Yet again, Trump pledges that the coronavirus will simply go away: Washington Post..
Yesterday, Tuesday 5pm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/28/yet-again-trump-pledges-that-coronavirus-will-simply-go-away/
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By Philip Bump
April 28 at 5:08 PM
During a news media availability at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump was presented with a comment he made more than two months ago.
“Today the U.S. hit a grim milestone of 1 million cases of the coronavirus,” CNN’s Jim Acosta said. “Back in late February, you predicted that the number of cases would go down to zero. How did we get from your prediction of zero to 1 million?”
“Well,” Trump replied, “it will go down to zero, ultimately.”
This reply, while flippant, is not demonstrably incorrect. It may well be the case that the novel coronavirus is eventually eradicated entirely, though that’s trickier than it may seem. The flu strain at the center of the 1918 pandemic, for example, still circulates and is included in annual flu shots. Eradicating viruses entirely is hard to do, as doctors who have battled the spread of polio can attest.
who have battled the spread of polio can attest.
But while Trump’s reply demonstrates a remarkable optimism, it’s also completely disingenuous. His comments in February weren’t a vague assertion that the threat posed by the virus would pass. Instead, they were an assertion that the government was capably containing the virus and that the number of cases already presented would quickly winnow away.
Obviously, he was wrong.
That comment on Feb. 26 was not the first time he had claimed that the virus would simply dissipate.
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Comment:...Trump is too stupid to know that that comment was quite stupid...
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