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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJUST SO WE ARE CLEAR ON THE TIMELINE
JUST SO WE ARE CLEAR ON THE TIMELINE:
Dec 18 - House Impeaches Trump
Dec 31 - China alerted WHO to several cases of unusual pneumonia in Wuhan, a port city of 11 million people in the central Hubei province. The virus was unknown.
Jan 8 - First CDC warning on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Jan 9 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 14 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 16 - House sends impeachment articles to Senate
Jan 18 - Trump golfs
Jan 19 - Trump golfs
Jan 20 - first case of COVID-19 in the US, Washington State.
Jan 22 - We have it totally under control. Its one person coming in from China. Its going to be just fine.
Jan 28 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 30 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 1 - Trump golfs
Feb 2 - We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
Feb 5 - Senate votes to acquit. Then takes a five-day weekend.
Feb 10 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 12 - Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551.42
Feb 15 - Trump golfs
Feb 19 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 20 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 21 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 24 - The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA
Stock Market starting to look very good to me!
Feb 25 - CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.
Feb 25 - I think that's a problem thats going to go away
They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, were very close to a vaccine.
Feb 26 - The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.
Feb 26 - We're going very substantially down, not up. Also "This is a flu. This is like a flu"; "Now, you treat this like a flu"; "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."
Feb 27 - One day its like a miracle, it will disappear.
Feb 28 - We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.
Feb 28 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 29 - First COVID-19 death in US
Mar 2 - You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?
Mar 2 - A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and theyre happening very rapidly.
Mar 4 - If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work some of them go to work, but they get better.
Mar 5 - I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.
Mar 5 - The United States
has, as of now, only 129 cases
and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!
Mar 6 - I think were doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down
a tremendous job at keeping it down.
Mar 6 - Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. Theyre there. And the tests are beautiful
. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.
Mar 6 - I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it
Every one of these doctors said, How do you know so much about this? Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.
Mar 6 - I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.
Mar 7 - Trump golfs
Mar 8 - Trump golfs
Mar 8 - We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.
Mar 9 - This blindsided the world.
Mar 13 - [Declared state of emergency]
Mar 14 - Young Asian-American family of 4 stabbed in TX Sam's Club by man who thinks they're responsible for COVID.
Mar 15 - 3,613 COVID-19 cases, 69 deaths
Mar 17 - This is a pandemic, Mr. Trump told reporters. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.
Mar 18 - "Its not racist at all. No. Not at all. It comes from China. Thats why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate."
Mar 23 - Dow Jones closes at 18,591.93
Mar 25 - 3.3 million Americans file for unemployment.
Mar 30 - Dow Jones closes at 21,917.16
Apr 2 - 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment.
Apr 3 - 270,062 COVID-19 cases, 6,927 deaths.
Tests still not available for most people.
Apr 6 - 347,003 COVID-19 cases, 10,335 deaths
(Copy and paste if you would like to share. You might update the case & death count. Its changing all the time.)
SunSeeker
(51,630 posts)flying_wahini
(6,634 posts)TeamPooka
(24,242 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,523 posts)rufus dog
(8,419 posts)I believe it was 3/16 that Defense procurement started placing orders for N95 masks. Not sure when vent orders started going out.
"It is up to the States!"
TeamPooka
(24,242 posts)lamp_shade
(14,841 posts)But I could be reading it wrong....
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/01/824610787/fema-hadnt-ordered-ventilators-manufacturers-forged-ahead-anyway
Dworkin
(164 posts)Folks,
Fact checking Trump is just so tiring. Its just tiring. I know we have to do it.
D.
uponit7771
(90,348 posts)lamp_shade
(14,841 posts)canetoad
(17,175 posts)Thank you for your work assembling it.
lamp_shade
(14,841 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)WELL DONE