Trump’s Entire Coronavirus Response Is Massive Political Corruption
By Jonathan Chait 15 April 2020
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/trump-coronavirus-checks-name-slush-fund-ventilators.html
How out of touch and insensitive and irreligious is Donald Trump? This tells all you need to know.
Christians mourn Jesus crucifixion today, and our souls are in anguish. What does Trump think we should be doing as he says this?
Trump BOTS and cultish followers may fool themselves into thinking he has opened a Bible to actually read it in earnest, or thought and felt a serious religious thought in his life, but I know better. This Trump wish proves me right, the man is NOT religious in any fiber of his being.
Trump Wishes Everyone A ‘Happy’ Crucifixion Day
The COVID-19 death toll made the president’s wish particularly jarring.
By Mary Papenfuss - 10 April 2020
"President Donald Trump came up with an unusual greeting Friday to those commemorating the day Christ was nailed to a cross: “HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY TO ALL!”
He later wished everyone a “great” Good Friday at his press briefing.
The jarring greeting referred to the most somber day of the Christian calendar. It marks the torture of Jesus and his death upon a cross. Easter, on Sunday, marks the celebration of Jesus’s resurrection. (The “good” in Good Friday refers to the day being “holy.”)"
I am certain Donald Trump overestimates his intelligence, and absolutely certain he is dumb and does not listen to smart people explaining things to him, like how anti-biotics are NOT used against a virus. My wife is a nurse and she is smarter than Trump so she would be a better President to lead us in this battle against covid-19 than he is now, today, 11 April 2020!
‘Dangerous idiot’: Trump says ‘germ is so brilliant antibiotics can’t keep up with it’ in chaotic White House coronavirus meeting
President describes virus as ‘very smart’, ‘a brilliant enemy’, and ‘a genius’, on same day more than 2,000 US citizens die from Covid-19
Harry Cockburn 11 April 2020
"Asked by a journalist about the level of testing for the coronavirus across the US, the president answered: “This is a very brilliant enemy. You know, it’s a brilliant enemy. They develop drugs like the antibiotics. You see it. Antibiotics used to solve every problem. Now one of the biggest problems the world has is the germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic can’t keep up with it.
"And they're constantly trying to come up with a new – people go to a hospital and they catch – they go for a heart operation – that's no problem, but they end up dying from – from problems. You know the problems I'm talking about. There's a whole genius to it.""
Trump is trying to fake "smart," when he is ignorant, but Trump is embarrassing Americans, embarrassing the United States, and the World sees his his stupidity.
"He added: “We’re fighting – not only is it hidden, but it’s very smart. Okay? It’s invisible and it’s hidden, but it’s – it’s very smart.”
Though it is unclear [IF WE GIVE THE DUMMY THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, WHICH WE SHOULD NBT DO BECAUSE HE HAS DR. FAUCI STANDING THERE TO GET IT RIGHT IF HE WANTED . . . ] whether Mr Trump was directly suggesting the disease may once have been treatable with antibiotics, the president’s allusions to antibiotic resistance are misguided. As the World Health Organisation states: “Antibiotics do not work against viruses, only bacteria.”"
Any trained medical person knows a virus is not bacterial and thus NOT treated by antibiotics.
"On its page titled “Myth Busters”, the organisation advises: “The new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a virus and, therefore, antibiotics should not be used as a means of prevention or treatment.
“However, if you are hospitalised for the 2019-nCoV, you may receive antibiotics because bacterial co-infection is possible.”
Philosopher and author AC Grayling tweeted: “Trump doesn’t know that antibiotics target bacteria not viruses. Covid-19 is a virus. Trump is an idiot. He is a dangerous idiot.”
Biologist and University of Hertfordshire and Anglia Ruskin University lecturer Dr Mark D’Arcy said: “Trump showing that despite being briefed every day about the pandemic for weeks now, he still doesn’t know the difference between a virus and bacteria!”
UCL lecturer and author Brian Klaas wrote: “As the US outbreak approaches 20,000 deaths, Trump appears to believe that the coronavirus is a bacterial pathogen. The coronavirus is – it may surprise you to find out – a virus.”
Walter Shaub, the former director of the US government’s Office for Ethics wrote on Twitter: “Trump says that this ‘germ’, meaning the virus, is especially ‘brilliant’ because it can’t be stopped by antibiotics, which work only on bacteria and not viruses. Now might be a good time to tell the people close to you that you love them.”
Concern over Mr Trump’s daily press briefings, which often last several hours, is building as support over his handling of the crisis is crumbling.
Though Mr Trump’s approval rating spiked as the first cases of coronavirus arrived in the US, his numbers have dwindled back to their pre-virus levels amid apparent concern over the government’s response to the pandemic.
American approval of the president on his handling of Covid-19 dropped six points from last week (48 per cent) to 42 per cent this week, according to an Ipsos/Reuters poll.
On Friday the US became the first country in the world to record more than 2,000 deaths from the disease in a single day.
More than half a million US citizens are now infected, and it is estimated America could soon surpass Italy to become the country with the greatest total number of coronavirus deaths worldwide."
Unprecedented: US becomes first country to report 2,000+ Covid-19 deaths in SINGLE DAY, breaking global record
Russia Today - 11 Apr, 2020 00:59 / Updated 4 minutes ago
https://www.rt.com/usa/485553-coronavirus-record-us-deaths/
Is Trump's failure to support testing everyone in the country enough to warrant ignoring him yet?
Trump says decision on reopening economy is the biggest he has ever faced
by Rob Crilly - April 11, 2020
A plan to defeat coronavirus finally emerges, but it’s not from the White House
In the absence of federal direction, states and America’s top experts forge the path ahead.
President Trump has often said responsibility for fighting the novel coronavirus lies with states, rather than with the federal government. (Video: JM Rieger/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)By Lena H. Sun ,
Lena H. Sun - National reporter focusing on health, William Wan - National correspondent covering health, science and news, and Abutaleb Yasmeen - National reporter focusing on health policy April 10, 2020
"Instead, a collection of governors, former government officials, disease specialists and nonprofits are pursuing a strategy that relies on the three pillars of disease control: Ramp up testing to identify people who are infected. Find everyone they interact with by deploying contact tracing on a scale America has never attempted before. And focus restrictions more narrowly on the infected and their contacts so the rest of society doesn’t have to stay in permanent lockdown.
But there is no evidence yet the White House will pursue such a strategy."
Maybe this is a good thing, a way to shrink the Federal Government?
