Amazon Fires Worker Who Led Strike Over Virus (bloomberg.com) 150
Chris Smalls, an Amazon fulfillment center employee, said the company fired him after he led a strike at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, over coronavirus safety conditions. "Taking action cost me my job," Smalls said Monday in a Bloomberg TV interview. "Because I tried to stand up for something that's right, the company decided to retaliate against me." Bloomberg reports: A group of workers at the Staten Island fulfillment center walked off the job Monday to demand Amazon close the facility for extended cleaning, the latest in a wave of virus-related protests. They say a number of their colleagues there were diagnosed with Covid-19. Organizers say more than 60 workers participated in the protest. In a statement Monday night, New York State Attorney General Letitia James called Smalls' firing "immoral and inhumane." James urged the National Labor Relations Board to investigate the incident and said her office "is considering all legal options" as well.
Amazon confirmed it fired Smalls, saying he violated safety regulations, including failing to abide by a 14-day quarantine required after being exposed to an employee with a confirmed case of Covid-19. "Mr. Smalls received multiple warnings for violating social distancing guidelines and putting the safety of others at risk," Amazon said in a statement. Smalls "was asked to remain home with pay for 14 days, which is a measure we're taking at sites around the world. Despite that instruction to stay home with pay, he came on site today, March 30, further putting the teams at risk." Smalls called the company's claim "ridiculous" and said he was being retaliated against for his activism. Federal law protects the right of employees to engage in collective action, including strikes, to protest working conditions.
Amazon confirmed it fired Smalls, saying he violated safety regulations, including failing to abide by a 14-day quarantine required after being exposed to an employee with a confirmed case of Covid-19. "Mr. Smalls received multiple warnings for violating social distancing guidelines and putting the safety of others at risk," Amazon said in a statement. Smalls "was asked to remain home with pay for 14 days, which is a measure we're taking at sites around the world. Despite that instruction to stay home with pay, he came on site today, March 30, further putting the teams at risk." Smalls called the company's claim "ridiculous" and said he was being retaliated against for his activism. Federal law protects the right of employees to engage in collective action, including strikes, to protest working conditions.
Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch (Score:4, Informative)
Amazon confirmed it fired Smalls, saying he violated safety regulations, including failing to abide by a 14-day quarantine required after being exposed to an employee with a confirmed case of Covid-19.
“Mr. Smalls received multiple warnings for violating social distancing guidelines and putting the safety of others at risk,” Amazon said in a statement. Smalls “was asked to remain home with pay for 14 days, which is a measure we’re taking at sites around the world. Despite that instruction to stay home with pay, he came on site today, March 30, further putting the teams at risk.”
sending some home for starting an union move looks (Score:3)
sending some home for starting an union move looks bad even more so when it's for REPORTING SAFETY ISSUES and then not telling others about them.
Let an jury decide
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Re:sending some home for starting an union move lo (Score:4, Insightful)
Let an (sic) jury decide
Yes, and the jury will hear:
- Employee was exposed to a co-worker who tested positive;
- Employee was ordered to quarantine;
- Employee was ordered to stay off company premises;
- Employee was still being paid;
They will also hear:
-In doing so, employee disregarded a direct order from Amazon;
- In doing so, employee tresspassed on Amazon property;
- In doing so, employee potentially exposed Amazon's employees to a life threatening disease;
- In doing so, employee compromised Amazon's workplace and potentially its business;
- In doing so, employee potentially compromised the supply-chain that millions of Americans depend on who are quarantined or ordered to shelter-in-place, and depend on Amazon's delivery of products;
If you want to report safety issues, you can contact OSHA. If you want to unionize, you are free to do so from the comfort of your own home if you are quarantined.
If you are quarantined because you have been exposed to a life threatening virus, and you chose to disregard your co-workers safety because you want to be a union-hero, you not only deserve to be let go, you also deserve to be prosecuted for violating quarantine orders.
Be careful about wanting to face a jury.
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But is any of that true? Also, who ultimately bears responsibility for the initial exposure?
