Post by the Scribe on May 8, 2020 21:24:20 GMT
Two COVID-19 cases is considered an "out break". Look for a lot more White house cases in the coming days!! Last year before this covid crisis at least two psychics predicted Trump would be found lying on the floor unresponsive in 2020. I can't imagine why. But let's blame it on Liberals and Democrats anyway.
Trump Lies, While Americans Die
www.huffpost.com/entry/morning-joe-supercut-donald-trump-coronavirus-rhetoric_n_5eb53ae3c5b6a673354118da
Trump Declares War on Statistics as He Pivots to Human Sacrifice
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-declares-war-statistics-pivots-194903392.html
David Rothkopf
The Daily BeastMay 7, 2020, 12:49 PM MST
Jim Watson/Getty
No statistic ever lay gasping for air, feeling as though their chest were being “crushed by an anvil.” No one ever wept for a statistic that died alone beyond the touch of family or friends. No one ever mourned a statistic.
And yet at this moment of national trauma, our president can’t seem to muster even a poor imitation of compassion for the victims. What is more, rather than waging a war against the disease that is causing such pain, he is waging one against the statistics, fearing—and quite rightly—that the data will tell for all time the story of his utter failure as a leader.
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wants-a-quick-reopening-data-his-own-white-house-is-examining-shows-it-could-be-a-disaster
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wants-a-quick-reopening-data-his-own-white-house-is-examining-shows-it-could-be-a-disaster
www.thedailybeast.com/reagan-sold-the-american-dream-trump-is-selling-his-own-tired-bullshit?ref=home
Trump has declared himself a wartime president in the midst of this crisis. But he has been clear from the beginning that his war has been the one he has fought all his life: against truth, against facts, against anything that might offer glimpses into the reality of his warped character and serial failures.
www.thedailybeast.com/with-coronavirus-response-trumps-america-now-leads-the-worldin-suicidal-stupidity?ref=author
Trump Wants a Quick Reopening. Data His Own White House Is Examining Shows It Could Be a Disaster www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wants-a-quick-reopening-data-his-own-white-house-is-examining-shows-it-could-be-a-disaster?via=rss&source=articles_fancylink
Most recently, we have heard the president say, during an Oval Office meeting this Wednesday with Iowa Governor Kimberly Reynolds, “The media likes to say we have the most cases, but we do by far the most testing. If we did very little testing, we wouldn’t have the most cases. So in a way, by doing all of this testing, we make ourselves look bad.” In this one statement, Trump confirmed yet again that he doesn’t care about the progress of the disease or the fate of its victims, he only cares about how he looks and, by extension, his political fortunes.
His comment was classically Trumpian, an unwitting confession wrapped in a warped viewpoint inside a fabric of lies. The lie is, of course, that we “do by far the most testing.” Because what matters with testing is not the raw number but the per capita rate of tests per million people. And while the U.S. has made some progress in recent weeks, according to Worldometer’s testing data, the U.S. still has not cracked the top 40 countries and territories by that crucial metric.
The warped viewpoint is of course that doing the testing makes us “look bad” when in fact, of course, testing, in the view of every expert, is essential to combating the pandemic, and therefore not doing it impedes our ability to fight the virus and actually produces worse outcomes in human terms. And the confession is that this is what’s on Trump’s mind and guiding his thinking.
But we knew that. We knew that as far back as March 4, when during a visit to the Centers for Disease Control, Trump said in response to a question about whether passengers on the Grand Princess cruise ship should be allowed to disembark, “They would like to have the people come off. I’d rather have the people stay (on the ship.) … I would rather because I like the numbers being where they are. I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that was not our fault.” With him it is always about him, about credit and blame and how it reflects on Donald J. Trump.
That impulse is what led to foot-dragging on testing, and it is what now may lead to opening a new front in the president’s war against truth by attacking the statistics themselves. According to Axios, “A senior administration official said he expects the president to begin publicly questioning the death toll as it closes in on his predictions or the final death count and damages him politically.”
This too should come as no surprise. Last month, Fox television personalities Tucker Carlson and Brit Hume started to poke at CDC numbers, with Carlson saying, “It’s entirely possible that doctors are classifying conventional pneumonia deaths as COVID-19 deaths. That would mean this epidemic is being credited for thousands of deaths that would have occurred if the virus had never appeared.” Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci quickly stepped into quash this effort at distortion.
Now, of course, the number of new cases and deaths, whiles falling in New York state, is still rising elsewhere in the country. Governors prematurely opening states up to stimulate the economy is likely to accelerate those increases. So the numbers are likely to tick (or maybe explode) upward throughout the summer. Even Trump has reluctantly acknowledged this by steadily adjust his prediction of total deaths upward from 0 to 50,000 to where it stands now at between 100,000 and 200,000.
