Trump on coronavirus: 'If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any'

[GDViking]

Our hummingbirds do this. If they are on the other side of the feeder, they can't see us and aren't scared.

My oldest son is a hummingbird Wrangler, any time we had one stuck in a house or a vehicle he would just hold out his hand with one finger extended and within minutes they would land on his finger and he would put it out the window.

He used to go out to the feeders and take pictures of them on his finger.

The year his mom died we had not seen a hummingbird yet, within minutes of her death there was one looking in our picture window, (I had her bed set up so she could see the birds) within an hour or there were hundreds.

It was not uncommon to have up to 75 around but I hat was the most I've ever seen...

 

[GDViking]

Jeebus, Mary, and Joe Cocker.

His intelligence level is the basement...and then he keeps digging.

Sooo if I stick a black light up my ass and shoot up some Lysol , somehow survive that and don't get the trump virus, he gets to take credit???

 

[What if...?]

Yeah, where are the caravans that we're supposed to be afraid of lately?

They're waiting for late October.

 

[RealityNow]

Trump on coronavirus: 'If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any' | TheHill

President Trump on Monday downplayed concerns of a rising number of coronavirus cases in states across the country, indicating that the increase was due to more testing.

"If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any,” Trump said during a White House event highlighting administration actions to help senior citizens.

Trump has frequently made inconsistent comments on testing. At times he has sought to downplay the severity of the coronavirus pandemic by saying the U.S. has tested more people than any other country, and as a result, the number of confirmed cases is higher.
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He's delusional. IOW, close your eyes & it will all go away,

This is the most EVIL VILE AND MALICIOUS UTTERANCE OF STUPIDITY.... again, demonstrating that he has absolutely no concern for the citizen population. This man only thinks about power and his ego.
History will record him as the most detrimental person to even sit in any nations highest seat. America continues to be 'denigrated and insulted" by the acts of not just Trump but the team of hoodlums he has surrounded himself with and demanded their cult devotion.

People who think evil is not real, are themselves choosing to be not only blind but generally "ignorant" to how to identify and see even when it stands on a podium and before a camera, because it is visible every day, that Trump has existed, long before he entered our Nations Political Office.

Read you Bible on what it speaks about of Evil... and you will see conclusively, that the representation of Evil sites in America's highest office seat.

Everything God's works speak against, is represented in Trump and he is surrounded with the minions of evil making process... who has attacked and damaged EVERYTHING in America and all our Allied Nations.

America has to survive these coming few months and minimize the continuing damage this evil man is doing, and remove him from office. Hopefully prosecutors are waiting with a long list that will see him imprisoned for the rest of his life, along with all those who have aided and assisted him in the evil he has wreaked upon this great nation.

Hitler had the same mindless vain, greed driven racist bigots in his following, exactly as Trump does. Those who choose not to see it, are themselves as blind as was those who followed and devoted themselves to Hitler. Evil does not stand alone, it has a following, it has always had a following....

Only those who trust and believe in God's Words and God's Truth... are able to see it and make no excuses for it, and make no reservations about it....
For to pander and give cover to such evil, is the same as joining such evilness.

You choose.... and your choice will define you.... either you choose God's Truths and the Good and Respect and Honor of Humanity and the Society of God Loving Human Beings... or you choose 'evil" and embrace it with the reservations you hold in accepting and going along with Trump and Right Wing Conservative Republicanism's promoted Evils

There is NO "Middle Ground".... There are only Two Choices... Evil or Good.... There is no such thing as "Independent" claiming to be a bit of both, there is no "Centrist", pretending to be some of both, there is no "Libertarian" leaning to the Right, while speaking with a forked tongue, trying to straddle the fence; its already proven that the "Conservatives" had bonded themselves with the Evilness of "Modern Day" Republicanism!

The Republican STOPPED being the Party of Lincoln, DECADES AGO... They became the Party of the Segregationist, embracing every element of Confederacy Ideology and Agenda.

The Democratic Party has stood for the Principle of God's Values for Human, Unity, Equality, Respect of Others, The Embraces of the Values that fit under the words "God Bless American", which are laid out in The Preamble for All People as One Nations, to embrace those values form the Nation and all its Citizen Population.

The Constitution has long been damaged by "evil makers' as we've seen the GRAVE DAMAGES done to it by Modern Day Republicanism, which included the visible display of sanctioning treasonous acts, subversive collaborations and damages to the Environment and Every aspect of human services for the people of this nation, and now they bastardized the Justice Department and Made it surrender to serve the evilness promoted by Trump and Republican Agenda of Confederacy Ideals....

