President Donald Trump on Thursday night cocked his head and spewed viral misinformation all over the American people, potentially infecting millions with a bit of anti-mask propaganda completely void of scientific substance.
To paraphrase Mark Twain: “There’s 4 kinds of Lies; Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics, and Trump Statements.”
He’s paying a price, finally. I still think his losses should be steeper, but I’ll take it.
And then there’s this:
Easiest way to understand the brain damage here is to envision a situation in which you are speaking to people who already have COVID…which was the case here…and 100% of them say they wore their masks 100% of the time.
What that would mean is what we already know is true: masks are not 100% effective in preventing the virus.
Take the same data I just proposed and apply the broken logic and undereducated inability to comprehend even mildly complex concepts these fucktards exhibit…not to mention the portion of them out there doing this deliberately…and what you get is “masks guarantee 100% that you get COVID…they are, in fact, causing the pandemic.”
He’s just slightly off the mark.
Masks cause covid.
Back in February, nobody was wearing masks, and there were like 15 cases of covid.
Now, everyone is wearing masks, and we have millions of cases.
Trump is a complete and total arrogant, self-consumed, selfish asshole.
What driving me really nuts in all this is the inability anyone – even write-ups like this – to point out the fundamental difference between the statements “85% of the people who got COVID wore masks,” and “85% of the people who wore masks got COVID.”
Or, breathing causes Covid. If we just stopped breathing, we would no longer have Covid.
Why have data and statistics if you can’t lie about them?
(As the Associated Press pointed out, if what Trump said were true, the majority of the country would be infected.)
With his emphasis on developing ‘herd mentality,’ I’d think that, if masks increase the chance of infection, Donnie would not only be encouraging folks to wear them, he’d always be sporting one himself.
It’s all a fiendish plot by the Chinese to get Trump supporters to not wear masks…
The same people reported no alcohol consumption, less than two hours of social media time per week, and the same weight shown on their driver’s licenses.
It’s still amazing how making people sick has become the goal of the Republican party…that is literally what they are arguing for, to have people avoid the things that will keep them from catching the virus and then getting sick or dying. And, at least some of those will have long term effects, which will lead to medical expenses for an unknown period of time (possibly their lives). Getting sick makes the medical system more expensive, costs the government more, all of the things that Republicans say they hate…and, on top of that, personal responsibility should keep people from doing things that engineer others.
None of this makes any logical sense, or political sense (as their mishandling of COVID is costing them the election). Political scientists are going to have a lot of work to figure out why the Republican party decided that endangering Americans was a winning policy position.
I’m gonna have to start carrying a cattle prod to enforce social distancing. I’ve had it with anti-mask clowns preaching their BS.
This is Republican/t-rump crazy talk.
WARE A MASK AND PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING AND WASH YOUR HANDS OFTEN AND VOTE FOR BIDEN/HARRIS.
To the anti-maskers, Death Be Not Proud.
It’s time for Chris Christie and the Lincoln Project to do an AD with Christie telling his story.
What does he care? His political future is done. Maybe he can help rise to the bigger cause - saving the Country.
People believe what they want to believe. They will always shearch for, and believe what ever will support their view, it need not matter that it is faulty information.
Here’s another solution:
As far as The Vulgar Talking Yam and his lies:
War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.