The Lancet, one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, called on Americans to replace Trump for his grossly incoherent response to the pandemic.
One of the world’s oldest and best-known medical journals Friday slammed President Trump’s “inconsistent and incoherent national response” to the novel coronavirus pandemic and accused the administration of relegating the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to a “nominal” role.
The unsigned editorial from the Lancet concluded that Trump should be replaced.
“Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics,” said the journal, which was founded in Britain in 1823.
The strongly worded critique highlights mounting frustration with the administration’s response among some of the world’s top medical researchers. Medical journals sometimes run signed editorials that take political stances, but rarely do publications with the Lancet’s influence use the full weight of their editorial boards to call for a president to be voted out of office.
The death toll in the US has passed 85,000 and continues to rise.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Voted out of office to end up in court, and then prison, and then homeless poverty (so broke he can’t afford to Tweet) where people spit on him wherever they see him panhandling for pennies to eat at McDonalds.
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Agree, Lloyd. 👍👍👍
tRump thinks watching people die is just SPORTS and for his entertainment.
He’s DUSGUSTING and all he has are “Butt Pulls.” He just pulls stuff out of his big, fat rump without any thought.
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Competence is a referential concept. It is only meaningful in reference to an intended goal. Trump and his empowered supporters do not have common health and wellbeing as goals. The have no intention at that kind of competence. In fact, they are averse to it. Their competence is in retaining wealth and power. That is my they want to cut regulations and taxes. That is why they want to suppress the vote. That is why the want to control judicial appointments. That is why they need to distract attention from their goals by finding someone vulnerable to demonize.
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True enough, & shrewdly summarized. Yet it seems very difficult to convey that truth to the 50% who voted for Trump– in a digestible fashion. (That’s a challenge for the Democratic party.)
I keep picturing the Joad family, borrowing rides on trains, scrabbling lives in temporary encampments on their hopeful way to field work, & wondering if we have to come again to that pass before that 50% recognizes that society, thro govt, can function & rescue them by redistributing wealth in a more equitable fashion. There are actually a fair number of conservatives who understand the need to head off Depression-like economic collapse by pushing cash into citizens’ hands. Yet today, I’m watching [via CSPAN] even admirable GOP thinkers like OK’s Rep Tom Cole quibbling over the need for emergency remote/ proxy voting, w/o which we can’t even make that happen!
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Competetly Incompetent
Calling it “incompetence”
Get’s them off the hook
Buying into such a stance
Let’s them cook the book
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Dear Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates:
You ran for president or the sole purpose of getting this president out of the White House and you are offering millions of dollars to fix education with technology, respectively.
Please consider the following:
1) Team up and reach the “base” and voters living an alternate fact-free, me-but-not you, anti-intellectual states.
2) Get some super saavy assistance (all those college kids who are sick of online learning and taking a gap year) and COMPILE EVERY HEADLINE and ludicrous, inept action the-president has taken.
3) Use every contact you have to elicit a JOINT LETTERS WITH THOUSANDS of SIGNATURES o decry the presence of this man in the White House – like former DOJ employees just did. Letters from scientists, farmers, FORMER GOP legislators (like Jack Danforth and others who have published editorials), military leaders, judges, unions, teachers, and others!
THEN …
4) SPEND YOUR MILLIONS publishing these headlines and 1,000s of signators representing even thousands more!
5) Take out full page ads in small town, red state community newspapers (and if they wont print them, buy the paper).
6) Buy Billboards Billboards Billboards in the deep south and west.
7) Use your influence to get local tv and newspapers to interview legislators and hold them to the fire of supporting or not the inane, racist, and self-promoting of this president
8) Do whatever people do with social media.
9) (Heck – even convince your GOP pals that this man is going to get us all killed if he ever has to make a decision in the moment. He’s shown he definitely can’t make one in two month.)
