Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

I don’t get this - ‘yeah but they had underlying conditions’.
Obesity, high blood pressure, old age, cancer recovery, smoking; for all of these the individual would and could live a much longer life. Including surviving bouts of the flu. But COVID kills them. And yes trump did a awful job with covid, will continue to do so if re-elected, and a good chance he’ll do even worse if he gets another 4 yrs. And yes masks help.

 

'He has blood on his hands': Columbia University study shows that Trump could have avoided over 130,000 COVID-19 deaths with a more robust pandemic response

 

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"Particularly, it is the inability or unwillingness of U.S. officials to adapt or improve the federal response over the course of the pandemic that has strongly contributed to the nation's uniquely high Covid-19 fatality rate," they added.”

 

That's like saying 88% of the people that died from cancer didn't die from Cancer because they had comorbidities. It's just stupid talk.

 

People in extreme denial or those that are very uneducated assert this stance.

 

The thing is, he didn't even quote the talking point correctly. The number they like to spout is orders of magnitude more ignorant.

 

FDA approves remdesivir for covid treatment.

 

The obvious downside to having no plan and zero clue. Hope isn't a strategy.

US reaches second-highest daily total of over 75,000 coronavirus cases

 

And ridiculing mask wearers and the disease control specialists at the CDC. We are crossing new frontiers of stupid.

 

Yep. That April weather cure was a real letdown.

Any Floridian that bought into that criminal stupidity, what the hell were you thinking?
You got JULY weather year around. smdh. So many stupid people.

 

US coronavirus: New cases, hospitalizations spike - CNN

 

Trump, during last night's debate:

Today's Wall Street Journal:

He continues to lie to the American people. Without shame.

 

75,000 and increasing is a scary thought with flu season now arriving.

 

Thank goodness the warm weather destroyed the virus, otherwise our hospitals might not be getting overwhelmed again......

‘At Capacity’: Covid-19 Patients Push U.S. Hospitals to Brink

 

America hits highest daily number of coronavirus cases since pandemic began

With cases ramping up everywhere there will be no healthcare workers to move to the hot-spot. Looking more and more like a chitshow about to happen.

 

It is just astounding that Trump lies so often about a pandemic that has killed so many.

He lied again last night. Trump is a lying liar who lies. If another politician lied like he did last night the pubs would be howling at the moon. He cannot plead ignorance when protecting the country is his number one job.

Of course, no one believes what he says but he is still a liar.

 

The way they've normalized Trump being Trump just boggles the mind. Guess all major media wants the billionaire tax breaks, not just the propaganda networks on the Right.

 

Where are you getting these stats about decreases? Or are those stats lagging? I ask because the U.S. is a complete mess at the moment. There are 34 states "higher and staying high" according to the NY Times. There are 10 states labeled "lower and staying low." Twenty-four states show increased fatalities. And we're just beginning the fall surge. Look at any graph of the current case trend in the U.S. and it shows another steady increase. Maybe I'm reading your report incorrectly, but it appears to be a cherry-pick of the happy stats.