The Donald Trump Score Card

Another idiotic comment and useless advice from Hephatrump !!!


Trump says people can wear scarves to protect themselves against coronavirus

Staff writer
Mar 31st 2020 9:17PM
Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he would urge ordinary people to use scarves instead of masks so healthcare workers would have adequate supplies.

"You can use a scarf. A lot of people have scarves, and you can use a scarf. A scarf would be very good.

"My feeling is, if people want to do it, there's certainly no harm to it. I would say do it, but use a scarf if you want, you know, rather than going out and getting a mask or whatever.

"We are making millions and millions of masks, but we want them to go to the hospitals."





Scarves are not a safe alternative to N-95 masks, according to Raw Story.

While N-95 maskes are specially created to filter 95% of impurities out of the air, many scarves are loosely knitted and can hold the virus in the fibres.

 

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No, because the stupid bastard thinks that covid - 19 only attacks and kills off Democrats !!!

 

History?

Hong Kong flu killed 100,000 in the US according to the CDC. Can you remember who was President at the time without googling ( hint: you'd have to do a bit of research to even work out which years it was in the US)

War buffs would know who was US president in WW1, but most wouldn't have a clue who was US President during Spanish flu outbreaks

 

Off the top of my head and without Googling or researching, I believe it was Woodrow Wilson.

 

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You are a school kid in 100 years from now doing a school report about a pandemic that led to the second Great Depression which led to WW3....and you found out it only killed 100,000 people worldwide, Influenza killed 3 times as many people same year

You'd be like ...huh? Dafuq?

 

See, you dont even know who was President at the height of the US cases

 

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The pandemic has led to a 'Trump bump' in the polls – but don't assume it will last
Simon Tisdall
Wed 1 Apr 2020 06.30 EDT
Last modified on Wed 1 Apr 2020 06.31 EDT

The pandemic is producing a 'Trump bump' in the polls – but it may not last | Simon Tisdall

excerpt:

"Trump’s gut instinct to dispute expert medical advice, without any evidence, plays into the anti-establishment, anti-science and Christian fundamentalist sentiments nurtured in Trump’s Republican base. So, too, do his xenophobic attempts to blame the virus on foreigners and foes, principally China’s communist leaders, immigrants and Europe.

Ironically, the level-headedness, good judgment and common sense shown by a key adviser, Anthony Fauci, a leading infectious disease expert, have made up for Trump’s lack of those very qualities. Fauci has added gravitas to Trump’s rambling, incoherent performances in front of camera. But vicarious leadership of this sort cannot work indefinitely.

The real problems for Trump and his national savior act will begin when it becomes clear the administration’s failure to instigate a nationwide testing regime, coupled with its refusal to order effective lockdowns of virus hotspots and tardiness in delivering life-saving equipment, is increasing the likelihood of a protracted, rolling nightmare of sickness and misery through the summer and fall."

 

You have 14 days now until that supposed peak on April 15th

You would have to average 3,500 deaths a day for the next 14 days to get to that 100,000 estimate by August

No one, and none of you are even going to bother to check how the University of Washington worked that out. Just an exponential growth curve with the same infection rate across the whole country based on the infection rate of a country 1/30 the size of yours

 

Assume it will last. No one is going to think Biden is the better choice to handle the economic hell on earth to follow

 

The pandemic is producing a 'Trump bump' in the polls – but it may not last | Simon Tisdall

excerpt:

"Rarely has the White House bully pulpit been so powerful. But his dominance of the public arena could yet backfire on the president.

The fact that Trump’s announcements have often been contradictory, ill-thought-through or plain false, and the fact he has reversed himself with alarming regularity – the latest U-turn being Sunday’s decision to extend social distancing measures until the end of April – does not seem to put off many viewers. What they think they see is a man in charge.

Yet by casting himself as an all-powerful, all-seeing “wartime president” calling the shots in the biggest national health and economic emergency Americans have experienced, Trump is setting himself up for a fall. Many experts predict the measures he has taken so far will prove to be too little, too late and Covid-19 will spread more widely and for longer, and the death toll will begin to rise exponentially."

 

You tried to claim History is going to remember Trumps handling of this little baby pandemic as blah blah blah

No history is not. This one won't even make it into the top ten list for the worlds worst pandemics

 

It will last

 

The Trump faithful are still promoting the 'it's just the flu' meme.

Even Trump has begun to change his mind that it's not just the flu after observing the situation in Queens.



Trump Confronts a New Reality Before an Expected Wave of Disease and Death
Under the best-case scenario presented on Tuesday, more Americans will die from the coronavirus in the weeks and months to come than died in the Korean and Vietnam Wars combined.
By Peter Baker
April 1, 2020
Updated 8:12 a.m. ET

Trump Confronts a New Reality Before an Expected Wave of Disease and Death

excerpt:

"Still, Mr. Trump, rarely a reflective person in public, mused about the human toll of the pandemic more than he had in the early weeks of the crisis because apparently it has hit his own circle. As he has in the past couple of days, he referred to an overwhelmed hospital in his childhood home of Queens and an unidentified friend he said had been hospitalized with the virus.

“When you send a friend to the hospital and you call up to find out how is he doing,” Mr. Trump said, “it happened to me where goes to the hospital, he says goodbye, sort of a tough guy, a little older, a little heavier than he’d like to be frankly and you call up the next day, how is he doing? And he’s in a coma. This is not the flu.”"

 

Trump Confronts a New Reality Before an Expected Wave of Disease and Death
Under the best-case scenario presented on Tuesday, more Americans will die from the coronavirus in the weeks and months to come than died in the Korean and Vietnam Wars combined.
By Peter Baker
April 1, 2020
Updated 8:12 a.m. ET

Trump Confronts a New Reality Before an Expected Wave of Disease and Death

excerpt:

"WASHINGTON — Five weeks ago, when there were 60 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States, President Trump expressed little alarm. “This is a flu,” he said. “This is like a flu.” He was still likening it to an ordinary flu as late as Friday.

By Tuesday, however, with more than 187,000 recorded cases in the United States and more Americans having been killed by the virus than by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the president’s assessment had rather drastically changed. “It’s not the flu,” he said. “It’s vicious.”

The grim-faced president who appeared in the White House briefing room for more than two hours on Tuesday evening beside charts showing death projections of hellacious proportions was coming to grips with a reality he had long refused to accept. At a minimum, the charts predicted that 100,000 to 240,000 Americans would die — and only if the nation abided by stringent social restrictions that would choke the economy and impoverish millions."

 

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Trump seeing the dead bodies being loaded into refrigerator trucks in Queens where he grew up is what seemed to have finally convinced him to start changing his mind about the seriousness of the virus.

It's similar to talking head Joe Scarborough of MSNBC who was fully supportive of Bush in the post-9/11 years until Katrina happened. Scarborough had relatives in the southern states and became critical of Bush for the first time after his relatives where damaged by Katrina.

It's unfortunate that disasters have to hit home in order for stubborn-minded, influential people to start taking matters seriously.