PLEASE – People who sadly do not buy newspapers and local news have become cutesy talk shows, not news and investigate reports about local and state officials. They only read the local small town paper, watch fox, and have been brainwashed not to trust anyone who criticizes the president
PLEASE – Use your means – strong opinions, money, influence, and technology – to get the facts and truth to those who are blind to this man’s incompetence and dangerous daily commentaries.
(And, maybe buy some cover for GOP officials who want to speak out but are scared)
Respectfully
One of a few million professional public school educators who has taught the Preamble to the Constitution and live and breath “the common good.”
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How sad & hopeless, to beg on bended knee for $clouty private interests to come to the aid of the public good. They run capitalistic enterprises– & associated non-profit foundations– which operate within the law, which has for 40 yrs become laissez-faire, incentivizing them [both for-profit & non-profit wings] to line their own & shareholders pockets, providing tax-free havens, w/o regard for the public good, & allowing them to use the $ gained to influence govt policy in favor of further accumulation stolen from the public sphere. Such multibillionaires would not even have existed, sans the fin dereg of the ’80’s-’90’s. The absurd anti-public-goods legislative framework of today would probably leave them open to lawsuits by shareholders for acting in the public interest.
What’s needed now is grass-roots activism to change the laws promoting this paradigm.
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You are right on all fronts except one: How much grass-roots activism is there in red states?
Sorry – I’ll hold my nose while billionaires use their money to put truth in front of people who never see it and get this dangerous, very dangerous man out of the white house.
The only grass roots we see right now are armed angry racists marching on state capitols to demand “opening.” How many people in those states read the Lancet, NYT, Washington Post,? How many know that the president lack of action caused thousands of preventable deaths?
Now – how many of those millions are glued to Fox news, the president’s tweets, and, well, that’s all they know. Ask them who they believe – Dr. Fauci or the president?
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“How many people in those states read (full stop).” Period. I have in-laws who fit this bill. They don’t read. They don’t think. They watch. Chauncey Gardners all.
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JH, you raise an excellent question. How does one get actual information to those in rural America who live on a Fox News island? This is a question that needs some serious brainstorming.
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Certainly not looking to that 50% to initiate enlightened grass-roots action. And in-the-streets civil protest can’t happen in present circumstances anyway.
The only in-the-streets civil action amidst covid-19 lockdown is unmasked ultra-right lunatic fringe happy to endanger community health in a stand for their warped, me-not-us concept of freedom. All roots, growing no grass. When those protests broke out 3 wks ago, 60% polls were against them. 10 days later, end-April polls showed only 10% Americans opposed to continuing lockdown thro mid-May. Now we’re at a turning point: polls are beginning to settle out into partisan divide re: re-opening, w/a 50-pt spread between parties. My read of that result is not precisely partisan. It reflects Rep dominance in rural areas where stats are low & most likely meet reqts for proceeding thro phased re-opening. Densely-pop areas where stats dictate more caution are dominated by Dems.
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Thanks.
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Here’s the link to the Lancet editorial: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31140-5/fulltext
This is a British-based journal read widely around the world. Another example of what the Idiot and his cult have done to damage, perhaps irreparably, the international standing of the U.S. Pass it on to everyone.
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Thanks, Greg. That’s a great commentary in the Lancet. I’m going to share it on social media. Kudos to them for doing the responsible thing and running this!!!
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The question is whether this courageous position, drawing on the reputation of the publication and contributors, has any parallel in education.
How many years did the sham of VAM (value-added metrics) persist before the American Educational Research Association finally took a public position saying not to use this metric for teacher evaluation? Why is this shameful misuse of VAM continuing in many states?
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The Lancet has been a partisan left-wing journal for many years. When discussing political matters, they have no more moral authority than anyone else. Their anti-Israel slant is just one of many examples which show that The Lancet is far more about promoting left-wing causes than about scientific, medical matters.
https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/the_lancet_as_a_political_platform_for_ngos_study_of_articles_on_palestinian_and_israeli_health_care_/
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Whatever their politics, the Lancet is correct in calling Trump’s response to the pandemic incomprehensible, inco
Pete Times, flagrantly wrong. Do you, John Webster, approve of a president who told the public not to be concerned about the disease and refuses to wear a mask?
