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Trump Says People Can’t Get Off Cruise Ship Because ‘Number of Coronavirus Cases Will Go Up!’

WTF?

Seriously, what is wrong with this man? What does he have to do before one of the doctors at CDC calls the White House and Congress to say “Shut him down, now.”

Trump just told people that he won’t allow people off the cruise ship in San Francis, not because of any public health threat they represent (they could quarantine them), but because the moment they come off the ship, “the numbers will go up” in terms of the number of people in the country that have tested positive for Coronavirus.

If that doesn’t PROVE that the reason the test kits are late arriving, or not arriving at all, is because Trump fears that positive results will get reported and the “numbers will go up,” I am not sure what can prove it.

This is simply unbelievable. He has no filter, and no cognitive ability to think beyond his own personal needs. He is physically incapable of thinking of others. This is beyond a personality thing, it seems organic.

Who else thinks this way?

He is not talking about the risk to Americans in unloading these people. He is talking about the numbers reported to the CDC, and that 200 cases (whatever it is) could go to 500 cases. THAT is the number he is trying to “prevent.”

This is why the nation is in hysteria right now. THIS. It is that we may have 20,000 people positive in this nation and we’d have no clue at all because the CDC has been shut down, neutered, no ability to test and no ability to report. As crazy as it sounds, it is not crazier than this man.

I have a huge interest in the NCAA basketball games to be played in two weeks, a regional is to be held in Spokane Washington, and I don’t see how they can play those games right now. I blame Trump for not getting enough information out to people so as to be able to plan based on facts.

It is like everyone in the nation is suddenly waking up to the fact that no one is in charge. It is everyone for themselves, and they all have to make the best decisions based on what they don’t know, and will not know for a year, given that Trump sits at the head of the government.

I said it earlier today, Trump is used to suppressing bad news or bad information; His taxes, Russia, Ukraine, etc.  But he can’t suppress this now. He can suppress the CDC, but states are going to report, and the market will react. He is losing control, and the emperor has no clothes at precisely the wrong time.

The MAGA heads will be the last to know. I just heard a couple write that all this “hysteria” is overblown, just the media – you can hear them spouting the Trump talking points without admitting it. But the rest of the country is finding out fast the lengths Trump will go to, all to keep himself out of trouble and in good-political position.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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