President Donald Trump on Monday again compared the novel coronavirus epidemic to the seasonal flu, a comparison that public health experts and doctors have said for weeks minimizes the danger posed by the coronavirus spreading across the globe.
Oh. My. God.
I just don’t like Joe Biden and the “establishment”, so I’m not going to vote for him.
What’s the harm?
/s
The big question for armchair epidemiologists like Trump is: if the coronavirus is not such a big deal, then why has China (and other countries) gone to the lengths it has?
I hope COVID-45 sweeps through CPAC, and by extension the rest of the GOP, like a plague of crazed locusts.
Funny, I thought the Obama/Biden administration was out of office.
Keep it up.
Take this fat slob, put a muzzle in his mouth and a hood over his head, and take him to an undisclosed location. This is f_ckin’ nuts!
Deep State, doncha know.
I had to go out to twitter just to check that that was real… Yup.
He’s gone way off the deep end. And what a lot of tweets this morning, must be extra pissed off.
Should calm down, could give himself a heart attack…
I wouldn’t want to be the person who has to try to explain the difference to him. Even if it didn’t benefit him in his bloviating to blur the two, he’s not mentally capable of understanding the difference.
How about explaining an exponential rise in infections to him? Did he even get as far as learning about exponents in school. “To the second power – no, no, that doesn’t have to do with power…we know you have all the power. It’s the way the numbers grow, no, no, not like the stock market…”
I’m close to tearing my hair out thinking about it.
On CNBC the talking heads acknowledge the dangerous chaos but rarely mention the guy causing it. It’s weird. I guess their audience doesn’t want to face the truth.
I think we all need to GrubHub Donnie lots of greasy, high sodium Hamberders.
Stat!
No pandemic, no pandemic, you are pandemic!
The comment clashed with Health Secretary Alex Azar, who’s said on Fox News earlier Monday, referring to the virus, that “this is a very serious health problem. Nobody is trying to minimize that.”
How dare he call Donald J. Trump a nobody.
Shouldn’t everybody?
The Republicans have rewarded and amplified every crazy idea Trump has - his narcissism has been fed to the point where he probably believes he can bullshit his way out of anything. This will be no different. Parscale is spending north of a million dollars per week on Facebook hailing Trump as the savior of all things holy. This is going to ramp up in every form of media as we go forward. We have the corona virus, the stock market collapse, and the disinformation apocalypse coming straight at us.
Our very survival depends upon taking back control of the country - my fervent wish is that November is not too far off.It is unnerving to watch this unfold.
And the unfortunate thing is stressed people are more prone to viruses and how many people in America are stressed because of dump, I know I am
I am pretty sure nobody is even trying. They are in mood mollification mode now. And the only thing he wants to hear is how its no big deal, and he is going to win the election bigly. Oh, and if it is even a little deal, its Obama/Pelosi/Schumer’s fault…definitely not his.
Nor do I believe I am being sarcastic here. His administration has made mollifying his mood the top priority pretty much since he took office, reality be damned.
Here and in many articles I don’t see enough focus on the percentage of severe cases—which is about 20%. Many of these people will require hospitalization. I have seen statistics suggesting that even a moderate outbreak is going to outstrip the number of hospital beds available.
This idea that the only important consideration is the mortality rate misses a huge part of the equation.