Posted on 10/04/2020 4:26:29 PM PDT by rintintin
The White House Correspondents Association on Sunday blasted President Trump's brief foray out of his hospital room to wave to supporters from an SUV, calling it "outrageous" and criticizing the lack of transparency around the photo op.
"It is outrageous for the president to have left the hospital - even briefly - amid a health crisis without a protective pool present to ensure that the American people know where their president is and how he is doing," WHCA President Zeke Miller said in a statement. "Now more than ever, the American public deserves independent coverage of the president so they can be reliably informed about his health."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Tweet: Alex Berenson, ex-NYT
Die? He looks about ready to play the back nine.
It’s the flu, okay? That’s what the @who numbers say - 0.13% IFR if Dr. Ryan’s estimate of 750 million infected is right. We’ve blown up the world and screwed over our kids for the flu. And it’s time we stopped.
REPLY TO TWEET Molly Knight, Senior Staff Writer and Columnist for the @TheAthleticLA. Author of New York Times Bestseller The Best Team Money Can Buy.
Does he have to die for you to take this virus seriously? ETC...
5 Oct 2020
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1312870153584078848
Zeke - as you have some spare time, why not report this?
Reddit: Coronavirus: Covid-19: World in ‘for a hell of a ride’ in coming months, Dr Mike Ryan says - WHO official estimates that 750m people globally have likely had coronavirus to date (Irish Times)
_idl3r - 1 day ago
The only source of this estimation I can find is Irish Times. It’s weird that such important number doesn’t appear anywhere else...
To_The_Past- 1 day ago
The Irish Times are reporting accurately here...
Jimtonicc- 1 day ago
If the 750M estimate is accurate and the 1M reported deaths are accurate, the IFR is around 0.13%, similar to Influenza. So far WHO estimates it at 0.5-1%...
Clbull - 1 day ago
I REALLY hope the 750m estimate isn’t accurate.
A fatality rate of around 0.13% would mean that that the economic harakiri that nations have been inflicting upon themselves in a vain effort to control a virus no worse than a seasonal flu has been far more devastating than the virus itself. Coronavirus, or rather the international response to it, has cost us trillions in lost productivity, lost jobs and lockdown restrictions that have downright crippled the tourism, travel and hospitality industries. It’s plunged entire nations into recessions worse than the 2008 financial crisis...
One thing’s for sure, at the end of this I see a lot of countries getting tough on China. Because it’s a known fact that they initially tried to cover the whole outbreak up and prosecute anybody who spoke up about it...
wh1t3crayon replies:
That’s what the lockdown skeptics have been saying since day 1 but we were driven into the ground with “lul haircut and applebees” memes.
Also, I really hope that estimate is accurate, because it would mean that fewer people will die in the future than we expected. You know, like any reasonable human would hope for...
XAos13 - 1 day ago
The WHO also estimates a death rate of between 0.5% & 1% So somethings wrong with their maths. Because by their own stats 750mill infected should be at least 3 million dead...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/j4ab2e/covid19_world_in_for_a_hell_of_a_ride_in_coming/
3 Oct: Irish Times: Covid-19: World in ‘for a hell of a ride’ in coming months, Dr Mike Ryan says
WHO official estimates that 750m people globally have likely had coronavirus to date
by Ronan McGreevy
The Irish-born executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies programme said he was worried for the fate of the 90 per cent of people who have not had the disease.
He estimated 10 per cent as “our best guess” in relation to the global rate of infection to date and those who have antibodies for the virus.
“The problem is there is more than six billion left. Therein lies our problem,” he told webinar hosted by the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) entitled Learning from Pandemics: a Century of Experience...
He stressed though that the response to Covid-19 around the world had been “unprecedented”.
However, he criticised the lack of a global response to plans to raise some €25.6 billion (US$32 billion) for the Covid-19 accelerator programme to produce diagnostic tools and vaccines when they are available to deal with the virus. Just €3.24 billion has been raised to date...
Africa was perceived to be doing better as a result of the pandemic both because it had a much younger age profile, but also because African countries are used to epidemics and know how to manage them by dealing with them at a community level first instead of looking for medical solutions. Even during recent Ebola epidemics life continued on as normal in west Africa, he explained.
Africa was perceived to be doing better as a result of the pandemic both because it had a much younger age profile, but also because African countries are used to epidemics and know how to manage them by dealing with them at a community level first instead of looking for medical solutions. Even during recent Ebola epidemics life continued on as normal in west Africa, he explained.
“I wonder what would happen if there were 2,500 cases of Ebola in New York?” he asked.
“If you look at any metric of resilience, the industrial world has not demonstrated a lot of that over the last couple of months whereas African countries because of dint of the crisis they face day-to-day, they just get on with it. I know that sounds simplistic, but that is why they have been perceived to have done better.”...
Dr Ryan said he was “somewhat cynical or at least depressed at the prospect of whether the world will wake up and we will actually see that epidemics are yet another consequence of our poor planetary and ecosystem management...
“We have put almost no defence up against the Earth-killing things that are there such as climate change and infectious diseases.”
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/covid-19-world-in-for-a-hell-of-a-ride-in-coming-months-dr-mike-ryan-says-1.4370626
World Health Organization: Leadership
Executive Directors
Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme
Dr Mike Ryan has been at the forefront of managing acute risks to global health for nearly 25 years. He served as Assistant Director-General for Emergency Preparedness and Response in WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme from 2017 to 2019...
He is a founding member of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), which has aided the response to hundreds of disease outbreaks around the world. He served as Coordinator of Epidemic Response (2000-2003), Operational Coordinator of WHO’s response to the SARS outbreak (2003), and as WHO’s Director of Global Alert and Response (2005-2011).
He was a Senior Advisor on Polio Eradication for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative from 2013 to 2017, deploying to countries in the Middle East...
https://www.who.int/dg/who-headquarters-leadership-team
Just the headline made me chuckle out loud!
“White House Correspondents’ Association: ‘Outrageous’ for Trump to leave hospital without informing pool”
F’s given := 0.00.
“Lord thank God they were not here at the founding of our county.”
Indeed. You can imagine the headlines: Outrage! General Washington Crosses the Delaware Without Notifying Press!
He forgot to raise his hand and ask permission of those self important little dweebs? The horror!
Is there a law that states the president must have media coverage 24/7, is it in the Constitution? This is probably a courtesy that needs to end immediately.
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They sure were not curious where the Kenyan was as Benghazi went down and no leadership.
The way they treat the president, I wouldn't give them the time of day.
Let them chew on their own cud for a while.
The President does NOT have to talk or notify the “pool”, aka “The Trump-hating Marxist Media Swamp”.
After the atrocious way they have treated Trump for the last 4 years, he doesn’t owe them ****.
To full of themselves
Yes...
It sure does! :)
This has to be Babylon Bee
I agree he deserves independent coverage of the event. They didn’t get a call because they can’t provide independent coverage. It’s not Aramean scrabble.
If only these haters were doing that ...
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