“So explain things — based on the advice of doctors Fauci and Birx, the US and the US. The entire economy has closed on the basis of US 9,000. U.S. deaths from Chinese coronavirus,” said a summary of an article from the uncompromising online conservative page Gateway Pundit that retwed through the president, denigrating his own fitness advisers, Dr. Anthony S.Fauci and Dr. Deborah.
As the New York Times report added, the missive in question “was a distortion of knowledge on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, which reports that 6% of coronavirus deaths only mention the virus in death certificates. the other deaths, patients had an average of 2.6 other situations or reasons for death. Statistics do not mean that they did not die from the virus, however, it helps who is the most vulnerable to it.”
The tweet is so misleading that Twitter was forced to delete it to avoid spreading misinformation.However, he is smart enough for the president.
And while it’s appealing that Trump is in the midst of a crisis, his crusade to deceive the public about an ongoing fatal pandemic is qualitatively different from the same old presidential absurdity.
On the one hand, many Americans may not fully appreciate how much Trump still has no idea what he’s talking about.On the other hand, the President is still in an ordinary position of power, and if he feels that the death figures have been exaggerated, that will lead him to make – or in this case, continue to make – wrong decisions.
But equally vital is the fact that the online content Trump felt compelled to advertise probably had it backwards: the challenge with the official death toll is not that it’s inflated, but that it may not completely reflect the full count.
It took months for the U.S. primary government to warn of an unconceivable under-count, not an over-count.
So why does Trump raise the possibility of the opposite? Apparently, because a right published a publication that made the president feel better about his failures.
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