The liberal media’s latest attempt to attack President Trump is to hysterically scream that the coronavirus has now killed more Americans than died in the Vietnam War. Sure, Trump didn’t send Americans into the pandemic and tens of thousands of Americans die from the flu every year, but this isn’t about reality; it’s to continue challenging the results of the 2016 election. I’d like to say this is peak-stupidity from the fake news industry, but they still have plenty of idiocy up their sleeves.
On Monday, New York magazine hack Olivia Nuzzi asked president Trump the single dumbest question in the history of moronic pseudo-journalism.
“If an American president loses more Americans over the course of six weeks than died over the entirety of the Vietnam War, does he deserve to be reelected?” Nuzzi asked.
It’s unclear why, but Trump treated this like a legitimate question and gave a decent answer.
“We’ve lost a lot of people but if you look at what original projections were — 2.2 million — we’re probably heading to 60,000, 70,000. It’s far too many. One person is far too many for this. And I think we’ve made a lot of really good decisions,” responded Trump.
And with that dumb question, the liberal media sprung into action to highlight the terrible comparison and false equivalency between the coronavirus pandemic and the Vietnam War.
The Hill:
Coronavirus death toll in US now exceeds that of Vietnam War
The coronavirus death toll in the U.S. officially exceeds the number of fatalities during the Vietnam War.
Johns Hopkins University’s death toll in the country reached 58,351 as of Tuesday night, surpassing the 58,220 who died during the Vietnam War that lasted almost 20 years, according to the National Archives.
But the rate of deaths during the so far three-month-long coronavirus pandemic outpaces the fatality rate during the deadliest year during the war, NPR reported. The current death rate reaches 17.6 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to in 1968, when 8.5 troops for every 100,000 residents were killed.
The Intercept:
In Just Months, the Coronavirus Has Killed More Americans Than 20 Years of War in Vietnam
It took 20 years, from 1955 to 1975, for the United States to lose 58,220 men and women to the nation’s most divisive conflict since the Civil War. In less than four months, just as many Americans have died from the Covid-19 pandemic — the toll, on Tuesday, hit 58,947, surpassing the total number killed in Southeast Asia. If this is indeed a war, as President Donald Trump has described it — in his words, “We’re waging a war against the invisible enemy” — a question can be asked: Where and how will the dead of this conflict be memorialized?
NPR:
Coronavirus Has Now Killed More Americans Than Vietnam War
In not even three months since the first known U.S. deaths from COVID-19, more lives have now been lost to the coronavirus pandemic on U.S. soil than the 58,220 Americans who died over nearly two decades in Vietnam.
Mother Jones:
More Americans Have Died of the Coronavirus Than in the Vietnam War
In a solemn milestone that highlights the historic nature of the pandemic, the death toll of the coronavirus in the United States has surpassed the number of American soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.
And New York magazine:
More Americans Have Now Died From the Coronavirus Than in the Vietnam War
On Tuesday, the pandemic in the United States reached a grim milestone, as more Americans have now died from the coronavirus than in the Vietnam War. In less three months since the first confirmed death, COVID-19 has killed 58,365 people in the United States according to Johns Hopkins University, surpassing the 58,220 U.S. military deaths in Vietnam.
Okay, so what? The Vietnam War and the coronavirus pandemic aren’t even a little bit related. One was a war that democrats got us involved with and the other is a deadly virus. Actually, the Chinese backed the North Vietnamese and unleashed the coronavirus on the world so they share that, but as far as blaming Trump, which these sad liberal media sources are trying to do, there’s nothing to it.
Nearly 60,000 Americans die from the flu every year but for some reason the liberal media has never tried to compare that to the death toll of the Vietnam War. Something like 400,000 Americans died of drug overdoses during Obama’s 8 years in the White House and no journalist every dared say he killed more people than the Civil War and WWI combined.
Here’s a handy list of annual cases of deaths from the CDC:
•Heart disease: 647,457
•Cancer: 599,108
•Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
•Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
•Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
•Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
•Diabetes: 83,564
•Influenza and pneumonia: 55,672
•Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,633
•Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173
Those numbers aren’t a one-time thing but something that happens every year in the United States. The coronavirus is on par with the flu and about a third of the annual deaths from respiratory illness.
Of course the coronavirus death toll doesn’t seem all that alarming when compared to the other leading causes of death and it doesn’t give the liberal media a chance to attack President Trump. That’s why the fake news industry has inorganically decided on this new narrative that the coronavirus is worse than the Vietnam War and Trump’s to blame.
