“The deaths won’t be near what was projected. But if the reopening doesn’t occur the economy will be destroyed.”
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WE don’t know what will happen until it happens. The problem for Trump and the Guvs if the numbers rise is that they violated the White House plan, which calls for 14 days of dropping numbers before reopening. That hasn’t happened. If they numbers do have a noticeable rise, it’ll be a hoist-on-your-own-petard (the WH directions) problem.
Hopefully the people will be careful and responsible to help keep the numbers low as possible.
Where have you been? The numbers have been dropping for two weeks! Half of the deaths have been in NY, so we shut an entire an entire nation? And we do know that the economy will be destroyed since millions are already out of work. The issue was to prevent the health care system from being overwhelmed, not to prevent every single death. That was the ‘peak’ that was to watched for and the numbers of dead were nowhere near what the models projected. Just on that fact, we have seen a vast decrease since the 200,000 dead never happened!
There are laws of economics that can’t be denied. We know what’s going to happen if we don’t get the economy rolling. Severe damage has already been done.
14 days was a number somebody pulled out of their ass just to put structure to the “reopening plan”.
As soon as reopening was seriously talked about, and that numbers need to come down to attain that goal, we start hearing how the number of tests is going to ramp up greatly. More tests means more cases means nobody is going to reopen.
It’s a game. It’s political manipulation. The people know it and aren’t taking it anymore.