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riversedge

(69,727 posts)
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:47 PM May 2020

" Trump likes to talk about the most, the best, the thing that nobody has ever seen." death count...

I really want to be the one to smack that smug look off Trumps face!!

He has already been bragging about how his Adm. has reduced the numbers. But he had to up the count to 100,000 yesterday at the pres. conference.









Grim count: US virus toll passes Trump’s 60,000 marker



https://apnews.com/6cdbb13291cc0c9a60f1980e74616bbc
By DARLENE SUPERVILLEApril 30, 2020





WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump likes to talk about the most, the best, the thing that nobody has ever seen.

Now he is trying to make a virtue of a lower number, arguing that the efforts of his administration have warded off a far greater death toll than otherwise would have been seen.


But the reported U.S. death toll on Wednesday crept past 60,000, a figure that Trump in recent weeks had suggested might be the total death count. He had cited the estimate as a sign of relative success after the White House previously warned the U.S. could suffer 100,000 to 240,000 deaths.


“I don’t think anybody’s done a better job -- with testing, with ventilators, with all the things that we’ve done,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday. “And our death totals — numbers per million people — are really very, very strong. We’re very proud of the job we’ve done.”

Trump also has repeatedly used the outer band of any estimate — the potential that 2.2 million Americans could have died had there been no interventions — to try to make his case most powerfully.


The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 is certain to keep growing from here.

And, like the unemployment rate, the numbers also will be revised — and likely upward, due to underreporting. The focus on death tallies also overlooks other important markers such as immunity levels and infection rates. ...........................




President Donald Trump, followed by Vice President Mike Pence, arrives to speak about reopening the country, during a roundtable with industry executives, in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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" Trump likes to talk about the most, the best, the thing that nobody has ever seen." death count... (Original Post) riversedge May 2020 OP
Then why is the death toll so much worse than the average for the rest of the world? unblock May 2020 #1
Donnie doesn't even need to pat himself on the back with Mother's boy behind him Blue Owl May 2020 #2

unblock

(51,974 posts)
1. Then why is the death toll so much worse than the average for the rest of the world?
Sat May 2, 2020, 03:13 PM
May 2020

If we had the same death rate as the rest of the world there would be only around 7,300 deaths.

Around 58,000 of the deaths are due to America's response being worse than that if the rest of the world.

Blue Owl

(49,934 posts)
2. Donnie doesn't even need to pat himself on the back with Mother's boy behind him
Sat May 2, 2020, 10:00 PM
May 2020

Mikey will do it for him...

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