Okay, let’s do away with some of the highly enriched bollocks Trump is disseminating.

•The number of deaths Trump refers to in excess of 2 Million was the projection produced by the mathematical model assuming NO MEASURES taken to minimise the spread, no masks, travel bans etc
•The same model also projected that if Trump took the recommended measures, that figure could be reduced to around 60,000.
•Trump did not follow all the measures, hence fatalities currently stand around 190,000 and continuing to rise by around 1,000 per day
• Trump’s claim that other countries have far more deaths is pure invention and a clear lie. There is no evidence to indicate a failure to report. As it stands, the deaths in the USA far exceed any other nation
• Trump’s claim that he “shut down travel from China” is a lie
• Trump only prevented Chinese nationals from entering the USA. Everyone else was allowed to wander about freely.
•The reason why spread across China did not happen is because the Chinese succeeded in shutting down travel from the affected region. Other countries did not.
•Trump had two choices - sacrifice lives or accept and attempt to mitigate the hit to the economy. After taking the initial hit, he demanded states end the lockdown and get back to work
•This was far too soon, and the reason why the second peak in the USA is so bad
•Trump didn’t know that he couldn’t force the states to do his bidding, therefore he has used a variety of bullying and pecuniary tactics to get them to comply. Journalists had to tell Trump he did not have those powers.
• All of which made him even more vindictive.
•Contrary to Trump’s lies, the USA is not doing a “great job” of managing the pandemic - it is doing the worst job of any developed nation.
• Trump claims the cases are high because they do a lot of testing. If that was the case, they would not be seeing 1,000 deaths per day
•It is an absolute lie. By any proper measure, the USA has the worst outbreak in the world by some distance.
•Trump has no idea how to rebuild the economy as he didn’t build it in the first place, he inherited it from Obama
•Trump needs the economy back to try to save his election chances, so he is paying for it with human lives
• it is not true to say that for most people who get Covid, they will be fine. We do not know yet
• however a recent paper showed that young fit footballers were not.
• In fact 30 to 35% of them developed myocarditis, a potentially lethal inflammation of the heart muscle.
• Truth is, we don’t know the long term consequences yet
• Trump is playing Russian Roulette with your life and with the lives of your family
•His claims to have done a “Great job” are completely false.
•If deaths continue at the present rate the USA will have lost 400,000 people by January
•It is more important to him to win
• Trump doesn’t care if you contract Covid and die. Only losers die, in his twisted mind.
• Even tonight, with the disease surging out of control, he is calling on more states to reopen
• get rid of this bad evil malignancy and kick him to the kerb were he belongs.
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