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babylonsister

(171,066 posts)
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 09:46 AM Jun 2020

Nicholas Kristof: Trump Is Feeding America's Coronavirus Nightmare

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/opinion/trump-coronavirus.html


Trump Is Feeding America’s Coronavirus Nightmare
“It’s going away” only in the president’s delusion.
By Nicholas Kristof
Opinion Columnist
June 24, 2020


President Trump says the coronavirus is “fading away” and pats himself on the back for “a great job on CoronaVirus” that saved “millions of U.S. lives.”

“It’s going away,” Trump said Tuesday at a packed megachurch in Phoenix where few people wore masks.

That’s what delusion sounds like. We need a Churchill to lead our nation against a deadly challenge; instead, we have a president who helps an enemy virus infiltrate our churches and homes. Churchill and Roosevelt worked to deceive the enemy; Trump is trying to deceive us.

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We don’t know for sure, but the post-peak experience from New York and Europe as well as from street protests, offers some guidance: If people wear masks, distance as much as possible and avoid mixing indoors, it just might be possible to keep the virus in check.

Instead, our president refuses to wear a mask and brings people together indoors to cheer his newest proposed strategy, which in his words is “slow the testing down.” After aides rushed to say he was joking, Trump denied that, saying, “I don’t kid.” He amplified in a tweet: “With smaller testing, we would show fewer cases!”


Yes, and by ending cancer screenings, we would reduce cancer rates. By locking hospital doors, we would reduce hospitalizations. And if we stopped issuing death certificates, Americans would achieve immortality!

That’s the kind of strategizing that has led the United States, with 4 percent of the world’s population, to experience one-quarter of the deaths worldwide from the coronavirus — and instead of “fading away,” it’s surging.
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Nicholas Kristof: Trump Is Feeding America's Coronavirus Nightmare (Original Post) babylonsister Jun 2020 OP
He really is delusional. He has himself convinced if he says it's so, it must be so captain queeg Jun 2020 #1
It's becoming more and more apparent that he's gone past delusion to insanity. brush Jun 2020 #2
The only thing I want to see going away right now is Trump. Initech Jun 2020 #3
Trump will not lead so this isn't going away Johnny2X2X Jun 2020 #4

captain queeg

(10,207 posts)
1. He really is delusional. He has himself convinced if he says it's so, it must be so
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 09:59 AM
Jun 2020

I suppose it’s ego at the root? I used to think he knew he was BSing and just figured, screw the rubes. But I think he’s so removed from reality he believes it himself. When reality knocks in the door, like in Tulsa, all his handlers go into overdrive to cover his poor hurt feelings. There’s never an effort to just say, I guess you were wrong.

brush

(53,784 posts)
2. It's becoming more and more apparent that he's gone past delusion to insanity.
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 12:43 PM
Jun 2020

And it's hurting us, the shoulder-to-shoulder rallies, no masks, the statements that the virus will just go away—insanity. And with the number of deaths his failure to institute a national testing/isolation/treatment/contact tracing policy has resulted in, it's criminally insane IMO. Tens of thousands of people died who didn't have to die, would've have died with a humane, non-sociopath person in the WH.

And Moscow Mitch and the boys keep letting this train wreck careen from event to event and reek havoc on the nation. Infections are spiking in several states back to April numbers because he won't advise and lead by example such a basic pandemic strategy as wearing a mask.

Initech

(100,079 posts)
3. The only thing I want to see going away right now is Trump.
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 12:45 PM
Jun 2020

And then once he's gone we can start tackling Coronavirus, but we're not getting out of this while he's in charge.

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
4. Trump will not lead so this isn't going away
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 12:55 PM
Jun 2020

He made so many mistakes, but if all we could change is that Trump would have supported mask wearing from the start we'd be close to where most of Europe is right now instead of on the way back up.

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