Trump vs #Covid19

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  1. Agent47 Active Member
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    The flu mortality rate is less than a hundredth of Covid-19 which is about twice as infectious.

    “It’s just a flu” is plain ignorance
     
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    The Guardian - isn't that a left wing hack paper? If so, they probably have about as much credibility as the Washington Post or the NY Times.
     
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    Nothing true about that
     
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    Agreed. I should hate to be in one of those countries with nationalized or socialized healthcare because their governments are going to ration care to the most politically favored. Canada cannot handle emergency catastrophic illnesses anyway so those with money come to America for instant care.
     
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    Nothing true about this retort
     
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    Trump and his surrogates can try to keep lying about it, but it’s much easier to trick people into thinking that positive economic indicators during Obama’s presidency were fake, that Trump’s margin of victory against Hillary Clinton in 2016 was larger than it was, or even that the crowd at his inauguration was bigger than Obama’s.

    The president’s lies about Obama and Clinton before and during the 2016 presidential campaign were too varied and numerous to count. As president, he’s lied about his vaunted wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. And, of course, he lied about Russia and Ukraine.


    Those lies, and the many more like them, are qualitatively different from his lies and misinformation about coronavirus. They can be viewed as political in nature, and, even though proving the falseness of those claims isn’t difficult, Trump supporters have demonstrated a willingness to reject any facts that contradict Trump’s untruths and a hostility toward anyone who challenges them.


    That’s because about half the country is primed to take Trump’s word over that of Democrats or the news media or anyone with actual expertise. It’s also because things like jobless numbers or crowd sizes are abstractions.

    But there’s nothing abstract about human suffering compounded by a president who’s either in denial or so maniacally focused on his reelection that he’d rather lose a few citizens that admit things have taken a bad turn. There’s nothing abstract about a dead family member, friend, neighbor, co-worker or acquaintance.
    Trump Can Keep Lying About Coronavirus, But He Won't Be Able To Hide The Deaths | HuffPost
     
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    I was right
     
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    You were always far left. :Alien:Alien:Alien
     
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    Yes it is....with long memories.
     
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    A vaccine has been developed and is being tested here in the State of Washington by my health provider Kaiser Permanente.

    First human trial for coronavirus vaccine begins Monday in the US
     
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    It was clear from the outset that it had pandemic capacity, as the lying, deceptive Communist Chinese were being overwhelmed by it.

    If Trump had outright said COVID-19 is a pandemic, or would be, rather than allowing health officials to announce this after it progressed, we would never hear the end of it.
     
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    and then they threaten us ...

    "China is threatening to wreak havoc on America’s drug supply amid the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Thanks to our globalist elite and especially missteps during the Obama-Biden administration, Beijing has the power to do just that."

    China Threatens to Throw America 'Into the Mighty Sea of the Coronavirus.'

    China owes the entire world an apology for what they have done.
     
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    Yes, they certainly do, and we learned nothing from Soviet Communism.

    I watched as the free world heralded the fall of the Berlin Wall as the "fall of Communism," and wondered how people could be so stupid. But of course we showed we were far stupider by empowering the Chinese Communists with our own economic success.
     
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    They wont be able to get in. The border is closed
     
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    just as we broke the dependency of America upon Arab oil, we need to break our dependency upon China for MANY commodities but especially our medical needs. why enable and promote the last locale of virtual slavery in the world,

    they socked it to us in our time of need then turned around blamed and threatened us.
    as a former military man i would have some choice words, as a Christian i will refrain.
     
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    Except that Canada is still taking refugees off our hands. Illegals in New York can go to the Buffalo area where there is a road that leads across the border. It is called Roxham Road. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police actually see that the illegals are taken to shelters. I guess that they want Canadian welfare and they are given a Canadian gold card that promises them 20 years of total health care, better than the Canadian citizens have. This video was posted two days ago:

     
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    I meant on our side