Four Years Ago Today: Friday April 3, 2020 Trump announces the CDC is now recommending that Americans wear cloth masks in public. But - fatefully - Trump undermines the message by saying he won't personally be wearing one and appears to sneer at the practice. 1/2

Friday April 3, 2020 Trump announces the CDC is now recommending that Americans wear cloth masks in public. But - fatefully - Trump undermines the message by saying he won't personally be wearing one and appears to sneer at the practice. 1/2

Trump: "It's going to be really a voluntary thing. You can do it, you don’t have to do it. I’m choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it and that’s OK." The politicization of masking begins here. 2/2

Later that year, a Harvard epidemiologist would estimate that several thousand people died because of these remarks. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Calculating possible fallout of Trump’s face mask remarksnews.harvard.edu Looking at the public health effects, and perhaps mortality rate, from President Trump’s running dismissal of wearing face masks to minimize the spread of coronavirus.

It seems to me there's a correlation between people who voted for him, people that listened to him, and people who died before they could vote for him again

There is.

What about rather several hundreds thousands?

This. 💯

Superimpose "Trump was terrified that COVID would make him personally look bad" on pretty much everything he touched in 2020 and apparently crazy things sadly make sense.

When I think of Trump at the Resolute Desk I imagine him down on his knees day after day trying to find the secret drawer from National Treasure

Greeting dictators

"It's better to look good than to feel good"

He really loved that desk.

Good times.

"That's okay" he says as his followers put up signs that say you will be shot if you wear a mask. www.ksdk.com/article/news...

'If they're scared of COVID, go home' | Jefferson County gun store bans masks as coronavirus concerns growwww.ksdk.com Coronavirus update: At least one local business - a gun store - has banned masks inside, arguing safety — a claim some potential customers don't buy.

He found out that masks ruined his makeup, and instead of just keeping a makeup artist nearby, he decided it would be better to spread the plague

And a couple of extra tens of thousands die because he didn’t want to mess up his make up and did not care about the example he set.

And all because of his vanity and the bronzer it demands.

I'd say this was one of his biggest disasters. Ground zero of the anti mask thing.

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