10/30/20: President Trump has been
campaigning hard in recent days, which means plenty of lying, insults, and
threats.
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A desperate president comes up with someone new to blame for the
coronavirus crisis.
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He’s sounding more than a little desperate. On Friday, he came
up with someone new to blame for the coronavirus crisis.
America’s doctors!
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If doctors weren't all lying, the president would be doing great! |
As he “explained” to a crowd attending a Michigan rally there was
a reason Germany had a much lower death toll, adjusted for population, than the
United States of America.
You know in Germany, if you have
a bad heart and you’re ready to die or if you have cancer and you’re going to
be dying soon, and you catch COVID, that happens we mark it down to COVID. You
know our doctors get more money if somebody dies from COVID, you know that, right?
I mean our doctors are very smart people. So what they do is they say is, “I’m
sorry, but you know, everybody dies of COVID.” But in Germany and other places,
if you have a heart attack or you have cancer, you’re terminally ill, you catch
COVID, they say you died of cancer, you died of a heart attack. With us, when
in doubt, choose COVID. It’s true, no it’s true.
Now, they’ll say [he points at
reporters in the back of the crowd], “Oh it’s terrible what he said,” but it’s
true. It’s like $2,000 more. So you get more money. This could only happen to
us.”
It is true.
That is, it is true that this could only happen to us. Only a fabulist
like Trump could stand before a crowd and insult frontline medical workers.
And that, without offering any proof.
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REPULSED by the president’s baseless attacks, the American
Medical Association releases the following statement:
Throughout
this pandemic, physicians, nurses, and frontline health care workers have
risked their health, their safety and their lives to treat their patients and
defeat a deadly virus. They did it because duty called and because of the
sacred oath they took. The suggestion that doctors – in the midst of a public health crisis – are overcounting COVID-19 patients or lying to line their pockets
is a malicious, outrageous, and completely misguided charge. COVID-19 cases are
at record highs today. Rather than attacking us and lobbing baseless charges at
physicians, our leaders should be following the science and urging adherence to
the public health steps we know work – wearing
a mask, washing hands and practicing physical distancing.
As far as testing and the pandemic go, the Centers for Disease
Control discounts the idea that we are turning the corner on COVID-19. The
scientists and experts tally a growing cost. New cases:
10/27: 72,183.
10/28: 82,599
10/29: 90,155 (highest one day total recorded)
Latest seven-day average:
76,785 (highest since the pandemic began).
Death toll:
10/27: 901.
10/28: 1,060.
10/29: 1,055
Seven-day average deaths:
807.
Death rate, last seven days: 1
in every 95 patients.
Total deaths, so far: 228,100.
POSTSCRIPT: Friday, the president also
clogged his Twitter feed with half-truths and frantic lying. Lowlights included:
“Watch the Great Red Wave!”
(Biden has an
average lead in the national polls of 7.8
points.)
“More Testing equals more Cases. We
have best testing. Deaths WAY DOWN. Hospitals have great additional
capacity!”
(Hospitalization rates are increasing.)
“The Election should END
on November 3rd.”
(So, if he’s losing, he’s not going to go to court?)
“Joe Biden has vowed to
abolish the entire U.S. Energy Industry.”
(Does this include the use of fire?)
“President Obama used to
say that ‘if you wanted to see something really screwed up, give it to Joe
Biden to do.’”
(When I try to find
the source of this quote, I end up at Australia
Online News, and when I checked the “story” it
had one “like.” You figure that was Trump.)
FUN FACT- DIMWIT SON: “Like dimwit father, like dimwit son,” as the
saying goes. Donald Trump Jr. shows up on Laura Ingraham’s show and claims that
deaths
from the coronavirus have dropped
to “almost nothing.” So we should all be sure to vote for Dimwit Dad.
(Dimwit Laura immediately agrees.)
BLOGGER’S NOTE: On this same day, CDC
reports that 980 Americans die
from COVID-19. On 10/31 another 896 succumb. On 11/1 691 additional deaths are
recorded, followed by 845 on 11/2 and 1,161 on Election Day, 11/3.
After a slight drop, on 11/9, the U.S. hits 1,079
deaths again, and on no other day, during Don Jr.’s dad’s time in office do we
slip below a thousand deaths again.
On 11/24, we pass the 2,000-mark.
On 12/11, we blow past 3,000 dead in a day.
And on 1/6/21 we top 4,000 in a single day.
Or, as Don Jr. might say to the grieving families:
“almost nothing.”
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