9/4/20: Great news for President Donald J. Trump! He finally has a new Coronavirus Task Force member who will tell him exactly what he wants to hear.
According to Dr. Scott W. Atlas, we’re almost out of the woods and into the sunshine of a beautiful meadow, filled with flowers and singing birds. And a win for his boss is coming in the next election. Dr. Atlas is telling the president that the science of wearing masks is unclear. Children, he says, don’t pass on the virus.
And watch out for demon sex.
No, wait, that was the other doctor Trump touted for a time. (See:
7/28/20.)
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Dr. Atlas, right, Dr. Disinfectant, left. |
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Dr. Atlas can tell you how
to fix a broken skull.
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Dr. Atlas is a radiologist, who believes the government should let the virus take its course, only focusing on protecting the most vulnerable parts of our population. If only he will come out in favor of injecting bleach, Trump will have found the perfect advisor to serve his needs.
Unfortunately, Dr. Atlas is not an epidemiologist. Nor is he an expert on infectious diseases. His skill is reading X-rays and telling you how to fix a broken skull.
All indications are that Trump’s old experts are on the outs with their mercurial boss. Dr. Carlos del Rio is an actual expert in infectious diseases and close to Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator. He told The New York Times that the president didn’t like the advice he was getting from Birx, or Dr. Anthony Fauci. So he dug up someone – who he watched on Fox News – who would tell him what he wanted to hear.
“And he thinks what we’ve done is really good.”
That is: the coronavirus is going away! And you, Mr. Trump, are doing a fantastic job in every way.
(For the perfect suck up model, please refer to Peter Navarro, in the post for 9/3/20.)
Sure, you might think Dr. Fauci is way more believable than Donald J. Trump. Sure, he’s considered the nation’s leading expert in infectious diseases. Sure, Fauci has served six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan, without incident. But can he tell you if you broke your wrist?
Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams also appears to have gone into hiding, perhaps appalled by what he has seen.
And if you wonder why Trump likes Dr. Atlas so
much, the president made that clear at a White House press briefing. “He has
many great ideas,” the president said. “And he thinks what we’ve done is really
good, and now we’ll take it to a new level.”
Earlier this week, the president sat down for a talk with that other infectious disease expert, Laura Ingraham, on Fox News. “Once you get to a certain number [of cases] – we use the word ‘herd’ – once you get to a certain number,” he told her, “it’s going to go away.” Trump said he thought we’d have a vaccine soon. Ingraham noted that many people said they wouldn’t take it. Trump said, well, he’d never had the flu vaccine, until he became president. But the stock market was at a new all-time high, he pointed out, with stunning irrelevance.
On Tuesday, Dr. Atlas wanted to make it clear. He had never suggested that the U.S. work toward herd immunity. “There’s never been any advocacy of a herd immunity strategy coming from me to the president, to anyone in the administration, to the task force, to anyone I’ve spoken to.”
So, where did our fearless president get that idea? Maybe, Mr. Trump is getting advice from an imaginary friend.
(Even his imaginary
friend is stupid.)
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WHAT WE KNOW, factually, is this: the August jobs report is out, with some good news, and some bad. Another 1.4 million Americans went back to work, as we rebound from the pandemic plunge. That’s the good. Unemployment, however, remains at 8.4%, and nearly 30 million workers are receiving some kind of assistance, roughly one in five. That’s the bad.
As for the coronavirus, it’s still kicking red, white, and blue butt. The Centers for Disease Control reports that there have been 185,092 deaths from COVID-19 in this country.
We’re a sad #1, worldwide, when it comes to loss of life.
There have been faint glimmers of hope, although Trump was wrong
again when he told Laura Ingraham the virus was going away. CDC reports that we
are still averaging nearly 41,000 new cases per day, although that rate is in
decline. Americans still find themselves in a deep hole, and unable to stop
some of their more stubborn, mask-averse neighbors from continuing to shovel.
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FACEBOOK decides to remove a post by congressional candidate and Georgia Peach nutjob Marjorie Taylor Greene. On Thursday, she posted a picture of herself holding a rifle next to images of three Democratic members of Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, collectively known as “The Squad.”
Green labeled the photo, “SQUAD’S WORST NIGHTMARE.” In her post, she went on to attack “leftists” who “want to take this country down,” adding, American needs “strong conservative Christians to go on the offense against these socialists who want to rip our country apart.”
Yeah. Save America. With
guns! Facebook declared her post an incitement to violence and took it down.
On this same day, Politico reports on three draft reports from the Department of Homeland Security. All three, reporters explain, “describe the threat from white supremacists as the deadliest domestic terror threat facing the U.S., listed above the immediate danger from foreign terrorist groups.”
Oh, yeah, all three of
the congresswomen mentioned are people of color. So you might say Candidate
Green knows her base.
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