In coronavirus, the 'stable genius' confronts a 'brilliant enemy'

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President Trump is, by his own account, the world’s greatest dealmaker, a political genius, a natural on television and an expert on, well, everything.

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On Friday, during the question-and-insult part of the White House coronavirus task force briefing, he gave the nation a lesson in microbiology. His topic was how smart germs are:

“This is a very brilliant enemy. You know, it’s a brilliant enemy. They develop drugs like the antibiotics. You see it. Antibiotics used to solve every problem. Now one of the biggest problems the world has is the germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic can’t keep up with it. And they’re constantly trying to come up with a new — people go to a hospital and they catch — they go for a heart operation — that’s no problem, but they end up dying from — from problems. You know the problems I’m talking about. There’s a whole genius to it.”

Trump frequently has displayed difficulty with the concept of impersonal social, economic and natural forces; his default mode is to anthropomorphize every obstacle into a “vicious enemy” or, more recently in reference to the coronavirus, a “monster.” This manner of speaking raises questions about how well he understands medical science, even if, as he frequently reminds the nation, his uncle was a professor at MIT. COVID-19 is caused by a virus, a blob of RNA that by some definitions is not even alive; antibiotics as a rule are effective against bacteria, living cells that have nothing in common with viruses. (Trump has touted an antibiotic, azithromycin, as a treatment for COVID-19 in combination with his favorite drug, hydroxychloroquine, but the evidence for it is slight.)

https://news.yahoo.com/in-coronavirus-the-stable-genius-confronts-a-brilliant-enemy-180559996.html

[captain queeg]

1. Well heah, compared to trump an amoeba is a genius.

[House of Roberts]

2. In the pic, they drew the Trump hair on the wrong end of the horse.

[Nay]

3. The dipshit confronts a fragment of RNA.