Eric Boehlert: Press ignores bombshell -- Trump negligence cost U.S. 400,000 Covid lives

[babylonsister]

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Press ignores bombshell — Trump negligence cost U.S. 400,000 Covid lives
Eric Boehlert


Trump’s deliberate failure to protect the American public from the Covid-19 pandemic led to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths — nearly half a million fatalities, according to a new study that's being ignored by the news media. It’s the same press corps that’s been demanding Trump receive more Covid “credit.”

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Why were news consumers recently fed two weeks of Beltway news coverage about the fact Biden's first formal press conference was slightly late coming, yet there’s been almost no coverage about how Trump's deliberate neglect led to nearly half-a-million deaths? How can that chasm of coverage inequity possibly be explained or reconciled?

Is it possible the press doesn't want to accurately label Trump a stone-cold Covid killer because they're anxious for his return to the political stage? If so, it's in their interest to portray him a mainstream political player, not somebody who consciously turned his back on the country while a year-long public health crisis spun out of control.

All through the pandemic, the political press remained reluctant to address the bigger, darker questions about Trump and why an American president seemed willing to watch the country crumble and decay on his watch — why a president would wage war on his own people the way Trump did. The press preferred to explain the staggering Trump failures as him being “distracted,” or not fully engaged in the once-in-a-century crisis.

We now know the staggering toll for his neglect — 400,000 dead Americans. That's more than perished in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, combined. The press can't keep looking away from Trump's criminality.

[triron]

1. The press is criminal.

[SergeStorms]

9. The mainstream media...

is owned by giant conglomerates interested in one thing: Profits. Which political party caters to the very wealthy and gigantic corporate interests? The QOP. They shy away from biting the hands that feed them. That includes the guns and ammo manufacturers, so you can see why the QOP is dead set against anything to do with gun control.

[Cha]

2. Fucking "press".. why

are they so afraid of the Truth?!

[captain queeg]

3. Obviously no one can give a definitive number but 100s thousands died because of him.

[malaise]

4. Yes

It's stunning...but but but the border

[EX500rider]

5. Why I am certain we could have done better, I don't think 400,000 saved is realistic

How the US compares:



Percentage of cases which lead to death:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1632/idt2/idt2/bf68fc1c-fda6-4de2-a156-836bd7eb54f9/image/816

Death rates per capita:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1632/idt2/idt2/45d1c503-64e8-42d7-9e12-d54c643fda07/image/816


Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53780196

[KS Toronado]

7. This chart suggests the US has/had the third worst record in the world, not surprising.

[KPN]

11. The chart puts a positive spin on it. The US had far more deaths than any other nation; not even

close. The US was first when it comes to worst. That we are by far the wealthiest nation on earth only amplifies our exceptional failure further. We are clearly first at worst.

[EX500rider]

14. Actually you need to look at per capita, third chart

[KPN]

15. I understand that. The reality is, with our resources, we should have led the world as far as per

capita deaths given our resources and capabilities. We are among the highest per capita (12th with 1669/million) among 201 nations in other reports. Heck, our neighbor Canada is only 40th with 608/million. There's no excuse. I stand by my statement re: positive spin. We had and continue to have more deaths by far than any other nation. There is zero excuse for that "exceptionalism". Wanton negligence is the only legitimate explanation for our record.

[link:https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/|

[lagomorph777]

17. Wanton negligence is not the only explanation.

The real explanation is deliberate genocide.

[KPN]

19. It sure feels and looks that way to me.

[robbedvoter]

12. Looks like tha chart other guy was waving around in the man person camera tv interview

He knew it was deadly. He did everything to infect as many of us possible. He succeeded at that. DELIBERATELY. Everything else is BS.

[KPN]

18. Exactly. It's a bogus perspective on a fancy chart. We are 12th among the world's nations in

Covid deaths per capita. Can't even put lipstick on that pig!

[BobTheSubgenius]

21. Kinda makes you wonder how they still claim that the American medical system is by far the best.

Granted, it can do miraculous things....for select groups. In terms of keeping the masses healthy, not so great. Despite spending by far the most per capita on health care, the results are comparatively pitiful.

[Blue Owl]

6. Go fuck yourself Donny you fat piece of shit

[BobTheSubgenius]

8. Almost as important - at least to me - that this is HAMMERED into Il Douche's head...

...with the same intensity it's hammered into the heads of all the media ignoring the elephant in the room.

[uponit7771]

10. Buh... buh... Its been 67 days and Border isn't fixed and cancer isn't cured yet !!!! / sarc

[Starfury]

13. Putin sure got his money's worth out of trump... nt

[lagomorph777]

16. The press should give Trump full credit for successful genocide.

[Bucky]

20. Comparing to other nations

The US has had 31m cases of C19 and 560,000 deaths. The claim that 71% of them were preventable is a bit above the average you'd get by drawing inferences from global infection and mortality rates.

US has had 93,400 infections per million Americans. 10th highest in the world, top highest among major countries.

Our mortality is just under 1700 per million Americans, 14th highest in the world, but behind the UK (1859 per mil) and Italy (1803 per mil) for mortality rates. Of course Western Europe got clobbered earlier on in the crisis, before we knew that much about how to treat Covid.

The global mean is 16,500 infections per million, 360 deaths per million. But that's inclusive of a lot of countries barely touched by the pandemic. Large countries that are both geographically spread out as well as highly urbanized (like the United States is) are better comparisons. I'd look at Russia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Argentina, and Australia for comparison purposes

U.S.A. -- 93,366 infected per mil - 1,694 mortality per mil
Mexico -- 17,146 infected per mil - 1,553 mortality per mil
Brazil --- 58,861 infected per mil - 1,471 mortality per mil
Argentina- 51,043 infected per mil - 1,222 mortality per mil
S. Africa - 25,826 infected per mil - 881 mortality per mil
Russia -- 31,078 infected per mil - 674 mortality per mil
Canada - 25,580 infected per mil - 603 mortality per mil
Australia- 1,139 infected per mil - 35 mortality per mil

Part of the good news is that we have a lower mortality-to-infection ratio than many other nations. But in each field we're in the area of three times the severity that other geographically comparable nations have seen. (My guess is that Mexico is dramatically undercounting its infection rates. 9% mortality rate just doesn't fit with global patterns)

If we had Canada's infection rate, we'd have 8.4 million covid cases instead of 31m and we'd be at 200,000 deaths.

[torius]

22. in recent months Britain has gotten clobbered with a highly contagious variant

that is just getting started here with the help of Republican govs, as we try to outrun it with vaccines.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

23. A free pass No Joke !

orange shit for brains would just come up with some other fire for the press to go chase down and they would.

[OhioTim]

24. The Trump Death Clock

[link:https://trumpdeathclock.com/|