The fatality rate for those over 80 is 13%. The virus has a long incubation period (up to 14 days) where you are contagious but are not yet ill, and 25% never show symptoms. Many who get sick are never tested. Many who died were never tested and are thus not in the official death toll.
There is a severe shortage of tests and PPE. Health care workers who deal with COVID-19 are very short on supplies. FEMA is intercepting and confiscating states' orders for supplies. (Colorado ordered 500 ventilators; 400 were seized, and Trump gave a GOP senator credit for the 100 he let Colorado have, saying that it was the Senator's personal plea to him that resulting in Colorado getting those 100.) Apparently, your governor has to be nice to Trump before he will let you have ventilators. Remember, Trump decided that there should be a 50-state bidding war for supplies instead of a coordinated federal effort.
Those empty parking lots at hospitals are mostly because no visitors are allowed, and elective procedures have been postponed. Trump claims WHO kept silent. But December 31 of last year, there were 15 U.S. officials embedded at WHO with six others there assisting and two assisting remotely, all working on COVID-19. Senior administration officials also consulted with WHO throughout the crisis, including the HHS Secretary, CDC officials, and NIH officials, including Anthony S. Fauci and many others. Trump is playing the blame game to deflect criticism.
Per The Washington Post, Trump was accusing the World Health Organization of "covering up the spread of the coronavirus" and failing to "share information in a timely and transparent fashion." He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
Trump later called the WHO a "tool of China" and declared, “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.” [Fuck Your Feelings, as Trumpists say.]
The cutting off of WHO's major source of funding comes just as the virus bears down on less-developed countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South America, and South and Southeast Asia. So not only are American's dying because of Trump's lies and delays, but his lies will be killing people globally.
Russia is sending us supplies, half of which are a "donation." What will that end up costing us?
I realize that conspiracy theories are so much more attractive than the truth. And to most Trumpists, the truth does not matter. Trump exemplifies their attitudes about strong leaders and hatred of other races, and that is enough for them. They have a cognitive bias against truth; Trump's cult cannot be reasoned with. So I will understand if you continue to blame liberals and promote made-up conspiracy theories.
By the way, how's Trump's promise for cheaper, better healthcare that will cover everyone coming along? Or Jared's plans for Middle East Peace? Is Jared's background in real estate and Ivanka's merchandising experience helping them with their work on the Coronavirus Task Force? Maybe we should assign them instead to the Space Force.
Washington Post, April 18, 2020: Opinion: Trump tells a damnable and murderous lie
There is a severe shortage of tests and PPE. Health care workers who deal with COVID-19 are very short on supplies. FEMA is intercepting and confiscating states' orders for supplies. (Colorado ordered 500 ventilators; 400 were seized, and Trump gave a GOP senator credit for the 100 he let Colorado have, saying that it was the Senator's personal plea to him that resulting in Colorado getting those 100.) Apparently, your governor has to be nice to Trump before he will let you have ventilators. Remember, Trump decided that there should be a 50-state bidding war for supplies instead of a coordinated federal effort.
Those empty parking lots at hospitals are mostly because no visitors are allowed, and elective procedures have been postponed. Trump claims WHO kept silent. But December 31 of last year, there were 15 U.S. officials embedded at WHO with six others there assisting and two assisting remotely, all working on COVID-19. Senior administration officials also consulted with WHO throughout the crisis, including the HHS Secretary, CDC officials, and NIH officials, including Anthony S. Fauci and many others. Trump is playing the blame game to deflect criticism.
Per The Washington Post, Trump was accusing the World Health Organization of "covering up the spread of the coronavirus" and failing to "share information in a timely and transparent fashion." He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
Trump later called the WHO a "tool of China" and declared, “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.” [Fuck Your Feelings, as Trumpists say.]
The cutting off of WHO's major source of funding comes just as the virus bears down on less-developed countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South America, and South and Southeast Asia. So not only are American's dying because of Trump's lies and delays, but his lies will be killing people globally.
Russia is sending us supplies, half of which are a "donation." What will that end up costing us?
I realize that conspiracy theories are so much more attractive than the truth. And to most Trumpists, the truth does not matter. Trump exemplifies their attitudes about strong leaders and hatred of other races, and that is enough for them. They have a cognitive bias against truth; Trump's cult cannot be reasoned with. So I will understand if you continue to blame liberals and promote made-up conspiracy theories.
By the way, how's Trump's promise for cheaper, better healthcare that will cover everyone coming along? Or Jared's plans for Middle East Peace? Is Jared's background in real estate and Ivanka's merchandising experience helping them with their work on the Coronavirus Task Force? Maybe we should assign them instead to the Space Force.
Washington Post, April 18, 2020: Opinion: Trump tells a damnable and murderous lie
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