Tag: Trump putting re-election over Americans health

GOP governor breaks with Trump: ‘We’re not going to be up and running by Easter’

Trump has floated Easter as a target date to relax social distancing guidelines.

BOSTON — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Friday his state will not be back to normal by Easter, bucking President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the country could loosen social distancing guidelines by the April 12 holiday amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“The information we’re getting from public health experts and from health care providers here in Massachusetts — yeah, no,” Baker, a Republican, said during a Friday morning press conference in Boston. “We’re not going to be up and running by Easter, no.”

Citing the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has floated Easter as a target date to relax social distancing guidelines. Some medical experts fear that date is too early and could exacerbate the spread of the virus. Continue reading.

Why ‘choosing’ between the elderly and the economy is a phony, barbaric choice

Washington Post logoTHE IDEA that Americans grappling with the coronavirus pandemic face a stark choice between reigniting the economy and hunkering down to save lives is increasingly posed as a brutal question: Why destroy the world as we know it to save some retirees? Or, as some have reframed it even more barbarically: Why not sacrifice a finite number of vulnerable, mainly elderly people, well past their prime, for the greater good of reviving a thriving economy?

Here’s why not: It’s a phony choice, based on a false premise.

President Trump has not quite defined the dilemma in those terms, though he edged close by warning Americans not to “let the cure be worse than the problem.” Some of his acolytes have chosen their words less delicately, notably Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas, a Republican about to turn 70, who said he and other senior citizens are “willing to take a chance on [our] survival” to help return to normal daily life. “And if that is the exchange,” said Mr. Patrick, “I’m all in.” Continue reading.

Trump Again Called For Return To Work Without Mass Testing

Donald Trump once again called on the country to be reopened this week, even as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases continues to swell.

Given his administration’s failure to enact widespread testing, that could mean sending workers back to business without knowing who among them is infected.

Trump claimed that the media wanted to continue social distancing efforts as part of some ulterior motive to hurt his reelection. Continue reading.

‘Narcissist in charge’: Trump pummeled for admitting nationwide efforts to curve coronavirus are ‘detrimental to my election success’

AlterNet logoIn a stunning statement President Donald Trump admitted his motivation in re-opening the country is to help not the American people but his re-election chances. In a mind-blowing tweet the president blasted the “LameStream Media” for what he claimed is “trying to get me to keep our Country closed as long as possible in the hope that it will be detrimental to my election success.”

Right away Americans unloaded their anger and outrage of the president. Continue reading.