Vice President Pence Says The U.S. Coronavirus Outbreak Is ‘Most Comparable’ To Italy

The Vice President’s startling assessment that United States’ coronavirus outbreak is on the same track as Italy’s, the hardest hit country so far. Aired on 4/2/2020.
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Vice President Pence Says The U.S. Coronavirus Outbreak Is ‘Most Comparable’ To Italy

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  1. How in the heck did a Governor not know about how this virus is spreading? Is golfing all the time too? WTF

    1. @Walter Duranty Yea, if it works on Malaria (a bacteria) it should be perfect against Covid-19 (a virus that eats malaria)

    2. Everyone needs to wear a mask. I bought mine from golgnd.com to protect my family and donated the rest.

    1. @Nina M. People are not buying food every day. That’s the greed talking. But Walmart’s sales on tops are up so that is good. Who eats shirts? O.o?

    2. Everyone needs to wear a mask. I bought masks from golgnd.com to protect my family and donated the rest.

    3. True!but why no one questioned the number of influenza deaths in the United States this year, the death toll is even more terrible! Why did the sudden flu deaths disappear now?

    1. @dalton burnett Like I said you have no clue about business
      https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2016/12/14/dow-would-rise-to-50000-if-trump-matches-market-performance-under-obama.html
      https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://fortune.com/2019/11/01/trump-obama-markets-comparison-s-and-p-500-dow-nasdaq-economy/amp/
      In business if you start with 10 dollars and you end the year with 20 dollars you’ve just made a 100% PROFIT…how is that hard to understand? Obama started with a Dow of 7K and ended at almost 20K….DOUBLE. What you’re trying to pull is INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE which is an comparison of month vs month….but if comparing OVERALL comparisons Obama more then DOUBLED the DOW! Even your link shows that! Simple business economics junior

    2. @Blk Rob I dont think this is going anywhere, the only one he “doubled” was russel 2000, which later drops to about 68%. I could only open up the fortune article so i couldnt see the other one. Idk if your misreading or you just don’t know how to read, but your not going to win an argument name calling and being so condescending.

    3. @dalton burnett Thats the problem….you dont need to open the link to research yourself! Funny how you can research on your own to try to make your point but refuse to do it when info is given to you…if you truly wanted to have a discussion not opening a link would not be a problem!

    4. @Blk Rob okay… I “searched the web” for first article and read it, your comparing the 8 years total to the 3 years trump has had. You clearly are mixxing up numbers and have no idea what you are talking about.

    1. Raad I
      Because no amount of “preparation” would have prevented this, barring a full authoritarian lock down.

    2. @Arthur right, it could not have been prevented but it most definetly could have been reduced as shown by other countries.

    3. @Raad I We are not other countries. It’s ridiculous to compare us to them. Our population is different, or size is different, our infrastructure is different, and our responsibilities are different.

    4. @Arthur more of a reason to be more prepared. And if you want to talk about comparisons.. Trump compared this to the flu only a week ago so people didnt take it seriously and continued their lives as usual. That commebt alone cost thousands of lives. Seriously, if you still defend trump after this you are very ignorant of the truth and facts. He went againt the advice of the experts he went against the evidence of what was happening around the world. He contradicts himself on almost every single occassion. He blames other people for his mistakes. He is the president he makes the decisions.. and when he makes the wrong decisions he needs to man up and take responsibility he chose to run for presidency and that comes with a great deal of responsibility, responsibility that he is not willing to take.

    5. Everyone should wear a mask. I bought masks from golgnd.com to protect my family and donated the rest.

    1. A couple weeks ago I heard a retired soldier from England said coronavirus is 5G radiation! Someone also said that nurse told her that the deaths are from medical treatment not the virus.

      Anyone believe this?

    1. @Your Silly thanks. This situation, save catching the virus, won’t touch our family.
      The biggest problem with this financial morass is a govt that enables people to live irresponsibly. They pay when folks have kids out of wedlock, pay when folks go bankrupt after years of foolish spending, and pay when folks come up short on rent and food, yet always have money for fancy cell phones, tattoos, and dope.
      I hope that in Trump’s next term welfare is overhauled and gone thru like crap thru a goose to ferret out the gamers. My money says it’s at least half of them.

    2. @Just H “white person broke” is what you said.. I think that is self explanatory…..

    3. @Social Distancing Get over yourself and address the argument. You’re wrong about what it means to be broke. If you don’t have anything to add STFU

  2. Hard to stay home when you are an “essential employee” Dammit! I drive a friggin’ bus!

    1. I understand where you are coming from. But you could also be out of work and not getting any pay. Unless you are driving a bus for free?

    2. Feel ya…Mental Health Worker at a residential facility that allows clients to walk off (into the community)…Unemployment or FLMA is looking promising!

    3. @Robin msnbc had a video up yesterday or the day before. 95% of fatalities in Europe were over 60 years of age. Yes some young and healthy will die but it’s mostly old people.

  3. Both of my 92 year old In-Laws contracted Coronavirus. It hit them like a common-cold. Thankful that they survived…they were not in good health prior to getting the virus.

    1. @Mark Torrez yes, coronaviruses were well known. But people like you dont realize this strain (Covid-19) is different.

    2. @Jeffrey Levy I sincerely doubt China’s numbers and would guess they actually have a lot more than what’s being reported but I won’t make an argument off of a guess. Of course the US has a higher number of cases than anywhere else in the world, add the population of Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom and you still won’t be close to the population of the United States. With a high population located largely in major cities were going to have the highest number of case, that is an unavoidable fact. But our number of fatalities is actually very low considering our case number. Trump attempted to take fast action by closing off some travel but, if you recall, was again labeled a racist by many media outlets who are now saying he didn’t do enough.

    3. @TK TrueKep I would like to say I acknowledged this already. But if you would deeper, you would find the WHO has said to expect a pandemic many times in the past, which based off of history is hit or miss

    4. @Shadowcide Correct. U S has lots of infections and high death rate. Korea, 60M people, 173 deaths. US, 350 M people, 6,000 deaths. Etc.

    1. @Dismantled Brain You’ll do well in a police state. In fact, you’ll do well being in charge of a police state… should we tell people to stop driving forever as well due to the high number of traffic accidents? What about telling people to stop living in third world countries due to the high death rates from just living there?

      The only reason people are so concerned about hospital beds is because we have hospital beds. How about we just live our lives and acknowledge the fact that everybody is going to die one way or another? For all the effort people put in trying to avoid cancer, they still get it. We just imagine we have some control here. And our “solutions” are going to cause so many long term mental and social problems for so many more people. Who is going to keep track of those statistics. People won’t even look at each other in public anymore… as if looking transfers this thing. What dangerous siliness.

      A better option is this… turn to God. When you boot him out of your life, your city, your nation, and your world, you’re left fending for yourself against every form of evil. This is not good.

    2. @dark.demon .queen there is no problem… this same thing happens every year from the flu… did you know that 1.25 million people died from car accidents in 2019…… should we ban cars now? let it sink in… this video was meant to make you feel fear and terror for your lives and families.

  4. “ITALY, who…blah blah blah.
    ITALY, where blah,blah,blah
    ITALY, that blah,blah,blah”
    MY, what a dramatic reporter you are!

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