The Trump Pandemic

[Hermit]

Why is someone a senator who doesn't know the difference between a disease and a vaccine?

Quite. Rand Paul neatly ignores the fact that over a quarter million Americans don't get reinfected after "naturally acquiring" COVID-19 because the virus killed them in the past eight months. Also, many hundreds of thousands among the survivors are left with permanent damage to their lungs and brains.

[Seabass]

Holy shit. He's supposed to be one of the smart Republicans, too...

[JimC]

An IQ that reaches triple digits?

[pErvinalia]

Steady on Jim. He's a Republican, after all..

[rainbow]

A South Dakota nurse whose tweets went viral over the weekend says the hardest part of her job is convincing some critically ill patients that they really do have COVID-19. “Their last dying words are, ‘This can’t be happening, it’s not real,”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/south-dak ... raiTnTLS1A

[rainbow]

The official coronavirus death toll has passed 200,000, but an accounting of all lives that were lost in the United States since mid-March shows that the pandemic and its resulting disruption have caused substantially more deaths: at least 300,000 more people have died than would in a normal year, according to a New York Times analysis of estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... ll-us.html

[NineBerry]

The official coronavirus death toll has passed 200,000, but an accounting of all lives that were lost in the United States since mid-March shows that the pandemic and its resulting disruption have caused substantially more deaths: at least 300,000 more people have died than would in a normal year, according to a New York Times analysis of estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... ll-us.html

How many of them have voted for Biden?

[rainbow]

The official coronavirus death toll has passed 200,000, but an accounting of all lives that were lost in the United States since mid-March shows that the pandemic and its resulting disruption have caused substantially more deaths: at least 300,000 more people have died than would in a normal year, according to a New York Times analysis of estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... ll-us.html

How many of them have voted for Biden?

That would be a grave error, indeed.

[pErvinalia]

The official coronavirus death toll has passed 200,000, but an accounting of all lives that were lost in the United States since mid-March shows that the pandemic and its resulting disruption have caused substantially more deaths: at least 300,000 more people have died than would in a normal year, according to a New York Times analysis of estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... ll-us.html

100,000 car accidents.

[rainbow]

...and paper cuts.

[NineBerry]

New motto for New Hampshire:

Wear Mask Or Die

[JimC]

Latest daily figures for the US show over 192,000 new cases and over 2,000 new deaths. The American tsunami rushes on...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[pErvinalia]

Dysfunctional place.

[JimC]

Its current chaos must be giving great joy to authoritarian governments around the world. They can point to the appalling handling of the pandemic and the vicious in-fighting over the election, and say "See, this is where democracy gets you. Just relax, and let the Party/Uncle Vlad/Dear Leader run things, and your lives will be smooth..."

[Hermit]

Latest daily figures for the US show over 192,000 new cases and over 2,000 new deaths.

2000 out of 330 million? Meh.

Well, better than nothing, I suppose.