September 25, 2020: Scientists, Doctors Warn against Politicization of Science

 

9/25/20: The happy blogger and his equally happy spouse are no longer traveling in Trumpistan. They are hunkered down in Dickinson, North Dakota, awaiting results from their COVID-19 tests.

 

Bad day for vacation.

Getting a COVID-19 test - swab up the nostrils!

 

Not as bad as Mr. Tenpenny’s day, however. Tony Tenpenny, a big Trump fan, and a big foe of masks has passed on to a better place. The former Nashville Counsel member was hospitalized for a month after contracting the coronavirus. He was placed on a ventilator earlier this month and leaves his bereaved loved ones with a hefty pile of medical bills to remember him by.

 

A check with CDC shows the USA racking up 301,923 new cases of COVID-19 in the last week. We should hit seven million this weekend. Trump fans don’t care, because 51% of Republicans believe Trump more than they believe the CDC. If Dictator Don says Obama caused COVID-19, smallpox, and leprosy, they will gnash their teeth and say, “I never trusted that Muslim fella.”

 

Cogitation is not their strong suit.

 

Did we mention that the National Academy of Scientists and the National Academy of Medicine both warned, “We find ongoing reports and incidents of the politicization of science, particularly the overriding of evidence and advice from public health officials and the derision of government scientists to be alarming.”

 

Currently, Trump is mad at the Food and Drug Administration, most of the scientists on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and everyone who works at CDC, including the night watchman.

 

He still has the MyPillow guy he can talk to for advice, though.

 

As for Trump’s level of trustworthy-ness, earlier this week, at a rally in Michigan, he insisted:

 

o   Every nomination for a seat on the Supreme Court during an election year has gone forward. 

o   Voters in Michigan should pour out onto the presidential gridiron and tear down the goalposts of a Trump victory, come November, because in one day ...  yes, one day ... he convinced the Japanese prime minister to build FIVE new auto plants in their state!

 

The only problem with that claim of five new plants is that four are like “imaginary friends” of the president and don’t exist. And the fifth is like the X-ray of Trump’s bone spurs, which has never been seen.

 

No new plants have been built.

 

As for the Supreme Court claim, surely even a Trump fan could Google “Merrick Garland” by name.

Merrick Garland, left, never even got a vote.