I have some doubts that Trump knew mid-day Wednesday that he had the coronavirus. What is the source? He tweeted late Thursday night/early Friday morning that he and Melania had the virus. Also, I watched Hannity's interview with Trump on Thursday night, where Trump said he doesn't know yet if he has the virus.
I'm really big on experience; I'm kind of a bump on the log, who is skeptical of outsiders and likes plain, experienced politicians to be politicians. With this being said, I consider Trump to be a fairly uniquely unqualified outsider capable of becoming President through some combination of charisma and deceit. I would hate to lose out on a great outsider candidate some day over some rule.
Love him or not, agree with his policies or not, think he's good for the country or not, can you honestly not see that he's a pathological liar? If Trump says something is the case, it provides zero evidence for or against that claim. That's how much he lies.
The source was his doctor who now says he "misspoke" but at the very least they knew they were exposed from Hope and notified no one.
No. Without the electoral college, candidates would only focus on large urban cities primarily on the East and West Coasts and would fly over Utah. The electoral college gives voice to voters who do not live in large urban areas; that is what the Founding Fathers wanted. In 2016, Trump won 2,626 counties and Hillary won 487 countries; this shows that most of the country when you take into consideration geography wanted Trump.
Me too. I would prefer someone who has experience in Politics than an outsider. It just doesn't seem right to me that someone who isn't currently in the Senate or House of Representatives has a chance of being President.
Why does geography matter? So land voted for Trump and actual people voted for Hillary.
A while ago I saw a video from Dr. Ivette Lozano who treats COVID-19 with HCQ; she said that basically everyone below 50 who took HCQ responded well. Not sure why Trump did not take it, but it would interesting to hear what he has to say. My guess would be that the doctors wanted to treat Trump more aggressively given his age.
You don't think people who live in the fly-over states should have a voice?
Placebo controlled studied did not find an effect, though. It is likely the "effect" she was seeing was younger patients doing better than older patients.
Our bigger problems are the voting system. The electoral college, more than anything, is bad because it is designed to create polarization. I have less of a problem with giving weight to less populated areas than I do the fact that the all-or-none scoring system demotivates people from participating in the process. Ideally, a well-run voting scheme would naturally weed out the Trumps. I think improving the voting system is better than trying to fix things manually.
Blah. Someone that old, under pressure and extreme stress with constant conflicts with people, gets a bad cold or flu. Shocker. Plus, who knows what his diet or exercise regimen is?
Respectfully, here's what I can't understand. The Republican approach to COVID-19 has (basically) been to not overreact because it doesn't impact that many people. Indeed, the talking points are always about how it rarely kills healthy people etc. How closing the economy causes more harm for the most number of people.
Three different studies here:
Why wouldn't they have a voice in a popular vote system? Even if they're out voted, they still have a voice. They just lost the vote. That's like saying New York doesn't have a voice in the EC just because NY's candidate lost. They had a voice, they just didn't win.
All the retrospective studies were not placebo controlled and were not randomized. I.e. you could place the less severe cases in the Hydroxychloroquine group:
Yet, regular posters in this thread will keep harping about it.
And if you remove Texas from the electoral college, Clinton would've won. Should Texas decide the course of the country?
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