"if it were up to the doctors"

[kpete]

donald trump just said: "if it were up to the doctors, they'd shut down the entire world." Actually, if it were up to us, we'd save as many people as possible. We would follow the science & evidence. We would never put politics ahead of the public's health

"If it were up to the doctors, they may say, let's keep it shut down. Let's shut down the entire world because again you're up to 150 countries," Trump said, asked whether any doctors on the task force agreed with his suggestion that social distancing guidelines will pay off in weeks not months.

Link to tweet

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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/coronavirus-government-response-updates-klobuchars-husband-tests-positive/story?id=69745713

[OhioChick]

1. Unbelievable

Looks like I just woke up to an even shittier news day.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. We're getting more than 10,000 new cases a day

Reality flies in the face of everything Trump says.

[malaise]

10. Our reality is not his reality

His reality asks one question - how does this affect his agenda.
Anything else is fake or nasty.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Please someone make him STFU!

[uponit7771]

4. K&R

[Calculating]

5. It's not about politics

It's about not wanting to live in the Greatest Depression with 50+% unemployment, the DOW at 2000, and everybody losing everything they've worked and saved for. A few weeks to hopefully get this better under control and flatten the curve? Sure. Keeping everything everywhere shut down for months? Hell no, I personally don't want to live in a mess like what they have in Venezuela or some kind of refugee camp begging for food. Past 2-4 weeks we gotta get things going again or this is gonna turn into the worst economic disaster in the past hundred years. I personally like having a job, and food, and other things.

[AllyCat]

9. Yeah who cares how many die, eh?

Are you kidding??? Good grief, we have to slow this down!

[OhioChick]

11. People are dying n/t

[gldstwmn]

12. Nice try.

[IronLionZion]

15. Venezuela or Italy?

How well do you think the economy is going to function with a death count like Italy?

[ffr]

6. The sad reality until we can drive people to the polls in November.

GOTV and sink the Russian's listing ship in our waters!

[keithbvadu2]

7. Dr Trump gave an example that it's ok to go to work with the Trumpvirus.

Dr Trump gave an example that it's ok to go to work with the Trumpvirus.

[gldstwmn]

13. Even he can't get a mask.

[ramen]

8. How is it possible that the news is still getting worse?

Surely we are out of ways to make this pandemic evem shittier now, right? Will the next CDC guidance be mandatory tongue kisses to pay for gas? Are these people fucking high??

[gldstwmn]

14. It will get worse. We are going to be watching

a growing number of obituaries every night for a while.

[ramen]

17. That part doesn't surprise me, though it surely saddens me.

The part where the guy in charge somehow still makes worse decisions on a more-than-daily basis blows my mind. Weakening social distancing right now is the exact wrong thing to do.

[captain queeg]

16. It's sad that so many will die because of this fool

I can only hope they are all Trump supporters. Unfortunately that will not be the case.