The Impact Of The Pandemic Will Be Worse Than Most People Think-- And Trump Is Making That Worse Every Time He Opens His Mouth

Is the official U.S. government policy towards the pandemic reflected by the White House guidelines-- or by Trump's misleading, sociopathic twitter feed? They are often on opposite sides of the fence. And that's not even the stuff that Fauci says that contradicts Trump's ranting and raving. In fact yesterday, Fauci told CNN that he wears a mask in public not only to protect himself and others but also because he "want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that’s the kind of thing you should be doing." This while very low-IQ Trump Death Cultists, encouraged by their pathetic Führer, run around cursing at people people who wear masks, sometimes threatening them:





Yesterday, Fauci told a CNN audience definitively that Trump's favorite snake oil, hydroxychloroquine, is not an effective treatment for the coronavirus. "The scientific data is really quite evident now about the lack of efficacy." Several official government agencies felt compelled to urge Americans not to drink bleach and other commonly available poisons after Trump insinuated that they should.

On Tuesday, Ohio's conservative Republican governor, Mike DeWine, went on TV to tell Republicans in his state what Democrats already know-- that wearing a mask to protect against coronavirus is "about loving your fellow human being." DeWine explained that he tells Ohioans to wear the face coverings even as they have become a political flashpoint amid the pandemic. "This is an instruction as old as the Bible. You are supposed to love your fellow man and woman, and that is what we are doing." He told Chris Cuomo "I think that's the message. You are not wearing it so much for yourself as you are wearing it for that person that you will come in contact with."

His comments come as President Donald Trump has sought to politicize the wearing of masks during the coronavirus crisis. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended Americans wear masks in public, the President has not worn one during factory tours in recent weeks and even shared a tweet mocking former Vice President Joe Biden for wearing one at a Memorial Day ceremony.

The White House continued Tuesday to stoke that political back-and-forth, sowing doubt about when and where Americans should be wearing masks and muddying recommendations from top health officials.

DeWine said Tuesday that his push for people to wear masks is rooted in science showing "we have so many people we found who are walking around and have absolutely no symptoms."

"They don't have a clue they have this, but they do in fact have it. That's why it is so important that we assume the person we are coming in contact with has it, and they should assume we have it," he said. "And if we both wear a mask, that gives us some added protection."

The Republican governor was criticized earlier this month for ordering all residents to wear masks in public, a mandate he has since rescinded because "a significant number of Ohioans are offended by this (and) thought it was just government overreach."

And, he said, he didn't want people to start tuning out his other requests and orders as the fight continues with coronavirus.

"If we lose that willingness, then it will be disaster," DeWine said at the time. "We will lose many, many more lives and our business will not come back. We can't lose that sense."





"This is not about politics. This is not about whether you're liberal or conservative, left or right, Republican, Democrat," he said.

"We wear the mask, and it's been very clear what the studies have shown; you wear the mask not to protect yourself so much as to protect others. And this is one time when we truly are all in this together. What we do directly impacts others."

Trump is singing from a very different playbook, one that appears to have been written by an enemy of the American people aiming to kill as many Americans as possible and to reap apart the fabric of our society.

This is how bad its gotten with this sociopath in the White House: a new NORC poll for the Associated Press found that just under half of us say we would get a COVID-19 vaccine if the scientists working furiously to create one succeed. 20% of Americans say they would refuse, including 26% of all Republicans.