But again, the White House is trying to play games with these numbers. New White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said this week that some estimates had as many as 2.2 million dying from the disease, and “we’re at a point where we are far lower than that, and it’s thanks to the great work of the Task Force and the leadership of President Trump.” The 2.2 million number was based on what the toll might have been had the government done nothing at all. And it sidesteps McEnany’s comments when she was just another Fox talking head, when she said, “We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here.”
Trump himself has tried to soften the numbers through the use of ham-fisted and insensitive euphemisms. For example, on Tuesday of this week he said, referring to his push to reopen the economy, “Will some people be affected? Yes. Will some people be affected badly? Yes. But we have to get our country open.” There’s no disputing that those who will lose family members or friends will be “affected badly.” Nor will looking for the weasel words to mute the consequences of his own bad policies help them one bit.
Perhaps the most heartbreaking of all those deaths are the ones that did not have to happen. These are the ones caused by Trump failing to act sooner in response to news of the disease. Epidemiologists have estimated that had Trump acted just two weeks sooner between 60 and 90 percent fewer people would have died. This has led filmmaker Eugene Jarecki to create TrumpDeathClock.com, a site that uses the most conservative estimates of the impact of Trump’s inaction to tally in real time those whose deaths are at least in part Trump’s fault.
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/06/trump-covid-death-counter/
The total is rapidly approaching 50,000.
The bitter irony is that had Trump been willing to embrace the truth, fewer lives would be lost and the legacy about which he cares so deeply would be improved. But he has always been allergic to the truth, whether lying to the press or misleading investors, spinning failed deals or demanding non-disclosure agreements from all who worked with him. The goal has always been the same, to advance his self-interest.
Today, that means Trump cares about one number and one number only: 270, the number of electoral votes that will ensure his re-election. The only thing that matters to him regarding this crisis is whether he can manipulate enough people into believing his version of events so he can get to that number. That is why, because the truth is so damning, that rather than waging a war on the disease that is killing so many of us, he is attacking the truth-tellers and the data about the toll the disease is taking. Because Trump knows that one number, 270, is the one that stands between him and whole lot of other numbers he cannot control—such as the ones involved in federal and state sentencing guidelines.
Joseph18 minutes ago
Is this what “America first” looks like? Having the “freedom” to risk one’s life to serve the stock market and earn a wage? Is that what makes a country great? There are plenty of third world countries where people are working under uncertain conditions to feed families. Their governments are hiding statistics and facts about the likelihood of harm to them and their families as well. What is the difference between the United States and them?
Redmanjapan10 minutes ago
The real problem with this pandemic is that Trump thinks his methods can deceive the public. Who in their right mind would think that 74,000 deaths is a success? This is the morbid understanding of the president. Remember, when he was caught lying about the numbers he said he was trying to be a cheerleader. This type of attitude I could accept from an enemy but not the president.
Thaddeus J12 minutes ago
I have some numbers for the man child who would be king. The USA has under 5% of the world population and yet we have over 30% of the COVID 19 cases and around 25% of the deaths. This is not because we test more it's because of lame leadership that shows that trump is totally unqualified as well as uncaring. He only wants to make more money off being president and that is the driving force behind every decision.
Teresa28 minutes ago
Hi pivots to telling us all about human sacrifice, meanwhile he was livid when someone around him tested positive. Now he'll test everyone around him daily while telling our country WE don't need tests. Like his five time draft dodging days, he is fine with others sacrificing as long as he is safe and fat off the sacrifices of others.
Mike29 minutes ago
80,000 dead Americans and we are just in the first couple of months of Trump's Great Depression.
PS23 minutes ago
He realizes that most of his supporters do not understand logic, so you confuse them so that they have doubts about anything that they hear.
Rick16 minutes ago
You can't hide from the truth. You can say the numbers are wrong, you can try to curb testing and try to make numbers look good, but this isn't about numbers, it is about human life. The protests that have happened and the lack of following governors orders and not social distancing, not wearing protective PPE which I have seen in Colorado running out of control, these things will cause massive flare ups, and those are things you cant fudge numbers on. If our hospitals get overrun, with COVID 19 and I think they will, it will resto solely on this Presidents back. He can't hide from it. This Pandemic requires solid leadership. Something we do not have.
lunar15 minutes ago
Obama left Trump with a clean plate of peace in the middle east. Safe guards in place for health care and clean water and air. A pandemic team in place. He left us with a good economy that it took him eight years to recover after Bush. It took Trump to come in with a wrecking ball and tear it all up in three. Trump will leave office in 2021 with nothing left behind but broken promises.
