# Trump would like us all to stop talking so much about the pandemic **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 26, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938 "2020-10-26T14:18:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/21 "2020-10-26T19:20:47Z")
Can someone tell my brother that? He thinks we worry too much about COVID, hates wearing a mask, and talks about it all the time. (He keeps trying to highlight mask hypocrisy.) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/22 "2020-10-26T19:42:10Z")
Covid, Covid, Covid Covid, Covid, Covid Covid, Covid, Covid Covid, Covid, Covid Newsroom! Newsroom! > **[Weebl – Badger Badger Badger](https://genius.com/Weebl-badger-badger-badger-lyrics)** > > Badger, badger, badger / Badger, badger, badger / Badger, badger, badger / Badger, badger, badger / Mushroom, mushroom / A badger, badger / Badger, badger, badger / Badger, badger An outbreak, an outbreak, outbreak! An outbreeeeak! Oooh an Outbreak! ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/23 "2020-10-26T20:09:21Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I can keep this up all day, what with being home on quarantine due to having COVID. Ah, damn, @Broomstick, I’m sorry to hear it finally got you. I hope your case is mild and that you recover without being a #longhauler. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/24 "2020-10-26T20:11:58Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > That clown said a plane went down with 500 people dead and nobody’s talking about it? Interesting. When’s the last time there was a plane crash with 500 fatalities? Maybe the reason nobody’s talking about it is that instead of pulling his head out of his ass, he just pulled that “statistics” from there. > > Japan Airways Flight 123, August 12, 1985, unless you want to count the people in the Twin Towers on 9/11, in which case September 11, 2001. > > Possibly surprising, but there have only been 2 air disasters (apart from 9/11) with more than 500 casualties, and only 4 more with over 300 casualties. > [List of deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_accidents_and_incidents_resulting_in_at_least_50_fatalities) How many plane models are actually capable of carrying 500 passengers? I thought even the big ones doing intercontinental or transcontinental flights were in the 300-350 range. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/25 "2020-10-26T20:17:24Z")
[https://www.aerotime.aero/aerotime.extra/22857-top-largest-passenger-aircraft](https://www.aerotime.aero/aerotime.extra/22857-top-largest-passenger-aircraft) Capacity is around 400 all the way to 850. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/26 "2020-10-26T20:23:18Z")
🎼 Covid. Nothing more than Covid. Trying to forget my feelings of dread. COOOOVID… Woah, Woah, Woah, COOOVID… ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/27 "2020-10-26T20:40:57Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I can keep this up all day, what with being home on quarantine due to having COVID. Oh, just to clarify, that early reply was directed to Trump, not you; I hope you get better. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/28 "2020-10-26T21:26:24Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Must be a pretty effective conspiracy on the part of the MSM. I can’t find a single word about any airliner crashes (certainly none with 500 deaths) since the pandemic began. They’ve hidden the news about that even better than they did the Bowling Green Massacre. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/29 "2020-10-26T21:37:03Z")
> [@solost](#): > > trump said about the virus in a recent rally "“That’s all I hear about now. Turn on TV, ‘Covid, Covid, Covid Covid Covid.’ A plane goes down, 500 people dead, they don’t talk about it.” > > WTF? Hell yes, a plane crash is taken very seriously. How can anybody hear him say things like that and still think “sure, that’s a perfectly sane, functional leader”. He knows to whom he speaks. Trumpists are morons of staggering measure. Look at it like this, he’s got those idiots PROUD to stand maskless in crowds during a devastating pandemic none of has ever seen before. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/30 "2020-10-26T21:42:03Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > They’ve hidden the news about that even better than they did the Bowling Green Massacre. Here you go: [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/6xv3Fwg.png?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/lvdyfUJ) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/31 "2020-10-26T21:49:25Z")
Or you can tweet it. > ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/32 "2020-10-27T01:13:58Z")
Hee. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/33 "2020-10-27T01:19:52Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Donald Trump’s strained relationship with the reality of the coronavirus pandemic > … I would like to amend the opening line of the OP to “Donald Trump’s strained relationship with ~~the~~ reality ~~of the coronavirus pandemic~~ …” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/34 "2020-10-28T09:54:29Z")
In their latest podcast, 538’s Nate Silver vociferously wondered aloud why Trump is FEEDING the media focus on COVID by complaining about it. Nate: “It would be like if, exactly four years ago, Hillary kept shouting “EMAILS! EMAILS! EMAILS! Not fair. EMAILS!” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/35 "2020-10-28T11:04:25Z")
Obviously we should be talking about the pandemic. But to be fair, I kind of agree with Trump: It sometimes feels like that’s all anyone is talking about. Not just in the news, but everywhere. It’d be nice to be able to take a break and think about something else for at least a little while. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/36 "2020-10-28T12:17:46Z")
Chronos, I agree with you on that. Each of us has some control over how we let it dominate our thoughts and days, and that might mean taking a break from all media from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/37 "2020-10-28T12:31:21Z")
It is pretty big news that affects us all. It would be like if two airliners crashed each and every day (just in the US, with a few more crashing around the globe as well). Of course it’s going to permeate the news. OTOH, there are plenty of other stories out there that do attract _my_ attention, at least. We are bringing back a sample from an asteroid, that’s cool; Space X is still doing interesting things; Critical Role is making new episodes; and of course, for the next week or more, the election will also be in everyone’s minds. That said, I’m wearing a mask right now as I type this, and everyone I see around me is as well. It’s pretty hard to ignore, this relatively minor, yet very visual and pervasive, reminder of the epidemiological threat that we are all under. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/38 "2020-10-28T12:59:24Z")
Apparently, there’s every reason **to** stop talking about it: > **[White House science office says Trump ended COVID-19 pandemic as US hits...](https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/523013-white-house-science-office-says-trump-ended-covid-pandemic-as-us-hits/)** > > The White House science office listed “ending the COVID-19 pandemic” as the top accomplishment of President Trump’s first term, even as the U.S. has set records for new daily… Yeah. It’s over. It’s over and we won. See “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” banner, and that oh-so-hot Commander In Chief in a bomber jacket tout suite. I dunno’ about the rest of you but I view this as amazing news. That pandemic really sucked ! :barf: ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/39 "2020-10-28T18:36:00Z")
We’re entering the worst outbreak yet for COIVD in our country. I’m not tired of hearing about it. I’d like it to be a drumbeat a) until the election is over and b) until the dumbasses who are STILL arguing that it’s not worse than the flu or MAH FREEDOM get a clue and stop trying to kill the rest of us. It’s infuriating that this could have been done months ago and that hundreds of thousands of people have died because absolutely selfish idiots couldn’t wait a few more weeks to get back to “normal”. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938/40 "2020-10-28T19:27:49Z")
Remember back when he took office and Trump took credit for the fact that there had not been a fatal plane crash in the US in years? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-would-like-us-all-to-stop-talking-so-much-about-the-pandemic/923938.md?page=3)