Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Anderson Cooper slams 'lies and noise' from Mike Pence" video.
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It's like rowing or paddling upstream, or into a stiff wind--if you ease-up too much or stop, you will only have to paddle twice as hard to make up all the previous hard-earned progress that was quickly lost. Failing to maintain isolation and other measures for sufficient time to stop the spread of COVID-19 transmission will cost U.S. more in time, effort, money, and LIVES. Reopening and relaxing measures too early in defiance of the science and data is the ultimate in colossal ignorance, greed, ruthlessness, and arrogance.
We have a segment of Republican cult willfully ignorant, who malevolently seek to sabotage containment efforts. But many do not grasp how important it is that we treat ourselves and everyone else as being infected.
This is because people know that is very unlikely, especially outside dense urban areas, where incidence rates are low. Because of the delay in onset of the disease and asymptomatic carriers, COVID-19 is a stealth killer that uses Americans against each other as its foot soldiers, transporting it, keeping the disease and its train of transmission alive. This is further complicated because people cannot see a virus, see it attacking, see it spreading, until it is too late. For many of us, seeing is believing, and people are incapable or reluctant to make that leap of logic required to keep them and everyone safe--even with the massive public education efforts.
Of course, the problem becomes greatly exacerbated when the President refuses to wear a mask, and his administration works against itself in fighting this deadly global pandemic, sending conflicting messages to the public. Toxic Trump, his administration, and all the Republicans who have aided and abetted him, are directly responsible in our view for the senseless deaths of tens and thousands of Americans. The dead are the worst of it, but there is also the tremendous needless suffering and economic loss accompanying their wanton criminal negligence.
No national testing, no rational national coordinated pandemic response. Republican governors reopening too quickly in defiance of CDC guidelines are only following the President's lead. Democratic governors in many states likewise being adversely pressured by Toxic Trump's pandemic disinformation and Republican opposition to requisite lockdowns. Problem starts at the top. Don't fault even the worst Republican governors as much as this President. The President needed to take the lead, take the hit for the hard decisions--not put all the weight on governors as he as.
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We got Big Brag Daddy Baghdad Bob broadcasting direct from Washington, D.C. daily, with Toxic Trump and a revolving cast of his sycophantic minions! Happy talk, disinformation, empty promises, idle threats, vicious smears, bogus pandemic models, dog whistles, continuous crackpot conspiracies--they got it all, and more!
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TRUM_PLANNED_EMIC!
Given plenty of advance warnings about COVID-19, Toxic Trump chose not to heed the sound advice provided. We could have been Taiwan, with a comparative 100 deaths in the U.S.; or South Korea, with a comparative 1500 deaths here, after adjusted for population size. Taiwan had just seven deaths; South Korea less than 300. We got over 130,000 deaths already, with the count still rapidly rising, while we remain, still, firmly mired in the first wave of the disease. Even worse, after six months, we STILL lack the adequate testing and rational national response to contain the disease.
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07/08/20 -- 3,159,000 confirmed cases; 134,900 deaths.
07/07/20 -- 3,097,000 confirmed cases; 133,900 deaths.
07/06/20 -- 3,041,000 confirmed cases; 133,000 deaths.
07/05/20 -- 2,984,000 confirmed cases; 132,500 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
07/04/20 -- 2,936,000 confirmed cases; 132,300 deaths.
07/03/20 -- 2,890,000 confirmed cases; 132,100 deaths.
07/02/20 -- 2,837,000 confirmed cases; 131,500 deaths.
07/01/20 -- 2,780,000 confirmed cases; 130,800 deaths.
06/30/20 -- 2,722,000 confirmed cases; 129,400 deaths. NIH predicts 100,000 cases per day soon from premature reopening and people not following CDC guidelines.
06/29/20 -- 2,682,000 confirmed cases; 128,800 deaths.
06/28/20 -- 2,638,000 confirmed cases; 128,400 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
06/27/20 -- 2,597,000 confirmed cases; 128,200 deaths.
06/26/20 -- 2,553,000 confirmed cases; 127,600 deaths. CDC projects TEN times as many COVID-19 cases as confirmed; approximately 25 million, or 7% of U.S. pop.
06/25/20 -- 2,505,000 confirmed cases; 126,800 deaths.
06/24/20 -- 2,463,000 confirmed cases; 124,300 deaths.
06/23/20 -- 2,424,000 confirmed cases; 123,500 deaths.
06/22/20 -- 2,388,000 confirmed cases; 122,600 deaths.
