Trump Is Truly Demented

[Bruce Daniels]

When you get Covid-19, you may not have symptoms right away. Some people never have any symptoms, or very mild symptoms. So you could be walking around with the virus but not know that you have it. Yet because it's very contagious, you can spread it even if you don't know that you have it. That's what makes it so insidious.

The only way to make sure if someone has Covid-19 is to test them, and if the test is positive, then quarantine them (and anyone they may have been in contact with recently). If we did that aggressively, we could isolate the infected people and eventually stop the spread of the virus.

But Trump doesn't want to do that. He called testing "overrated" (even though HE is tested EVERY day), and said, “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.” In other words, Trump doesn't want extensive testing because, inevitably, more cases of Covid-19 would be found, and in his mind, that would make him look bad. He's willing to sacrifice hundreds or thousands of Americans at the altar of his ego. That is truly demented.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/15/trumps-thoroughly-strange-commentary-coronavirus-testing/

 

[BULLDOG]

When you get Covid-19, you may not have symptoms right away. Some people never have any symptoms, or very mild symptoms. So you could be walking around with the virus but not know that you have it. Yet because it's very contagious, you can spread it even if you don't know that you have it. That's what makes it so insidious.

The only way to make sure if someone has Covid-19 is to test them, and if the test is positive, then quarantine them (and anyone they may have been in contact with recently). If we did that aggressively, we could isolate the infected people and eventually stop the spread of the virus.

But Trump doesn't want to do that. He called testing "overrated" (even though HE is tested EVERY day), and said, “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.” In other words, Trump doesn't want extensive testing because, inevitably, more cases of Covid-19 would be found, and in his mind, that would make him look bad. He's willing to sacrifice hundreds or thousands of Americans at the altar of his ego. That is truly demented.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/15/trumps-thoroughly-strange-commentary-coronavirus-testing/

Nothing new about that. There is a long list of examples of his absurd thought processes. I'm not sure if he has dementia, or if he has always been this stupid, and his dumb, childish behavior is the same as it has always been.

 

[Denizen]

Dopey Donald Trump is now treating the office of POTUS as a sideline to Trump Organization with the belief he can do anything he likes without Congress or Senate stopping any unlawful acts. GOP lawmakers have shown themselves unwilling to prevent inappropriate acts by Trump.

Firing Inspector Generals is the act of a mentally deranged person.

 

[fncceo]

Amateur armchair psychologists are so much fun to watch...

 

[Mac-7]

Trump doesn't want extensive testing because, inevitably, more cases of Covid-19 would be found, and in his mind, that would make him look bad.

Its physically impossible to test everyone and then isolate them and everyone they may have contacted for two weeks

in fact the more testing we do the less serious the chinese disease becomes statistically

In january and feburary there was little accurate information on the wuhan virus and that allowed ”experts” like the nutty professor in London to publish computer models based on a death rate of over 3% and predict millions of deaths worldwide

now we know its much less deadly and more testing makes bedwetting democrat dictators in blue cities states look foolish

 

[fncceo]

In other words, Trump doesn't want extensive testing because, inevitably, more cases of Covid-19 would be found

The more testing, the higher number of positive cases. The larger the number of positive cases, means a lessening of the mortality rate for this disease.

The more we test, the more evidence there is that this is really nothing more than a bad flu season and we trashed the global economy on account of a chicken little-esque panic.

 

[Deleted member 73486]

In other words, Trump doesn't want extensive testing because, inevitably, more cases of Covid-19 would be found

The more testing, the higher number of positive cases. The larger the number of positive cases, means a lessening of the mortality rate for this disease.

The more we test, the more evidence there is that this is really nothing more than a bad flu season and we trashed the global economy on account of a chicken little-esque panic.

That would be a correct statement -- except this ain't just a bad flu -- it can cause permanent lung damage even for perfectly healthy people. It can kill them too!

 

[Atticus Finch]

When you get Covid-19, you may not have symptoms right away. Some people never have any symptoms, or very mild symptoms. So you could be walking around with the virus but not know that you have it. Yet because it's very contagious, you can spread it even if you don't know that you have it. That's what makes it so insidious.

