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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumstrump REALLY said this!!!! "If we didn't do any testing we would have very few cases."
Link to tweet
MLAA
(17,267 posts)an ignorant, vile president
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)And his even bigger idiot followers will repeat that ignorance like it makes all the sense in the world.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)rsdsharp
(9,162 posts)We would simply not know how many cases we have. Sort of like now, but even worse.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)I get it now. He's following the Yogi Berra Playbook.
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"
greatauntoftriplets
(175,731 posts)Only one of those was tested and only because he's a first responder (firefighter/paramedic). All consulted with their doctors, though only one in person, and that was not the person who was tested. He was seen in his car, parked in an alley behind his doctor's office. The others had phone diagnoses.
I assume all of these people's illnesses were reported to their respective county health boards, but am not certain. So I'm not even certain that they're considered part of the total. Happily, all had mild cases and have recovered.
Now, they want antibody tests to see if they have any immunity and to help others who get this in the future.
imanamerican63
(13,768 posts)Well, they knew that a long time ago!
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,698 posts)The number of cases remain around 3-4. If they get away with fudging who is dying of coronavirus, I'm guessing they'll drop the real number of cases by even more.
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)malaise
(268,883 posts)<snip>
Trump said he wants to keep Grand Princess cruise passengers on the ship so that US coronavirus numbers don't 'double.'
The Grand Princess cruise ship is sitting off the coast of San Francisco, waiting for the CDC's next instructions after 21 passengers and crew tested positive for the new coronavirus.
President Trump said Friday that despite what experts tell him, he wants to keep passengers and crew on the ship so that coronavirus cases in the US don't "double."
Disaffected
(4,554 posts)It's a fact.
coti
(4,612 posts)He's saying it's knowing the fact that's the problem, not the virus.
In this piece of shit's mind, truth and knowledge are THE problem.
Cha
(297,089 posts)2naSalit
(86,509 posts)and colossal asshole.
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)IggleDuer
(964 posts)He doesnt want the numbers up .... see Princess cruises at Yokohama and San Francisco.
Crunchy Frog
(26,579 posts)was spreading. If we had started early with large scale testing, tracking, and quarantining, like South Korea, we might have gotten it contained early on, and would not be needing to test at the massive scale we are, just trying to catch up with the ballooning outbreak.
He really doesn't have any capacity for abstract reasoning, does he?
Ilsa
(61,692 posts)agingdem
(7,837 posts)means no virus consequently the 80,000 plus dead are alive and well..no pregnancy test means no pregnancy...no mammagram means no breast cancer, no colonoscopy means no colon cancer, no glucose level checks means no diabetes, no EKG means no heart attack...ok got it
brush
(53,763 posts)Nothing so idiotic has ever been said in human history.
Period!
This imbecile is president. God help us.