The germ has gotten so brilliant

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Ophelia Benson

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So…he doesn’t even remember that antibiotics can’t touch viruses? They must have told him, they must have told him a hundred times, because that’s who he is, but I guess a hundred times he didn’t listen.

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10 responses to “The germ has gotten so brilliant”

  1. Peter N Avatar
    Peter N

    “People go to a hospital they go for a heart operation — that’s no problem, but they end up dying from, from… problems. You know the problems I’m talking about.”

    I’m so glad we have him to explain that to us!

  2. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    Well we could hardly expect him to summon up the words “secondary infection” now could we.

  3. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    Well the germ’s certainly smarter than Trump, and invisible, too. According to Trump, Trump knows everything, so if the germ is marter than he is, then we’re all dooooomed!

  4. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    Wait. Hang on. Wasn’t Trump the medical genius who trumpeted the miracle cure of hydroxychlorowhatever? You’re telling me now that he doesn’t know the difference between bacteria and viruses? You mean actually doesn’t know what he’s talking about? THEN WHAT THE HELL EXACTLY WAS THE CONDITION HE WAS PRESCRIBING THAT SHIT FOR?

  5. Omar Avatar
    Omar

    Watson,

    We clearly have a President of the US who has not a clue what he is talking about, and making fateful decisions from deep within the abysms of his own ignorance, and having studiously surrounded himself with fawning toadies and flunkeys. This could get serious.

    I don’t know about you, but I see the hand of that fiend Moriarty behind all of this; just as surely as my name is Sherlock Holmes.

  6. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    not Bruce, that condition is trumpsgotsharesindrugmanufactureritis, with secondary heartlessgreedyfuckwadus.

  7. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    that condition is trumpsgotsharesindrugmanufactureritis, with secondary heartlessgreedyfuckwadus.

    Yes, if anything could spur Trump to commit his tiny mental bandwidth to learning how to parrot a polysyllabic word like hydroxychloroquine, it would have to be money.

  8. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    Now he’s talking about appointing a task force to re-open the economy. He starts with this:

    we’re going to have the great business leaders, the great doctors, [W]e’re going to have a group of people.

    Great, who in particular?

    Media reports suggest the council could include his daughter Ivanka Trump;

    Fuck! Princess sick of the prince getting all the publicity? Still, he’ll at least be getting advice from the real medical and business leaders. He says so himself.

    Trump promised to heed the experts. “I listen to them about everything,” he said [….] He acknowledged: “I don’t know that I’ve had a bigger decision. But I’m going to surround myself with the greatest minds. Not only the greatest minds, but the greatest minds in numerous different businesses, including the business of politics and reason.”

    Very promising. He’ll be taking their advice, of course.

    A reporter asked what metrics would be used to help Trump decide. He pointed to his head.

    Double fuck with a side of fuck!

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/10/trump-press-briefing-council-taskforce-reopen-us

  9. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    Contrast and compare:

    Prime Minister Trudeau cautioned Canadians that things will not return to normal until there is a vaccine; 12 to 18 months.

  10. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    Here’s a link, including projected Canadian death toll under various scenarios:

    https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/coronavirus-live-updates-covid-19-covid19

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