Trump coronavirus testing, masks and social distancing

[shunyadragon]

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/21/coronavirus-live-updates-us/

Live updates: Trump says he told officials to slow coronavirus testing to find fewer cases

Amid surging coronavirus infections nationwide, President Trump said at his campaign rally in Tulsa Saturday night that he told officials to administer fewer coronavirus tests to keep case numbers down.

After claiming the United States has tested 25 million people, Trump said: “When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please!’ ” A White House official later told The Washington Post that Trump was joking.

Eight states on Saturday reported their highest single-day case counts since the pandemic began, and daily new infections nationwide exceeded 30,000 on both Friday and Saturday. The country has not seen daily totals that high in more than seven weeks.

Here are some significant developments:

Spain ended its months-long state of emergency on Sunday, allowing in tourists from most of Europe but warning that measures must be followed to avoid a second wave.
States across the South and West — Florida, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Utah, Washington, Nevada and Missouri — set records for single-day confirmed cases, and 13 states reached highs in seven-day new-case averages.
The test kits for detecting the nation’s earliest cases failed because of “likely” contamination at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a new federal review.
Six members of Trump’s campaign advance team for his Tulsa rally tested positive for the virus, according to the president’s campaign.
The National Institutes of Health said it halted a clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine for treating coronavirus patients, saying it “provides no benefit."

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[shunyadragon]

Source: Trump suggests some people wear face masks to harm him politically

Trump suggests some people wear face masks as part of an effort to damage him politically

The president makes a number of outlandish claims in a brand new interview with The Wall Street Journal

resident Donald Trump on Thursday gave an interview to The Wall Street Journal in which he made a number of outlandish claims about the Chinese government, former national security adviser John Bolton, and even people who wear face masks.

Here are some of the highlights from the president's latest interview:

The president admitted that he had no evidence to back up his claim and said it was based only on an "internal sense."

2.) Trump says he hired John Bolton to make foreign leaders fearful that he'd go to war with them unless they gave him what he wanted.

The president spent a good deal of time trashing the man whom he'd appointed as his national security adviser, and divulged his true rationale for bringing him into his administration in the first place.

"The only thing I liked about Bolton was that everybody thought he was crazy," Trump explained. "When you walk into the room with him, you're in a good negotiating position, because they figure you're going to war if John Bolton was there."

3.) Trump says that he actually was threatening to have looters shot in his now-infamous tweet.

Trump earlier this month issued a warning to anti-police brutality protesters against rioting and looting during demonstrations by tweeting, "When the looting starts, the shooting starts."

Even though Trump then denied that he'd meant it as a direct threat to looters, he has now admitted to WSJ that he did mean it at least partially as a threat.

4.) Trump calls COVID-19 testing "overrated" then brags about how many tests the United States has done.

"I personally think testing is overrated, even though I created the greatest testing machine in history," Trump said of his administration's response to the pandemic.

Trump then explained that the testing "makes us look bad" by revealing how far the virus has spread.

5.) Trump brags that he made more people aware of Juneteenth by holding a rally on that date in a city known as the site of the worst anti-black pogrom in American history.

The president drew criticism for his decision to hold a rally in Tulsa, Okla., on June 19th, which is the day that commemorates the freeing of slaves in the United States.

In addition to stepping on Juneteenth with his rally, the president was also criticized for holding his rally in Tulsa, which was the site of the infamous "Black Wall Street" massacre of black Americans in 1921.

"I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous," Trump said. "It's actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it."
"The president said the tweet could be read as either a threat or a fact," WSJ reports. "Asked how he intended it, Mr. Trump said 'a combination of both.'"

6.) Trump suggests some people are wearing face masks to damage him politically.

According to WSJ, the president "allowed for the possibility that some Americans wore facial coverings not as a preventative measure but as a way to signal disapproval of him."

He also said he worried that masks weren't really the best way to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, as too many people touched their face masks while wearing them.

"They put their finger on the mask, and they take them off, and then they start touching their eyes and touching their nose and their mouth," he said. "And then they don't know how they caught it?"

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[Secret Chief]

Trump suggests some people wear face masks as part of an effort to damage him politically

I strongly suspect a lot of Democrat supporters are dying just to make Trump look bad. But the joke's on them cos they won't be voting in November!

MAKE AMERICA GRIEVE AGAIN

 

[Lyndon]

According to Trump, if we stop doing Mammograms we'll have much less breast cancer, its the testing that cause the disease, if we eliminate the testing, the disease goes away.

 

[sun rise]

I strongly suspect a lot of Democrat supporters are dying just to make Trump look bad. But the joke's on them cos they won't be voting in November!

MAKE AMERICA GRIEVE AGAIN

So you're part of the conspiracy to take the vote away from people who vote against the Dear Leader.

Voter suppression, stopping Democrats from voting, is part of the right-wing playbook. It's an old, racist, playbook.

That stain on America is going to be utterly and completely wiped out. We have a God-given destiny and no right wing plot is going to stop it.

 

[Secret Chief]

So you're part of the conspiracy to take the vote away from people who vote against the Dear Leader.

Voter suppression, stopping Democrats from voting, is part of the right-wing playbook. It's an old, racist, playbook.

That stain on America is going to be utterly and completely wiped out. We have a God-given destiny and no right wing plot is going to stop it.

I hope so.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

A White House official later told The Washington Post that Trump was joking.

What does he have to do so ots not joking? Or will je launch a nuke and having saying "oh, he was just joking, that kidder, he didnt to really totally destroy that town." Its always a "joke" with him, and people need to stop defending him.

 

[shunyadragon]

I strongly suspect a lot of Democrat supporters are dying just to make Trump look bad. But the joke's on them cos they won't be voting in November!

MAKE AMERICA GRIEVE AGAIN

Suspect?!?! Trump supporters are the ones refusing to social distance and wear masks, the main measures we have to reduce the effects of the coronavirus without vaccines or effective medicines. Some advances in medicine have been successful on a limited basis, and a vaccine will be available in the future.

A great many people died of all political parties, because of the neglect of the Trump administration to aggressively deal with ways to reduce the impact of the the COVID 19 pandemic.

 

[Wandering Monk]

With Herr Drumpf, everything is about him. Hallmark of a narcissist.

 

[Secret Chief]

Suspect?!?! Trump supporters are the ones refusing to social distance and wear masks, the main measures we have to reduce the effects of the coronavirus without vaccines or effective medicines. Some advances in medicine have been successful on a limited basis, and a vaccine will be available in the future.

A great many people died of all political parties, because of the neglect of the Trump administration to aggressively deal with ways to reduce the impact of the the COVID 19 pandemic.

I fully agree.
I was chanelling my inner Trump. So to speak.