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'
they're all getting better.
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:
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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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.
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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.
Recently bought a 10 pack of KN95 masks from S. Korea because they are rated higher than the Chinese KN95s.
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'
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.
People aren't that dumb
If they go superspreader rallys, then they are.
Okay, bring on my ticket for SG.
What is SG?
I 'm Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson - 1830-1886I'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!
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.
That's what I thought of when Adam quoted that - I really enjoyed how that episode turned out.
Pro life party my ass!
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.
But when it really comes down to it - there is only one.
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.
He does require them to sign a waver of liability when they attend a rally, though.
Not death wishing here but Trump deserves a case of COVID-19 more than anybody.
Just to keep everyone up to date. 35,000 plus nobodies tested positive for COVID today and another 970 nobodies died from COVID today.
200,000 Nobodies.
Except for Herman Cain.
Herman Who?
Sorry, keep getting people mixed up with, "Stormy who."
They call it stormy Monday...............
Evangelicals must of approved of the Stormy patch that Trump went through.......
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.
Why should anybody expect Trump to stop lying now?
He can't stop lying. He doesn't know how cjcold.
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.
Rounding the corner - see it's those pesky auto-correct features on word processors.
Now "rounding the coroner" - that makes sense.