Dumb, dumber and dumber, i.e. Trump sees the Cornavirus only through one consideration, will it affect his presumed re-election? Dereliction of duty.
I laid down the basic facts as to the hysteria over the Cornavirus here:
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I have in one sense an undying complaint about the Coronavirus hysteria, and it is that the Media certainly knows that this is a variant of FLU , but it conveniently skips over the following datum:
OVER 80-85% of the known cases of the CORONAVIRUS involve mild to basically standard FLU like symptoms and that the main fatalities are for those in the age cohort of 60 or above years individuals. Secondly, its fatal attacks upon children are very rare
Why is this so important ? We are scaring ourselves to death, and it is uncalled for.
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But how is TRUMP addressing this hysteria over the Cornavirus?
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/29/21159294/trump-coronavirus-hoax-south-carolina-first-death
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Trump’s Friday night effort to weaponize coronavirus against his enemies has already aged poorly
The president decried the coronavirus-related “hoax” just hours before news of the first US death broke.
By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Feb 29, 2020, 3:40pm EST
Trump speaks in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Friday. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images
It took just a few hours for comments President Donald Trump made about the coronavirus during his rally on Friday evening in South Carolina to come back to haunt him.
During the rally, Trump — who has systematically dismantled America’s pandemic response capabilities since taking office and proposed huge cuts to both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health as recently as earlier this month — noted that “so far we have lost nobody to coronavirus in the United States” and then tried to tarnish the media by saying, “you wonder — the press is in hysteria mode. CNN, fake news.”
During another part of his speech, Trump referred to Democrats’ alleged efforts to politicize the Trump administration’s preparations for a possible outbreak here at home as “their new hoax.”
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Here’s Trump at his rally tonight in South Carolina dismissing worries about the coronavirus as the “new hoax”
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Coming as they did at the end of a week in which the stock market endured a historic slide among rising worries about the impact the coronavirus will have at home and abroad, Trump’s comments were meant to project the image that everything is under control. But using the word “hoax” in the context of talking about a possible pandemic outbreak that has already killed about 3,000 people around the world is obviously irresponsible.
Then, on Saturday, news of the first coronavirus death in the United States broke. Trump called a news conference to address the situation and was asked if he regrets the comments he made South Carolina — particularly his comments about a coronavirus-related “hoax.”
“No no no,” Trump responded. “‘Hoax’ referring to the action [Dems] take to try and pin this on somebody, because we’ve done such a good job. The hoax is on them.”
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REPORTER: You used the word "hoax" to talk about this last night. Do you regret that?
TRUMP: "No no no. 'Hoax' referring to the action [Dems] take to try and pin this on somebody, because we've done such a good job."
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During another part of the news conference, Trump acknowledged the Washington state death but added that the person was “a medically high-risk patient in her late 50s” (Trump was wrong — the victim was actually a man.) He tried to reassure people, telling them that their chances of dying from the coronavirus are low: “Healthy people — if you’re healthy — you will probably go through a process and you’ll be fine.”
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"Healthy people -- if you're healthy -- you will probably go through a process and you'll be fine" -- Trump on coronavirus
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Trump’s comments are true. While a lot is left to be learned about the coronavirus, researchers currently peg the death rate at about 1 percent. But 1 percent of the American people is more than 3 million people, which is why US public health officials like the CDC’s Nancy Messonnier have been calling for preparedness.
“The spread in other countries has raised our level of concern and our level of expectation we’re going to have community spread here,” Messonnier said Tuesday. “It’s not a question of if this will happen, but when this will happen, and how many people in this country will have severe illnesses.”
And the press conference bore this concern out: CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said during Saturday’s news conference that the Washington death appears to be a case of community spread and not one where the victim traveled to a country where an outbreak has occurred.
But instead of focusing on getting Americans prepared, the president can’t resist the urge to try to score political points on the pandemic. Unfortunately, the facts quickly got in the way of the attempt he made on Friday to weaponize the coronavirus against Democrats.
The news moves fast. To stay updated, follow Aaron Rupar on Twitter, and read more of Vox’s policy and politics coverage.
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It is clear that Russian asset Trump does not give a damn if say 50 thousand US residents died of the Cornavirus. His focus is as always upon USING any such event for only one reason for being in the POTUS, to avoid being jailed for espionage and economic crimes against the USA
It is said that crisis and old age bring out the worst in bad people. This Cornavirus has shown clearly that Trump has only one focus, HIMSELF, and the rest of the USA and the CONSTITUTION be damned
Andrew Beckwith, PhD