President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

I suspect the actual wording was a little different. But whatever.

 

The only N95s I've seen are the ones one of our photographers left for us at the office six months ago. Never see 'em in the mask bins at stores, and never see anyone else wearing them. The people masking in my stores by and large are not wearing hospital-grade stuff and never have been.

And there's this . . . if people are hoarding masks and masking up, perhaps the hospitals would have had fewer patients, and the medical personnel wouldn't be in such dire straits. What a concept. Instead, it's "leave the people unprotected, so when they get sick the hospital workers caring for them will be protected." Assbackwards, IMO.

 

An expert makes recommendations based on the fact in front of them at the time. Trump amplifies something a filtration supply company CEO told him in the men’s locker room at Mar-a-Lago which fits with his worldview that this virus wasn’t a big deal.

 

but what did epidemiologists like the My Pillow guy recommend?

 

Dan Patrick says “there are more important things than living and that’s saving this country”

"There are more important things than living. And that’s saving this country for my children and my grandchildren and saving this country for all of us."

As Cliff Huxtable once said: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life."

 

So, given he wants to save the country for his grandkids, I guess that means we can count on his support for all climate change initiatives. Right? .............. Right?

hello?

 

The experts provide the information so we can quit saying “we don’t know enough.”

You know this. But playing board contrarian requires you to dismiss people who’ve devoted their entire lives to studying epidemics because they tried to help in the early days of a new disease and weren’t 100-percent correct.

 

Those who say masks protect others more than the wearer seem ignore the fact that, for decades, surgeons and other operating room personnel have been wearing masks to keep from getting chirrhosis of the liver, tonsillitis or a hernia.

 

"Expertise" doesn't mean "never draws the wrong conclusions when faced with new circumstances."

 

Interesting discussion re: deference due to expertise. Such was in abundance a few weeks ago when the CDC immunization advisory committee drew on its substantial epidemiology and public health expertise ... and built its recommendations around the addressing of racial and economic inequity. Woulda meant, possibly, 6% more deaths, but hey, they're experts!