Don't Let Trump Set The Metric For His Pandemic Success

[UCmeNdc]

We'll measure Trump’s pandemic actions by what we care about--people died because of him. Do not let Trump pull the Trump "Con Job" on you!

Trump wants to measure how he's doing on this pandemic based on the numbers he chooses. To counter this we must show the numbers that doctors chose to use to measure a pandemic.

Then we frame Trump's chosen numbers with important numbers that show his failures.

Trump has always picked the numbers he wants to measure his success. First he wanted it to be inauguration attendees. The media pushed back Sean Spicer so hard he had to go on Dancing With The Stars for not being a good enough liar. Next Trump used numbers the media couldn't deny, like the electoral college vote. When the stock market was up it was tweet, tweet, tweet! When unemployment was down? He bragged about it in every rally, especially in a category that he was weak in--African American support.

Thursday he picked a number he believes shows he is winning the fight against the coronavirus. TV ratings. I'm not going to let him, so I've physically--and linguistically--started framed the metric he chose with one the people care about.

1. Picking a number you are a leader in is a classic technique used by marketing and PR people for decades.
2. Find a category you are winning in.
3. Show how your product is winning--as compared to others that YOU select.
4. Find an organization/company that shows that your product is winning in that category. If you can't find a company that shows your product leading the category you picked, commission a company to prove it.(Some market research
5. firms are good for this, especially those that let you pick the questions & audience.)
6. Get those winning numbers to the media so THEY repeat them. "Research Group says, Product T is the winner in X, Y & Z!!"
7. Repeat the headline from media stories that use Research Group numbers--because most people only read headlines.

Trump regularly uses this technique and changes his metric when it suits him. Friday he was bragging about the market going up again.


https://crooksandliars.com/2020/04/dont-let-trump-set-metric-success

[onecaliberal]

1. We need ads all over America documenting the failures.

Wall to wall. Paging Bloomberg...

[Newest Reality]

2. Thanks!

That's been my view, along with a few other factors, for a long time.

He does market research and anything goes. He keeps what sticks, (which seems to be getting more difficult because he does not vary his shtick as well these days). Meanwhile, the erratic changes are useful for confusing and CONDITIONING the public with the aim of usurping our current system with a dictatorial regime, (something that is pretty much in place and just needs finishing touches).

An example of one to watch is Trump's "invisible enemy". It is wrong in both senses. It is his way of crafting an implicit excuse: how could you see something invisible, especially an enemy, coming until it is already attacking you?

No, it is a pandemic, not an invisible enemy that you can then consider yourself a "wartime" President, (see: G.W. Bush) who plays Commander and Chief waging a battle against that "invisible enemy". That's along the same lines as waging war against a word: terrorism, maybe worse.

COVID-19 is a viral epidemic. It has no strategy, ideology or weapons. You can't call it an enemy in that sense. It was, and is, a global pandemic and a cause of a crises and that's all it needs to be called.

[Make7]

3. I think he set the metric early on when he used the H1N1-2009 flu pandemic as a comparison.

"... the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic which killed thousands of people. The response was one of the worst on record."

"... Their response to H1N1 Swine Flu was a full scale disaster, with thousands dying..."

"... look at the catastrophe of the H1N1 Swine Flu (Biden in charge, 17,000 people lost, very late response time)..."

"The April 2009-10 Swine Flu, where nearly 13,000 people died in the U.S., was poorly handled."

"Did she Report on the failed H1N1 Swine Flu debacle where 17,000 people died?"

[Blue_true]

4. You hit it dead on the mark.

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The numbers that we should force his response to be compared to are for Swine Flu, Zika and Ebola. The first two were novel viruses like COVID-19, the last was one of the most feared pathogens in history. When they all got to the USA, Obama/Biden stopped them with lower loss of life than what we are seeing from Trump. We should end the Ad by asking Americans a simple question "There will be another deadly and economically damaging virus coming around soon, do you trust Donald Trump and other republican officeholders to lead us through it?"

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Exactly

Having an out-of-control toddler as President may seem harmless until you have to count on said toddler to handle a matter of such extreme importance.

[Blue_true]

7. We have to get people to look at how badly Trump has handled even simple problems.

This virus, the next virus, the next international crisis aren't or will not be simple problems, they needs to decide if they want an intellectually unfit person who has zero empathy leading us - I sincerely believe that enough people will say no to Trump to have us win the General in both the popular vote and EC. Lots of people are emotionally worn out by his foolishness and want a calmer, saner leader leading.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. I think most people would agree

I don't really meet many people IRL who don't think Trump is an a**hole, if not an outright disaster. I feel like he has worn out his welcome. And hopefully, in November, he goes down and takes a bunch of Republicans with him, most especially *itch McConnell.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. I am stunned by the Swine Flu Deaths

I barely remember anything about it from 2009-2010. I recognize, of course, that those were over the course of a year, not just 2-3 months.