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turbinetree

(27,735 posts)
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 02:00 PM Apr 2020

'Coronavirus Cornyn': GOP senator's latest effort to downplay threat of COVID-19 massively backfires

Published 1 min ago on April 15, 2020
By Brad Reed

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Wednesday tried to spread some purportedly encouraging news about the COVID-19 pandemic — but his happy talk was quickly shot down by his own Twitter followers.

Specifically, Cornyn pointed to data posted on the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 tracking website showing that 25 percent of people who contracted the disease are now listed as having “recovered.”

However, that nonetheless means that 75 percent of people who have contracted the disease — about 1.5 million people — are either still sick or dead, which is not exactly a comforting statistic.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/coronavirus-cornyn-gop-senators-latest-effort-to-downplay-threat-of-covid-19-massively-backfires/

And people are pleading with him.............dumb fuckers he doesn't give a shit about you, if he did he would have IMPEACHED and CONVICTED the asshole that has BLOOD ON HIS HANDS.................

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'Coronavirus Cornyn': GOP senator's latest effort to downplay threat of COVID-19 massively backfires (Original Post) turbinetree Apr 2020 OP
Cornyn is the definition of asshat. cayugafalls Apr 2020 #1
That's the big talk and the right. WHAT ABOUT THE SURVIVORS?!? underpants Apr 2020 #2
He is one of the reasons I BillyBobBrilliant Apr 2020 #3
Repeal and Replace cojoel Apr 2020 #4

cayugafalls

(5,984 posts)
1. Cornyn is the definition of asshat.
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 02:08 PM
Apr 2020

In Texas we have lots of them. They breed like cockroaches. You might see one, but there are thousands just like him hidden in plain sight.

underpants

(197,192 posts)
2. That's the big talk and the right. WHAT ABOUT THE SURVIVORS?!?
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 02:10 PM
Apr 2020

Ignoring the dead of course.

BillyBobBrilliant

(805 posts)
3. He is one of the reasons I
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 02:17 PM
Apr 2020

will vote in November, if I have to stand in line with a bunch of coughing, sniffling people.

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