MALICIOUS. INTENTIONAL. Trump blocks national testing program -- why? Because tests make us "look bad

[CousinIT]

https://www.salon.com/2020/05/08/trump-blocks-national-testing-program--why-because-tests-make-us-look-bad/

The single most disastrous element of the failed federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic is Donald Trump's continued refusal to launch a massive federal effort to develop the capacity to test more Americans for the virus.

Without magnitudes more testing, public health experts agree, reopening the country amounts to a death sentence for countless Americans, particularly the less affluent. And only the federal government is capable of doing what's required.

On Wednesday, Trump explained himself with an extraordinarily revealing quote — one that included both a lie and a confession.

"In a way, by doing all this testing we make ourselves look bad," Trump told reporters on Wednesday,

It was a lie because the number of tests administered in the U.S. — currently about 7 million — is tiny compared to the actual need.

It was a confession because Trump was acknowledging what many of us have perceived all along: He sees testing as a matter of his own political health rather than an urgent question of public health.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. There are just those in this country who will not get it...

until the ambulances are trolling the streets and calling for people to bring out their dead on a PA.

[sheshe2]

2. Fact.

After 3 west wing aides to trump, pense, ivanka have tested positive, they did a major lock down. All west wingers and family will be tested daily. All of them. trumpie is scared.

The American people....we get nothing.

[hedda_foil]

3. Who's the third? Miller's wife, the valet and ....?

[sheshe2]

4. it was said a personal aide to ivanka.

that is all I know.

[hedda_foil]

11. Thanks.sheshe!

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. I can at least enjoy the idea of trump and pence getting tested every day.

Having a long swab tickle their brain, daily. What a price to pay, eh Pencie?

Of course, this would indicate that they have rapid testing available, while the rest of us die because of zero medical help.

[Blue Owl]

5. Hey Fuckstick von Bodybags, you know what makes us look bad?

Your shitty lack of anything resembling sane leadership.

[Progressive Jones]

6. "We" already look bad because Trashdump hasn't been removed from office. nt

[Yavin4]

7. And I'm having debates with people who think that Trump and Biden are the same.

I may have to leave this country.

[Cha]

8. It makes you, Idiotrump, Look like what you are..

A Stupid Malicious Homicidal Maniac.. damn you to All Hell.

[niyad]

9. KNR

[struggle4progress]

10. "One for me! None for you! One for me! None for you! One for me! None for you! One for me! ..." n/t

[Beartracks]

12. "You think I look incompetent NOW? Tests would only show how much worse I've REALLY made things!"

[budkin]

14. You stop testing, you stop the totals

And it looks like everything is going back to normal. MAGA.