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More verbal diarrhea from our president

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14 July 2020, 11:49 AM
Lisa
More verbal diarrhea from our president
This is Trump's statement on covid testing from yesterday. Among the highlights: he accuses Obama and Biden of stopping their testing and asserts that the United States is creating cases when they test.

Really - you need to read the whole transcript to truly appreciate it.

https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-...hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb
14 July 2020, 12:14 PM
Nina
quote:
But they stopped testing. Right in the middle, they just want, no more testing, and on a much lesser problem than the problem that we have....


Wait, they stopped testing because the problem was smaller? Oh, the humanity. We should all be getting our H1N1 tests done TODAY!


quote:
we've done 45 million tests....


Actually, the USA has done about 27M tests as of June 23. So we've done an additional 20 MILLION tests in, um, 21 days? We've done a million tests a day! We win!! (Um, actually, the 45M number appears to be a total fabrication. We're actually testing about 500K a day, not a trivial accomplishment but about half of what we'd need to do to hit the 45M claim.

Actually, I don't know why I even bother with this. Trump lies. Not exactly a news flash.
14 July 2020, 12:29 PM
wtg
He makes the observation that the US death rate is lower than other countries. Actually, it says it's among the lowest and that's not accurate, but in any event....then he proceeds to grouse about how testing "makes" more cases.

He totally misses the whole numerator/denominator thing, and that the more you test and uncover cases, the lower the death rate is...

facepalm

Gawd, how could someone so clueless be elected president...


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14 July 2020, 02:42 PM
Nina
Math is hard(tm).
14 July 2020, 03:40 PM
Axtremus
quote:
Originally posted by Nina:
Math is hard(tm).

MATH, Make America Think Harder.

That’s one of Andrew Yang’s slogan.


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14 July 2020, 05:03 PM
Amanda
Ugh. More aerosolized droplets of his own unique virus.

You know, even after all this time, it hurts me to see "our president" in the thread title. At least, president wasn't capitalized.


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