06/21/20 -- 2,357,000 confirmed cases; 122,200 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
06/20/20 -- 2,331,000 confirmed cases; 122,000 deaths.
06/19/20 -- 2,297,000 confirmed cases; 121,400 deaths.
06/18/20 -- 2,264,000 confirmed cases; 120,700 deaths.
06/17/20 -- 2,235,000 confirmed cases; 119,900 deaths.
06/16/20 -- 2,199,000 confirmed cases; 118,800 deaths.
06/15/20 -- 2,182,000 confirmed cases; 118,200 deaths.
06/14/20 -- 2,162,000 confirmed cases; 117,800 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
06/13/20 -- 2,139,000 confirmed cases; 117,500 deaths. Latest projection has 200,000 Americans dead from COVID-19 before October.
06/12/20 -- 2,117,000 confirmed cases; 116,800 deaths.
06/11/20 -- 2,090,000 confirmed cases; 116,000 deaths.
06/10/20 -- 2,066,000 confirmed cases; 115,100 deaths.
06/09/20 -- 2,046,000 confirmed cases; 114,100 deaths.
06/08/20 -- 2,026,000 confirmed cases; 113,000 deaths.
06/07/20 -- 2,007,000 confirmed cases; 112,500 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
06/06/20 -- 1,976,000 confirmed cases; 111,900 deaths.
06/05/20 -- 1,949,000 confirmed cases; 111,000 deaths.
06/04/20 -- 1,924,000 confirmed cases; 110,100 deaths.
06/03/20 -- 1,902,000 confirmed cases; 109,100 deaths.
06/02/20 -- 1,881,000 confirmed cases; 108,000 deaths.
06/01/20 -- 1,860,000 confirmed cases; 107,000 deaths.
05/31/20 -- 1,837,000 confirmed cases; 106,200 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
05/30/20 -- 1,817,000 confirmed cases; 105,600 deaths.
05/29/20 -- 1,793,000 confirmed cases; 104,500 deaths.
05/26/20 -- 1,725,000 confirmed cases; 100,600 deaths.
05/25/20 -- 1,706,000 confirmed cases; 99,800 deaths.
05/24/20 -- 1,686,000 confirmed cases; 99,300 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
05/23/20 -- 1,667,000 confirmed cases; 98,700 deaths.
05/22/20 -- 1,645,000 confirmed cases; 97,600 deaths.
05/17/20 -- 1,528,000 confirmed cases; 91,000 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
05/16/20 -- 1,497,000 confirmed cases; 89,400 deaths.
05/11/20 -- 1,379,000 confirmed cases; 81,500 deaths.
05/10/20 -- 1,364,000 confirmed cases; 80,600 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
05/07/20 -- 1,289,000 confirmed cases; 76,500 deaths.
05/06/20 -- 1,260,000 confirmed cases; 74,500 deaths.
05/05/20 -- 1,233,000 confirmed cases; 72,000 deaths.
05/04/20 -- 1,208,000 confirmed cases; 69,600 deaths. CDC projects cases increasing to 200,000 per day with deaths rising to 3,000 per day by June because of states, localities and people not following guidelines and reopening their economies too soon.
05/03/20 -- 1,184,000 confirmed cases; 68,300 deaths. Every 44 seconds, another American dies from COVID-19. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
05/02/20 -- 1,158,000 confirmed cases; 67,000 deaths.
05/01/20 -- 1,129,000 confirmed cases; 65,500 deaths.
04/30/20 -- 1,094,000 confirmed cases; 63,600 deaths. The U.S. accounts for over a third of the world's cases, and over a quarter of COVID-19 deaths--despite possessing only 5% of the world's population. Yet--even now--we still lack the adequate testing capabilities that are critically needed to safely reopen the economy, and remain sorely lacking the necessary rational national leadership so vital to saving American lives and livelihoods.
04/29/20 -- 1,064,000 confirmed cases; 61,500 deaths. The U.S. now has as many COVID-19 deaths in just NINE WEEKS as there was for all TWELVE YEARS of the Vietnam War.
04/28/20 -- 1,034,000 confirmed cases; 59,000 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
04/27/20 -- 1,009,000 confirmed cases; 56,500 deaths.
04/22/20 -- 853,000 confirmed cases; 47,800 deaths (+2,674*)
04/21/20 -- 825,000 confirmed cases; 45,100 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
04/20/20 -- 788,000 confirmed cases; 43,200 deaths.
04/16/20 -- 671,000 confirmed cases; 33,100 deaths. Less COVID-19 testing performed this week than last, despite desperate need to ramp up volume to reopen economy.
