Biden Promises To ‘Shut Down The Virus’ If Elected | MSNBC

Joe Biden campaigned at a drive-in rally in Coconut Creek, Fl. and slammed President Trump for his response to the coronavirus pandemic. Biden promised "I'm, not going to shut down the economy, I'm not going to shut down the country, but I am going to shut down the virus." Aired on 10/29/2020.
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Biden Promises To 'Shut Down The Virus' If Elected | MSNBC

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    1. Biden wouldn’t have banned China flights killing millions. Trump shut them down when we had ONE case. Deaths are down 18%. 2020’s attributed COVID-19 deaths were equivalent to having another 2017-2018 flu and pneumonia season boosted by 13 percent. It might seem odd that testing numbers are going up even as attributed deaths drop. But this paradox is largely due to the fact that we do so much testing. Deaths re-peaked in late July as the virus spread in southern states for the first time. They have been dropping rapidly since. If the current rate of decline holds, attributed deaths will drop to a background level by the end of October. Even calling positive tests “cases” overstates the problem. True cases are active illnesses that need treatment. But by now most people testing positive are asymptomatic or have only mild illness. That’s the real lead in this story: Fewer people are dying and more people are recovering with few or no problems. So why does the press keep burying it?

  1. We need a President who can tell the TRUTH, who acknowledges SCIENCE and will put SAVING LIVES above all else, including himself.
    BIDEN-HARRIS 2020!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
    🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

    1. @Mr. Precedent You’re describing Joe Biden… October surprise coming… wait for it 😃
      tinyurl.com/y6z494yu 😳

    2. What Biden has done in 47. years? Democratic party against USA army, against USA police. Democratic party make China great

    3. So Your Not Referring To Chairman Biden? Poketing Deemp Cash
      “I follow the Truth and Not the facts” I thought so!

    1. @Jasmany Foch NOTHING!!! But don’t worry, in year 48 of sucking on the public t’t, Biden will come out of his basement and revive the country like grandma Killer Cuomo has done in New York. It is as obvious as the sun rising tomorrow.

    2. @river rat They had to remind him a few times that it’s a Presidential race… the Dems should be ashamed for running dementia Joe.

  2. For the first time ever, the prestigious journal “Scientific American” has endorsed a candidate for president: Joe Biden. It did so because, it says, “Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its people — because he rejects evidence and science.”

    1. @Drake Fire tell me who tries to keep Republicans in charge?
      Oh, you mean the majority of Americans who see through the leftist bs..
      The conservatives can see right through the bought and paid for Hollywood actors, the professional athletes, the msm and all who conspire to brainwash everyone into their socilaist agenda..

    2. BS. Fauci said in January the virus wouldn’t be a problem for the US. The WHO said there was no human to human transmission. Trump shut down flights when we had ONE case. He closed the economy. which should have never happened. Biden will shut it down again. The numbers are inflated, always were. Deaths are down 18%. 2020’s attributed COVID-19 deaths were equivalent to having another 2017-2018 flu and pneumonia season boosted by 13 percent. It might seem odd that testing numbers are going up even as attributed deaths drop. But this paradox is largely due to the fact that we do so much testing. Deaths re-peaked in late July as the virus spread in southern states for the first time. They have been dropping rapidly since. If the current rate of decline holds, attributed deaths will drop to a background level by the end of October. Even calling positive tests “cases” overstates the problem. True cases are active illnesses that need treatment. But by now most people testing positive are asymptomatic or have only mild illness. That’s the real lead in this story: Fewer people are dying and more people are recovering with few or no problems. So why does the press keep burying it?

    3. @Jeff Woods Is that why Republicans have had to rely on the EC and the courts to give them wins since the turn of the century?

      And please, keep whining about something you don’t understand. All you know about Socialism is that Republicans told you it was bad.

      While Republicans take the cash from your pockets, giving it to the rich. Republicans practice socialism. The worst kind of it. Corperate socialism.

    1. all you will have is a civil war. and I know which side wins. I pity your kids have to go through it. Trump will be laughing from the golf course you know….

    2. @michael boultinghouse laughing at the golf course? He be leading us red blooded Americans who won’t surrender to the new world order. Laugh all you want. Someday and it’s coming, you’ll get your way and you’re going to regret it but, by then it’ll all be too late to turn back. Trump keeps the power balanced, democrats salivate for power.

    3. @Gary Norton Trump wont even be in picture, he will return to business and perhaps a talk show on cable, what is going to replace him is the equivalent of the IRA or the Viet Cong. and these marxists are going to remain in power about as long as Joe McCarthy did. and i pity what happens to their children. And all because “Orange Man Bad–CNN said so”

  3. Don’t trust the polls. People lie on polls. VOTE. We need to get our country and our lives back. VOTE BLUE. Stay safe and stay well. Thanks. Greetings from a senior citizen in Texas. I am a former republican, who unfortunately voted that way in 2016, voted a straight BLUE BALLOT in Texas. I hope that others will follow and vote BLUE.