Re: sending some home for starting an union move l (Score:3)
Then you are not capable of adequate reasoning.
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Whooooosh!
Re:Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch (Score:5, Insightful)
But he also refutes that description of his actions. It's a he-said/she-said account here. Basically *everyone* in that plant would have been exposed to the worker, and I doubt Amazon told every worker there to stay home.
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It's a he-said/she-said account here.
Actually, it's not. It's very easy to verify if he's lying.
Amazon said there was one confirmed case of COVID-19 at the warehouse as of yesterday.
And Smalls claims there were 7 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of yesterday, three of which he had personally sent home as their manager. If you need to verify who is lying, just call up the three people that he supposedly sent home. That's it. End of story.
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Also, anyone ordered home would receive an email confirming the order even if it was given verbally.
One thing corporations are good at is keeping records and documenting decisions.
Re: Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch (Score:3)
Until they want to hide their actions.
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And the paper trail says they didn't. (OK, at Amazon it's an electron trail, but still.)
Or are you preferring to believe a random Internet guy with no documentation over the HR staff with the collection of emails, worker safety forms, disciplinary action forms, and employment termination documentation at both Amazon and the company he contracted through?
Re: Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch (Score:2)
No they only told one, weeks after. The one who had shown up their failings.
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But he also refutes that description of his actions. It's a he-said/she-said account here. Basically *everyone* in that plant would have been exposed to the worker, and I doubt Amazon told every worker there to stay home.
That's called "whataboutism". Pointing out a company's actions as they incorrectly do not apply to someone else doesn't in any way refute that a company's existing actions somehow shouldn't apply where they have already been made.
Honestly that line of thinking "I am not going to follow safety rules because Bob over there wasn't told to follow them" is fantastic grounds for firing someone.
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My point is that people are automatically assuming that Amazon must be telling the truth, because it's a corporation and they never lie or do other evil acts. And they assume the worker must be lying because he's pro-union. And they base those two accounts solely upon a simplistic simmary on Slashdot without reading the story most of the time.
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Well, Amazon are subject to direct court action, class action lawsuits, regulatory penalties and other health and safety related fines, so they're unlikely to sack an employee that's been in the global media in the past week without due cause.
Which is why I tend to believe that they did indeed have due cause.
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No, I assume that the worker is lying because Amazon is the most data-driven company that I have ever worked at (I do physical security there). If printed out to hand to the NLRB the documentation would probably cover half the parking lot, it's **not** easy to fire someone there, even a contractor. And before people claim that Amazon faked all the records there will be two copies, one for Amazon and a second for the company that he contract through.
My dad was a union organizer at the factory that he worke
Re: Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch (Score:2)
No that is illegal and inhumane. Shame on you.
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Is that actually true?
Re: Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch (Score:2)
Shill is obvious.
That was in the balanced summary. I see you only quote one side. You are disgusting.
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Oh look, a man who led a strike suddenly had a whole bunch of fuckups that led to firing, what a coincidence.
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Let me rephrase;
Oh, look, a guy who had a whole bunch of fuckups in his job history got fired, what a coincidence.
Re: Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch (Score:5, Interesting)
No, he made the right call.
Amazon was telling workers that only one person hat been infected at that warehouse, when in fact seven workers had already tested positive for COVID-19 (and there were most likely many-many more).
In my opinion, this manager is a hero. He was only looking out for his people, by telling them the truth.
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No, he made the right call.
In my opinion, this manager is a hero
You missed the part where he was fired.
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No, he made the right call.
In my opinion, this manager is a hero
You missed the part where he was fired.
Look, I'm definitely an advocate for workers, but it seems like he was told to go home with pay and yet he chose to return to work. He was fired because he refused to self-quarantine even while the company was paying him to do so. If I'm missing something here, somebody tell me what it is.
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It sounds like he was behaving like an adversarial jerk.
His actions have a lot less protection than the summary claims. The "right to strike" applies to the unionized workforce as a whole, not an individual or small group acting on their own.
