Trump: "Going to work cures the corona-flu." (Not The Onion.)

[DetlefK]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-claims-corona-flu-patients-get-better-by-going-to-work-and-falsely-says-death-rate-is-less-than-1/

“Well, I think the 3.4% is really a false number,” the President told the conservative cable network’s Sean Hannity. “Now, this is just my hunch, and, but based on a lot of conversation with a lot of people who do this, because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor. You never hear about those people, so you can’t put them down in the category of the overall population in terms of this corona flu, and, or virus, so you just can’t do that,” Trump said, clearly trying to minimize the danger and the numbers of people infected.

“So we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that just get better, by, you know, sitting around and even going to work – some of ’em go to work – but they get better,” Trump claimed, which is dangerous, given how highly-contagious COVID-19 is.

[underpants]

1. Trump and Hannity in a conversation has the intellectual stimulus of

smashing two fistfuls of mashed potatoes together

[The Genealogist]

36. How dare you insult innocent and tasty mashed potatoes like that!

[smb]

37. I Hear That Trump Actually Smashes His Mashed Potatoes Together...

...to see if somebody hid any icky vegetables in them.

[Aviation Pro]

39. I just formed an image in my head

Of the corpulent shitbag smashing mashed potatoes.

Pass the brain bleach please.

[madaboutharry]

2. The ignorance is so exhausting.

[BKDem]

13. Always exhausting. Sometimes dangerous.

They need to throw a net over this guy before he "thinks" again.

[Silver1]

47. So true.

It's mind numbing.

[Golden Raisin]

50. As is its total absorption as gospel and fact by Fox viewers.

[Roland99]

3. The Five on Faux say you just need the power of positive thinking

So, all Asian people in Manhattan came from #Wuhan and are infected with #coronavirus ?

Chinese food in Manhattan was prepared in and shipped from Wuhan?

People in rural areas have nothing to fear?

This level of willful ignorance is dangerous

https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-host-says-america-should-use-power-positive-thinking-beat-coronavirus

[Mike 03]

4. He's desperate to keep the economy functioning.

Still only thinking of himself, "jobs numbers," the GDP, consumer confidence and the General Election.

[CanonRay]

53. Yes, that's an undertone in everything he says about the virus

Just keep shopping!

[captain queeg]

5. It would be funny if it didn't lead to some serious consequences

“I think the 3.4% is really a false number...” That pretty much captures his “thought” process. Ignore facts and make up your own to suit you. Maybe the 3.4 will be adjusted with further knowledge but it’s not a false number. I don’t know if it’s a personality disorder or mental illness but I’ve certainly never seen anyone like him in my life. I have a brother who I think fits the narcissist profile in many ways; it’s all about him and ridiculous inflated opinion of himself but he doesn’t deny facts, at least to this extent.

[ronatchig]

14. Instead of fact denial

Rump is creating his own reality. This is the crux of his mental illness. He creates alternate realities, then sells the hell of them. I am talking 3 for a dollar discount. It is marketing on crack. I don't think I've seen it to the extreme of Rump, maybe Hitler or Jim Jones. It is megalomania and narcissism all mashed together.

[world wide wally]

45. Trump is not a businessman, he is a salesman

[pwb]

6. What would trump know about WORK?

His family has sweaty soft never had a callous hands.

[oldsoftie]

16. His dad told him what it was like.

[ramen]

7. Wow. That there is how you pandemic.

What a moron.

[UpInArms]

8. Well ...

I guess they just sent out their cult followers to either commit murder by transmission or die

[CaptYossarian]

9. If doing work is the cure, Trump's doomed.

[Johnny2X2X]

10. There no evidence of people getting it and not getting very sick

This is just an assumption. There is no data backing it up that thousands of people have it and it’s just not very severe.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. Those are extremely dangerous statements out of a so-called world leader.

Essentially dog-whistle for "don't even call a doctor and go on about your business as usual."

Maybe even CJ John Roberts will condemn him for this one......

[gab13by13]

12. It's why Trump doesn't want people tested.

He doesn't want people to know how big the problem is, how many people are infected. Trump wants to ignore coronavirus and when people die he can blame it on the regular flu.

[LiberalBrooke]

34. Yes if you don't test them

you can pretend that something else got them sick.

[bdamomma]

61. I heard

that same thing, he doesn't want to know how many people are infected. Hope he gets it.

[Duppers]

15. There aren't enough expletives for this man.

Such ignorance causes more deaths.

This is unbelievable.

[djacq]

17. Wait. What?... Ren and Stimpy was on?

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[IronLionZion]

18. Especially important for workers who make fast food for the white house

and the staff at Mar-A-Lago

[tanyev]

19. OK, White House employees, no reason for you to stay home.

[PaulRevere08]

20. Yep. Sending sick people out to work in a office or factory

Is exactly the thing to do to avoid spreading a highly contagious virus. . What a damn moron.