The only way to make sure if someone has Covid-19 is to test them, and if the test is positive, then quarantine them (and anyone they may have been in contact with recently). If we did that aggressively, we could isolate the infected people and eventually stop the spread of the virus.

But Trump doesn't want to do that. He called testing "overrated" (even though HE is tested EVERY day), and said, “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.” In other words, Trump doesn't want extensive testing because, inevitably, more cases of Covid-19 would be found, and in his mind, that would make him look bad. He's willing to sacrifice hundreds or thousands of Americans at the altar of his ego. That is truly demented.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/15/trumps-thoroughly-strange-commentary-coronavirus-testing/

I don't believe insidious would be the word I'd use with a 99.5% survival rate.BTW why don't we test everyone for AIDS,Hep C, athlete's foot cause ya never know until you test...The fear mongering has run it's course....

 

[fncceo]

it can cause permanent lung damage even for perfectly healthy people.

Cite case studies from published, peer-reviewed medical journals.

You can't, because there have been no long-term case studies for a disease that has been in the general population only a few months.

You can let me know in 10 years if there is evidence to suspect permanent damage in recovered pts with nil pre-existing conditions, OK?

 

[Care4all]

Dopey Donald Trump is now treating the office of POTUS as a sideline to Trump Organization with the belief he can do anything he likes without Congress or Senate stopping any unlawful acts. GOP lawmakers have shown themselves unwilling to prevent inappropriate acts by Trump.

Firing Inspector Generals is the act of a mentally deranged person.

or just showing how criminally crooked he truly is.....?

 

[Care4all]

it can cause permanent lung damage even for perfectly healthy people.

Cite case studies from published, peer-reviewed medical journals.

You can't, because there have been no long-term case studies for a disease that has been in the general population only a few months.

You can let me know in 10 years if there is evidence to suspect permanent damage in recovered pts with nil pre-existing conditions, OK?

You think they can not tell that there is permanent damage to the lungs, or heart or kidney when they are being released after their bout with it?

 

[fncceo]

it can cause permanent lung damage even for perfectly healthy people.

Cite case studies from published, peer-reviewed medical journals.

You can't, because there have been no long-term case studies for a disease that has been in the general population only a few months.

You can let me know in 10 years if there is evidence to suspect permanent damage in recovered pts with nil pre-existing conditions, OK?

You think they can not tell that there is permanent damage to the lungs, or heart or kidney when they are being released after their bout with it?

Permanent lung damage would show as pulmonary fibrosis and lung scarring. Permanent heart or muscle damage would result in detectable necrotic tissue. Kidney damage would present as Glomerulosclerosis, a hardening of the glomeruli, tubes in the kidneys.

Do you have evidence of anyone being discharged after recovery from COVID, without a pre-existing condition, that has these indications?

 

[Care4all]

it can cause permanent lung damage even for perfectly healthy people.

Cite case studies from published, peer-reviewed medical journals.

You can't, because there have been no long-term case studies for a disease that has been in the general population only a few months.

You can let me know in 10 years if there is evidence to suspect permanent damage in recovered pts with nil pre-existing conditions, OK?

You think they can not tell that there is permanent damage to the lungs, or heart or kidney when they are being released after their bout with it?

Permanent lung damage would show as pulmonary fibrosis and lung scarring. Permanent heart or muscle damage would result in detectable necrotic tissue. Kidney damage would present as Glomerulosclerosis, a hardening of the glomeruli, tubes in the kidneys.

Do you have evidence of anyone being discharged after recovery from COVID, without a pre-existing condition, that has these indications?

damaged organs fom covid - Google Search

lots of articles to choose from.....

 

[Care4all]

Trump doesn't want extensive testing because, inevitably, more cases of Covid-19 would be found, and in his mind, that would make him look bad.