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Who cares if he has the right to strike or not?
If tomorrow, a manager intercepted you at the entrance of your building and told you "Be careful, our employer has been lying to us. There has been seven confirmed cases of COVID-19 inside our building, three of which I can confirm personally, instead of just one like they claim. And there are probably many more cases that haven't even been diagnosed yet."
What would you do? Would you go in? Or would you stay the hell out? Personally, I would stay the hell out!
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And if that manager is infected himself? Greeting everyone at the door? How would you react to catching the virus from the guy who refused to obey his 14-day quarantine, and instead, greeted everyone at the door to tell them to be careful? Same question as yours, different spin on wording.
It's a bad situation, but I agree with Amazon on this one. The guy coming in and possibly spreading the virus is way worse than the possibility of picking it off a surface. As long as you wash your hands before itching you
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It sounds like he was behaving like an adversarial jerk.
Good for him, I say. Being adversarial is important in situations like this. My issue is that he ignored a quarantine. He and his fellow picketers were complaining that the problem was bigger than Amazon let on. And by showing up in person with a crowd, he risked making the problem even bigger still. He should have stayed home and used the internet to draw attention to the situation.
His actions have a lot less protection than the summary claims. The "right to strike" applies to the unionized workforce as a whole, not an individual or small group acting on their own.
It's complicated. Unionized employees have the right to strike, but not all strikes are legal. And non-unionized employees can
Re: Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch (Score:5, Insightful)
Then he should blow the whistle and raise virtual merry hell by contacting OSHA/CDC/union/media etc, not by showing up physically at the front door of the building with a crowd.
Look, I get that he and many others (including 60-ish fellow picketers) wanted to raise awareness about working conditions. I applaud their resolve and hope they succeed. But violating social-distancing guidelines during a pandemic is not the way to do it.
Re: Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch (Score:5, Interesting)
Amazon sent him home on March 28.
He returned to protest on March 30.
According to Smalls, the way he got exposed was by asking a sick worker to go home.
She had previously been tested for coronavirus, but, in accordance with Amazon policy, she kept working because her results were not yet back.
Smalls' total exposure was only a few minutes. None of the people working with her when she was sick were asked to stay away.
There's always more to the story.
Re: Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch (Score:4, Interesting)
The state attorney general has weighed in. Why would you think your dumb assumptions trump that?
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For definitions of a few extending up to 7 hours [usatoday.com].
Can survive on cardboard boxes for up to 24 hours. On stainless steel and plastic up to 72 hours. The CDC recommends waiting at least 24 hours and then cleaning facilities [cdc.gov], but what do they know.
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You can shorten the viability of the virus even more by heating the warehouse and reducing the humidity.
The downside is that the low humidity makes mucus membranes vulnerable to infection. So heat and dehumidify the unoccupied warehouse for 24 hours, then everyone can go back to work.
Re: Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch (Score:2)
You are what stupid looks like. It would make employees and the community around them safer.
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Trying reading the article, the company chose to tell him to quarantine after 3 weeks had already passed.
Just make crap up why not.
Making up crap again, the virus can survive on chrome or plastic for several days, if can be airborne for hours.
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The virus has a half life of a few hours and it is extremely unlikely you can catch it from boxes.
16 hours on cardboard and polypropylene. Up to 5 days on porcelain, stainless steel and other hard surfaces. Thick fatty layer on the outside makes it hardy.
Maybe there is new information, that's a few weeks old.
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Let me get this straight (Score:5, Insightful)
He was offered full pay and asked to stay at home. He is not denying this part. He came to work to complain. He is not denying this part either.
I am having a lot of trouble feeling bad for this guy.
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He was offered full pay and asked to stay at home. He is not denying this part. He came to work to complain. He is not denying this part either. I am having a lot of trouble feeling bad for this guy.
No, he didn't come to work to complain.
He came to work to warn others that Amazon was lying to them.
