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Trump's coronavirus response

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  1. deb4rockets

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    Unbelievably reckless': Hundreds of Oklahoma nurses and doctors plead with mayor to cancel Trump's Tulsa rally over concerns it will be a coronavirus superspreader event
    https://www.businessinsider.com/hun...mayor-to-cancel-trumps-tulsa-rally-2020-6?amp

    Exclusive: Trump plots virus-era, made-for-TV mass festival
    https://www.axios.com/trump-tulsa-r...est-f2fd68a6-6427-4908-ae84-6f25ac0ccd1f.html

    Trump is all about his ratings, his reelection, and anything about himself. He is such a fine representative and role model for doing his job in acknowledging the situation of the Coronavirus and prevention of spreading. Not!

    I hope it rains on their parade!
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    https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-...economy-in-wsj-interview-11592493771?mod=e2tw

    He said that the country was nearing the end of the pandemic and that he believed China may have encouraged the international spread of coronavirus as a way to destabilize competing economies.

    “There’s a chance it was intentional,” Mr. Trump said. Mr. Trump and some international critics have said China should have moved more quickly to contain the coronavirus in December and January. China has defended its response and denied it concealed the extent of the spread.

    He said testing for Covid-19 was overrated and allowed for the possibility that some Americans wore facial coverings not as a preventative measure but as a way to signal disapproval of him.

    Mr. Trump said his bigger problem with masks was that many people fidget with the coverings, which he said made them more likely to be infected. The federal government guidelines stipulate that wearing cloth face coverings helps slow the spread of Covid-19 and recommends washing hands before putting on the mask.

    “They put their finger on the mask, and they take them off, and then they start touching their eyes and touching their nose and their mouth,” Mr. Trump said. “And then they don’t know how they caught it?”

    Mr. Trump declined to say how far he believed the unemployment rate, currently at 13.3%, may drop by Election Day, but expressed optimism that recent monthly record gains for jobs and retail sales signaled a quick recovery. Many economists project it could take years for the U.S. economy to recover, and recent increases in coronavirus cases in more than a dozen states are casting a cloud over reopening efforts.

    “We will have created a lot of jobs prior to November 3,” Mr. Trump said. “I expect a tremendous increase in GDP. And we’ll be heading for the top. We’ll be back.”

    Asked to identify one new initiative he would undertake in his second term, Mr. Trump repeatedly pointed to actions taken the past three years. The president said his focus would be on building “a really strong, powerful economy,” suggesting his plan would rely on a combination of regulatory cuts and negotiating international trade deals.

    Mr. Trump and some international critics have said China should have moved more quickly to contain the coronavirus in December and January. China has defended its response.

    Mr. Trump said China may have had economic motives for letting coronavirus spread beyond its own border. Asked if that was to extend economic consequences, Mr. Trump said: “Correct. They’re saying, man, we’re in a mess. The United States is killing us. Don’t forget, my economy during the last year and a half was blowing them away. And the reason is the tariffs.”

    The president said he had no intelligence to support that claim, only an internal sense. He said there was a better chance it was incompetence or a mistake. “I don’t think they would do that,” Mr. Trump said about the possibility of Beijing letting coronavirus spread beyond China. “But you never know. But it has had an impact.”

    The first major outbreak of the contagion was in Wuhan, the central Chinese city that recently tested nearly all of its 11 million people after a handful of fresh cases emerged last month. Mr. Trump said he would not seek to replicate such widespread testing if there was a similar re-emergence in the U.S.

    “I personally think testing is overrated, even though I created the greatest testing machine in history,” Mr. Trump said, adding that more testing in the U.S. led to an increase in confirmed cases that “in many ways, it makes us look bad.”
     
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    I bolded the true part
     
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    at this point, he’s just trying to speak it into existence...say a lie enough times, and some will start to believe it...for Trump supporters, he only has to say the lie once

    they will only wake up once they, the spouse, or grandma/grandpa get a serious case
     
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    I'm not making this up (sure, it's wikipedia, but they're taking this from Mein Kampf):

    https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/excerpts-from-mein-kampf#2

    On the "Big Lie" [p.134]

    All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
     
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    America is pretty much screwed. While other countries start to open up safely, America will continue to see increases in the amount of deaths.
     
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    President Trump Claims Coronavirus Will ‘Fade Away’ – as U.S. Sees 20,000 New Cases a Day

    https://time.com/5855541/trump-coronavirus-fade-away/

    I'm waiting for Trump to just fade away, locked up in a cold cell of isolation because he needs protection from the other inmates.
     
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    If there was one guy who deserved to get Coronavirus, it's Trump.
     
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    Damn you, Obama!
     
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    Best Potus Ever
     
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    Can November come faster....than January.

    HIs supporters believe whatever he says. So to Trump is feeding his supporters with more false information so he can spread hate/fear so he can win the election.
     
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    As mentioned months ago, the Virus doesn't respond the president's lies and BS.
     
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    trump is without a doubt, insane.


    HEALTH AND SCIENCE
    Trump says some Americans wear coronavirus masks ‘to signal disapproval of him’

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/18/tru...virus-masks-to-signal-disapproval-of-him.html
     
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    I guess I could have taken the blue pill but I refuse to change my prescription. (Funny how the red and blue pill colors seem to be for the wrong side in this case. Switch'em.)

    A spiraling pandemic. Thousands still dying every day. People asking Tulsa doctors if all this is a hoax because, well, the truth contradicts what Hannity (scum), Ingraham (slime), Carlson (Grand Wizard) and Limbaugh (the Witch King of Angmar) are telling them.

    You. Couldn't. Write This.
     
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