The Donald Trump Score Card

Bloomberg pumped about $100 million into the campaign against Trump in FL.


Cash-strapped Trump campaign shifts resources in Florida as Democrats dominate the airwaves - CNNPolitics

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"Trump's sprint through the Midwest underscores the challenges he faces in the final week of the campaign -- trailing in the polls, outgunned financially by his Democratic challenger and facing an advertising onslaught by outside interests. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has helped bombard the airwaves in Florida where 29 electoral votes are at stake. Bloomberg, who supports Biden, has committed at least $100 million to Florida, and on Tuesday, announced he would pump $15 million into advertising in Texas and Ohio, two other states Trump carried in 2016.

As it marshals its resources, the Trump campaign has cut its own advertising reservations by a net total of about $14 million and replaced them with new coordinated buys from the campaign and the Republican National Committee totaling about $12 million.

In all, Biden and the Democratic National Committee are set to outspend Trump and the RNC by about $39 million to $24 million over the final week of the campaign."

 

Yeah, becuase masking up worked so well in Europe and the UK

Germany is about to go into a half lockdown again

 

The Supreme Court has declined to speed up a review of the PA mail-in voting fight.

It's a setback for Trump.

This is the same case that the Supreme Court had earlier ruled 4-4 (without Ginsburg). The tie meant that a PA court decision was permitted to stand (a setback for Trump).


U.S. Supreme Court will not speed up review of Pennsylvania mail-in voting fight

 

Why the coronavirus may 'never go away'.

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"Health experts say it's likely that enough people will become infected with or vaccinated against the novel coronavirus to end the global pandemic, but that the virus will probably continue to infect people at lower rates.

Ultimately, the "future" of the novel coronavirus will depend largely on the duration and strength of immunity against the virus, according to Yonatan Grad, an infectious disease researcher at Harvard University.

According to models generated by Grad and his colleagues, if immunity against the virus lasts a few months, we could experience another SARS-CoV-2pandemic accompanied by smaller outbreaks of the virus each year. If immunity lasts two years, infection rates for the virus could peak every other year, according to Grad. Grad explained, "The faster protection goes away, the more difficult for any project to try to move toward eradication."

The same calculations apply to a potential vaccine as well, The Atlantic reports. A vaccine that provides short-term immunity could require booster shots over time, like the flu shot. (And while there are several vaccines in development, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday cautioned that "there's no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be," adding that countries should continue contact tracing, hand washing, and social distancing to slow the novel coronavirus' spread.)

Moreover, even if the world did manage to eliminate the virus from the human population, "it could keep circulating in animals—and spread to humans again," according to The Atlantic. So far, tigers and minks have caught the novel coronavirus from humans, The Atlantic reports, and research indicates the minks were able to pass the virus back to humans.

But the most likely, best-case scenario, a vaccine would make the new coronavirus "a much less dangerous and less disruptive" threat, such as the flu or other seasonal respiratory viruses, The Atlantic reports. In this scenario, SARS-CoV-2 would become the fifth coronavirus—joining four other coronaviruses that cause a considerable proportion of common colds—that circulates among humans regularly and seasonally.""

 

This possible scenario is a difficult pill for Trump to swallow. He has relied almost exclusively on the hopes for a quick vaccine that will completely vanquish the virus and obviate the need for mitigation efforts such as social distancing.

 

In your country, Melbourne just got out of 111 days of lock down. Maybe you Australians should explain that to Trump. Tell him how serious that contagious disease is in real life. Don't bother with calling Fauci, he's got his hands full here.

 

Bunker Boy...

 

The article elaborates on the current coronavirus.

Such viruses have been emerging about once every eight years since the early 2000's.

Considering the increasing human population, its contact with animal life, and fast mass global transportation, there isn't any guarantee that more of them won't arrive that will be as deadly and contagious as the current one.

The arrival of new ones would once again set in motion the need for mitigation efforts while research is being conducted to produce vaccines and therapeutics.

 

Get back to me next winter, I will tell you how many Melbournians died of Sars-CoV-2

 

Germany and France announce new lockdowns.