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Yes, pointing out that maltreatment of Palestinians might well be anti-Israel (surprised you didn’t wallow in the gutter of claiming anti-Semitism–probably took all you could muster to resist the urge). The idea that The Lancet is a “left-wing journal” may be the dumbest thing I’ve read this year, even considering the trash spewing out of the Idiot’s mouth. As we all know, malignancies, bacteria, viruses, diseases, and disabilities have political agendas. Sheesh. A perfect example of “It’s better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are an idiot than to open in and remove all doubt.”
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Agree. That is not the Lancet’s reputation, try tho this poster may to twist this into a partisan conspiracy. If it were, we would not have every major media outlet including Reuters describing Lancet as most influential medical journal. This poster no doubt blames law, politics, & covid pandemic on MSM.
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John Webster:
First, “The Lancet” is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal. It is among the world’s oldest, and best known general medical journals.
Second, Media Bias/Fact check says this about “The Lancet”:
“These media sources are slightly to moderately conservative in bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor conservative causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation. See all Right-Center sources.
Therefore, I call BS on your allegations that “The Lancet” is a partisan left-wing journal.
That tactic is the knee-jerk reaction from the extreme right when any publication, even a conservative one, reveals their lies, their misinformation, and their dirty politics making the extreme right deservedly look bad.
Being biased does not make them liars like Donald Trump, his family, and his administration. It is possible to be factual in your reporting even when you are biased because bias is determined not by lies but by language that favors one side or the other.
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Trump was too slow to realize the danger that the virus posed. But so was Dr. Fauci, Nancy Pelosi, Bill de Blasio, and many others.
It’s a great mystery why so many people on the Left who claim to support civil liberties, gay rights, women’s rights, and other progressive causes regard Israel as a greater evil than the repressive Palestinian Authority, a regime that teaches their kids that all Jews are pigs and that killing them is a noble cause. The Lancet never publicly opposes that mindset. The Lancet is on solid ground when they stick to hard science. When they veer off into politics, they’re just another far Left advocacy organization with no more moral authority than anyone else.
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Johnny Webster,
As a Jew, I find your conflating Israel, the coronavirus, and Trump to be deeply offensive.
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Thank you, Diane. As a human being, you speak for me and all humanity who value human rights, irrespective of contrived categories designed to tear us apart.
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And John, when you spew things like, “Israel as a greater evil than the repressive Palestinian Authority”, you expose your political ideology. Israel’s current government has as little to do with the philosophy and theology of Judaism as the Idiot’s regime has to do with the principles of the Constitution and American historical evolution. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. I’m guessing your masters pay you quite well, which makes me wonder why you even bother with riff-raff like us.
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John Webster,
Trump isn’t being criticized for being “too slow” to recognize the virus’ dangers. He is being criticized for disbanding the US Pandemic Response team. Trump is being criticized for still insisting that it was completely under control and then pushing all kinds of false treatments. Trump is being criticized for encouraging Americans to ignore the scientists and go out without masks like he is when every other one of the politicians you mentioned is not.
Everyone makes mistakes. The way to judge a president and any politician is whether he works hard to mitigate his mistakes, or whether he causes significantly more harm because insisting that he was perfect and telling lies to promote the idea that he was perfect was much more important than correcting his mistakes.
Trump lies. He lied when he said Obama was born in Kenya and he had the proof. He lied when he said he had the pandemic under control. No one can trust him anymore. And that is the problem. In a real crisis, Americans do not want a president that they absolutely, positively cannot trust.
If Trump told you to give your kids a medicine that he knows will cure them, would you do it? Of course you wouldn’t unless your kids had no value to you and you put the needs of Trump and elevating him over your own children’s lives.
