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I literally copied a transcript of one of Trump's answers when he was holding his COVID briefings (from whitehouse.gov) and sent it to myTrumplicant sister-in-law and challenged her to decipher it. I never got an answer. And the sad fact is that it doesn't matter what Trump literally says. All of supporters just "know" what he means. As …
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I literally copied a transcript of one of Trump's answers when he was holding his COVID briefings (from WhiteHouse.gov) and sent it to myTrumplicant sister-in-law and challenged her to decipher it. I never got an answer. And the sad fact is that it doesn't matter what Trump literally says. All of supporters just "know" what he means. As long as it's bombastic and nasty-sounding, that's good enough. Such is the nature of cults.
Do you still have it? I would like to see it - to add to my collection!
Q And what is your plan, sir, for government workers? Are you moving for the government as well to start doing more teleworking?
THE PRESIDENT: We are. And we’re doing — we’re using the medical term of “telemedicine,” and it’s been incredibly busy and, really, you know, where people don’t have to — I mean, some people can’t do it anyway. They can’t get up; they can’t see a doctor. But we’re using this, and it’s been telehealth — different names. And I will tell you that it’s been really successful, and it’s helped a lot of people out, where they don’t have to and they can’t. And even from a safety reason, if they are positive, they are — if they are feeling poorly, they can’t do it, or we don’t want them transmitting anything to anybody else.
My Response: Just read Trump’s response a few times. What does it mean that “telemedicine has been incredibly busy”? Does he mean that a lot of people are using telemedicine? That might be good, but the question was about teleworking, not telemedicine. Then he says something about “people can’t do it anyway”. What is he even talking about? I assume he means that some people feel so bad that they can’t go out to the doctor. Why not just say that? Then he shifts to calling it “telehealth” with his usual caveat that “telehealth” and “telemedicine” are really the same thing (they aren’t). And I’m guessing that what Trump wanted to say in the last sentence is that from a safety perspective even if people are feeling good if they test positive we don’t want them going out because they might transmit the disease to someone else. But that is just a guess given the word-salad nature of what he actually did say.
The ignorance isn't just contagious, it's metastatic as well. Once it gets into the gullible, it spreads faster than crabgrass.