[DannyTN]

Facts aren't fearmongering.

Lots could change this.

• The social distancing could change it for the better.
• Effective treatment could change it for the better.
• A preventative medicine could change it for the better.
• A vaccine, though not likely anytime soon, could change it for the better.
• Coronavirus (yeah there was one) parties by idiots who listened to flubros and didn't take it seriously could change it for the worse.

[sam_whiskey]

So then, why the hell are we on lockdown again?

[cuban leaf]

...the United States could experience...

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Feel fee to end with anything you want. Meteor strike, massive earthquake, you name it.

The key word is “could”. Anything could happen.

[CodeToad]

Fauci is an Obama official.

Trump is an idiot for keeping these Zero Heros around.

[cuban leaf]

Every single bullet point contains the word “could”.

Wal-mart must have had a sale on that word and he bought them out.

[central_va]

Somebody hug RBG and give her a wet one. Rand?

[Cronos]

This is all fear-mongering. it’s just a flu, bro.

It’s all a big conspiracy to destroy the American economy.

Go out and party and mingle. Nothing to worry about

btw, that’s being sarcastic

[SanchoP]

But he added “I don’t want to be held to that” because the pandemic is “such a moving target.”

Yippeee! More fearporn!

[DoodleBob]

The U.S. government’s foremost infection disease expert self-promoting bureaucrat

Fixed it for ya

[Blood of Tyrants]

A cocktail of zinc sulfate, HCQ, and azithromycin has been shown to be an effective early treatment of the virus. The HCQ acts as a doorway for the zinc to enter the cell where the virus is and kill the virus. The azithromycin is to prevent a secondary bacterial infection.

[originalbuckeye]

We will never know the true statistics. IF everyone was tested, symptomatic and non-symptomatic, the death rate would be well below the seasonal flu. But that won’t happen. Yes, we are doing all the ‘right things’ to stem the tide of this virus, but it really is not as deadly as they claim.

[usconservative]

Fauci needs to pick a number and stick with it. I saw an interview with him the other day in which he stated this could turn out to be a "very bad flu" and have a mortality rate of double the flu, or @ 1.8%.

Someone tell me again why we have an entire country's economy almost ground to a halt over this? (And I ask that as someone who's immune system compromised and think all this crap is ridiculous. The fear mongering is so far over the top it's not even funny anymore.)

[Nifster]

Operative word is “could”

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“It could happen” is not a fact.

[chris37]

/s

[nevermorelenore]

Fauci needs to go, his Time in the Spotlight has fried his brain. He’s in cahoots with the Luciferian Left.

It’s a potent virus, but cleanliness and reasonable guidelines, not Fear-Mongering needs to Prevail. We are being intentionally hyped into panic for opportunistic totalitarian control

[gov_bean_ counter]

But he added “I don’t want to be held to that” because the pandemic is “such a moving target.”

He’ll of a caveat there, Doc...

[Robert DeLong]

Facts aren't fearmongering.

But that is not what is being presented her. These are estimates, or more accurately guesses based upon modeling. Much like global warming. Now I am not saying that because one is full of chit the other is therefore also full of chit.

But the reality is they know no more than you as to what the outcomes will be after the dust finally settles.

But regardless, fear and panic solve nothing and never has. That is true of complacency as well.

One thing is for sure, this virus will fade into the rear view mirror and life will continue on. What is also true is that if the economy is allowed to wither on the vine, it will cause more deaths than the virus will. We cannot afford to sit back and watch & wait, as reality prohibits that option for very long.

[ConservativeInPA]

CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 39 million flu illnesses, 400,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu. These numbers do not include the ChiCom Flu. This years flu season is pretty typical.

[Cronos]

ok, jokes aside.

1. Social distancing - I doubt in a friendly, independent-minded society like the USA you can improve it much

2. yes, effective treatment is possible

3. Preventative medicine - looks like very possible

4. Vaccines - I’m guessing by December

5. I think this will change it for the worse.

a lot of people don’t want to take precautions and attack those who do. Instead of pain for 6 weeks, they will cause the pain to last 6 months.

[Sooth2222]

“I would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases,” he said, correcting himself to say he meant deaths. “We’re going to have millions of cases.” But he added “I don’t want to be held to that” because the pandemic is “such a moving target.”

Okay, so if you "don't want to be held to that", why say anything? (And how should we interpret this prediction in the context of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, which the CDC says killed 675,000 in the US, when the US population was 1/3 of its present size?)