COVID-19 Megathread 5: The Trumps catch COVID-19

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I'm curious, given the history of adversarial governments using social media to organize protests in 2016, if there might be a third-party actor involved in these pro-COVID demonstrations that we're not seeing.

It is an open secret that the DeVos family organized the Michigan protests.

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Trump is suspending ALL Immigration to the U.S

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1252418369170501639?s=21

When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1252400233662693377?ref_src=tws...

Patrick went on: "There are more important things than living, and that's saving this country for my children and my grandchildren and saving this country for all of us.

"I don't want to die, nobody wants to die but man we have got to take some risk and get back in the game and get this country back up and running," he told the Tucker Carlson Tonight host.

These people are sociopaths.

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He is a sociopath. This man has no soul.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1252377769075281922

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Is it safe to say that the US will go past 60 thousands deaths by the end of the month?

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https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1252808909456203776

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It’s funny how everyone is attacking only GOP governors.
Jared Polis is reopening tattoo parlors and nail salons and has yet to be the target of media outrage. It’s ludicrous.

This isn't true - Polis is reopening, but taking a phased approach. Colorado isn't going full Georgia

I have a terrible feeling that "going full Georgia" is going to become a common saying in a not-good way.

I saw that cinemas will open too. What the hell are they going to show?

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He hires the best people.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1253075681908531200

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26 million jobs lost in 1 month. I hope saving a few centenarians were worth it.

Silence sociopath.

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That escalated quickly.

https://twitter.com/KeishaBottoms/status/1253143548809170944

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https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1253325061265620994?s=20
Someone’s getting in on this for her ‘24 run.

https://twitter.com/craigcalcaterra/status/1253342042740207616?s=21

Are we sure about that? I thought that Mississippi or West Virginia would have the highest.

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https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1253676703001575425

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https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1253751812194070529

That should be uncle Joe's message.

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https://thebulwark.com/we-cannot-reopen-america/

The movement to “reopen” America is a fallacy based on a fantasy.

The fallacy is the notion that lifting stay-at-home orders will result in people going back to their normal routines. This is false. The state-issued stay-at-home orders did not determine most people’s desires to stay home—they merely ratified behaviors that the vast majority of people and institutions were already adopting in response to COVID-19.

The fantasy is that we can go back to what the world looked like 12 weeks ago. This is not possible now and will not be possible until we possess a vaccine for the novel coronavirus.

Understand that I am not saying that stay-at-home orders should be indefinite. What I am saying is that whenever the stay-at-home orders are rolled back—whether it is tomorrow or a month from now—it will not result in anything like a “reopening” of the country.  And the sooner people grasp how completely and fundamentally the world has changed, the faster we’ll be able to adapt to this new reality.

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https://twitter.com/TimOBrien/status/1253501765644963845

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/lysol-manufacturer-warns-against-internal-use-after-trump-comments-n1191586?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

"WASHINGTON — The manufacturer of Lysol, a disinfectant spray and cleaning product, and the EPA both issued statements warning against any internal use after President Donald Trump suggested that people could get an "injection" of "the disinfectant that knocks (coronavirus) out in a minute."

"As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route)," said a spokesperson for Reckitt Benckiser, the United Kingdom-based owner of Lysol, in a statement to NBC News."

Dubya got a bad rap. This guy is obviously the dumbest President in US history.

With Dubya, there were some speaking slip-ups, but Trump is making them US policy.

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

He was also considered by some as "weak" or "easily swayed" with the influence of people in his administration (particularly Cheney). Which was true to a point. He didn't truly start making foreign policy decisions on his own initiative until his second term. But Bush was by no means stupid.

He was incurious and embraced anti-intellectualism more than any other Republican nominee up until then.

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What do you guys think? Could this turn into something or is it a nothing burger?

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1253785676274970625?s=20

Looks like another crank theory to file next to the Hooker Piss Tape.

Except it isn't theory. It's a story from Politico.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1253753104299773952

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475

You mean this story that doesnt even suggest a hypothetical link between Trump and his Corona response or insinuate that he purposefully neglected to do big government dictator things because he owes Jyna money for a building?

Abramson is peddling crank theories like Alex Jones to make money.

I'm sure you'd have no problem too if the Democratic nominee owed hundreds of millions to a state-owned foreign bank.

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https://twitter.com/alexrossmusic/status/1254442566704984064

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https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1254900026314293250
If he's telling the truth, he's stupid; if a lie, he's dishonest.  Take your pick.

How about both?

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https://twitter.com/JesseFFerguson/status/1254886896376872960?s=20

If Obama or Hillary did this, Chapter 3497

They would trot Susan Rice out to the weekend talk shows and have her blame it on a Youtube video.

I see you are using the good old Chewbacca defense.

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These people are fu**ing idiots.

https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1255190214152200199

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We aren't worthy.

https://twitter.com/nataliewsj/status/1255234681685106691

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https://mobile.twitter.com/CBSLA/status/1255699561399619584

Here come the fun police.

I don't think it would be much fun for those people at the beaches, their family members or other random people they pass the virus onto to be hooked up on ventilators.

I was about to say the same thing. The shortsightedness and indifference of some people never ceases to amaze me.

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Greece did a lockdown early with good government response and despite an aging population has had way better results than much of Europe and the United States.

Thankfully our government acted swiftly and took measures before people started dying.
I'm honestly surprised that we followed these orders without much fuss. People got scared by what happened in Italy and stayed indoors.