LET THEM EAT CORONA VIRUS
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 22 March 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
As the Covid shutdown deepens- could Trump's administration be handling the pandemic any worse?.. from not testing potentially infected cruise ship passengers and not testing nearly enough in general.. pushing for bailout of the rich once again... and now increasing the sanctions blocking Iran from getting critical medical supplies, do we have a sadist in the White House? With a grifter at the top, how are the bottom feeders also trying to scam us? The Prime Minister of Norway reaches out to kids... And what can we learn from the response to Covid in South Korea?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Mike Pence back on March 6th when the people from the Corona Princess, |
| 0:20.0 | the cruise ship or the Grand Princess, |
| 0:22.0 | Corona Princess, sorry, I renamed it I guess. |
| 0:24.3 | The Grand Princess were tested, a bunch of them had the coronavirus. |
| 0:29.7 | He said, we will be testing everyone on that ship, 21 passengers had already tested positive, and |
| 0:35.6 | they've been, you know, quarantined together for a couple of weeks. |
| 0:38.3 | But now it turns out that 568 of the 858 passengers, other words a majority of them said no I you know I don't want to be tested now why did they say no |
| 0:49.9 | one of the passengers who spoke with the this is out of the San Francisco Chronicle one of the passengers who spoke with the, this is out of the San Francisco Chronicle, |
| 0:54.2 | one of the passengers who spoke with the Chronicle said, quote, |
| 0:57.0 | federal health officials dissuaded them from taking the test, |
| 1:00.2 | saying that if they had no symptoms during the mandatory 14-day quarantine a test was unnecessary |
| 1:07.1 | So the Trump administration put them on airplanes and flew them all over the country, these 568 people who were never tested, |
| 1:16.1 | who got off the cruise ship where they had all these cases of it. |
| 1:19.7 | Brilliant. |
| 1:20.7 | Mike Pence apparently didn't want the numbers going. |
| 1:23.0 | Keep in mind, this was a couple of weeks ago, |
| 1:25.2 | this is back when Trump was saying, |
| 1:26.6 | he didn't want to let one of these ships dock, |
| 1:29.4 | I think it was the second one following this one, |
| 1:31.6 | to let one of these ships dock because he liked the |
| 1:33.8 | numbers where they are you didn't want to see the numbers go up. Meanwhile we are |
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