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S Korea has a population of roughly 50 million, the US around 350 million or about 7 times as many people. Both countries got their first case on 1/20/2020, the same day. In S Korea their leaders took the TrumpVirus as a serious threat and immediately took action to contain the virus. In the US Trump downplayed the threat. While S Korea was handling things the way they should have been in the US Trump was making the following statements:
January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” (CNBC)
February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” (Fox News)
February 10: “A lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat—as the heat comes in.” (Bloomberg)
February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock market starting to look very good to me.” (Twitter)
February 26: “It’s going very substantially down, not up… The 15 within a couple of days, is going to be down to zero.” (CNN)
In fact up until a couple of days ago the Moron in Chief was actively telling America that he hoped that we would be getting back to work right after Easter - what a fool!
Here is how things stand today as far as total case and deaths:
S Korea 9,786 cases, 162 deaths
USA 165,874 cases, 3178 deaths
If Trump had acted responsibly the US would have probably had numbers similar to those of S Korea and probably had somewhere around 7 times as many infections as they did or about 69,000 cases and 1,134 deaths. The numbers speak for themselves. We are in the shape we are in because of Donald Trump, his supporters and the right wing media that downplayed the seriousness of this situation.
January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” (CNBC)
February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” (Fox News)
February 10: “A lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat—as the heat comes in.” (Bloomberg)
February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock market starting to look very good to me.” (Twitter)
February 26: “It’s going very substantially down, not up… The 15 within a couple of days, is going to be down to zero.” (CNN)
In fact up until a couple of days ago the Moron in Chief was actively telling America that he hoped that we would be getting back to work right after Easter - what a fool!
Here is how things stand today as far as total case and deaths:
S Korea 9,786 cases, 162 deaths
USA 165,874 cases, 3178 deaths
If Trump had acted responsibly the US would have probably had numbers similar to those of S Korea and probably had somewhere around 7 times as many infections as they did or about 69,000 cases and 1,134 deaths. The numbers speak for themselves. We are in the shape we are in because of Donald Trump, his supporters and the right wing media that downplayed the seriousness of this situation.