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© 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.U.S. death toll from coronavirus passes 100,000
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oldman_13
Sad but the curve is definitely flattening. Time to reopen the economy.
David Varnes
The only question that the US faces now is whether the total's going to break the 200,000 mark or not. Because it's clear that the robber-barons in charge of the government and the economy are willing to trade American lives for stock market prices.
PTownsend
But Trump and his fellow 'elite', the masters-of-the-economy, could/couldn't care less. They've each got access to the country's best healthcare and the power and connections to be first in queue to receive it. Unlike dozens of millions of working and middle class Americans they don't have to worry about going bankrupt because they can't pay medical bills.
The virus started in China. The start of the pandemic's on them. But the majority of American deaths from the virus are on Trump for being too slow in reacting to the information he was given and for leading an administration that continues to bungle responses to the pandemic.
PTownsend
It's unfortunate there are no globally agreed standards for determining the number of Covid19 deaths. In part because it allows pandemic deniers and other conspiracy theorists to continue to push their state's/organization's misinformation.
Serrano
Thanks a lot, CCP.
ulysses
The American public can be assured our dear president, trump will get around to doing something once he has settled his fight with Twitter.
8T
There is no agenda in that comment, simply an observation. Blaming 100000 deaths from a worldwide pandemic on the President is clearly a biased and agenda driven post.
TheLongTermer
Interesting. I remember a MSM anchor saying the same exact thing. Then they said mask were ineffective. Then wear a mask was all the rage. Then there was a race to a vaccine. Now a vaccine is questionable.
I also remember the Trump time line:
Get all the US citizens off the Diamond Princess
Ban travelers from China
Defense Authorization act
Sending the Mercy Hospital ships to east and west coast
Giving out trillions of free money to business and citizens
why does this always get left out?
And where is Cumo now, howling about his ventilators? Are they being used?
How about some real fact checking instead of Trump is to blame for this pandemic
TheLongTermer
But you left out other world leaders, the MSM and WHOs initial response also. How convenient of you, but we should fact check Trump 24/7
Also, Abe is getting praises for opening his economy, but Trump is a villain for opening his?
The spread of the virus in the US has nothing to do with Trump; its the individualistic behavior of the citizens, uneasy about social distancing, obesity, diet and many more factors.
ulysses
Making snarky comments about someone wearing a mask is not an agenda???
A lack of thinking abilities, I would say!!!
ClippetyClop
Coz it didn't work, and the things that do work he didn't do, coz he thought it was all a hoax that would go away when the sun shines.
TheLongTermer
But the numbers have gone down since the weather has changed, and the health gurus keep changing their story. Now they are saying a vaccine is not a sure thing
TheLongTermer
So now Trump is a "dear leader"? if he wears a mask, I must wear one? Interesting that Biden had one on outdoors, where there were no people, I guess sending the useless message that he is doing his part.
Why I have to listen to Trump? I have a mind of my own, its obvious that he speaks "off the cuff" or tongue in cheek manner, why would that infect me with the corona? Im still trying to make the jump, that Trump is responsible for 100 000 deaths. He gave you free money, now he is responsible for your health? One minute you hate the guy, but the next, he is responsible for everything that happens to you?
If Obama wore a mask, would that have prevented 100 000 deaths?
Bizarre!
bass4funk
Exactly, the infection rate is decreasing day by day, be care, be vigilant and open up the floodgates to allow people to go back to work, long overdue.
bass4funk
From the people that supported Democrats 3 failed sneaky attempts at desperately trying to get rid of this President...not bright at all.
vanityofvanities
Does this have anything to do with high cost of going to doctors in U.S.?
TheLongTermer
Its the constant jump from this to that with these people. Lets see, whatever happened to the Muller report..the impeachment findings....the help that Cumo needed...the ventilators, the beds, the vaccine, the this the that...then once all that is given and more...never enough...time to blame some more.
If you hate it that bad, move to Sri Lanka, Nepal or something...see how their gov is treating them.
Raw Beer
U.S. death toll with coronavirus passes 100,000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEQGs12dQ70
Mirai Hayashi
The numbers have gone done because of a strict lockdown! Weather has nothing to do with it! And no one can guarantee a vaccine. To do so, would be careless and stupid, which by the way, is another one of many things that this president has done that has wrongfully mislead the public into becoming overly optimistic and reopening too early.
Oh the irony...you don't usually open floodgates too quickly, because that would cause a flood!
Ah_so
The infection rate is going down pretty slowly and will likely pick up again as the economy seeks to reopen.
Medical experts do change their "story" - it's what scientists do - they give a view based on the evidence and change it when the evidence changes.
Raw Beer
Naah, the "medical experts" that we see on the news are just there to scare people. Medical experts that do not follow the same narrative are silenced by those who have much to gain from this pandemic.