"That’s a bold face lie because I sent home the third case directly," Smalls said, adding that he knows of a total of seven cases at the facility that employs more than 4,000 people.
https://abcnews.go.com/Busines... [go.com]
Re:Let me get this straight (Score:5, Insightful)
He was told to stay home.. He didn't... I'm not feeling sorry for him.
IF I got told to stay home, with pay, you can bet I'd be at home doing my job holding the couch down cashing their checks, or even running around town shopping if I wanted, but I'd NOT be heading to work.
IF he wanted to "warn his employees" then he could have and should have picked up the phone and CALLED them. This showing up at work, encouraging a walk out, causing trouble stuff gets you fired..
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IF I got told to stay home, with pay, you can bet I'd be at home doing my job holding the couch down cashing their checks
Talk about selfish....
IF he wanted to "warn his employees" then he could have and should have picked up the phone and CALLED them.
Because what everyone has available to them at home... is the phone numbers of all 4000 of his coworkers....
Maybe you can stop being a retarded, selfish, malevolent fuck. If I look at your post history, will I also discover that you are a liar? Dont fucking reply.
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You saw him approaching people closer than 6', without a mask? Touching people while not wearing gloves, perhaps? Some other behavior which - assuming he was an asymptomatic carrier - would risk transmitting the disease? You have evidence other than that he was present somewhere in the vicinity?
Amazon fired him for returning to the work place. Not specifically for risking
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You're assuming self-quarantine was ordered on the basis of actual exposure, and that everyone was given a similar order based on similar exposure.
It'd be awfully convenient to get rid of someone causing problems by paying them to stay home in self-quarantine. Especially if Amazon's business practices are ultimately responsible for that alleged exposure.
Re: Let me get this straight (Score:2)
Where Amazon was already endangering their lives and all to whom they deliver. This is an incompetent hush up.
Re: Let me get this straight (Score:2)
Where management were lying about infections on their site and refusing to clean, risking far far more.
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Talk about selfish....
Following a safety rule to not spread COVID-19 is selfish? ... Okay.
Please send your full name and address through so we can fire you too for the protection of all our employees. I just want to make sure someone with your line of thinking doesn't work for my organisation.
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IF I got told to stay home, with pay, you can bet I'd be at home doing my job holding the couch down cashing their checks, or even running around town shopping if I wanted, but I'd NOT be heading to work.
He had been in direct contact with at least one person who tested positive. There is no way he should have been running around town shopping.
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IF I got told to stay home, with pay, you can bet I'd be at home doing my job holding the couch down cashing their checks, or even running around town shopping if I wanted, but I'd NOT be heading to work.
He had been in direct contact with at least one person who tested positive. There is no way he should have been running around town shopping.
I don't disagree.. I'm just saying that the LAST place I'd show up if I expected to keep my job is work. Id allow necessary trips to the store or to seek medical care, but I'd stay away from work. IMHO - this guy was just seeking his 15 min of fame for this stunt, and for that he deserved to get canned. You don't make your employer look bad on national TV and keep your job.
Personally, I'd stay home for my 14 days, holding down the couch, ordering takeout and not coming in contact with ANYBODY while bing
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You don't make your employer look bad on national TV and keep your job.
I think he knew he had fucked up beyond salvation and thought if he embarrassed the company enough they'd give him his job back to shut him up.
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Fair enough. But. He still came back to work to air his grievances while plausibly carrying the plague of our times . Should not your inherent "defend the do-gooder" rationale be tempered with a bit of logical caution?
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He came to work to warn others that Amazon was lying to them.
So people on Staten Island don't have cellphones or email?
Re: Let me get this straight (Score:2)
You think you can just call all the Amazon workers at a site. You are being deliberately dishonest "bill".
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So although he was their supervisor he couldn't remember the full name of a single person to look them up on Farcebook or LinkedIn to have a **healthy person** spread the word at the site? Must have really sucked as a supervisor.
Re: Let me get this straight (Score:2)
Or any of the many workers and families of workers exposed by basic hygiene failures in Amazon?
