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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe are on a trajectory to become #1
This is a perfect example in the difference in judgement and leadership in a crisis.
Link to a BBC graphic:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-52066105/coronavirus-us-death-rates-v-china-italy-and-south-korea
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We are on a trajectory to become #1 (Original Post)
Chainfire
Mar 2020
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Squinch
(58,002 posts)1. That must be old. We've been number one for days.
Alex4Martinez
(3,270 posts)2. These are rates; not raw numbers.
Our numbers are higher, our rates, infections per capita, are not yet the worst.
Not yet.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)3. The traitortrulmp trajectory is '#1'
Alex4Martinez
(3,270 posts)4. Indeed, the TrumpVirus is the most insidious of them all.
And unnecessarily so.
NCjack
(10,297 posts)5. And the GOP Senators let Trump proceed to stack the corpses like cord wood. Apparently,
there is not a number of dead that will cause them to stop his madness.