Trump seems to think there'd be no coronavirus if there was no testing. It doesn't work like that.

[TomCADem]

Every so often, Trump admits why his administration has dragged its feet for so long on tests. They don't want to know the truth. They can't handle the truth. Cover-ups are now a routine feature of the Federal Government.

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https://www.vox.com/2020/5/15/21259888/trump-coronavirus-testing-very-few-cases

Nearly four months since the first coronavirus case in the US was reported, President Donald Trump continues to struggle to come to grips with how testing for the virus works and why it’s important.

During remarks on Thursday at the Owens & Minor distribution center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Trump tried to downplay the severity of the US’s coronavirus outbreak by arguing the country wouldn’t be leading the world in cases if it weren’t for the fact that so much testing is being done here — as if coronavirus cases simply wouldn’t exist if we didn’t test to find them.

“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. They the media don’t want to write that.”

It stands to reason that conducting more tests correlates with finding more cases — but that’s a good thing. More testing helps public health experts and policymakers understand the full scope of the problem, isolate those who have tested positive, and then trace their contacts to help contain potential outbreaks. But for Trump, the downside is it undercuts his argument that it’s already safe for states to lift stay-at-home orders that are hurting the economy and therefore hurting his reelection hopes.

[Ohiogal]

1. And 40% of the American people are just fine with this.

[leftieNanner]

2. And all those bodies in the refrigerated trucks?

[DBoon]

4. Crises actors

just like Sandy Hook.

[mr_lebowski]

3. It's easier to understand when Sarah Cooper explains it ...

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[Girard442]

8. No offense Sarah, but you do such a good job imitating Trump that I get the urge to smack YOU.

I mean I get it, but you are exactly that good.

[Turbineguy]

5. It does work like that.

You just have to believe in trump.

[Yonnie3]

6. It works like that on "reality" TV.

Let's make sure that this show is cancelled.

[Girard442]

7. Yeah, list all the causes of death as "undiagnosed respiratory failure."

Bring the number of deaths from coronavirus right down to zero. Problem solved.

[Gothmog]

9. trump is an idiot

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[question everything]

10. this is why he is Jenius.

[Caliman73]

11. It is always a question between ignorance and malice with the idiot.

It is difficult to imagine that he doesn't understand how testing works, I mean he is intellectually lazy so it is likely that he is that stupid. In his simple head, more testing equals more cases and more cases equals bad news, so less testing equals less cases which equals good news.

Where the disconnect is for people with typical intelligence and/or a sense of right and wrong is that less information about cases does not mean less cases. It just means we know less. Ignorance is not bliss. For Trump however, who is malicious in the sense that "winning" is more important than people's lives, Ignorance means a win at that moment.

Trump is simple to figure out, but his ability for malice, ignorance, and self dealing are difficult to accept to people with any kind of moral compass.

Trump is less interested in long term victory then he is at escaping humiliation in the moment and having small victories in the current news cycle.

I have said before that Trump is merely trying to out run his ultimate destruction. Unfortunately he has America along for the ride and as he fails, we get hurt.