Trump’s Desperate Attempts to Escape Coronavirus Responsibility
Update: September 2: As a joke yesterday, I emailed a notice of a talk on voting at UCI Law, with the phrase “vote early, vote often”. Little could I imagine that that is what Trump told voters to do today. Trump said to vote by mail, and then go vote in person. This would slow down vote counting if every mail in ballot has to be compared to people signing in at the polls. If the count doesn’t get decided by December, Trump can declare the election invalid, and stay in power. Every one of the double voters will be committing a felony. Someone in Texas was sent to prison for 5 years for accidentally double voting. Is this really the “Law and Order” President? Or, it will force states to cancel mail ballots, thus forcing urban Democrats to stand in lines for hours, the usual Republican winning strategy. Elementary, my dear Watson.
While we used to analyze Trump in extreme psychological states, it is clear now that he is just trying to con the gullible voter into believing that he is not responsible for the Coronavirus failures, or that there is nothing there to blame on him.
First, there is the blame on China, although they only lost less than 5,000, and showed everyone the effectiveness of lockdowns.
Then there is the hiring of an Obsequion fraudster Dr. Scott Atlas, who now turns out to be a mask denier, and a herd immunizer in practice, while rejecting the actual use of the term. He is not a virus doctor or epidemiologist. Sweden was unique in relying on their social intelligence, which partly failed. Under Trump’s misguidance, social intelligence has totally failed in the US in the seriousness of the Coronavirus, social distancing, masking, testing, contact tracing, and probably quarantining. It’s amazing that there are such fraudsters, but Fox News excels in finding them, and publicly previewing them for Trump’s consumption and hiring of them. History shows a long record of leadership affected by such fraudsters.
Now, Trump is retweeting the excuse that only 6% of Coronavirus deaths were due to the virus, because careful physicians also listed the average of 2.6 vulnerable conditions which caused such a bad outcome. Since these conditions can be widespread like over 80 or obese or with high blood pressure, you can’t really blame the conditions alone. About 45% of Americans have such vulnerable conditions. Saying that they were going to die anyway, really bugs those of us who have lived for decades with effective modern treatments for these conditions.
Achieving herd immunity without a vaccine will kill 1.5 million to two million Americans. It would also take four years.
The latest poll shows that 78% of Americans are now distrusting of the FDA about a politically rolled out vaccine. This was increased by the controversial emergency permission for convalescent plasma therapy released the weekend before the Republican Convention.
Let’s not forget undying hydroxychloroquine, zinc, Zpack, then oleander from the pillow guy. Flatter Trump, and the world is yours, as Putin established early on.
Unfortunately, there is no effective contact tracing set in play for Trump’s Narcissistic Infectoramas, with their tight, unmasked, and shouting crowds. Nor is there a public accounting of infected or contact isolating secret service people, but it is said to be in the dozens.
Fortunately, saliva testing has proved to be as good as or better than swabbing. Unfortunately, the tests are not more than 80% accurate for one test. They are also much less accurate for Asymptomatic infected people.
We are now learning that reports of the Coronavirus Task Force sent to states flagged many of them red, and were more dire than Trump was reporting.
We also learn that Trump gave a $250 million contract of public money to a public relations firm to convince Americans that the pandemic is not as bad as it is.
There are now 260 cases in 12 states tied to the Sturgis motorcycle rally.
The song for today’s article is “Desperado” by the Eagles:
“Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses”
