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Trump Has Declared the Coronavirus—Which Has Killed 200,000 Americans—Affects 'Virtually Nobody'

  

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Via:  tessylo  •  4 years ago  •  88 comments

By:   Jack Holmes, Esquire

Trump Has Declared the Coronavirus—Which Has Killed 200,000 Americans—Affects 'Virtually Nobody'

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Trump Has Declared the Coronavirus—Which Has Killed 200,000 Americans—Affects 'Virtually Nobody'





Jack Holmes


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A Timeline of President Trump's Comments on the Coronavirus


 We only have 11 cases, and 
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It remains singularly infuriating that we all sat inside for weeks and weeks on the pretense that we were all sacrificing months of our lives for the greater good—to get the virus under control—and the president and his administration squandered that time. On a basic level, the federal government never ramped up testing capacity to a level necessary   for it to serve as an effective tool in fighting the pandemic. And you can forget about developing   a surveillance-testing plan   to catch outbreaks earlier and contain them immediately. The president dragged his feet on invoking the Defense Production Act, and when he did, according to a   Washington Post   report out Tuesday, the Pentagon funneled $1 billion in taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to defense contractors to make "jet engine parts, body armor and dress uniforms." Because the $686 billion we spent on defense in 2019 wasn't enough.   The White House even intervened in April   to stop the Postal Service from sending masks to every household.

The result is that the United States has the worst record on Covid-19 of any major nation: 200,000 deaths, or a little less than 21 percent of the world's total spread across four percent of the world population. This, in the richest, most powerful country in the history of the world. An Exceptional Nation, indeed. The cause is not hard to identify: the president is incompetent, because he does not read  and he does not give a shit—at least about whether you, an American citizen, live or die. A staffer who was in meetings of his Task Force just two months ago  came out publicly last week  and said he has "a flat out disregard for human life." As if eager to drive the point home, the president took the stage in Ohio Monday night and said this:


It affects nobody, except all the dead people and their families and their friends. And not to mention that we have no idea what this thing might do to survivors  in the long term. Personally,  as someone who had it , I can't wait to find out! Not that I was under any illusion that the nominal leader of the country in which I reside would care about any of that. It's not clear he even acknowledges that other human beings truly exist and have internal worlds of their own. Certainly, they are not inherently worthy of dignity and respect, to be treated as anything more than means to his ends.  Solipsism is a hell of a drug.


Of course,   the polling back in 2016   indicated that even many of Donald Trump's fans   did not harbor the delusion   that he actually cares about them. People aren't that dumb—they can see what's right in front of them. What they like about him is not that he cares about them, but that he hates—and bashes—all the right Enemies. He said all those Covid deaths in Blue States   shouldn't count , and one suspects his fans largely agree. Unfortunately, however, the virus has not spared Real America—the area of the United States of which the president considers himself the president— though it is still disproportionately affecting people who tend to vote for Democrats . They aren't much use to his ends, and so they might as well be nobody.





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Tessylo
Professor Principal
1  seeder  Tessylo    4 years ago

It remains singularly infuriating that we all sat inside for weeks and weeks on the pretense that we were all sacrificing months of our lives for the greater good—to get the virus under control—and the president and his administration squandered that time. On a basic level,   the federal government never ramped up testing capacity to a level necessary      for it to serve as an effective tool in fighting the pandemic. And you can forget about developing      a surveillance-testing plan      to catch outbreaks earlier and contain them immediately. The president dragged his feet on invoking the Defense Production Act, and when he did, according to a     Washington Post     report out Tuesday, the Pentagon funneled $1 billion in taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to defense contractors to make "jet engine parts, body armor and dress uniforms." Because the $686 billion we spent on defense in 2019 wasn't enough.    The White House even intervened in April    to stop the Postal Service from sending masks to every household.

 
 
 
Ozzwald
Professor Quiet
1.1  Ozzwald  replied to  Tessylo @1    4 years ago

Want to see something that make Trump's response look even worse?

How many needless Covid-19 deaths were caused by delays in responding? Most of them

If the US's response had been equal to Singapore, Australia, South Korea, or Germany, we would have had less than 2,000 deaths.

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
1.1.1  cjcold  replied to  Ozzwald @1.1    4 years ago

Recently bought a 10 pack of KN95 masks from S. Korea because they are rated higher than the Chinese KN95s. 

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
2  seeder  Tessylo    4 years ago

The result is that the United States has the worst record on Covid-19 of any major nation: 200,000 deaths, or a little less than 21 percent of the world's total spread across four percent of the world population. This, in the richest, most powerful country in the history of the world. An Exceptional Nation, indeed. The cause is not hard to identify: the president is incompetent, because  he does not read   and he does not give a shit—at least about whether you, an American citizen, live or die. A staffer who was in meetings of his Task Force just two months ago    came out publicly last week   and said he has "a flat out disregard for human life." As if eager to drive the point home, the president took the stage in Ohio Monday night and said this:  Trump Has Declared The Coronavirus—Which Has Killed 200,000 Americans—Affects 'Virtually Nobody'

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
3  Trout Giggles    4 years ago
Of course, the polling back in 2016 indicated that even many of Donald Trump's fans did not harbor the delusion that he actually cares about them. People aren't that dumb—they can see what's right in front of them. What they like about him is not that he cares about them, but that he hates—and bashes—all the right Enemies. He said all those Covid deaths in Blue States shouldn't count , and one suspects his fans largely agree. Unfortunately, however, the virus has not spared Real America—the area of the United States of which the president considers himself the president— though it is still disproportionately affecting people who tend to vote for Democrats . They aren't much use to his ends, and so they might as well be nobody.