 

[What if...?]

Sorry to cut into this Trump-venting orange-man-bad thread,

But does anyone have any information on the context of this quote?

And that liberals didn't purposely quote him out of context? :mrgreen:

Well, "context" is often established after the fact. "So what had happened was..." or "What he really meant to say was..."
Rather than what we usually consider being taken out of context. Frequently followed by admission that it WAS what he meant followed by another round of the above.

It's really pretty impressive.

They can just lie to y'all and say any information to the contrary is fake news.

And y'all will believe it.

 

[What if...?]

Why is it so ****ing hard for Trumpkins to admit Trump is a dumb ass?

Neurochemistry of folks on the "follower" end of the leader/follower spectrum.

Admitting to themselves they hitched their wagon to an imbecile causes an existential crisis in follower types.

Human beings don't like admitting to themselves they have been fooled in general. Which is why con men can hit the same mark more than once.

And frankly why the republican party still exists.

 

[Jay Falcon]

Thats just a lie but your credibility is shot at this point so you really have nothing to lose.

Yeah because your credibility as a Trump ass-kisser is very high.
Don't you ever get tired of kissing Trump's ass?

 

[Manc Skipper]

Trump is 100% spot on, the US cases would drop to very low levels. Most people don't even know they have or have had the virus, levels would drop to down to reflect a number similar to cases that end up in hospital.
On the other hand, if everyone in the US was tested for antibodies, case numbers would likely hit anywhere between 50-80 million and perhaps higher.

The cases are still there whether he counts them or not. He'd rather not, because then he looks better. People can keep on dying and having ongoing life changing disabilities but so long as the official numbers go down, he gives no ****s.

 

[CaughtInThe]

let's stop calculating the US Debt.



poof. it's gone.

 

[Casper]

let's stop calculating the US Debt.



poof. it's gone.

Think you're on to something there.
Lets stop arresting people, poof, no crime.
Wow, think of all the problems we can solve, why didn't we think of this before.

 

[What if...?]

WATCH: Trump holds roundtable called ‘Fighting for America’s Seniors’ | PBS NewsHour

Video from 4:16 on will give you context.

So that entire thing was just an attempt to save the senior vote, which was put at risk because of all the rhetoric implying that the elderly should take one for the team or hide for the duration.

Another campaign rally, in other words.

 

[What if...?]

If you seriously want to debate this topic, I'm all for it, but I'm not up for all the pretentious narcissistic BS - I have no idea whether you're controlling one account, or five accounts, so I don't want to hear about anything except the facts, if I'm going to debate this

You love pretentious narcissistic BS.

You are here defending it right now.

 

[What if...?]

If I were new to the news, meaning I'd just begun to follow it, I would wonder about ppl who are INCESSANTLY using snark words like. Moron and etc to describe a president and can never ever say anything good about him I would think such ppl are ...mental

I have been watching news for many years now...think the same. Psych issues galore

You are talking like trump hasn't been a POS his whole life.

That's the problem y'all have.

Most of us with no use for trump have had no use for trump for decades.

Hell, I have zero respect for anybody who refers to themselves in the third person. It is never a sign of a person worthy of consideration. And trump does it all the time.

 

[CaughtInThe]

i'm gonna stop readying my mortgage statement.



poof. it's gone.

 

[Stealers Wheel]

Actually it was a true statement, can you deny that if we were to stop testing the amount of people with the virus would not show in the reports, especially in the media. On the other side, as testing increases the amount of infections recorded go up. Strange how that works isn't it. What is the real count? pick your source, lots of different views on it, I am sure one will fit whatever you look for.

One other problem here is I have been unable to find a video or a report showing the full dialog, so there is no context of what it was said in relation to, but I would not let that deter you from drawing a full meaning from a snip-it of out of context information, second hand at that.

BTW, I have seen that version of the cartoon with several different Presidential names on the boat over the years.

OK, here you go.

[video]https://news.yahoo.com/trump-coronavirus-testing-stopped-testing-212011656.html[/video]

 

[What if...?]

Trump is 100% spot on, the US cases would drop to very low levels. Most people don't even know they have or have had the virus, levels would drop to down to reflect a number similar to cases that end up in hospital.
On the other hand, if everyone in the US was tested for antibodies, case numbers would likely hit anywhere between 50-80 million and perhaps higher.