Putin mandated face coverings.

Trump will likely contend it's nothing but an increase in innocuous cases around the world.


Covid-19: Germany and France announce new lockdowns as coronavirus cases spike in Europe

 

Another Rose Garden Massacre. Melania redesigned it in the summer of 2020. The cherry trees dating back to Jackie Kennedy were removed.

Melania's Christmas scene looked cold and stark.

Melania was caught on a recording using the 'F' word while complaining about having to do Christmas decorations.

Some of Melania's designs are known for lack of color, diversity, compassion, and soul.

It's symbolic of the Trump administration.


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I'll jot that down on my 2021 appointment book.

 

Trump loses another election-related case.

The Supreme Court rejected Trump's attempt to shorten the North Carolina mail-ballot deadline.


Supreme Court rejects Trump effort to shorten North Carolina mail-ballot deadline

 

The U.S. incurred more than 1000 coronavirus deaths on October 28, like it did the previous day.

The trend doesn't look good for Trump during the last week of the campaign.

 

The Dow Jones dropped 943 points on October 28 over disturbing coronavirus trends that Trump thinks are harmless.

 

Slow news day?

 

October 28th was a world record

504,419 new cases in one day


36,000 of them in France, 20,000 in Spain

 

U.S. virus mortality climbs to over 1000 per day. Hospitalizations and morbidity increase sharply. Germany and France institute lockdowns. Putin issues a national mask mandate. Dow Jones drops over 1000 points in a day.

Trump is showing his psychosis by saying nothing is wrong and telling women that he fixed their dishwashers and will put their husbands back to work.



Trump’s Closing Argument on Virus Clashes With Science, and Voters’ Lives
By Alexander Burns
Oct. 28, 2020Updated 9:27 p.m. ET

Trump’s Closing Argument on Virus Clashes With Science, and Voters’ Lives

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"The president has continued to declare before large and largely maskless crowds that the virus is vanishing, even as case counts soar, fatalities climb, the stock market dips and a fresh outbreak grips the staff of Vice President Mike Pence. Hopping from one state to the next, he has made a personal mantra out of declaring that the country is “rounding the corner.”

Mr. Trump has attacked Democratic governors and other local officials for keeping public-health restrictions in place, denouncing them as needless restraints on the economy. And venting self-pity, the president has been describing the pandemic as a political hindrance inflicted on him by a familiar adversary.

“With the fake news, everything is Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid,” Mr. Trump complained at a rally in Omaha on Tuesday, chiding the news media and pointing to his own recovery from the illness to downplay its gravity: “I had it. Here I am, right?”

Earlier the same day, Mr. Trump ridiculed the notion that the virus was spreading rapidly again, falsely telling a crowd in Lansing, Mich., that the reported “spike in cases” was merely a reflection of increased testing. The 74-year-old president pointed to his teenage son, who was diagnosed with the virus earlier this month, to suggest that many of those cases were of only trivial concern."

 

Polls: Trump trails in Wisconsin as state's coronavirus cases surge

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"Trump’s political struggles in Wisconsin come amid its ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus that is the worst in the nation. On Tuesday, Wisconsin set records for new cases and deaths, with the death toll now standing at 1,852. On Monday, the state passed 200,000 cases, with half of them coming in the past 36 days.

Some hospitals are struggling to keep up with the cases, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison just canceled an upcoming football game, the first Big Ten game scrapped due to the virus.

“It’s a nightmare scenario, frankly, that this could get quite a bit worse in the next several weeks or months before it gets better,” said Dr. Ryan Westergaard, a medical officer with the state health department, in a call with reporters."

 

The autumn Big Ten season had been canceled but the league later restarted it in late October.

Trump claims he resurrected the season.

Trump is still president between Nov 3 and Jan 20. He will be the one who has to endure whatever may happen with the coronavirus during that period. Although the questionable Remdesivir was approved on Oct 22 for public use, widespread use of effective therapeutics and vaccines is not expected during that period. To the chagrin of Trump, mitigation approaches such as social distancing and face coverings will be the main mode of controlling the virus while he's still in office during his first term.