"the antibiotic can’t keep up with it"

In March 2014, I responded to a Donald Trump tweet connecting vaccines and autism with a link to Jennifer Raff's essay on vaccines, "Dear parents, you are being lied to," and told him that his tweet was "dangerous and wrong." I got no response, but I remembered that tweet when I heard about another dangerous, incorrect statement from his two-hour-plus coronavirus briefing on Friday, 10 April, 2020: "The antibiotic can't keep up with [the coronavirus]." Antibiotics, of course, only work against bacteria. In line with Raff's title, I keep thinking that Trump's supporters are "being lied to", but they – and all Americans – are also being provided with absurd, ignorant, life-threatening misinformation. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 12 April)

This is a very brilliant enemy.  You know, it’s a brilliant enemy.  They develop drugs like the antibiotics.  You see it.  Antibiotics used to solve every problem.  Now one of the biggest problems the world has is the germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic can’t keep up with it.  And they’re constantly trying to come up with a new — people go to a hospital and they catch — they go for a heart operation — that’s no problem, but they end up dying from — from problems.  You know the problems I’m talking about.  There’s a whole genius to it. (From the transcript of the briefing)

Jennifer Raff's article "Dear parents, you are being lied to".

My tweet in response to Trump's.