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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

"Little" Holman Jenkins Jr. Caught In Flat Out Lies Again - This Time About Trump's Disinfectant Injection Remark

Would anyone really be surprised to learn Holman Jenkins Jr. is a lying sack of shit? Maybe not, but he is certainly a two -bit hack for the WSJ dubious op-ed pages, and his latest performance rivals those earlier ones I've referenced In the newest iteration of mendacity, Little Holman insists ('Disinfecting Journalistic Ethics', WSJ, May 6, p. A13) Trump never said anything about injecting disinfectant. It was the big bad lib media that put those words into his mouth, i.e. "this says more about the media than it does him". Not so fast, liar!. Specifically, Jenkins claims:

"It was a reporter in the audience who asked an accompanying official, 'The President mentioned the idea of cleaners, like bleach and isopropyl alcohol. There's no scenario then that that could be injected into a person is there?"

Really? On replaying his performance, during a "briefing" (PR stunt) two weeks ago this is verbatim what Dotard said:

"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.

"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.

"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?

"So it'd be interesting to check that."

Pointing to his head, Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what."

Clearly, as the bold print indicates Trump said it, not a "reporter in the audience" as Jenkins claims. The key words that betray Trump's idiocy and Jenkins' mendacity and yellow journalism?

" We can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?"

Check out the Chief Quack's words in this video for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9kWsUwTcj8

How many different ways can that be interpreted anyway? Is a "reporter" asking a leading question or is Trump popping off on his own? Oh wait, it gets even more choice. To further obscure the issue Jenkins writes:

"The Poynter Institute's PolitiFact website kindly summarized: 'The briefing transcript shows that Trump did not say people should inject themselves with bleach or alcohol. He was asking officials whether they could be used in potential cures."

Yeah, ok. Trump never said 'people should inject themselves' BUT see, he used the word 'injection' in his question, i.e. 'We CAN DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT BY INJECTING INSIDE."

DOH! So given the manner in which he posed the question any reasonable person (whether a reporter or other) would believe he was advocating that 'cure', injection inside. In other words by implication - and given he's the president - the question was intended as deadly serious. So Little Holman Junior can't just shuck this one away like he does much of the op-ed offal he churns out. So the idea for proposing injection just didn't pop out of thin air! Never mind trying to parse the semantics.

But wait! There's more, maybe the third time's the charm as Jenkins scrawls this babble, basically an admission that Trump DID say what Jenkins denied:

"Abraham Lincoln waved off impromptu speaking saying a president couldn't afford to look foolish. That's not Donald Trump. Reporters have had four years to get used to his blurting out offhand, half-formed thoughts that even his fans don't take seriously."

Yeah, Holman, but see, the man - or clown - is using the most powerful bully pulpit on the planet. Also doing it in the context of a supposedly deadly serious briefing (with his Task Force present) to do with progress on the pandemic front. SO what? No one is supposed to take anything this asswit says seriously? Even in a supposedly serious briefing? Sorry, Mr. Bozo, you can't have it both ways. You can't on the one hand say the liberal media is not taking the fool seriously, then turn around and chide them for taking is words too seriously in a briefing on the pandemic.

Yet Holman is selling his bollocks because he's convinced most of his readers (likely Trumpistas to be sure) will never go back and check his actual words, say in a Youtube or other (network) video. If anyone with less than a Mensa IQ needed further corroboration one found in Dr. Deborah Birx pained expression as the Dotard uttered his cracked codswallop. E.g.
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As Janice put it: "She almost looked like she was passing a kidney stone!"

There’s just one problem — there’s a video proving he’s lying. And it discloses every word he used including injection! It demonstrates the lengths to which Jenkins (and his fellow WSJ nabobs) are willing to go to shift blame instead of simply admitting he talked absolute shit. And indeed, manifested as the fool Lincoln was worried about if a president was given to shooting from the hip, or the ass.

