Posted on 04/23/2020 5:52:52 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Several governors are beginning to engage in opening their states. Good. They should wait no further. As each day goes by, we learn more and more about the coronavirus and its effects, and the facts lead toward getting adults back to work and children back to school. We suggest a focus away from the blare and glare of raw death tolls and worst-case scenarios. Instead let’s look at less-alarming truths that are generally being ignored by a media more invested in shock and frenzy. Perhaps we should start with these...
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
"All perspective was lost. We have needed to hospitalize just over 80,000 people for this illness. The previous two flu seasons in America required nearly half a million hospitalizations. As Dr. Jonathan Geach has written: 'Our health care system is now underwhelmed and health care workers are being laid off and furloughed in droves as a result of health care centers having neglected patient care not related to COVID-19 in fear of a COVID-19 surge that failed to materialize on a nationwide basis. This means tens of millions of patients are failing to receive the medical care they need in a timely manner. Almost every hospital outside of the hot spots is empty.' At the Mayo Clinic, as one example, he reports “65% of the hospital beds are empty, as are 75% of the operating rooms.”
It's rather troubling that so few people are at the Mayo Clinic in that I thought that that was a place where people who had conditions (other than the virus, I mean) that are hard to treat or diagnose go when they weren't able to be helped elsewhere.
Did other diseases suddenly stop developing?
Eight Reasons to Support Reopening Our Country”
If you are in a rat state 8 or 100 doesn’t matter it’s not up to us.
On a somewhat related note, I hope Bill Bennett subs for Rush one of these days when Rush inevitably needs or wants a day off for one reason or other. I miss Bill and haven’t found some of Rush’s guest hosts that interesting.
#9: Because it’ll piss off the Rats and show them that their attempt to ‘get’ the President was easily visible to patriotic Normal Americans.
#1 : We are sick of this ****!
#1 : We are sick of this ****!
WHY ISN’T TRUMP GETTING THIS MESSAGE?!?!?
Forgive me for ‘shouting’, but I want to shout about it! He listens to Rush, to Hannity, etc.
Why isn’t he stomping on Fauci and Birx and their lies?
Trump has to be good cop in all this.
It needs to be up to the governors. So when the media screams about dead women and minorities, he can shrug his shoulders and say “federalism”. Change the constitution.” He can’t lose one woman’s vote in November, even the one’s scared they will die by the MSM.
Someday the media and Fauci will be honest about “the Curve”... that the area of hospitalizations and dead under “the curve” is the same, no matter what shape it is.
Hospital overload, hospital overload, hospital overload is THE ONLY THING “the lockdown” was to prevent. Period. Mike Drop.
I have been asking myself the same questions.
Trump-hating Zurcher/BBC:
24 Apr: BBC: Coronavirus pandemic exposes rather than heals America’s divisions
by Anthony Zurcher, North America reporter
Take a devastating global pandemic. Add an economic crisis featuring unemployment and negative growth on a par with Great Depression. And have it all unfold during a US presidential election year, at a time when divisions within American society and politics are particularly acute...
Here’s a closer look at the ugly way that’s playing out...
The latest example of political friction broke out after Congress passed its third coronavirus stimulus bill...
It’s what came next that had New York Governor Andrew Cuomo using words like “stupid,” “irresponsible” and “reckless”.
And Republican Congressman Peter King - also of New York - referring to his own party’s Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, as a beheaded French monarch with a reputation for callousness toward the downtrodden...
“McConnell’s dismissive remark that states devastated by Coronavirus should go bankrupt rather than get the federal assistance they need and deserve is shameful and indefensible,” said Congressman King, a moderate Republican who is retiring at the end of this year.
“To say that it is ‘free money’ to provide funds for cops, firefighters and healthcare workers makes McConnell the Marie Antoinette of the Senate.”...
The harsh political reality for the president is he faces a re-election contest in just over six months, and the longer the lockdown drags on, the less time the economy will have to recover before voters head to the ballot box.
Current polling suggests he is trailing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden nationally and in key battleground states, and while the race is likely to tighten and the president has abundant resources to run a robust campaign, Trump appears destined for an uphill fight.
The president also faces a flip-side risk of being seen as supporting re-opening too quickly and shouldering the blame if there is a subsequent spike in cases...
***For the moment, surveys indicate majorities of both Republicans and Democrats view the existing stay-at-home measures as effective...
A battle between the Biden and Trump campaigns is also brewing over which candidate has the cosiest relationship with China - which many Americans view as responsible for the global spread of the virus that originated in Wuhan.
In competing advertisements, both sides suggested their opponent is too soft to stand up to the Chinese government...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52405741
***Zurcher links to HuffPo/Ariel Edwards-Levy, Senior reporter + polling editor tweet linking to CBS YOUGOV poll below; video has a gleeful Anthony Salvanto answering questions about the YOUGOV poll:
VIDEO: 23 Apr: CBS: Americans prioritize staying home and worry restrictions will lift too fast — CBS News poll
By Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Kabir Khanna
Health concerns still take precedence over economic concerns by a wide margin for Americans in their views on when to reopen the economy — both in what they want for the nation, and in what they’d do themselves. Many say they need to be confident the coronavirus outbreak is over before returning to public places, and big majorities of all partisans agree the stay-at-home orders are effective.
The health concerns may be so salient that even for those whose finances have been impacted and even for those concerned about job loss, most of them still worry the country will open up too fast.
Sixty-three percent of Americans are more worried about restrictions lifting too fast and worsening the outbreak...
Only 13% say they would definitely return to public places over the next few weeks if restrictions were lifted right now, regardless of what else happened with the outbreak...
More than two-thirds of Americans think their state and local officials are doing a good job, while fewer than half think the same of Donald Trump...
This CBS News survey was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative sample of 2,112 U.S. residents interviewed between April 20-22, 2020. This sample was weighted according to gender, age, race and education based on the American Community Survey, conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, as well as 2016 presidential vote and registration status. The margin of error is +/- 2.5 points.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-prioritize-staying-home-and-worry-restrictions-will-lift-too-fast-cbs-news-poll/
YouGov cannot be trusted.
Instead of bailing New York out, WE should send them the bill for readying the USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) to get a New York liberty with the crew restricted to the ship.
Then again, they can probably use the sea pay.
(AND hazardous duty pay)
Of course that is just a drop in the bucket but figure a Trillion here and a Trillion there, before you know it you are talking big bucks.
PDJT even ‘dare’ mention ‘wasting’ the Comfort and Cuomo will get plenty of air time to say he NEVER asked for or needed it...
There is zero chance now of any economic recovery before November. Trump’s only option is to blame continuing Democrat lockdowns for the unfolding disaster. In a way, it’s better for him if the big blue states never re-open.
Only a Democrat will kill a nation to save it.
We need only one reason. The shutdown violates our civil rights. PERIOD.
This is just so easy. Why don't we see how many people come out and enjoy the sunshine, the parks, go out and get a haircut, go and fix their broken laptops or replace their cell phones that have broken down etc in the states that are starting to open up today?
Not to mention we already have 8 states with little or no lockdowns at a like South Dakota, where people have been going about their business happily over the past 3 months.
I don't see anyone assuming the fetal position and hiding under their beds in those states.
So where is that 63% from? New York?
But Trump owned this when he critized Gov Kemp of GA.
Or said he was in charge of reopening.
He has walked those back.
And why does the “relief not go right? On him. Thought he was going to fix the bureaucracy.
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