Tell that to Joey Traywick
Trump decided it would be a clever wheeze to accuse doctors of falsely reporting COVID cases for $$$$$$$$$$.
President Donald Trump on Friday baselessly claimed that doctors are inflating the coronavirus death count for monetary gain while cases, hospitalizations and deaths surge across the country.
“Our doctors get more money if someone dies from Covid. You know that, right? I mean our doctors are very smart people. So what they do is they say ‘I’m sorry but everybody dies of Covid,’ ” Trump said, without citing any evidence, at a rally in Waterford Township, Michigan.
More money how? How does that work? Where are the stats?
There is no evidence for the President’s claim and the statement represents a stunning attack on medical workers as the country faces its worst public health emergency in more than 100 years. As of Friday evening, more than 90,000 Americans have been diagnosed with Covid-19, a new daily high, and at least 929 deaths have been reported, according to a count from Johns Hopkins University. Two states, South Dakota and Wyoming, reported their highest daily death tolls on Thursday.
All so that doctors can take vacations in Paris and Florence…unless there’s too much COVID there of course.
The American Medical Association, without naming the President, condemned claims that physicians inflate the number of Covid-19 patients they treat — calling such rumors “malicious, outrageous, and completely misguided.”
Name him, or at least name his job title. There’s no point in being polite to a deranged evil crap like him.
“The suggestion that doctors — in the midst of a public health crisis — are overcounting COVID-19 patients or lying to line their pockets is a malicious, outrageous, and completely misguided charge,” Dr. Susan Bailey, president of the American Medical Association, said in a written statement.
“Throughout this pandemic, physicians, nurses, and frontline health care workers have risked their health, their safety and their lives to treat their patients and defeat a deadly virus,” Bailey added.
Maddow’s show last night took us inside an ICU in Montana and showed a long heartbreaking soliloquy by a nurse on how emotionally painful it is for the staff. This guy –
God rot Donald Trump.
Updating to add the clip
The stable genius may be referring to this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1322255476604735489
Trump’s bullshit about docs inflating COVID numbers helped spur me to complete my homage to Godzilla meets Bambi for a modern audience. This one has a much more upbeat ending.
http://farcornercafe.blogspot.com/2020/10/kaiju-x-2.html
Pliny, another one to brighten the day. Thanks.
Pure projection on Trump’s part. This is what he would do. He’s probably got something set up so he will make a profit out of all the pain, misery and death he’s caused to so many Americans. He’d be stupid not to, ammirite?
After all, with Trump, every accusation he makes against others is actually a confession.
It’s exactly the kind of thing he would do, and his vile father would have done before him.
In fact, I wouldn’t put it past him to fake the false positive COVID test so he could be rushed to the hospital, reported to get treatment, and then proclaim how strong and supermanly he is to have beat COVID. Though in this case, since so many others tested positive as well, I doubt that’s what he did. He probably didn’t think of it until he actually tested positive.