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Trump disputes CDC head's vaccine timeline and mask claims

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/16/p...rts/index.html



Donald Trump is, of course, a self-appointed expert on COVID-19 .....

What does Redfield know .....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Redfield
So what exactly is YOUR point?

Faced with the chaos than the Chinese Plague brings with it by it's very nature, and the contradictory advice from all quarters, and a fatality much lower than the UK who do YOU think could do better?
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In January of 2020, Trump formed the Coronavirus Task Force, while Democrats accused him of xenophobia for stopping travel from China.
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People may not vote in person to safe guard their health maybe that is what the plan is along with making voting by post more difficult.
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People may not vote in person to safe guard their health maybe that is what the plan is along with making voting by post more difficult.
Postal voting equates to very high levels of fraud the two go together like mustard and cress.
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As an American I respect all of your opinions. Truth, I don't like Trump or Biden. It is very stressful for most Americans that those in the government cannot get along. They worry more about their own personal agendas than the country as a whole. This has been going on for a very long time and well as one of the regular people we seem to be getting along ok. I wish we could get all of the "career Politicians" out of politics.
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As an American I respect all of your opinions. Truth, I don't like Trump or Biden. It is very stressful for most Americans that those in the government cannot get along. They worry more about their own personal agendas than the country as a whole. This has been going on for a very long time and well as one of the regular people we seem to be getting along ok. I wish we could get all of the "career Politicians" out of politics.
Ditto

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Let Trump downplay this:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

United States

Coronavirus Cases: 7,004,768

Deaths: 204,118
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Postal voting equates to very high levels of fraud the two go together like mustard and cress.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ns-louis-dejoy

This judge certainly thinks something is up...

...last week a federal judge in Washington blocked USPS from implementing them. The changes were clearly aimed at “voter disenfranchisement”, given the increased role USPS will play in this year’s presidential election, the US district judge Stanley Bastian wrote in his ruling.

“It is easy to conclude that the recent Postal Services’ changes is an intentional effort on the part the current Administration to disrupt and challenge the legitimacy of upcoming local, state, and federal elections,” Bastian wrote.
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Let Trump downplay this:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/



So what? Look at the percentages. They're not particularly worse than anywhere else - and better than many. Mostly in urban grot holes but also the many who see no reason to take precautions.
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21-09-2020, 11:38 AM
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US hits 200K dead; Trump sees no need for regret

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As the coronavirus pandemic began bearing down on the United States in March, President Donald Trump set out his expectations.

If the U.S. could keep the death toll between 100,000 to 200,000 people, Trump said, it would indicate that his administration had “done a very good job.”

IThe number of U.S. deaths has cleared the outer band of the president’s projections: 200,000, though the real number is certainly higher. The virus continues to spread and there is currently no approved vaccine.

Yet the grim milestone and the prospect of more American deaths to come have prompted no rethinking from the president about his handling of the pandemic and no outward expressions of regrets. Instead, Trump has sought to reshape the significance of the death tally, trying to turn the loss of 200,000 Americans into a success story by contending the numbers could have been even higher without the actions of his administration.

“If we didn’t do our job, it would be three and a half, two and a half, maybe 3 million people,” Trump said Friday, leaning on extreme projections of what could have happened if nothing at all were done to fight the pandemic. “We have done a phenomenal job with respect to COVID-19.”
Just 39% of Americans approve of the president’s handling of the pandemic, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Roughly one-quarter of Republicans say they don’t approve of Trump’s stewardship of the public health crisis, though his overall backing among GOP voters sits at a comfortable 84%.

There’s also little doubt that the death toll in the U.S. has soared past where Trump repeatedly assured the public it would be. In February, when the first coronavirus cases were detected in the U.S., the president said the numbers would be “down to close to zero” within days. In early April, when U.S. officials estimated at least 100,000 people would die from the pandemic even if all conceivable steps were taken against it, Trump suggested the numbers would be lower, saying: “I think we’re doing better than that.”

He’s shifted again in recent days, saying that the U.S. remains a success story because some models showed the nation could have 240,000 deaths — a threshold that appears likely to be eclipsed by the end of the year.

Well aware of his sluggish standing with voters on the pandemic, Trump has spent recent weeks trying to refocus his race against Democrat Joe Biden on other issues, including promising white suburban voters that he would keep crime in liberal cities from encroaching on their neighborhoods.
Trump's response to the pandemic will, inevitably, have killed over 250,000 US citizens by the New Year, with, perhaps, nearly, 10,000,000 infected. US governments have always been profligate with soldiers at war (416,800 were killed in WWII) but Trump's casual dismissal of over 200,000 lives lost* and families left grieving in peacetime is shocking, indicating a complete lack of empathy .....

* Approximately equal to 200 infantry regiments.
 
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