Trump: "Today, I am officially terminating my relationship with reality. I don't like the way reality has treated me. It's been very unfair....so tremendously unfair."
Trump Jan. 24, Twitter:. "China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!"
Trump Feb. 7, Twitter: "Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days … Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!
Trump Feb. 7, Remarks before Marine One departure: "Late last night, I had a very good talk with President Xi, and we talked about — mostly about the coronavirus. They're working really hard, and I think they are doing a very professional job. They're in touch with World — the World — World Organization. CDC also. We're working together. But World Health is working with them. CDC is working with them. I had a great conversation last night with President Xi. It's a tough situation. I think they're doing a very good job."
Trump Feb. 10, Fox interview:. "I think China is very, you know, professionally run in the sense that they have everything under control," Trump said. "I really believe they are going to have it under control fairly soon. You know in April, supposedly, it dies with the hotter weather. And that's a beautiful date to look forward to. But China I can tell you is working very hard."
Trump Feb. 10, rally in Manchester, N.H.: "I spoke with President Xi, and they're working very, very hard. And I think it's all going to work out fine."
Trump Feb. 23, before boarding Marine One: "I think President Xi is working very, very hard. I spoke to him. He's working very hard. I think he's doing a very good job. It's a big problem. But President Xi loves his country. He's working very hard to solve the problem, and he will solve the problem. OK?"
Trump Feb. 27, press conference: "I spoke with President Xi. We had a great talk. He's working very hard, I have to say. He's working very, very hard. And if you can count on the reports coming out of China, that spread has gone down quite a bit. The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days. As opposed to getting larger, it's actually gotten smaller."
Herd immunity for Moron-a-virus-45
Moron-a-virus-45
makes Coronavirus worse
a partial treatment is the 25th amendment to the Constitution
(the Cabinet and Congress remove the President from office)
a full cure to reach herd immunity would require critical thinking
but only a few percent of the population has antibodies to coronavirus or disinformation
www.moronavirus.com has an excellent timeline of Trump's denial and obfuscation - the author of that site is anonymous, presumably to avoid abusive threats
"one of the problems we face in the United States is that unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias that people are - for reasons that sometimes are, you know, inconceivable and not understandable - they just don't believe science and they don't believe authority."
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
-- Martin Luther King Jr."We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
-- Carl Sagan
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The 25th amendment enables the Cabinet, and then Congress, to remove an incapacitated President. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is in the line of succession after Pence. I am not a fan of her politics, and agree with Ralph Nader (and some Congressional Democrats) that she sabotaged the impeachment of Trump, but at least she would not interfere with public health efforts.
Speaking of impeachment ... most of the Democratic Representatives who voted to impeach Trump and all of the Democratic Senators who voted to remove him from office voted for Trump and Pence in January 2017. Technically, Election Day is when we the peons vote for the Electors in the Electoral College. Each State ratifies the (alleged) result and then sends the Electors' votes to Congress, which then rubber stamps the selection. But in 2017, a handful of Representatives dared challenge some of the fraudulent slates of Electors, bu no Senator dared join them. Under the rules, a Senator has to also object for there to be a debate on the legitimacy of a State's Electors. In 2005, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) joined some of the Congressional Black Caucus to challenge the fraudulent Electors from Ohio. After a perfunctory debate the rest of Congress ratified the second Bush Cheney theft of the White House. (In 2001, no Senator challenged the Electors from Florida, so there was no Congressional debate. Then Vice President Al Gore was President of the Senate, and shut up the members trying to point out the outcome was stolen with fraudulent counting, blocking minorities from voting and other crimes.
When wondering afterwards how this monster was allowed to become President, we will need a Truth and Reconciliation for the National Insecurity State. Trump is a consequence of decades of degraded democracy, especially after the coup against President Kennedy. If JFK had been allowed to stay in office, end the Cold War and shift toward a less militaristic compassionate society, we would not have had the divisive, genocidal war on Vietnam, Watergate, Ronald Raygun, the Bush family, Clinton Gore's sellouts, allowing 9/11 to happen, the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama's kinder and gentler Republicanism lite. In that parallel universe, Donald Trump would be unknown and irrelevant. Our society largely acquiesced to the shifts, entranced by hyper consumption and entertainment industries.
As the scale of the partly avoidable catastrophe becomes worse, Trump's popularity may decline below the level of accidentally stepping in dog poop. I'm not making predictions - that would be foolish - but it would not surprise me if Trump is forced to resign for mangling the response to the pandemic. When a quarter million corpses and a devastated medical system are the "best case" scenario -- which assumes, correctly, we all have to stay indoors for months to flatten the curve, the odds of Trump still being in office on Election Day decline sharply. This is not an endorsement of Joe Biden, merely a suggestion that Trump's declining popularity will probably collapse as the disease spreads into more rural, Republican regions. Impatience with quarantines is fueling increases in corona cases in communities that were spared the initial onslaught.
A way to envision washing one's hands and other things after being in public places is to consider they are covered in dog poop. If they were, you'd wash extremely well ... but the virus is odorless and invisible to the eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh-y7n1Bt-g
God Bleach America:
Trump University Medical School
Golf is an essential Trump activity
Voting and virus
Blame
Trump dislikes the WHO because he is against the World, against Health and against Organization.
The problems with WHO are in part because they have too low of a budget and cannot afford to alienate large governments like China and the United States. The cost of aircraft carriers becoming inoperative because of mass COVID infection of the crews could pay for massive improvements to preventable global disease and anticipation of novel threats like SARS-CoV-2.
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Texas Woman Who Claimed COVID-19 Was 'Media Driven' Hoax Dies From Virus
"MAGA": Karen Kolb Sehlke, a Trump-loving woman from Texas is dead from COVID-19 after claiming the virus was a "media driven" hoax.
In a sad, cautionary tale of willful ignorance and hubris, Karen Kolb Sehlke is dead from COVID-19 after claiming the virus was a "media driven" hoax "controlled by the radical people in powerful places."
