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1/ What Will It Take To Get Trump To Change His Deadly Position On The Coronavirus >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >> Donald Trump is stuck

2/ >> Back in March and early April >> the Trump administration relied on science and epidemiologists and put together a plan for the coronavirus >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >> The Post Office would send five high-quality masks to every American

3/ >> The economy would be shut down for a month or two so we could assess the situation while aggressively testing and doing contact tracing to isolate outbreaks and control and confine the disease >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >>

4/ Then >> on April 7 >> all the news media >> from newspaper to radio to television >> announced a new scientific study showing that almost all the deaths had occurred in blue states >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >>

5/ and the non-geriatric deaths occurred principally among Black Hispanic and Native American people >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >>

6/ News reports tell us that following that news the White House held an internal meeting where Jared Kushner suggested that the situation could be used to make the Democrats look bad >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >>

7/ Also >> since white people were generally surviving the virus >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >> they decided to cancel the entire plan to protect America and instead start pushing to open the economy back up

8/ >> The Post Office's plan to distribute masks was canceled >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >> Those dying were mostly people of color >> so why bother >>

9/ But now the coronavirus is most rapidly spreading through and ravaging the central part of America >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >> which is politically red and racially white >> And wealthy white donors are getting exposed at Trump fundraisers

10/ >> This is not what Trump's team was expecting >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >>

11/ But Trump is in a box now, Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap ,BackWhen mostOf theInfection was in cities and states run by Democrats and populated by people of color >> Trump was enthusiastic about forcing people back to work and ignoring public health guidelines

12/ >> Now that his base >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >>

13/ rural and small-town white people across the Midwest >> South and West >> are getting the infection and dying and experiencing long-term disabilities from it >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >> including severe psychiatric syndromes

14/ >> Trump can't just say that he was wrong between April and now >> So >> instead of telling the truth >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >> he's chosen to double down on his lies

15/ >> Now he's telling us the coronavirus is no big deal >> and we shouldn't even bother to wear masks >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >> That we shouldn't "be afraid" of the coronavirus or let it "dominate our lives

16/ >> " News reports say the slogan in the White House is >> "We're all going to get it eventually >> anyway" >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >>

17/ Trump is staying with Jared's racist political plan to let people of color in blue states die >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >> and doubling down on the herd immunity advice from his Fox News quack doctor

18/ >> which could mean 6 million dead Americans within the next year >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >>

19/ Even worse >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >> he's[Trump is] let the virus spread so far and wide in America that President Biden may find it very difficult to put the pandemic back into the bottle

20/ >> Countries all over the world are getting the coronavirus under control >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >> Life is close to back to normal >> including the economy

21/ >> in multiple countries around the world; they're even playing rugby games in New Zealand next week in stadiums packed with fans >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >>

22/ They[Other countries] haven't had a new case in the country in weeks >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap >>

23/ America will not return2 anything resemblingNormal untilThe racists&political hacks among our senior political leadership are voted out and replaced by people who actually care about the health and welfare of Americans >> Per @Thom_Hartmann bit.ly/3lqDkap

24/ >>Go to IWillVote.com and double-check your registration >> As many as 6 million American lives are on the line >> -@Thom_Hartmann

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