NAD Administration Provides Guidance for Church in North America During the COVID-19 Pandemic

You, misquoting @GeorgeTichy:

What he actually wrote:

It’s not George’s personal opinion. It’s the educated opinion of 70,000 mental health professionals who have publicly asserted as much:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/president-donald-trump

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Yes, I have heard about this strange incident. And there was a slight irritation at my side that we Europeans got all the blame that the virus is now in USA. As if no US American ever travelled to China… or vice versa. Things like these are weird. But all of this has to be left out at the moment, and we all should concentrate on preventing the spread of the virus. It’s not about political agendas but about people, especially the poor, the old and the sick.

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Not just CNN:

Lies in detail:

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Leveling blame such as that would be absurd, as is the question itself. People can only observe and make up their own minds as to Trump’s competence. A key ingredient to that input from him is his inability to complete a sentence or even a thought before moving on to the next disjointed one, over and over again. And of course there’s also his inability to say more than a dozen words ad lib without the narcissists compelling urge to brag on something great he has done. Those two things inform me as to his ability or lack of ability toward competence.

Just over the weekend, Whitehouse sources were telling reporters of the disarray and confusion within top administration and the Corona Virus Team to form a comprehensive plan. Apparently the Son-in-law Kushner stepped in and hurriedly pulled a bunch of executives in over a 24 hour period to put together the presser we all saw on Friday. What we didn’t know at the time, according to those reporting from inside was that there was little to no planning behind the plan at the time. They had no details worked out other than the bare bones of what we heard, yet it was presented to us as if the plan was broad, detailed, and comprehensive. Have they got it together since then? Let’s hope and pray that they do, but as of today, much of the promised action is still not rolled out.

I don’t necessarily lay blame either way, but it’s indeed fascinating to watch. My sense is that the administration, for quite some time now has either been minimizing, denying, and lately over-promising, for politically expedient reasons. All of those things in the end can be political suicide. Time will tell if I am correct.

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Actually, Tim, the latter book has now been re-printed with 10 More MH professionals asserting what is the most obvious in DT’s case: his mental derangement and insanity.

Oh…, but that must be just their “opinion,” right?.. :roll_eyes:

How many more professionals need to be added to the next edition to make people believe that the man has a personality disorder that is extremely dangerous not only to us but to the whole humankind???

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Oh tim, this is “just your opinion”:roll_eyes:

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Yes, every topic, regardless of what that topic may be, has Trump interjected into the conversation. I thought all roads led to Rome, but all roads, all topics, all things lead to Trump, here on Spectrum! :scream: :crazy_face: :upside_down_face:

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Great, long distance diagnosis. You guys are something else. Over and out.

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Sirje, what are your trusted sources?

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I don’t need someone to interpret for me. Have ears, can hear.

It really is quite alright if our great president Trump did say it was a hoax at one time. The facts have changed and now so has his attitude about the virus. Flexibility is important when facts change. Trump has been the right man for such a time as this.
Have any of you been watching the dem candidates? It has boiled down to a socialist and one who is declining cognitively. God sent us Trump for such a time as this.

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It never was a hoax. FACT. The “facts” did NOT change.

The president is finally catching up after 2 weeks of denial. We need top-drawer leadership, not a lagging denier.

Look at the confidence the country and global markets have in him. Stock market dropped another 3000 points today. Are you paying attention to this? This lack of leadership and falsely calling the virus a “democratic hoax” has not played well.

To defend this president in the name of Christ , a man whose mouth has been full of falsehoods and lies is amazing.

We are better than this.

Welcome to the pandemic, Mr. President.

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Where are your ears’ trusted sources?

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Harpa, I certainly am not a supporter of President Trump. His role as the POTUS is a duel role when it comes to information to the public. On the one hand he has the obligation to keep us informed as to the facts of this virus, and on the other hand he needs to present calm. Difficult role for anyone but increasingly more difficult when your " mouth" seems to run ahead of the gray matter.

To be fair I believe in terms of action, he did as well as Bush, Obama, Clinton, Biden or any other potential candidate regardless of party would have done. Notice Sanders was not included because frankly he is not able to separate reality from ideology. Partisanship is the real limiting factor here and it didn’t start with C19. We as Americans must rise above Washington and we are rising to the occasion.

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Hey, Trump was criticized for refusing flights from China at the end of January. What are you talking about? Everybody calling him RACIST, of course.

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Ummm…in news that actually bears on the SDA church, the word is that the GC voted to postpone their summer meeting for two years, though they have not–as I understand it–publicized this yet. That would give us two more years of TW.

Has anyone heard anything different than this?

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I’m not sure Trump cares whether people are saying positive or negative things about him as long as he’s the subject of conversation! LOL

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To be sure, the president isn’t responsible for either the coronavirus or the disease it causes, COVID-19, and he couldn’t have stopped it from hitting our shores even if he had done everything right. Nor is it the case that the president hasn’t done anything right; in fact, his decision to implement a travel ban on China was prudent. And any narrative that attempts to pin all of the blame on Trump for the coronavirus is simply unfair and untrue. The temptation among the president’s critics to use the pandemic to get back at Trump for every bad thing he’s done should be resisted, and schadenfreude is never a good look.

That said it is a fact that Mr. Trump from his time as a candidate to the present day has no desire to acquaint himself with most issues, let alone master them. No President has ever been quite as disdainful of knowledge, as indifferent to facts, as untroubled by his benightedness. This root cause is manifest in his virulent combination of willful ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness that is doing more than unraveling his presidency; it could very well lead to national catastrophe. That he is and could continue as commander in chief should send a chill down the spine of every American. It has taken until the second half of Trump’s first term, but the crisis has arrived in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s hard to name a president who has been as overwhelmed by a crisis as the coronavirus has overwhelmed Donald Trump.

As president his administration is responsible for grave, costly errors, most especially the policies and inaction leading to the dismantling government structures to deal with Pandemics, the epic manufacturing failures in diagnostic testing, the decision to test too few people, the delay in expanding testing to labs outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and problems in the supply chain. These mistakes have left us blind and badly behind the curve, and, for a few crucial weeks, they created a false sense of security. What we now know is that the coronavirus silently spread for several weeks, without us being aware of it and while we were doing nothing to stop it. Containment and mitigation efforts could have significantly slowed its spread at an early, critical point, but we frittered away that opportunity.

“They’ve simply lost time they can’t make up. You can’t get back six weeks of blindness,” Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped oversee the international response to Ebola during the Obama administration and is a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, told The Washington Post. “To the extent that there’s someone to blame here, the blame is on poor, chaotic management from the White House and failure to acknowledge the big picture.”

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That’s for sure. He is impervious to what others say! :grinning:

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And what could be more pleasing and rewarding to Trump than this? It’s like massaging his “ego.” He loves it! He expects it! :upside_down_face::upside_down_face::upside_down_face::upside_down_face:

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