
I guess he doesn’t kid. Trump said he told his people to stop testing, and that appears to be exactly what they are doing.
Courtesy of TPM:
The Trump administration is ending funding and support for local COVID-19 testing sites around the country this month, as cases and hospitalizations are skyrocketing in many states.
The federal government will stop providing money and support for 13 sites across five states which were originally set up in the first months of the pandemic to speed up testing at the local level.
Local officials and public health experts expressed a mixture of frustration, resignation, and horror at the decision to let federal support lapse.
Texas will be particularly hard hit by the decision. The federal government gives much-needed testing kits and laboratory access to seven testing sites around Texas. But in the state, which is seeing new peaks in cases, people still face long lines for testing that continues to fail to meet overwhelming demand.
Speaking of Texas, they have been hit with such a large surge of new cases that ultra-conservative governor Greg Abbott is telling his people to stay home.
Courtesy of USA Today:
Texas is hitting an all-time high for COVID-19 cases and Gov. Greg Abbott told state residents to stay home unless they need to be out.
“Texas will report an all-time high in the number of cases of people testing positive of more than 5,000,” Abbott said in an interview on KBTX. “The hospitalization rate is at an all-time high. Coronavirus is spreading in Brazos County and across the entire state of Texas, which is exactly why action is being taken.”
Hours later, state health officials reported a record 5,489 new COVID-19 cases.
And the state broke its record for hospitalizations for the 12th day in a row, with the Department of State Health Services reporting 4,092 COVID-19 patients in Texas hospitals.
Now as a reasonable person you might be wondering how in the hell the Trump Administration can rationalize making it harder to get a Coronavirus test with more cases cropping up every day.
But we were already told the justification, weren’t we?
Wow. @ProjectLincoln on Trump’s testing gaffe: “The most deceptive, lying President in history finally told the truth.” pic.twitter.com/atUUZK82oF
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) June 23, 2020
I hope that Texas and these other southern states remember that Trump abandoned them when they needed his help the most come election day.
Headline should say “stop” not “top”
Thanks, I missed that.
Doesn’t the house control financial acts like that? If the money is designated for testing how can he mandate this? and I’m hardly hearing any questioning of this. Frustration, resignation and horror isn’t going to cut it.
Red-state reopening has been a disaster — and Republican hopes for a comeback are collapsing
Reopening stores and restaurants won’t save the economy with the caseload spiking, and even Republicans know it
….Such is the case across the country, where the Trump-inspired premature reopenings have been a disaster, leading to surging caseloads and state and local governments desperately trying to hit the brakes, after making bold promises of a return to normal.
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/24/red-state-reopening-has-been-a-disaster–and-republican-hopes-for-a-comeback-are-collapsing/
Texas doctor buries Trump-loving governor for ‘greatest public health failure in the history of the nation’
… “We’re seeing a very steep acceleration in the number of cases here in Houston, in our metro areas, as you pointed out, and also in San Antonio and Austin,” he said. “And it’s not just an increase in the number of cases, it’s the slope, the way it’s accelerating. It’s almost vertical. This is what we call an exponential rise, meaning it’s been flat for a while and now it’s going up almost vertically.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/texas-doctor-buries-trump-loving-governor-for-greatest-public-health-failure-in-the-history-of-the-nation/
Wisconsin Wipeout: Trump’s Numbers Plunge As Biden Opens 7 Point Lead
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/06/24/trump-biden-wisconsin-poll.html
Bet he didn’t stop the funding for his weekly , million dollar, golf games.
Just what I was thinking. How much money would be available to fund testing if trump had just cut the number of his golfing excursions in half.Money down the rathole.I don’t understand how someone who cheats could enjoy the game anyway.
Texas senator urges Trump not to stop funding testing in his state — as cases explode following reopening he supported
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/texas-senator-urges-trump-not-to-stop-funding-testing-in-his-state-as-cases-explode-following-reopening-he-supported/
WWE tried to circumvent COVID-19 lockdowns — now their Florida facility is being hit with the coronavirus
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/wwe-tried-to-circumvent-covid-19-lockdowns-now-their-florida-facility-is-overwhelmed-with-the-coronavirus/
Under Majority’s Gaze, Trump Withers
A pandemic and recession have made most people pay attention.
https://stoehr.substack.com/p/1a7ba13d-2b89-4a8c-89c1-d8dc5ae8e96a
It’s ‘looking pretty dire – pretty apocalyptic’: Doctor says Texas COVID-19 spike is so bad he doesn’t ‘see what brings us back’
…The shutdown order expired in the middle of May and like many states, Texas was up and running in time for citizens to celebrate Memorial Day weekend. Weeks later, cases have exploded with more than 5,000 cases Tuesday and another 5,000 cases on Wednesday. Houston will reach its limit of ICU beds by Thursday.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/its-looking-pretty-dire-pretty-apocalyptic-doctor-says-texas-covid-19-spike-is-so-bad-he-doesnt-see-what-brings-us-back/
There’s no such thing as a government-issued ‘face mask exempt card’ — it’s all a fraud
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-face-mask-exempt-card-its-all-a-fraud/
So Don has the power to stop funding for testing? Just to make himself look good? And his base believed all that bullshit about pizzagate? I wonder if his base will continue being supportive of Don the con when their loved ones are long gone? They probably would forgive him anything. Cults are like that.
They will only love him more for all the deaths he is causing. Because, remember, the period of time from womb to tomb is corrupted, as Jesus has all the power, and people are impotent – human life literally literally literally literally has NO value!!! Carnage is literally a love for Jesus.
Just drink the kool-aid already and the rest of us will clean up the mess as usual.
Dozens of Secret Service officers and agents told to self-quarantine after Trump’s Tulsa rally
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dozens-of-secret-service-officers-and-agents-told-to-self-quarantine-after-trumps-tulsa-rally/2020/06/24/22c08b36-b55f-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html
People, we are being played like fiddles.
His whole plan is to have the pandemic run wild in the US so he can declare martial law and suspend the election be emperor for as long as he wants.
It is all he has and it looks like it is going to work.
We ALL need to stay home. No vacations. No travel. Work from home. No shopping. No school. It will hurt but not as much as the end of real freedom..