100,000 DEATHS

Four months ago, Trump said, (paraphrased) 'it's gonna fade"

This pandemic, in America, killed more than Korean, Vietnam wars combined.

Trump should hold his head in shame.

 

No he should not.

The gloating of some on the left at the 100,000 mark is not surprising but is pathetic and a clear view into their souls.

The WP is a crap rag, the printed version of MSNBC. You might want to not post extreme media sources as you validation as they have no validity or merit at all.

 

Trump 2020, MAGA hahahaha!

 

...why are you laughing?

 

The Washington Post is one of the most credentialed and credible news reporting agencies in the world.

And yes, Trump should be ashamed of his failure to protect 100,000 Americans from a virus that he said would go away like a miracle.

 

Source shaming is such a lazy tactic. You say the left is gloating over 100k deaths, the way I see it some on the right are too. In such as the attacks on the shutdown, social distancing, mask usage, infection count (and now infection rates /cough goalposts moved), with reference to the death count in the sense that "we did all this for only 100,000 deaths" - even worse when mention of nursing homes gets mixed in as if that makes it better or something. And not for nothing bu that 100k figure would have been several times higher at this point if not for our amazing healthcare workers who quite literally worked themselves into exhaustion trying to save as many as possible.

 

The post is a lazy cheap paper, go look at their website and tell me different...they do not even attempt to hide their bias yet calm to be journalist. They are crap pure and simple. They write opinion pieces, not news stories. It's not even debatable. They deserve any ounce of shame they receive. It's not lazy at all, it is the truth. Cue the attack on Fox News which has zero to do with the credibility of the post.

"to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight"

Are you saying the right is satisfied it's only 100,000 dead? Hell cause I sure am.

Many on the left look at dead bodies and see political leverage, the more bodies the more leverage. That math does not work for the ideology of the right.

So who do you think wants the body count to go higher, the left or the right?

 

It's not a matter of who wants what, but the question that must be ask and answered is why is it so much worse than it needed to be.

 

Do you see any irony behind clutching your pearls at the wholly fabricated "gloating of some on the left at the 100,000 mark" and the very next post is someone saying, "Trump 2020, MAGA hahahaha?"

Here is a cold hard fact. The "some on the left" have been spending weeks and months warning about the severity and the threat posed by this virus only to watch Trump himself and Trump defenders repeatedly and explicitly mock those warnings as "chicken little" concerns over a "little flu."

Trump absolutely deserves the scorn and criticism he has fully earned for his failure to protect those Americans and we, on the left, are giving him it explicitly and solely because we are better Americans than him.

 

It is not "only 100,000 dead," is it? Do you think the deaths are going to magically stop? The case counts are still spiking in dozens of States.

If anyone wants more death, then they can go **** themselves. Similarly, if anyone wants to pretend that the dead are not dead or that they deserved it or that covid is not to blame, then they can go **** themselves as well.

 

The loss of life has been tragic, and frankly it could have been averted if the administration had taken more preventive measures, especially here at home. Example: When the US found the first COVID patient(or well, given that there was reports it could've been as soon as November, there's doubt on whether the first identified person was in fact the first but whatever.), that person should have been isolated and prevented from further contact(and the contact tracing.)

That's what the South Koreans have done so effectively, as well as alerting South Korean citizens when they might come into contact with a COVID-positive person and to avoid said person.

 

The right doesn't care about the body count. They just worry that too many dead will hamper Trump's reelection success. That's why they attack doctors, accusing them to fudge the official death count.

 

Yeah, the loss of life surely has been tragic, and will continue to be tragic. Now, when will we see Trump express empathy with the ones who died and their loved ones? When will we see him praise the health care workers, I mean really praise them, not just give lip service? It seems the only thing he is worried about is his magical economy being in the crapper,so people will have to die to lift it up by November.

 

Hang his head in shame? He’s 100,000-200,000 deaths SHORT of where all the experts said we were going to be.

He should do a victory lap, what are you talking about

 

Lol so lemme get this right. You’re asserting there was something that could have been done to COMPLETELY halt the spread of COVID into the US?

Are you serious right now?

 

You want Trump to do a victory lap because the US has lost 100,000 Americans in 8 weeks.

The **** is wrong with you.

 

"Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the Trump administration 'is organizing a Manhattan Project-style effort to drastically cut the time needed to develop a coronavirus vaccine, with a goal of making enough doses for most Americans by year's end.'"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...p-claims-covid-19-will-disappear-even-without

This quote:
"It's gonna go, it's gonna leave, it's gonna be gone, it's gonna be eradicated. It might take longer, it might be in smaller sections. It won't be what we had." (ibid)

Yep, most likely true.

 

Trump is working hard at pretending the pandemic away

 

Who predicted that?

 

I just want to remind you that the IHME model, the one used and championed by the Trump administration, said - less than two months ago in early April - that the estimated total deaths by August would be ~60,000.

That projection was championed in this thread: http://politicalforum.com/index.php...y-peak-is-on-easter-and-only-60-000-d.570889/

So no, "all the experts" did not say we were going to be at 200-300K dead by May 28th. They said - quite literally - the exact opposite.

And i still want to know what the **** is wrong with a guy who thinks 100,000 dead Americans is reason to take a victory lap.

 

The original estimate of deaths inside the United States -- no matter what treatment approach was used -- was two and a half million people . . . and so now the political Left is angry because Trump and his brilliant policies kept the death count down to 100,000 people despite everything that Democrat politicians Cuomo and De Blssio could do together to kill off as many of the old people stuck inside nursing homes as possible? Fascinating!

 

Except it does appear to be fading.

 

Yawn. Sane old tired liberal talking points. I’m still waiting for one of you lefty talking heads to address the economic impact of the shutdown you supported and the deaths that will cause. I’ve noticed y’all tend to shy away from that subject at all cost.

You still supporting the ideal that 450,000+ Americans will died? Or have you come up your senses at last?

 

Over what time period?

 

Actually it's so much better than it could have been.