Trump’s new line, as expressed in tweets posted on Saturday, is that the “corrupt & sick” media got it “wrong” by reporting that he was “speaking & asking questions of Dr. Deborah Birx” about “sunlight etc. & the CoronaVirus.” The Carny Barker and Snake Oil Salesman barked:

“What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately,”

Aw, boo, hoo hoo. If the damned job is too tough, sonny, maybe you ought to just resign. Then you can watch TV and tweet 12 hours a day an no one will give a royal crap.

Never mind Trump's constant gaslighting and lies, and pathetic efforts at redoing reality. We have video from that Thursday briefing showing clearly that Trump was speaking directly to Birx when he asked her his lamo, nutso questions and he expression shows she was less than thrilled. Who are you gonna believe? The lyin' Donnie Dotard or your own lyin' ears and eyes?

Thursday, March 19, 2020

It Turns Out The Young May Be Almost As Susceptible To COVID-19 As Oldies- Who'da Thought?

Part of the crowd of young idiots mobbed on a beach near Clearwater, FL. Right - one of them spouts off how he "don't care 'bout no silly cor- oh- no virus"

Let's face it, Herr Dotard, like a broken clock - does seem to be right about twice each day. In this case, he described the battle against COVID-19 as a "war against an unseen enemy" - which it is. He also blurted he's a "wartime president" - which is false because wartime presidents - like Harry S. Truman -act, they don't dither. In the case of Trump while he did sign the Defense Production Act - which would enable U.S. industries to shift production to medically essential equipment - like ventilators - he isn't prepared to let the factories hum unless it's a "worst case scenario". The idiot doesn't grasp we're already in that condition with doctors and nurses having to fabricate their own gear using materials from Home Depot, and feeling like they're going to war with only a BB gun.

But this is what we have with a halfwit leader like Dotard, akin to a unit commander who doesn't know which end is up. That means the rest of us are left to fight the enemy with "blunt force" tactics, i.e. sequestering, social distancing. It isn't sexy or cool. In fact to a young Turk (or Turkess) it's a buzz kill - but hey, it's the only thing left to prevent our hospitals being totally overwhelmed given Trump doesn't have the balls or sense to act expeditiously. I mean he has yet to give the order to actually start the production of the ventilators, masks, etc. Worse, this deluded, narcissistic demagogue continues his tariffs on $5 b worth of medical exports from China, including (WSJ today, "Trump's Tariffs Leave The U.S. Short On Medical Supplies', p. A19): N95 masks, sterile gloves, goggles, hospital gowns, surgical drapes, thermometers and breathing masks.

Pardon me, but this is utter, deranged madness. It would be analogous to a president - say Truman in WW II - undermining and kneecapping the troops risking their lives in Europe and the Pacific. Next thing to a traitor, if not outright a traitor.

Indeed, as reported on CNN yesterday, medical personnel have been calling on Trump to get this equipment out for weeks. So any delay now adds to the misery and worse, risks much further spread because hospital staff aren't properly equipped when they deal with COVID-19 patients. I.e. they are using - and reusing- surgical masks instead of the N95s, and going without face shields.

Trump's bumbling incompetence, twisting facts to suit ("I always knew it was a pandemic!") and failure to act expeditiously has made it incumbent on the rest of us - the actual ground troops- to take up the main battle via the blunt force strategy of social lockdown. The problem is that while most of us are prepared to be good soldiers and do what's needed - locking ourselves down - the young (many of them) believe they have no skin in the game (or this war) or if they do, so what? It ain't their war!

Nevertheless, there's a lot we now know about the stats related to Covid-19, we didn't know earlier. Especially that the most recent C.D.C. data reveal that nearly 40 percent of patients aged 20 to 54 are sick enough to be hospitalized. And oh, btw, that often means with respirators or ventilators given the virus has turned one or both lungs to pulp. The report, issued Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that — as in other countries — the oldest patients had the greatest likelihood of dying and of being hospitalized. But of the 508 patients known to have been hospitalized, 38 percent were notably younger — between 20 and 54. And nearly half of the 121 patients who were admitted to intensive care units were adults under 65, the C.D.C. reported.

