have the best experts anywhere in the world, and they are on top of it 24/7!" the president tweeted. Jan. 30: 7 cases confirmed in U.S. U.S. has a "very little problem" with five cases "We think 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. Feb. 7: 11 confirmed cases in U.S. With warmer weather "virus hopefully becomes weaker with warmer weather, and then gone" "Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days. Nothing is easy, but......he will be successful, especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone. Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!" the president tweeted. Feb. 23: 51 confirmed cases in U.S. Situation is "very much under control" "We're very much involved. We're very — very cognizant of everything going on. We have it very much under control in this country," the president told reporters, in response to a question about whether he had been updated on the coronavirus. Feb. 24: 51 confirmed cases in U.S. "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA" "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!" the president tweeted. Feb. 25: 57 confirmed cases in U.S. Coronavirus is "very well under control in our country" "You may ask about the coronavirus, which is very well under control in our country. We have very few people with it, and the people that have it are - in all cases, I have not heard anything other," Feb. 26: The 15 cases in U.S. "within a couple days is going to be down close to zero" "I want you to understand something that shocked me when I saw it that — and I spoke with Dr. Fauci on this, and I was really amazed, and I think most people are amazed to hear it: The flu, in our country, kills from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year. That was shocking to me. And, so far, if you look at what we have with the 15 people and their recovery, one is — one is pretty sick but hopefully will recover, but the others are in great shape. But think of that: 25,000 to 69,000. ... "And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done," the president said during a Coronavirus Task Force Press briefing at the White House. Feb. 27: 60 confirmed cases in U.S. Virus will "disappear" one day "like a miracle" "It's going to disappear. One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear," the president said during a White House meeting with African-American leaders. Feb. 29: 74 confirmed cases in U.S. "Everything is really under control" "And we've done a great job. And I've gotten to know these professionals. They're incredible. And everything is under control. I mean, they're very, very cool. They've done it, and they've done it well. Everything is really under control." — Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. One attendee from that event later tested positive, and lawmakers who attended went under self-quarantine. Feb. 29: 74 confirmed cases in U.S. First coronavirus death in the U.S. on this day "We've taken the most aggressive actions to confront the coronavirus. They are the most aggressive taken by any country and we're the number one travel destination anywhere in the world, yet we have far fewer cases of the disease then even countries with much less travel or a much smaller population." —White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing March 4: 217 confirmed cases in U.S. It's "very safe to fly" in "large portions of the world" "Yeah, I think where these people are flying, it's safe to fly. And large portions of the world are very safe to fly. So we don't want to say anything other than that. And we have closed down certain sections of the world, frankly, and they've sort of automatically closed them also. They'll understand that and they understand it better, perhaps, than anybody. Yes, it's safe." — White House meeting with airline executives. March 6: 402 confirmed cases in U.S. "Anybody that wants a test can get a test" "Anybody that wants a test can get a test. ... The tests are all perfect, like the letter was perfect, the transcription was perfect, right?" — CDC headquarters in Atlanta. March 9: 959 confirmed cases in U.S. Compares number of deaths caused by coronavirus and flu "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!" the president tweeted. March 10: 1,300 confirmed cases in U.S. "Just stay calm. It will go away" 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," the president said on Capitol Hill after meeting with Republican senators. March 12: 2,200 confirmed cases in U.S. Highlights lower number of deaths in U.S. "I mean, think of it: The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point. Other countries that are smaller countries have many, many deaths. Thirty-two is a lot. Thirty-two is too many. But when you look at the kind of numbers that you're seeing coming out of other countries, it's pretty amazing when you think of it. So, that's it." — Trump meeting with Irish prime minister at White House. March 13: 2,700 confirmed cases in U.S. "We have 40 people right now. Forty. Compare that with other countries that have many, many times that amount. And one of the reasons we have 40 and others have — and, again, that number is going up, just so you understand. And a number of cases, which are very small, relatively speaking — it's going up. But we've done a great job because we acted quickly. We acted early. And there's nothing we could have done that was better than closing our borders to highly infected areas." — Rose Garden press conference. March 16: 6,400 confirmed cases in U.S. Announces new social distancing guidelines, says outbreak could last until July or August "I've spoken actually with my son. He says, 'How bad is this?' It's bad. It's bad. But we're going to — we're going to be, hopefully, a best case, not a worst case. And that's what we're working for." "They think August, it could be July," he said at a press briefing Monday, referring to members of the White House task force. "Could be longer than that."— White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing. March 24: 65,800 confirmed cases in U.S. Wants country and economy "raring to go by Easter" "I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter," the president said of easing social distancing guidelines in parts of the country." "I think Easter Sunday — you'll have packed churches all over our country." — Fox News town hall. March 24: 65,800 confirmed cases in U.S. "We begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel" "There is tremendous hope as we look forward and we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel." — White House Coronavirus Task Force Press briefing. March 29: 161,800 confirmed cases in U.S. Extends Easter target to April 30 "The better you do, the faster this whole nightmare will end. Therefore, we will be extending our guidelines to April 30th to slow the spread. ... We can expect that, by June 1st, we will be well on our way to recovery. We think, by June 1st, a lot of great things will be happening." — White House Rose Garden press conference. April 3: 273,880 confirmed cases in U.S. Trump stands by past comments that virus will "go away" "I said it was going away - and it is going away." — White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing.

