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WE WERE RIGHT – CDC Now Estimates 22 Million Americans Infected with the China Coronavirus Making US Mortality Rate 0.6% – Confirming Our Estimates from March
Gateway Pundit ^
| 06/26/2020
| Joe Hoft
Posted on 06/26/2020 9:08:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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We first reported on March 17, 2020, on the controversial Ethiopian politician and Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and his irresponsible and criminal fear mongering. Tedros claimed in a press conference in early March that the fatality rate for the coronavirus was 3.4% — many multiples that of the fatality rate of the common flu which is estimated to be around 0.1%.
This egregiously false premise led to the greatest global panic in world history.
The Director General of the WHO spoke on March 3, 2020 and shared this related to the coronavirus:
While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity. That means more people are susceptible to infection, and some will suffer severe disease.
Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.
Here is the video of Dr. Ghebreyesus’s remarks.
We knew that the WHO leader’s coronavirus death rate number of 3.4% was false. It was not accurate! Here is a summary of what we reported:
The Gateway Pundit reported, that the coronavirus fatality rate reported by the liberal mainstream media was completely inaccurate and the actual rate more like a typical seasonal flu – the media was lying again. The false reporting of the coronavirus fatality rate at 3.4% in the media started with the statements made by the WHO in early March.
Here’s a summary of our analysis [on March 17, 2020] proving the Director General’s statement was very misleading and materially false:
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The “estimate” for the coronavirus fatality rate (back on March 17) according to the WHO was 3.4%.
The estimate used most often is from the WHO based on the Director General’s comments. The WHO estimates the mortality rate of the coronavirus to be around 3.4%.
The “estimated” rate for this year’s seasonal flu is 0.1%.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, according to CDC numbers, in the US in the 2019-2020 flu season, there were 222,552 confirmed cases of the flu from testing and an estimated 36 million flu cases in the United States. There were 22,000 estimated deaths from the flu (via the CDC).
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Note that the number of deaths and confirmed cases (through testing) of the flu in the US are based on actual data. The number of individuals who contracted the flu is an estimate. There is no way to know who had the flu in the US because many cases are not severe and people do not have a test done to confirm they had the flu. They believe their symptoms are minor and go on with their normal lives thinking they had a cold or something similar. Because of this, the CDC estimates and they estimated 36 million people had the flu in this past flu season.
The rate of the number of individuals who died from the flu to the number of individuals who were estimated to have had the flu is 0.1% (22,552 / 36 million). This is an estimate and the amount used above by the Director General of the WHO.
However, comparing the rate of individuals who died from the flu to the number of individuals who were confirmed to have had the flu is around 10% (22,000/ 222,552). This is based on actual data similar to the rate for the coronavirus above.
Estimates between the flu and the coronavirus by the WHO did not compare ‘apples to apples’.
The fatality rate that is commonly referred to in the media for the coronavirus back in March was 3.4% from the WHO. This number was based on confirmed cases of people with the coronavirus.
The flu fatality rate provided by the CDC of 0.1% includes estimated number of individuals who had the flu (36,000,000). This rate includes an estimate of all the people who contracted the flu, most who were not tested for the flu.
The fatality rate for the coronavirus does not include those who had the coronavirus but were not sick enough to seek medical attention. This is why the flu fatality rate is 0.1% and the coronavirus fatality rate is 3.4%!
The two rates are like comparing apples to oranges. By doing so, the coronavirus fatality rate was overstated when compared to the flu.
The WHO and liberal media created a worldwide crisis and panic by falsely comparing the two numbers!
We were attacked for our reporting and ridiculed by the far-left for “downplaying the danger of the spread of [the] coronavirus in the US.”
Now time proves us right.
Yesterday the CDC reported that at least 20 million Americans caught the China coronavirus:
To date, 2.3 million Americans have had confirmed coronavirus infections, but by the CDC’s estimates, the real number could be at least 20 million.
Here are today’s numbers of cases and those who died with the China coronavirus:
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Based on today’s numbers and the new estimates from the CDC, our position on March 17, 2020, is now proven right:
![](https://static.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/Coronavirus-CDC-June-26-600x199.jpg)
The death rate per estimated cases today for the China coronavirus based on the CDC’s current estimate of Americans who have had the disease is o.6%.
We suspect it is much lower than this number. The CDC is significantly off in their latest numbers and millions more have had the coronavirus in the US.
The WHO created this global panic and caused the global economic meltdown. We knew it and we pointed it out and we were attacked. We were right!
TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: 2020election; cdc; chinavirusmortality; coronavirus; deathrate; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; gatewaypundit; infection; joehoft; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine
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To: SeekAndFind
More and more asymptomatic cases are being found. The number will continue to go down.
