The 'Trump Death Clock' Shows the Toll of Coronavirus Inaction. It May Be Coming to a City Near You

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The Trump Death Clock tallies American COVID-19 deaths that could have been prevented had Trump implemented mitigation just one week earlier. Its maker explains why he did it.

Marlow Stern

Senior Entertainment Editor
Updated May. 13, 2020 4:46PM ET / Published May. 13, 2020 4:44AM ET

In the early hours Friday, those braving tourist-free Times Square were treated to an arresting sight: a white billboard projecting the words ‘Trump Death Clock’ in big black letters; underneath, a counter in red reading ‘44,809.’ These are the deaths that, according to two of the world’s leading epidemiologists, could have been avoided had the Trump administration acted just one week prior to March 16, when nationwide mitigation measures were first introduced to the public.

“I looked at those numbers and thought, just as the National Debt Clock warns us of the costs of reckless borrowing, we need a National Death Clock—in this case, a Trump Death Clock—to estimate and calculate the costs of reckless pandemic leadership by the president and his team,” says filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, the creator of the clock.

According to Dr. Britta Jewell and Dr. Nicholas Jewell, “an estimated 90 percent of the cumulative deaths in the United States” from the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic could have been prevented had social-distancing guidelines been put in place on March 2, when the total U.S. death tally was 11, and “the effect would have been substantial had the policies been imposed even one week earlier, on March 9, resulting in approximately a 60 percent reduction in deaths.”

So Jarecki—with the financial backing of a coterie of pals—launched a website, https://TrumpDeathClock.com/, displaying the tally of preventable COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., and then had it projected onto a billboard in Times Square. While the total estimated American deaths from the novel coronavirus currently stands at 82,885 at time of writing, the Trump Death Clock now reads 49,731. (OP: as of 19:15 EST, the death toll is now 50,507 and increasing rapidly)

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coronavirus-trump-death-clock-in-times-square-may-be-coming-to-a-city-near-you

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. Trump loves death. It makes him happy. It's more pleasurable than a hamburger,

even if he gets a ketchup smear on his shirt.

If he knows he can get re-elected by killing 500k, he'd be on the phone with Barr and Kush to figure out how to make it happen.

[BigmanPigman]

2. It didn't help that we were told NOT TO WEAR masks for over a month.

Were the Feds stockpiling them to sell to other countries for tRump's personal profit?