Posted on 03/09/2020 1:24:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As global markets continue to tank, with Wall Street trading halted after the Dow Jones Industrial Average dove more than 2000 points, and as at least 34 U.S. states and the District of Columbia reporting infections of the novel coronavirus President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on downplaying the crisis, blaming the news media and the Democratic Party for hyping the outbreak and repeating the risk is still "low to the average American."
"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, 'The risk is low to the average American,'" Trump tweeted Monday morning before the markets opened.
Later, about an hour after the markets plunged, Trump continued to engage in a confused narrative about the crisis, downplaying the situation and often putting him at odds with the messaging his own health experts are trying to get across.
"So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!," the president tweeted, appearing to attempt to calm fears as the global markets plummeted.
Less than ten minutes before Trump tweeted that "the economy will go on," and characterized the coronavirus as less dangerous than the common flu, Health and Human Secretary Alex Azar told Fox News: “Make no mistake, this is a very serious health problem. Nobody is trying to minimize that. It is a very serious public health threat to the people of the United States."
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“Where did I mock anyone?”
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“buy 200 rolls of toilet paper”
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Sorry, you’ll just have to try your comedic routine on someone who gets your great your humor on innocent Americans dying. I’m not all that interested - go on your way, now - you’re dismissed.
Ahh, did the Cornyvirus get you?
buying 200 rolls of toilet paper isn’t going to prevent you from getting the cornyvirus
So what stocks are you shorting? You seemed to be hoping for more death so the economy would tank
Quite a few FReepers seem like MSM types............
Find someone else who shares your singular sense of humor based on the deaths of innocent Americans. Real Americans reject it.
Goombye.
You must be femalion
Or a post 1970 male
Infection to death is also misleading. The proper term is infected to death.
So far this is. it as bad as the swine flu was. We will see
Tell that to everyone who doesn’t have smallpox or polio or other deadly diseases.
and hardly a peep about the swine flu virus..gee I wonder why..who was President during that time gee I have to go on wikipedia and find out/sarc
Those commies will be left high and dry, after the virus fades in the warm months just in front of us.
I’m sure every time he seeks to rationally calm the Nation of unnecessary fears the fear mongering dumbocrats will accuse him of whitewashing things. With the dumbocrats there is no winning for President Trump. Pray that they are ensnared into their own deceptive traps.
So -what’s worse - a virus that infects tens of millions every year and has a .1% death rate or a bug that infects a few hundred thousand and has a 5% death rate?
After over 3 months of being in the wild, Coronavirus has infected 1/300th worldwide as the Flu has in the US alone.
William Blake
Propagandists have to be propagandists.
Never forget.
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