The Donald Trump Score Card

Coronavirus vaccines 101: What you need to know | UCHealth Today

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"Will I need a booster?

Yes, probably. The first vaccines to be tested in the U.S. have required a booster about a month after the first injection.

Why bother with a vaccine if we can just slow-burn until herd immunity?

First, despite alarmingly high infection counts in many parts of the United States, we’re a long way from herd immunity, which happens when enough of a population has developed immunity that a disease’s spread becomes improbable. Herd immunity can happen in two ways: through infection and through vaccination. The herd-immunity threshold is unknown with the coronavirus, but it’s thought to be somewhere around 43% to 66% of the population.

Even if we were to assume 10 times more U.S. infections than the nearly 5 million confirmed cases so far, that’s less than 15% of the U.S. population. Achieving herd immunity by further infecting more about six times the number of people who have already contracted COVID-19 would kill tens of thousands and push the health care system to its limits and beyond.

The very real prospect of effective vaccines being available in a matter of months renders every coronavirus death even more of an avoidable tragedy than has been the case from the beginning of the pandemic. The way forward is to socially distance, clear the air, wash hands, and mask up until a vaccine opens up a controlled, safe road to herd immunity."

 

Trump one time said that they were traveling 'to DC' and another time said 'from DC'.

His supporters can now defend him by saying that he saw dark shadows twice, once entering and once leaving DC.

 

Trump tells voters to vote twice.


Trump encourages North Carolina residents to test system by voting twice

 

Trump can concoct another psychotic narrative that three million dark shadows are out there that will come in by planeloads and illegally vote for Biden instead of him.

 

Trump’s fragile mental health must be handled with as much care as the coronavirus outbreak
By Bandy X. Lee
last updated: 03/03/2020

Trump’s fragile mental health must be handled with as much care as the coronavirus outbreak ǀ View

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"Persons with non-psychotic disorders can develop delusions under pressure, as the overwhelming need to believe in an alternative reality makes fantasy real for them. They then become more likely to spread their symptoms, as a delusional person who truly believes in one’s delusions can be very convincing. People speak of puzzling features emerging even from formerly respectable attorneys and lawmakers surrounding the president, and ask what is inducing them to aid and abet him. While there may be many reasons for this, when the level reaches the point of irrationality, we must consider contagion. Shared psychosis, or mass hysteria, is what we expect to happen from allowing a severely impaired, influential person, who has gone untreated, wide and constant, unmitigated exposure to supporters and the public.

Many say that Donald Trump is not a departure from the values of the Republican Party but its culmination. Our own study showed differences in political party contribution to violent death rates, even when controlling for policy, suggesting differences in levels of health and not simply ideology. These seal the third condition for widespread shared psychosis: it provides the fertile ground, or an environment that facilitates the spread of cognitive distortions, delusions, and other mental symptoms. A refusal to have even a serious discussion about the issue contributes to allowing what others have called a “cult” or “fascism” to take hold in the first place. Psychological conditioning through media manipulations, containment within social media bubbles and orchestration of alternative belief systems through the president’s incessant tweets, hypnotic rallies, and group conformity, only make it worse."

 

Rod Rosenstein and William Barr are two examples.

 

"it was just a joke... I never kid" ~ Donald J. Trump

 

(to 27500) Cowardice of the orange toddler getting mad at them and the lust for power and control that obviously shows their total lack of principles. Watch their craven excuses if the toddler loses of why they backed him. (too late--you've all shown who and what you are)

 

If anyone did this, by law all those votes should be tossed... Not just the duplicates, all of them. It's called voter fraud.

 

I believe it's agin' the law.

 

The "Law and Order" president don't need no stinkin' laws...

 

Can anything change Americans’ minds about Donald Trump?
The eerie stability of Trump’s approval rating, explained.
By Ezra Klein
Sep 2, 2020, 7:30am EDT

Can anything change Americans’ minds about Donald Trump?