There is a difference (Score:2)
This guy is a dweeb! Might want to move on folks.
just my 2 cents
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This guy is neither an activist nor a dweeb.
He's just a good manager. He just told his people the truth about the actual number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the warehouse. That's why he went to work yesterday. He didn't go there to complain. He didn't go there to lead a strike/walkout. He just went there to tell the workers the truth.
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He just went there to tell the workers the truth.
In spite of an order to quarantine himself due to possible exposure? If he was a 'good manager' he could have texted/e-mailed his employees with the truth. From home.
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Re: There is a difference (Score:2)
The issue was there were many others exposed on that site and the management team lied about it. Do you not understand context?
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That's why he went to work yesterday.
That's funny, I spent the past 3 weeks telling the truth and I didn't need to physically go to work to do it. This is a problem Alexander Graham Bell solved in 1876.
Re: There is a difference (Score:2)
The site is infected with many workers still there when exposed. Management lying about it. What would you do?
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don't blame amazon (Score:2)
He was sent home with full pay because he was exposed to the virus. instead of staying home he decided to return to company property possibly exposing others. He was protesting that amazon was not doing enough to protect their associates so amazon done exactly what he was wanting, protecting their associates.
He may have been right about some of the issues, but he was totally wrong showing up on company property possibly exposing others.
Re: don't blame amazon (Score:2)
More importantly the site should be cleaned, and all exposed sent home for 14 days.
You do see you are missing the bigger issue?
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South Park did it (Score:2)
TFS is flamebait (Score:5, Informative)
If you're going to mentioned that the company fired him for not quarantining then you should also mentioned that:
1. They did not ask anyone else to quarantine.
2. They didn't ask him to quarantine until 3 weeks had already passed, IE they deliberately made a stupid request in order to fire him.
So they didn't fire him because he may have had coronavirus, they fired him because he played a part in a strike.
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OK so I had already read about this from a decent news source which bothered to get the facts from both sides not the piece of shit called Bloomberg which only printed the companies side of events, perpetuating lies.
Remember in the future that if an article is on Bloomberg then it's not trustworthy
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Obviously not a decent news source.
https://www.theguardian.com/us... [theguardian.com]
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Apparently you didn't read very carefully. The protesters believe there are a lot more cases, and Amazon has never bothered to sanitize the place after confirming infected workers.
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Oh but hey, "The spokeswoman added the company permits unlimited unpaid leave for employees who feel uncomfortable working during the outbreak."
So, that's nice of them because who doesn't like being unpaid vs risking death.
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That's called "whataboutism". Not following a direct request because it doesn't apply to others or because you disagree with it is no defense against being fired. He could very much have organised a strike from home.
You picked a side very quickly. Were you at this warehouse? Do you have detailed inside knowledge of this person's whereabouts and connections which led him to be given a quarantine? Did you buy a jump to conclusions mat?
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So he got fired for breaching the quarantine in the strike on the 30th. He got quarantined on the 28th. What did he do before the 28th to get singled out? If he was so upset about the corona virus they might have seen him as a rumor monger and trouble maker so they gave him two weeks paid "leave" as hush money. I guess he's operating under the theory that if the quarantine order was on false pretenses, then he wasn't really violating quarantine and then they didn't really have the right to fire him. But Ama
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Why all the hypothesising? You seem desperate to demonize the guy.
Better quality story:
https://www.theguardian.com/us... [theguardian.com]
Blunder (Score:2)
Amazonâ(TM)s blunder is hiring people who donâ(TM)t really want or need a job instead of the applicants who really need it.
They will find a valid reason (Score:2)
They may have targeted him for "being an activist". That's hard to prove. Amazon, however, officially fired him for violating policy. If this comes to court they will be able to show that he violated policy and put the health of other workers at risk in doing so. They can deny it was anything to do with his activism, and they will win any case brought against them. All because he actually did something wrong.