https://www.facebook.com/alex.coker.39/videos/373257630998893/ Looks like about 2 min 20 sec of freefall.

I wonder if leeches will make a comeback.

No need for mask, now we need a mask, now we need two masks - Pretty sure these happened under Trump, no 2 masks were never a NEED, just a recommendation. I know you have low standards for where you get your information but I am still amazed at how wrong you often are. The vaccine was super effective with the common variants at that time. Covid we are seeing today is not the same Covid that was common a year ago, ever hear of something called evolution? (changes in allele frequency in a population over time). Most of these changes in messaging correspond to changes in the virus, but the messaging has been consistent for a given situation. I bet you'd recommend a skydiver wave off before pulling, but if they lose altitude awareness and find themselves passing through 1,800ft would you recommend waving off first or going straight to reserve? I have heard and assumed boosters would be needed since fall of 2020. Especially given the vaccine hesitancy of many people and animal resivours for this virus. The leading idea has been that this will likely become endemic and that we will get annual vaccine shots for Covid compounded with annual flu shots. I understand you were probably busy claiming that this is just a cold and will go away on its own but this has been a prevailing idea for a while now. Welcome to the party, your previous misunderstandings do not indicate others were wrong, but rather you.

In respect of a consistent and cogent message, from February 28, 2020: The story of the Trump pandemic response actually began several years ago. Almost as soon as he took office, Trump began cutting funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, leading in turn to an 80 percent cut in the resources the agency devotes to global disease outbreaks. Trump also shut down the entire global-health-security unit of the National Security Council. Experts warned that these moves were exposing America to severe risks. “We’ll leave the field open to microbes,” declared Tom Frieden, a much-admired former head of the C.D.C., more than two years ago. But the Trump administration has a preconceived notion about where national security threats come from — basically, scary brown people — and is hostile to science in general. So we entered the current crisis in an already weakened condition. ... The first reaction of the Trumpers was to see the coronavirus as a Chinese problem — and to see whatever is bad for China as being good for us. Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, cheered it on as a development that would “accelerate the return of jobs to North America.” The story changed once it became clear that the virus was spreading well beyond China. At that point it became a hoax perpetrated by the news media. Rush Limbaugh weighed in: “It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump. Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. … The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.” ... On Wednesday Trump held a news conference on the virus, much of it devoted to incoherent jabs at Democrats and the media. He did, however, announce the leader of the government response to the threat. Instead of putting a health care professional in charge, however, he handed the job to Vice President Mike Pence, who has an interesting relationship with both health policy and science. Early in his political career, Pence staked out a distinctive position on public health, declaring that smoking doesn’t kill people. He has also repeatedly insisted that evolution is just a theory. As governor of Indiana, he blocked a needle exchange program that could have prevented a significant H.I.V. outbreak, calling for prayer instead. And now, according to The Times, government scientists will need to get Pence’s approval before making public statements about the coronavirus. So the Trumpian response to crisis is completely self-centered, entirely focused on making Trump look good rather than protecting America. If the facts don’t make Trump look good, he and his allies attack the messengers, blaming the news media and the Democrats — while trying to prevent scientists from keeping us informed. And in choosing people to deal with a real crisis, Trump prizes loyalty rather than competence.

The message has been quite consistent if you don't have a political need to misunderstand it. Get vaccinated. Wear masks and distance in areas of high infection. Get tested. Not hard to understand - again, unless you have an overriding reason to intentionally misunderstand it.

Hospital workers who refuse vaccination SHOULD be fired. They are ignoring best practice, setting a very poor example, and unethically putting patients and co-workers at risk.