That still leaves hundreds of millions vulnerable to the virus.

 

[What if...?]

So he says something that basically factual and now it's when the activist decided to take him as seriously and non-seriously as possible...

The hoops these children on the left need to go through, just to sound like they know what they're talking about. Simply amazes me.

So there's a guy on a bus. The buy next to him keeps tearing little pieces of paper and throwing them out the window. After a couple of hours of this the first guys asks "Why are you doing there?". To hmwhich the other replies "I'm keeping the elephants away". "What?!" the first guys says, "There isn't an elephant within a thousand miles of here!"

And the second guy says "See how well it works?"

This is the parable applicable to this situation.

And trump supporters are the old lady who hands the second guy a box of tissues and tells him "Keep up the good work!"

 

[HennyBogan]

That still leaves hundreds of millions vulnerable to the virus.

No not true, it only leaves approx .1 ~ .5 % of 200M vulnerable. Are you going to shut down the world for eternity waiting for a non existent vaccine? How many successful vaccines against coronaviruses have been made? None is the correct answer

 

[What if...?]

No not true, it only leaves approx .1 ~ .5 % of 200M vulnerable. Are you going to shut down the world for eternity waiting for a non existent vaccine? How many successful vaccines against coronaviruses have been made? None is the correct answer

I'm sorry, dis the virus change somehow? Did those of us not yet exposed, that couple hundred million, suddenly get immunity?

No they did not.

And like all trump supporters you are ignoring the 10-15% or so who suffer horribly for weeks and often end up with damage that will affect them for the rest of their lives.

I do agree that a large number already had it and should have some immunity. But coronavirus immuntiy is not very persistant in general. So that cohort may not be safe either for as long as you apparently believe.

10% of 250 million people is still 25 million people or so hospitalized, assuming everybody is exposed prior to a vaccine being developed.

And. 5% of 320 million is still over a million and a half dead.

 

[Thoreau72]

Trump on coronavirus: 'If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any' | TheHill

President Trump on Monday downplayed concerns of a rising number of coronavirus cases in states across the country, indicating that the increase was due to more testing.

"If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any,” Trump said during a White House event highlighting administration actions to help senior citizens.

Trump has frequently made inconsistent comments on testing. At times he has sought to downplay the severity of the coronavirus pandemic by saying the U.S. has tested more people than any other country, and as a result, the number of confirmed cases is higher.
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He's delusional. IOW, close your eyes & it will all go away,

Even a blind hog finds the random acorn.

Trump is not fit for office, but in this case his statement is accurate. If no testing were done there would be no cases to report.

If they didn't test for prostate cancer there would be no reported cases.

 

[Manc Skipper]

I'm sorry, dis the virus change somehow? Did those of us not yet exposed, that couple hundred million, suddenly get immunity?

No they did not.

And like all trump supporters you are ignoring the 10-15% or so who suffer horribly for weeks and often end up with damage that will affect them for the rest of their lives.

I do agree that a large number already had it and should have some immunity. But coronavirus immuntiy is not very persistant in general. So that cohort may not be safe either for as long as you apparently believe.
rump's lies about 0% of 250 million people is still 25 million people or so hospitalized, assuming everybody is exposed prior to a vaccine being developed.

And. 5% of 320 million is still over a million and a half dead.

But think of the economy! And the election!

Trump's lies about testing don't stop at "if you don't look it's not there!" His nonsense about having the most effective testing doesn't wash either. The US is better than some, but worse than others. Mediocre perhaps.

 

[Phys251]

Yeah, where are the caravans that we're supposed to be afraid of lately?

They crawled back into trump's head where they came from.

 

[Manc Skipper]

Even a blind hog finds the random acorn.

Trump is not fit for office, but in this case his statement is accurate. If no testing were done there would be no cases to report.

If they didn't test for prostate cancer there would be no reported cases.

That's not his claim. Too sophisticated. He said simply that there would be no cases. He didn't qualify it with the weasel word "reported".

 

[Thoreau72]

That's not his claim. Too sophisticated. He said simply that there would be no cases. He didn't qualify it with the weasel word "reported".

Qualifying a statement is weaseling? Goodness, this is a graceless age indeed. It's true that in a time of universal deception, speaking the truth, with or without qualifying adjectives, is a radical act.

 

[Helix]

They crawled back into trump's head where they came from.

Plenty of room there.