Trump extends social distancing to April 30, says 100 to 200k deaths in US means they did a good job

hobbyjogger9 wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

His approval rating is at an all-time high on all the polls

But those people believe him when he says all media and all his opponents lie.

Pretty much like any banana republic oppressive leader--always lie, and claim the rest of the world cannot be believed.

Double down on the lying and never admit responsibility for anything--it's pretty much his main strategy, isn't it?

Try explaining that to the apparently growing number of supporters. You sound like a broken record

Hardloper wrote:

Ray wrote:

At this stage, anybody that still supports this asswipe is either a billionaire insider or a moron.

His approval rating is at an all-time high on all the polls

And he’s still losing to Biden by 9 percentage points...

Rachel1 wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

His approval rating is at an all-time high on all the polls

Trump sent medical supplies to China, Americans died.

That’s what you support.

And then he had the nerve to blame Obama for depleting the supplies.

I'm just glad A-Rod and J-Lo finally talked some sense into him.

foo wrote:

bella wrote:

You realize the numbers for the flu and car fatalities are often annual numbers, yes? I might wait to see the covid-19 numbers 12 months out before making comparisons.

Trump just threw all of the coronavirus deniers on this forum under the bus when he said this:

"Because you are talking about a potential of up to 2.2 million and some people said it could even be higher than that. You are talking about 2.2 million deaths. 2.2 million people from this," Trump said.

So how many people die each year in the US from the flu? 40,000.

Is 2.2 million greater than or less than 40,000?

jamin, Facts Matter, bartholamew and Bad Wiggins, your Idiot-in-chief has abandoned you and your asinine ideas.

Did 2.2 million people die and I missed it, I only see around 2500? You idiots don't even see the goalposts being moved closer and closer to what we said from the beginning. Now it's the social distancing why there won't be 2 million deaths. It's Trumps great leadership why there won't be 1 million deaths. It's hand sanitizer and not touching your face why there will only be 100,000 deaths. What next and what's the new estimate next week? It couldn't possibly be that the virus is a big nothing burger and was never going to kill that many people (See China). Naw... couldn't be that...

You are looking stupider and stupider each day, keep up the good work.

foo wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

His approval rating is at an all-time high on all the polls

And he’s still losing to Biden by 9 percentage points...

And I'm not a trump supporter you idiot.

Facts Matter? wrote:

foo wrote:

And he’s still losing to Biden by 9 percentage points...

And I'm not a trump supporter you idiot.

Are you always so easily confused by what “replying to” means?

What? I think it is you, Trump and the LRC coronavirus denier braintrust with a cumulative IQ of 99 that are moving the goalposts. Please remind me how we went from “15 cases down to 0 in a week” to 500 dead per day and growing exponentially. How did we go from “opening the country up by Easter” to shut down at least until the end of April? How did we go from Bad Wiggins predicting no more than 2600 cases in the US by the end of March to surpassing that total in deaths by March 30th?

Facts Matter? wrote:

foo wrote:

And he’s still losing to Biden by 9 percentage points...

And I'm not a trump supporter you idiot.

Ummmm, Yes, but Hardloper is.

The only idiot that said 15 cases was Trump, who I ignore. Everyone else, including people like you, were predicting millions of cases. Now we are down to 100,000 and falling. That's moving the goalposts. The flu in 2017/18 killed 61,000 and that was recently adjusted down from 80,000. No one panicked over 80,000 deaths, but you mean to tell me that 20,000 more is the tipping point? Give me a break! The goalposts are clearly being moved, and will continue to be moved in the weeks to come. The population is being walked down to a smaller number and the orange man is going to take credit for that relatively small amount of deaths. And idiots like you will believe him that it was the social distancing that did it.

No, I believe scientists and medical professionals that say society distancing works. I definitely will not believe a loud and obnoxious amateur such as yourself whose only apparent ability is to post endlessly on LRC.

one thought wrote:

haha, talk about creating highly moveable goalposts...

He'll never need to move them. What he's doing is setting the bar as low as he can. He could have said 500,000 would be good, considering how many people thought millions was realistic.

Most hard hit countries in Europe have already peaked, and the US is starting to peak. There won't likely be 100k deaths in the whole world, unless it makes a big comeback in the fall.

Bad Wigins wrote:

one thought wrote:

haha, talk about creating highly moveable goalposts...

He'll never need to move them. What he's doing is setting the bar as low as he can. He could have said 500,000 would be good, considering how many people thought millions was realistic.

Most hard hit countries in Europe have already peaked, and the US is starting to peak. There won't likely be 100k deaths in the whole world, unless it makes a big comeback in the fall.

Why don’t you stop with the predictions BW?

Quit while you’re behind.

you are a joke. the high estimate has been ~2 million from the start. that hasn't changed...neither has the estimated ranges.....unlike your unhinged rants. CDC said weeks ago that the high end worst case estimate was ~200,000 to ~2 million. Today the high end estimates were .......200k- ~2 million. What changed?

foo wrote:

Trump just threw all of the coronavirus deniers on this forum under the bus when he said this:

"Because you are talking about a potential of up to 2.2 million and some people said it could even be higher than that. You are talking about 2.2 million deaths. 2.2 million people from this," Trump said.

You didn't decode his speech properly

jamin wrote:

foo wrote:

Trump just threw all of the coronavirus deniers on this forum under the bus when he said this:

"Because you are talking about a potential of up to 2.2 million and some people said it could even be higher than that. You are talking about 2.2 million deaths. 2.2 million people from this," Trump said.

You didn't decode his speech properly

Your hero shipped vital medical supplies to China while our first responders go without.

Rachel1 wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

He'll never need to move them. What he's doing is setting the bar as low as he can. He could have said 500,000 would be good, considering how many people thought millions was realistic.

Most hard hit countries in Europe have already peaked, and the US is starting to peak. There won't likely be 100k deaths in the whole world, unless it makes a big comeback in the fall.

Why don’t you stop with the predictions BW?

Quit while you’re behind.

Get ready to change your unregistered name in a couple weeks as it all starts to wrap up.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Rachel1 wrote:

Why don’t you stop with the predictions BW?

Quit while you’re behind.

Get ready to change your unregistered name in a couple weeks as it all starts to wrap up.

I’m not the clown who made stupid predictions. I’ll have no need to change anything.

jamin wrote:

foo wrote:

Trump just threw all of the coronavirus deniers on this forum under the bus when he said this:

"Because you are talking about a potential of up to 2.2 million and some people said it could even be higher than that. You are talking about 2.2 million deaths. 2.2 million people from this," Trump said.

You didn't decode his speech properly

Is decoding necessary here? I know Trump talks in circles and it’s often frustrating how juvenile he sounds, but it’s pretty clear from his quote he thinks 2.2 million people would have died in the US if the virus were left unchecked.