The Donald Trump Score Card

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“eat the ass out of anteaters.”

Sounds like he has experience...

 

I have though that for a long time. Many ISIS fighters were in a Kurdish prison near the border of Turkey. They were let out to attack Iraq again. ISIS fighters moved back and forth between Syria and Iraq, almost at will. Iraq's Shia militias were the main force which eradicated ISIS from Iraq. Alex Jones out of all people was the one to point out very early that ISIS fighters were driving the latest new one ton diesel pickup trucks from America. One would think the US military or the CIA would have traced some VIN numbers by now?

 

He might be describing his own following, huh?

 

Herd mentality is what Trump supporters have that induces them to follow the Orange One regardless of anything. He's thinking that will take care of the virus.

 

The Trump vetting process.

 

I've yet to see a Democrat post supportng Mr Biden. All trheir post are putting President Trump down. Makes you think... doesn't it?

 

So, kinda like cult thinking...

 

This is the Donald Trump Scorecard thread...

 

Trump's term 'herd mentality' refers to a societal condition of delusional thinking spread like a virus by Trump amongst the public to make people believe that the coronavirus isn't a health risk to them.

Coronavirus victim Herman Cain is the pinnacle example of Trump herd mentality. Another example is Michael Caputo, who appears to be admitting that he is having mental problems and may take a leave of absence from his post at the HHS.

 

The rational path for a coronavirus remedy involves the hard work of convincing people to abide by social distancing guidelines to minimize deaths while developing remedies such as vaccines and convincing the public to vaccinate.

Trump continues to support the easier herd mentality approach while contending at the same time that he is supportive of the more difficult approach that he short-circuits with his herd mentality approach.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/16/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

excerpts:

"The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told U.S. senators on Wednesday that, after a safe and effective vaccine becomes available to protect against the novel coronavirus, it probably will take six to nine months for enough Americans to get vaccinated to significantly affect the pandemic."


"The cluster of coronavirus infections that originated from the Big Moose Inn outside Millinocket on Aug. 7 continues to grow in Maine, state health officials said, after guests flouted social distancing and mask-wearing guidelines. Now people who have no association with the party have died, including six residents of the Maplecrest Rehabilitation and Living Center in Madison, Maine CDC Director Nirav Shah said in a news briefing on Tuesday."

 

He has a lot of support but he is pretty right wing for the Democrats. They are often not as excited about their candidate as Republicans. Don't believe the Fox pictures of his rallies. I am sure you are thinking of those. Look at the polls and remember things like the Lincoln project. The votes are there. "Fake news" works on both sides.

Most of us are just don't worship him like a celebrity. Why would we waste our time seeing him? We just vote. You have probably come to expect that with Trump. Rock star devotion and people screaming like he is Elvis or the Beatles.

When you are fighting a Hitler/Stalin dictator sort of person you can't be too picky. We have to save the country from a fascist cult.

 

Caputo, a lead person in the Health and Human Services department, takes a two-month leave of absence related to mental problems.

Caputo was a campaign aide to Trump during the 2016 campaign. Trump recycled him for the HHS even though he has no health or science experience.



Trump appointee Michael Caputo takes leave of absence from HHS after online rant

 

Incidents like those of Caputo are adding up to impose a minimum 4-year leave of absence on Trump after the November election.

 

Paul Alexander is leaving HHS permanently.



BREAKING: Trump Shill At HHS Outlives His Usefulness

excerpt:

"An aide to Caputo, Paul Alexander, is leaving HHS permanently.

Alexander has spent the past few months attempting to interfere with the Centers for Disease Control’s weekly reports on the spread of COVID-19, at Caputo’s behest."

 

CDC chief says masks better at stopping coronavirus than a vaccine
Alexander Nazaryan·National Correspondent
Wed, September 16, 2020, 1:35 PM EDT

CDC chief says masks better at stopping coronavirus than a vaccine

excerpt:

A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that “since masks can filter out some virus-containing droplets” but not all viral particles, a mask could act as a kind of exposure therapy, prepping the body to fight the coronavirus without actually sickening the subject.

“If this theory bears out, population-wide masking, with any type of mask that increases acceptability and adherence, might contribute to increasing the proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections that are asymptomatic,” the article said. The reasoning behind this idea is that people wearing masks would receive a much smaller viral load than people without masks.

 

CDC chief says masks better at stopping coronavirus than a vaccine

excerpt:

"The comments bluntly contradicted what President Trump said during a televised town hall the evening before. “A lot of people think the masks are not good,” he said before going on to discuss how restaurant waiters “play” with their masks.

He also wondered why Joe Biden, the former vice president, has not instituted a mask mandate. As a private citizen, Biden does not have that power. As a current government official, Trump does."

 

Facial Masking for Covid-19 — Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine
Monica Gandhi, M.D., M.P.H., and George W. Rutherford, M.D.
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2026913
September 8, 2020

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2026913

excerpt:

"The hopes for vaccines are pinned not just on infection prevention: most vaccine trials include a secondary outcome of decreasing the severity of illness, since increasing the proportion of cases in which disease is mild or asymptomatic would be a public health victory. Universal masking seems to reduce the rate of new infections; we hypothesize that by reducing the viral inoculum, it would also increase the proportion of infected people who remain asymptomatic.

In an outbreak on a closed Argentinian cruise ship, for example, where passengers were provided with surgical masks and staff with N95 masks, the rate of asymptomatic infection was 81% (as compared with 20% in earlier cruise ship outbreaks without universal masking). In two recent outbreaks in U.S. food-processing plants, where all workers were issued masks each day and were required to wear them, the proportion of asymptomatic infections among the more than 500 people who became infected was 95%, with only 5% in each outbreak experiencing mild-to-moderate symptoms. Case-fatality rates in countries with mandatory or enforced population-wide masking have remained low, even with resurgences of cases after lockdowns were lifted.

Variolation was a process whereby people who were susceptible to smallpox were inoculated with material taken from a vesicle of a person with smallpox, with the intent of causing a mild infection and subsequent immunity. Variolation was practiced only until the introduction of the variola vaccine, which ultimately eradicated smallpox. Despite concerns regarding safety, worldwide distribution, and eventual uptake, the world has high hopes for a highly effective SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, and as of early September, vaccine candidates were in clinical evaluation, with hundreds more in development."

 

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