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Danmel

(4,931 posts)
Wed May 6, 2020, 09:16 PM May 2020

Dr. Trump killed one of our constituents

I work for an elected official. I've been eyeball deep working with residents impacted by COVID-19, whether for unemployment, health insurance, SBA and PPP loans. By the end of the day, I'm completely wrung out and exhausted but can hardly sleep.

But today took the cake. I got a call from an elderly woman who lost her husband to COVID-19 in late March. He was treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromyicin without her knowledge, because she had COVID-19 also and was quarantined at home. She was furious because he had a- fib and she is convinced Dr. Trump killed her husband.
I am bereft and heartbroken for her and her husband.
This is just such a tragedy and now they are going to pretend it never even happened.

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Dr. Trump killed one of our constituents (Original Post) Danmel May 2020 OP
Heart breaking SheltieLover May 2020 #1
Now you know why Mitch is hurrying to give out liability protection. Baitball Blogger May 2020 #2
I don't know. I think it's just straight CYA. Business as usual AleksS May 2020 #7
Not really CYA--it's "turn workers into cannon fodder." lastlib May 2020 #9
True. It's blatantly: AleksS May 2020 #12
The Wages of Sin is Death? SouthernAtheist May 2020 #20
The Wages of Sin are on those hidden tax returns. CaptYossarian May 2020 #21
Vaccinators Protected Johnnie Mae May 2020 #29
I am amazed how these drugs are being used as a "standard of care" without LisaL May 2020 #3
Is anybody still using them? They've been debunked, now that Trump has made his money. lagomorph777 May 2020 #19
If I were her Dear Leader's Security would have to be put on BigmanPigman May 2020 #4
I was about to ask you what state this happened in but DURHAM D May 2020 #5
So was I canetoad May 2020 #6
That's how I view it too. ecstatic May 2020 #8
Trump killed over 70,000 of his constituents. SunSeeker May 2020 #10
Great letter!❤ Karadeniz May 2020 #11
Try it! BGBD May 2020 #13
Warning: some people may be affected badly. dchill May 2020 #14
If you die BGBD May 2020 #16
Trump's personal death toll keithbvadu2 May 2020 #15
So Sorry, Danmel! Cha May 2020 #17
investigate his actual doc. he is clearly incompetent. mopinko May 2020 #18
Next January, Trump and Barr will have plenty of free time to CaptYossarian May 2020 #22
we aint got time to mow down the forest, or firebomb it for that matter, but this mopinko May 2020 #23
A quote from the Dept of Interior? CaptYossarian May 2020 #24
dept of mo. mopinko May 2020 #25
Most Stooge fans prefer Curly, but okay. CaptYossarian May 2020 #26
nah. everyone knows moe was the star. mopinko May 2020 #27
Given what I know about "the boys", Moe was a star and then some. CaptYossarian May 2020 #28
i'm sorry. i'm laughin. mopinko May 2020 #31
I wonder just how many have been injured or even died due to Trump playing doctor sakabatou May 2020 #30

Baitball Blogger

(46,764 posts)
2. Now you know why Mitch is hurrying to give out liability protection.
Wed May 6, 2020, 09:30 PM
May 2020

I think they're going to use people as guinea pigs to determine the effectiveness of certain treatments.

AleksS

(1,665 posts)
7. I don't know. I think it's just straight CYA. Business as usual
Wed May 6, 2020, 10:41 PM
May 2020

Business as usual.

Force your workers to work in unsafe conditions, then some get sick and die because of your greed? Why should their deaths be considered your fault, simply because they were your fault?

Evil. They are just evil.

lastlib

(23,312 posts)
9. Not really CYA--it's "turn workers into cannon fodder."
Wed May 6, 2020, 10:56 PM
May 2020

Put out the message that they are expendable if they don't toe the company line. Companies become slave labor camps.

--- --- --- --- ---

I'm getting so fucking tired of this shit.

AleksS

(1,665 posts)
12. True. It's blatantly:
Wed May 6, 2020, 11:16 PM
May 2020

It’s blatantly:

I’m the boss, so I can have you killed and the GOP says there is nothing you can do about it. Want to quit? Good luck feeding your kids because you can’t get unemployment. And good luck finding a safer or better job after I fire you.

Disgusting. But it’s a republican’s wet dream.

 

SouthernAtheist

(45 posts)
20. The Wages of Sin is Death?
Thu May 7, 2020, 02:40 PM
May 2020

If the wages of sin is death, then the United States is reaping what we sowed on November 8, 2016.

This is what happens when the unrighteous are exalted and the claim is made that it is by the hand of a righteous God.

75,000+ deaths and set to skyrocket as we reopen without enough testing to allow us to react fast enough to shut it back back down in time to prevent another spin of death's roulette wheel.

We are at the mercy of fools led by an unrighteous lout masquerading as our savior.

.... Place your bets....

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
21. The Wages of Sin are on those hidden tax returns.
Thu May 7, 2020, 05:26 PM
May 2020

Immoral, illegal, and unethical--that's Trump's three-legged stool of his wealth sources.

