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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Oct 31, 2020, 09:12 PM Oct 2020

'A whole lot of hurt': Fauci warns of covid-19 surge, offers blunt assessment of Trump's response

“We’re in for a whole lot of hurt. It’s not a good situation,” Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s leading infectious-disease expert, said in a wide-ranging interview late Friday. “All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly.”

Fauci, a leading member of the government’s coronavirus response, said the United States needed to make an “abrupt change” in public health practices and behaviors. He said the country could surpass 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day and predicted rising deaths in the coming weeks. He spoke as the nation set a new daily record Friday with more than 98,000 cases. As hospitalizations increase, deaths are also ticking up, with more than 1,000 reported Wednesday and Thursday, bringing the total to more than 229,000 since the start of the pandemic, according to health data analyzed by The Washington Post.

Fauci’s blunt warnings come as Trump has rallied in states and cities experiencing record surges in infections and hospitalizations in a last-ditch effort to convince voters he has successfully managed the pandemic. He has held maskless rallies with thousands of supporters, often in violation of local health mandates.

Even as new infections climb in 42 states, Trump has downplayed the virus or mocked those who take it seriously. “Covid-19, covid, covid, covid,” he said during one event, lamenting that the news media gives it too much attention. In another rally, he baselessly said that U.S. doctors record more deaths from covid-19, the disease the coronavirus causes, than other nations because they get more money.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-whole-lot-of-hurt-fauci-warns-of-covid-19-surge-offers-blunt-assessment-of-trump-s-response/ar-BB1azFTU?li=BB141NW3&ocid=DELLDHP

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'A whole lot of hurt': Fauci warns of covid-19 surge, offers blunt assessment of Trump's response (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2020 OP
100,000 cases/day is already in the rear-view mirror. Ms. Toad Oct 2020 #1
The amoral pig is doing now what he wanted to do from the start of CV. Thomas Hurt Oct 2020 #2
We have to accept that traitor and his party want us dead. Actually do want us dead. Eliot Rosewater Oct 2020 #4
They are going to kill millions of us, the republicans... Eliot Rosewater Oct 2020 #3

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
2. The amoral pig is doing now what he wanted to do from the start of CV.
Sat Oct 31, 2020, 09:16 PM
Oct 2020

With the election days away he has even more reason to ignore and bullshit through.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,096 posts)
4. We have to accept that traitor and his party want us dead. Actually do want us dead.
Sat Oct 31, 2020, 09:18 PM
Oct 2020

We then have to remember that if they steal the election.

Protest signs wont cut it.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,096 posts)
3. They are going to kill millions of us, the republicans...
Sat Oct 31, 2020, 09:17 PM
Oct 2020

I said that a long time ago and wished I was wrong, I am not.

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