The Donald Trump Score Card

This is the image I’ll never forget about Kellyanne- in the Oval Office

 

And the other 43,000 Americans that day that contracted the virus, where were they, how many were wearing masks?

 

Kid has 1 million followers?

Huh?

 

But a mom carelessly walking around coughing in the house, giving everyone the virus. The number of followers a person has doesn’t mean shit to me.

 

I looked up who she was, a million followers, safe bet 1/2 those are dirty old men when you see her Instagram

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People who were careless at an event that appears to have served as a virus spreader shift blame to those at another location who were also careless who blame it on another location where people were careless.

It comes down to a lack of wanting to behave responsibly.

Rev. John Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame, who apparently contracted (or spread) the virus at Trump's event to promote Barrett, at least admitted responsibility.

Statement by Jenkins:

" I regret my error of judgment in not wearing a mask during the ceremony and by shaking hands with a number of people in the Rose Garden. I failed to lead by example, at a time when I’ve asked everyone else in the Notre Dame community to do so. I especially regret my mistake in light of the sacrifices made on a daily basis by many, particularly our students, in adjusting their lives to observe our health protocols."

 

That's the type of statement Trump should make, especially the phrase "I failed to lead by example."

 

Summary of ten people who have tested positive after having been in Trump's orbit during the week he became infected.

Eleven when including Trump.

Fifteen when including one White House staffer and three reporters.


Trump Associates Who Tested Positive for Coronavirus

 

The coronavirus death rate in the U.S. has been consistent and near 1000 per day. Trump still hasn't put out the fire but has thrown gasoline on it by having rallies in hot spots. The White House has become a hot spot.

Trump remark on May 15, 2020.


Trump downplays the need for coronavirus vaccine: 'It'll go away at some point'

“And if we don’t, we’re going to be like so many other cases where you had a problem come in, it’ll go away at some point, it’ll go away, It may flare up and it may not flare up, we’ll have to see what happens, but if it does flare up we’re going to put out the fire and we’ll put it out quickly and efficiently. We’ve learned a lot.”

 

The White House became sloppier during the summer about virus precautions than its was during the spring. It was the time when Trump was promoting the second phase of reopening the U.S.

Trump was raving about the fast-test method for the virus that is being used at the White House but seemingly unaware of the trade-off of a higher false-negative rate. Later, he started belittling testing for the general public when he thought the results showing higher case rates were hurting his image during the summer surge. The increase in case rate was followed by an increase in death rate that he mistakenly thought wouldn't occur. The White House itself eventually became a hot spot.



President Donald Trump's Hospitalization Has Aides Wondering if More Should Have Been Done to Protect Him

excerpt:

"Over time, the White House staff got “sloppy” about the protocols recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “They were fatigued with it all in there and they just made a decision. Slowly they made a decision to not follow the protocol. It takes one person not wearing the mask to a meeting, one person takes their mask off,” the former official said.

Trump and many senior staff at the White House have relied on a false sense of security that the daily, rapid testing of people meeting with the President would flag any cases early enough to prevent the virus’ spread. But a test can only return a positive result after someone has contracted the virus, by which time they may already be contagious."

 

Every test and contact tracing approach will have shortcomings. It's another reason to promote and integrate a number of modalities such as social distancing and wearing a face covering instead of marginalizing them during a pandemic.

Trump and some of his followers cite shortcomings to belittle the approaches for mitigating the spread of the disease, from testing to contact tracing to face coverings to social distancing. An exception for Trump is his perception that a vaccine will soon be available that will stop the virus quickly. Trump seems unaware that shortcomings also exist for vaccines like they do for every other mitigation approach.

 

Belittling mitigation approaches encourages lax behavior which can increase the spread of the disease to the point where useful approaches such as testing and contact tracing become overwhelmed, like what is currently occurring in parts of Wisconsin. It reduces the ability to control the spread of the disease.

The situation reaches an inflection point where the spread of the virus goes out of control, causing an unnecessary wave of morbidity and death until the situation eventually subsides after the wave reminds people of the seriousness of the disease. The U.S. has gone through this with its ongoing, rolling, regional hot spots across the country. The White House is currently a local hot spot as a result of its lax behavior.

 

Tony Ornato is known for letting Trump do whatever he wants.



President Donald Trump's Hospitalization Has Aides Wondering if More Should Have Been Done to Protect Him

excerpt:

"Several staff members and donors have privately questioned Trump’s decision to attend a fundraiser for 100 people at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey on Thursday after Hicks had tested positive, say the current and former officials. The White House operations office, run by Secret Service official Tony Ornato, signed off on Trump attending the event, McEnany said. “He socially distanced. It was an outdoor event. It was deemed safe by White House operations for him to attend that event,” she said.

When a close aide like Hicks tests positive in the inner circle, the established protocol would have the White House physician Dr. Sean Conley immediately inform Ornato and Meadows so any changes that need to be made to the President’s schedule can be made, given his possible exposure. At some point during those discussions, given how many people were exposed to Hicks, someone should have decided to cancel the New Jersey trip, the former official said. “I’m sorry, but someone should have said no,” the official said. After seeing McEnany’s response, the former White House official texted, “That’s Ornato under the bus so far.”"

 

Good Point

 

3. 192 other people at the event didn't contract the virus

Yet, or simply haven't been tested.

At around 40,000 new cases a day,

Yesterday's total in the US exceeded 50,000

 

Yes, he does not want us to have socialized medical care but expects it for himself.

 

You need to explain that to VG in Kangaroo micro-biology terms.

 

Trump's remarks during a phone call to Giuliani show he hasn't changed his attitude or approach. He hasn't shown any remorse for his irresponsible behavior during the pandemic.

Trump is still saying he didn't want to scare the country about the virus, yet he does so with his culture war and race-baiting exaggerated remarks aimed particularly at white suburbanites to scare them.



https://nypost.com/2020/10/03/trump-tells-rudy-giuliani-im-going-to-beat-covid-19/

excerpt:

“I’m going to beat this."

“Then I will be able to show people we can deal with this disease responsibly, but we shouldn’t be afraid of it."

“If I had handled it any other way, I would have created more panic, more fear in the American people."

 

Trump might as well tell Americans to not wear seat belts because telling them to wear them might scare them into thinking they will have an accident.

The Trumpian approach: Be a dissident and don't wear seat belts so that you can face the morbidity and possible death of an accident without fearing it before it happens and have the courage to overcome all the preventable damage after it happens.

 

Nothing else he has said turned out to be true. Why do you believe this?