How many Americans deaths will Trump be directly responsible for due to COVID-45

[HomerJS]

In a lighter moment this guy used a feminine pad as a mask in Wuhan,

guess a real mask is all but impossible to come across now.

I hope it's new

 

[HomerJS]

Is Trump also responsible for the inadequate testing across Asia, Europe and pretty much the entire world at this point, and the international travel that’s continued unobstructed over the last few weeks? Please. The global response has been inadequate, because testing assumes that people with mild symptoms will make the effort to get tested.

Is Trump responsible for the slow response in this country?

 

[Lanyap]

Now this dumb MF'er is saying that he has a "natural ability" and "I really like this stuff, I really get it" as he second guesses medical professionals. Says he has a "super genius uncle" that taught at MIT, so it's in his gene's. Of course I am stunned that he actually knows of genes. I bet Pence doesn't, who is a subscriber to intelligence design brand of stupidity.

I'll bet his base is eating this stuff up. I'm guessing he'll lose a big part if his base in Florida when the virus passes through because old folks.

... and claims CDC officials ask him how he knows so much about the coronavirus

Trump brags about 'super genius uncle' who was an MIT professor

'You know my Uncle was a great - he was at MIT,' the president said while standing next to health officials who are working to contain the outbreak of coronavirus. John G. Trump is seen inset.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Starbuck1975]

Is Trump responsible for the slow response in this country?

Is our response measurably different than any other country? Your politicizing a pandemic. If anything, I think our government is not feeding the hysterics.

 

[hal2kilo]

I'll bet his base is eating this stuff up. I'm guessing he'll lose a big part if his base in Florida when the virus passes through because old folks.

Trump brags about 'super genius uncle' who was an MIT professor

'You know my Uncle was a great - he was at MIT,' the president said while standing next to health officials who are working to contain the outbreak of coronavirus. John G. Trump is seen inset.

www.dailymail.co.uk

If that virus gets going in the long term care, nursing home facilities the death count will skyrocket as has been observed in Kirkland. Yea, Florida could be a problem.

 

[quikah]

Is our response measurably different than any other country? Your politicizing a pandemic. If anything, I think our government is not feeding the hysterics.

S Korea is testing 10k / day, Italy has quarantined a dozen towns, China quarantines an entire province. Yes, our response is very different. I don't care who is to blame, we can figure that out after the fact. We need to stop treating this like it doesn't matter. The absolutely pathetic amount of testing we have done is putting our healthcare workers and their families at risk.

 

[senseamp]

Coronavirus is going to expose decades of Republican failed policies on health care. All the lies about "best healthcare system in the world." The lie that you can leave tens of millions of people uninsured and hope for a healthy society. Supreme court crooks and their allies at the state level gutting Medicaid expansion. Lawsuit to throw tens of millions off health insurance in the middle of a pandemic. Cutting services to the bone and failing to plan for outbreaks. All of it is going to hit the fan.

 

[Amused]

One week ago on Feb 29 there were 70 US cases.

Today, 377.

That is over 5 times as many in just one week.

If it continues to multiply by a factor of 5 every week it won't take long to be a major epidemic.

377x5 = 1,885

1885 x 5 = 9,425

9,425 x 5 = 47,125

47,125 x 5 = 235,625

235,625 x 5 = 1,178,125‬

1,178,125‬ x 5 = 5,890,625‬

5,890,625‬ x 5 = 29,453,125

7 weeks until the end of April and the magical saving of the warmer weather Trump promised would stop this.

Hysterical maths are fun.

 

[Amused]

Well fuck. Now it's 400. From 377 to 400 in a single day/

Hmmm.

 

[hal2kilo]

Well fuck. Now it's 400. From 377 to 400 in a single day/

Hmmm.

Testing.

 

[Amused]

Testing.

Spreading.

 

[hal2kilo]

Testing.

Here's why.