Americans know they can’t trust Trump anymore. It’s a shame that Trump simply can no longer be trusted and I’m sorry for us all that is true. I dearly wish that this country didn’t have a president who can’t trusted. But most Americans love their children more than Trump and are more likely to take the advice of the guy Trump is telling them not to listen to, Dr Fauci. Maybe those voters wished to “Make America Great Again”, but they don’t think their children should be at risk with a leader who they can’t trust to achieve that.
Trump can’t be trusted. Even the voters who once supported Trump now understand that. They used to find it amusing since Trump’s lies weren’t causing so many deaths. But now that they are coming to realize that in a crisis, having your own family at risk because your president is just as likely to lie as to tell the truth, just isn’t worth it.
You may find a local pediatrician really amusing and send your kids to him even though you often hear him exaggerating and saying things you are pretty sure aren’t true. But if your child is seriously ill, and you realize that this pediatrician cares more about promoting himself and some cure that he thinks will make him look good, instead of caring about what is in your child’s best health, suddenly the doctor’s lies aren’t so amusing anymore.
And the first thing you do is to change doctors to find one that you TRUST to put the health of your child first.
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The Lancet is left wing? That’s certainly an interesting comment. I would not have expected that one.
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C’mon, Bob, didn’t you know that biological responses read Hayek before they decide what to do? Silly you.
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Ah, yes, Hayek. The Road to Smurfdom! BTW, in that book, even Hayek says that a legitimate function of government is correcting for negative externalities–a little something forgotten by the environmental and public health vandals of the American right.
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By “correcting for,” I mean making corporations pay for the costs in public health and environmental degradation that they foist upon the public at large. If Hayek had thought a little more deeply on that one, he would have had a freaking Socialist epiphany. LOL.
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This just in: Every noncriminal with a brain blasts Trump as incompetent.
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INT. DAY. MORONAVIRUS TRUMPINSKI ORANGII DAILY BRIEFING, April 18
TRUMP (snorts Adderall and steps to the microphone)
First let me thank the members of the media who are here today. You’re fake news. Disgraceful.
And speaking of fake news, you’re not going to like this. You don’t like anything. Just once. Just once, OK?—I would like to hear you say, “Mr. President, how can I help you blame this on China, Obama, whatever?” But no. You’re no help. And the governors. Just as bad. No gratitude. I heard they were so rude, they were so fresh, they were nasty, no matter what I did. The battle is over. They thought they had us with this plague. But all we had to do is fix it. Incredible what we’ve been able to do. Just incredible. But they just say, horrible. That’s what they say. Trump is horrible. So horrible. They make it up. They got sources. The sources don’t exist.
Just today, I spoke with governor De Sanctis of Florida. Good man. You have no idea how much election fixing it takes to get a governor like this. We need a lot more of them. He’s opened the beaches back up. And named professional wrestling an essential business. Because he gets it. He really does. Like me. I get it. Gotta stop this pandemic. The governor—unlike some other governors I might mention. But I won’t, because I play fair. Governors like Cuomo and Whitmer and that guy in California. But Governor De Thanatos of Florida. Good man. He’s very grateful. Anybody needs a test, they can get a test. Beautiful tests. So far, since this started, we have sent 12 tests for Chinavirus to the state of Florida. Enough tests for 12 people. Thank you, Mr. President, he said. Your action–incredible action–is going to save lives. Great governor, knows what he’s doing. He not a crier, like some of these. Not a crier. Weh weh weh.
Speaking of which. We are at war with an invisible enemy. That’s why we are doing what Presidents have always done when there’s a war. Passing the buck. This thing—nobody could have predicted it. But I did. People call me. They say, “How did you know?” I stopped it before it even got started by ending travel from China. But does the fake news media report that? No. So, people are dying. Hospitals are overwhelmed. That’s why we need to open everything back up. Important to follow the Trump guidelines for Social Distancing. Stand six feet apart. So I’d like to call Dr. Birx to stand up here right next to me. And Mike Pence. Thank you, Mike, for your response. Mike gets it. This is all about Trump and how great he is. Let me just say to all those patriotic Americans out there blocking with their AK47s, blocking the entrances to hospitals, thank you for your service. Liberate Michigan! Good people. Very good people.
