8/19/20: President Trump might not understand the science of climate change, or even grade school level science. He does, however, have a bold plan to defeat the coronavirus once and for all. Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, says he and Donald have talked about a new cure for COVID-19.
Mr. Pillow has pointed the president to oleandrin, an extract from the flowering oleander plant, which has been shown in one non-peer reviewed study to have antiviral properties when tested in vitro.
That is: in a test tube.
True. Lindell is not a scientist, per se. But if there’s a miracle cure out there, Trump is going to hunt it down.
Real
medical experts are of the opinion that Lindell should stick to peddling fluffy
cushions. “This is really just nonsense and a distraction,” Dr. Jonathan
Reiner, a professor of medicine at George Washington University, says. “I can tell you,”
he assures Anderson Cooper on CNN, “there are millions of compounds that, when
tested in vitro, in a test tube, appear to have some antiviral activity but
that are worthless in vivo, in humans.”
*
IN OTHER NEWS, the president claimed again that the U.S. was doing great handling the coronavirus crisis.
As always, he garbled or ignored the facts.
Trump decided to compare the situation in our country with the situation
in New Zealand. He said that country was having real problems. Cases were
exploding! Speaking at a rally in Mankato, Minnesota, he told adoring fans, “The places they were using to hold up, now they’re having a big
surge…they were holding up names of countries and now they’re saying ‘whoops!’”
“Do you see
what’s happening in New Zealand? They beat it, they beat it [the virus],
it was like front-page news because they [his media enemies] wanted to show me
something.” Well, you couldn’t show Trump anything! Not even math. He was
handling the problem with fantastic skill. The prime minister of New Zealand
was watching her people drop dead in uncounted numbers.
Maybe Trump
could send flowers.
Oleander?
A quick fact
check showed that on the day Trump compared his skills favorably with
New Zealand leadership the island nation had nine new COVID-19 cases.
Here in the
United States, we were averaging something like 50,000 cases
per day for the week.
New Zealand
has only 4.9 million people. So, if we adjust for population, we’d have to
multiply 9 x 66…
Okay. New
Zealand is doing much, much better, regardless of what Donald J. Trump might claim.
FUN FACT: Goodyear tells employees at a Kansas
manufacturing facility that they may not wear “Make America Great Again” hats
or other political gear at work.
Dictator Don attacks the company on Twitter, and calls for his fans to boycott the
company. “Don’t buy GOODYEAR TIRES - They announced a BAN ON MAGA
HATS. Get better tires for far less!” This is definitely not the preferred way
to help American business during a pandemic.
Founded in 1898, the
Akron, Ohio company is one of the few companies in this country still making
tires.
BLOGGER’S NOTE (4/3/22) A check of Worldometers, can give us some
perspective on which nations have done well, combating the spread of the
coronavirus. As of today, nearly half-a-billion known cases of the disease have
been registered. Number 1, in the world, for most infections?
The U.S.A.
Number 1 in total deaths?
The U.S.A., with 1,008,159.
Adjusted for population, we fall (thankfully) to thirteenth place, with
3,015 deaths per million population.
So far, New Zealand has suffered 70 deaths per million.
No comments:
Post a Comment