Posted on 04/12/2020 12:33:48 PM PDT by John Semmens
A recent study conducted in an early "hot spot" of COVID-19 in the Gangelt district of Heinsberg concluded that the actual death rate was 0.37%--one-fifth of Germany's officially reported numbers. In Minnesota, Dr. Scott Jensen says he received a 7-page Center for Disease Control document coaching him to fill out death certificates in a way that overstates the number of COVID-19 deaths. He also suggested that the payment rules giving a hospital a "bonus" for attributing a death to this virus might also skew the official data.
White House adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci brushed aside the above reports, calling them "anecdotal and unreliable. Whether they might be true isn't as important as the fact that they do not convey the message we were trying to communicate that the population needed to be sequestered in order to slow the spread of the disease. Do you think people would've willingly yielded their freedom of movement if they knew that the chance of dying from this virus was less than half of one-percent and that most of that was comprised of elderly persons with prior severe health issues?"
"It was imperative that we shock people into obedience to directives that under normal circumstances would've been considered extreme and even tyrannical," Fauci explained. "It was for their own good and for the good of society. We flattened the curve and have spread the inevitable death toll over many months rather than have had it compacted into a shorter time frame. This extended many eventual victims' lives by a few months. Isn't that a valuable achievement?"
"We are also able to enjoy the benefits of lower traffic and less automobile pollution during the shutdown," the Doctor pointed out. "Maybe people will come to realize that being shut in their homes isn't all bad if it means we can have cleaner air and a cleaner environment. Maybe they will realize that having to work so hard just so they can buy more useless stuff isn't as appealing as enjoying more leisure and a more modest lifestyle living on a government stipend. This pandemic gave us the chance to experience a new way of life that we may find is better than the old rut everyone was forced into under capitalism."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=397895.0
Is this the best President Trump could have as an adviser. Someone isn't doing his or her job "advising".
“Is this the best President Trump could have as an adviser.”
Are you judging Trump’s judgement?
Yes, that is the implication of what people on FR are saying about Fauci, but don’t tell them that.
Probably the MOST important 16 minute video you will watch this year. IT’S THE IMMUNE SYSTEM!!
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