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July 19, 2020 - Deaths from Covid-19 surpass 140,000 since March. In an interview over the weekend with Chris Wallace of Fox News, Covid Donnie claimed ... ...But when you talk about mortality rates, I think it's the opposite. I think we have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world. ... Look, I take responsibility always for everything because it's ultimately my job, too. I have to get everybody in line. Some governors have done well, some governors have done poorly. They're supposed to have supplies they didn't have. I supplied everybody. ... Many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day. They have the sniffles and we put it down as a test. Many of them -- don't forget, I guess it's like 99.7 percent, people are going to get better and in many cases they're going to get better very quickly. ... No country has ever done what we've done in terms of testing. We are the envy of the world. They call and they say the most incredible job anybody's done is our job on testing, because we're going to very shortly be up to 50 million tests. ...It's going to disappear and I'll be right. FOX News Sunday interview transcript

Deaths from Covid-19 April 27, 2020 - 56,502 June 1, 2020 - 98,536 June 25, 2020 - 121,809 July 12, 2020 - 135,140 July 18, 2020 - 139,748 Projected Deaths by November 1, 2020 - 224546 Johns Hopkins Data Charts Projections for Covid 19

New York got hit first, and lots of mistakes were made because of ignorance. One of the things that Cuomo did right was mandate that all New Yorkers where a mask when outside their homes before any other governor did. Unlike dumbasses like Trump and his sychophant DeSantis, Cuomo didn't declare victory in May and ignore the CDC's benchmarks for a safe reopening. Consequently, as of July 17, New York's 7 day average positivity rate is 1.2% from an average of 3.3 tests per 1,000 population while Florida's 7 day average positivity rate is 18.1% from an average of 3.0 tests per 1,000 population. Johns Hopkins Testing Overview

Don't have to be "hypothetical" ... just look at the governors of New York (Cuomo) and Maryland (Hogan).

News flash: opinions posted on Twitter are exactly that, opinions, and as we all know, like buttholes, everyone has one. PS - Chuck Woolery apologized for his rant about "everybody is lying" above the coronavirus on July 13 and then deleted his Twitter account after his son tested positive for Covid-19.

July 16, 2020: the US set a new record of 75,469 new Covid-19 cases. According to his WH sycophants, Covid Donnie will address the pandemic next week. He's apparently too busy this week trying to discredit Dr Anthony Fauci and hide Covid-19 statistics by funneling them through HHS rather than through CDC which has been responsible for gathering and publishing disease statistics for about 20 years.

So, people aren't really dying in record numbers from Covid-19? Florida hospitals aren't really converting regular beds into ICU beds to deal with the pandemic? There aren't really counties in Texas and Arizona readying refrigerated trucks to serve as auxiliary morgues? If the Covid-19 pandemic was a war, the 137,000+ Americans who have died between March 1 and July15, 2020 would be more than the number of American military personnel who died in any US war except for the Civil War and World War II ... including the Revolution, WW I, and Vietnam. In fact, the 137,000 deaths from Covid-19 is more than 10% of the total number of American military deaths in all wars since 1776. US Military Casualties

That's the site that I got it from. It changes daily as the situations in the states change.

That number is one of several numbers from studies trying to determine how deadly an infection is. It varies depending by location and by the demographics of the population studied. The Infection Fatality Rate is NOT the same as the Case Fatality Rate, which is the number of confirmed deaths from a disease divided by the number of confirmed cases of that disease. Infection Fatality Rate

Testing Positivity by States Today's stats: 18 states Including the District of Columbia had positivity rates of less than 5% while 33 states had positvity rates higher, including Arizona (24.70%), Florida (18.71%), South Carolina (18.06), and Texas (17.08%). July 15, 2020 : more than 137,000 Americans have died of Covid-19 while Covid Donnie visited Atlanta today without wearing a mask and without talking about Covid-19;

July 14, 2020: 3,407,798 cases 136,252 deaths States with positivity rates above 25% (1): Arizona 26.46 States with positivity rates above 15% (7): Mississippi 18.88 Florida 18.73 South Carolina 17.53 Texas 16.94 Alabama 16.54 Georgia 15.77 Idaho 15.33 States with positivity rates above 5%: (25) States with positivity rates below 5%: 19 (includes District of Columbia)

"Cases" have always been confirmed cases. It's a hard number, not a combination of confirmed cases plus a reasonable guess at how many infected people there are. That's the Disease Infection Rate I believe. Moreover, define what you mean by "reasonably healthy".

