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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1311181
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1311181
Alas we were there yesterday, but Hopkins seems to be the gold standard count.
Watching FL (up 61 today, and FL is undercounting deaths) GA, TX, NC, WI. And Brix just predicted we would be lucky to avoid under 200,000 deaths. At that rate we will have the highest death rate by far in the world on a per capita basis, and do so with being one of the last (early March) to have widespread community spread, which makes Trump’s failure all the more glaring.
And PS, I want to give a shout out to Brazil, whose 1,049 deaths today are second to the USA’s 1,434. Under Balersaro, who is amazingly more crazy than Trump, Brazil has the potential to out ugly the USA, and my guess is will overtake the UK at some point, and the UK will overtake Spain to have the highest death rate in the next few days (they are gaining on Spain 5-10 deaths/m/day)
Currently the “leader board” (major countries only) is:
Spain: 580/Million deaths
UK 552/Million deaths
Italy 547/Million deaths
France 438/Million deaths
Sweden 418/Million deaths
USA 308/Million deaths
Canada 179/Million deaths
Brazil 121/Million deaths
Germany 102 Million deaths
But England (up +412 today) and Sweden (+95) are outside of Brazil and the USA the only places with continuously high death tolls whose statistics can be trusted (Mexico and Russia also have high death tolls, but not trustworthy statistics).
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I am not tired of winning. Let’s reach 200000
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Please tell me why the Dem leaders are completely unable to pin this on Trump?
If this happened under Obama we would be subjected to hourly dosage of Obama The Murderer of Americans meme. Hell for a few deaths in Benghazi the Republicans made life hell for every Dem leader.
What the fuck is wrong with Dems. Bidens could muster no more courage than required to call him a “fool”. That’s it. WTF.
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I would not focus on the 100,000 deaths as a milestone, it is likely wrong and substantially below the true number. Atrios makes an interesting observation, this is a time when honesty about what lies ahead will be appreciated.
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25,000 Benghazi’s
33 9/11’s
But he’s not responsible…
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We’ve seen in coming all week…but it’s still heartbreaking and hard to wrap your head around.
We can’t let these precious lives become a large unknown, amorphous mass.
They were all individuals with hopes, dreams, triumphs, losses, stories, families, friends and…unrealized potential.
Our nation is so much the poorer for this huge loss.
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“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
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Trump: I alone can kill you! All the dying–I’m not lying! Keep dope alive!
My daughter works in a Finnish school with 1-3rd graders. They are back in school, with lots of social distancing and hand-washing. Class sizes are really small, with 10 a sort of ceiling. Extra resources have been provided to keep the kids safe. Here the US is supposed to open up public schools while states are supposed to slash their budgets and practice austerity. How can a teacher do things safely with a larger class? Will teachers be considered frontline workers?
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Trump taking credit for there being only 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 (so far) is like Jeffrey Dahmer taking credit for having only eaten 19 people. After all, it could have been worse.
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this didn’t have to happen.
My heart breaks for all the loss.
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I would also pay attention to what the GOP are not saying. As we move towards a Great Displacement, Kevin McCarthy has said nothing about the post-corona economy. Instead we get this stuff about liability exemptions for business. Imagine a world without products liability laws? Or health departments? Restaurants will serve food “as is”.
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So much dying…and so much more to come. No president could have stopped this from coming ashore, and no president could have avoided some of the deaths, but the number of deaths we have had, and will have, is unnecessarily high. And, that’s all down to politics, and a Republican party that continually puts its power above the nation.
The irony is if they had done what Obama, Bush, Clinton (either one), and others would have done, and put the people first while listening to the scientists, Trump and the Republicans would currently be lauded as doing a great job, and rightly so, and cruising easily to a win in November. By thinking about their bases (the wealthy who control them and the MAGA types they control) they caused this whole crisis, and continue to make it worse by putting the economy and the wealthy first. It will hopefully be their undoing in the fall, the shameless way they have behaved should kick their asses out of power for a generation.
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Yeah well I don’t think the GOP will be in the position they are in now once the election is over in November. They won’t leave office until January but they aren’t going to be making the decisions about the post-covid economy. The Democrats will be.
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It’s like a compendium of the stupid, the irresponsible, the tragic and the downright pathetic.
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Yeah I am beginning to see the bigger picture here - it’s all coming together at the same time.
I think it maybe is a good sign. It’s the last stand and we will change things on the other side of this.
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