Posted on 04/15/2020 6:27:52 AM PDT by Bruiser 10
As the Trump administration tries to figure out when to reopen the economy, and Democrats try to blame President Donald Trump for every coronavirus death, there’s another question lurking in the background. What if we learn that trillions of dollars in economic costs from the coronavirus shutdown bought us little or nothing in terms of public health?
As the disease progresses and our understanding of it increases, that possibility grows.
Consider these facts:
Death projections were wildly exaggerated. On March 16, epidemiologists at Imperial College London predicted that 2.2 million could die here if the country didn’t impose draconian lock-down orders. Even with those in place, it said, the deaths would likely top 1 million.
The White House later downgraded the death toll, but still predicted that as many as 200,000 could die. In late March, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington released a model that projected more than 80,000 deaths, assuming the U.S. maintained its lockdown, which prompted the Trump administration to extend the shutdown through April.
(Excerpt) Read more at issuesinsights.com ...
Time to reopen America.
Democrats and the media are prepared to blame him for opening up too soon, and not opening up soon enough, both at the same time.
They are already doing it with his move to close down. Too soon and not soon enough.
LOL! Government officials at all levels will congratulate each other for mitigating the threat. Awards for everyone!
They will blame Trump, of course.
President Trump did as appropriate with the information at hand. Second guessing and constantly comparing to the flu is undermining him. The real questions are (1) Will they be honest about the origin of the Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus, (2) Will they make China pay, and (4) Will they make sure that no visa workers get jobs back or new until all Americans are rehired or hired, and (5) How will they ensure that companies do not take the restart as an opportunity to shed their older workers.
My informal survey of a cross section of Americans tells me the blame will fall on Dr. Anthony Fauci.
He has admitted being the one who talked Trump into the shutdown with the bogus hockey stick graph showing 2.2 million deaths.
He is the very embodiment of the smarmy Swamp bureaucrat that people beyond the beltway hate and which caused them to elect Trump.
He has a tendency to deliver finger-wagging lectures.
He has generally come across as two-faced and unlikeable in many other ways.
Early on Drs. Fauchi and Birx have said that if the shutdown and isolation were successful, the result would be that it would appear to have been an overreaction.
I'll search for quotes and if I find any I'll post them below.
Meanwhile, President Trump could play the old .. "If we saved a single child..." card.
Finally, I'm really not sure how one would prove an over-reaction? It would be pure speculation.
The Democrats and their propaganda division turned this into an impeachment vehicle right from the start. They don’t give a damn about a solution or vaccine, they just want to destroy Trumps economy.
WHO
CDC
MSM
State governors
State hospitals
Clearly Trump is not pleased with Fauci doing a thousand daily interviews and messing up the messaging. His comments at yesterday's presser were revealing.
“The way you get ahead of it is that, as I try to explain to people, that I want people to assume that ... we are overreacting because if it looks like you're overreacting, you're probably doing the right thing,” he added.
President Trump, he’s the boss
But just because millions of people didn’t die, doesn’t mean it was a over reaction, in fact it could just be that what President Trump did saved millions of lives and kept our hospital system and economy as well from total collapse.
This is a situation where choice A or Choice B were both bad choices. Choice A, let this thing run its course would have caused millions of deaths, would have shut down our hospital system and would have eventually killed the economy anyways. Even with the economy killed off that way, it could take years before people start to trust one another again, causing the economic pain to linger for a long time. Plus we would have a deadly virus running wild everywhere. Choice B was mitigation, social distances closing of events, venues, etc that gather people, wash your hands, wear face masks, hydrochlorquine, etc all of this saved lives, kept out hospitals running, but we shut down the economy to do this, however, the economy could possibly be brought back online quicker.
Both choices would have killed the economy, I believe what President Trump did, was the right choice in the long run.
Once you look at this as realist, you realize that doing nothing would have been more deadly to the economy then mitigation.
I think Trump’s response has thus far been nearly perfect.
So far so good.
The usual suspects will throw all kinds of blame at Trump. It’s what they do and they’re simply incapable of doing anything else.
I think reasonable people will look at it and understand it was unknowable at the time.
In these situations I fall back on that paragon of deep thought Plan 9: “Can you prove it didn’t happen”.
President Trump knocked over my bird feeder. And last week he made a big limb fall on my driveway.
The “six phases of a project” have been jocularly described as:
Enthusiasm
Disillusionment
Panic
Search for the guilty
Punishment of the innocent
Praise and honors for the non-participants
China. China. China.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.