You Can't Gaslight a Pandemic, Donald

[Ohiogal]

You look scared, Donald.

You should be.

A pandemic is problematic for you.

You can’t gaslight a pandemic.

You can’t bully it into compliance.

You can’t lie to it and hope it won’t run a fact check.

You can’t pay for its silence or promise immunity.

You can’t threaten its reelection bid if it breaks ranks.

You can’t fire it when it dissents from your ramblings.

You can’t impugn its character with baseless attacks.

You can’t fool it with talk about God.

You can’t bury it with FoxNews fluff pieces.

You can’t drown it in nationalism.

You can’t dismiss it with cries of fake news.

You can’t pardon it after it completes its assaults.

You can’t give it a demeaning nickname and hope to deflate it.

You can’t rage-Tweet it into exhaustion.

You can’t avoid it by appointing corrupt judges to do your bidding.

The rest at:

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/02/27/you-cant-gaslight-a-pandemic-donald/

[Squinch]

1. You know what though? Filthy Donnie has the freakish good luck of the truly evil.

I wouldn't be surprised if this DID act like SARS and the flu and it did peter out in the warmer weather.

Then he'll spin it that he cured coronavirus. And the assholes will believe him.

[bearsfootball516]

3. That's largely what I'm expecting to happen, because most diseases die out once the weather warms

I don't think it's going to be nearly as bad in the US as the general public is making it out to be.

[wnylib]

11. You have inside info that the CDC lacks?

They are saying when it spreads, not if. I have not heard them say that it will let up in warmer weather. As a new virus, we don't know how it will behave in spring and summer. Although it is a virus, it is not a flu virus, or a cold. MERS is an example of a virus that thrives in warm weather.

[LakeArenal]

35. At the risk of ticking off my friends on DU

As I recall, we were all going to die from
Bird Flu, Mad Cow, Ebola, Swine Flu, and many others.

Every time Governments want to refocus the public they tell us we are going to die and only government can save us.

HIV is our deadly virus and they say pray it away? Pence.

[DinahMoeHum]

18. NOBODY is that lucky forever.

NOBODY.

[FM123]

2. Those are great!

My favorite one:
A pandemic is not an election or a Supreme Court seat or Franklin Graham or Lindsey Graham or the Republican Party—so it cannot be bought.

[dewsgirl]

4. Hell if he isn't going to try, the past 48 hours tells me this is

being handled even worse than I could have imagined.😳

[gab13by13]

20. Exactly, the #1 priority right now should be doing massive testing,

to find out the extent of the problem. Trump doesn't want to test because it will show how much the virus has spread. When people die Trump will just blame it on the regular flu then he can say, see, the flu is much more dangerous.

[dewsgirl]

24. This is exactly what they are doing, by now there has to

be community spread throughout the country.

[captain queeg]

5. Good ones

I agree with some of the other posts too, don’t think it’ll get As bad as some are expecting but Americans seem to have a pretty low threshold so it’s going to effect how the twit is perceived. I’ve read a few opinions that it’ll die out in warmer weather; seems like Iran and a bunch of other Mideast countries are seeing significant spreads. I think those places are pretty warm right now though I’m sure there’s plenty of other societal reasons. Not like I’m rooting for the disease but I’m sure enjoying seeing the Con suffer. Just wish it would spread to his family and circles.

[Collimator]

6. Consider reading " A Chorus of Stones" by Susan Griffin.

She points out that despite all the secrecy surrounding The Manhattan Project during WWII, they couldn't keep the cells of the human bodies of the people on or near the project from reacting to the radiation and becoming cancerous.

"There's nothing to see here, folks. Move along" are statements that have no power against biochemical reality.

[B Stieg]

7. Isn't tRump a germaphobe?

The fuckwit must be freaking out.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. +1. What's ironic is that even those who love the hell

out of this creep know more than he does. I live in a very red place. All facemasks are sold out at the local Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, Lowe's, and Drug Emporium.