The Seminoles were in Florida.

July 12, 2020 -- While Florida set a record of 15,299 new Covid-19 cases in a single day and 35 states saw increases in Covid-19 cases, the White House has started a campaign to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci. Update: Trump just tweeted that the CDC was lying.

Really??? The number of total deaths from Covid-19 divided by the number of total Covid-19 cases, which works out to about 4%.

Bull manure. The POTUS is the head of the Executive branch of the US government so he's the ultimate boss of all federal employees except for those who are employees of Congress or the federal court system, almost 90% of all federal employees. US Office of Personnel Management July 12, 2020: Total US coronavirus cases is 3,292,934 with total deaths of 135,140 for a death rate of 4.1%.

Still whining about Covid Donnie being "powerless" I see. If Trump can fire federal employees, he can mandate they all wear face masks and social distance at work. If Trump can pressure states to open businesses and schools despite rising infection rates, he can pressure states to mandate wearing masks and social distancing.

By long standing US federal law, the child of a US citizen is a US citizen even if born outside the US unless he or she chooses otherwise by renouncing his or her citizenship. Since Obama's mother was an American citizen, he is an American citizen by birth regardless of his father's citizenship or where he was born, just as the late John McCain, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone. A birth certificate is NOT a prerequisite to becoming POTUS, citizenship is, and no other major party presidential candidate except Obama has ever been even asked to show anybody his/her birth certificate. None of the POTUS born before 1900 had one, since the recording of births -- and deaths -- by local governmental jurisdictions only began after the Civil War. Before that, that information might be kept in church baptismal records if the family's church was a denomination that believed in infant baptism but those records could be easily lost in fires, floods or simply the closing of a church. It's why the practice of recording births and deaths in family Bibles developed in the US.

Right-o ... and Hitler wasn't an anti-Semite.

Awwwww .... poor Covid-19 Donnie!!! He is SOOOOO constrained by his respect for the Constitution that he can't even wear a mask in public to provide a show of support for public health officials but he can threaten to "pressure" states to open schools without regard to soaring rates of infection!

July 10, 2020 - US sees record day of new Covid-19 cases with 66,627. Trump says "US getting back on track". July 11, 2020 - California announced that its prisons will release more than 8,000 prisoners to allow more room for social distancing.

Then let him say that not make a snide remark that simply reenforces the typical lies that xenophobes repeat about current immigrants. Illegal immigrants do not qualify for government aid, including welfare. They may receive assistance from private sources, which also helped down-and-out immigrants in the supposed "good old days". Legal immigrants are either supposed to have already have jobs waiting for them or have sponsorship by another individual (usually a spouse or other family) or a private group who guarantees to keep that immigrant from landing on welfare for several years after arrival. Even immigrants who are granted political asylum seldom are given welfare. FTR, many Spanish speaking individuals who receive welfare are US citizens, primarily from Puerto Rico.

That's unusual for them to identify as "Scots Irish" but given the religious persecution of Catholics at the time by Cromwell, they probably converted to Protestantism and laid low for self preservation. According to my family lore, my Polish maternal grandmother's father or grandfather was a Polish Jew who converted to Catholicism at some point in the 19th century to survive the progroms instituted by the Russian czars.

Ooops! That's what happens when you assume that someone located in the Southern Tier has connections to Jamestown! Swedes also settled in Michigan in significant numbers, although not in the numbers that they did in Minnesota and other parts of the Upper Midwest.

What's false about it? All you supposed "conservatives" claim you're not racists but you not only refuse to acknowledge that Blacks in this country have legitimate grievances against the justice system -- and have had them for decades -- but then you try to legitimize race baiting as "conservative thought". BULL MANURE! If the police were stopping and killing white men for the same supposed "offensives" and at the same rate that they've been killing black men for the last two decades, all you white "conservatives" would be up in arms over "police brutality" just like you got your panties in bunches back in the 1990s over Ruby Ridge.