Columbia study says at least 130,000 avoidable COVID deaths are due to Trump's incompetence
I knew — felt in my gut — that Trump’s reign of chaos would be, well, chaotic. But sheeee-ite, I never thought it would be this bad.
And I can be a pretty dark guy. But gosh, I’m not a psychopath. I don’t watch snuff films. I don’t enjoy videos of maggots consuming horse heads. So, yeah, WHY THE FUCK WOULD I EVER THINK IT WOULD BE THIS BAD?
Okay, so exhibit A. Donald Trump’s coronavirus response. We all know it sucked, but we’re starting to get a slightly crisper snapshot of exactly how much it sucked.
A new report from Columbia University on COVID-19 deaths estimates that hundreds of thousands of Americans died because the United States’ response to the pandemic was an “abject failure,” particularly the actions of President Donald Trump. With an adequate response, the United States could have avoided tens of thousands of deaths and an incalculable amount of suffering, the researchers said.
Dr. Irwin Redlener, the lead author on the study and the founding director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, laid the blame at the feet of the White House in an interview with The Daily Beast: “We believe that this was a monumental, lethal screwup by an administration that didn’t want to deal with reality.”
In the report, titled “130,000–210,000 Avoidable COVID-19 Deaths—and Counting—in the U.S.”, researchers at Columbia’s NCDP studied “the staggering and disproportionate nature of COVID-19 fatalities in the United States.”
Hey, you’re doing a heckuva job, Clownie.
So, yeah, not really the best time to be an American.
But wait! Yes, it is! Because we’re about to do the most quintessentially American thing there ever, ever was: throw off the yoke of a tyrant.
Let’s do this.
Give Joe a boost, and hand him a Democratic Senate.
This guy is a natural. Sometimes I laugh so hard I cry.” — Bette Midler on Aldous J. Pennyfarthing, via Twitter. Find out what made dear Bette break up. Dear Fcking Lunatic: 101 Obscenely Rude Letters to Donald Trump and its boffo sequels Dear Prsident A**clown: 101 More Rude Letters to Donald Trump and Dear F*cking Moron: 101 More Letters to Donald Trump by Aldous J. Pennyfarthing are now available for a song! Click those links, yo!
