Posted on 04/06/2020 4:47:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
"Trump ruined our economy and all for naught!" "Trump and his capitalism put millions out of work for nothing!"
If you haven't already heard this from the "mainstream media" (AKA "fake news"), you soon will. Fake news media, doing the bidding of their leftist and Democrat masters, have been trying to destroy Donald Trump with hoaxes since he announced his candidacy, or maybe ever since Trump first questioned Barack Obama's claim of being born in the U.S. The fake news first claimed that President Trump overreacted to COVID-19, then Trump was belittling COVID-19 and ignoring the experts, then Trump didn't act fast enough, and soon the fake news media will come full circle to proclaim that Trump hyped it all up and shut down the U.S. economy for nothing. For once, will the fake news media report something real? Will this be a scandal with some weight of truth, eating into the base that never bought the prior hoaxes?
As an expert in computer modeling and simulation, with some familiarity in epidemiology, I can assure you that the computer models upon which Trump has based his policies are absolute bunk. The real-world data from Wuhan (however much you want to believe it) and the Diamond Princess and other countries and cruise ships suggest that COVID-19 kills more of the people it infects (0.5% vs. 0.1%) but infects far fewer people than influenza (3% vs. 15%). There might have been 50,000 deaths in the U.S. if we had done absolutely nothing. The fake news media will have plenty of experts to back that up, and they will be reinforced with the final numbers, which might not even top 20,000, including the exaggerations.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I suspect most of these jobs will NOT return. And those that do come back are going to be in industries that will be hampered indefinitely by low productivity.
Trump didn’t ruin our economy. To the a$$hole who said that, read my upraised finger.
Kate Bohner.
Who’d you rather have? Trump or demented Joe
Trump. He really needs a good housecleaning for his second term though.
+1000
It’s not about jobs. That graph just shows how unique this is.
Rather, it is what I’ve been saying for about a month. When people don’t produce, earn, spend and consume, tax dollars are not coming in. And yet they are increasing services and payouts at a time they are already up to their eyeballs in debt. That will have long term effects.
This won’t be coming back for a long time, and the free-fall is not over.
Bill Gates deserves to be mentioned by name.
“And when trump says everybody back to work the left will scream Trump wants us all dead the pandemic is not over all for Exxon and Boeing profit”
The left screaming and crying like spoiled little girls is their natural state, regardless if people go back to work or not.
^^^ This is why I scan the comments on some articles before reading the article, THEN commenting ...
Agree
Where did this economic halt come from? It started in states and cities with Democratic elected officials. Perhaps they were influenced by the fake news media during "Trump is ignoring the crisis" and overreacted themselves, or perhaps they wanted to show up Trump by taking action. Either way, they used their favorite tool, the power of government, without any regard as to what it might do to their people. It should be obvious from their focus on Trump, but Democrats care only about power, and so they focus on those in power. Think about their accomplishments these last three years. Lying about Trump, investigating Trump, impeaching Trump, saying nasty things about Trump, obstructing Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, right into the insane asylum.
The horrible thing to contemplate by those of us as old as my faithful frau and me is that this will remain a Chinese pestilence until long after we pass away!
Our previous governments placed us in a path to disaster by encouraging the transfer of our manufacturing bases to that nest of rats, bats, snakes and other creatures we consider inedible.
The laboratory where that virus originated was adjacent to their hideous 'wet market.'
It's hard to imagine that just a few days ago the Chi Com Navy was playing chicken with our Naval vessels in an attempt to provoke our ships into firing upon them.
America should begin by expelling the over 300,000 Chinese attending university here. We'll be at full-scale war with China sometime in the future so we might as well bite the bullet and be pre-emptive. At the same time, overnight, Moscow and North Korea could be destroyed. The world would be aghast, but unable to catch their breath for a week or so.
Scientific computer models have become the weapon of choice for the Leftist political operatives.
First climate change and now pandemics.
Scary numbers to make the people afraid.
It is a lot like an old western movie where the cowboys fire their pistols to get the heard to stampede.
With the current level of science education that our people get in their Publik Scrools it is pretty easy to get the heard running in the direction they want.
“Trump didn’t ruin our economy.”
I support President Donald J. Trump 100%!
Whenever the next election is held I will vote for him AGAIN!
Ooops...I read the whole article..they’re not bashing Trump. Ok..still like American thinker..sorry. my bad
“Trump was put in a box....he was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t. No way he wanted to shut down America, but the left would have been screaming :BLOOD ON HIS HANDS” for every death!”
True, and when measured against that threat from the media and The Left, but I repeat myself, Trump was found wanting in response. His waffling on this has allowed state and local fascists to do what they are doing, such as my Gov. Babykiller McGungrabber. Assuaging Trump of any role in this is simply delusional IMHO. He needs to fire the Gatesbots and listen to other voices. Fauci has been a Fed bureaucrat for almost five decades and Birx is a close ally of genocidal misanthrope Bill Gates.
Exactly right.
Trump is handling this perfectly.
Bump
Funny. My wife and I think they are now the only good site left, after all this hyped up BS that is destroying our economy.
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