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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sun Mar 8, 2020, 10:20 AM Mar 2020

Trump administrations fix on the covid-19 numbers...

…hide a pandemic by literally refusing to identify the sick and help them.



My brother's ex-wife returned from S Korea with what doctors believe is #COVID19, was admitted to GWU hospital, and against the Chief of Staff's recommendation, the Department of Health WILL NOT TEST HER.


In a twisted way this makes perfect sense. If you are not testing people of course the numbers are going to stay low... and Trump is all about keeping the numbers low, they don't need to be real at all, after all nothing about Trump is real. Of course the fact that people may well die because of this... I can see the shrugs now round the cabinet table. When will idiots that still support him understand that he just does not care about them. At all.

Heh.
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Trump administrations fix on the covid-19 numbers... (Original Post) Soph0571 Mar 2020 OP
I am seeing multitudes of the exact same story, there was dewsgirl Mar 2020 #1
Rising numbers of test cases and deaths make Trump look bad. ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2020 #2
Will anyone who can test for the COVID19 defy orders from trump? gademocrat7 Mar 2020 #3
Can we get this story out? DonaldsRump Mar 2020 #4

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
1. I am seeing multitudes of the exact same story, there was
Sun Mar 8, 2020, 10:23 AM
Mar 2020

one yesterday with the backing of the mayor in DC and she was still denied.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,783 posts)
2. Rising numbers of test cases and deaths make Trump look bad.
Sun Mar 8, 2020, 10:25 AM
Mar 2020

And he cannot have that right before the election. Suppressing testing and reporting will only make matters worse as more Americans come down with it.

We must be vigilant and demand the correct information comes out.

gademocrat7

(10,653 posts)
3. Will anyone who can test for the COVID19 defy orders from trump?
Sun Mar 8, 2020, 10:34 AM
Mar 2020

This an extremely dangerous and frightening virus.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
4. Can we get this story out?
Sun Mar 8, 2020, 10:36 AM
Mar 2020

There are DUers that have direct connects into the media. Can they help get this story out?

This is stunning to me: the reason the Trump/Pence administration don't have tests is that they don't want to know how high the numbers of infected are. That is as plausible as any other story I've heard about the massive failures by the US on COVID-19.

If this story got MSM attention, Trump's re-election hopes would be toast.

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