Trump says he'd do 'nothing' differently as report shows 54,000 could still be alive

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Source: American Independent



By Emily Singer -May 21, 2020 9:43 AM

Donald Trump refused to take action on the virus for months.

A study from Columbia University published on Wednesday found that if the United States had issued a nationwide stay-at-home order to stop the spread of the new coronavirus just one week earlier than most Americans began to stay in, 36,000 lives could have been saved. The same study found that if an order had gone into effect on March 1 — two weeks earlier — roughly 54,000 lives could have been saved.

But Donald Trump on Wednesday said he wouldn't have changed anything about his coronavirus response, in which he downplayed the threat of the virus and refused to take action for more than two months, despite warnings from his own intelligence and public health experts advising him otherwise.

"Mr. President, with 4 percent of the world's population and 30 percent of the — of the outbreak, what would you have done differently facing this crisis?" a reporter asked Trump on Wednesday during a meeting with the governors of Arkansas and Kansas.

"Well, nothing," Trump replied. "If you take New York and New Jersey — which were very hard hit — we were very, very low."

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

Read more: https://americanindependent.com/coronavirus-study-lockdown-donald-trump-pandemic-columbia-covid-19/

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And months later, Trump still refuses to say he would have done anything differently.

"We've done, you know, amazingly well," Trump said Wednesday.

To date, 93,408 people have died from the coronavirus, according to the New York Times' most recent count.




To read what this psychopath says , says that he should not be in charge of a anything.............his logic or reasoning says that he should be committed, he his certifiably insane he has no empathy and no ability to admit that he is and his criminal team are abject failures and he and them have BLOOD ON THERE HANDS............54,000 live could have been saved..........and he sat on his hands because of his ego was and still is the most important thing in is small life.................

WE will not forget this coming November...................

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. Of coures he wouldn't do anything differently.

A malignant narcissist is incapable of expressing empathy. To Dumpus, we are all just props in his movie.

[smb]

16. He Reminds Me Of This Scene

Doctor: Part of his temporal lobe has been effectively erased.
Holden: Which part?
Doctor: The part that governs empathy.
Amos: You can do that with a magnet?
Doctor: It's not that simple, but it's not complicated either. It's non-invasive.
Holden: So someone waves a magnet at the right side on my head, and suddenly I can watch a hundred thousand people die in agony and not give a shit?
--The Expanse, "Static"

[underpants]

2. Okay so if you don't count the people who live HERE

and let’s say left handers and oh I dunno people who drive blue cars, it’s not that many. Add in that most of these people in these loser blue states wouldn’t vote for me anyway and it’s basically a wash.

[dalton99a]

3. He worked hard for the badge of honor

[Mike 03]

4. Roy Cohn taught Trump to never admit a mistake, but he may

have first learned that lesson from his own father.

One thing we can count on: He'll never do the right thing because in his case it would always mean having to admit a mistake in the past. And that's good news for Joe Biden, even as it's bad news for Americans.

[certainot]

17. that is an essential element of the secret of authoritarian power - royal

i'm-never-wrong certitude, rooted in the millions year-old default habit of using the right hand, connected to the left side of the brain, to masturbate with.

sex on the wrong brain happens. when sex and logic mix the result is an unnatural increase in the need for finality and closure - certainty. it wants the thinking to end. certainty doesn't exist so sowb increases fear until artificial certainty has to be created or accepted. that requires denial of reality. doubt and uncertainty threaten the fantasy. the need to avoid uncertainty is recognized as the main motivation for authoritarianism, which is sometimes measured with the Uncertainty Avoidance Index or UAI.

over millions of years it's effected brain evolution and some gene pools have it worse as populations in times of conflict selected for particular symptoms like greed, fear, intolerance, lack of empathy. that's why we're now 90% right handed after starting off as about 50-50, like chimps.

trump grew up as a rich asshole with his own room, shunned by the opposite sex except as part of a transaction. trump has it really bad and has a brain full of sex on the wrong brain circuitry that diverts sex energy to the left side of the brain and releases some of it to the right brain for pleasure when he uses the starved right brain's creativity to rationalize his denial, lies, and certitude.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. He ain't dying so we did good.

[Baclava]

6. "Do nothing" has been his only plan from the very start!

[smb]

15. You Beat Me To It

Apparently if he had the chance he'd find some other way to do nothing.

[RainCaster]

7. He writes Biden's adverts rather well

Such a pompous ass, with no care for anyone else in this country.

[RussBLib]

8. changing something would be admitting error

can't have that. That's "weak".

It might cause a crack in the stupendous mendacious artifice that he has carefully constructed.

When humpty dumpty has his great fall, I hope no one can put him back together again.

[Igel]

20. So what if those who did impose the lockdowns

used the authority they had to lock things down a week earlier?

A lot of governors, when Trump said he had the authority to "open" states pointed out that he was wrong--he lacked the authority. Which means the implicit argument is he lacked the authority to "close" the states. If that's true--and a lot of governors with (D) after their names made the point about Trump's lack of authority--where does the responsibility wind up?

[samsingh]

9. and 40% of stupid Americans still support this traitor

[Stuart G]

19. It may be down to 35 percent by November...maybe less. He has more time to look more stupid!

[Initech]

10. What an absolute psychopath! He does not care at all.

[Thirties Child]

12. I no longer call him 45. He's now Orange Psychopath.

[Initech]

14. This is no longer a reality show. It's a horror movie.

I keep expecting Pennywise to show up.

[Solly Mack]

11. Ego Idiotical

[Ford_Prefect]

13. They knew in early November that something this bad was happening and did nothing but deny.

They knew for certain in December that it was going to be catastrophic and did nothing but plan to make money out of it. Oh, and they silenced anyone who could warn Congress, the state governments or initiate a response by any of the relevant agencies.

[SWBTATTReg]

18. So, when will the murder indictments be issued? NT