Trump falsely dismisses virus danger: 'You catch it, you get better, and you're immune'

[left-of-center2012]

“Remember, when you catch it, you get better, and you’re immune," he told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo ...

Even as he touted the Regeneron antibody treatment he's taken as a “cure,” without evidence, he portrayed his hospitalization as having been unnecessary and suggested he could have “would have done it fine without drugs.”
“I didn't have to go in (to the hospital) frankly, I think it would have gone away by itself,” Trump said.

Despite not having been tested, the president said he doesn’t think he is contagious “at all anymore” and said he is feeling so well that he would like to do a rally tonight and felt he could have done one last night. “I think I am better when to a point I would love to do a rally tonight, I wanted to do one last night. But I think I am better, to a point that I feel better than I did, you know, I jokingly said 20 years ago I feel perfect -- there is nothing wrong,” Trump said.

“You know 99.9% below a very substantial age, has no problem. I mean, they can get it feel a little sick but they don't die,” Trump told Bartiromo, falsely suggesting that the virus only poses a threat to the nation’s elderly. Trump said, he wants to make Regeneron available, at no cost, to the “tiny percentage of senior citizens (who get COVID-19) ..."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-falsely-dismisses-virus-danger-catch-immune/story?id=73498783&cid=clicksource_4380645_4_heads_hero_live_hero_related

[Statistical]

1. Trump should be sentenced to digging the mass graves for unclaimed covid victims.

[JCMach1]

2. He is full of shite dexamethasone and narcissism don't mix

[onecaliberal]

3. 213,000 GOT DEAD.

Shut this mother fucker up!

[malaise]

5. THIS

[cwydro]

4. This is unconscionable.

And criminal.

[Skittles]

6. that piece of SHIT

gets THE best healthcare in America, courtesy of the TAXPAYERS, while HE pays no taxes AND is trying to take ACA away from We the People

[PSPS]

7. I hope Pence's unexplained return to Washington today was to start the 25th ball rolling

[unblock]

8. except when you die, have lifelong damage, or only have partial and temporary immunity.

especially when you can't afford the $100,000 worth of health care donnie got....

[misanthrope]

11. "$100,000"?

The figure I heard had another zero on it.

[unblock]

14. i'm seeing $100,000, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was more.

https://people.com/health/trump-coronavirus-treatments-cost/


in fact, any price tag is misleading because even if i had $100,000 for that, it's just not available to ordinary people outside of clinical trials.

[misanthrope]

15. Correct, that's the biggest factor

His demand of those therapeutics in a proactive fashion is completely beyond expectation for most anyone else.

[LisaL]

9. Or you catch it, you don't get better, and you die.

NT

[FormerOstrich]

10. How's it working for your wife?

Or, Hope?

Or, Christie?

I hear no word about how they are faring.

[FakeNoose]

12. "... you get re-infected, and then you croak"

When he's no longer Potus he won't get the magic medicine next time.

[jcgoldie]

13. Well you know 215 k exceptions just prove the rule i guess

They shouldnt have let it dominate them.

[The Genealogist]

16. Tell that to my step-uncle's family, Donald

They are preparing to turn off their loved-one's ventilator. I'll spare the details of what kind of state his body is in.

Fuck you, Donald. Burn in hell.