Tag Archives: COVID-19

I thought we could discuss Trump’s new health plan today — the one he promised to have signed into law yesterday — but apparently it doesn’t exist yet… In Trump’s defense, he’s only had 3.5 years.

By Mark | August 3, 2020

Before the election in 2016, Donald Trump promised the American people “something terrific” to replace the Affordable Care Act. “You’re going to have such great health care, at a tiny fraction of the cost — and it’s going to be so easy,” he said. Of course, it never came to fruition. Now in office for […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, Affordable Care Act, Axios, Barack Obama, Chris Wallace, Dear Michigan, Donald Trump, election promises, health care, health care reform, health insurance, Obamacare, preexisting conditions | 32 Comments

A communal response to a local conspiracy theorist

By Mark | August 2, 2020

As I don’t have very much time today, I thought that perhaps I could count you to help in drafting a response to the following comment, which was left on the site earlier this morning by one of our resident conspiracy theorists. If you want, we can take them sentence by sentence. As I’ve got […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, Barack Obama, biostatistics, CDC, China, civil unrest, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theory, Donald Trump, ebola, EOS, fear mongering, flu, golfing, identity politics, Jared Kushner, martial law, Michelle Obama, Monica Echeverri Casarez, power grid, Ron Fricker, TeleTracking Technologies | 179 Comments

Behind in the polls, Donald Trump threatens to delay the presidential election. One Republican cuts ties.

By Mark | July 30, 2020

This morning, citing the non-existent threat of mail-in voting, Donald Trump suggested that he may try to delay the upcoming election. And apparently this was the final straw for Steven G. Calabresi, a co-founder of the staunchly conservative Federalist Society. Upon reading this tweet of Trump’s, Calabresi drafted an opinion piece for the New York […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, Dave Catanese, Deep Root Analytics, Donald Trump, election fraud, election interference, Federalist Society, GDP, Joe Biden, martial law, police state, public health, Steven G. Calabresi, threats to Democracy, vote by mail | 28 Comments

Today in Stupid America: Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert gets diagnosed with COVID-19, says he probably got it because he was wearing a mask

By Mark | July 29, 2020

During our present pandemic, Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert, a diehard supporter of Donald Trump, has prided himself on not following public health guidance. And, not just that, but he’s known to have berated members of his staff for wearing masks in his office. Well, news broke today that Gohmert has COVID-19. And word has it […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged ebola, Hydroxychloroquine, infectious disease, Louie Gohmert, masks, Nancy Pelosi, public health, stupid Americans, stupidity, Texas | 200 Comments

As public health officials plead with Americans to wear masks to stop the spread of COVID-19, Donald Trump shares debunked videos of “demon sex” doctor claiming that masks aren’t necessary

By Mark | July 28, 2020

Yesterday, Facebook took down a video which was full of debunked claims about COVID-19. Shortly thereafter, Donald Trump began sharing clips from the same video with his 84.2 million followers on Twitter. Among other things, “experts” quoted in the video argue that masks don’t stop the spread of the disease, and that the antimalarial drug […]