Trump Republicans attack Covid-19 with...Tax Cut? Isn't it the answer to everything?

Like the help Republicans offered dairy farmers to stay in business, revive rural communities and health care clinics, fix roads, connect high speed broadband statewide, solve drinking water pollution etc., tax cuts fix everything (and look sound good on the campaign trail).

Now the Trump White House plans to fight the coronavirus, COVID-19 specifically, with a tax cut? Yup.

Who thought of The Shock Doctrine, the Rise of "Disaster Capitalism" right away?

I used the term “shock doctrine” to describe the brutal tactic of using the public’s disorientation following a collective shock – wars, coups, terrorist attacks, market crashes or natural disasters – to push through radical pro-corporate measures, often called “shock therapy”.

It's the obvious reason a drooling swamp filled government of corporate special interest would ever spring into action.

Trump administration officials are holding preliminary conversations about economic responses to the coronavirus … the options being considered are pursuing a targeted tax cut package … These ideas would not be designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus, but they would seek to arrest the economic fears spreading through the economy.

Riiightttt. In other words, "Buy More, Save the Economy!!! Four more Years!"

The spread of Covid-19 is now turning up without any known contacts with possibly infected people. Sadly, its taken a turn for the worse:

Washington state public health officials said two additional confirmed cases of the virus — including a health care worker — are associated with a long-term care facility in the state. Officials said 27 patients and 25 staff members at the nursing home had reported symptoms similar to the coronavirus.

Trump botches Condolences: Trump faked sadness for "a wonderful woman":

The patient who died was identified as a man in his 50s. While President Trump, speaking to reporters in Washington, D.C., initially identified the patient as a woman, state and King County officials during a news conference hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention insisted that the patient was a man. Trump called the victim a "wonderful woman" and said she died overnight. Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the new coronavirus task force, expressed his condolences to the woman's family.

So 52 patients and staff members at the nursing home in Washington state have reported similar symptoms to Covid-19. Trump is having none of that...

Trump said there are 22 patients in the U.S. who have been confirmed as having the virus. He said 15 of them are either recovered fully "or well on their way."

Trump prepared US to Fail: Government is bad, right?

Here's the story:

(Trump administration) wiped out its “entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure” and shutting down both the National Security Council’s global health security team and its counterpart at the Department of Homeland Security.

Having realized that maybe it looks bad to not even ask Congress for some money to deal with the crisis, on Monday (Feb. 26) the White House requested $2.5 billion to address the outbreak, funds that would go toward vaccines, treatment, and protective equipment.

so this happened...

Census??? No ones asking; how will this effect Census, and those enumerators visiting to peoples homes? Sadly, I couldn't find one story about this looming problem which is one month away:

Notices and forms will start arriving in the mail in March 2020. For households that don’t respond to the census, nonresponse follow-up begins in April 2020 and wraps up at the end of July 2020.