[rainin]

9. He can silence any physician or scientist who tells the truth

People can die all around us and if the national media tells the public that the problem is isolated or isn't happening it all, people will think it's only happening to them. The doctors and the scientists will know, but the public will largely be in the dark, dealing with their personal tragedy or tragedies while the news continues to cover the administration doing everything it has always done, lie and lie some more

A veteran commits suicide every hour of every day and we're not hearing about it

Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year

In 2016, an estimated 1,685,210 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States and 595,690 people will die from the disease

About 647,000 Americans die from heart disease each year—that's 1 in every 4 deaths or 74 deaths per hour

People may already be dying from this virus in the US and as long as the test kits are unavailable, the numbers of cases in the US will be artificially low. SEE, NO PROBLEM, KEEP SHOPPING PEOPLE!, KEEP FLYING IN AIRPLANES ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE SPENDING MONEY AT ONE OF MY RESORTS, I'M THE BEST PRESIDENT, BUILD THE WALL

We are constantly underestimating the effectiveness of propaganda

[rainin]

10. A Democrat Hoax

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A Trump supporter just said to me:

"We never even heard of a coronavirus until just now, with the election 10 months away. Clearly it's just another hoax by the Democrats to make Trump's approval rating go down. And it ain't gonna work."

He was dead serious.

10:29 AM - 27 Feb 2020

[wnylib]

13. In a few weeks, he might be seriously dead

with that attitude.

[dewsgirl]

26. Yikes 😳

[Bayard]

31. The husband got a rethuglican poll on his phone this morning

"Do you think the Democrats created the Corona virus to defeat trump?"

Along with,
"Who is the best president ever, Obama or trump?"

[usaf-vet]

12. Is this God's answer to ridding the country of the maniac in the White House? An invisible threat.

A threat that he doesn't know how to lie, sue, bully or ignore into submission.

A threat that can dismantle every protection he has put in place to secure his position.
No AG, court system, gag rules or bribery can change its course.

Will Trump be beaten by a virus? A virus that will so weaken his presidency that even his base will see the Emporer has no clothes.

I decided to invoke the God question before the evangelical claim it is God's way to help Trump hold his power.

[wnylib]

14. If the virus doesn't do it, the market might.

[usaf-vet]

17. Agreed!

[wnylib]

19. I have been watching my pension tank -- again.

Looks to me like a depression, not a recession, is lurking around the corner. World wide.

[usaf-vet]

22. Yup 2008 was our daily watch of our pension tanking.

It hurt but we are surviving in retirement. Hang in there.

[wnylib]

23. I can hang in there IF I do not think

about where it would be without Bush II and the present fascist.

[TommyCelt]

15. "Someday it will disappear...

...like a miracle. No one knows."

THAT'S his plan.

We are so fucked.

[NewJeffCT]

25. The flu has been around for a while now

SARS came back the next few years in China as well.

[NCjack]

16. One bigly thing Dummy-#45 can do -- contract covid-19

[wnylib]

28. I am surprised that he goes out in

crowds as he shadows the Dem primaries. I'm sure he takes precautions because he's a germanophobe, but a hard sneeze from a carrier, or touching an infected surface, is a risk.

If he did get it, I wonder how long that would be kept a secret.

[WyattKansas]

21. Wouldn't now be a good time for the Trump to do a world wide tour?

You know, calm market fears around the globe by Trump's presence of going to infected areas to let the world know that there is nothing to fear?

Does anyone else think that would be a bold display of power to show the world that only Trump can stabilize it?
If so, by all means send requests for it to the White House website.

[wnylib]

30. As the Chosen One, he should be immune

and well protected by the prayers of his evangelical followers.

So, by all means, a world tour is in order. Calm the fears, heal the sick, save the markets. Maybe we should spread the word to the evangelicals that this is the calling of the Chosen One, to visit the sick wards in China, Italy, Japan, etc. and save the world.

[WyattKansas]

32. The Chosen One... YES!!! Nothing can stop him.

His popularity would soar to new bigly heights and the whole world would treat him as God.

[wnylib]

37. Until he contracts covid 19 and succumbs

to it. (Don't be a spoiler and tip off the fundies on the ending.)

They would wish to make him a martyred saint, but the rest of the world would recognize that his real contribution to humankind was his self-destruction and a lesson on narcissistic hubris.

[Celerity]

27. Fox is gaslighting the hell out of it as speak. nt

[ffr]

29. Donald looks like he's been trying. He looks awful, worn out, tired, on his heels, etc.

[DanieRains]

33. The Drugs Wear Off After Time

He can't be lit all the time. And live.

[gab13by13]

34. I'm just an internet doctor but,

it's obvious that Donald's body is full of cortisol, the fight or flight creator. I think that's why he takes Adderall because it helps increase serotonin, the opposite of cortisol. That's why Trump is so listless at times.

[defacto7]

36. Donny, maybe this analogy helps....

Think of the virus as God, sometimes merciful, sometimes vengeful. You can respect and appease the god but you will never overcome it. You will kowtow just like the rest of us.