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"On August 27, 2019, President Donald Trump held a 41.3 percent approval rating and a 54.2 percent disapproval rating, according to FiveThirtyEight’s poll tracker. During the 365 days that followed, Trump became the third president impeached by the House of Representatives; America assassinated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani; more than 200,000 Americans died from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus; the unemployment rate rose from 3.7 percent to 10.2 percent; the US banned incoming travel from Europe, China, and Brazil; an estimated 12 million people lost health insurance coverage; Trump pardoned Roger Stone, who was facing jail time for dirty tricks on the president’s behalf; and George Floyd’s murder sparked a nationwide movement protesting for racial justice — to which officials responded by tear-gassing demonstrators in Lafayette Park in Washington, DC, so Trump could pose for a photograph holding a Bible.

That is, of course, a bitterly incomplete list of a grimly consequential year in American history. But you’d never know it simply by following Trump’s poll numbers. On August 27, 2020 — one year later, and the day Trump used the White House as a backdrop for his convention speech — FiveThirtyEight had Trump at 42.2 percent approval and 54.3 percent disapproval. Everything had happened, and politically, nothing had mattered. Or, at the least, not much had changed.

“It’s really remarkable,” says Jennifer Victor, a political scientist at George Mason University. “The stability of Trump’s numbers are almost unbelievable.”"

 

Can anything change Americans’ minds about Donald Trump?

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"The stability unnerves me because it undermines the basic theory of responsive democracy. If our political divisions cut so deep that even 200,000 deaths and 10.2 percent unemployment and a president musing about bleach injections can’t shake us, then what can? And if the answer is nothing, then that means the crucial form of accountability in American politics has collapsed. Yes, many of us are partisans, with a hard lean one way or the other. But the assumption has long been that beneath that, we are Americans, and we want the country governed with some bare level of competence, that we care more for our safety and our paychecks than our parties."

 

The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000
By Denise Lu
August 13, 2020

The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000

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"Across the United States, at least 200,000 more people have died than usual since March, according to a New York Times analysis of estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is about 60,000 higher than the number of deaths that have been directly linked to the coronavirus.

As the pandemic has moved south and west from its epicenter in New York City, so have the unusual patterns in deaths from all causes. That suggests that the official death counts may be substantially underestimating the overall effects of the virus, as people die from the virus as well as by other causes linked to the pandemic."

 

While voting twice is illegal, at least here in Massachusetts its punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 dollars and 5 years in jail.

Promoting the idea is also a felony.

The President is asking his supporters to break the law in violation of the voting rights act – anyone else would be subject to arrest.

 

Trump's strategy is to use heavy-handed law enforcement to treat symptoms of underlying racial strife upon which he has capitalized and exacerbated and whose causes he has refused to address. He's been self-contradictory in that he hasn't been able to stop the months of ongoing strife that he says he will stop in a second term, strife that he alleges will be worse in a Biden term.



Can anything change Americans’ minds about Donald Trump?

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"It is telling that Trump’s strategy for winning reelection doesn’t seem to be a new message or a new plan for controlling the coronavirus or restarting the economy. Instead, he’s running a racialized campaign against protests, riots, and disorder — even though that disorder is happening on his watch as president. “The GOP has no policies so they deal entirely in grievance and identity,” says Lilliana Mason, a political scientist at the University of Maryland. That has been enough for Trump to hold a bit more than 40 percent of the electorate. But a bit more than 40 percent of the electorate is not a winning coalition, and it is far less than a capable leader might now hold."

 

Trump is having difficulty grappling with the approaches that he is proffering, ones for which he should have a record of being comfortable, confident, and successful.



Donald Trump is the president

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"Trump himself has written in praise of rough police tactics, tweeting one day about White House protests that “whenever someone got too frisky or out of line, [the Secret Service] would quickly come down on them, hard — didn’t know what hit them,” before fantasizing about scenarios in which protesters would breach the White House fence only to be “greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen.” He pardoned crooked cop Joe Arpaio, and defied the top brass of the military to issue pardons for suspected and convicted war criminals.

Encouraging bad policing is bad on the merits. It also creates a very different political dynamic than prevailed from 2014 to 2016. The federal government is openly contemptuous of the basic goals of police reform advocates who are now taking to the streets in mass protest."

 

Trump wonders why he has lost support of the military.