The Donald Trump Score Card

Stock market posts worst week since March.

Dow closes more than 150 points lower as Wall Street posts its worst one-week sell-off since March

 

91,000 yesterday

Coronavirus: US sees record-high daily Covid numbers as election nears

 

how is Australia, VG?
We never hear anything

 

101,461 new coronavirus cases in the U.S. were reported on Oct 30, the cases Trump thinks are harmless.

The U.S. incurred 988 deaths on Oct 30, the deaths that Trump and his sons can't see.

 

Trump and his sons are akin to the officials at the hockey game when a fight breaks out who pretend they can't see the ensuing fight.

 

Trump won 57% of the electoral vote in 2016. It places him near the bottom of presidential elections at 46 out of 58 elections.

He claimed his electoral win was a landslide. It wasn't.

Trump lost the popular vote by 2%. It places him at 47 in the last 49 elections.

He contended without evidence that millions of people illegally voted for Hillary.

 

In the event that Biden wins the election with about 304 electoral votes like Trump did in 2016, Trump probably won't say that Biden won by a landslide. He would likely say Biden managed to barely win with the help of fraudulent votes.

 

Trump accuses the medical community of over-counting coronavirus deaths.



Trump Baslessly Accuses Doctors Of Overreporting Covid Deaths For Financial Gain

excerpt;

"Trump made a similar accusation last Saturday at a rally in Wisconsin, telling his audience that other countries "report differently." The president claimed that doctors in the U.S. "get more money and hospitals get more money" for each Covid death. "Think of this incentive," he added. The American Medical Association responded to the allegation by tweeting, "let's be clear physicians are not inflating the number of COVID-19 patients." Ashish K. Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, wrote that Trump's charges were false and offensive and that they demonstrate "a fundamental misunderstanding of how hospital billing works." Jha added, "to hear our President demean doctors who, along with nurses, have put their lives on the line to manage this public health disaster is beyond the pale." The president of the American College of Physicians characterized Trump's comments as "a reprehensible attack on physicians' ethics and professionalism.""

 

We know for certain if he loses the election he’ll need to be debriefed in Moscow before proceeding on to a non-extradition country of his choice.

 

Trump Baslessly Accuses Doctors Of Overreporting Covid Deaths For Financial Gain

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"The CDC reported last week that the official Covid-19 death count (229,200 as of Friday afternoon) "might underestimate the total impact of the pandemic on mortality," as an estimated 299,028 more persons than expected have died since January 26, 2020. Relatedly, nearly 300,000 more Americans died from late January to early October this year compared to the average number of deaths in recent years over that same time span, suggesting the Covid estimates appear roughly accurate."

 

Trump Jr. makes more boneheaded remarks.


Trump Baslessly Accuses Doctors Of Overreporting Covid Deaths For Financial Gain

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"Donald Trump Jr., falsely claimed Thursday evening that the number of Americans dying from Covid-19 has dropped to "almost nothing," despite the U.S reporting more than 1,000 fatalities for a second consecutive. The president's son referred to medical experts expressing grave concerns about potential dangers related to the recent Covid spike as "morons.""

 

And over 220 thousand deaths so far--more than our 5 most recent wars combined. COVID 19 has become the second leading cause of death in the U.S., just after heart disease. COVID-19 has killed more Americans than the 5 most recent wars combined Are the Trumps willing to brush these off as trivial?

 

Like father, like son!

 

Randomized intervention studies have shown face coverings and hand hygiene to be effective at mitigating the spread of influenza-like illnesses (ILI).

An issue with the current coronavirus pandemic is the lack of similar randomized intervention studies due to it being a novel virus.



