Trump said if there were 100,000 deaths, “then we’ll have done a good job”. Low-Information Individualism may continue among the Trumpist population to November. There will be more conflicts on mask policies, as if resistance was a pro-Trump statement. And the death toll will likely rise. “We’ll have done a good job if only 100,000…
Category: HealthCare
A COVID-19 story: My nightmare in a Florida hospital
The conservatives who run Florida’s government have never taken this pandemic seriously. They closed the state far too late and reopened it far too soon. COVID-19 cases have now exploded. Florida, along with Arizona, leads not just the U.S., but the entire world in new cases. Over 40 Florida hospitals have already maxed out ICU…
Nuts need numb-naming as Trump Tulsa rally is likely source of COVID-19 surge
So much complicity so little time left, the GOP seems ready to lose the Senate because they back-ended the wrong horse. x Learn. Their. Names. pic.twitter.com/lYzH8LIj6d— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 8, 2020 Oklahoma, Arizona, South Dakota, and this weekend the Trump typhoid-tour goes to Hew Hampshire. x The city of Tulsa is experiencing a…
56,000 cases: a new US daily record for COVID cases
And no it’s not about testing levels, which are nowhere near what needs to be done; and then there’s the lack of contact tracing. This in addition to the numbers that are probably under-reported. Andy Slavitt tells us we need not freak out (yet): x COVID Update July 2: Why not to freak out. 1/…
Covid-19: Trump continues to kill the US with his lies and Arizona now considers 'death panels'
Contradictions heightened this past week, as Trump/Pence continued to disinform the American public. 126,000 people have died. Troubling is a Pew poll that indicates that 40% of Americans think the “worst is behind us” for the pandemic. x President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have repeatedly attributed the increase in the coronavirus case…
Coronavirus Taskforce briefing: 1st one in 2 months
Live Stream at HHS x 12:30pm ET today (6/26/2020), there’ll be a Covid-19 Taskforce briefing, the 1st in ~2 months. Hope for more truth/facts from Dr. Fauci, but suspect Pence’ll ‘happytalk’ it instead. I trust Dr. Fauci, less so Dr. Birx & CDC’s Dr. Redfield (think CDC’s been muzzled by Admin).😷 pic.twitter.com/aidZscgJYD— Barbara Bennett (@b2_bennett)…
18 states have increasing cases of COVID-19 as Trump still thinks WWI ended in 1917
Still in a first wave doesn’t mean that like ramps, they can be both “long and steep”. And the lies keep coming. x I stopped counting a month ago, when Trump said for the 40th time that the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed his own grandfather, happened in 1917. Now he seems to think WW1…
COVID-19 is not “behind us” – the second wave has already begun – protests are not slaughterhouses
There is a spread that’s occurring as global travel increases and with the “opening-up” of economic activity. Trump’s attempt to take credit for low numbers is absurd on its face considering that between 36 -65,000 US deaths came from his inaction. Like GOP vote suppression there will be testing and testing data suppression. (CNN) New…
CNN reminds us that IMPOTUS* has 3 lie-patterns: Unbudgeability, Trumpflation, Twist & Shout
Reminding us that Obamagate was invented in January of 2017 to blunt an oncoming investigation of Mike Flynn, CNN’s Daniel Dale looks at Trump lies yet again, because they will not ever let up. In my second weekly video, I took a look at three of Trump's signature dishonesty patterns: https://t.co/pJr2iMI26I pic.twitter.com/fEIyAO3glf — Daniel Dale…
LIVE BLOG: Rose Garden presser – plastic wrap speed
LIVE BLOG below. Note that it was scheduled for Noon and he’s late again. Another day, another pseudo event, this time about a vaccine that still will not arrive for a year, but at least there should be press questions that will feature more racism and sexism. Trump's pivot is a 360, because slowly we turn,…
Trump's personal death toll is only 48,000 lives lost so far, because “TrumpDeathClock”
Trump hasn’t yet reached his personal Vietnam death toll numbers, because bone spurs. The GOP will parse his numbers because somehow Democrats are to blame, what with all the stress of impeachment and all those conspiracy theories. This assumes that we believe all that disinforming gaslight and malarkey incessantly repeated in his speeches. The 80,000…
now 95,000 deaths are OK for Thurston Howell and his three-hour tour
Because every “transition to greatness” wants you to assume you’re going to die soon. 80,000 deaths so far, on pace for 130,000 deaths by August, as Trump now promises a total of 95,000 deaths. So everyone isn't down with#DieForTheDow — Jonathan Jollimore (@SirsmokesGreen1) May 9, 2020 In a week when the novel coronavirus ravaged new…
Typhoid Donny's “lava level mad” but still spewing sputum, says virus will “go away without vaccine”
The new death toll cited by Trump is now 95,000, up from zero, then 50-60,000, then 60-70,000. x President Trump: “This is going to go away without a vaccine.” pic.twitter.com/EKcZENl4rS— CSPAN (@cspan) May 8, 2020 TRUMP: “I feel about vaccines like I feel about tests. This is going to go away without a vaccine, it's…
Trump filling up Yankee Stadium with death is all he knows
Trump promises us “It will disappear — like a miracle, it will disappear.” but only after there are many more deaths filling Yankee stadium. On 4 May, CEA decided to tweet some nonsense about “curve-fitting” the latest COVID death projections, at which the Twitterverse was subsequently merciless. Some folks dragged the current CEA’s faulty data visualization because…
a new episode of the Trump show: “It's a comeback!”
Paul Waldman at WaPo hits the latest version of the post-prime-time presser Trump show, as Kayleigh “Kayfabe” McEnany does another Vanna White presser. The last six months of Trump terror a.k.a. Bachelor-Grifter's Price is Reich will feature Individual-1 doing his impression of Thurston Howell on Gilligan-Epstein’s Island. Ignore that second pandemic wave, we’re making a…
“Never Accomplished” Trump disbands the COVID taskforce with possibly 134,475 deaths by August 4
The plan is no plan for IMPOTUS*, the new normal will be a death toll daily equivalent to a 9/11 every day. Federal guidelines are being ignored by states because Trump has decided to ignore it as well. “The plan is to have no plan” is not a strategy, really. Nor would I call it a…
“This plague should never have happened. It could’ve been stopped but people chose not to stop it.”
Trump’s nonsense continues as he tries to convince you that now 60-70,000 deaths are acceptable even as the death toll will get worse, especially when the second wave of infections develop. Today he confessed again, even as he desperately tried to shift blame somewhere else. So strange are the many attempts to claim that the…
189 days to election day as Trump declares “worst of pandemic is behind us” by lying again
Even without the daily COVID Taskforce presser, we get notable pieces of disinformation, such as VP Pence not wearing a mask at the Mayo Clinic, and Trump trying to bypass the WH press corps with a surprise press conference at 3 pm. Trump did repeat his usual misinforming claims about numbers as case numbers reached…
“They were just telling me inside, and it's fact, that I built the greatest economy in history”
“There has been so much unnecessary death in this country. It could have been stopped and it could have been stopped short, but somebody a long time ago, it seems, decided not to do it that way. And the whole world is suffering because of it.” The Spanish Inquisition is in charge of Infrastructure Week….
RIP Dr. Lorna M. Breen, medical director emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital
A top emergency room doctor at a major Manhattan hospital died by suicide on Sunday, according to her father. Dr. Lorna M. Breen, the medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died in Charlottesville, Va., where she was staying with family, her father said in an interview. […] The elder Dr. Breen…
