This is gold

Alencar said:

This is gold

The entire donald_trump tag is a gold mine to be fair.

Oh... those are not stars

Never thought I'd see him combined with the "mesugaki" genre.

Is there anything I should know about Trump vs COVID? I remembered the time when COVID was called Wuhan Virus which Trump made a statement about the virus in China being a massive problem, then all of a sudden he desired to backpedal about it. The economical panic doesn’t seems to be a reasonable factor in my opinion, either.

67ironwhale said:

Is there anything I should know about Trump vs COVID? I remembered the time when COVID was called Wuhan Virus which Trump made a statement about the virus in China being a massive problem, then all of a sudden he desired to backpedal about it. The economical panic doesn’t seems to be a reasonable factor in my opinion, either.

Other then 210,000+ Americans dead 7Million+ infected a large portion of whom have lasting side effects. There is also the fact that he caught it as well.

67ironwhale said:
Is there anything I should know about Trump vs COVID? I remembered the time when COVID was called Wuhan Virus which Trump made a statement about the virus in China being a massive problem, then all of a sudden he desired to backpedal about it.

The original assessments of the virus was going to be many millions dead without drastic changes. At some point, the Administration made an assessment that it wasn't going to be that dire. Part of the flipflop in expectations about how dire it would be, especially between the President and the state governors, definitely came down to its early outbreaks in the states of New York and New Jersey, the former where people in senior homes were exposed to other seniors who did have COVID, thus causing an alarming number of deaths at seemingly the behest of the governor's office.

cokerpilot said:
Other then 210,000+ Americans dead 7Million+ infected a large portion of whom have lasting side effects. There is also the fact that he caught it as well.

Contrasted with the swine flu (H1N1) of 2009 where it's estimated 60 million American citizens were affected by it. Much like COVID19, it's considered quite contagious, has its own assortment of mild to severe flu-like symptoms, and is fatal in some people with chronic medical conditions and in vulnerable age brackets. The media made a moderate deal about it; but, unlike COVID19, the public policy response was fantastically unintrusive. Vaccine development took about as long as it did this time. Vaccine roll-out for swine flu underperformed by a factor of ten, however, and, by the time it was properly available, a second wave of H1N1 had already ended and some were no longer interested or concerned in being vaccinated. It's now considered part of the seasonal flu thing.

67ironwhale said:

Is there anything I should know about Trump vs COVID? I remembered the time when COVID was called Wuhan Virus which Trump made a statement about the virus in China being a massive problem, then all of a sudden he desired to backpedal about it. The economical panic doesn’t seems to be a reasonable factor in my opinion, either.

Quite a bit. Trump has done little to nothing to curtail the virus and keeps trying to tell people it's not a problem or it's no big deal. He's openly admitted to ordering less testing because he feels that more confirmed cases would make him look bad, even though most experts say that thorough testing is needing to curb spread. He's claimed drugs with undetermined efficacy are miracle cures. He's said the virus will just magically disappear one day. He forced his driver and security personnel to take him on a totally superfluous drive while he was sick with the virus so he could wave to some supporters. He's consistently refused to wear a mask and mocked people who did. He's withdrawn financial support from the WHO as part of his attempt to scapegoat them for the spread of the virus. He's refusing to join in with international attempts to develop a vaccine, instead forcing the US to develop one on its own, slowing both the US and international attempts. He has not promised that a vaccine will be free to everyone like many other governments have. He's pressuring the USDA to approve a vaccine before the election, even though it's unlikely they'll be able to confirm that one is safe and effective by then. He's publicly spoken out against state governors that enacted safety measures, in one case inspiring a terrorist plot to abduct and murder one governor. He's refusing to sign any financial relief for people affected by the pandemic until after the election, effectively trying to take financially struggling people hostage for votes. He's encouraged anti-Chinese racism to distract his supporters from his own abject incompetence.

The US has seen more deaths, both in terms of absolute numbers and per capita, than any other country on earth. Trump is trying to say that he's done a perfect job. The facts disagree.

I'm pretty sure they used the estimate with millions dead because it was drastic and probably the only way Trump would have been convinced to have actually done anything on the matter when he did. At the time the original CDC estimates were giving numbers between 200k and 1.7m dead, which is quite a range due to our lack of understanding of the severity but still what was touted was of course the highest of the highs from the worst of the worst case scenarios. Now it's unfortunately being touted as if it was a fact and used to justify "see how great of a job I'm doing that all these people aren't dead?".

One thing to consider between SARs-CoV-2 and the flu is that we have a rather good understanding of what the flu does to the body and we can readily produce vaccines with what is already available. SARs-CoV-2 on the other hand is novel, all past vaccines of similar types were either for animals or if it was for humans were abandoned before completion after the need lessened and the vaccine couldn't be monetized. Additionally SARs-CoV-2 seems to cause long-term damage to the body and given that it seems to attack the body all over, it's not fully understand what the long-term ramifications of an infection is. What so far is clear is that it can cause long term damage to the lungs and that a high percentage of those infected months down the line still have weaker lung functions than before the infection. Given what types of meds Trump received and the likely severity of the infection it would imply, I honestly would not be surprised if he'll now end up out of breath much more readily from now on.

As for the thing to know on Trump and COVID-19 is that after getting it and receiving treatment that pretty much no one else in the US could receive he's now trying to convince everyone that it's a non-issue and touting treatments that few could get and few could afford as cures anyone can get. I think his treatment cost was estimated to be around $100k. People also generally don't have what is essentially a doctor's office in their home for immediate care nor a permanent six-room suite dedicated to them in a hospital.

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Considering the rising death tolls, should we change from you gonna get raped to imminent rape?

This is cringe as fuck lmao imagine the person that drew this

kobr said:

This is cringe as fuck lmao imagine the person that drew this

US COVID toll reaches 1 million + counting

kobr said:

This is cringe as fuck lmao imagine the person that drew this

well it is in chinese text so not supirse, atleast you guys are not being locked down for the slightest of cases (unlike them)

The only issue is Trump lacks orange.