Donald Trump says he doesn't want the US to have a "big surge" in Covid cases like in New Zealand

[stevil]

Covid 19 coronavirus: Donald Trump on New Zealand's new outbreak

"You see what's going on in New Zealand?" Trump said.

"They beat it they beat, it was like front page [news] they beat it because they wanted to show me something."

"The problem is [there is a] big surge in New Zealand, you know it's terrible - we don't want that.

I think Trump makes a fool of himself when he says stuff like this. He has no awareness of things that go on and tries to misconstrue everything to deceive his base.

NZ went over 100 days without any community transmission.
We have recently found a small cluster and are acting quickly to contain it. Only time will tell if we are able to beat it again, but so far it doesn't appear to be growing exponentially.
We have 58 cases of confirmed community transmission all linked to each other.

58 cases, is that terrible from the USA perspective and something that you don't want??

Funny how Trump thinks a front page article about us getting rid of community transmission is all about him. As if we put it on the Front page to taunt him. Just bizzare.

 

[Strathos]

Next thing you know he'll say that he doesn't want us to have a lot of gun violence like Singapore, or a lot of pollution like Sweden.

 

[Fantine]

They need to hook him up to a lie detectorwhen he speajs.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Just bizzare.

Good description of last four years also.

 

[Heavenhome]

Covid 19 coronavirus: Donald Trump on New Zealand's new outbreak

"You see what's going on in New Zealand?" Trump said.

"They beat it they beat, it was like front page [news] they beat it because they wanted to show me something."

"The problem is [there is a] big surge in New Zealand, you know it's terrible - we don't want that.

I think Trump makes a fool of himself when he says stuff like this. He has no awareness of things that go on and tries to misconstrue everything to deceive his base.

NZ went over 100 days without any community transmission.
We have recently found a small cluster and are acting quickly to contain it. Only time will tell if we are able to beat it again, but so far it doesn't appear to be growing exponentially.
We have 58 cases of confirmed community transmission all linked to each other.

58 cases, is that terrible from the USA perspective and something that you don't want??

Funny how Trump thinks a front page article about us getting rid of community transmission is all about him. As if we put it on the Front page to taunt him. Just bizzare.

Bizarre indeed.
Sometimes its feels like I'm reading a comedy sketch, which would be funny BUT its real and very dangerous, costing numerous lives.

 

[FireDragon76]

He's out of touch and it just makes him look more foolish.

Every country is having problems with COVID-19. The difference is that those other countries leaders are actually taking significant science-based measures to minimize deaths. Trump is not.

 

[KCfromNC]

Next thing you know he'll say that he doesn't want us to have a lot of gun violence like Singapore, or a lot of pollution like Sweden.

Just as long as we never have a big surge in health insurance prices everything will be fine.

 

[Hank77]

Funny how Trump thinks a front page article about us getting rid of community transmission is all about him. As if we put it on the Front page to taunt him. Just bizzare.

His delusions of grandeur are getting steadily worse, it's very concerning to many people here.

 

[iluvatar5150]

It's hard to figure who's more shockingly ignorant in this whole exchange - Trump or his applauding audience. Relative to the size of their populations, New Zealand's outbreak of 69 cases is 1/9 the size of the number of cases the US recorded yesterday - and yesterday was a slow day.

NZ: 69 cases / 4.9 million people = 1 case per 71,014 people
US: 40,000 cases / 328 million people = 1 case per 8,200 people

New Zealand is about the same size (in terms of population) as Alabama and South Carolina. Alabama had 571 cases yesterday and SC had 456.

 

[Arcangl86]

And it's not like NZ has added 69 cases a day. This is 69 cases in 100 days.

 

[essentialsaltes]

58 cases, is that terrible from the USA perspective and something that you don't want??

But the growth rate from 0 to 58 is much biglier than our growth rate.

 

[Skewpoint]

It's hard to figure who's more shockingly ignorant in this whole exchange - Trump or his applauding audience. Relative to the size of their populations, New Zealand's outbreak of 69 cases is 1/9 the size of the number of cases the US recorded yesterday - and yesterday was a slow day.

