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I hate to rain on your parade and your agenda...somehow you will spin this, or just deny it, I'm sure..https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/public_approval_of_president_trumps_handling_of_the_coronavirus-7088.html
Are we supposed to be anti-drug companies still during this time, or are we relaxing our disdain for them? I have never understood this position. The best, brightest should be working at drug companies to develop new drugs for humanity. That comes with great cost in research and compensation, but we have done a good job of attacking that industry. If you want good quality outcomes you need to pay the price. The source of funding for research is the sale of the products. It is unfortunate, but a necessary evil in a capitalist country. It is my sincere hope that these companies can find a vaccine or other drugs that work to combat this crisis.
The most recent poll shows the majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the crisis.Hooray?
Uh...no...don't cherry pick...the top line gives you the average of all the polls.
Spin unnecessary. The data shown within this Real Clear Politics aggregate polling link doesn't rain on the parades of the people you think it does.1. If you go to the link you provided and click on All Public Approval of President Trump's Handling of the Coronavirus Polling Data, you will see that he was getting horrible approval ratings for the first 2 weeks of March. In other words, the vast majority of Americans polled disapproved of his handling of the pandemic during the early weeks of his administration's response. That matches precisely what his critics claim.2. If you look at the entirety of those polls from March 1 to present, you will see that he was getting horrible approval ratings for how he handled the virus early (March 1-14), followed by several polls showing very good ratings when he finally started taking the advice of Fauci and other experts (March 13-25), followed by much lower approval ratings in the last week or so (March 30 to present). The trend appears to no longer be his friend.3. Compare his current approval rating on this crisis to the much, much higher approval numbers that other presidents received after crises. For example, in the weeks after 9/11, Bush's aggregate approval rating shot up to nearly 90%. Most polling experts and political historians think it is not a good sign for Trump that despite the uptick he has received during this span his aggregate overall job approval rating is still well below 50%. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/4. At this stage of their presidencies, Obama, Bush II, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, Johnson and Eisenhower all had higher aggregate approval ratings than Trump, and he only surpassed Carter a few days ago.5. Within the link that you seem to think accurately shows Americans loving Trump, it also shows Biden beating him in the election by nearly 6%. Stay healthy, guru, and enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Yeah, why rely on the most recent poll from a fast-moving, rapidly evolving situation, when we can equally weigh those from 10 days ago. It's not like much has changed in the past 10 days.Except almost everything.Anyhow, historically speaking, Americans tend to rally around their leaders during a crisis.The first George Bush saw his approval rating soar from 59 percent to 89 percent at the onset of Desert Storm.The second George Bush's approval ratings spiked in the 90s and held steady in the 80s in the months after 9/11.What does the fact that Trump can't even top 50 percent tell you?
Coronavirus Update: @pzfGreat news from New York:- Number of new cases down- Number of new deaths down- Number of new hospitalizations down- Number of new ICU patients down- Number of newly discharged patients up
Interesting side effect:https://futurism.com/the-byte/earth-standing-still-pandemic
Wisconsin legislature asking Evers to open all churches for Easter services. These are the same people demanding that the polls be open on Tuesday.I think this is the reason things turn so partisan. One side is asking for people to gather in large crowds during a crisis. The other side is appalled at the idea.
Pollution & CO2 declining as well.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/23/coronavirus-pandemic-leading-to-huge-drop-in-air-pollution
Citizens who lost health coverage in past 2 weeks due to economic collapse:USA 3,500,000Australia 0Belgium 0Canada 0Chile 0Denmark 0Finland 0France 0Germany 0Greece 0Hungary 0Italy 0Japan 0New Zealand 0Norway 0Portugal 0S Korea 0Spain 0Sweden 0Turkey 0UK 0
Where is this stat coming from? If it is from job loss, their policy would have went through the end of the month, then could have added health insurance via COBRA or the marketplace.
Just made up hysteria from flyer, thinking that everyone's health insurance is tied to their job. Nevermind that sone companies are continuing coverage for their furloughed employees, some have coverage through a spouse or parent, or that the great Obamacare is available and is supposedly there to allow folks to take risks, start their own businesses, or do a job they like, not have to for insurance.
One easy solution - instead of waffling whenever asked about states that haven’t yet implemented stay at home orders - he could strongly and consistently call out every holdout, pointing out that we are all in this together and need to do what the public health experts are recommending. Consistent, unifying, and supported by what scientists currently know about the virus.If he repeated that mantra sincerely and consistently, we would have the ability to fight the pandemic in a unified way.
Sweden is rethinking their strategy. Sounds like UK 3 weeks ago https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-04/sweden-girds-for-thousands-of-deaths-amid-laxer-virus-response
He has for New York and attacked for doing so. Look at the New York subways, they are packed with people. Is that blood on the federal government's hands? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8183545/Shocking-picture-shows-New-York-train-packed-mask-wearing-passengers-despite-lockdown.htmlThis is why this blame game is foolish. Talk about mixed messages. Federal gov't advises people to stay home (he cannot order that legally) and New Yorkers packing subway cars at the same time their city is over run with this. It is easy to point to one single person, but that doesn't make it true. He has failed as have state and local officials, past and present if you wish to dig deep enough. A budget cut in 2015 can have an impact today. What is the point? Let's solve it.