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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 07:22 PM Jul 2020

Trump's Virus Is Spreading, and His Economy Is Stalling

The president leads a transition to sickness.

Just over two weeks ago The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by Vice President Mike Pence titled “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave.’” The article was supposed to reassure the nation.

What it provided, instead, was a clear illustration of the delusions and magical thinking that have marked every step of the Trump administration’s response to Covid-19, producing an epic policy disaster.

Put it this way: By now, according to Trump officials and sycophants, we were supposed to be seeing a fading pandemic and a roaring recovery. Instead, we have a fading recovery and a roaring pandemic.

About the pandemic: The Pence article cheerily declared that “cases have stabilized,” with the daily average number of new cases only 20,000. Even that figure, as it happens, was five times the number in the European Union, which has a third more people than America does. Since then, however, new cases have soared, hitting more than 50,000 by some counts on Wednesday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/opinion/trump-covid-economy.html
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Trump's Virus Is Spreading, and His Economy Is Stalling (Original Post) Zorro Jul 2020 OP
Again - Because Trump Doesn't Read Or Is Mostly Disinterested In Anything That's Not About Him.... global1 Jul 2020 #1
His Tulsa rally spread the virus pwb Jul 2020 #2

global1

(25,168 posts)
1. Again - Because Trump Doesn't Read Or Is Mostly Disinterested In Anything That's Not About Him....
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 07:31 PM
Jul 2020

he's got it backwards. He thinks the 'economy is spreading' and the 'virus is stalling.'

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