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Wednesday, April 07, 2021
Eight new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Jasper County
The Jasper County Health Department confirmed eight COVID-19 cases and has 22 active cases. To date, the county has recorded 9,195 cases.
* "The flu, in our country, kills from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year," he said on February 9, suggesting that it dwarfed the 15 cases of COVID-19 that had been reported in the U.S. at the time. By March 31, though, his tone was different. He talked about a friend who had slipped into a coma because of the disease. "This is not the flu. It is vicious," he told reporters in the White House Briefing Room.
In February, when the federal government had confirmed just 15 cases of the virus, Mr. Trump predicted the number would soon be near "zero." Now, the White House is preparing the nation for the sobering possibility of 100,000 deaths, or maybe more."
Several times during the Trump administration, a whistleblower has accused the president of wrongdoing. This time, in effect, the whistleblower is the president himself. Recordings show he said one thing on TV and another off camera. He made misleading claims about the pandemic, a life-or-death matter affecting almost every American.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
The journalist Bob Woodward documented this. He interviewed the president for a new book called "Rage." With the president's permission, he recorded the interviews now published by The Washington Post. In them, the president said how serious the pandemic was, although he later told the public something else. It is best to listen to his statements in the order they happened. On February 7, the president told Woodward what he'd heard from China's president about the virus.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It goes through air, Bob. That's always tougher than the touch. You know, the touch - you don't have to touch things, right? But the air, you just breathe the air. That's how it's passed. And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than your - you know, your - even your strenuous flus.
INSKEEP: The president repeats, it's many times more deadly than the flu. That was early February, after he'd been briefed on the most serious threat of his presidency, but the public was not fully focused on what was coming. Later in February, anxiety spread. The stock market started to slide. And on February 26, at a public news briefing, the president waved off the threat.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
TRUMP: And, again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done.
INSKEEP: The next day, February 27, the president dismissed the threat again.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
TRUMP: It's going to disappear one day. It's like a miracle. It will disappear.
INSKEEP: Instead, in early March, cases spread across the nation. By March 10, pro sports, universities and schools were about to shut down. At this point, the president had known for more than a month that the coronavirus was far worse than the flu, yet he said this.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
TRUMP: Now I guess we're at 26 deaths. And if you look at the flu, the flu for this year, we're at eight - we're looking at 8,000 deaths. And, you know, hundreds of thousands of cases - we have 8,000 deaths. So you have 8,000 versus 26 deaths at this time.
INSKEEP: Now, there's an old phrase - giving the lie to someone. When you give the lie to someone, you prove them wrong, and it is on the matter of comparing coronavirus to the flu that the president most clearly gives the lie to himself. Again, this was the recorded interview where he had previously told the truth.
Republican keep lying* and Americans keep dying!
ReplyDeleteThere are receipts!
* "The flu, in our country, kills from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year," he said on February 9, suggesting that it dwarfed the 15 cases of COVID-19 that had been reported in the U.S. at the time. By March 31, though, his tone was different. He talked about a friend who had slipped into a coma because of the disease. "This is not the flu. It is vicious," he told reporters in the White House Briefing Room.
In February, when the federal government had confirmed just 15 cases of the virus, Mr. Trump predicted the number would soon be near "zero." Now, the White House is preparing the nation for the sobering possibility of 100,000 deaths, or maybe more."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/timeline-president-donald-trump-changing-statements-on-coronavirus/
What's in it for you to be a covid truth denier?
ReplyDeleteTrump lied.
Deplorables refused to wear masks because Trump and Republicans lied about the virus and how to help minimize the transmission. Because freedum.
That's one reason so many Americans died.
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/911368698/trump-tells-woodward-he-deliberately-downplayed-coronavirus-threat
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Several times during the Trump administration, a whistleblower has accused the president of wrongdoing. This time, in effect, the whistleblower is the president himself. Recordings show he said one thing on TV and another off camera. He made misleading claims about the pandemic, a life-or-death matter affecting almost every American.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
The journalist Bob Woodward documented this. He interviewed the president for a new book called "Rage." With the president's permission, he recorded the interviews now published by The Washington Post. In them, the president said how serious the pandemic was, although he later told the public something else. It is best to listen to his statements in the order they happened. On February 7, the president told Woodward what he'd heard from China's president about the virus.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It goes through air, Bob. That's always tougher than the touch. You know, the touch - you don't have to touch things, right? But the air, you just breathe the air. That's how it's passed. And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than your - you know, your - even your strenuous flus.
INSKEEP: The president repeats, it's many times more deadly than the flu. That was early February, after he'd been briefed on the most serious threat of his presidency, but the public was not fully focused on what was coming. Later in February, anxiety spread. The stock market started to slide. And on February 26, at a public news briefing, the president waved off the threat.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
TRUMP: And, again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done.
INSKEEP: The next day, February 27, the president dismissed the threat again.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
TRUMP: It's going to disappear one day. It's like a miracle. It will disappear.
INSKEEP: Instead, in early March, cases spread across the nation. By March 10, pro sports, universities and schools were about to shut down. At this point, the president had known for more than a month that the coronavirus was far worse than the flu, yet he said this.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
TRUMP: Now I guess we're at 26 deaths. And if you look at the flu, the flu for this year, we're at eight - we're looking at 8,000 deaths. And, you know, hundreds of thousands of cases - we have 8,000 deaths. So you have 8,000 versus 26 deaths at this time.
INSKEEP: Now, there's an old phrase - giving the lie to someone. When you give the lie to someone, you prove them wrong, and it is on the matter of comparing coronavirus to the flu that the president most clearly gives the lie to himself. Again, this was the recorded interview where he had previously told the truth.