Coronavirus updates: Trump says increase of cases is 'great news'

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

Even as Republican-led states roll back reopenings due to the significant rise in coronavirus cases and warnings from his own government that the pandemic is far from over, President Donald Trump continues to take an optimistic tone about the increased in diagnosed COVID-19 cases.

"There is a rise in Coronavirus cases because our testing is so massive and so good, far bigger and better than any other country," Trump tweeted late Thursday night. "This is great news, but even better news is that death, and the death rate, is DOWN. Also, younger people, who get better much easier and faster!"

However, Adm. Brett Giroir, the man Trump appointed to oversee testing, testified at a House hearing Thursday that "this is a real increase in cases" and not just attributable to increased testing.

"There is no question that the more testing you get, the more you will uncover," Giroir said Thursday. "But we do believe this is a real increase in cases because of the percent positives are going up. So, this is real increases in cases." Giroir said the U.S. is not flattening the curve. "The curve is still going up," he testified.

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WHAT A FUCKING MORON.

[onecaliberal]

1. Why is he still there?!?

[Yeehah]

28. Because the republican party has become utterly corrupt

and places the good of the wealthy above the good of the nation as a whole.

[RKP5637]

2. tRump's mind lives in a sea of delusions and lies. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Still too soon for death rate to noticeably move up. What will he say when it does? . . . . nt

[Alacritous Crier]

6. He'll say...

it was the governors' fault, Fauci's fault, China's fault, the media's fault, Obama's fault, Hillary's fault, DU's fault, ad infinitum...


Here's a story on how the death rate spike lags behind the infection spike:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-deaths-lag-behind-surging-infections-but-may-catch-up-soon/2020/06/24/22263b50-b620-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html

[Evolve Dammit]

9. Agree. He is done with it and has moved on, he thinks. But it will remain an anchor around his leg.

[KS Toronado]

15. Don't forget he'll yell FAKE NEWS

[Alacritous Crier]

26. 👍🏼

[PSPS]

22. So, you're saying it's only the "death rate" that matters?

To control the spread of the virus, it's the infection rate that has to decline. That's the target.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Don't try to put shit in my mouth I did not say. I did not say that. . . . nt

[keithbvadu2]

4. Trump just makes up his lies as he needs them.

Trump just makes up his lies as he needs them.

[Newest Reality]

5. Delusional...

I do think he does this stuff intentionally as a part of his conman shtick and reality TV character, but nonetheless, the information is:

[matt819]

7. Here's a thought

Wouldn't the news be just a tad greater if all those tests had negative results?

I got tested a month ago. Negative. One of my adult kids got tested last week. Negative.

The availability of testing was good news. Negative results was great news.



WHAT A FUCKING MORON.

[LuckyLib]

21. And the difficult thing for folks to realize is that they can be tested one day,

and come in contacted with an asymptomatic person the next day and get the virus. It's not an "all clear".

[matt819]

27. Exactly

Which is why, after I got the test, my wife asked me why I bothered. At that moment in time, I was negative. That could have changed that night, or any time since. So that's a good point. Still, at least as of that time, I knew I was negative, so there's that. It's not as if I threw away my masks and started coughing on people.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. I was all set to report the post, on the grounds that you had obviously made up that headline,

but nope. That's for real.

[chriscan64]

10. A BBC reporter put it this way

"America instead of flattening the curve is fattening the curve."

[Joe Nation]

11. Happy talk will never be a substitute for sound policies you idiot

And BTW, neither will poorly staged photo-Ops at national monuments.

[dalton99a]

13. Kick

[flibbitygiblets]

14. WHEN he gets it, it will indeed be great news. /nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. On one hand, he's right. More testing uncovers more cases.

And since the vast majority of people seem to be asymptomatic, the numbers of those infected should always outstrip deaths. Meanwhile, enough people are sick enough to be in hospital, sometimes for months, that the health care system is being totally overwhelmed. And that's hardly good news.

[groundloop]

19. Of course we can't forget that the percentage of positive tests keeps increasing.....

which tells us that the number of cases is, in fact, skyrocketing.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

30. Right.

Basically, that's going to continue until there is a vaccine or early and effective treatment, or genuine herd immunity.

[rurallib]

17. A fiction writer would be considered an on the fringe sadist if they wrote

what Trump thinks, says and does in real life.

he is not human.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

18. He should say...

It's the greatest virus that ever was. We tested it and it passed with flying colors. Put our glorious tests with the greatest virus and the numbers will be so huge that we will bow to its grandeur. Amen.

[usaf-vet]

20. THIS IS HIS TRE45ONOUS FAULT! BUT THE ENTIRE GOP HAS BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS AS WELL!

Get rid of the moron before other innocent people die AND Putin pays bounty money for dead American soldiers.

It obvious that all GOP elected officials are cowards and won't stand up to the tea45onous one in the WH.

[CrispyQ]

23. He will spin it however he can & cult 45 will eat it up cuz they've come to love the taste of BS.

Hate radio has been feeding it too them for four decades. Fox News for over two.

[wiggs]

25. Lying to the American people and remaining in office is 'winning.' nt

[TryLogic]

29. Maybe more cases is considered good news.

Maybe he is looking for an excuse to declare some sort of national emergency, declare martial law, cancel the election, etc. If he gets lots of sick radical right wingers, perhaps he can convince them to become violent in order to stop the election because too many of "them" are sick.

Or, maybe it will all backfire and the moron will lose in an historic landslide - as he should.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

31. How does anyone listen to his moronic speech patterns and not see

that he's a simple-minded fool?