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BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 07:42 AM Sep 2022

trump killed a million people with "it's a hoax" lie.

How is that not a major election issue?

I blame him for the vast majority of those deaths. Way more than a normal flu death rate.

The total number of death from Covid is probably well over a million now.

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Blues Heron

(5,931 posts)
1. One death is a tragedy - a million deaths is a statistic.
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 08:09 AM
Sep 2022

Stalin nailed that one unfortunately. It is too big a number for the human brain to properly comprehend, so it gets tuned out. Otherwise the guy would be in jail already, but he walks free.

lark

(23,092 posts)
3. I don't understand why Dems are avoiding this topic.
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 08:41 AM
Sep 2022

Florida is #1 in Covid deaths since the vaccines were implemented - why, oh why, is this not being shouted from the rooftops by Crist? Death Sentence and drumpf are both murderers for political profit.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,327 posts)
11. Because the administration's covid response hasn't been exactly stellar, and Biden's off-the-cuff
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 10:03 AM
Sep 2022

comment didn't help.

lark

(23,092 posts)
12. Still facts matter and the facts are Death Sentence is killing us.
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 10:04 AM
Sep 2022

It should be advertised to the sky and back. It's his major weakness, he says he protected us and he did the opposite - tell it to the world!!!

ITAL

(631 posts)
4. We'd still be looking at several hundred thousand
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 08:42 AM
Sep 2022

I am in no way saying Trump doesn't have a lot of responsibility, but just looking at Europe as a guide, I think we would have still had at least three hundred thousand, and probably over half a million regardless. If one uses the deaths per million statistic, even a relative success story like Denmark had 1200 deaths per million residents. We had 3200.

Places like France had 2300, Austria 2200, etc..

CatWoman

(79,295 posts)
8. but were the leaders of those countries completely irresponsible, telling their citizens there's
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 09:24 AM
Sep 2022

nothing to worry about and the pandemic is all in their minds.

Of course some deaths were bound to occur, but I think the issue here is UNNECESSARY deaths.

Even after Trump contracted COVID he still acted like a damn fool.

 

RocRizzo55

(980 posts)
9. Not an issue the same way
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 09:24 AM
Sep 2022

That the thousands that Raygun killed by saying that AIDS is a gay cancer.
That Dumbya killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for no reason.
Just a few more. Each time they go on a mass murdering streak, it just gets bigger.
The next one will probably kill us all, if we are not already done due to climate change.

Walleye

(31,009 posts)
13. The MAGAs are still telling us the thousands have died from the vaccine
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 11:22 AM
Sep 2022

And millions and millions still believe everything that Trump says. I don’t know how we cure that disease

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