NZ: 69 cases / 4.9 million people = 1 case per 71,014 people
US: 40,000 cases / 328 million people = 1 case per 8,200 people

New Zealand is about the same size (in terms of population) as Alabama and South Carolina. Alabama had 571 cases yesterday and SC had 456.

Using my Trumper think... 71k is a bigger number than 8200, therefore it's worse. Checkmate NZ!

 

[Hank77]

He's out of touch and it just makes him look more foolish.

Every country is having problems with COVID-19. The difference is that those other countries leaders are actually taking significant science-based measures to minimize deaths. Trump is not.

Even when he's forced to take steps he doesn't want to he immediately attacks those steps, such as wearing masks.

 

[stevil]

It's hard to figure who's more shockingly ignorant in this whole exchange - Trump or his applauding audience. Relative to the size of their populations, New Zealand's outbreak of 69 cases is 1/9 the size of the number of cases the US recorded yesterday - and yesterday was a slow day.

NZ: 69 cases / 4.9 million people = 1 case per 71,014 people
US: 40,000 cases / 328 million people = 1 case per 8,200 people

New Zealand is about the same size (in terms of population) as Alabama and South Carolina. Alabama had 571 cases yesterday and SC had 456.

If you want to compare apples with apples. Bear in mind our recent outbreak didn't start yesterday, so we didn't jump from zero to our current total. We had 13 new cases yesterday.

 

[iluvatar5150]

If you want to compare apples with apples. Bear in mind our recent outbreak didn't start yesterday, so we didn't jump from zero to our current total. We had 13 new cases yesterday.

Sure. My numbers here skew the interpretation of things in favor of the US - and we still come out 9x worse.

 

[Tom 1]

Covid 19 coronavirus: Donald Trump on New Zealand's new outbreak

"You see what's going on in New Zealand?" Trump said.

"They beat it they beat, it was like front page [news] they beat it because they wanted to show me something."

"The problem is [there is a] big surge in New Zealand, you know it's terrible - we don't want that.

I think Trump makes a fool of himself when he says stuff like this. He has no awareness of things that go on and tries to misconstrue everything to deceive his base.

NZ went over 100 days without any community transmission.
We have recently found a small cluster and are acting quickly to contain it. Only time will tell if we are able to beat it again, but so far it doesn't appear to be growing exponentially.
We have 58 cases of confirmed community transmission all linked to each other.

58 cases, is that terrible from the USA perspective and something that you don't want??

Funny how Trump thinks a front page article about us getting rid of community transmission is all about him. As if we put it on the Front page to taunt him. Just bizzare.

There’s something vaguely impressive about such monumental stupidity. I mean to get that dumb you really have to work at it, I don’t think it just happens.

 

[Trogdor the Burninator]

But don't worry, the Trump supporters will be along any minute now to tell how how he either didn't mean it, or was misquoted, or #FakeNewsmediaconspiracy

 

[stevil]

Trump should avoid at all costs a battle of the wits with Jacinda Adern
Covid 19 coronavirus: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hits back at Donald Trump, trumpets 'high-ranking' response

Dude, don't start fights you can't win.

You are mentally ill equipped and your piecemeal, contradictory, do nothing approach to "fighting" covid-19 cannot even be spun in any way as being worthy to compare against what NZ have done.

 

[jgarden]

Donald Trump says he doesn't want the US to have a "big surge" in Covid cases like in New Zealand

It never fails to amaze me that Trump and his supporters continue pushing the narrative that Biden is not mentally competent to be President - given "The Donald's" numerous "faux pas," questioning another candidate's cognitive abilities is the last thing that this self-proclaimed "stable genius" in the White House should be emphasizing!

 

[MIDutch]

trump mentioned the "massive breakout yesterday" in New Zealand's coronoavirus cases in his speech in Pennsylvania given before the final night of the DNC convention.

Fact check: Trump delivers blizzard of false claims in Pennsylvania speech attacking Biden - CNNPolitics

I wonder why he keeps lying about things that can be so easily fact checked.