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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo, FUCK NO !! Woodward fully informing the US populous EARLIER would've saved 1 life ... PERIOD !!
No, FUCK NO !! Woodward fully informing the US populous would've saved 1 life ... PERIOD !!
People are CURRENTLY TODAY still arguing about the deadliness of this virus including some freakin teachers ... we're not talking about the dumbest of the dumb in US societies.
Trump can say water is dry and 30% of America will believe him, they're brain dead ... fuck em.
but
to hear the virus is deadly and will kill your kids too in the presidents own words and heard him say that shit is thick better saddle up would've made a BIG difference on Feb 7th !!! or even Feb 21st !!!
I'll wait to hear more but there doesn't look like there are good reason for not fully informing America about the deadliness of this virus EARLIER in February.
no doubt
EDIT: Trump moved from idiot to enemy but the public needs know he's the enemy, we needed to know how much of an enemy in Feb ...
Further EDIT: YES PEOPLE !! You're more informed than 95% of the US public on political issues and that 95% needs things cut and dry to them ... from the presidents mouth.
5X
(3,972 posts)Karadeniz
(22,607 posts)Doodley
(9,176 posts)uponit7771
(90,371 posts)... the virus was.
I didn't know it was airborne pathegon and that could've saved soooo many lives.
Doodley
(9,176 posts)uponit7771
(90,371 posts)... a less informed general public on how deadly the virus was from Trumps own mouth would ... NOT ... have made a difference??!?!
I even edited the OP that people on DU are most likely more informed than 95% of the public and there were people here still traveling then !!
Doodley
(9,176 posts)But Trump would have denied it if these revelations had come out earlier. Nothing would change.
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)... same exact thing I'm typing right now !!
People knowing it was an airborn bug on Feb 7th would've made a difference
Doodley
(9,176 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Fever started January 26. I thought I had flu.
If I had thought I had corona virus, I may have panicked. By the time of trumps remarks to Woodward, who for some reason he doesnt lie to*, I was feeling like I would recover.
There were lots of sick people in my area in January. We may never know if the extra deaths were from corona. Im certain some wouldnt have happened if we had know to be more careful.
*why does Woodward get the truth?
Doodley
(9,176 posts)their masks. What do we do about it? He promotes hoax remedies, but what do we do about it? He threatens schools if they don't reopen too soon. He constantly spreads false information. Where is the outrage by our lawmakers, even when we have all the facts available?
Exactly the same number of people would have died, because Trump would have just bullshitted his way out of anything he might have or might not have said. Nothing would have changed.
mvd
(65,187 posts)He lied about the disease and led to the deaths of so many. I cant think of more of a dereliction of duty as Biden said.
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)RockCreek
(739 posts)About this, would have believed the take-backs, and denial, and claims thar the tapes are " fake" and "audioshopped" that would have immediately followed. They don't even believe that the virus is real is real with 190,000 known deaths in the US, and almost 6 million world wide.
crimycarny
(1,351 posts)We had our first death 3/10. Fauci, Birx, and Surgeon General were downplaying for their own reasons.
No.one.would.have.listened.
Lets say Woodward released the tape in February. Without corroboration from the experts, how much weight would people give it? Especially when we still had very few cases and zero deaths? Trump would have spun his way out of it. He would have said he was simply relaying a theory and since then hes learned differently.
No, I remember how it was back then and I firmly believe Trump would have been able to spin his way out of it had Woodward released the tape.
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)... persons life.
Woodward didn't have to disclose his information stupidly but the populous knowing the bug was airborne on Feb 6th
crimycarny
(1,351 posts)In an interview on 3/8 with CBS, Fauci said masks werent needed.
No one would have listened to the tape despite it coming from Trumps own mouth. Trump would have spun that as That was the theory at the time. Weve since learned more and its not as dangerous as thought back when I gave that interview. And he could have simply pointed to the extremely rare numbers of deaths in young people (at that time) and people would have bought it.
The story would have fizzled out as the media chased the next crazy thing Trump said.
Ilsa
(61,720 posts)the masks for healthcare workers, knowing there would soon be a dire shortage.