Archive for April 13th, 2020

Shocker: NY Times concludes that it’s all Trump’s fault…

April 13, 2020

Hindsight: “Woulda, coulda, shoulda”
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Now, that Drs. Fauci & Birx are telling us that the pandemic is nearing its apex, the New York Times thought it was the perfect moment to let a worried nation know that they had broken the case: it’s all President Trump’s fault.

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Cutting through the political rhetoric, the Times appears to have 5 main beefs with the way Trump has handled the situation:

  1. He didn’t run around yelling “FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!” in January.
  2. He was slow to pull the trigger on the Chinese travel ban.
  3. He didn’t move quickly enough to place replenishment orders for medical supplies and equipment.
  4. He botched the roll-out of the testing system.
  5. He waited too long to order social distancing and shut-down the economy.

OK, let’s drill down on those one at a time.

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WaPo: Nope, Trump didn’t call coronavirus a hoax …

April 13, 2020

Biden said he did … and it got him 4 Pinocchios.
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Seems like this one just won’t go away…

Fortunately, the fact-checkers at the Washington Post — not exactly a right-wing, Trump-loving rag — looked into the “said it was a hoax” claim when Crazy Joe started running it in a campaign ad.

What did they find?

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Let’s start with the ad’s “manipulation”:

The video shows a montage of intentionally unflattering clips of President Trump.

So far, it looks like a standard Internet campaign ad.

At the 10-second mark, the camera shows a tight shot of the president saying “coronavirus” and then cuts to a wide shot where he says, “this is their new hoax.”

What’s wrong with that?

The fact-checker explains….

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April 13: Covid-19 UPDATE

April 13, 2020

Recommended Reading:

Flattening the COVID-19 curve

How will we know when we’ve turned the COVID-19 corner?

Remember when Cuomo (and the media) trashed Trump for not believing the models?

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TODAY”S DATA

1,635 Daily New Deaths   Worldometer
2 Consecutive decreasing days
1,055 in NY+NJ+CT   65% of Total US

Pivotal question: Past the apex?

IHME Model   Peak DND Projection:
1,983 on April 10  Prior forecast 2,212

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Cumulative U.S. Deaths 
22,215  Worldometer
 22,109  JHU

IHME Model Cumulative US Death Projection:
60,415 by Aug. 4  Rev. UP 130 on 4/12

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STATE DEATHS  Worldometer

Summary

  • NY+NJ+CT = 12,289  55% of US Total
       NY+NJ+CT = 10% U.S. Population
  • Top 12 Total = 18,745 84% of US Total
      Top 12 Average = 117 Deaths per Million
      Top 12 = 48% of U.S. Population
  • MD 235 Total Deaths  29 DNDs

State-by-State Data – Top 12

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