Monday’s press conference represents not merely a return to Trump’s prior medical quackery, but a deepening of what can only be characterized as a policy of deliberate social murder that has developed throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

President Donald Trump conducted a White House press conference on Monday that stands as the most sweeping assault on science and public health by any sitting president, perhaps only matched by Trump’s infamous April 2020 coronavirus briefing, when he encouraged Americans to inject disinfectant and use ultraviolet light inside their bodies. This latest spectacle represents a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration’s broader war against science, medicine and healthcare policy.

  • Beryl@jlai.lu
    105·
    3 months ago

    Throughout the hour-long briefing, Trump demonstrated disturbing signs of neurological decline, repeating variations of the phrases “don’t take Tylenol,” “don’t give Tylenol to your child after it’s born,” and “separate the vaccines” literally dozens of times in an unhinged, repetitive pattern that suggested possible dementia or other neurological degeneration. His rambling, often incoherent statements included this verbatim declaration:

    “Let’s do it now. Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen. But with Tylenol, don’t take it. Don’t take it! And if you can’t live, if your fever is so bad, you have to take one, because there’s no alternative to that, sadly. First question: what can you take instead? It’s actually, there’s not an alternative to that. And as you know, other of the medicines are absolutely proven bad. I mean they’ve been proven bad, with the Aspirins and the Advils and others, right? And they’ve been proven bad.”

    • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works
      28·
      3 months ago

      Listen… We’re all pretty fed up with this shit, you’re goddamn right about that. But we’re all rooting for you guys, like YOU guys, the ones with brains. All of us out here looking in want the good guys to win and the bad guys to lose.

      Right now it’s in your hands though, you guys need to do something about it, eh?

      We all don’t want this to become our problem

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      16·
      3 months ago

      It is a silly place, with silly people doing silly things. Except replace silly with evil, and we get closer to the truth.

  • merdaverse@lemmy.zip
    24·
    3 months ago

    I got a sudden urge to re-watch Idiocracy, but I think it will be too mild compared to this.

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
        11·
        3 months ago

        Yeah idocracy was set 500 years in the future and had a leader that actually tried to give a shit about his people. Now the movie’s distopa looks good compared to where the current us is, the terrible sexist stupid future the movie depicted was at least somewhat just and fair. The current trajectory of the States seems like idiotocracy but mean.

        “Welcome to Costco, I love you”

  • HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip
    17·
    3 months ago

    The poor hamster running on a wheel to power Trump’s brain had a heart attack and limped along anyway