04/15/20 -- 640,000 confirmed cases; 30,800 deaths. The United States recorded its first coronavirus fatality on Feb. 29. It took 38 days to reach 10,000 deaths and just nine more days to go from 10,000 fatalities to 30,000. An increase in fatalities over the last 48 hours was expected, but was also due to new CDC policy, starting on 04/14, to include probable COVID-19 deaths...finally.
04/14/20 -- 609,000 confirmed cases; 26,600 deaths (+2,364 - *New worst daily death toll)
04/13/20 -- 583,000 confirmed cases; 24,200 deaths
04/12/20 -- 558,000 confirmed cases; 22,100 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic. NOTE: Large number of deaths undiagnosed in homes at 4-5 times normal rate are NOT being included in COVID-19 totals by state health departments. Consequently, the COVID-19 death toll is being kept artificially low in the U.S. With just 4.25% of the world's population, the U.S. has 30% of the COVID-19 infections and 20% of the COVID-19 deaths. So far, the U.S. has the very WORST response of ANY nation, something formerly inconceivable, and inexcusable that it could now be allowed to happen here. In the U.S., we have 1.5 million seniors in 15,000 nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Despite forming only 0.45% of the U.S. population, they make up almost 10% of deaths, primarily because our federal government is not doing enough to protect them. Reported that many hospitals are no longer accepting COVID-19 patients from nursing homes, preferring they die there, instead. Our seniors, who helped build, grow and make America great, are being sacrificed, solely to ignorance.
04/11/20 -- 530,000 confirmed cases; 20,500 deaths.
04/08/20 -- 432,000 confirmed cases; 15,900 deaths.
04/07/20 -- 400,000 confirmed cases; 13,000 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic. Figures indicate a Covid-19 fatality rate for TESTED Americans at 3.25%.
04/06/20 -- 369,000 confirmed cases; 11,000 deaths.
04/02/20 -- 246,000 confirmed cases; 6,050 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
04/01/20 -- 217,000 confirmed cases; 5,150 deaths.
03/31/20 -- 190,000 confirmed cases; 4,200 deaths.
03/29/20 -- 143,000 confirmed cases; 2,450 deaths. Still no adequate testing.
(Update 5: Friday, 03/27/20, confirmed U.S. cases 105,000--which is 50% over NIH high-end estimate; deaths 1,700 by end of day. The perspective for cases is significantly skewed low and thus highly misleading, however, as just 0.17% of U.S. population has been tested to date.)
"As many as 70,000 Americans could be confirmed as infected with coronavirus by the end of next week, marking a “pretty dramatic” increase in the number of confirmed cases," the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, told his employees in an agency-wide conference call on 03/20/20.
Except 03/21/20 saw a 33% jump in U.S. cases, from 18,000 to over 24,000. If continuing at 33% every 24 hours, the number of confirmed cases is trending much higher than just 70,000 by 03/27/20. Suspect confirmed cases will be double that. Bear in mind, states hardest hit are not testing many people, saving the tests for those most in need. So the actual number of infected Americans is going to be far higher than just what limited testing of the population has so far confirmed. Don't think this fact is being given enough attention. More important than the number of cases confirmed is the number contracting the disease and not getting tested, spreading the disease, in many cases unknowingly. Hospital projections are for about 100 MILLION Americans to become infected, with about 500,000 dead from covid-19.
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Toxic Trump: "I'm the BEST, just absolutely CRUSHING the competition, with over THREE MILLION coronavirus cases and over 132 -- one-hundred and thirty-two!!! -- THOUSAND deaths! Easy as 1-2-3! They ALL got eighty-sixed, 'cause nobody else even comes close! With a QUARTER of the world's cases AND deaths--can you even imagine how truly great, how awesome, that achievement is, with only just FOUR PERCENT of the world's population to work with? Believe it or not, I accomplished in only FIVE WEEKS what it took the Vietnam War a whole TWELVE YEARS to do! Not done with the fun--and not to be outdone--I then doubled down on the death toll from Vietnam in just FOUR MONTHS! PLUS, we're not even counting ALL the COVID-19 cases and deaths here in the U.S.! And, with only SEVEN PERCENT of the U.S. population already infected, we're just getting started with all the sickness and death; there's PLENTY more to come! Those other weaklings and losers don't stand a chance, because we're going to keep right on winning--as long as I'm in charge! Now, vacation's over; time to get back to work on increasing those numbers, people! Let's keep America great, get rid of all the excess baggage! As wartime President, I am commanding all CIVILIANS to senselessly sacrifice their lives for my arrogance, stupidity, vanity, malevolence, and greed!"