Squandered time: How the Trump administration lost control of the coronavirus crisis

 

[quikah]

Here's why.

Squandered time: How the Trump administration lost control of the coronavirus crisis

"begin testing individuals with flu-like symptoms for the Chinese coronavirus”

Chinese coronavirus, lol, you can see the administration is angling to blame it all on China (I am not denying they are culpable). I would have assumed the secretary of HHS would use the scientific name.

 

[cytg111]

Yes. You?

I dont get it? Trump is also not responsible for cherry coke, he is however responsible for things within his reach of influence regarding ....ARE YOU SHITTING MY BUCKY??? what the fuck....

 

[Jhhnn]

I predict fewer than the yearly death toll from the flu.

It's been obvious for years that you believe whatever you want to believe. That's currently whatever Trump says.

 

[Jhhnn]

Up to 10k is my vote. Trying to stay optimistic

I don't think that's realistic. If as few as 10% of the population catches it & it's 1% fatal, that's 330K people. It may be considerably worse than that. It seems likely that it will become part of the permanent epidemiological landscape, as well, like colds & influenza.

 

[MtnMan]

I'll bet his base is eating this stuff up. I'm guessing he'll lose a big part if his base in Florida when the virus passes through because old folks.

Trump speaks and writes at a 4th grade level, that is why so many of his supporters think he is a fucking genius.

 

[cytg111]

Now this dumb MF'er is saying that he has a "natural ability" and "I really like this stuff, I really get it" as he second guesses medical professionals. Says he has a "super genius uncle" that taught at MIT, so it's in his gene's. Of course I am stunned that he actually knows of genes. I bet Pence doesn't, who is a subscriber to intelligence design brand of stupidity.

Oh he knows the word “genes” but he has no concept of a double helix... His brain is so utterly fried... I think they prop him up on meth at his rallies, the rest you see is the remains..

 

[cytg111]

Is our response measurably different than any other country? Your politicizing a pandemic. If anything, I think our government is not feeding the hysterics.

Trump is politicizing an economy he didnt buld. And yea your response is VERY different... Turn on your TV and watch Trump. There. Done. Why are you still speaking?

 

[MomentsofSanity]

And so it begins.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1236425504904921089

 

[TheVrolok]

And so it begins.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1236425504904921089

Good thing Trump is in such fantastic physical health.

 

[Jhhnn]

Trump is politicizing an economy he didnt buld. And yea your response is VERY different... Turn on your TV and watch Trump. There. Done. Why are you still speaking?

Thank you. Trump saying he wants the people to stay on the ship so the numbers look better is totally disconnected from reality & purely political. It's also astoundingly stupid. Cases & fatalities in US waters will obviously be counted as US cases. It can be no other way.

 

[shortylickens]

And so it begins.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1236425504904921089

Watch the CDC suddenly get an emergency 10 billion dollar boost.

 

[Jhhnn]

In a non-Trump alternate reality, our President would have been able to say "Let me introduce Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer from the National Security Council. He does great work & his team has been preparing for something like this for years. He'll head up the effort with my complete confidence & support. Please direct all your questions to him."

But this is Trump world where truth isn't truth & it's all about him like everything else. He's never been in a situation he couldn't bullshit his way out of until now. Coronavirus can't be convinced to believe him.

 

[glenn1]

So... the Spanish flu could be no more serious than the common cold too. Or it could kill you in 3 days. That's how many flu viruses work, and oddly enough, largely dependant on how human societies react to the infection. Downplaying the risk might be a smart political strategy, but it doesn't make the risk go away. It increases it. So I'm more inclined to listen to and take the advice of the medical professionals without the glaringly obvious political conflict of interest.

Starting (or adding to) a panic situation is a risk also. It’s a fine line to walk between not conveying the severity of the situation and urging people to take the appropriate steps, and causing stampedes. Unfortunately Trump is not the person who I’d want to have to figure out where that line is and walk it, but we have to play the cards we’re dealt.