December 26, 28, 29 seven odd case of pneumonia identified
December 30 China actively starts identifying cases
December 31 China notifies WHO
January 12 CVD-19 Sequenced
January 13 first test kits available
January 23 China LOCKS DOWN WUHAN (w/ 400 known cases identified)
January 24 another 15 cities locked down
January 30 WHO declares Pandemic
As spoken by the stable genius...
January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine."
February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
February 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
February 26: “We're going very substantially down, not up.”
February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
February 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.”
March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 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.”
March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 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!”
March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re 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.”
March 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.”
March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
March 9: “This blindsided the world.”
March 11: “We’re having to fix a problem that four weeks ago nobody ever thought would be a problem.”
March 13: "I am officially declaring a national emergency."
March 13: “I don't take responsibility at all."
March 13: “National emergency, two big words.”
March 16: “I would rate it a 10.”… out of 10. “I think we have done a great job.” “It started with the fact that we have kept a very highly infected country, despite all of even the professionals saying it is too early to do this, we were very early with respect to China. We would have a whole different situation in this country if we didn’t do that.”
March 23: “a lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting. … We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.” Trump Says White House Looking At Date To Lift Social Distancing Guidelines.
March 23: “We haven’t announced a date, but we are getting fairly close with coming up with a date,”
March 23: Trump repeated what Fox News on Sunday Steve Hilton said: “We can’t turn [the economy] off and think it’s going to be wonderful. There will be tremendous repercussions. There will be tremendous death.”
