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To: Sdgla who wrote (1225242)	4/28/2020 8:49:14 PM
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To: Sdgla who wrote (1225242)	4/28/2020 9:10:29 PM
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BOOM: tRUMP HAS NOW KILLED MORE AMERICANS THAN 20 YEARS OF VIETNAM WAR npr.org In not even three months since the first known U.S. deaths from COVID-19, more lives have now been lost to the coronavirus pandemic on U.S. soil than the 58,220 Americans who died over nearly two decades in Vietnam. Early Tuesday evening ET, the U.S. death toll reached 58,365, according to Johns Hopkins University. While the number of lives lost in the U.S. during the pandemic and the U.S. death toll in that war are roughly the same now, the death rate from the coronavirus in America is considerably higher. It now stands at about 17.6 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. During 1968, the deadliest year for the U.S. in Vietnam, the death toll of 16,899 occurred at about half the pandemic's rate — 8.5 troops were killed for every 100,000 U.S. residents. The pandemic has also been marked by nationwide death tolls surpassing 2,000 on six days this month. The highest daily toll for Americans fighting in the Vietnam War was on Jan. 31, 1968, when 246 U.S. personnel were killed during the Tet Offensive. There are other parallels — as well as contrasts — between that conflagration and what's unfolding now. It was television that brought a war on the other side of the world into Americans' living rooms for the first time, as on-the-ground reporters chronicled the grinding mayhem of Vietnam for evening network news shows. By the same token, this pandemic may be the first ever to be televised on a daily basis. U.S. Marines carry their dead and wounded to a waiting helicopter near the western edge of the demilitarized zone in South Vietnam on June 21, 1968. Stone/AP But while the five presidents — from Dwight Eisenhower to Gerald Ford — who held office during the Vietnam conflict only occasionally spoke to the nation about the clash, the American public has seen President Trump casting himself as a wartime leader and dominating lengthy news conferences televised live nightly from the White House. The claims Trump has made in his pandemic pronouncements — from saying his administration had "tremendous" control over the virus to promising it would "miraculously" go away to accusing the news media of trying to "inflame" the outbreak — have done little to boost his credibility. Fewer than a quarter of the respondents in a recent nationwide poll professed a high level of trust in Trump. Likewise, as early as 1966, critics of President Lyndon Johnson's upbeat portrayals of an increasingly unpopular war pointed to a "credibility gap." It was defined by then-Sen. Ernest Gruening, D-Alaska, as "a euphemism for what actually goes on — namely, that the American people are being misled by their government officials." Vietnam hasn't reported a single COVID-19 death, and as of April 24, it had 268 confirmed cases. A closer parallel to the total of lives lost so far to the pandemic in the U.S. may be the 2017-2018 flu season, the deadliest in the past decade. There were 61,000 influenza-related deaths nationally reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a roughly eight-month period.

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Brzezinski skewers Trump: "You’re a moron, you’re an idiot, you’re a joke" salon.com Brzezinski skewers Trump’s management of pandemic: "You’re a moron, you’re an idiot, you’re a joke""The White House has shown zero competence in this crisis," the co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" says TRAVIS GETTYSAPRIL 27, 2020 10:42PM (UTC) MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski unloaded on President Donald Trump for trying to bluff his way through a public health crisis. Trump asked last week whether household disinfectants might be used to treat coronavirus patients, but then claimed he was only joking when he was universally mocked — and the "Morning Joe" co-hosts excoriated the president. "These people that were once, quote, movement conservatives, are nothing more than a Trump cult, personality cult," Scarborough said. "That's why they can't even admit that this president is unfit for his office and that people are going to die in the future because of this, unless somebody figures out a way to get him to focus, be serious, and put seniors first, put people with pre-existing health conditions first, put this nation's health and safety and well-being first." Brzezinski pushed back against critics who say she and Scarborough have been overly wrought in their response. "A lot of the president's pawns, whether they're in the media or whatever, will say, 'Oh, Joe and Mika, so upset,'" she said. "I want to point out something you said on your Instagram live this weekend. You would love to see the president be competent in this crisis. Unfortunately, that's not what we're getting, and people are dying. If you see a lot of emotion coming from this show, it's because we are frightened for the American people at this point, given the fact that the White House has shown zero competence in this crisis." Trump insisted over the weekend that he was only joking when he suggested shooting sunlight inside of a person's body to treat coronavirus, and bizarrely claimed he wasn't even speaking to Dr. Deborah Birx — when video shows he was. "He is putting her in a terrible position with a quack idea, and forcing her to talk about heat and light," Brzezinski said. "She has to grasp for an answer and explain to him that maybe a fever, but no. No, you're an idiot. You're a moron is what she's thinking, okay? You can see it on her face. I'm sorry, Mr. President, you put her in that position. This really reputable, credible, prepared woman, who spent her entire life getting ready for a crisis like this. You're a joke. You try to make a joke of the entire situation."