    1. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
      *Radical left and Big Tech are the self appointed guardians of free speech and independent thought*

      – Leftist media refuse to cover or challenge Biden’s mental capacity and fitness to run this country
      – They refuse to cover potentially the biggest story of the year with a presidential candidate potentially bought and sold to China
      – Despite thousands of emails and hundreds of pictures on Hunter’s laptop, as well as a whistleblower who has come forward with cell phones and another laptop, media still selling a ridiculous Russia disinformation story
      – They block, delete and suspend accounts on social media that run counter to their ideology. NY Post is the oldest newspaper in the US and still blocked on Twitter for the Biden laptop. They just censored the Girl Scouts for tweeting a congrats to ACB. Trump supporters comments deleted on YouTube. Out of control
      – They wear a thinly veiled veneer as a news outlet when everyone can clearly see their bias in covering the presidential election
      – Biased coverage and support by Biden of riots encouraged violence vs. law enforcement and now they’re trying to flip the script on Trump asa divisive leader

      _Dems would rather see this nation burn than see 4 more years of Trump_

      *DRAIN THE SWAMP*
      *TRUMP 2020*

      🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    1. @John David dude even putin told Trump Hunter Biden did nothing illegal he’d already ditching Trump!

    2. Joe Biden: “I’m not gonna shut down the economy, but I AM gonna shut down the virus!”
      Random person: “How ya gonna do that Joe?”
      Joe Biden: “By shutting down the economy!”

    3. ​@BoximusPrime 10 <- A very typical brainwashed zombie sheep libtard, or advance TDS stage 4

    4. @The Handsome Supreme Lord Emperor Donald J. Trump hope you’re just being ironic with that username of yours

    1. @Pay Attention a vaccine is coming, and truth be told, many people will not even need it, and Trump has done nothing against you, so respect him and love him.
      vote red.

    1. Trump didn’t created the mess he prevailed it.

      Every election the political correctness makes a thousand promises but when election over, Soros bringing his stick, then they will forget their promises and let the elites controlling the American peoples.

  4. Well, any competent politician would’ve handled it and slid into an easy re-election. Donald Trump is not competent.

    1. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
      *Radical left and Big Tech are the self appointed guardians of free speech and independent thought*

      – Leftist media refuse to cover or challenge Biden’s mental capacity and fitness to run this country
      – They refuse to cover potentially the biggest story of the year with a presidential candidate potentially bought and sold to China
      – Despite thousands of emails and hundreds of pictures on Hunter’s laptop, as well as a whistleblower who has come forward with cell phones and another laptop, media still selling a ridiculous Russia disinformation story
      – They block, delete and suspend accounts on social media that run counter to their ideology. NY Post is the oldest newspaper in the US and still blocked on Twitter for the Biden laptop. They just censored the Girl Scouts for tweeting a congrats to ACB. Trump supporters comments deleted on YouTube. Out of control
      – They wear a thinly veiled veneer as a news outlet when everyone can clearly see their bias in covering the presidential election
      – Biased coverage and support by Biden of riots encouraged violence vs. law enforcement and now they’re trying to flip the script on Trump asa divisive leader

      _Dems would rather see this nation burn than see 4 more years of Trump_

      *DRAIN THE SWAMP*
      *TRUMP 2020*

      🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    2. Biden called Trump xenophobic for shutting down flights from China. They were predicting 2 million deaths. Trump saved all those people. Deaths are down 18%. 2020’s attributed COVID-19 deaths were equivalent to having another 2017-2018 flu and pneumonia season boosted by 13 percent. It might seem odd that testing numbers are going up even as attributed deaths drop. But this paradox is largely due to the fact that we do so much testing. Deaths re-peaked in late July as the virus spread in southern states for the first time. They have been dropping rapidly since. If the current rate of decline holds, attributed deaths will drop to a background level by the end of October. Even calling positive tests “cases” overstates the problem. True cases are active illnesses that need treatment. But by now most people testing positive are asymptomatic or have only mild illness. That’s the real lead in this story: Fewer people are dying and more people are recovering with few or no problems. So why does the press keep burying it?