So, China lied about the pandemic. Hid it from the world. And this rock group, the Who, helped them. That’s why we’re cutting all funding to the Who. Because they do work in these third world countries. Foreigners. We care about America. Am I right?
As we enter the next phase of the battle. This is a battle, and I’m like, Commander in Chief. Not since the Continental Army captured the airports has there been such a Commander. People call me and say, how do you do it? So, I run it. As we enter the phase, we are doing the job. Great job. Continuing our unwavering effort to destroy the environment. My administration is doing incredible things. Incredible. Not credible. What we’ve done is not credible. But I started with a broken system. We inherited a broken system. So broken. I spoke with world leaders this morning. They’re all saying. It’s fantastic, Mr. President, what you’ve done. 360 million people. You’ve tested 25 of them. Obama ever have testing like that? We’ve done a job nobody would believe the job we’ve done. But the fake news, they view it as an election. Oh, Trump, he didn’t this. He didn’t that. I told them, this is how you use this machine. We have machines, they don’t even know how to use them. Just like the Russia witch hunt. I’m honored by the fact that how I’ve responded. Great job. We’ve done a great job. Fantastic. We get rid of this plague, what we’re doing, with the PPE, the paycheck. Signed “Donald J. Trump.” I really get it. Go ahead, read your questions. Like I can’t predict what you’re going to say. Because I’m a thinker. I had this uncle, smartest guy at MIT. Why didn’t you this? Why didn’t you that? Anything to bring down Trump. Though when this is over–I don’t know–I don’t know–Noble Prize, Mt. Rushmore. You’ll be thanking me. Thank you Mr. President.
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REPORTER: So, Mr. President, what happens if we open up and, as most of the scientists are saying, we see dramatic spikes in cases and deaths?
IQ45: See. There you go? Who do you work for? What scientists? Give me some names. But I’m, like, way ahead of you. If we get more people with Chinavirus, simple, we buy Greenland from Denmark, inject them with disinfectant, and send them there.
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Trump never says the names of the “people who call him” or the “people he talks to,” (you can take it to the bank that other people never have a chance to talk to him and that Trump does all the talking), and that is because he would end up repeating the same names:
Ivanka Trump
Donald Trump Jr.
Jared Kushner because he is more like Trump than Trump’s own children
Eric Trump calls but often calls the wrong number.
Barron Trump (the kid calls and says, “Are you really my dad? Mom keeps saying it can’t be true because your ‘thing’ is too small.”)
Tiffany Trump (she calls and says, “Hi, Dad, this a reminder that you do have another daughter. I’m sorry I never wore mini skirts when I was an adolescent and sat on your erection. I’m sorry, I mean lap.)
Trump sends them all scripts to read when they call, and then he says “people called me” and “I talked to people”.
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Having never learned to use a computer, Trump spends all his time on the phone or watching TV. He’s a slug from another era.
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If it wasn’t for his tiny, childlike fingers, it wouldn’t be easy for him to use his mobile phone to write and send all those tweets. With bigger hands and fingers, Trump would have a lot more typos.
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The Don, Cheeto “Littlefingers” Trumpbalone
Mobster. Construction racketeering. Money laundering for Russian kleptocrats. Tax evasion. Various scams, such as his fake university.
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Gee, I wonder who Obama was thinking about when he made this comment? Couldn’t be Agent Orange or The Turtle.
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The Washington Post
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Trending Now May 16, 4:41 PM
In rare public criticism, Obama tells college graduates that pandemic shows ‘folks in charge’ don’t always know what they’re doing
Former president Barack Obama took direct aim at government officials managing the coronavirus response in the United States during a virtual commencement speech for graduates of historically black colleges and universities.
