Tie or Toss-Up? The GOP wishes it were, after possibly 224,000 deaths by Election Day
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 people die from coronavirus”
(Reuters) – A newly revised University of Washington model projects the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 will climb to just above 224,000 by Nov. 1, up 16,000 from a prior forecast, due to rising infections and hospitalizations in many states.
But the latest forecast from the university’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), released late on Tuesday, also predicts the death toll could be reduced by 40,000 if nearly all Americans wore masks in public.
“Use of masks is up, but not as high as it should be. If 95% of Americans wore masks each time they left their homes, infection rates would drop, hospitalizations would drop, and forecast deaths would drop,” the IHME said in a statement.
The IHME’s new forecast came after Alabama, Florida and North Carolina on Tuesday reported record daily increases in deaths from COVID-19, marking grim new milestones of a second wave of infections surging across much of the U.S.
The new IHME forecast – 224,089 U.S. lives lost by Nov. 1 – was revised upward from the 208,254 deaths projected on July 7.
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224,000 by November, is based solely on available data, (it's estimated that actual cases are 10x higher which raises death rate significantly- where is that projection model?) #IMHE model spin has underestimated deaths each time. #Covid19https://t.co/2VZ6U8yS2y#TrumpLies
Remember the scientist in Florida that calculated all the covid cases and trends that Desantis fired? Well, she’s baaack, as a whistleblower. DeSantis told her to falsify the numbers. She is a brave woman. I admire the hell out of her. https://t.co/3TZy1L05bS
Speaking of Floridian blown whistles, Jason Miller is the reason why we got Sean Spicer to humiliate in 2017, because his Delgado paternity suit fit too tight. Miller is back on the campaign because Trump is truly desperate. This is why so much chaos is being attempted in order to achieve a tie or a toss-up. Worse will be a Constitutional crisis by an election thrown to Congress with faithless electors.
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“This race is either a tie or a toss-up, no matter how you look at it,†Trump 2020 campaign senior adviser Jason Miller says to @smerconish, despite the steady decline of the President’s national poll numbers. https://t.co/n1Q5OQ40KXpic.twitter.com/WULGVDYFmT
“The election of Donald Trump reflects the rise of a Right-wing nationalist movement. Central to Trump’s appeal has been his advocacy of anti-immigrant, racist, and misogynist ideas. At its core, his ruling power bloc consists of neo-liberal fundamentalists, the religious Right, and white nationalists.”
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Thank you to our four living ex-Presidents for honoring John Lewis today.
a naked woman marched towards a street blocked by 30 federal border patrol military in the streets of Portland until they eventually retreated but if I link to it or RT it Twitter’s content filter will hide this tweet. pic.twitter.com/kAXOHYnSpq
The Oregonian points out the PORTLAND CHAOS images “come almost exclusively from tiny points in the city” during late-night moments when “only a couple hundred or fewer protesters and scores of police officers are out in…coronavirus-hollowed downtown” https://t.co/FowmNuywhH