    1. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
      _BIDEN LAWYERED UP HIS WORDS ON THE SECOND PREZ DEBATE_
      BIDEN CLAIMS HE HAS *NOT **_TAKEN A PENNY_* FROM ANY FOREIGN SOURCE.
      BUT HE WAS *_GIVEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS_* FROM CHINA, RUSSIA & UKRAINE.
      🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    2. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
      *Radical left and Big Tech are the self appointed guardians of free speech and independent thought*

      – Leftist media refuse to cover or challenge Biden’s mental capacity and fitness to run this country
      – They refuse to cover potentially the biggest story of the year with a presidential candidate potentially bought and sold to China
      – Despite thousands of emails and hundreds of pictures on Hunter’s laptop, as well as a whistleblower who has come forward with cell phones and another laptop, media still selling a ridiculous Russia disinformation story
      – They block, delete and suspend accounts on social media that run counter to their ideology. NY Post is the oldest newspaper in the US and still blocked on Twitter for the Biden laptop. They just censored the Girl Scouts for tweeting a congrats to ACB. Trump supporters comments deleted on YouTube. Out of control
      – They wear a thinly veiled veneer as a news outlet when everyone can clearly see their bias in covering the presidential election
      – Biased coverage and support by Biden of riots encouraged violence vs. law enforcement and now they’re trying to flip the script on Trump asa divisive leader

      _Dems would rather see this nation burn than see 4 more years of Trump_

      *DRAIN THE SWAMP*
      *TRUMP 2020*

      🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    3. A little homework for democrats. Compare virus deaths in blue states vs. red states then compare blue states vs. red states in state deficits after virus. Telling

    1. You Vote for Biden and it is your Death Wish. Biden will implement New York on a National level. Lock downs, Forces Vaccinations, Antifa, BLM running through the your neighbor streets and destroying business. You will need to find a cave to hide from when he/Kamala are finished.

    2. @Gary Norton and H1N1 too..only 22 million infected from the US..many deaths but, no accountability for dumbama..

    1. @Dan Renolds Bidens 1994 Prion Act is 26 year old So True! your very smart! And Trump had to Fix it! Chairman Biden and O baby Ma did Nothing!

    2. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
      *Radical left and Big Tech are the self appointed guardians of free speech and independent thought*

      – Leftist media refuse to cover or challenge Biden’s mental capacity and fitness to run this country
      – They refuse to cover potentially the biggest story of the year with a presidential candidate potentially bought and sold to China
      – Despite thousands of emails and hundreds of pictures on Hunter’s laptop, as well as a whistleblower who has come forward with cell phones and another laptop, media still selling a ridiculous Russia disinformation story
      – They block, delete and suspend accounts on social media that run counter to their ideology. NY Post is the oldest newspaper in the US and still blocked on Twitter for the Biden laptop. They just censored the Girl Scouts for tweeting a congrats to ACB. Trump supporters comments deleted on YouTube. Out of control
      – They wear a thinly veiled veneer as a news outlet when everyone can clearly see their bias in covering the presidential election
      – Biased coverage and support by Biden of riots encouraged violence vs. law enforcement and now they’re trying to flip the script on Trump asa divisive leader

      _Dems would rather see this nation burn than see 4 more years of Trump_

      *DRAIN THE SWAMP*
      *TRUMP 2020*

      🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  5. Sounds like a President WE NEED! Please, Republicans, Vote Blue even just one time, to save YOU and Me !! Please.. This is about You and me, Not Politics…..
    God Bless~

    1. @Chi-raq Picker me neither he is a moron, who wants to control your lives and tell you what you can and cannot do, take our freedoms and rights away.

    2. I am voting for the principles for which this country has stood since it’s founding. I am voting for Constitutional government, for a strong and viable military. Voting for law and order, to punish people for rioting and destroying other people’s property and for a vibrant economy. I am voting for the right to keep and bear arms and for the freedom to worship when and where I want. I am voting for a national recognition of the founding of our nation on Biblical principles and for the ability for anyone to rise above their circumstances and become successful. For my children and grandchildren to be able to choose their own path in life, including how and where their children are schooled and educated. I am for our borders to be open to everyone who enters under our law and closed to everyone who would circumvent or ignore the law. I want the Electoral College to remain in place, so that a few heavily populated liberal centers on the coasts do not control the elections. To have a Supreme Court that interprets the Constitution rather than rewrites it. I am voting to teach American history, with all of its warts, not erase it or revise it and for the sanctity of life from conception to birth and after.
      Now, there are some things I am voting against. I am voting against open borders. Against a rampant welfare system that enslaves its recipients, against socialism, in all of its forms, including health care, redistribution, reparations, economics, governmental control and pedophilia. I would rather pay for prison reform then see the criminals released for no reason to repeatedly commit the same crimes!
      So, although I don’t give blanket approval to everything our President has done or said in the past, I do support him as our president! I am not voting against Joe Biden, but I am voting against every thing that his party stands for. It is not the Democratic Party of the past.

  6. He said soon as he get in the White House he’s going to focus on the coronavirus I’m voting for him Biden 2020 and I believe he will fix the economy

  7. BREAKING: The FBI has an active criminal investigation into the Biden family and their business associates that is focused on money laundering.

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