Posted on 07/06/2020 9:49:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump has celebrated independence day with a string of false and misleading claims attempting to play down the coronavirus pandemic and warning that China will be held accountable.
The US president staged a Salute to America jamboree on the south lawn of the White House with flyovers by military jets, parachute jumps and patriotic songs, but little effort among guests to physical distance or wear face masks.
The country has undergone staggering changes unthinkable when Trump hosted the first such event a year ago on 4 July with tanks and other military hardware at the Lincoln Memorial. The coronavirus has infected 2.8m Americans and killed nearly 130,000, the worst tallies in the world.
Saturdays national celebration was inevitably more subdued, but the president refused to let the pandemic or dismal poll figures rain on his parade, waving with his wife, Melania, from a White House balcony then walking the south lawn to ripples of applause and a cry of: Four more years!
We got hit by the virus that came from China, the president said, prompting a strange whoop and applause from someone in the audience. Weve made a lot of progress. Our strategy is moving along well. It goes out in one area, it rears back its ugly face in another area. But weve learned a lot. Weve learned how to put out the flame.
The number of infections now regularly tops 50,000 per day, higher than in April when the US was in the first grip of infections. Dr Anthony Fauci, the nations top infectious diseases expert, warned this week: I think its pretty obvious that we are not going in the right direction.
Trump returned to his now familiar and baseless complaint that America has a high caseload because it performs more tests.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
surge?
objective we much.
PDJT knows the source of where the virus came from.
99.95% recovery rate.
If anything, POTUS underestimated the harmless (or mild-symptoms) %.
There are estimates that 8-10 times more undetected cases are out there, than the ones that have been detected so far.
Leni
“David Smith”?
Can you say editorial board of wine soaked commie drunks?
I thought you could.
>> The coronavirus has infected 2.8m Americans and killed nearly 130,000, the worst tallies in the world.
David Smith, the petulant deceiver, fails to mention the declining mortality rate currently at 6.5% — far lower than the UK
typical trumpian hyperbole, but I think that number is probably close to accurate. deaths are on a path to zero, and have been since early may, even with the reopening in early june. the active cases number is HOPELESSLY inflated by people that tested positive three moths ago, have fully recovered, but their positive test was never resolved. in other words, the positive cases check in, but unless they die, they probably never check out.
WGAFF about “infections” or “new cases”?
What matter are HOSPITALIZATIONS, INTUBATIONS, and DEATHS!!!
If “new cases” are increasing and deaths (even accounting for lagging) are declining this is a cause for CELEBRATION!!
Herd immunity is within reach!
TIP: Dump your Big Pharma stocks STAT!
Trump’s typically hyperbolic... but right.
The US is doing great.
Better than anyone else.
I’m married, so back off.
Well, not sure what harmless means. But 99.9% of people who now get the virus will survive. Maybe .8% will have some lingering affects. So I guess Trump is pretty accurate about this.
“....PDJT knows the source of where the virus came from.....”
Agree. Fauxi should be arrested.
It will be higher recovery rate now given most people already been immunized (exposed with antibodies.) This is how every pandemic has every ended. This one is "different" but no one can explain why
What really bothers me more then anything. How so many people fall for this?
Because we know EXACTLY how many people died in China.
Screw this british piece of garbage rag
Because we know EXACTLY how many people died in China.
Screw this british piece of garbage rag
no idea what he’s saying JB?
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