New Zealand lifts all Covid restrictions, declaring the nation virus-free
If only we had had a real leader willing to do the unpopular, shut down hard at the start and at any hint of the virus emerging...
Instead...
January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
February 7 “when we get into April, in the warmer weather—that has a very negative effect on that, and that type of a virus.”
7 FEBRUARY TO BOB WOODWARD - "It goes through the air, you just breathe the air and that's how it's passed. It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flus."
February 24: “The Corona virus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Corona virus.”
February 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
February 26: “We're going very substantially down, not up.”
February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
February 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5: “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”n
March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6: " But it’s an unforeseen problem. What a problem. Came out of nowhere, but we’re taking care of it."
March 6 "And in terms of deaths, I don’t know what the count is today. Is it 11? Eleven people? And in terms of cases, it’s very, very few. When you look at other countries, it’s a very tiny fraction because we’ve been very strong at the borders."
March 6 " I think financial markets will bounce back as soon as this — really bounce back. Don’t forget, they’re down probably 10 or 11 percent from, you know, where they were, but they were up 70 percent."
March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6: “I like this stuff. You know my uncle was a great person. He was at MIT. He taught at MIT for, I think, like, a record number of years. He was a great supergenius, Dr. John Trump. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.”
March 9: “This blindsided the world.”
March 10, “Just stay calm. It will go away.”
March 17 "I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic."
19 MARCH TO BOB WOODWARD - "Now it's turning out it's not just old people, Bob. But just today, and yesterday, some startling facts came out. It's not just old, older, young people, too, plenty of young people."
March 23 - "So I think Easter Sunday and you'll have packed churches all over our country. I think it would be a beautiful time, and it's just about the timeline that I think is right,”
March 24 - "I just thought it was a beautiful time. A beautiful time. A beautiful tiimeline... it was based on a certain level of weeks from the time we started..."
March 21 White House said 27 million coronavirus test kits would be out in the health care system and available to patients by the end of March. At the end of March, however, the national total for coronavirus tests was just 1.1 million.
March 29 "100,000 or more people may die."
March 30 " social distancing could save more than a million American lives"
Apr 10 (about widespread testing) “Do you need it? No. Is it a nice thing to do? Yes,” Trump said. “We’re talking about 325 million people. And that’s not going to happen, as you can imagine, and it would never happen with anyone else either.”
Apr 13 "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. It's total.
April 24 “I see disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that. So you’re going to have to use medical doctors, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute, that’s pretty powerful.”
"Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that hasn’t been checked but you’re going to test it.
And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that, too. Sounds interesting.
Apr 29 PENCE Leaving Off Mask At Mayo Clinic, Pence Said He Wanted To "Look Workers 'In The Eye"
May 5 "No worries, the virus will go away even without a vaccine."
May 7 " If we did very little testing, we wouldn't have the most cases. So, in a way, by doing all of this testing, we make ourselves look bad,"
May 8 “I feel about vaccines like I feel about tests: This is going to go away without a vaccine,” Trump said. “It’s going to go away, and we’re not going to see it again, hopefully, after a period of time. There are some viruses or flus that came and they went for a vaccine, and they never found the vaccine. And they’ve disappeared. They never showed up again. They die, too, like everything else. They say it’s going to go — that doesn’t mean this year — doesn’t mean it’s going to be gone, frankly, by fall or after the fall. But eventually it’s going to go away. The question is will we need a vaccine. At some point it’s going to probably go away by itself. If we had a vaccine that would be very helpful.”
May 11 80,00 Americans dead from Corona Virus "Anyone who needs a test can get a test. We have prevailed." “You never prevail when you have 90,000 people, 100,000, when you have 80,000 people as of today. What I’m talking about is we have a great testing capacity now.” trump leave press conference after reporters refuse to continue asking questions about his fake claims.
May 12 82,000 "Coronavirus numbers are looking MUCH better, going down almost everywhere,"
May 16 "The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google. The Administration is working to remedy this illegal situation."
June 17 The pandemic is “fading away. It’s going to fade away.”
May 20 And, you know, when you say “per capita,” there’s many per capitas. It’s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we’re really at the top, meaning positive on a per capita basis, too. They’ve done a great job.
— Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with Governor Hutchinson of Arkansas and Governor Kelly of Kansas
June 16 I deal with these incredible scientists [and] doctors very, very closely. I have great respect for their minds and they have come up with things. They’ve come up with many other cures, and therapeutics over the years. These are the... best, the smartest, most brilliant anywhere. And they’ve come up with the AIDS vaccine... or the AIDS.. as you know, there’s various things and now various companies are involved… but the therapeutic for AIDS... AIDS was a death sentence, and now people live a life with a pill. It’s an incredible thing,”
Even without it... it goes away...
(There is no AIDS vaccine. There is no proof it will "go away.)
June 2 trump told The Wall Street Journal that he believes that some Americans are wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic to express their disapproval of him and not as a preventive measure.
July 2 The pandemic is “getting under control.”
July 6 “We now have the lowest Fatality (Mortality) Rate in the World.”
June 21 "when you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people; you're going to find more cases. So I said to my people, slow the testing down please."
July 1 "I think that at some point that's going to disapper, I hope.
July 11 "In two, three, four weeks, by the time we next talk, we should be in good shape."
July 14 "Because children and parents are dying from that trauma, too. They're dying because they can't do what they're doing."
August 9 " “The closest thing is in 1917, they say, the great pandemic. It certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people,” Trump said. “Probably ended the second World War, all the soldiers were sick.”
September 10 “We’re rounding the final turn, and a lot of good things are happening.”
September 15 “The previous administration would have taken perhaps years to have a vaccine, because of the FDA and all the approvals,”. “We’re withing weeks of getting it. You know, could be three weeks, four weeks.”
September 29 I don't wear a mask like him, every time you see him, he's got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet from it and he shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen.
October 2 "Tonight @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19.
Oct 4 In a video he tweeted before he departed Walter Reed, Mr. Trump said he had "learned a lot about COVID."
"I learned it by really going to school," Mr. Trump said. "This is the real school, this isn't the 'let's read the books school,' and I get it, I understand it. And it's a very interesting thing and I'm going to be letting you know about it."
Oct 10 "I'm back because I am a perfect physical specimen and I'm extremely young. And so I'm lucky in that way."
Oct 27 " “Certain areas that are heated up right now,” Trump said at a rally in Omaha, Nebraska. “They’ll go down. They’ll go down very quickly. They’ll be down within two weeks, they’re figuring.”
Oct 30 Our doctors get more money if someone dies from COVID
Oct 30 "That's all I hear about now. Turn on TV, 'Covid, Covid, Covid Covid Covid.' A plane goes down, 500 people dead, they don't talk about it. 'Covid Covid Covid Covid.' By the way, on November 4th, you won't hear about it anymore .. Trump
Dec 2 “The vaccine was me.” |
