So now the idiot president is fighting over twitter regarding whether he told sick people to go to work.
Sigh.
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work. This is just more Fake News and disinformation put out by the Democrats, in particular MSDNC. Comcast covers the CoronaVirus situation horribly, only looking to do harm to the incredible & successful effort being made!
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8:30 AM - Mar 5, 2020
He's technically correct. He didn't say they "should" go to work. He said:
the dumbest president in US history wrote:
So, if we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work -- some of them go to work, but they get better.
This is not saying that they should go to work. But this is clearly indicating that going to work can be considered "safe". ie "Hey, look, all these people (hundreds of thousands even!) went to work and feel better".... For anyone who doesn't have sick days to use this is likely good enough.
ironically, I bet those employees at the retirement homes don't get a ton of sick days, and likely don't have much opportunity to not go in (they are frequently very understaffed).... so it was likely this thinking that led to the deaths in Kirkland.
We have an extraordinarily dumb president, who is completely unfit for this sort of scenario where messaging must be precise and coordinated.