Lesson: if you are doing to do something like this, make sure your record is impeccable. Ensur
If true, firing justified (Score:2)
Despite that instruction to stay home with pay, he came on site today, March 30, further putting the teams at risk."
Simple yes or no, is it true? Did he return to work despite being told to stay home for 14 days WITH PAY?
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I wonder how many people want his job right now? (Score:2)
To me, regardless of he led a strike, or he violated some policy, this is not the time for this crap! There are plenty of people out there who are out of a job and Amazon does pay well for these jobs. There will be a line soon if not already for many of these jobs.
Protesters, people who "are trying to make a difference" need to focus at the task at hand. Hold the line, till this COVID thing is done. Then protest all you want.
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Just my 2 cents
Re: Bezos (Score:2)
So you are fine with them not cleaning, and further endangering your community?
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Possibly the most selfish greedy bastard on Earth. Sure - why should he give his fortune away? He's earned it.
He spends gives billion dollars a year to pay the salary of employees. Now, sure, the money goes to fund Blue Origin, not Amazon, but then Amazon is swimming in cashflow and doesn't need Bezos's help.
And if they can't come to work because of government requirements during a crisis - fuck 'em even more.
The guy in TFS was given pay to stay at home for 14 days. Salaried workers are working from home. You're off your meds.
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You're off your meds.
No. You're just [independent.co.uk] uninformed [snopes.com].
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I knew all that, I just don't see it as relevant. If the accusation is "Bezos should give some of his wealth to pay the salaries of others", well, he does that every year. A lot of it. That's orthogonal to the fact he's an asshole. Amazon actually does cover the pay of hourly workers who are sick, and most salaried workers are working from home and still getting paid. None of that is changed by the fact Amazon asked for donations.
Re: Bezos (Score:2)
Oh then you aren't capable of reasoning.
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Oh, I'm sure you say that about all the guys who disagree with you.
Re: Bezos (Score:2)
No just to those that assume someone is an "Asshole" whilst shilling for a company putting so many at risk by denying basic hygiene and lying about exposure on the site.
Re: Bezos (Score:2)
Asked for donations, after donating $25M, to benefit people that work for contractors, NOT AMAZON.
Re:"One day itâ(TM)s like a miracle, it will (Score:4, Informative)
Unicode foolishness stripped out for readability:
January 20: I know more about viruses than anyone.
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 13: National emergency, two big words.
March 13: When you compare what we've done to other areas of the world, it's pretty incredible.
March 13: Five million (tests) within a month... I doubt we'll need anything near that.
March 13: I don't take responsibility at all.
March 14. It's something that nobody expected¦ it's one of those things that happened. It's nobody's fault.
March 15: This is a very contagious virus. It's incredible. But it's something that we have tremendous control over
March 17: I have always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic¦ I've always viewed it as very serious.
March 19: If we had an honest media in this country, our country would be an even greater place.
March 19: It could have been stopped, could have been stopped pretty easily if we had known, if everybody had known about it¦ Nobody knew there'd be a pandemic of this proportion.
March 25: Nobody could have ever seen something like this coming.
March 25: It's hard not be happy with the job we're doing, that I can tell you.
March 26: I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You go into major hospitals sometimes, and they'll have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they're saying, Can we order 30,000 ventilators?
March 26: It can't be managed by the federal government.
March 27: We've had great success over the past month.
March 27: You can call it a germ. You can call it a flu. You can call it a virus.... I'm not sure anybody even knows what it is.
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I think you should have contextualized your comment for this story. However, it does remind me of a book called The Clothes have No Emperor about the Reagan period. Your selected quotes are narrowly focused on Trump's failures related to the Covid-19 crisis, but that book covered a range of topics and was not limited to Reagan's quotes. Also the timing was much slower.
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Not my comment, I just cleaned up the OP.
I remember about 1985 or so the Seattle Underground Press released a book titled "Ronald Reagan - The First 1000 Lies". I think the orangutan might have exceeded that number in his first six months.
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You still don't get it. He owns you. It's pathetic. Almost as sad as his sycophant followers.