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Funny how quickly and dramatically Dr. Birx changes her tune on public gatherings, now telling everyone to avoid them and get tested, when just a month ago that suck-up bird Birx was singing a different song: Dr. "Babbling" Birx was laying bricks, lying and dissembling! Says she trusts churches and churchgoers to make it safe, not go to church if sick--knowing asymptomatic people don't know they're sick, and can't be detected! Then, there's the fact that many religious people gather at religious shrines and places of worship hoping to be "healed" when sick. Moreover, she knows "Pastor" Tony Spelling in Louisiana was packing his megachurch during the middle of a severe outbreak, busing them in from a 50-mile radius; she knows all about the devastating spread in South Korea from religious services, she knows about the super-spreader event at the church in Oregon defying state lockdown orders. Dr. Birx KNOWS the U.S. lacks the requisite testing capabilities to reopen safely. Dr. Birx KNOWS all the states are reopening in defiance of CDC guidelines. Dr. Birx KNOWS how Toxic Trump has ignorantly politicized a global pandemic, sent conflicting messages to the public. Dr. Birx KNOWS a good proportion of Americans are NOT following basic CDC guidelines; NOT wearing masks, NOT social distancing. And she knows without detailed specific CDC federal guidelines for businesses reopening, we got chaos, sickness, and MORE senseless deaths. Birx needs to have her medical license revoked. She can be the next SmellyAnne Con-Her-Way, that's what she wants.
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Toxic Trump: A clear and present danger to himself and others. U.S. #1 national security threat sits in the Oval.
Republicans: Like to play dumb, demonstrating just how really, REALLY dumb they are. Complicity renders them likewise a clear and present danger to themselves, others, the nation. Decades of programming from right-wing media, demagogues, plutocrats, and politicians created a mindless Republican cult, too hyper-partisan to place national interest over ignorant tribalism. GOP chained themselves to the rabid, ravenous beast consuming them, which they created, nourished, and exploited.
Democrats, Independents, others: WTF?!?
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We got Big Brag Daddy Baghdad Bob broadcasting direct from Washington, D.C. daily, with Toxic Trump and a revolving cast of his sycophantic minions! Happy talk, disinformation, empty promises, idle threats, vicious smears, bogus pandemic models, dog whistles, continuous crackpot conspiracies--they got it all, and more!
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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (VVM, or "the Wall") is dedicated not to the war, but to the 2.7 million U.S. military men and women who served in the war zone, living and dead. It contains nearly 58,300 names of those dead or missing, on two ten-foot high granite wings, each spanning nearly 250 feet. A close uncle's name is etched into the black rock of the Wall.
Propose erecting a similar monument for all those who senselessly lost their lives to COVID-19 due to our Traitor-'n-Thief, Toxic Trump, and all those Republican so-called "leaders" in Congress, SCOTUS, and the GOP, complicit in enabling, aiding, and abetting his malfeasance. In just four MONTHS, the U.S. has ALREADY needlessly lost more than TWICE as many to COVID-19 -- than died in all thirteen YEARS of the Vietnam war.
It would also honor all those front-line ESSENTIAL workers who selflessly put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe and secure; the names of their dead to be given prominence and note upon the structure.
Whether constructed in the form of a wall or something different, its principle intent would be to serve as a constant, enduring reminder to us all and to future generations; as a testament to--and a barrier against--our own American ignorance, arrogance, avarice, cowardice, and malevolence. A sort of visual prophylactic, if you will, built in hope of protecting us against inbred hubris, greed, and stupidity. It's design should be open, with interchangeable elements that challenge--and help teach--people to reason, and to think critically and objectively, while stressing humanity, humility and humbleness.
The VVM Wall is likewise also a monument to American ignorance, hubris, avarice, and malevolence, although erected solely to honor those military personnel. Few may think, or have thought, of it that way; and doubtless many would refuse to think of it as such, but the truth stands out in stark, prominent display for everyone to see...if they just apply a little critical, objective reasoning.
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Toxic Trump: A clear and present danger to himself and others. U.S. #1 national security threat sits in the Oval.
Republicans: Like to play dumb, demonstrating just how really, REALLY dumb they are. Complicity renders them likewise a clear and present danger to themselves, others, the nation. Decades of programming from right-wing media, demagogues, plutocrats, and politicians created a mindless Republican cult, too hyper-partisan to place national interest over ignorant tribalism. GOP chained themselves to the rabid, ravenous beast consuming them, which they created, nourished, and exploited.
Democrats, Independents, others: WTF?!?
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