Dr. Tara Narula on CBS this morning noted the R nought now appears to be 3.0 meaning each person can infect three others. This means all those numskulls having their beach bacchanals are actually putting the rest of us at risk. As opposed to being good soldiers for the good guys they are fifth columnists. Unknowing (or uncaring) enemy agents.

This is a fact the brash young spring breakers packing beaches in Texas and Florida ought to process before they spout such bollocks as referenced by Gayle King - to Tara Narula- on CBS:

"This kid said yesterday, 'It's my spring break and I'll do whatever I want!"

Causing Gayle to nearly lose it. CBS co-host Tony Dokoupil quickly explained it couldn't be Millennials (his generation) but the Generation Z bunch now in their 20s and more likely to be spring breaking.

But whether Gen Z or other these young know-it-alls, famous for their "Ok, Boomer!" mockery and memes, would do well to pay attention to what the U.S. top infectious disease expert A nthony Fauci said this week,

“Even though when you look at the total numbers, it’s overwhelmingly weighted toward the elderly and those with underlying conditions, the virus isn’t a mathematical formula. There are going to be people who are young who are going to wind up getting seriously ill.”

In the words of Stephen S. Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health:

“I think everyone should be paying attention to this. It’s not just going to be the elderly. There will be people age 20 and up. They do have to be careful, even if they think that they’re young and healthy.”

Oh, and not just healthy but invincible relative to the COVID-19 circulating now in the U.S. and on an exponential increase. In the current realm of social distancing - the only way we have now to slow this thing - one would think these youngsters would get it. That is, that remaining sequestered is the optimal way to slow the spread as China and South Korea have shown. And yet we behold images of these youngsters frolicking en masse on the beaches!

Indeed, the NBC News spot last night informed us these were kids "on Spring break" which implies they arrived from assorted universities. But to hear and see some of the responses to Kerry Sanders (NBC reporter) one wondered if most even saw the inside of a high school, far less a college or university. One kid, clearly half toked out on either MJ candies or opioids, burped out:

"If I get da corona I get da corona. I'm not gonna let it stop me from partying."

Out of the mouths of imps and idiots. Another girl in the vicinity spouted:

"I'm worried for the older people but not for me."

But if she knew anything, she'd know that was an illogical, indeed nonsensical remark - given we know people (especially the young) can be asymptomatic and spread it to seniors. Also, that her lot are not as invincible as they believe.

In the C.D.C. report, 20 percent of the hospitalized patients and 12 percent of the intensive care patients were between the ages of 20 and 44, basically spanning the millennial generation. The findings served to underscore an appeal issued Wednesday at a White House briefing by Dr. Deborah Birx, a physician and State Department official who is a leader of the administration’s coronavirus task force. Citing similar reports of young adults in Italy and in France being hospitalized and needing intensive care, Dr. Birx implored the millennial (and Z) generation to stop socializing in groups and to take care to protect themselves and others. She said:

“You have the potential then to spread it to someone who does have a condition that none of us knew about, and cause them to have a disastrous outcome,”

According to Dr. Christopher Carlsten, head of respiratory medicine at the University of British Columbia:

"Younger people may feel more confident about their ability to withstand a virus like this, but if that many younger people are being hospitalized, that means that there are a lot of young people in the community that are walking around with the infection.”

More worrisome, experts said that even if younger people in the report were medical outliers, the fact that they were taking up hospital beds and space in intensive care units was significant.

And these more serious cases represent the leading edge of how the pandemic is rapidly unfolding in the United States, showing that adults of all ages are susceptible and should be concerned about protecting their own health, and not transmitting the virus to others.

The authors conclude, “these preliminary data also demonstrate that severe illness leading to hospitalization, including I.C.U. admission and death, can occur in adults of any age with Covid-19.”

The $64 question now is: Can we count on the youthful generations to do their part in this ongoing battle? Or, will they become "conscientious objectors" - or worse, draft dodgers like Dotard?

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