Trump states that 99% of corona cases "are totally harmless"

[Demovictory9]

US President Donald Trump claimed without evidence on Saturday that 99% of coronavirus cases "are totally harmless" during remarks on the White House South Lawn, in which he sought to downplay the recent surge of Covid-19 cases.

“Now we have tested, almost 40 million people. By so doing, we show cases -- 99% of which are totally harmless -- results that no other country can show because no other country has testing that we have. Not in terms of the numbers, or in terms of the quality,” he said, once again also falsely claiming that rising cases are caused by increased testing.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-05-20-intl/h_2ceb0737c72312d02b410a91b0120825

There have been more than 2.8 million cases of coronavirus in the United States and at least 129,000 people in the United States have died, according to Johns Hopkins University’s latest tally.

Some people who become ill have only mild symptoms, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 35% of cases are asymptomatic, but even people with mild or no symptoms can spread the virus to others.

While the World Health Organization has said the global fatality rate is like less than 1%, the WHO also said about 20% of all people who are diagnosed with Cornoavirus aresick enough to need oxygen or hospital care.

The White House has not returned a message seeking comment.

[beachbumbob]

1. I wish the rest of us could make such shit up and be able to sleep at night like trump does

Unfortunately having a moral/ethical center does not allow us to do so

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Also he is ignorant/stupid about fact that positive percentage is rising. . . . nt

[safeinOhio]

3. I went to the hospital with 103 fever and was

tested 3 times in 24 hrs. All three were negative. So, was I counted as one, or three?

[indigoth]

5. Likely zero

Since all your tests came back negative, you were likely counted as zero.

[progree]

4. Testing is a big part of how modern developed countries got their Covid situation under control

you stupid orange traitor and psychopath.

One can take this list of countries and sort it by the "Tests/1M pop" column to see a fair comparison between countries
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

The U.S. is number 26 on tests/1M pop, though there's some mini-islands and non-countries ahead of it.

A lot of modern developed countries (I exclude the U.S. from that list given its high population density of idiots and its leadership and policies) have lower cumulative total tests per 1M population than the U.S. simply because they had the problem at crisis levels for a much shorter time than the U.S.

E.g. In 1000's of tests per million population (or equivalently tests per thousand population):
US: 111.6, Italy: 92.6, S. Korea: 25.9

S. Korea got control fairly quickly. Italy took longer but its cases and deaths have long been far below the U.S.'s on a per-capita (and total) cases and deaths basis.

So they haven't needed to do as much testing for as long as the U.S. which is at its worst level ever as far as new cases per day -- about 45% above the old April peak the last time I figured it a couple days ago.

Anyway, widespread testing allows us to see where the hotspots are before they get way out of control. Only literal fuckheads think putting their heads in the sand is a good strategy for fixing the problem.

[spanone]

6. trump is 99% full of shit.

[duforsure]

7. And 100% of those that believe this serial liar

Are either really stupid , or just to lazy to fact check his statements for accuracy.