“More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” Obama said. “A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”
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Maybe this was Obama’s way to indirectly point out how Trump got rid of the pandemic group Obama created when he was president so the country would always have a team in place to deal with a virus like this one.
Sort of a, “I told you so” or “Look what you did when you got rid of everything I did as president. You set yourself up for a hard fall, Trump.”
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Gary is a poor black area in NW Indiana. It is now planning to open restaurants, bars with food services, retail and personal care businesses such as barber shops, nail and hair salons, at 25% occupancy on May 24. WHY? GARY HAS DOUBLE DIGET DAILY INCREASES IN POSITIVE CASES!!!
These plans are more stringent than Governor Holcomb’s [R-IN]. The University of Indiana did its independent testing of volunteers and came up with a total of 186,000 people Indiana who are infected and the 44.8% are asymptomatic.
Pence was our former governor and people are now suffering from the far R politics of Trump. Disgusting.
Holcomb is saying that he is opening up the state because of the availability of hospital beds and ventilators. What a great reason to infect and kill more Hoosiers!!
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[NWI Times] Salons, retail, and restaurants can reopen soon at 25% occupancy, Gary mayor says
May 15, 2020 Updated 7 hrs ago
GARY — Mayor Jerome Prince is giving restaurants, houses of worship and retail shops the green light to reopen later this month — with restrictions — but keeping bars and nightclubs shut down until further notice amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The conservative reopening plan comes as the city of Gary continues to see double-digit daily increases in positive cases. The case count for Gary residents stood at 519 this week, with 16 fatalities.
Prince first limited access to public buildings in the city on March 13 at the onset of the crisis, and later further restricted public gatherings by asking many city employees to work from home and ordering churches and businesses to close in hopes of reducing the virus’ spread.
During Prince’s daily virtual news conference on Friday, he said he will allow Gary restaurants, bars with food services, retail and personal care businesses such as barber shops, nail and hair salons, to reopen at 25% occupancy on May 24.
Due to Gary’s close proximity to Chicago, a prominent hot spot for cases in the U.S., the city’s restrictions are more stringent than Gov. Eric Holcomb’s phased reopening plan for the rest of Indiana…
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/salons-retail-and-restaurants-can-reopen-soon-at-25-occupancy-gary-mayor-says/article_d0d28237-13ee-5021-ae31-da0ba1c8ddaa.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share
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True by Snopes. No wonder Trump doesn’t work to have more testing available to the states. I wish all of his loyal followers knew just how horrible he is.
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Did Trump Say More COVID-19 Testing Makes the US Look Bad?
One of the hallmarks of U.S. President Donald Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic crisis in the spring of 2020 was his repeatedly comparing the U.S. to other countries in areas such as COVID-19 testing, issuing (not necessarily accurate) declarations such as boasting that the U.S. had done “more testing than the entire world together” and asserting that, “We’ve done more tests in eight days than South Korea has done in eight weeks. And our tests are better.”
In mid-May, Trump abruptly walked out of a press conference when pressed by a reporter to explain why he viewed the subject of COVID-19 testing as a “global competition” and placed so much emphasis on the amount of coronavirus tests that have been conducted in the United States compared to other countries. Needless to say, the reporter did not get a direct answer to the question from the president.
But a quote meme circulated in May 2020 presented Trump as saying that undertaking more coronavirus testing made the U.S. “look bad” by revealing more infections — even though revealing infections is one of the primary purposes of the testing. According to the meme, Trump lamented that, “More testing only reveals more infections and therefore increases the numbers. In a way, by doing all this testing we make ourselves look bad”:…
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-more-testing-look-bad/
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Snopes was too kind. The US has not done more testing than all the other countries in the world. That’s false.
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‘God will protect me.’ Here’s how religious Americans view the coronavirus pandemic
MAY 16, 2020
…According to their findings, about one in 10 Americans attribute the situation surrounding COVID-19 in the U.S. to “human sinfulness.”
