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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Death Clock -- Times Square
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TrumpDeathClock
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May 13
The goal is to let numbers speak for themselves. They cut through the noise and circus of propaganda in the news cycles... What the numbers do to him [POTUS] is they demand accountability. In a pandemic every second counts. -@EugeneJarecki
https://buff.ly/2yRszLq #TrumpDeathClockLink to tweet
A digital billboard in New York Citys Times Square targeting President Donald Trumps early inaction on coronavirus reached a grave milestone on Wednesday, as it ticked over to an estimated 50,000 preventable deaths.
The Trump Death Clock projects a running count of deaths, which according to two leading epidemiologists, could have been avoided had social distancing measures been implemented earlier.
Eugene Jarecki, the Emmy and Peabody award-winning director behind political documentaries, such as Why We Fight and The House I Live In and the signs creator, said the counter was in the same symbolic spirit as the National Debt Clock, which already hangs in the city. The Death Clock, he said, measures the cost in human lives of President Trump and his teams reckless handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Epidemiologists Dr. Britta L. Jewell and Nicolas P. Jewell estimated a 60% reduction in deaths had mitigation measures been enacted on March 9. Although experts sounded the alarm as early as January, Trump was still downplaying the coronavirus at the end of February and on the March 9 milestone he was comparing it with the common flu.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-death-clock-coronavirus_n_5ebcc277c5b688822a57349e
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Trump Death Clock -- Times Square (Original Post)
TheBlackAdder
May 2020
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This is the estimated death count that was preventable, if Trump wasn't such a fuck up!
TheBlackAdder
May 2020
#3
This is 10,000 Benghazi's. The difference is, the GOP was the ones who cut embassy security.
TheBlackAdder
May 2020
#5
MontanaMama
(23,364 posts)1. Kick.
Fucking A. Hang this around the orange one's neck. Forever.
Me.
(35,454 posts)2. I Thought There Have Been Over 85,000+ Deaths
TheBlackAdder
(28,234 posts)3. This is the estimated death count that was preventable, if Trump wasn't such a fuck up!
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)4. K&R!!!! n/t
TheBlackAdder
(28,234 posts)5. This is 10,000 Benghazi's. The difference is, the GOP was the ones who cut embassy security.
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They own both sets of deaths. One they blame on Obama & Clinton. The other on Obama!
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captain queeg
(10,273 posts)6. I'm loving the Lincoln Project's videos on YouTube
Its good to see people posting the truth.
mahina
(17,721 posts)7. Is that thing real? Micheal Lewis in his interview on Al Franken's podcast said we needed that.
Perfect.