BTW, why does nobody talk about all the deaths that will result from a wrecked economy?
vanityofvanities
G7 is planned to be held June 10-12 in D.C. Abe has to be in isolation for two weeks after he returns to Japan. Do it video conference.
ulysses
100,000 deaths, beloved president, trump picking up fight with twitter, and you want to talk about leadership?
Not very smart, even by your standards!!!
The Avenger
It makes me wonder if I still reside in the USA?
100,000 people dead from a pandemic that was mishandled from day one.
They can blame China, the World Heath Organization and even Joe Biden, but nothing will change the truth that the administration has lied and mismanaged it from the beginning.
The only thing that is keeping it from being worse is that a large segment of the population listen to the scientists and exercise proactive measures that keep it under control.
Stay well and keep safe and mail in you ballots to get rid of the **** on November third.
Fighto!
The US response to this disaster will be used for centuries as a textbook example of what NOT to do in pandemics.
The US govt should take a lot of blame, they've been far too slow to act, and denied that the deadly virus was a problem at all. But equally a lot of US citizens have been really poor at dealing with the pandemic, compared to the discipline and orderliness of other nations.
kurisupisu
People don’t die ‘from’ the virus-they die with it!
In Italy, over 90% of patients with the virus died of underlying conditions-we have been duped!
bass4funk
Send China a check, they were the ones that unleashed the virus. Germany is doing it.
He should
We don’t need to talk about twitter on this feed. There’s another article on that.
bass4funk
Not Biden, he won’t win, so he’s irrelevant.
So did a lot of the medical experts, even Cuomo said they got the estimated numbers of cases of people that were supposed to die or need ventilators and over hyped this virus, they lied as well, they overestimated this thing completely.
At this point I don’t think anyone is listening to them and you can see that by how the beaches are packed and people are living their lives once again, the American people can practice safety rules and be in charge of their own lives and take responsibility into their own hands.
Biden
Michael Machida
The President of The United States has a responsibility to the citizens. Donald Trump is not Presidential. He leads by poor examples. The people of America need to expect that Trump do his job well. Due to his lack of judgement, he puts everyone at risk of COVID 19 due to his manners, lack of intelligence, and overall greed for himself and his buds. We are not warriors. Give me a break!
sunfunbun
Actually, the numbers may be higher than 100,000. You don't know, but to want to cover the US problem by trying to reduce numbers is a useless endeavor. Whatever the number, it's extremely high, and excuses pile up for Trump.
sunfunbun
This doesn't make any sense.
If the American people take charge of their lives by gathering at the beach, at Ozark pool parties, and generally overcrowd, they will spike the virus cases and more death. That's irresponsibility, not responsibility, as they do things that aren't practicing safety rules, and in fact, doing the opposite.
Monty
@Bass4Funk
Send China a check, they were the ones that unleashed the virus.
Best Post I saw here for ages!
Blacklabel
the USA is 9th in the world in per capita coronavirus deaths.
ulysses
ROFL, right wing wants to reward China!!
Freudian slip??
sunfunbun
100,000 is the number of deaths as counted. No narrative, just the truth.
stormcrow
"Early on, President Donald Trump downplayed the severity of the coronavirus and called it no worse than the common flu."
And this is how Trump will be remembered in the history books when he dealt with his first major crisis as president.
How many lives would have been saved had this president not wasted the first 2 months of this deadly pandemic denying its existence? It'll be a real shocker if Trump gets re-elected this November.
Trump . . . an utter failure as a president.
lincolnman
Donald J. Trump's Legacy...
He has to be kicking himself for running for President in 2016...he never wanted to job in the first place, it was all just a PR stunt for his "brand"...
He could have been remembered as a failed businessman, who cheated on three wives, who said he'd like to date his daughter, and was best pals with Jeffry Epstein....
But now he'll be remembered for killing over 100K Americans in just four months...
sunfunbun
Not nonsense at all.
What is nonsense is the deniability and lack of taking responsibility by the office of the president in times of trouble. Too slow with some wrong actions end up with over 100,000 deaths likely reduced in numbers had Trump acted quickly and smartly.
