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applegrove

(118,749 posts)
Mon Mar 9, 2020, 07:47 PM Mar 2020

So now the Trump WH rolls out help for people with COVID-19. No longer

walking out of pressers refusing to answer a question about how vulnerable people will be helped when they are sick. Well now those vulnerable people with jobs will be helped financially. Those who make enough to pay taxes will be helped financially. Why are they starting to lead? Is it because now red states and actual republicans are potential victims? Is it because private labs have ramped up testing enough to dim the "public" health responce? Why?

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So now the Trump WH rolls out help for people with COVID-19. No longer (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2020 OP
Their masters have told them to get out there. liberalmuse Mar 2020 #1
more likely a call from putin.... getagrip_already Mar 2020 #2
Trump and republicans have possibly been I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2020 #3
They have to look like they are doing something. This is not something they can continue to lie tulipsandroses Mar 2020 #4

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
3. Trump and republicans have possibly been
Mon Mar 9, 2020, 07:59 PM
Mar 2020

Infected is why. They'll help some of the people ,but if you're disabled homeless or not working to feed the rich parasites money hoarding you're as good as dead

tulipsandroses

(5,124 posts)
4. They have to look like they are doing something. This is not something they can continue to lie
Mon Mar 9, 2020, 08:03 PM
Mar 2020

about. Their usual tricks will not work. The virus cannot be bullied. It will go where it wants and do what it wants and nothing Trump and his minions say can stop that. There will be more infected and more deaths. The message of it being a hoax and nothing to worry about just is not working. While Trump would love it if businesses followed his lead downplaying the seriousness, the fact is businesses are not going to take that chance. They have more to lose by playing along with Trump and acting like this is not serious.

I work in healthcare and I talk to drug reps for various pharmaceutical companies often. Some have told me that their management has told them to cut back on traveling and visits to clinics. There is an annual conference scheduled for April that I was planning to attend that may get canceled. I asked 2 of the drug reps last week if they are going and they said no. They have been told not to attend by their higher ups. Usually these drug companies are well represented at these conferences. I am guessing that their higher ups understand that they cannot afford to lose much of their work force if people are traveling and end up getting sick. Trump has no control over things like these. Businesses are going to do what is good for their bottom line in the end. Not support Trump's lies.

I don't think he cares about whether his own supporters get sick. He is worried about the stock market and how that affects his chances at re-election. When big businesses are taking action to protect their workers, like I said above, Trump cannot spin his way out of this. All these cancellations of conferences, flights, hotel rooms, and so on will have an effect on the economy. That is all he cares about. So they have to try to look like they are doing something so this does not blow up in their faces for the election.

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