But they are “most likely to think governments, global trade, and other things in nature are causes,” the study states.
About 43% of those polled said foreign government’s actions and policies were to blame, while 37% pointed at the U.S. government. A little less than a third attributed the current situation to other things in nature and 21% said it’s global trade.
Human sinfulness accounted for 11% of respondents, followed by immigrants at 9%, climate change at 7%, people of non-Christian faiths at 3%, non-religious people at 2% and Christians at 2%.
At least 24% said “none of the these” were responsible.
A MESSAGE FROM GOD
Nearly two-thirds of religious Americans feel the coronavirus pandemic is “God telling humanity to change the way we are living,” according to the study.
That statement held more truth for black and Hispanic Americans — 73% of which and 65% of which said they agreed. About 48% of white Americans concurred.
More than half of the respondents polled also said they believed God would protect them from infection.
Broken down by affiliation, 67% of white Evangelical Christians agreed with that statement, compared to 53% of other Americans who believe in God.
But almost no one said the pandemic has challenged their belief in God.
Read more here: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/coronavirus/article242784396.html?#storylink=cpy
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/coronavirus/article242784396.html
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I’d rather think that the pandemic is God’s way to teach Trump’s followers to stop supporting Trumpty Dumpty. The longer it takes for the deplorables to learn that lesson and abandon their false god Trump, the more people are going to die.
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The American people love Trump. Ewwwww. Barf. Groan. YUCK!!
Words that describe how I feel: dislike, distaste, hatred, animosity, hostility, disgust, loathing, animus, antagonism, antipathy, displeasure, detestation, repugnance, abhorrence, objection, abomination, deprecation, discountenance, disdain, opposition, revulsion, averseness, contempt, repellence and dissatisfaction.
I’m sure there are more but you can get the idea that I DON’T love him.
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Eric Trump predicts COVID-19 is a conspiracy against his dad that will ‘magically’ disappear in November
May 17, 2020
President Donald Trump’s son Eric suggested that coronavirus lockdowns were a conspiracy to keep his father from holding 2020 campaign rallies during a Saturday appearance on Fox News with Jeanine Pirro.
With America leading the world in reported coronavirus fatalities, the president’s son was focused on the 2020 campaign against former Vice President Joe Biden.
“Listen, Biden loves this,” he claimed. “They think they’re taking away Donald Trump’s greatest tool, which is being able to go into an arena and fill it with 50,000 people every single time.”
“So you watch, they will milk it every single day between now and November 3rd,”
“And guess what, after November 3rd, coronavirus will magically all of the sudden go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen,” he predicted.
“They’re trying to deprive him of his greatest asset, which is the fact that the American people love him, the fact that he’s relatable, and the fact that he can go out there and draw massive crowds,” he argued…
https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/eric-trump-predicts-covid-19-is-a-conspiracy-against-his-dad-that-will-magically-disappear-in-november/#.XsFHtd9XY9s.gmail
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If you click on the link, you’ll get maps/charts that compare the US with the rest of the world. We do not compare well.
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Coronavirus pandemic: Tracking the global outbreak By The Visual and Data Journalism Team BBC News
US 88,889 deaths 27.2 death rate 1,474,946 cases
Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world, with more than 4.7 million confirmed cases in 188 countries. More than 300,000 people have lost their lives.
This series of maps and charts tracks the global outbreak of the virus since it emerged in China in December last year.
France, Italy, Spain and the UK – the worst-hit European countries – have all recorded more than 27,000 deaths.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105
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Has anyone reading this comment read the recent MSN piece about Thailand?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/this-one-habit-is-why-thailand-has-so-few-covid-cases-doctor-says/ar-BB14aOJi?ocid=spartandhp
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I see people are still making comments here, so I’ll refer you over to the Joe Biden post–I just read two new WaPo & NYT articles that will more than substantiate the title of this post.
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