03-06-2020, 08:14 PM
(03-06-2020, 08:00 PM)hollodero Wrote: Well, for starters he claimed there were probably 10 cases in the US when there already were around 60. He went on to say that the WHO numbers on its currently known lethality are "false", even though they are calculated and not estimated. People from his administration (a HS guy named Wolf) told Congress that the coronavirus is no more lethal than the common flu. They said it was contained and that containment is "close to airtight" (that was Kudlow), while Trump also insists that many people have the virus and go to work (run around freely) with the virus [A little "pick the lie" game there, for both things can't be true]. He said Obama is to blame for faulty test kits - after calling Democrat's critizism of these things a "hoax" to hurt him. His son accuses Democrats of rooting for millions of deaths, and Pence has his back. He expressed his assessment that the virus will "magically disappear", possibly "with the heat", even though the virus would have disappeared in warmer countries by now if that were true. He said "we're very close to a vaccine", when the real timetable is one year and then some.
In short, he downplays it. With all these misinformations, lies, false premises and conspiracy talk. No responsible leader should ever do that, no matter how important he deems the stock market for his reelection or whatever his motivation is. Giving out inaccurate pieces of information in a health crisis is willfully endangering people.
Never mind guys like Tom Cotton that allege the virus might be man-made in a Chinese lab. Your free speech hero Limbaugh called it a common cold and that people who warn about a possible spread are the "deep state". And that calls for more response funding were dishonest and just a Democrat smear. I mention that for funding is the issue you slam Pelosi for. Slam your guy instead.
As to the Pelosi part of your post, I said my piece about that. I get it though. You look for anti-liberal news, find it and circle it around if it meets this one condition. In this particular case with this Pelosi accusation, I can just once more urge you to think through the alleged sinister plot that Ingraham piled up there. For it still makes no sense. Even with the little shift towards "the alleged holdup was about the primaries", as if that connection made any more sense. This particular McCarthy/Ingraham/Sunset theory even lacks motive, the one thing such theories usually can provide.
Umm, "calculated" on a future outcome is the same as estimated. I'm a surveyor, I work in exact measurements.
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