There will be 150,000 sad stories by the Fourth of July. Probably sooner, if more jughead governors open too quickly.

How does Biden only have a "slim" lead over the mass murderer?

Johnnie Mae

(35 posts)
29. Vaccinators Protected
Fri May 8, 2020, 03:10 AM
May 2020

Congress has already passed protections for the vaccinations from the pharmaceutical industry. This was lobbied 4 bc that powerful group already know there would b harm to some of us recipients. So, they lobbied to be protected from u & I. As a result, we are unable to sue them n the event of injury. I will listen to my on line VaccinationsRevealed again & post the name of that act.

LisaL

(44,974 posts)
3. I am amazed how these drugs are being used as a "standard of care" without
Wed May 6, 2020, 09:34 PM
May 2020

much evidence that they do any good.

BigmanPigman

(51,638 posts)
4. If I were her Dear Leader's Security would have to be put on
Wed May 6, 2020, 09:36 PM
May 2020

alert because I would be going to the W House this minute and I would be madder than a "Murder Hornet".

ecstatic

(32,737 posts)
8. That's how I view it too.
Wed May 6, 2020, 10:45 PM
May 2020

Coronavirus victims are trump's victims. His incompetence has killed tens of thousands. This letter illustrates it perfectly:


?s=20

SunSeeker

(51,740 posts)
10. Trump killed over 70,000 of his constituents.
Wed May 6, 2020, 10:59 PM
May 2020

None of this had to happen. Trump is the one who downplayed the virus for 2 months, failed to invoke the DPA to mass produce tests and let Covid-19 spread to all 50 states.  By March, our only option to flatten the monstrous infection curve the CDC was projecting for us was economy-destroying shutdowns, as advocated by the White House and Dr. Fauci's "Flatten the Curve" program. Otherwise, our hospitals would have been overwhelmed and even more people would have died.  Some countries handled it much better.  South Korea got their first confirmed Covid-19 case on the same day as us, Jan. 20.  But their leader took it seriously even before then, and immediately started mass producing tests as soon as the WHO made the testing formula available to the world on Jan. 17. South Korea immediately did mass testing to find hotspots and do targeted quarantines and contact tracing.  Because of their mass testing program, they never had to shut down whole sectors of their economy, like restaurants or factories.   https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/26/821688981/how-south-korea-reigned-in-the-outbreak-without-shutting-everything-down Not only did their testing program save their economy, it saved lives. They've lost only 250 people,  we've lost over 74,000, and we're still losing thousands every few days. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/ Granted we have 6.5 times the population of South Korea, but if we had done what they did, we'd have lost only about 6.5×250 =1,625 people, and our economy would not be in tatters. 

 

BGBD

(3,282 posts)
16. If you die
Thu May 7, 2020, 12:24 AM
May 2020

Just know it's not in vain. You gave your life so that somebody could be free to get their nails done!

keithbvadu2

(36,949 posts)
15. Trump's personal death toll
Thu May 7, 2020, 12:12 AM
May 2020

Trump's baseline is 15 people and going down toward zero.

First it was one person from China and then it was 15 people and going down toward zero.

That's what you said.

Everything above that is Trump's personal death toll.

'Totally under control' (you) and 'contained' (Kudlow)

And then you ignored it with high praise and optimism to make yourself look good.

And then let it grow uninhibited.

mopinko

(70,261 posts)
18. investigate his actual doc. he is clearly incompetent.
Thu May 7, 2020, 08:38 AM
May 2020

sometimes the way to make your way in a fog is to pick one point that you can see, and start there.

get that fucker up on charges.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
22. Next January, Trump and Barr will have plenty of free time to
Thu May 7, 2020, 05:32 PM
May 2020

face charges in a Manhattan courtroom as private citizens.

We don't even have to flip the Senate, but we will anyway.

We all must live long enough to have a nationwide Inaugural Ball, from sea to shining sea (especially Puerto Rico).

mopinko

(70,261 posts)
23. we aint got time to mow down the forest, or firebomb it for that matter, but this
Thu May 7, 2020, 06:32 PM
May 2020

this twisted, diseased, colonized by harmful fungi, growing at a crazy angle where it is actively damaging the neighboring trees, needs not only to be cut down but reduced to sawdust. then burned.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
28. Given what I know about "the boys", Moe was a star and then some.
Thu May 7, 2020, 10:34 PM
May 2020

He handled all finances and negotiations for the team and recruited replacement talent as others could not perform anymore.

It was probably Moe who had four stooges in "Hold That Lion" as a favor to his baby brother, Curly, who couldn't speak or walk due to a massive stroke in his 40s. Moe also fired Joe Besser when Besser refused to take a pie in the face.

I think it was Moe's idea to split from Ted Healy when Healy made the same $ as the three combined stooges did. Only a guy like Moe Howard could fire his boss.

mopinko

(70,261 posts)
31. i'm sorry. i'm laughin.
Fri May 8, 2020, 07:49 AM
May 2020

i wish i had a nickel for all the people who could/have let loose a similar stream of thought about me. not sure how folks dont fall on the floor following the switchback in that train of thought.

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