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:26:36 AM PDT
by
FreeReign
To: SeekAndFind
We have pretty clear facts on the economic mortality of Government inspired Covid-19 lockdowns
391 full-time jobs lost since Feb. 1, for each Covid-provisional death. Note that provisional is CDC-speak for as reported by local officials so that means the job-loss per real Covid death is probably much higher.
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:28:36 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: SeekAndFind
We are getting closer and closer to a real number.
0.6% is six times more deadly than the flu at about 0.1%.
Covid is extremely biased against the elderly. So years of life lost are low. And, healthier, middle aged and younger people are good to go.
When we’ve been through a whole cycle a few years from now, the real number will truly be known. Back in February, the data was so scant, we essentially had no idea what the answer would be. Some data showed extremely high death rates, some showed lowish death rates.
Now that we have some handle on the thing, the main questions are about government force. Leftists are taking a moderately low death rate disease and using it as an opportunity to implement totalitarianism and socialism. F that S. Time to revolt against illegal, unconstitutional and unwarranted restrictions on Freedom!
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:31:04 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(https://www.barelytherebiden.com)
To: SeekAndFind
Fearpers will not be happy.
Too bad.
To: SeekAndFind
I have a real problem with most of the modeling. My first problem is that it is all based on a “logarithmic fit” to the data, where the “fit” it projected forward many many periods of time.
My second problem is the “constants” used in fitting the models to data. This is all about the mortality rate. Well the mortality rate is neither a constant nor a single value.
Let me explain. Covid-19 in Washington State started with deaths at a nursing home. Most of the early deaths were of very fragile people with huge underlying health conditions. This group of people is sometimes referred to (rather indelicately) as “low hanging fruit.” As the nursing homes and assisted living situations have ravished the elderly, the virus is now attacking younger people with much healthier immune systems. That would mean that over time as the “low hanging fruit” are killed the mortality rate would decrease with time.
Furthermore, at the beginning someone who was admitted to an ICU was given very invasive ventilator treatment, often so invasive they were put into a comma. As doctors got more experience with infected patients, they started to develop better medical methods of treating the disease. As better medical treatment approaches were developed one would also expect the mortality rate for a given age and underlying population group to also drop.
Finally, there are mutations occurring within the virus that many believe are making it less deadly.
So the question is, “Is it even right to think about using a single mortality rate number that is constant over time?” I think that the answer is absolutely not.
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:31:36 AM PDT
by
Robert357
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:33:32 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Great Things Never Come from Comfort Zones)
To: SeekAndFind
Someone needs to get this info to Gov. Abbott, and other gutless GOP Govs who are contemplating caving to medias call for another shutdown! These politicians can go to Hell!
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:34:39 AM PDT
by
Artcore
(Trump 2020!)
To: SeekAndFind
let’s not round - approx. 0.00564 - based on 124,282 deaths as of 06/24 and the 22 million estimate.
not even worth a mention on the US daily cause of death count.
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:36:39 AM PDT
by
stylin19a
( 2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
To: SeekAndFind
The rate is more like an infection rate for the influenza and common cold viruses.
Like I said, at the beginning of fall, start taking 200% RDA of the following nutrients:
Vitamin C
Vitamin D3
Vitamin E
zinc
Guarantee a lot less people will get sick from viruses that way due to boosted immune systems.
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:42:33 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
To: All
Based mostly on tests? These detect antibodies from COVID/flu
which most of have, since we’ve had a cold/flu in the past 10 years.
Talk about a grand delusion. The evil is beyond my words.
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:42:46 AM PDT
by
veracious
(UN=OIC=Islam; USgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
To: SeekAndFind
Give him the Alferd E. Packer treatment.
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:45:51 AM PDT
by
dsc
(As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
To: SeekAndFind
Sounds about right to me. It has been clear for at least a couple of months that it had to more than the .1% of the flu and was very unlikely to be greater than 1%. I have using a .5% estimate for some time.
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:50:42 AM PDT
by
InterceptPoint
(Ted, you finally endorsed.)
To: stylin19a
The problem with 124,282 deaths number is that half of them were unnecessary. The northern Governors murdered 10s of thousands by putting active Covid patients in nursing homes.
Next, hospitals were throwing patients on respirators early for money. The death rate for normal respirator patients is around 40%. In New York the death rate was 88%. Fluid buildup from this virus made respirators twice as deadly. If respirators were the last resort, 1,000s would have been saved.
