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Horowitz: Mitt Romney cluelessly exaggerates coronavirus fatality rates
conservative review ^ | ยท May 8, 2020 | Daniel Horowitz

Posted on 05/09/2020 4:44:01 AM PDT by conservative98

Simple arithmetic seems to be lost on the politicians, and that error is perpetuating a needless and counterproductive policy destroying our country. Politicians like Mitt Romney don’t seem to understand that the fact that there are so many infections actually makes the fatality rate of the virus remarkably low – a fact that should guide our policies going forward.

The politicians keep referring to widespread outbreaks in prisons, meatpacking plants, and other semi- or fully confined areas with predominantly young populations. Then they refer to a relatively small number of fatalities anecdotally, as if this is the bubonic plague or Ebola. In fact, those case studies demonstrate just how low the fatality rate is for younger people.

During Wednesday’s coronavirus hearing held remotely by the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Mitt Romney began his line of questioning asserting that the president believes that without “the actions he had taken to close down the economy, we’d have had 2 million dead.” Romney was trying to insinuate that the death rate is really as high as “the experts” claimed and that following the “expert” advice saved us from it, even though the lockdowns occurred after the transmission peak. He then wrongly stated that deaths outside the New York area are going up, even though nearly all the deaths are in nursing homes and many of them are earlier deaths only being reported now.

Next, Romney posed the following question to Stanford professor John Ioannidis

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; US: Michigan; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: backstabber; clueless; coronavirus; danielhorowitz; gettrump; massachusetts; meat; meatpackingplants; michigan; mittwit; nursinghomes; prisons; romney; travelban; usefulidiot; utah
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1 posted on 05/09/2020 4:44:01 AM PDT by conservative98
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Clueless in Salt Lake City https://t.co/NwOznFdXu9— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) May 8, 2020


2 posted on 05/09/2020 4:47:06 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Mittens is not a kid anymore and,thus,is fast approaching the day when he’s standing next to his good buddy,Juan McLame,in the deepest depths of hell.


3 posted on 05/09/2020 4:50:20 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: conservative98

My theory on the apparent sicknesses at these meat packing plants is that it is union inspired and conspired to hurt the meat packing industry and disrupt the supply chain than hurts some factions and helps others. The unions are working hand in hand with communists. Always have been.


4 posted on 05/09/2020 4:50:40 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: conservative98

Has Pierre caught the Biden disease?


5 posted on 05/09/2020 4:53:56 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: conservative98

Romney is just a Trump-hating snake. You would hope that someone in the position of Senator would have spent much of the last few months actually studying the numbers about the coronavirus at least to the point where they would understand rates of infection etc.


6 posted on 05/09/2020 4:57:35 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: conservative98

There is as much hair growing into his head as out of it.


7 posted on 05/09/2020 4:59:55 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: conservative98

Can we believe that we once supported this man for President of the United States?


8 posted on 05/09/2020 5:12:49 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, praying for guidance, giving his salary to charity, is on the Side of the Angels.)
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To: Savage Beast

That was BT.Before Trump. The world has changed and we have been liberated from the old “you’ve got to vote for a Republican” mentality to preserve our liberties. Hah. What a joke.


9 posted on 05/09/2020 5:17:05 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: conservative98
When Donald Trump exploded onto the world stage speaking TRUTH and shining the LIGHT OF TRUTH on the dark, dangerous places, he opened many an eye--including mine!

The LIGHT has yet not awakened many, still slumbering in their deep coma-like delusiosn. Pray that it will.

10 posted on 05/09/2020 5:17:39 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, praying for guidance, giving his salary to charity, is on the Side of the Angels.)
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when you all finally realize that RomneyCARE has
been partners with Soros before they began JETblue,
then ALL his actions, retreats, failures, make sense.


11 posted on 05/09/2020 5:18:04 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: conservative98
I could easily see a sign traveling down the highway..”Romney's pre-owned autos”

Come see Mitt for a great deal!

Freakin used car shyster turned politician.

12 posted on 05/09/2020 5:36:19 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: conservative98

Really this guy is not very intelligent. He is truly successful only because he a creation of the corrupt system we live in.


13 posted on 05/09/2020 5:47:28 AM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Do Later Day Saints go to hell?


14 posted on 05/09/2020 5:48:51 AM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold)
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To: Savage Beast

Fool me once.


15 posted on 05/09/2020 5:50:15 AM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold)
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To: conservative98
Democrat politicians never were good at math.


16 posted on 05/09/2020 5:56:09 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Die-ggl,TWT,FCBK,NYT,WPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antf,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP,MSNBC)
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"clueless" "deliberate"
17 posted on 05/09/2020 5:57:18 AM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: conservative98

Pierre Dilecto has a tendency to exaggerate his own accomplishments. What an integrity-free loser of the first order.


18 posted on 05/09/2020 6:08:22 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: HighSierra5

“My theory on the apparent sicknesses at these meat packing plants is that it is union inspired and conspired to hurt the meat packing industry and disrupt the supply chain than hurts some factions and helps others. The unions are working hand in hand with communists. Always have been.”

I’ve heard that voiced before. There may very well be something to it. It does sound plausible.


19 posted on 05/09/2020 6:19:22 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: conservative98

C!ueless pretty much sums it up for Mitt.


20 posted on 05/09/2020 6:59:44 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight neiyour way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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