Experience is supposed to be the best teacher, but the lessons of Covid-19 are lost on President Donald Trump.That, in a nutshell, was the reaction of several still-grieving Americans a day after Trump was released from the hospital and declared, "Don't be afraid of Covid.""Don’t let it dominate your life," Trump tweeted. "We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!"Brian Gonzalez, a New Yorker whose father, Jose Hector Gonzalez, languished in a hospital for two months before the coronavirus killed him on May 11, said he was taken aback by Trump's boasting about "feeling really good" and the great medical care he received.“It is almost poetic that he has it," Gonzalez, who hails from the Washington Heights neighborhood in Manhattan, said of Trump's infection. "But I think he exists in this bubble and doesn’t understand, or doesn’t want to understand, how bad this is. As president, he has the best medical care you can find, and I think he’s under the impression that everybody gets the same kind of medical treatment.”“It is very frustrating that he cannot seem to empathize with anybody,” Gonzalez added.The elder Gonzalez was a 58-year-old former freedom fighter in El Salvador who became a playwright and sang in numerous choirs in New York and worked for the Oxford University Press, according to his obituary. He was barely breathing in March when he was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, his son said.“He was in the hospital for a very long time," Gonzalez said of his father. "He had no pre-existing conditions and was healthy, especially when compared to President Trump, who is 74 and very overweight.""So it just feels so unfair that he (Trump) is released and my father wasn’t," Gonzalez said. "How unlucky my father was. He was just an unlucky person who got it.”But Gonzalez made clear that he did not wish his father's fate on the president.“I don’t want him to die,” Gonzalez said of Trump. “You just hope and pray he will someday realize that this pandemic was bigger and more dangerous than he’s been telling everybody.”'Maybe I'm immune': Trump posts video from White House after returning from Walter ReedOct. 6, 202001:30That appears unlikely. Trump on Tuesday once again downplayed the Covid-19 danger and undermined public health officials by tweeting out the false claim that the coronavirus was as deadly as the flu.More than 211,000 people in the United States have died from Covid-19, for which a vaccine is still being tested, the latest NBC News figures show. From 24,000 to 62,000 people died from the flu, despite there being a vaccine, from October 2019 to April, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.Helen Goldlewski Brownfield lost her father, Richard "Rysiek" Godlewski, to the coronavirus in May. Born outside of Vilnius when the Lithuanian capital was part of Poland, he had been among the hundreds of thousands of Poles who were
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Experience is supposed to be the best teacher, but the lessons of Covid-19 are lost on President Donald Trump.That, in a nutshell, was the reaction of several still-grieving Americans a day after Trump was released from the hospital and declared, "Don't be afraid of Covid.""Don’t let it dominate your life," Trump tweeted. "We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!"Brian Gonzalez, a New Yorker whose father, Jose Hector Gonzalez, languished in a hospital for two months before the coronavirus killed him on May 11, said he was taken aback by Trump's boasting about "feeling really good" and the great medical care he received.“It is almost poetic that he has it," Gonzalez, who hails from the Washington Heights neighborhood in Manhattan, said of Trump's infection. "But I think he exists in this bubble and doesn’t understand, or doesn’t want to understand, how bad this is. As president, he has the best medical care you can find, and I think he’s under the impression that everybody gets the same kind of medical treatment.”“It is very frustrating that he cannot seem to empathize with anybody,” Gonzalez added.The elder Gonzalez was a 58-year-old former freedom fighter in El Salvador who became a playwright and sang in numerous choirs in New York and worked for the Oxford University Press, according to his obituary. He was barely breathing in March when he was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, his son said.“He was in the hospital for a very long time," Gonzalez said of his father. "He had no pre-existing conditions and was healthy, especially when compared to President Trump, who is 74 and very overweight.""So it just feels so unfair that he (Trump) is released and my father wasn’t," Gonzalez said. "How unlucky my father was. He was just an unlucky person who got it.”But Gonzalez made clear that he did not wish his father's fate on the president.“I don’t want him to die,” Gonzalez said of Trump. “You just hope and pray he will someday realize that this pandemic was bigger and more dangerous than he’s been telling everybody.”'Maybe I'm immune': Trump posts video from White House after returning from Walter ReedOct. 6, 202001:30That appears unlikely. Trump on Tuesday once again downplayed the Covid-19 danger and undermined public health officials by tweeting out the false claim that the coronavirus was as deadly as the flu.More than 211,000 people in the United States have died from Covid-19, for which a vaccine is still being tested, the latest NBC News figures show. From 24,000 to 62,000 people died from the flu, despite there being a vaccine, from October 2019 to April, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.Helen Goldlewski Brownfield lost her father, Richard "Rysiek" Godlewski, to the coronavirus in May. Born outside of Vilnius when the Lithuanian capital was part of Poland, he had been among the hundreds of thousands of Poles who were
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