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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CentralParkRanger who wrote (172252)	7/11/2020 12:55:55 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 356001

"It just stopped??? Like rain?" No, silly; like a miracle. Feb. 27 "It's going to disappear. One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear," the president said during a White House meeting with African-American leaders. Another blast from the past... So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020 and, from the "2700 is the new 40" file, March 13: 2,700 confirmed cases in U.S. Declares national emergency "We have 40 people right now. Forty. Compare that with other countries that have many, many times that amount. And one of the reasons we have 40 and others have — and, again, that number is going up, just so you understand. And a number of cases, which are very small, relatively speaking — it's going up. But we've done a great job because we acted quickly. We acted early. And there's nothing we could have done that was better than closing our borders to highly infected areas." — Rose Garden press conference. more trips down memory lane... cbsnews.com