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The fact that he's said it just means that both Fox and 30 million Americans now believe a vaccine is coming in two months doesn't it?
I still don't understand how a country that put a guy on the moon and relies on the Internet has such a complete distrust and contempt for science and technology experts.
I still don't understand how a country that put a guy on the moon and relies on the Internet has such a complete distrust and contempt for science and technology experts.
It's what happens when a political party turns into a literal cult.
This is a guy who built his campaign on an anti-science platform and has followed through with it on policy alongside a history of contradicting information about disasters over and over again. Letting those people speak doesn't actually mean he's listening to them and it certainly doesn't mean that he won't then contradict or ignore the information they've given him in the next days. Hell if Trump was interested in taking this epidemic seriously he wouldn't have let Pence anywhere near it to start with; an act that doesn't inspire me to say that he's genuinely ready to listen to and act on facts. You say Trump's an idiot but forget the other side of that statement: that he's an idiot with a massive ego and zero empathy who frequently ignores, minimizes, or denies any information inconvenient for him and his bullshit fragile ego and hollow persona.
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His supporters are still buying Iraqi Dinars thinking Trump is going to make them the same value as a dollar because of an off hand comment he said. When he says things, they listen, and they act. He could turn this from an outbreak into a plague by calling it a hoax.
We might start to see the White House taking it more seriously if the rich and powerful, especially Trump's friends, start getting affected. Once someone speed dials him screaming about how a family member like a wife, or elderly parent has been diagnosed, because the hired help showed up at work sick, because they "couldn't afford to lose this job," then Trump might suddenly do a 180 and claim he's personally going to put a stop to it.
Then fire all the medical staff that tell him he can't actually do that.
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Yes, it is out of the ordinary for the President of the United States to lack a basic understanding on how vaccines work. At this point, he should have been briefed several times over and at least gotten the gist of it. Also, he's an anti-vaxxer.
Very out of the ordinary.
Depends literally on who talks to him next or what fox & friends say tomorrow morning.
I am sure that has been said a LOT these past few years.
*Arrested Development narrator*He didnt get it.
Wait until tomorrow.
Also, "I think he's got it now" is not a comforting phrase to hear when talking about the goddamned president. This is something you'd say about a child learning to use the potty.
Trump probably wanted to look like he was on top of the problem, help calm the markets. Keeping Trump to the script is nearly impossible though.
Nor when you're taking about the solution to a potential epidemic. The conversation at the moment should be about next steps but instead it's about scientists being unsure about if they educated the leader of the country well enough on an issue he should have been on top of when it became world news weeks ago.
He's always been a moderate anti-vaxxer. He doesn't claim that they're useless poison constructed by Big Pharma for nefarious purposes, but he does believe that the current infant vaccination schedule causes autism and the vaccines should be more spread out rather than given all at once.
Because ultimately he thinks his Common Sense(tm) is better than medical experts' thoroughly researched conclusions.
Not that this isn't funny but this fucking timeline with trump and memes is a fucking disaster
Most people understand that the flu vaccine is for the flu.
They don't understand that there are a whole bunch of different strains of the flu and that's the reason they have to keep taking the flu vaccine.
But they understand that the flu vaccine isn't, say, the SARS vaccine, for example.
Meanwhile in reality, he understood none of it and will mindlessly repeat whatever trash he hears on Fox & Friends tomorrow.
It's annoying to see his both sides playing working on some people. He gets to basically endorse anti-vax rhetoric as valid but since he isn't outspoken about it you get people who say "well at least he's not an anti-vaxxer." Like you said, he pretty much is anti-vax, but like a lot of his other regressive ideals, he doesn't constantly stump it and just grants free reign, platforms & influential power to those who are more than willing to do the shilling of those ideals themselves/draft policy he can rubber stamp
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It's not really funny. I came back to Facebook after 2 years of deactivation, primarily as a clarion call to people who may have the tiniest bit of respect for me/heed my words, and literally all people post is fucking brain-dead memes/drivel. It's fucking sad. It probably says more about the people I have as "friends" on Facebook, but I have to imagine it's pretty commonplace regardless.
that must be frustrating. trying to explain how the vaccine process will work and this idiot not understanding a word except for "two months"
Going forward it's sad to think that, because of Trump and people's inability to admit they were wrong, huge chunks of voting America will now insist that it's fine for the President to be a moron. As long as he's Republican. If he's a Democrat that's grounds for lynching.
Trump is an idiot but damn, a year to a year and a half before we have a vaccine? So we're probably going to go through this twice then huh?
All it'll take is for one of the hosts to say "Why can't the doctors skip all the testing and give us the vaccine right away?" and Trump will be on Twitter within seconds.
When someone crosses their arms, it usually means that they're closed for arguments. By crossing the arms, a barrier is put in front of the body, as some sort of protection. Putting an object in front of you may be the same signal. Another reason for crossing arms may be that you're feeling vulnerable or insecure.
Pouting is when we are having an internal pity party because we haven't gotten what we wanted, things haven't gone the way we'd hoped they might, we heard something we didn't want to hear or disagree with, or we have to work on something when we would rather be doing something else. So we pout.
In other words he would like to force his stupid ideas on people more intelligent than him and he would prefer to be golfing right now.
Pouting is when we are having an internal pity party because we haven't gotten what we wanted, things haven't gone the way we'd hoped they might, we heard something we didn't want to hear or disagree with, or we have to work on something when we would rather be doing something else. So we pout.
In other words he would like to force his stupid ideas on people more intelligent than him and he would prefer to be golfing right now.
Why not have Jared Kushner develop a vaccine?
He solved the Middle East Palestinian/Israeli conflict after reading some books. Just give him some books on pathogens. He should have this all pounded out by Easter.
He solved the Middle East Palestinian/Israeli conflict after reading some books. Just give him some books on pathogens. He should have this all pounded out by Easter.
When someone doesn't understand a simple statement like, "It's going to take more than a year", I highly doubt he's changed his stance on anything. Tomorrow he's going to have an interview where he does the usual, "some people say a year, but many others say in a month".
Also this. He made up his mind long ago and nothing is going to change it.
Ugggh. Someone end this nightmare already. The audacity of all our institutions just accepting this bullshit.
I don't know why people still give him the benefit of the doubt at this point. He's always on the wrong side if the subject has anything to do with facts, science or morality or ethics.
Aren't they mostly liberals?
You're also in a thread about coronavirusDurrrrrrr. This guy is a simpleton. I honestly bet he's never read a book. Like ever in his life.
Edit: this is the ad on this page for me under the text box. I typed in coronavirus earlier when I was reading about Seattle. So cookies is working apparently
He should have asked all of these dumb questions in private, weeks ago, so he doesn't look like an ignorant buffoon on live TV and has a working knowledge of the fucking pandemic that's currently putting his citizens in danger!