Trump Lies, While Americans Die
www.huffpost.com/entry/morning-joe-supercut-donald-trump-coronavirus-rhetoric_n_5eb53ae3c5b6a673354118da
Trump Declares War on Statistics as He Pivots to Human Sacrifice
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-declares-war-statistics-pivots-194903392.html
David Rothkopf
The Daily BeastMay 7, 2020, 12:49 PM MST
Jim Watson/Getty
No statistic ever lay gasping for air, feeling as though their chest were being “crushed by an anvil.” No one ever wept for a statistic that died alone beyond the touch of family or friends. No one ever mourned a statistic.
And yet at this moment of national trauma, our president can’t seem to muster even a poor imitation of compassion for the victims. What is more, rather than waging a war against the disease that is causing such pain, he is waging one against the statistics, fearing—and quite rightly—that the data will tell for all time the story of his utter failure as a leader.
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wants-a-quick-reopening-data-his-own-white-house-is-examining-shows-it-could-be-a-disaster
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wants-a-quick-reopening-data-his-own-white-house-is-examining-shows-it-could-be-a-disaster
www.thedailybeast.com/reagan-sold-the-american-dream-trump-is-selling-his-own-tired-bullshit?ref=home
Trump has declared himself a wartime president in the midst of this crisis. But he has been clear from the beginning that his war has been the one he has fought all his life: against truth, against facts, against anything that might offer glimpses into the reality of his warped character and serial failures.
www.thedailybeast.com/with-coronavirus-response-trumps-america-now-leads-the-worldin-suicidal-stupidity?ref=author
Trump Wants a Quick Reopening. Data His Own White House Is Examining Shows It Could Be a Disaster www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wants-a-quick-reopening-data-his-own-white-house-is-examining-shows-it-could-be-a-disaster?via=rss&source=articles_fancylink
Most recently, we have heard the president say, during an Oval Office meeting this Wednesday with Iowa Governor Kimberly Reynolds, “The media likes to say we have the most cases, but we do by far the most testing. If we did very little testing, we wouldn’t have the most cases. So in a way, by doing all of this testing, we make ourselves look bad.” In this one statement, Trump confirmed yet again that he doesn’t care about the progress of the disease or the fate of its victims, he only cares about how he looks and, by extension, his political fortunes.
His comment was classically Trumpian, an unwitting confession wrapped in a warped viewpoint inside a fabric of lies. The lie is, of course, that we “do by far the most testing.” Because what matters with testing is not the raw number but the per capita rate of tests per million people. And while the U.S. has made some progress in recent weeks, according to Worldometer’s testing data, the U.S. still has not cracked the top 40 countries and territories by that crucial metric.
The warped viewpoint is of course that doing the testing makes us “look bad” when in fact, of course, testing, in the view of every expert, is essential to combating the pandemic, and therefore not doing it impedes our ability to fight the virus and actually produces worse outcomes in human terms. And the confession is that this is what’s on Trump’s mind and guiding his thinking.
But we knew that. We knew that as far back as March 4, when during a visit to the Centers for Disease Control, Trump said in response to a question about whether passengers on the Grand Princess cruise ship should be allowed to disembark, “They would like to have the people come off. I’d rather have the people stay (on the ship.) … I would rather because I like the numbers being where they are. I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that was not our fault.” With him it is always about him, about credit and blame and how it reflects on Donald J. Trump.
That impulse is what led to foot-dragging on testing, and it is what now may lead to opening a new front in the president’s war against truth by attacking the statistics themselves. According to Axios, “A senior administration official said he expects the president to begin publicly questioning the death toll as it closes in on his predictions or the final death count and damages him politically.”
This too should come as no surprise. Last month, Fox television personalities Tucker Carlson and Brit Hume started to poke at CDC numbers, with Carlson saying, “It’s entirely possible that doctors are classifying conventional pneumonia deaths as COVID-19 deaths. That would mean this epidemic is being credited for thousands of deaths that would have occurred if the virus had never appeared.” Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci quickly stepped into quash this effort at distortion.
Now, of course, the number of new cases and deaths, whiles falling in New York state, is still rising elsewhere in the country. Governors prematurely opening states up to stimulate the economy is likely to accelerate those increases. So the numbers are likely to tick (or maybe explode) upward throughout the summer. Even Trump has reluctantly acknowledged this by steadily adjust his prediction of total deaths upward from 0 to 50,000 to where it stands now at between 100,000 and 200,000.
