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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Tue May 5, 2020, 06:06 PM May 2020

If I am reading this right they are calling Trump a liar on testing, but he tweeted it anyway




So Trump says 7 million tests, this site says inconsistent, cause they know he is talking bollocks... but get the libs? He is a fucking sociopath.
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If I am reading this right they are calling Trump a liar on testing, but he tweeted it anyway (Original Post) Soph0571 May 2020 OP
What an ass. NCDem47 May 2020 #1
That's HORRIBLE seeing the time it took to get there. That's HORRIBLE, the rate of test in beginning uponit7771 May 2020 #2
It may not be a lie but it's a bit dishonest due to the population differences Hav May 2020 #3
It's not saying he's a liar - Ms. Toad May 2020 #4

NCDem47

(2,248 posts)
1. What an ass.
Tue May 5, 2020, 06:21 PM
May 2020

In a nation of more than 350 million people, that number is awful. Italy, Germany, Canada do not have that many people so of course their numbers won’t be high. He wants to sell the whole number.

Oh never mind. His simpletons won’t care.

uponit7771

(90,301 posts)
2. That's HORRIBLE seeing the time it took to get there. That's HORRIBLE, the rate of test in beginning
Tue May 5, 2020, 06:23 PM
May 2020

... of a pandemic is minimum one % of population in flared area then one percent in any other reports in less than a month.

Like Korea did, we're screwed

Hav

(5,969 posts)
3. It may not be a lie but it's a bit dishonest due to the population differences
Tue May 5, 2020, 07:12 PM
May 2020

You won't see him using the same graph in absolute numbers for infections and deaths because the US would dwarf any other country.

But the chart shows how long it took to get the tests going while other countries were already in the process of containing the virus. That is a proof for Trump's failure right there.

Ms. Toad

(33,992 posts)
4. It's not saying he's a liar -
Tue May 5, 2020, 07:28 PM
May 2020

I can't tell exactly what it is saying, but it isn't addressing claims he has made.

There are two clues about what they mean

- first, on the site they discuss their intent to only include PCR testing - but that not all countries separate it in a way that they can pull out only PCR testing.
- second on the image tweeted it references units specifically (but in a way that doesn't make sense to me): "substantial differences . . . in terms of units, whether or not all labs are included, the extent to which negatie and pending tests are included and other aspects."

Neither of these would address what such an annotation on a graph would normally mean: they have altered the units (e.g . jumped from 4 million to 7 million in order to fit it all on the graph.

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