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Tracy Morgan defends Trump, calls for unity during national crisis: 'Now is not the time to blame'

Comedian Tracy Morgan defended President Trump from critics on Tuesday and called for national unity amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

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The "Saturday Night Live" alum began his interview on "Today" by shedding light on how quarantine life had been for him so far, joking to NBC anchor Hoda Kotb that he and his wife had been "role-playing a lot now."

Shortly after, Morgan praised medical staff, first responders, police and firefighters "heroes", saying they deserve "respect."

"The struggle is real. Right now we're struggling. People want to criticize the president, but imagine being president of a country and have your country got sick. So it's difficult for him," Morgan said.

The "Last O.G." star continued, "We've all got to pull together as people now. Now is not the time to blame and all these other things and anger. It's here now. We just got to be together. We've got to all stay safe. Nobody wants to transmit it, nobody wants to attract it, nobody wants to get it. So let's just stay safe and do the protocol that we have to do."

Tracy Morgan defends Trump, calls for unity during national crisis: 'Now is not the time to blame'
 
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Weezer said:
So we shouldn't expect that of all politicians?
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Hell yes we should !!!!

A huge part of why we are in the desperate situation we are with this idiot in office is that we accept the one least like the imaginary boogeyman on the other side.

We return once again to the principle that your party largely did not care for Trump. But his campaign just made him the anti-Clinton.

Now you are stuck defending his incompetence. How many times a day do you find yourself having to say, or write, "Well, what he meant to say was ...."

They have an entire team at the WH who does nothing but come up with ways to make excuses, dodges, and clarifications for Trumps verbal diarrhea.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
Yup, knew that was coming.
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I don't think anyone would deny that the counting is both over and under inclusive. But the reporting I've seen says the undercounting outstrips the overcounting. For example, in NYC something like 20-25 people die per day in their homes at this time of year. Currently, it's over 200 per day. Most of these people were never tested for COVID so their deaths won't be counted as a COVID death, even if it was their cause of death.
 
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NYC rolls out $1.3B in budget cuts with big hits to education and social services

City Hall detailed its plans to whack $1.3 billion from its spending plans Tuesday as the coronavirus pandemic threatens to capsize the Big Apple’s finances with billions in lost tax revenues and massive new costs to treat the sick.

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The cuts stretch across the massive municipal bureaucracy, including education, transportation, social services and benefit programs, according to a detailed list released by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration.

The cuts include $46 million from the Fair Fares program that provides half-priced Metro cards to poor New Yorkers — cash available since so few people are using mass transit during the outbreak.

City Hall also slashed $124 million from the summer youth employment program because it’s “unclear if feasible at all as a practical health matter.”

The Department of Education faces the biggest cut — $264 million overall, including $100 million from Fair Student Funding program that helps schools with the neediest kids.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/07/nyc-r...t-cuts-big-hits-to-education-social-services/
 
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allvol123 said:
..the confirmed cases rate will outpace the lagging increased death rate.
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We exchanged thoughts on this a couple of weeks ago. Now you can see the correlation between deaths and cases has a definite lag. A couple of weeks ago there were some claiming the death rate was dropping rapidly as more new cases were confirmed as a product of mass testing. The numerator increased immediately, but the denominator increased only after the virus ran its course in the severe cases that led to fatalities.
 
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evillawyer said:
I don't think anyone would deny that the counting is both over and under inclusive. But the reporting I've seen says the undercounting outstrips the overcounting. For example, in NYC something like 20-25 people die per day in their homes at this time of year. Currently, it's over 200 per day. Most of these people were never tested for COVID so their deaths won't be counted as a COVID death, even if it was their cause of death.
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I agree. The numbers are going to be skewed.
 
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NCFisher said:
If I were trying to hang Trump by his shorts, I'd call it the worst argument I could have chosen.

Jan 11/12 - U.S. gets the virus genome sequencing and CDC begins developing test protocol​
Jan 14 - The WHO states there was no evidence of human-human transmission​
Jan 20 - Human transmission is confirmed.​
Jan 21 - There are 555 worldwide cases. On this day the first U.S. case is found, using the CDC new test protocol.​
Jan 21 - A. Fauci: "Obviously we need to take it seriously and do the kinds of things that the CDC and DHS are doing, but this is not a major threat for the people in United States, and this is not something the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about” ​

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Jan 22 - On a scale of 1-10, how worried should Trump be the following day?​

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Jan 26 - "The American people should not be worried or frightened by this. It's a very, very low risk to the United States," Dr. Fauci said on The CATS Roundtable. "It isn't something that the American public needs to worry about or be frightened about." ​
Feb 17 - Fauci "I don't think people should be frightened, the risk right now, today currently is really relatively low for the American public. But that could change with China and other countries, this could evolve into a global pandemic, which would have significant implications for us. We don't want people to worry so be more worried about influenza which is going through a second peak." Risk of coronavirus in U.S. is 'minuscule' NIH's Dr. Anthony Fauci says ​
Feb 29 - Restated what he's been saying all month of Feb, things could change but don't worry, no need to change anything you're doing. Dr. Fauci on coronavirus fears: No need to change lifestyle yet​
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Mar 27 - Director Redfield agreed with Dr. Fauci's assessment, saying that at that time in January the information coming out of China suggested "they were pretty certain that this was not transmitted human to human."​
"Obviously that became corrected as they saw in the first three, four weeks in January that human to human spread was not only occurring it's actually, as I said, more infectious and I think that led to the situation that we're in today. I think no one could have predicted how transmissible, how infectious this virus really is," he added.​
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Again, through Jan and Feb, Trump and the task force medical/pandemics are on the same page.​
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It doesn't get better for your argument in March, either.​
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These people are so desperate they cannot think straight.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
That depends on what your argument is. I'm simply calling Trump a liar for trying to revise history and claim that:

"I've always known this is a - this is a real - this is a pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. All you had to do was look at other countries... No, I've always viewed it as very serious." - President Donald Trump

The Facts: Not once did Trump describe the COVID-19 outbreak as a possible pandemic until after the World Health Organization declared it so on March 11th. To the contrary, prior to March 11th, Trump repeatedly suggested the virus was under control and that cases were going down, not up. I understand that Trump has been in lock-step with Dr. Fauci and health care professionals... I also understand that his claim that he was calling the Coronavirus a pandemic prior to the WHO on March 11th... is an outright lie.
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Did he say he "was calling" it that; I don't see that. We already acknowledged the WHO announced it first on Mar 11; it's what they do. I'm also certain he and the task force had discussed the term countless times and considered it a pandemic prior to the announcement.

And to be precise, I think the period of his stating numbers going down was a narrow time frame, and related to the original 15 who were infected in the U.S. CDC had also categorized them separately from the four dozen or so from the cruise ship.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Hell yes we should !!!!

A huge part of why we are in the desperate situation we are with this idiot in office is that we accept the one least like the imaginary boogeyman on the other side.

We return once again to the principle that your party largely did not care for Trump. But his campaign just made him the anti-Clinton.

Now you are stuck defending his incompetence. How many times a day do you find yourself having to say, or write, "Well, what he meant to say was ...."

They have an entire team at the WH who does nothing but come up with ways to make excuses, dodges, and clarifications for Trumps verbal diarrhea.
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DC_Vol said:
These people are so desperate they cannot think straight.
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pffft, that post was desperate to cover Trump's azz for saying the virus threat was "just that one person from china" and "that it is all under control" Economic repercussions.? please, we got this!!

Oh, I mean.. his advisors are bad.
 
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