We're all nobodies to him. Unless we have millions and millions of dollars and spend our days schmoozing the right people in order to climb the social ladder.

 
 
 
Paula Bartholomew
Professor Participates
3.1  Paula Bartholomew  replied to  Trout Giggles @3    4 years ago

People aren't that dumb

If they go superspreader rallys, then they are.

Okay, bring on my ticket for SG.

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
3.1.1  cjcold  replied to  Paula Bartholomew @3.1    4 years ago

What is SG?

 
 
 
Account Deleted
Freshman Silent
4  Account Deleted    4 years ago
Trump Has Declared the Coronavirus—Which Has Killed 200,000 Americans—Affects 'Virtually Nobody '

I 'm Nobody! Who are you?

Emily Dickinson - 1830-1886

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

 
 
 
Paula Bartholomew
Professor Participates
4.1  Paula Bartholomew  replied to  Account Deleted @4    4 years ago

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody too?

I remember those words from an episode of Law And Order - SVU.  I had no idea they were from Dickinson.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
4.1.1  seeder  Tessylo  replied to  Paula Bartholomew @4.1    4 years ago

That's what I thought of when Adam quoted that  - I really enjoyed how that episode turned out.    

 
 
 
evilone
Professor Guide
5  evilone    4 years ago

Pro life party my ass!

 
 
 
bbl-1
Professor Quiet
6  bbl-1    4 years ago

Lighten up on Trump, people.  COVID ain't all that bad because at least he ( Trump ) doesn't have to shake hands with his "Disgusting" supporters.

This too.  When Trump says COVID affects virtually nobody, in his mind ( such as it is ) he is correct.  Everybody is a nobody to him---except Ivanka of course.

 
 
 
Account Deleted
Freshman Silent
6.1  Account Deleted  replied to  bbl-1 @6    4 years ago
Everybody is a nobody to him---except Ivanka of course

But when it really comes down to it - there is only one.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
6.2  seeder  Tessylo  replied to  bbl-1 @6    4 years ago

Interesting, remember how Putin said his daughter took the vaccine?  Ivanka, trumpturds' main squeeze, also said she would take the vaccine.  The untested, unproven vaccine.  She is probably just talking shit, just like her baby daddy, I mean father.  

 
 
 
evilone
Professor Guide
6.3  evilone  replied to  bbl-1 @6    4 years ago
...he ( Trump ) doesn't have to shake hands with his "Disgusting" supporters.

He does require them to sign a waver of liability when they attend a rally, though.

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
6.3.1  cjcold  replied to  evilone @6.3    4 years ago

Not death wishing here but Trump deserves a case of COVID-19 more than anybody. 

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
7  Kavika     4 years ago

Just to keep everyone up to date. 35,000 plus nobodies tested positive for COVID today and another 970 nobodies died from COVID today. 

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Kavika
Professor Principal
7.1  Kavika   replied to  Kavika @7    4 years ago

200,000 Nobodies.

us-coronavirus-200k-dead_wide-6d387061d8d7b55b617f00fd3a8d23ab4a242250-s900-c85.jpg

 
 
 
freepress
Freshman Silent
9  freepress    4 years ago

Except for Herman Cain.

 
 
 
bbl-1
Professor Quiet
9.1  bbl-1  replied to  freepress @9    4 years ago

Herman Who?

Sorry, keep getting people mixed up with, "Stormy who."

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
9.1.1  cjcold  replied to  bbl-1 @9.1    4 years ago

They call it stormy Monday...............

 
 
 
FLYNAVY1
Professor Guide
9.1.2  FLYNAVY1  replied to  cjcold @9.1.1    4 years ago

Evangelicals must of approved of the Stormy patch that Trump went through.......

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
10  Kavika     4 years ago

Today, Wednesday 9/23/20 41,000 plus new COVID cases of nobodies and 1,000 plus dead nobodies. 

Looks like we're rounding the corner on the virus, except it's the wrong corner.

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
10.1  cjcold  replied to  Kavika @10    4 years ago

Why should anybody expect Trump to stop lying now?

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
10.1.1  Kavika   replied to  cjcold @10.1    4 years ago

He can't stop lying. He doesn't know how cjcold.

 
 
 
FLYNAVY1
Professor Guide
10.1.2  FLYNAVY1  replied to  Kavika @10.1.1    4 years ago

Don't forget..... It's just not Trump's lies we have to battle through, but you have Fox and the Putin propaganda machines polluting facts at every turn.

 
 
 
Account Deleted
Freshman Silent
10.2  Account Deleted  replied to  Kavika @10    4 years ago

Rounding the corner - see it's those pesky auto-correct features on word processors.

Now "rounding the coroner" - that makes sense.

 
 

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