‘We are learning to live with Covid’: Trump makes misleading comparison between coronavirus and the flu The most deaths to have resulted from a U.S. flu season over the past decade is estimated to be roughly 61,000. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/06/trump-coronavirus-flu-comparison-426712 President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued to downplay the coronavirus and suggested the United States should learn to live with the pandemic, posting to Twitter hours after returning to the White House from being hospitalized with Covid-19. In his morning tweet, the president likened the highly contagious disease that has killed nearly 210,000 Americans to the seasonal flu, reprising a misleading comparison he repeatedly invoked in the early stages of the U.S. outbreak. “Flu season is coming up! Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from the Flu,” Trump wrote. “Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!” In fact, the most deaths to have resulted from a flu season in the U.S. over the past decade is estimated to be roughly 61,000 in 2017-2018, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, well below the president's claim of 100,000 or more. Over the past 10 years, an average of just under 36,000 Americans have died annually from the flu. More than 200,000 Americans have died from Covid since the virus emerged early this year. And while flu strains change from year to year, varying in severity, most people have some underlying immunity based on prior exposure. The coronavirus, however, was only identified late last year. Trump himself appeared to tell The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward in a February interview that the coronavirus was five times more lethal than the flu, saying that Covid-19 is “deadly stuff” and “more deadly than … even your strenuous flus.” Public health experts have warned that that the fall and winter months could significantly strain the nation’s health care system as it grapples with both a potential resurgence of the coronavirus and its yearly fight against the flu. Trump’s tweet resembles other messaging from the president in the past 24 hours that has been dismissive of the disease’s threat — even as he has received two rounds of oxygen therapy, two experimental drugs — including one that is not available to the broader patient population — and one steroid generally reserved for severe or critical Covid-19 cases. Trump was treated by a top team of doctors in the presidential quarters of a military hospital. Ahead of his departure from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Trump tweeted on Monday afternoon that Americans should not “be afraid of Covid” and should not “let it dominate your life.” Upon his return to the White House on Monday evening, the still-contagious president ascended the steps to the Truman Balcony and removed his mask to pose and salute for the cameras before entering the executive mansion. And in a video message posted to Twitter later Monday night, Trump claimed he might be “immune” from the coronavirus — despite testing positive for Covid-19 last week — and again urged Americans: “Don’t let it dominate. Don’t let it take over your lives.” During his hospital stay, the president seemed to project that he was taking the disease somewhat more seriously than he had prior to his diagnosis. On Sunday, he said that his sickness had “been a very interesting journey” and that he had “learned a lot about Covid.” “I learned it by really going to school,” Trump said in a video message posted to Twitter. “This isn’t the ‘let’s-read-the-book’ school. And I get it. And I understand it. And it’s a very interesting thing. And I’m going to be letting you know about it.” Meanwhile, the president’s top aides and campaign staff have argued that Trump being infected with Covid-19 will equip him to better confront the pandemic and empathize with affected Americans. “Now, I think the president is able to, you know, talk from the heart [about] how Covid has impacted him, has impacted his family and his staff, his closest staff,” Trump campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp said on Monday. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said on Monday that Trump is “understanding what millions of Americans have had to face,” and Trump campaign spokesperson Erin Perrine implied Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was less qualified to discuss the coronavirus because he had not been infected. “He has experience now fighting the coronavirus as an individual,” Perrine said on Monday of Trump. “Those first-hand experiences, Joe Biden, he doesn’t have those.”
I plagiarized this but it captures the moment for me pretty well. "I am not voting for a man. I am voting for the principles for which this country has stood since its founding. I am voting for Constitutional government. I am voting for a strong and viable military. I am voting for a vibrant economy. I am voting for the right to keep and bear arms. I am voting for the freedom to worship. I am voting for a national recognition of the founding of our nation on Biblical principles. I am voting for the ability for anyone to rise above their circumstances and become successful. I am voting for my children and grandchildren to be able to choose their own path in life, including how and where their children are educated. I am voting for our borders to be open to everyone who enters under our law and closed to everyone who would circumvent or ignore the law. I am voting for the Electoral College to remain in place, so that a few heavily populated liberal centers do not control the elections. I am voting for a Supreme Court that interprets the Constitution rather than rewrites it. I am voting to teach history, with all its warts, not erase it or revise it. I am voting for the sanctity of life from conception to birth and after."
Facebook deletes Trump post falsely claiming flu more deadly than Covid https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...ronavirus-flu-covid-post-deletes-b837582.html
It is now time for the Commission on Presidential Debates to be abolished and further debates conducted by the candidates themselves with no interruptions from a moderator. Chris Wallace was aiding Joe Biden last week and thus Trump was forced to break in and ask the questions that Wallace would not. Furthermore, Chris Wallace interrupted Donald Trump a lot more than The President interrupted Joe Biden. Having a moderator is waste of time and is especially harmful when the moderators are biased towards one candidate which they always are.
Pence will construct a new ass for Kamala Harris tonight provided that the "moderator" doesn't cut him off etc.
to drive the point home: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/o...ssure-voters-on-election-integrity-2020-10-06 FBI’s Chris Wray joins homeland-security and other federal-agency officials in 9-minute video reassuring voters on election integrity Trump is not mentioned in the video, even as his frequent remarks discrediting the Nov. 3 vote are countered by the security experts