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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 08:03 AM Apr 2020

#1 they say, we are exceptional they say

Remember when Trump said...

[The coronavirus will weaken] “when we get into April, in the warmer weather—that has a very negative effect on that, and that type of a virus.”

“It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.”


“Anybody that needs a test, gets a test. We—they’re there. They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful.”


“We have a lot of people working very hard to do ventilators and various other things.”


The infection and death toll today:



And as testing is very very hard to get one can assume that infection rate is significantly higher than recorded. After all if you don't count them they can't count. And even then America is still #1 for infections, by miles.



When people boast that America is #1, I am pretty sure that this is not what they have in mind...

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