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Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

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Trump Had Two Intelligence Briefings on Virus in Late January
The intelligence community briefed President Donald Trump twice in the eight days before he imposed travel restrictions on China in an attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus, said a senior White House official familiar with the briefings.

In a Jan. 23 briefing, Trump was told the virus was poised to spread globally from China and that becoming infected wouldn’t be deadly for most people.

Trump said Sunday night that he was told on Jan. 23 that a virus might be coming but that it wasn’t of much import.

“They said it very matter of factly,” he said during a town hall broadcast on Fox News, adding that the intelligence community would release more information on Monday.


The Jan. 23 session was the first time the intelligence community briefed the president on Covid-19, said the official, who requested anonymity to describe the classified briefings.

The next time intelligence officials spoke to Trump on the topic was Jan. 28, when he received information showing the virus was spreading outside of China but that all deaths remained inside of that country, the official said. Trump was also told at the time that China wasn’t sharing key data about the virus, according to the official.

The White House official said those were the only times Trump was briefed by the intelligence community about the virus during January. It isn’t clear what information the intelligence community said China was withholding, or if Trump was briefed about the incredible strain a major outbreak in the U.S. could place on the health-care system, the economy and Americans’ way of life.

Who Knew What?
The new information sheds more light about what the president and U.S. intelligence agencies knew in the early days of Covid-19’s spread in China. Trump and his administration have come under fire for their early response efforts.

More than 1.1 million people in the U.S. have been infected by the virus and more than 67,000 have died, the largest outbreak in the world.

Trump has repeatedly pointed to his decision on Jan. 31 to restrict travel from China to rebut critics who say he was too slow to react. The moves were announced three days after Trump’s second January intelligence briefing, in which he was informed the virus was becoming a serious global concern.

U.S. intelligence agencies included warnings about the virus in more than a dozen classified briefings prepared for Trump in January and February, the Washington Post reported on April 27, citing anonymous current and former U.S. officials.

Daily Briefing
The president’s intelligence brief, which is produced each day and contains sensitive information about global threats, included comprehensive articles about the global spread of Covid-19 as well as smaller items about the status of the outbreak, the Post reported.


The daily briefing began to document a new virus originating in Wuhan, China, at the beginning of January but early intelligence was only partial and didn’t address the possibility of a major U.S. outbreak, the Post report said.

By mid- to late January, the virus was being mentioned more frequently and Trump was almost certainly told about it orally, according to the Post report.

In a Twitter post on Sunday, the president said “Intelligence has just reported to me that I was correct, and that they did NOT bring up the CoronaVirus subject matter until late into January.”

Intelligence has just reported to me that I was correct, and that they did NOT bring up the CoronaVirus subject matter until late into January, just prior to my banning China from the U.S. Also, they only spoke of the Virus in a very non-threatening, or matter of fact, manner...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2020
But public-health experts and Democrats say the administration wasted time in February by not imposing restrictions on everyday life that could have slowed the virus’ spread to every U.S. state.

Trump spent much of that time period publicly downplaying the threat and praising China’s response. He continued to hold campaign rallies, traveled to India, played golf in Florida and visited the Daytona International Speedway. He didn’t announce federal social distancing recommendations until March 16.
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silentsinger

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Tennis clubs are allowed to open again today. Friend of mine is a coach at the centre next door so I bet he's happy about that. Be nice to hear tennis balls being bashed about again.
 
Sheepdog

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ThatOneDude

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Dr. Prosper Meniere said:
We just had a major outbreak at a meatpacking plant in a city that was down to less than five cases a day only a week ago. It seems they are unfortunately the ultimate non-hospital workplace hotspots for corona outbreaks.
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I wonder why that is?
 
Sheepdog

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ThatOneDude said:
I wonder why that is?
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Work conditions. Someone, possibly the guy you tagged, posted a video the other day in this thread of how clustered all the workers are next to each other - it's no surprise a virus would spread like wildfire.
 
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So my complex is reopening the community pool today for some stupid fucking reason. Of course I will go nowhere near it but I'm sure it'll be packed.

The problem with Floridians and rules is that the rules will eventually start to get flouted bc almost no one likes to work hard here.



@Bones Nose is the snowbird community you work at reopening their pool?
 
ThatOneDude

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conor mcgregor nut hugger said:
So my complex is reopening the community pool today for some stupid fucking reason. Of course I will go nowhere near it but I'm sure it'll be packed.

The problem with Floridians and rules is that the rules will eventually start to get flouted bc almost no one likes to work hard here.



@Bones Nose is the snowbird community you work at reopening their pool?
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Our HOA is not opening our pools yet. I also hope our HOA goes out of business.
 
kneeblock

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Had to go to the hospital last night due to shortness of breath and dizziness. Felt better after awhile. Chest x-ray looked good thankfully. Upside is I was finally able to officially get a test and of course it was positive. Back home now and hopeful that recent results suggesting you can't get it again are validated. All I have to do is make it through and I'll be able to go see my kids again.
 
SC MMA MD

SC MMA MD

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kneeblock said:
Had to go to the hospital last night due to shortness of breath and dizziness. Felt better after awhile. Chest x-ray looked good thankfully. Upside is I was finally able to officially get a test and of course it was positive. Back home now and hopeful that recent results suggesting you can't get it again are validated. All I have to do is make it through and I'll be able to go see my kids again.
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Are you the first confirmed COVID positive TMMAC member?
 
silentsinger

silentsinger

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kneeblock said:
Had to go to the hospital last night due to shortness of breath and dizziness. Felt better after awhile. Chest x-ray looked good thankfully. Upside is I was finally able to officially get a test and of course it was positive. Back home now and hopeful that recent results suggesting you can't get it again are validated. All I have to do is make it through and I'll be able to go see my kids again.
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Ahhhh, mate. I had high hopes you were over the worst and home free. Hopefully that's the last blip before you fully recover, your kids must be going mental. Keep us updated.
 
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kneeblock said:
Had to go to the hospital last night due to shortness of breath and dizziness. Felt better after awhile. Chest x-ray looked good thankfully. Upside is I was finally able to officially get a test and of course it was positive. Back home now and hopeful that recent results suggesting you can't get it again are validated. All I have to do is make it through and I'll be able to go see my kids again.
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You will make it through because you're strong. You will see your kids again soon. Get better my friend.
 
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The U.S. Secretary of State, ladies and gentlemen:

“The best experts so far seem to think it was man-made. I have no reason to disbelieve that at this point,” Pompeo said. When the interviewer pointed out that was not the conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies, Pompeo backtracked, saying, “I’ve seen what the intelligence community has said. I have no reason to believe that they’ve got it wrong."
 
ThatOneDude

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conor mcgregor nut hugger said:
The U.S. Secretary of State, ladies and gentlemen:

“The best experts so far seem to think it was man-made. I have no reason to disbelieve that at this point,” Pompeo said. When the interviewer pointed out that was not the conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies, Pompeo backtracked, saying, “I’ve seen what the intelligence community has said. I have no reason to believe that they’ve got it wrong."
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Fucking mo mo....
Him not you.
 
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