Trump Baselessly Calls COVID Surges ‘Fake News Media Conspiracy’
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Trump Baselessly Calls COVID Surges ‘Fake News Media Conspiracy’
President Donald Trump on Monday said, without evidence, that recent spikes in COVID-19 cases throughout the U.S. are a “fake news media conspiracy” and that reporting on them amounts to pre-election politics.
“Cases up because we TEST, TEST, TEST. A Fake News Media Conspiracy,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Many young people who heal very fast. 99.9%. Corrupt Media conspiracy at all time high. On November 4th., topic will totally change. VOTE!”
This fall, cases, hospitalizations and deaths have risen in all the areas of the country, but the Midwest and and Rocky Mountain regions have been particularly hard hit. In addition, the percentage of positive test results has also risen steadily in October — which contradicts Trump’s claim that the number of tests is responsible for increased caseload.
Trump’s assessment that rising positive tests are a politically driven “conspiracy” comes two days after numerous aides to Vice President Mike Pence tested positive for the coronavirus . The vice president is the head of the White House’s coronavirus task force. Despite this, Pence has said that he will continue to travel and campaign in the final days of the presidential election, which will be held next Tuesday.
Earlier this month, Trump himself contracted the virus and was hospitalized for a few days. The first lady and their son, Barron, also contracted COVID-19, as did a number of White House officials and prominent Republicans, including senators and the chairwoman of the GOP.
On Saturday, 84,000 new cases were reported in the U.S., the second-highest single-day total since the start of the pandemic. Cases are rising in 45 states as epidemiologists warn that the next wave of infections coming this winter could be even deadlier than the first peak seen in April and May.
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Trump’s assessment that rising positive tests are a politically driven “conspiracy” comes two days after numerous aides to Vice President Mike Pence tested positive for the coronavirus . The vice president is the head of the White House’s coronavirus task force. Despite this, Pence has said that he will continue to travel and campaign in the final days of the presidential election, which will be held next Tuesday.
Why shouldn't he?
When to start and end quarantine
You should stay home for 14 days after your last contact with a person who has COVID-19.
For all of the following scenarios, even if you test negative for COVID-19 or feel healthy , you should stay home (quarantine) since symptoms may appear 2 to 14 days after exposure to the virus.
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THAT'S WHY.
The CDC has failed us.
The 'president' and his criminal enterprise of an administration HAVE FAILED US.
The CDC = Trump Administration.
It's Trump's CDC Vic.
Only in Trump's Earth2 can his sycophantic followers praise him for his handling of the pandemic while simultaneously blaming agencies that HE controls for their handling of the pandemic.
Oh and BTW, Pence released a statement CITING the fucking CDC guidelines, insisting that he is considered an 'essential worker'. Of course that ignores the FACT that the CDC guidelines mandate that essential workers quarantine after exposure.
In short, it's Pence and Trump who have failed 'us'.
The POS in the white house FAILED us.
Trump cut back on CDC involvement in daily briefings. Oops, I forgot, Trump discontinued daily briefings.
Around the same time that happened, Trump ordered that hospitals and their upwardly-mobile chain of command, circumvent the CDC, and report the daily numbers directly to the White House...and only 3 times a week.
He's another superspreader holding superspreader 'rallies'
The 'president' and prick Pence are regular Typhoid Mary's
The VP does not have it.
The President is now immune.
YOU have no evidence to support that claim, NONE.
PROVE IT!
Trump continues to downplay this pandemic. It is the Black Knight syndrome ... he is driven to insist on his beliefs in spite of all facts to the contrary.
Makes me think of this too, despite all evidence to the contrary and the 'presidents' cries of fake news