monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

Off and on. I suppose we will.

Remember:
At first he talked down the virus and dismissed the threat as an invention of his political opponents. Then he announced on television that he had "such an idea" that the mortality rates were not as high as experts had assumed. Who believes experts?
Shortly afterwards, however, he declared a national state of emergency and announced an (uncoordinated) entry ban for Europeans - except for the British and Irish (out of old solidarity), a decision which he had to revise shortly afterwards.
The initial diversionary tactics have resulted in the USA losing valuable time in medical preparation.

A Complete List of Trump’s Attempts to Play Down Coronavirus

The severity of this crisis exposes nationalists and populists for what they are - dangerous agitators who rely solely on communicative bullshit, do not care about the truth and therefore make serious mistakes. This also applies to other policy areas - from climate policy to financial and migration policy. But in the Corona crisis, the consequences of which are rapid and immediately felt by citizens, political mistakes are immediately punished.

You cannot provide any examples of anything untrue in any of my posts.



The Muslims shouldn't have invaded the west if they didn't want westerners to push back.

To be fair, I don't recognize the legitimacy of the Crusaders' claims to Israeli territory either. That land belongs to the Israelis, not to either Muslims or the west. But the fact remains, the Muslims invaded territory that didn't belong to them. Islamic thieves have no cause to complain when people push back against their thievery.



No I didn't. I originally said that US bombers targeted the railyards, and were not the cause of the infamous firestorm that destroyed the city.

In a subsequent post, I expanded on that to clarify that US bombers did not start any firestorm in Dresden at all, and probably didn't cause any firestorm anywhere in Germany.

I never denied that US bombers used incendiary weapons in Dresden, and in fact I openly acknowledged that they did.



Pointing out the fact that I never said what you falsely claim that I said is not in any way rewriting history.

You cannot point out any inaccuracies in any of my statements about past posts.

Of course, you cannot point out any inaccuracies in any of my statements period.



As previously noted, you cannot provide any examples of anything untrue in my posts.



You have never pointed out any untrue statement in any of my posts.

You cannot provide any examples of a past post of yours where you pointed out something untrue in my posts.

You still cannot provide any examples of anything untrue in my posts even today.



Is this supposed to be an excuse to cover up your failure to back up your untrue claims about my posts?

While no one is obliged to back up their claims, when people fail to back up their claims, that is evidence that their claims are untrue.

That's why I always provide cites whenever someone asks me to back up my own claims.



As previously noted, you cannot provide any examples of anything untrue in any of my posts.



You're wrong here as well. I always admit it when I am wrong.



I've never claimed that my opinions are facts, so that's not terribly relevant. But OK.



Your claimed alternate explanation is not consistent with the facts.



Not BS at all. No one can come up with any other motivation that is consistent with the facts.



That is incorrect. The fact that no one can provide any alternative motivation (that is consistent with the facts) is evidence that the real motivation is progressives' joy over violating people's civil liberties.



The notion that progressives want to impede people's ability to direct fire with semi-auto weapons because of an infinitesimal chance that the weapons will be converted to full-auto is pretty unrealistic.

First, such conversions are hardly a pressing problem. They are very rare. It is hardly a subject of great concern.

Second, if progressives were actually concerned over conversions to full-auto, then instead of making it harder to direct fire with semi-auto weapons that are unlikely to ever be converted, they would just try to restrict access to the specialized machine gun parts that are necessary for such conversions.



It isn't easy at all to modify them. It requires general gunsmithing knowledge. It requires specialized machine gun parts. And it requires specialized gunsmithing knowledge as to how to properly install those parts without ruining the gun.



As previously noted, you cannot provide any examples of anything untrue in any of my posts.

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The fact that I did not challenge the claim about pistol grips helping to direct fire should not be read by anyone as an endorsement of that claim.

We have the most ICU beds.

That's good news.

Are there stats for the number of ventilators per capita?

I expose your bullsh*t all the time, you're just incapable of admitting that you're almost always wrong.

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You cannot provide a single example of you having ever exposed an untrue statement in my posts.

Neither can you provide any examples of anything untrue in my posts even today.

I mentioned before how a failure to back up one's claims is evidence that the claims are untrue. Your post here is an example of that.



Well yes. Such an admission would be untrue, given the fact that I'm almost never wrong.

Why would I admit something that isn't true?

I do it all the time, silly boy.

Your failure to back up your claims with any examples proves the contrary.

you posit nonexistent things exist and then act as if they actually existed.

You cannot provide any examples of me having ever done any such thing.

Don't you guys have anything better to do than make empty accusations that you can't back up?

The idea that all hospital beds and especially the ICU-bed would be empty is not such a good idea, I think
Here, Germany, hospital beds (more than 8 per 1,000 people vs less than 3 in the USA) are about 90% occupied
And the ICU-beds are generally two-thirds full (in the specialised university hospitals up to 98%).

Yoour accusations are counterfactual.

It all depends on how concentrated hospitalizations ramp up, completely unknown at this point. Scheduled surgeries are being delayed if they aren't urgent, so there is some flexibility as far as bed availability.

If that were true, you would have been able to provide an alternative motivation for trying to outlaw pistol grips on semi-auto rifles.

Your failure to provide any such alternative motivation is evidence that the only reason why progressives try to do so is because they enjoy violating people's civil liberties.

The problem is it's impossible to know what to really take seriously or not, because we know there are all sorts of collective market-manipulators around the world trying to trigger policy responses for the sake of whatever economic interests they serve.

So we know that medical supplies, etc. cost a lot and that there are investors eager to have their sales numbers go up in order to make money, and that such business interests stimulate marketing/propaganda people to exaggerate threats, etc. to stimulate market activity.

Now I am not saying that the threats are all fake; just that all the lying makes it harder to try to figure out what threats are legitimate and get a clear/valid assessment of their severity.

If the boy who cries wolf would stop crying wolf, in other words, it would become much easier to cope with the actual threat (levels) that we need to face.

Those delayed surgeries certainly do a lot good. And about the concentrated hospitalisation - we look here at those countries being "infront" of us.

What we do here now is that general medical practices and rehabilitation clinics are also included in the "corona work", and university hospitals have completely switched from research to care. Medical students are to be employed for health care, as are retired doctors and doctors on parental leave.
Most important - in my opinion - that we finally have got a database on federal level for all free and occupied intensive care beds, not just on regional or state level.

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Must read. 5 rules for bailouts. If we don't follow, greedy financiers will use mass death to steal.

No buybacks ever, no dividends for 5 years.
Executive comp limits.
No lobbying by bailed out companies.
No mergers for 5 years.
No bailouts for shareholders.

End of story.

Germany has 3,000 more cases and 56 less deaths than we do, so good work, Germany.