I'm thinking that maybe he is in fact the anti-christ.

[gordianot]

21. Please remember Republicans Trump rallies are safe.

Attend often be friendly.

[Scarsdale]

22. Someone had better alert

Matt "Boozehound" Goetz that he does not need his gas mask at "work".

[Major Nikon]

23. Sometimes stupid is dangerous

This is that kind of stupid. Since Trump is an anti-vaxxer this isn’t unsurprising.

[turbinetree]

24. Two con men meet on tv show, and one has a fucking "hunch"

you know I talk to my self and I just came up with 3.4% pretty good huh, they don't have to do anything......................because you know like I know that I am the best just like you being the best....................................see we can both play doctor......................................that's about what these two traitors conversation was about.....................


8 more months of this shit............................

[wnylib]

26. THIS is the crisis that everyone

warned about and feared. We said that government would continue to function, even weakly, in spite of Trump's .incompetence and alternate reality view because of long-standing institutions and experienced civil servants.

But some day a real crisis will occur that he cannot BS his way out of, although he will try.

THAT DAY IS HERE.

[Arkansas Granny]

27. Unbelievable.I can understand trying to calm people's fears, but lying is dangerous.

Don't call a doctor, go to work if you feel like it. So what if you spread the disease. hundreds of thousands of people will just get better.



He is criminally insane.

[wnylib]

52. I just heard this morning that Trump is

saying that travel is very safe and there is no need to restrict it. Wonder how much he got in donations from airlines.

Pence is going to Washington today, where the outbreak is worst. He will totouan emergency treatment facility. Looks like Trump wants a new running mate this yesr.

[lark]

28. Seriously, he's actively trying to kill us. He wants a huge pandemic so he can cancel the election.

That's why he appointed Pence, to fire him for failing to stop it, even though drumpf is actively encouraging the spread by telling people it's ok to go to work when they're sick. Then he can bring on Nikki Haley or Tulsi Gabbard and have his own "woman'.

[Johnny2X2X]

29. Corona flu?

Notice how he throws that in. This isn't a flu, they're trying to downplay it by calling it the flu.

[johnthewoodworker]

30. I'm waiting to hear what the mega scientist Mike Pence has to say.

[mwb970]

31. America needs and deserves a real president, not this.

[MFM008]

32. They need to

Super glue a mask over his mouth.
He is going out of his way to make this whole thing seem like it's just nonexistent.
Like his morals.

[Botany]

33. Trump, "a lot of conversations & a lot of people who do this"

Good God in Butter is he stupid. And talking to Sean Hannity is not talking to a lot of people and
or experts aka "a lot of people who do this."

Even if you buy Trump's half baked science that "a lot" of people have a milder form of Covid-19
and they go to work and stay active that would mean those people with a milder symptoms
are actively spreading the disease to all other people.

[JohnnyRingo]

35. "...just my hunch" ?

I wasn't too worried before, but now I fear we'll all die.

[Botany]

42. Al Einstein Emc2 just my hunch

[yaesu]

38. I thought going shopping cures it

oh, wait, that was 911

[Paladin]

40. Thanks so much, Dr. Trump.

Your classmates from Johns Hopkins agree with you, 1000%.

[skip fox]

41. CNN has stopped playing the "go to work sick" portion of the interview.

And it seems Fox has even done the same.

Both realized that these MagaHeads, hearing that, will insist on going to work sick to show loyalty and hatred of Democrats who tell them to stay at home.

This will explode the number of cases.

[C_U_L8R]

43. Please, can we impeach him again

Republicans, are you really okay with dying???

[Ferrets are Cool]

44. This biggest danger in the world

is names tRump.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

46. Magical thinking.

“Well, I think the 3.4% is really a false number,” the President told the conservative cable network’s Sean Hannity. “Now, this is just my hunch, and, but based on a lot of conversation (sic) with a lot of people who do this..."

Just once I want some reporter ask, "You say 'a lot of people' tell you this. Would you name just one of these people?"

[world wide wally]

48. I hope his next project is a cure for stupid

[cbdo2007]

49. The CDC needs to come out and directly refute this and tell people with COVID-19 to not go to work.

[Arkansas Granny]

55. And they need to do that immediately. Of course, the person who makes the announcement will

likely be fired.

[blugbox]

56. Ahh, but that would first have to be approved my the new Mrs. Miller...

[uponit7771]

60. +1

[oasis]

51. Trump's slick propaganda. He'll only spew his craziest shit to the Fox crowd. nt

[DesertRat]

54. It's incredibly irresponsible and dangerous

for him to make comments that directly contradict public health advice. He's going to cause people to die.

[Mendocino]

57. In other news

Geritol cures tired blood.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

58. What an ass

And I'm not talking about his humongous rear.

[struggle4progress]

59. Putin says: "Sick Americans! Go cough and sneeze on everyone you meet!"