Finally, Orange Man Bad reaction to a perfectly fine HCQ, Z-Pac, and zinc prophylactic combination needlessly caused thousands of deaths. If used early and often the contagious and recovery time would have been cut by 2/3rds.
Governors, stupid political scientist, and greedy doctors/hospitals (extra money for respirators) caused half the death rate. This thing likely was no more than a bad flu if treated and contained properly.
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:53:49 AM PDT
by
BushCountry
(thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
To: InterceptPoint
RE: I have using a .5% estimate for some time.
However, we see it, Covid-19 is still 5X deadlier than the seasonal flu !!
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:54:10 AM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it wil)
To: DeplorableGirl
Nothing can make them happy. By definition. Fear is the opposite of joy.
To: BushCountry; stylin19a
RE: The problem with 124,282 deaths number is that half of them were unnecessary.
The other problem is HOW they count a death as Covid-19 death.
A death WITH Covid-19 positive diagnosis is considered a Covid-19 death even if the cause of death was something else.
Several states have had to revise their Covid-19 death counts DOWNWARDS after this.
We have also seen deaths unrelated to Covid-19 COUNTED AS Covid-19 deaths. I wonder how many such cases there are.
Also,how many REAL DEATHS DUE TO Covid-19 ( e.g. Covid-19 patients who died at home ) went uncounted?
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:57:26 AM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it wil)
To: SeekAndFind
Maybe twice as bad a tough flu at most (less than H1N1). Read my post. Even after cutting the 124,000 deaths in half. There have been reports of the death rate greatly inflated. With 10s of thousands not even tested, just assumed.
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posted on
06/26/2020 10:00:00 AM PDT
by
BushCountry
(thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
To: SeekAndFind
-Fauxi 2005. NIH Scientists Conceal Millions in Royalties for Experimental Treatments
https://ahrp.org/nih-scientists-caught-concealing-millions-in-royalties-for-experimental-treatments-ap
-Fauxi’s 15 deadly mistakes and contradictions
https://710wor.iheart.com/featured/mark-simone/content/2020-05-12-dr-anthony-faucis-15-totally-wrong-predictions-and-contradictions/
-Fauxi and Birx used fraudulent Imperial College model to urge shut down
https://liberalsarenuts.com/2020/05/07/dr-fauci-and-dr-birx-used-imperial-college-model-now-confirmed-as-a-complete-fraud-to-persuade-president-trump-to-lock-down-entire-us-economy
https://judithcurry.com/2020/03/25/covid-19-updated-data-implies-that-uk-modelling-hugely-overestimates-the-expected-death-rates-from-infection
-Modeler had to resign in disgrace
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/professor-lockdown-modeler-resigns-in-disgrace/
-Fauxi later reverses and says we can’t rely on models
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/04/03/fauci-we-cant-really-rely-on-models/
-Fauxi has numerous conflicts of interest
https://nationalfile.com/president-trump-vs-bill-gates-on-treatment-fauci-has-a-100-million-conflict-of-interest
https://newswithviews.com/dr-fauci-and-dr-birx-have-a-record-of-medical-failure/
-Fauxi has long history of fraud
http://www.americanfreedomunion.com/dr-faucis-long-criminal-history/
https://www.coreysdigs.com/law-order/when-the-masks-went-on-their-masks-came-off/
-Fauxi fired researcher that exposed his vaccines were spreading chronic diseases
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/sweet-innocent-dr-fauci-assistant-doctor-fired-jailed-2011-warning-vaccines-giving-americans-known-chronic-diseases/
-Fauxi is Hillary loyalist
https://conservativedailypost.com/fauci-fraud-face-of-coronavirus-task-force-exposed-in-hillary-loving-deep-state-act
/
-Fauxi promised AIDS Vaccine and has yet to deliver
https://newswithviews.com/dr-fauci-and-dr-birx-have-a-record-of-medical-failure/
-Scarf Queen falsified data on HIV research
https://truepundit.com/dod-leak-feds-investigated-birx-fabricated-falsified-hiv-aids-vaccine-trials/
- Fauxi knew hydroxyxhloroquine could both cure and prevent corona viruses in 2005. Passive aggressive on HCQ in 2020. Intentional?
