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-because we elected a buffoon:large
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Doodley
(9,033 posts)test everyone, pay those that are infected to quarantine, and do an ad spend in the tens of billions to convince at least 95% of the population to wear masks and follow the guidelines. That will never happen with Trump as president. By the time Trump has gone, who knows what the death toll and the destruction of the economy will look like.
bullimiami
(13,074 posts)Couldnt be troubled for 5 minutes to do something unselfish.
Volaris
(10,266 posts)And in return we got 'fuck you, not my responsibility and fuck your masks, I need to go to the bar n get my drink on'
By the time Biden walks into the White House as president, we will be to a quarter million dead.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Wawannabe
(5,631 posts)He stole the WH.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)Don't blame me, I voted for that lady from Benghazi or someplace like that. Americans wanted someone from the real American heartland, New York City. A real man of the people who speaks from the heart and says what he means. They wanted to shake things up.
NY, NJ, MI dominated the early cases - NY up to 50% of it. When they fell, so did overall cases. When the south opened up too soon, their cases started rising, When NY etc stabilized, overall cases began to rise as well.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The other graph shows a failure of leadership. We bought the Trump administration time, and they wasted it. In fact, they did worse than waste it, they negated our efforts by appealing to the spoiled brats who they knew would rush out to create super spreader events. There was no end to the first wave; the wave never broke. Trump's failed leadership, constant lying, and pandering to the instant gratification crowd guaranteed that all of our efforts would be for nothing.
denem
(11,045 posts)He didn't harangue - he explained, he reasoned, with empathy and compassion. Residents understood . They were motivated and followed advice.
Yes! he showed real leadership. In a crisis leaders lead, flunkies and flakes fail.
crickets
(25,950 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)is what the republicans did successfully with ebola in 2014. limbaugh and mueller subject jerome corsi were blasting out ebola all the way through oct 2014, republicans turned 9 senate seats, and they stopped completely after the election.
not only is trump stupid enough that he could be convinced that the much more transmissible covid could be used like ebola was used in 2014, he is entirely capable of letting hundreds of thousands die for his reelection. and he is stupid enough to be convinced it might only be ten thousand, etc.
for 2 months limbauagh led the chorus of "COVID HOAX!", then it's not as bad as they say, everybody get back to work, and masks are for sissies and to protest trump - and he, as major ally and tool of the trump white house would not do that without coordination with the white house.