Its physically impossible to test everyone and then isolate them and everyone they may have contacted for two weeks

in fact the more testing we do the less serious the chinese disease becomes statistically

In january and feburary there was little accurate information on the wuhan virus and that allowed ”experts” like the nutty professor in London to publish computer models based on a death rate of over 3% and predict millions of deaths worldwide

now we know its much less deadly and more testing makes bedwetting democrat dictators in blue cities states look foolish

What utter ignorant bull crud!

100000 dead, in just 2 months, with social distancing and shut down....

The tests are to identify hot spots, isolate the sick,

INSTEAD of having to shut down the whole nation by isolating all of us....

we, that are not sick, can be freed and out working and shopping etc

Being against this is just plain dumb..... screw your head back on!

 

[occupied]

As soon as someone starts reducing Americans to mere numbers it is clear they feel nothing for the dead. It's a 9/11 everyday now and the republicans really couldn't care less.

 

[depotoo]

Every week, L.A. has thousands of coronavirus tests not being used

With ample coronavirus tests and not enough sick people seeking them, the mayor of Los Angeles recently did something on a scale no other major U.S. city had done — allow anyone with or without sym…

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[eddiew]

already posted this

s not uncommon for leaders to set goals so high that they sound unattainable.

Well what the hell, trumpf should just say we'll have a vaccine by next week.

You don't get it. Doesn't matter what the draft dodger and all his ass licking suits say, it's not in their hands, and it isn't their timeline. But if you don't mind having smoke blown up your ass, enjoy.

Trumpf inspires no confidence. Haven't you been paying attention? He doesn't choose competent people, he chooses yes men, he chooses family members, he chooses incompetent idiots cause they suck up to him. Over and over he does this shit, you go on praising him. The hospitals are screaming for PPE, what does trumpf do? He puts his flunkie son-in-law in charge, a guy that has never succeeded at anything. What does Kushner do? Instead of contacting experts at procurement or anybody with medical expertise, he calls up his buddies, none of whom know DICK about it. They all start using their personal email accounts, so everyone they contact thinks they're being put on and ignore it.

The trumpf admin is a constant cluster fuck, a bunch of stumbling, fumbling partisans. Kushner has accomplished nothing, his kids have accomplished nothing, they're only there to line their own pockets. Any vaccine will be in spite of trumpf.

 

[depotoo]

If you test negative today, you could test positive tomorrow. So do tell, how you can test everyone everyday until they test positive. We would have to be testing everyone everyday 365 days. And the minute you quarantine everyone for weeks, and they step back out, some will again test positive. It is impossible to keep the virus from spreading. Even when we have a vaccine, most virus vaccines have chances of not working and none work 100%. The flu vaccine last year only had a 40% success rate. So, do we just hibernate forever? Then we will die from from lack of food, depression, domestic abuse, suicide, etc. We have a choice to take proper precautions and go on with life, those with other conditions take the precautions they need and work from home, or all hibernate and die for certain earlier.

 

[Mac-7]

100000 dead, in just 2 months, with social distancing and shut down....

I think you mean 89,000 dead in just 6 months

because the chinese disease has been around at least that long

and thats when humans had no herd immunity

and when we didnt know how deadly it is for old people in nursing homes

they should be isolated and given frequent testing along with employing extreme preventative measures

for the rest of us social distancing and frequent hand washing are the best we can expect in a free society

but no matter what we do people with pre-existing conditions are always going to be at risk

 

[eddiew]

If you test negative today, you could test positive tomorrow. So do tell, how you can test everyone everyday until they test positive. We would have to be testing everyone everyday 365 days. And the minute you quarantine everyone for weeks, and they step back out, some will again test positive. It is impossible to keep the virus from spreading. Even when we have a vaccine, most virus vaccines have chances of not working and none work 100%. The flu vaccine last year only had a 40% success rate. So, do we just hibernate forever? Then we will die from from lack of food, depression, domestic abuse, suicide, etc. We have a choice to take proper precautions and go on with life, those with other conditions take the precautions they need and work from home, or all hibernate and die for certain earlier.

I was tested negative and the papers given me afterward say that is no guarantee