Sam Watters
First, a moment of silence for the people who died and for those who lost loved ones and for those who lost their livelihoods and had their lives forever altered by this virus. Now let us all take another moment and be thankful that the number of these people mentioned above was not larger because it was projected to be ten times worse. This is not to lay blame at the feet of any one group or political party--no one knew how bad it was until it was too late. Now let's get back to go work and living but also be sensible and keep our distance and wear our masks when shopping. Let's bring our economy back while we shelter our elderly and weak. Maybe most importantly, let's take a moment to realize who lucky we truly are and that we may not be out of the woods yet.
sunfunbun
it's the Republicans that do? LOL. Completely the opposite, dude.
noriahojanen
Lockdown strategy is coming under criticism. Its effect has proven limited. Numbers soar and take an identical locus with or without it. In NY and other lockdwon cities majority have infected and died at home. Lockdown takes both lives and livelihood. There have arisen the number of abuse or DV under lockdown.
u_s__reamer
Trump knows that he enjoys a substantial degree of immunity from criticism for the high death toll because his supporters want to believe any excuses he makes up, not least because to blame their president would be to accuse themselves of gross negligence for electing a moron and supporting the most disgraceful peace-time president in the history of the republic who is indeed responsible for this enormity that nobody has ever seen before or even imagine.
socrateos
Trump did not trust people who he chose to deal with the problem. He fires or undermines his subordinates at whim. His presidency is a continuation of this dictatorial, temperamental business management style. It's unfixable.
Monty
If people should blame Trump for all the Corona deaths in USA, I don't know.
I am not an American and I am not living in America.
In my opinion, the best president America ever had was Obama. If I think about Bush, or what was the Cowboy-actors name...Reagan...ohhhh.
But would Obama handle the pandemic in USA better than Trump, maybe yes, maybe no....
Blacklabel
no, nor are they happy that the death of their family member is being politicized in some type of sick daily running total that exists only for political purposes. There is a reason why the media refuses to show the numbers per capita.
bass4funk
He told you this? When? A few weeks ago?
Who succeeded and came back from bankruptcy, making millions on a few book deals and a 14 year number one TV show and then the Presidency, seems like a success story all around.
A lot of people have and he wasn’t as close as the other President.
By the haters yes, by the supporters, he won’t.
bass4funk
More like the liberals would. Lol
sunfunbun
Most definitely a yes.
First of all, there was a pandemic 'play book' left for Trump by Obama. Trump denies it could have helped, but how does he know? He didn't read it, blames everyone but himself, and takes no responsibility for anything he screws up. Mitch McConnell denied it for a long time, ignorantly, but he has acknowledged, yes, it does exist. It is a 69 page document entitled, 'Playbook for Early Response to High-consequence emerging infectious disease threats and biological incidents'
Republicans will say it wasn't sufficient in its information, but that's just twisting the idea Trump couldn't find it, and could have used the advice from it. If it was insufficient, if Trump was damn smart, he could have taken the bits that were informative and used it to his fight agains the virus. He did not and/or can not.
Had Obama been in office, he would have been very conscientious of both the facts of possible viral outbreak and listened to the scientists, instead of making up his own narrative, like Trump did.
In essence, Trump does not care for facts and built his own narrative. If he was a person who reads and listens, he would have opened up the playbook early on, and made it more of a priority, as soon as any rumor of the virus occurred, which the government likely knew of back in December. He didn't. He waited. And waited. And lied. And made up things. Injecting disinfectant? How silly can you get? Yes, he did suggest it.
Obama would have immediately acted in January, understanding what a pandemic is and how the threat of this virus was one. It took a good 2 months, until Trump acknowledged it was a pandemic, even though he claimed, 'he knew it all along'. If he did, why didn't he do something about it? The basic timeline of Trump declaring, finally, on March 8, it was a pandemic is telling in how late he was and without doubt, Obama would have acted much more quickly with more precision to prevent many of the deaths that occurred under Trump's delayed response.
Sneezy
Case in point.
bass4funk
I doubt it, given other events he wouldn’t address.
So did the last President.
You feel the same about every other Democrat governors or politicians that laughed this off at the beginning?
Not really, Trump took a big chance closing the country Down, if he hadn’t, you honestly think Liberals would have said, great move? You and I know he would have been flame broiled for not and why should take something seriously when Democrats in the past didn’t?
Oh, please.
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/03/01/in-april-2009-h1n1-became-a-pandemic-six-months-later-after-1000-u.s.-deaths-obama-declared-it-a-public-health-emergency/
The same goes for the Trump hating msm, be fair now.
wtfjapan
the USA is 9th in the world in per capita coronavirus deaths.
does not even rank in the top 15 for number of infections per capita, anyway you look at it US response is a failure, and its far from over. this is meant to be richest country in the world
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00673/coronavirus-cases-by-country.html
Strangerland
Considering that three years ago the US had a pandemic response team, guidelines on how to handle a pandemic, as well as legally mandated (by Obama) training of the incoming administration on how to deal with a pandemic, being 9th in the world is downright pathetic.
If it had happened on Obama's watch, we all know America's response would have been in the top three.
ulysses
So its acceptable for more Americans to die, because we have a bigger population.
The right wing argument since the beginning has been to let people die, they obviously took into account the fact that minorities are disproportionally affected.
