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mucifer

(23,550 posts)
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 12:30 PM Sep 2020

The Pandemic Is Getting Harder to Track Due to White House Meddling:


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The pandemic is getting harder to track: The US conducts 100,000 fewer virus tests each day now than it did in July.

That’s due to White House meddling and the arrival of new types of test,
@alexismadrigal
and I report:


The article in the Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/how-many-people-america-testing-coronavirus/616249/
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The Pandemic Is Getting Harder to Track Due to White House Meddling: (Original Post) mucifer Sep 2020 OP
In other words, they're not just lying with words, they're lying with figures. femmedem Sep 2020 #1
Didn't this administration also recently say that new tests put out by companies CrispyQ Sep 2020 #2
Testing doesn't cause or spread the virus. Report results are even safer. AnnaLee Sep 2020 #3
On purpose. ...nt 2naSalit Sep 2020 #4

femmedem

(8,203 posts)
1. In other words, they're not just lying with words, they're lying with figures.
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 12:36 PM
Sep 2020

Better to die than to panic, I guess.

Seriously, though, I hope our best commentators connect the dots and show how Trump is using every trick possible to hide the truth in order to boost he reelection chances, regardless of how many lives it costs.

K&R.

CrispyQ

(36,478 posts)
2. Didn't this administration also recently say that new tests put out by companies
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 12:40 PM
Sep 2020

don't have to be approved by the FDA? So people will be getting tested with kits that may not even work.

TRUMP = FUBAR

AnnaLee

(1,041 posts)
3. Testing doesn't cause or spread the virus. Report results are even safer.
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 12:43 PM
Sep 2020

So why does anyone buy such poo?

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