But again, the White House is trying to play games with these numbers. New White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said this week that some estimates had as many as 2.2 million dying from the disease, and “we’re at a point where we are far lower than that, and it’s thanks to the great work of the Task Force and the leadership of President Trump.” The 2.2 million number was based on what the toll might have been had the government done nothing at all. And it sidesteps McEnany’s comments when she was just another Fox talking head, when she said, “We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here.”
Trump himself has tried to soften the numbers through the use of ham-fisted and insensitive euphemisms. For example, on Tuesday of this week he said, referring to his push to reopen the economy, “Will some people be affected? Yes. Will some people be affected badly? Yes. But we have to get our country open.” There’s no disputing that those who will lose family members or friends will be “affected badly.” Nor will looking for the weasel words to mute the consequences of his own bad policies help them one bit.
Perhaps the most heartbreaking of all those deaths are the ones that did not have to happen. These are the ones caused by Trump failing to act sooner in response to news of the disease. Epidemiologists have estimated that had Trump acted just two weeks sooner between 60 and 90 percent fewer people would have died. This has led filmmaker Eugene Jarecki to create TrumpDeathClock.com, a site that uses the most conservative estimates of the impact of Trump’s inaction to tally in real time those whose deaths are at least in part Trump’s fault.
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/06/trump-covid-death-counter/
The total is rapidly approaching 50,000.
The bitter irony is that had Trump been willing to embrace the truth, fewer lives would be lost and the legacy about which he cares so deeply would be improved. But he has always been allergic to the truth, whether lying to the press or misleading investors, spinning failed deals or demanding non-disclosure agreements from all who worked with him. The goal has always been the same, to advance his self-interest.
Today, that means Trump cares about one number and one number only: 270, the number of electoral votes that will ensure his re-election. The only thing that matters to him regarding this crisis is whether he can manipulate enough people into believing his version of events so he can get to that number. That is why, because the truth is so damning, that rather than waging a war on the disease that is killing so many of us, he is attacking the truth-tellers and the data about the toll the disease is taking. Because Trump knows that one number, 270, is the one that stands between him and whole lot of other numbers he cannot control—such as the ones involved in federal and state sentencing guidelines.
Joseph18 minutes ago
Is this what “America first” looks like? Having the “freedom” to risk one’s life to serve the stock market and earn a wage? Is that what makes a country great? There are plenty of third world countries where people are working under uncertain conditions to feed families. Their governments are hiding statistics and facts about the likelihood of harm to them and their families as well. What is the difference between the United States and them?
Redmanjapan10 minutes ago
The real problem with this pandemic is that Trump thinks his methods can deceive the public. Who in their right mind would think that 74,000 deaths is a success? This is the morbid understanding of the president. Remember, when he was caught lying about the numbers he said he was trying to be a cheerleader. This type of attitude I could accept from an enemy but not the president.
Thaddeus J12 minutes ago
I have some numbers for the man child who would be king. The USA has under 5% of the world population and yet we have over 30% of the COVID 19 cases and around 25% of the deaths. This is not because we test more it's because of lame leadership that shows that trump is totally unqualified as well as uncaring. He only wants to make more money off being president and that is the driving force behind every decision.
Teresa28 minutes ago
Hi pivots to telling us all about human sacrifice, meanwhile he was livid when someone around him tested positive. Now he'll test everyone around him daily while telling our country WE don't need tests. Like his five time draft dodging days, he is fine with others sacrificing as long as he is safe and fat off the sacrifices of others.
Mike29 minutes ago
80,000 dead Americans and we are just in the first couple of months of Trump's Great Depression.
PS23 minutes ago
He realizes that most of his supporters do not understand logic, so you confuse them so that they have doubts about anything that they hear.
Rick16 minutes ago
You can't hide from the truth. You can say the numbers are wrong, you can try to curb testing and try to make numbers look good, but this isn't about numbers, it is about human life. The protests that have happened and the lack of following governors orders and not social distancing, not wearing protective PPE which I have seen in Colorado running out of control, these things will cause massive flare ups, and those are things you cant fudge numbers on. If our hospitals get overrun, with COVID 19 and I think they will, it will resto solely on this Presidents back. He can't hide from it. This Pandemic requires solid leadership. Something we do not have.
lunar15 minutes ago
Obama left Trump with a clean plate of peace in the middle east. Safe guards in place for health care and clean water and air. A pandemic team in place. He left us with a good economy that it took him eight years to recover after Bush. It took Trump to come in with a wrecking ball and tear it all up in three. Trump will leave office in 2021 with nothing left behind but broken promises.