Everyone knows by now that Trump is a blatant serial liar. He also can’t add.

The latest test score comes from Ohio yesterday. Trump flew into Dayton International Airport Monday night for a rambling rally digression. Speaking of COVID-19, he articulated:

“It affects elderly people, elderly people with heart problems, if they have other problems, that’s what it really affects, in some states thousands of people — nobody young — below the age of 18, like nobody — they have a strong immune system — who knows?” Mr. Trump said.

“It affects virtually nobody,” he added. “It’s an amazing thing — by the way, open your schools!”

Here in Louisiana for instance we have been hit hard by COVID-19, not once but twice already and are just starting to claw back to bearable numbers. Remember we are solid Red for President territory; there’s a Trump loving majority hereabouts.

What about our Covid Age Distribution? Here is the information in, like, real numbers and also some graphs, and a pie chart.

Since the first case on March 9, 2020 we have suffered a total of 162,214 confirmed cases here in our Great State (sadly).

Here is the breakdown in real numbers, and the percentage by age groups.

So, it turns out the elderly, of all stripes, medical pre-conditions or not, make up just 12% of all cases here. What’s that you say?

So, 88% of our citizens with the illness are not elderly. Trump thinks 88% don’t count in Louisiana. Similarly, young people below the age of 18 make up more than 9% of Louisiana cases. So, Trump also thinks 9% of Louisiana is virtually nobody.

There are still 30%-40% of Folks out there who still buy this rap. For the less numerate of Trump partisans here is the simple pie version of Covid and Age in Louisiana.

As any first grader can see, the 70+ piece of pie is not the biggest. In fact, of the seven pieces of Age Pie on offer, it is only number 5 in the size department. That’s not a winner.

For those with a bit more math skill, here is the same data in a horizontal bar chart. The results are the same. Whether you look at the numbers themselves, a vertical bar chart, a horizontal bar chart, or the elemental pie chart, the elderly in Louisiana make up only 12% of our case burden. They are not the only ones affected. Those in their Twenties, Thirties, Forties, and Fifties are all more affected by total case counts. Sixties are affected less by just 0.2%.

Plain as the nose on your face.

Trump.45’s simpleton, black or white, one thing at a time understanding and approach is as much a danger to our Nation during this pandemic as the virus itself.

Covid Memorial at Washington Monument 09/22/20

Of course, Trump.45 can and does think whatever he wants. That doesn’t make it so when the facts contradict. Repeating a lie 200 times doesn’t make it any more true. Especially when there are 200,000 graves silently shaming the lies, over and over again. And the disgraceful and tragic US death count increases at an average of 800 per day, while the new confirmed cases increase at an average of more than 40,000 cases every single day, twice the lowest rate in June. Pat on the Back there, Buddy. Great Job, Mr. President.

When the facts and the science are plum set against you, go for the Big Lie. Trump.45’s trademark in stock.

John Allen Paulos wrote the modern bible on innumeracy in 1988. He is Professor of Mathematics at Temple in Philadelphia, where Trump was supposedly educated across town at Penn. They are contemporaries, born one year apart; Paulos in 1945. And Paulos received his undergraduate (1967) and Ph.D. degrees (1974) from the University of Wisconsin. Small World of Battleground States.

It is a perhaps semi gratuitous swipe to title this blog entry a Baldy Lie. But Paulos provides the Trumpian hook.

View with mirth a Paulos Tweet from August 2018 commenting on Trump, the Emperor, and Hair. With a revealing attached picture.

Here is the full Trump picture from the Pauos Tweet. It that doesn’t define Bald Coverup, what would? All in jest, but not in fun. Trump’s lies about Covid-19 are as transparently bad as his preposterous, persistent hairdo. Except people die.

And other countries get to laugh at the demonstrated impotence of a once great power and public health leader.