Trying to downplay deaths just because it suits your political agenda is callous at the best!!
Blacklabel
related to what one would expect from our total population we are #9 in the world. its just a fact, it can mean whatever you want it to mean.
ulysses
I guess people who live in China, India etc are glad their governments don't want more of them to die, because their per capita death rates are low.
lesenfant
Trump said he would make America number 1 again. Promises made, promises kept.
Strangerland
For once he wasn't spouting fake news.
Has he made America great again?
ulysses
He built 3 kms of border wall in 4 years.
That calls for popping a few bottles of adderall!!
Strangerland
Well, folks, you're trying to have a logical debate with someone who doesn't even understand what "per capita" means.
Oh dear.
Peter14
Congratulations to Donald Trump for the fantastic job he is doing of praising himself and his administration for ignoring advice, and allowing over 100,000 American deaths. He continues to accuse everyone else for this pandemic and the US death toll in a brilliant plan to pander support from his loyal mindless followers.
He believes he can do even more to damage America so he seeks a second term to reek destruction on lives and futures of a majority of US citizens and line his own pockets while doing so. A brilliant leader in the company of Stalin, Hitler and Mao.
In other words he really stinks and is worse than useless in a crisis let alone dealing with day to day issues. What a disgrace Trump is. History will not be kind to him and nor should it be.
Blacklabel
sure, deflect again. the USA is #9 per capita. Your team says that meaningless, it only matters the total.
Simply not true. Impact is measured by per capita. to account for larger populations, you know?
Blacklabel
oh now, we want to count by per capita? then fine, the USA is #9 in per capita corona cases as I said.
Strangerland
I just want to say congratulations to Donald J. Trump for taking care of this Twitter problem. Because this is the most relevant thing going on in America right now, isn't it? The president being fact-checked? Definitely much more important than the 100,000 people dead in America.
Strangerland
To which I replied:
Blacklabel
which I proved as untrue based on his response to his own pandemic being last place.
Now go and talk about the other 8 countries with their higher per capita rates and how pathetic they are if they are worse than the USA. This topic is played out.
sunfunbun
He did so much more than Trump. Saved the economy, Obama did, for Republican's financial crisis.
Naw, not even close to how Trump lays blame around. He's a juvenile entitled guy, who can't even look at himself without his ego getting in the way. I doubt Trump has ever taken blame for anything in his life. He's a coward.
Sure, if they actually were ignorant as McConnell and Trump. Difference is lies are completely an agenda for Trump and conservatives as a rule.
Democrats listen to science and know a pandemic is dangerous because critical thinking is a part of liberalism. Unlike narrative and not caring about facts, like conservatives.
I mean, this is another of conservative lies and twisting truths to feed their narrative. lol.
Disagree, completely. The media does prioritize trying to get the facts right. Because Fox doesn't, it's no reason to lump all the media into narrative driven news like them. Trump does not even try to get the facts, way too often, if at all on so many things he's responsible to find information on, but doesn't. He prioritizes lies and narrative in his demagoguery of coming up on 20,000 lies.
Strangerland
I disagree. Per-capita allows for a comparison between populations of varying sizes.
If 8 people in a country of 10 die, that's 80%.
If 10 people die in a city of a million, that's .0001%.
Looking at the absolute numbers, 10 looks worse than 8.
Of course 100,000 people are dead, and a significant number of them through Trump's incompetent leadership. But it's where America sits on the per-capita board that matters.
bass4funk
And Trump got us out of the sluggish swamp with sweeping deregulations.
Obama had the media to cover his and that’s a strong shield....smoke, but nothing here to see.
Harry Reid was a piece of work, can’t blame Mitch for following in his footsteps, there goes your lies and resistance.
Yeah and that’s all they listen to, liberal scientists with a one goal in mind and one political outlook and never any opposing point of view.
The same as liberals.
They don’t try because if they did, they wouldn’t pound the Russia narrative, impeachment hoax, allow conservatives to talk, allow opposing point of views, give the President dues where he should get him, but it’s become one big liberal echo chamber, this is why the guy tweets so much, can’t blame him, if everyone were out to get me, I would use a platform that allows me to speak....maybe not other conservatives, but at least I can.
At least Fox has different opposing points of view, that’s why they’re the most watched and not everyone agrees lockstep with the President, they’re fair and give him credit when it’s due, the other networks will never under any circumstance, no wonder people are tuning them off and their ratings suck.
ClippetyClop
Lol, of course. Fox is a joke, it's state media. Here is an example of that, when they asked their viewers to rate Trump's leadership of the crisis. The voting options: 'Very Good, 'Great', or 'Superb'
https://www.mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/lou-dobbs-poll-asks-if-trumps-response-coronavirus-has-been-superb-great-or-very-good