are you so fucking stupid you believe there is such a thing as "criminal hypocrisy?" Cuomo was doing what his medical advisers thought best in March, 2020, when not many people, besides Trump who was briefed about it in January, knew much about Covid, about how infectious it was, the best way to deal with it. Even so, it does not even come close in any way to how Trump's lies and inaction and incompetence KILLED THE SHIT OUT OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS, AND FUCKED OUR ECONOMY. When: Friday, February 7, and Wednesday, February 19 The claim: The coronavirus would weaken “when we get into April, in the warmer weather—that has a very negative effect on that, and that type of a virus.”
The truth: When Trump made this claim, it was too early to tell whether the virus’s spread would be dampened by warmer conditions, though public-health experts and epidemiologists were immediately skeptical of Trump’s comment. But the spring and summer have passed, and the pandemic is still raging. When: Thursday, February 27 The claim: The outbreak would be temporary: “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.” The truth: Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned days later that he was concerned that “as the next week or two or three go by, we’re going to see a lot more community-related cases.” He was right—the virus has not disappeared. When: Multiple times The claim: If the economic shutdown continues, deaths by suicide “definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about” for COVID-19 deaths. The truth: More than 200,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. But the number of people who died by suicide in 2017, for example, was roughly 47,000, nowhere near the COVID-19 numbers. Estimates of the mental-health toll of the Great Recession are mixed. A 2014 study tied more than 10,000 suicides in Europe and North America to the financial crisis. But a larger analysis in 2017 found that although the rate of suicide was increasing in the United States, the increase could not be directly tied to the recession and was attributable to broader socioeconomic conditions predating the downturn. When: Multiple times The claim: “Coronavirus numbers are looking MUCH better, going down almost everywhere,” and cases are “coming way down.”
The truth: When Trump made these claims in May, coronavirus cases were either increasing or plateauing in the majority of American states. Over the summer, the country saw a second surge even greater than its first in the spring. Juliette Kayyem: The emotionally challenging next phase of the pandemic When: Wednesday, June 17 The claim: The pandemic is “fading away. It’s going to fade away.” The truth: Trump made this claim ahead of his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when the country was still seeing at least 20,000 new daily cases and a second spike in infections was beginning. When: Thursday, July 2 The claim: The pandemic is “getting under control.” The truth: Trump’s claim came as the country’s daily cases doubled to about 50,000, a higher count than was seen at the beginning of the pandemic, and as the number continued to rise, fueled by infections in the South and the West. When: Saturday, July 4 The claim: “99%” of COVID-19 cases are “totally harmless.”
The truth: The virus can still cause tremendous suffering if it doesn’t kill a patient, and the WHO has said that about 15 percent of COVID-19 cases can be severe, with 5 percent being critical. Fauci has rejected Trump’s claim, saying the evidence shows that the virus “can make you seriously ill” even if it doesn’t kill you.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/trumps-lies-about-coronavirus/608647/
