Toll of 313. Trump didnt mention that or the thousands of texans now infected with the virus. Here is some of what he did say. It is not just texas oil that the democrats want to destroy. They want to destroy our country. It is sick. 95 of our people love our country and our anthem and our flag. They dont love our country in any way, shape or form. There are now over 4. 4 million cases in our country and our National Death toll has climbed past 151,000. The first death was five months ago today. Five months later over 151,000 dead. California and florida also reporting record numbers of fay talts. Fatalities. And now florida is facing a Tropical Storm warming up the center of the state which is shutting down Testing Centers for the next couple days. A report from Johns Hopkins says the United States is not currently on court to get control of this epidemic. If that doesnt get your attention, this will. From the association of medical colleges, quote if the nation does not change its co
Spend the period between his election and inauguration. He held a whole bunch of campaignstyle rallies. Now, this was something that literally no president elect had ever done before in the runup to his inauguration because if youve just been elected president of the United States, especially for the first time, theres just too much to do. There are tons of vital briefings. You have to staff the whole federal government. You have to, you know, plan how to govern. But this president elect, he held a whole bunch of selfcongratulatory rallies in which he relived the glory of Election Night over and over. He bragged about his victory, attacked all the politicians he had beaten and all the media who said had done him wrong who he said had done him wrong. It was simply unlike anything that this country had ever seen before. This is how the New York Times reported on his first rally 3 1 2 weeks after the election. Quote, kicking off what was billed as a thankyou tour, mr. Trump was incendiary
About iowa. Iowa had a 22 Positivity Rate yesterday. That means, more than one in five people tested has the virus. The task force is calling for a mask mandate there and the closing of bars and a plan for reopening universities. But the governor in iowa has been reluctant to do those things. As of this morning, more than 25,000 coronavirus cases have been reported at colleges and universities across 37 states. Iowa State University is not only allowing football, it plans to let 25,000 fans into the stadium to watch. This all comes after an extraordinary move from a medical panel at the National Institutes of health. Different branches of the same Government Medical establishment are at direct odds over the data on convalescent plasma. The nih now says there is no evidence to support the use of convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus patients, at least not yet. And that puts them at direct odds with President Trump, who called ate breakthrough and the fda commissioner who day greagrh
Americans are going to die and we have to deal with it, when you articulate it like that, to anyone, conservative, liberal, anyone, will people recoil in horror . That is how youre supposed to get to herd immunity. And with 1,000 people dieing a day still, its hard to get your head around the idea that more are going to die with this new strategy. From the president s new coronavirus adviser, scott atlas, which is why he had to come out today and push back from this port from the Washington Post saying hes urging the white house to embrace the herd immunity strategy. Im not sure if they fabricated or if someone told them a lie, but theres never been any advoc saes of a herd imun tee strategy coming from me to the president , to anyone in the administration to the task force to anyone ive spoken to. I mean the whole thing is an overt lie, but this is washington. Have you discussed to any extent the concept of herd immunity . Well, ive explained what immunity and what recent Immunology R
Coronavirus. Were learning that cdc scientists objected to that but it was published anyway. The president deamericaned and dismissed the cdc directors testimony under oath that masks can be more important than a vaccine and a vaccine likely wont reach the general public until next summer and a top aide of mike pence has resigned and accusing the president of a flatout disregard for human life saying the response was all about the election. And were learning the white house nixed a plan to send 650 Million Masks to americans in the mail in april. A federal judge rebuked the president and the postmaster general for quote a politically motivated attack to make changes to the service that could disrupt the 2020 election. And after rebuking his own cdc director the president defends russia and putd put, rebuking the fbi director he hand picked after chris wray testified that the russians are interfering in the election trying to hurt joe biden. It is clear that the Administration Knows the