Official LRC President Donald J Trump Thread

jesseriley wrote:

Sally & Ghost of Igloi exchanged some choice words over on Down Goes The Dow.

We don't see eye-to-eye but are respectful of one another.

truth b told2 wrote:

Do you still think the Corona virus is a hoax? Do you still think it is not as bad as the flu? That's what your president said and you believe him, right?

Now who has dementia?

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

Better than supporting Dementia Joe who is in dire need of Depends & full time nursing home care. Amazing!

I never said it was a hoax. Trump did not call the coronavirus itself a hoax. He was referring to the dem party bashing. Read into the context. He acknowledged its existence and took the initial precautionary steps back in January.

I don't expect Crazy Bernie to hit Biden hard this Sunday night (hopefully I am wrong), but if he does, Biden will look like an impaired senior citizen who gets easily flustered & searching for help.

In the end, your boy will get eviscerated by Trump in any debate. Dementia Joe doesn't have the ability or energy to articulate off the cuff for any extended period time- he descends into incoherent babble.

Again, enjoy your loss.

KAG2020

Fat hurts wrote:

March Madness is now completely cancelled.

UVa 2020 National Champions!

Can't be dethroned!

moderates suck wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

March Madness is now completely cancelled.

UVa 2020 National Champions!

Can't be dethroned!

They maybe can't be dethroned but their title is from last year. They did not win this years's championship.

Let's not change history. The concern that the media and democrats had regarding the Corona virus was dead on right. It was not a hoax. his continued insistence not to worry because it was not as bad as the flu was dead wrong.

If you can't admit trump was completely wrong in his assessment of the risk, than you are seriously blinded by being in the trump colt.

"Cult" is spelled "cult" not "colt." This year there have been 1,300 cases of the Coronavirus and 34 MILLION cases of the flu. Which number is higher?

Don’t worry, trumpanzees, tomorrow fat boy will screw up even worse. Futures down again.

Ghost of Igloi used a clown emoji to answer sally, so even he has lost faith.

Daily Update

Daily case growth (%):

Mar 8: 16.7

Mar 9: 15.8

Mar 10: 15.3

Mar 11: 16.0

Mar 12: 16.6

This means the total number of cases doubles every five days

Daily death growth (%):

Mar 8: 43.1

Mar 9: 34.0

Mar 10: 32.1

Mar 11: 31.0

Mar 12: 29.6

Fatality Rate (Cumulative deaths/cases)

Mar 8: 2.4%

Mar 9: 2.7%

Mar 10: 3.0%

Mar 11: 3.2%

Mar 12: 3.4%

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Q1: Why is case rate rising while death rate is falling?

A1: Good observation. In fact, it is inevitable that over time the case rate and death rate will merge. This just happens to be a period when deaths are rising a whole lot faster than reported cases. Most likely this is due to inadequate testing in such places as the US. It is not so easy to hide a death. Hiding a case is easier - just don't make the test easily available and voilá, the case does not exist!

Q2: So, what do these numbers tell us, overall?

A2: They tell us that we are in seriously deep sh!t UNLESS WE TAKE SERIOUS MEASURES NOW. Staying on our current course will lead to 3 Million cases in the US by the end of next month. The US health care system is not remotely close to being prepared for this.

Hospitals will be turning people away. People who need intubation to survive the worst of it will be told "Sorry, can't help you. Go away and die." Don't believe it? Guess what is happening right now in Italy. This is heading our way, folks UNLESS WE TAKE SERIOUS MEASURES NOW.

Q3: OK, so what are these "Serious measures"?

A3: Cancelling the NBA and NHL seasons was a good start - but only because it sends a very visible signal that these are not ordinary times. Basically the thing to do is to shut everything down. Close all schools. Shut down all public places of gathering. Have anybody who cannot work from home NOT WORK unless they are in an essential industry (public utilities - water, sewage removal, electricity, gas..., food supply chains, medical supply chains, public safety (police, etc))

We COULD drop that 16.6% daily growth rate down to 1 -2 % IF we had the balls to do it. Without such measures we are all going to see some things that we cannot conceive of today and we will all wish we never saw them.

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Sorry to sound a bit more alarmist today. But the numbers are making the near future terrifyingly more clear by the day. The numbers I am providing are correct. The math is undeniable. I do not think that I am exaggerating at this point to say that if any one of you can do anything to influence local or larger policies on this (calling or writing to school districts, elected officials,...) you may well be saving many lives, though you will never have the satisfaction of knowing which ones they were.

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Questions always welcome

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PS - Thanks to the gang here for avoiding posting nonsense on this topic earlier in the day. I hope this is due to people beginning to realize this is very, very serious.

jesseriley wrote:

Ghost of Igloi used a clown emoji to answer sally, so even he has lost faith.

The Dow Jones will continue to be down until ... it is no longer down. What happens then? Buckle up, this will be like fastest ride upwards in history. Buckle up! The market WILL rebound and with such gusto that you will be astonished.

Sally Vix wrote:

moderates suck wrote:

UVa 2020 National Champions!

Can't be dethroned!

They maybe can't be dethroned but their title is from last year. They did not win this years's championship.

Reigning Champions!!!

Sally Vix wrote:

jesseriley wrote:

Ghost of Igloi used a clown emoji to answer sally, so even he has lost faith.

The Dow Jones will continue to be down until ... it is no longer down. What happens then? Buckle up, this will be like fastest ride upwards in history. Buckle up! The market WILL rebound and with such gusto that you will be astonished.

I'm not sure if a clown emoji is even sufficient for that excretion.

What is going on here? So far this is not too bad. 37 fatalities in the US versus 80,000 fatalities form the flu last year. So far 1315 cases in the US versus 34 million this year alone of the flu. Again, this could get bad but it isn't bad now.

Ivanka wrote:

Sally Vix wrote:

The Dow Jones will continue to be down until ... it is no longer down. What happens then? Buckle up, this will be like fastest ride upwards in history. Buckle up! The market WILL rebound and with such gusto that you will be astonished.

I'm not sure if a clown emoji is even sufficient for that excretion.

What a pleasant person you are, Ivanka.

Sally Vix wrote:

What a pleasant person you are, Ivanka.

Yes, thank Sally. I think you're pretty swell too.

P: Good stuff.

Three questions/statements.

Outside of the hotspots Italy, Iran and Spain the death count is still in 1-5 people per day range, which is very, very low.

This is good news, yes? Why would we think that is not good news?

You seem reluctant to cite actual numbers of dead people and rely on percents instead. Is that because 1-5 deaths per day this late in the pandemic (except for the hotspots) goes against your thesis?

In a best case, when could we start thinking that this will be more like swine flu than Spanish Flu? Noting that a billion people had swine flu 10 years ago. Not clear how many people died, but maybe 200k.

Not a question but a statement - Do you agree? the big question is how many people have the virus. If 100 million people have the virus, then we'll be ok. If 200,000 people have the virus, then we might be in big trouble.

Please refer to the 1st post is n this thread from now on.

It’s a great summary, but of course trump would never support socialized medicine like the countries cited in it.