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[DrContango]

Is It Safe to Ask Whether Trump’s Days Are Numbered?
Just posing the question gives us the willies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/opinion/trump-biden-2020-election.html?referringSource=articleShare

Bret: Successful strongmen like Russia’s Vladimir Putin or Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan spend years carefully laying the groundwork for autocracy by first gaining broad public support, then by getting their allies to control the mainstream media, then by appointing their toadies to key positions in the military, and so on. Trump, by contrast, is despised by more than half the country, most of the media and his own secretary of defense. If someone ever uncovers his college transcript, I’m guessing he got a C- in the class on dictatorship, which is better than the D’s and F’s that I’m guessing he got in his classes on business analytics, financial accounting and management essentials.

Gail: Yeah if we’re going to be under the thumb of a dictator you want one who got a good grade in his autocracy seminar.

Doc

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Community outbreaks of Covid-19 often emerge after Trump’s campaign rallies

"Fact check: Trump makes at least 16 false or misleading claims to '60 Minutes'"

By Zach Nayer October 16, 2020


With Air Force One behind him, President Trump speaks during a campaign rally last month at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport in Newport News, Va. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

In mid-May I sat in the backyard of my family’s home garbed in graduation regalia and, via Zoom, joined my medical school classmates to read these words of the Hippocratic oath: “that into whatsoever house I shall enter, it shall be for the good of the sick.”

When President Trump held a mass campaign rally in Newport News, where I now work, at the end of September, he did so against the explicit warning of local public health officials .. https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-health-virginia-public-health-beadd1b110c4a55bd2c13974722ec198 . He was entering this community — our house — not for the good of the sick but to promote himself. The gathering may have brought sickness to the community. As a new physician, I find that deeply disturbing.

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This may be an imperfect measurement. Some rally-goers travel to these events from other counties and go back home afterward, possibly contributing to community outbreaks elsewhere. And community outbreaks may, of course, be due to other events — correlation does not equal causation. But these data offer a metric to quantify the damage from a public health hazard. Any signal of community spread would likely originate closer to the epicenter of these events.

What we found was sobering yet not surprising. Spikes in Covid-19 cases occurred in seven of the 14 cities and townships where these rallies were held: Tulsa; Phoenix; Old Forge, Penn.; Bemidji, Minn.; Mankato, Minn.; Oshkosh, Wis.; and Weston, Wis.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/16/trump-campaign-rallies-leave-a-trail-of-community-outbreaks/

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