Mask use, hand hygiene, and seasonal influenza-like illness among young adults: A randomized intervention trial
Allison E. Aiello, Genevra F. Murray, Vanessa Perez, Rebecca M. Coulborn, Brian M. Davis, Monica Uddin, David K. Shay, Stephen H. Waterman, Arnold S. Monto
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 201, Issue 4, 15 February 2010, Pages 491–498,
Published:15 February 2010

Mask use, hand hygiene, and seasonal influenza-like illness among young adults: A randomized intervention trial


free pdf of full paper::

https://academic.oup.com/jid/article-pdf/201/4/491/33493718/201-4-491.pdf


excerpt:

"Intervention studies of face masks in open, noninstitutionalized populations to protect healthy individuals from primary respiratory infections have, to our knowledge, not been previously reported. We found a significant reduction in the rate of ILI among participants randomized to the face mask and hand hygiene intervention during the latter half of this study, ranging from 35% to 51% when compared with a control group that did not use face masks.

Our results are consistent with a previous review of studies examining the effectiveness of mask use in reducing the transmission of respiratory viruses. However, much of the data on natural infection derives from studies of SARS. The transmission characteristics of this pathogen may be different from those of influenza and other seasonal respiratory illnesses. Although few data are available to evaluate the efficacy of face mask use in the community setting, 2 recent randomized mask intervention studies, one in Hong Kong and the other in Australia, reported no significant reductions in secondary transmission of ILI. However, important methodological differences exist between our study assessing the prevention of primary infections and these earlier studies that asked participants to don masks only after identification of an influenza case residing in the household for assessment of the preventionof secondary infections. We asked participants to begin wearing the mask and using hand sanitizer at the beginning of the influenza season just after identification of the first case of influenza on campus. This fundamental study design difference may have improved our ability to identify an effect of mask and hand hygiene use, compared with studies of secondary transmission in which household members may already have been infected by the time of mask adoption."

 

99,000 new cases on Friday (the most since the pandemic first began) and nearly a thousand deaths, but it's going away, we're rounding the corner, deaths have dropped off to almost nothing.

 

Trump's populist counterpart in the U.K., Johnson, is facing the same coronavirus surge problem.


Coronavirus: Boris Johnson ‘considering second national lockdown' after chilling warnings of winter death toll
Scientists believe action now needed to save Christmas
Andrew Woodcock
Political Editor
October 30, 2020

Boris Johnson 'expected to impose second national lockdown’ after chilling warnings of winter coronavirus death toll

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"The Times and Daily Mail reported that the prime minister will hold a press conference on Monday to announce a new national shutdown beginning as early as Wednesday and last until 1 December.

It is understood that measures under consideration include the closure of everything but essential shops and educational settings, including nurseries, schools and universities.

But other reports quoted Whitehall sources as saying that a Tier 4 option of beefed-up regional measures was also on the table, potentially all pubs and restaurants and maybe non-essential shops but stopping short of the kind of stay-home instruction seen in the spring."

 

They have a Kangaroo virus outbreak which causes them to hop around in total confusion. And it makes them look to us Americans for self improvement ideas.

 

What do you expect from a dip shit who kills elephants and cuts off their tails for a photograph.

 

I saw a report that said if the vote is true to the polling, Biden could win with 400 electoral votes.

 

Being poor costs you.

An article about those whom Trump referred to as his forgotten people whom he has forgotten in 2020 while busy denying the effects of the coronavirus.



The great divergence: U.S. COVID-19 economy has delivered luxury houses for some, evictions for others
By Michelle Conlin
October 31, 2020 7:09 AM

The great divergence: U.S. COVID-19 economy has delivered luxury houses for some, evictions for others

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"The power, too, was set to be disconnected. Soon there might be no oven, no lights and no internet for online schooling. The boys’ mother, Shanell McGee, already had her cell phone switched off and feared she could soon face eviction from their $840-a-month apartment. The rundown unit consumes nearly half her wages from her job as a medical assistant at a clinic, where she works full-time but gets no health benefits.

Just 14 miles northwest of McGee’s neighborhood, Kiki Kullman is having one of the best years of her life.

The real-estate business she runs with her family just sold the highest-priced house in its history: a 13,000-square-foot estate, listed for $4.5 million, that came with an elevator and a classic-car showroom. And in late October, Kullman closed on a home of her own -- a $645,000 three-story Colonial, painted a stately white with a front door flanked by columns, a pleasant place for her two-year-old twin boys to grow up.

Columbus exemplifies the economic split animating America’s coronavirus crisis."