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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJesus Christ they have a slide with 100,000 listed as their "goal".
This is a freaking nightmare.
cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)I purposely did not watch...
I'm devastated. We could have done so much more.
smdh
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)picked a number they are reasonably certain they will never reach.
All to look good.
That is the grift.
LisaL
(44,972 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)The doubling of casualties every 3 days is happening, right now. A week ago we were at 750 dead. Now its over 3,000. That means 10,000 by next week. Unless things dramatically slow down that means 100,000 dead by the 3rd week in April, and well over 200,000 by the end of April.
Lets hope the social quarantine will be taken seriously, and work, or 100,000 dead will actually be a good outcome.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)it said 100-240,000 next to the "hill". The "mountain" had the range with the full number of zeros needed to convey the point.
It's a subtle lie, but not unlike a lot of visual aids that Trump has used in the past.
Solomon
(12,310 posts)200,000 deaths would be a good job. I heard it when he said it.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,568 posts)I guess if you don't reach your goal, you move the goalposts. It's the Republican way.
tblue37
(65,227 posts)Response to RandySF (Original post)
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John Fante
(3,479 posts)mortality rate. Good luck spinning that into a victory, KGOP.
safeinOhio
(32,641 posts)His first guess. That will be the number we will remember.
bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)do a "Joker dance down the stairs" if the total ends up below 100,000.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/
kentuck
(111,056 posts)Directing the narrative.
uponit7771
(90,304 posts)spanone
(135,795 posts)kentuck
(111,056 posts)Otherwise, how can he claim victory?