Not sure how we got on the refrigerated trucks in the postal thread (lol, maybe it was me, haven't checked), but it might have had an impact on Trump ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...5c21f2-7215-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html
I didn't realize the hospital, which last week had 13 COVID-19 deaths in a 24 hour period, was one that Trump was intimately familiar with since his youth.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...5c21f2-7215-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html
Trump said he was convinced by data modeling presented to him by two physicians advising him on the pandemic — Anthony S. Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Deborah L. Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator — that the death rate in this country probably will not peak for another two weeks.
“Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the victory is won,” Trump said at his evening news conference. “That would be the greatest loss of all.”
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The prospect of 2 million deaths seemed to stick with Trump because he repeated the statistic 16 times at Sunday’s news conference.
But something else haunted Trump ...
This time, it was images of New York’s Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, where the president grew up — a facility he said he knows so well that he can picture the color of its exterior walls and the size of its windows.
“I’ve been watching that for the last week on television body bags all over in hallways,” Trump said. “I have been watching them bring in trailer trucks, freezer trucks — they are freezer trucks because they can’t handle the bodies, there are so many of them. This is essentially in my community in Queens — Queens, New York. I have seen things I’ve never seen before. I mean, I’ve seen them, but I’ve seen them on television in faraway lands.”
He added, “These are trucks that are as long as the Rose Garden and they are pulling up to take out bodies, and you look inside and you see the black body bags. You say, ‘What’s in there? It’s Elmhurst Hospital, must be supplies.’ It’s not supplies; it’s people.”
... And Trump on Sunday said for the first time that a friend, whom he did not name, is struggling to fight the disease.
“He’s a little older and he’s heavy, but he’s a tough person, and he went to the hospital and a day later he’s in a coma,” Trump said. “I go, ‘How’s he doing?’ ‘Sir, he’s in a coma. He’s unconscious. He’s not doing well.’ The speed and the viciousness, especially if it gets the right person, it’s horrible. It’s really horrible.”
I didn't realize the hospital, which last week had 13 COVID-19 deaths in a 24 hour period, was one that Trump was intimately familiar with since his youth.