The fabricated Trump ... why does the US President insist on underestimating "Covid-19"?

From the moment US President Donald Trump announced that he and his wife had been infected with "Covid-19", in the early days of October, the whole world waited for the consequences of the man's condition and its consequential impact on his political decisions and successive announcements via Twitter, especially as we approach - Within less than two weeks - of the US presidential elections, and at a time when the United States is witnessing the greatest degree of division in its history, the issue of "Covid-19" itself was a decisive battle.

Trump is a man of seventies with a significant difference in weight over the average, two criteria that undoubtedly place him on the list of severity of the disease, and when his infection was announced, we went back to March when Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, suffered with the disease, but Trump had a major advantage compared to Johnson, And it is that we are now more experienced (2) in disease, among the drugs that Trump received, for example, was "dexamethasone", last June we knew that it reduces the death rates from 40% to 28% for patients on respirators, and from 28% to 20% when used in the event that patients need oxygen.

On the other hand, Trump had received "Radmisivir", and he is by far one of the best candidates among anti-viral drugs. Finally, the American president underwent an advanced experimental treatment system produced by the American "Regenron" company, which is a mixture of antibodies that fight disease such as immunity. The body prevents the virus from reaching its target, but there is a paradox (3) specifically for this new mixture, as the scientific research that produces this type of antibody, which is branched out in several scopes such as treating cancer, AIDS, and fetal abnormalities, depends mainly on cells coming from embryos. It was aborted, which the Donald Trump administration several years ago banned in research.

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But Donald Trump's relationship with "Covid-19" transcends the irony barrier, but extends the matter deeper.

For example, we can look at a post that the US President wrote on Facebook a few days ago as soon as he recovered from the disease, where he said (4) that "Covid-19" is less dangerous "by a large difference" than influenza in "most human gatherings," adding that the flu kills More than 100 thousand people a year.

(Facebook deleted the post)

Trump here deliberately fabricates the information completely, while he indicates day and night that 99% of the disease cases are not serious, we know that in the case of the new Corona, the rates of serious cases (5) amount to about 20% of the injuries, that percentage is only 1% in the case of Influenza (6), in addition to that, the death rates in the case of "Covid-19" on the global average are 3-4%, while only 0.1% in the case of seasonal influenza (7). Add also that the number of deaths in the United States of America due to influenza Not 100 thousand, and the Americans' deaths from "Covid-19" so far are about 230 thousand, but in the 2018-2019 season, the flu killed 34 thousand Americans, and the previous season 61 thousand Americans, which is almost a quarter of Corona deaths (8) in less than Public!

This is not the first time that Trump has underestimated the consequences of the virus with direct fabrications.

It started in February, when he said more than once that this epidemic will go by the month (April) with the warming weather, Trump's plan on television and social media platforms was clear, as long as the most important thing is to support the plan to open the country, it must be To direct people to read the event as less than what the scientists themselves are promoting, at that point we can observe the course of his tweets during the months of the crisis.

Since the beginning of April, Trump began to directly indicate that the epidemic had "reached its climax" and that it "began to decline", and that "its end had approached", all of this was not based on any accurate information about the expected course of events, Trump's blessings continued. This pattern began, until September, when he said that the epidemic “is going through its last round” in the United States, which is also not yet certain, especially since we are on the verge of winter, and during his debates with Biden - currently - he still repeats the same thing.

Indeed, the deliberate fabrication can be seen very clearly when he said that the United States of America has the lowest death rate in the world compared to the number of injured.

But at that moment when Trump said these words, the death rate in the United States of America was about 4%, let us compare that, for example, with a country such as Qatar or Saudi Arabia or any of the European countries, the United States of America was the ninth worst country in the world in terms of The death rates per 100,000 citizens of the country, at the moment of launching these statements (9).

As for the most striking thing always, Trump's statements that deal with very accurate and dangerous topics in the same context were statements of the type of “Children are immune to“ Covid-19 ”, which he repeated more than once up to his first debate with Biden, which we know for sure It is not true (10) (10% of US casualties are children). Although initial estimates indicated that children are exposed to fewer percentages with milder symptoms, much research activity is currently indicating that children may be one of the main causes of exacerbated prevalence. For Disease (11) (Super Spreaders).

Of course, we can only address in this context the "hydroxychloroquine scandal," for example, in Donald Trump's statement on the nineteenth of last March, when he said that this drug may be a "decisive factor" in the game to eliminate "Covid-19", Then another (12) statements followed him saying that he personally relied on hydroxychloroquine to prevent "Covid-19", which prompted the public to attack pharmacies and buy large quantities of it, which caused its shortage in the market, in addition to the emergence of some cases of poisoning due to consumption Medication in inappropriate doses.

