Trump claims coronavirus is under control -- contradicting reality and his own top expert

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Trump claims coronavirus is under control -- contradicting reality and his own top expert

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 1253 GMT (2053 HKT) March 16, 2020

(CNN) — America's top infectious diseases expert is warning that hundreds of thousands of Americans could die unless every citizen joins an effort to blunt the coronavirus pandemic -- only to be contradicted by President Donald Trump, who insists the virus is under "tremendous" control.

The fresh sign of Trump's unwillingness to accept the full, sobering reality of the outbreak came as an anxious America knuckles down to its new self-isolating reality. The country is bracing for the full fury of the virus that is already escalating sharply and is set to subject the foundations of basic life — the nation's health care, economic and political systems — to a fateful test.

The number of US infections raced up to at least 3,485, including 65 deaths, up more than 500 cases in a day and up from a case load of 457 a week ago, showing how the crisis, that may not reach its peak for weeks, is accelerating.

Among his tweets on coronavirus Sunday, Trump suggested that his entire focus was not on the national emergency: He tweeted that he was thinking about a full pardon for his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who admitted lying to the FBI.

Earlier that day, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, warned that the US could face a similar crisis as Italy if citizens do not fully embrace self-isolation and social distancing, which are designed to flatten the curve of infections.

-snip-

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/16/politics/coronavirus-us-president-donald-trump-fauci-politics/index.html

[Turbineguy]

1. If he doesn't have it

it's under control.

[dalton99a]

2. Precisely.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. So

Baghdad Boob speaks.

[steve2470]

4. you nailed it

Baghdad Boob indeed.. and if you believe him, you are either mentally ill, intellectually impaired or both.

[rusty fender]

6. Baghdad Blob

is a boob and a rube

[Fyrefox]

5. Remember Reagan?

Ronald Reagan ignored the AIDS epidemic until it was well advanced, and many lives were lost. Trump has followed the same pathway, initially denying that the CV existed as a problem, and maintaining that it was just another flu, and would magically go away by itself. He's mostly concerned that the CV may prove an obstacle to his re-election. Conservatives have long maintained a "bless us four, and no more" attitude.

[smirkymonkey]

7. The lies coming out of this administration are just unbelieveable!

There is no longer even a pretense of trying to be honest or decent. They are all such arrogant, power-hungry, evil, mendacious pieces of shit.

I don't even understand how these people can live with themselves. There are no words to adequately describe how horrible they really are.