45 praises WALMART as patriotic?

[ancianita]

Trump's praise of Walmart during his overlong bullshit press conference is disgusting, imo.

I hope Joe is aware.

For all Americans know, much of what the Walmart family imports from China is contaminated by coronavirus. If its products are not, why are we told to sanitize surfaces, wear rubber gloves in pubic settings, along with washing hands? Coronavirus can exist on inanimate surfaces for up to nine days, according to medical experts.

Not one question was directed to the Walmart spokesman about this.

Drive through testing? That's the least Walmart can do.

Giving Walmart parking lots to the poor to park in? They've already done that for years.

For all we know, Walmarts are becoming coronavirus hotspots across this country.

I'd be surprised if Walmart stores are not exposure sites.

[rockfordfile]

1. Walmart should be boycotted if it turns out they donated to him

[CurtEastPoint]

2. "if?" Of course they donated to that thing..

[ancianita]

6. Open Secrets shows Walmart donates to both candidates & committees of both parties.

[Freedomofspeech]

5. We have been boycotting that lousy junk store forever.

Moved into our area and shut down nearly every locally owned store around. They didn't pay taxes in the area for ten years because of the deal they made with our county. We drive miles to shop elswhere to avoid it. They are as bad as MF45.

[customerserviceguy]

14. Same here

Mal-Wart is pure evil.

[marble falls]

3. Well what's more American than screwing John Q. Public?

[Sloumeau]

4. From what I have read,

coronavirus (COID-19) can live on cardboard for 24 hours and plastic and steel for 3 days. If you have a source for it being able to live on a surface for 9 days, would you please let me know what it is?

[ancianita]

11. Sure. Here's one of several from Google.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/coronaviruses-how-long-can-they-survive-on-surfaces#How-long-do-coronaviruses-persist?

From another:

Myth: It's not safe to receive a package from China

It is safe to receive letters or packages from China, according to the World Health Organization. Previous research has found that coronaviruses don't survive long on objects such as letters and packages. Based on what we know about similar coronaviruses such as MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV, experts think this new coronavirus likely survives poorly on surfaces.

A past study found that these related coronaviruses can stay on surfaces such as metal, glass or plastic for as long as nine days, according to a study published Feb. 6 in The Journal of Hospital Infection. But the surfaces present in packaging are not ideal for the virus to survive.

For a virus to remain viable, it needs a combination of specific environmental conditions such as temperature, lack of UV exposure and humidity — a combination you won't get in shipping packages, according to Dr. Amesh A. Adalja, Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, who spoke with Live Science's sister site Tom's Hardware.

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-myths.html

Can they say that Walmart products are not coronavirus free? It only takes one, right?

[zackymilly]

18. I received packages from India, Italy, China and Thailand today.

All were wrapped in plastic too. Arghhhh!

[ancianita]

22. My daily New York Times. I don't know ... just gotta wash our hands a lot around that stuff, I guess

[Blue_true]

25. Oh, my!!!! Here is what you must do right away. Run around in circle five times,

Then run backwards in a circle three times, then find the exact one geographical center of the 8 circles, sit down and light a doobie, or if you don't do that, have someone bring you a cold beer. Then, just freaking relax!

[zackymilly]

26. Now every little ache and pain I get, I'm thinking....I got da virus! n/t

[Blue_true]

27. Similar here.

I have wicked, but non-lethal food allergies. When a particular food ingredient set me off to a nose-running Saint Bernard, I wonder if I didn't catch the coronavirus somehow.

[Hoyt]

7. Honestly, I think it's wrong to demonize China in this thing, very wrong.

[ancianita]

12. I don't. This is about a pathogen, not demonizing.

This is about health and welfare, not right and wrong.

It's good judgment for leadership not to promote the biggest importer and distributor of Chinese goods in America.

Even most Americans are asking themselves about why he thinks donating parking lot space, something Walmart's done to get travel campers' business for years, should be considered "patriotic." His very word.

[Hoyt]

13. Sorry, I disagree. China is no more contagious than us, and

shipping from China takes plenty long for virus to expire.

Xenophobia is never right, and about half our population is Nationalistic. That’s wrong.

[ancianita]

16. I hear you. It's still offensive to me that this prez spends at least 10 minutes promoting Walmart's

role in "solving" our COVID-19 problems. Along with all the other "experts" in his entourage.

[Hoyt]

17. Oh, I get that, but it's not China's fault. We've been exporting a bunch of misery

since trump’s inauguration. Hope foreign countries don’t blame us, unless we re-elect trump.

[ancianita]

20. Agreed. It's not China's fault. It's Walmart's responsibility to make sure their imports are

pathogen free. That's all I'm saying.

That nothing was said about that shows a lack of due diligence toward the Walmart consumer.

My issue is mostly with that and the president's decision to make them a major distributor of the tests, therefore "patriots."

I've only stepped into a Walmart once in my life, and only out of necessity.

[Politicub]

8. Such a shitshow

It takes these retailers weeks to design and distribute a sales circular.

We should not have to depend on the benevolence old Walmart to care for Americans.

[Newest Reality]

9. The speech

Had a segment of corporate PR and commercials. No charge!

Privatization, of course. That's more conditioning. Corporate America will save the day. Of course, they the poor wages, and other factors that contribute to the problems are ignored because this is about them not us.

Shock and Awe is the place where you take a big step with yes, Fascism.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Will those testing stations be self-testing? Meaning no humans to administer the tests?

[ancianita]

15. You think he gives details? You think that will really happen?

There are 20 machines at a biotech company that make thousands and thousands of tests they send to over 30 countries. But this company has to wait until the end of this month to get FDA approval to distribute those tests in the USA.

These tests' results come in one hour, so it's possible that they could be distributed through Walmart. How they'd work it wasn't explained. Though I'm sure Walmart will make huge national announcements. The Waltons aren't rich for nothing.

[47of74]

19. I worked at a Mart of Wal for about two years

Had enough of that place to last me the rest of my life plus 9329039423904239003 years.

I try not to shop there.

[ancianita]

21. Mart of Wal...

[Dios Mio]

24. Walmart, Walgreens, etc.

It’s ALL about their bottom line. I suppose his base believes they are in a caring relationship with the CEOs. How delusional and sad.

[Hortensis]

23. The bad, the ugly and the good. Those who don't like Walmart

(I'm among them--waaaaaaaaaay too big) might remember that Walmart -- on its own -- sent trucks full of relief supplies to devastated Louisiana and other Gulf areas. This was as the state government was failing and the federal government under W/Repubs was refusing.

And the media were completely lacking in the self-serving "nothing will every be the same again -- for YOU" noise they swamped the nation with for months after 911 threatened their own cushy NYC lifestyles.

Oh, and while we're at it, let's not forget, while Walmart was bringing relief to the devastation zone, those nice citizens who blocked a bridge and threatened to shoot desperate people trying to leave NOLA to find water, food, medical care, diapers, and so on. Or that most of us sat around and tsked-tsked at the pictures of people begging for assistance, maybe texted our congressmen, instead of taking to the streets ourselves.