We now know that Trump, after contracting the disease, was not treated with this drug, as the research area is now more inclined to reject hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for "Covid-1919", and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already withdrawn (13) its approval of use. He had an emergency about two months from now, but Trump remained insistent that hydroxychloroquine represented a breakthrough in dealing with "Covid-19", and with the succession of those studies issued, Trump began to add another axis to the more dangerous game, while he was promoting mainly because the disease was predestined Therefore, and that there is no need to shut down the economy, and it is easy for the Americans to deal with it, the idea that he continued to promote even after his injury, Trump moved to the conspiracy theory.

Last July, (14) Trump's Twitter account shared a video of an American doctor named Stella Emmanuel saying that hydroxychloroquine is the only correct treatment for "Covid-19″", and it is also an effective means of prevention, and she added in the same video that she was able to treat hundreds of patients with this The drug, and it is - which is the point that we would like to pay attention to - that it does not know precisely who prevents this drug from people, and what is its interests, with direct doubts about the scientific research on this field.

Emmanuel is one of the believers in the conspiracy theory, and the matter extends to her perceptions (15) that having a miscarriage or polycystic ovaries are direct symptoms of the presence of the sperm of the fetus who had sex with these women who have suffered from these medical problems. She also believes in a conspiracy theory that indicates that creatures A reptile alien that runs the US government, and things like Harry Potter and Pokemon are Masonic tools to control children and teach them the basics of magic.

Trump's conspiracy speech is old, from 2016 and he promotes political conspiracy theories (16), and currently he uses it with great focus whenever we get close to the date of the US elections, and you can notice that he recently shared a tweet promoting a conspiracy theory saying that Biden, his rival in the presidential elections, was deliberately killed 6 Of the security officers involved in the assassination of bin Laden to cover up the fact that he did not die and the mission failed in 2011.

This conspiracy rhetoric extends to plasma therapy for recovered people, as he said in a tweet on Twitter that the so-called "deep state" within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is stubbornly making it very difficult for pharmaceutical companies to obtain permits to test vaccines and treatments for "Covid-19" , Indicating that there is some conspiracy aiming to delay the matter beyond November 3, referring to the date of the US elections.

The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics.

Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd.

Must focus on speed, and saving lives!

@SteveFDA

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020

About a week before this tweet, and while the Food and Drug Administration was reluctant to issue a permit for the emergency use of recovered plasma as a treatment for "Covid-19″", a group of 17 senior federal health officials intervened, including Dr. Antonio Fauci, a member of the White House virus task force. Corona and the American media face of scientific research on this scope, to prevent the issuance of this statement on the pretext that the data on the plasma of the recovered are still weak, but a few days after the tweet, an emergency permit was issued to use the plasma of the recovered to treat the disease.

At that point, Trump's political hands directly manipulate scientific research, as he presses the conspiracy theory in public with one hand, and he pressures scientific institutions with the other hand in secret, and a recent article in Nature (18) indicates that the current US President’s administration has suppressed and imposed censorship on Government scientists working to study the virus and reduce its harm, used their political tools in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and ordered those agencies to provide imprecise information, issue imprudent health guidelines, and promote unproven treatments in disease treatment.

So it would not be surprising to know that the most prestigious of the medical journals 19 "The New England Journal of Medicine" (NEJM) decided a few weeks ago, for the first time in more than two hundred years, to reach out in politics and directly demand a change of current leadership in the United States of America.

On the other hand, the prestigious "Nature" (20) journal openly announced its support for Biden in the political elections, calling on scientists and science lovers to do so, indicating that what Trump is doing is an insult to science and facts.

The US National Academy of Sciences (21), a body that has been impartial throughout its life, issued a statement in late September condemning political interference in public health agencies, with direct references to the Trump administration's efforts to expedite approval of vaccines and drugs before completion. Safety and efficacy tests, which could cause several disasters, not the least of which is distorting the image of science and scientists in front of the public, a characteristic that has remained part of the strength of the American state since its ascension to the moon in the sixties of the last century.

In his book "Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture," Mark Finster, a professor at the University of Florida School of Law in 2008, noted that conspiracy theorists are not just a group of people with potentially unsatisfactory levels of psychosis. Some are deliberately promoting conspiracy theories because they serve him. Politically forcefully, it rallies its supporters in the face of his opponents without the need to resort to logic and rationality, especially when it insults them and deliberately distorts their image.

Within less than a year ago, the US President tried to do so, deliberately lied about the dangers of the emerging corona virus, and worked hard to undermine efforts to contain it, only for political purposes that included supporting the conquest plan and winning the elections, the worst of which was that during all that period he did not stop referring to That "everything is under control", at a time when the United States of America suffered from the highest number of injuries and the highest number of deaths in the whole world!

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