https://onenewsnow.com/perspectives/bryan-fischer/2020/04/27/fauci-knew-about-hcq-in-2005-nobody-needed-to-die
-”Fauxi” praised use of hydroxychloroquine in 2013 to treat the MERS corona virus. Risky drug in 2020?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/wow-dr-fauci-cheered-hydroxychloroquine-success-treating-mers-coronavirus-2013-today-skeptical-weird/
COVER UP: Fauci Approved Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine 15 Years Ago to Cure Coronaviruses; “Nobody Needed to Die” True Pundit
https://truepundit.com/cover-up-fauci-approved-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine-15-years-ago-to-treat-nobody-needed-to-die
-Fauxi funded research grants to Wuhan lab to fund risky virus research that was illegal in the U.S.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8211291/U-S-government-gave-3-7million-grant-Wuhan-lab-experimented-coronavirus-source-bats.html
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/paid-for-the-damn-virus-thats-killing-us-giuliani-rips-fauci-over-grants-to-wuhan-laboratory
https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/04/breaking-kennedy-exposes-dr-faucis-role-in-creating-highly-infectious-mutant-strain-of-coronavirus/
https://conservativedailypost.com/evidence-fauci-funded-virus-gain-of-function-study-making-transmission-to-humans-possible/
https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/why-us-outsourced-bat-virus-research-to-wuhan/
https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741
-Fauxi in 2017: President Trump Will Be Challenged By a Surprise Global Disease Outbreak. What did he know?
https://www.healio.com/infectious-disease/emerging-diseases/news/online/%7B85a3f9c0-ed0a-4be8-9ca2-8854b2be7d13%7D/fauci-no-doubt-trump-will-face-surprise-infectious-disease-outbreak
-Despite his 2017 prediction, Fauxi unprepared for 2020 pandemic. By design?
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2020/04/02/america-unprepared-coronavirus-pandemic-what-do-about-covid-19/5109482002/
-In Jan 2020 interview, he said, “... this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.” - intentional?
https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/03/flashback-fauci-coronavirus-us-threat-trump/
-Fauxi caught on video flip flopping on severity of the virus
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=59a0uGIFZGY
-Fauxi said masks do not work.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/preventing-coronavirus-facemask-60-minutes-2020-03-08/
-Fauxi in February said malls, gyms and movie theaters were OK. Make us more vulnerable?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/update-fauci-said-cruises-ok-march-9-fauci-said-malls-movies-gyms-ok-feb-29-now-wants-blame-trump-failures/
-Fauxi in March said Americans cruises were OK. Catch us with guard down?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/douggollan/2020/03/09/fauci-says-cruising-is-ok-if-you-are-healthy/#6f8eb5f62d4d
-Fauci on CNN Easter Sunday suggested President Trump should have shut down the country in February
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/dope-dr-fauci-says-trump-shut-economy-february-democrat-impeachment-sham/
-Fauxi exaggerated need for Hospital beds
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/faucis-follies-us-coronavirus-field-hospitals-shut-without-treating-single-patient-garbage-models-used-us-experts/
-Fauxi is front man for Big Pharma, pushing expensive new drugs that require tests and trials rather than inexpensive proven cures like HCQ+zinc+zpack that have been around for decades. More time to let the virus spread?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/fauci_now_is_part_of_the_problem_not_part_of_the_solution.html
-Fauxi delaying tests of vaccines and cures
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/fauci_now_is_part_of_the_problem_not_part_of_the_solution.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/four_questions_senators_should_ask_redfield_and_fauci_on_tuesday.html
-Fauxi agenda is mandated vaccines to benefit Big Pharma and Bill Gates.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/8/anthony-fauci-sets-stage-mandatory-vaccine/
-Fauxi 100% wrong with exaggerated models
https://community.oilprice.com/topic/13016-us-surgeon-general-adams-dumps-bill-gates-who-cdc-%E2%80%98predictive-contagion%E2%80%99-model/
-Fauxi longtime relationship with corrupt WHO director, a communist-globalist with terrorist ties, who covers for the CCP
https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/is-w-h-o-director-tedros-a-terrorist-global-ties-to-bill-gates-clinton-foundation-dr-fauci-china-and-genocide/
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/fauci-who-head-really-outstanding-person
https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/is-w-h-o-director-tedros-a-terrorist-global-ties-to-bill-gates-clinton-foundation-dr-fauci-china-and-genocide/
-Fauxi endorses Tinder hookups
https://nypost.com/2020/04/15/fauci-endorses-tinder-hookups-with-a-caveat/
-Fauxi plotted ‘Global Vaccine Action Plan’ with depopulation advocate Bill Gates, pushing panic and doubts about HCQ. Big Pharma $$$s.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/0OlUbR7U/dr-anthony-fauci-plotted-global-vaccine-action-plan-with-bill-gates-before-pushing-covid-panic-and-doubts-about-hydroxychloroquine-treatments
- Fauxi, May 2020 told National Geographic the virus did not originate in Chinese Lab.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/05/anthony-fauci-no-scientific-evidence-the-coronavirus-was-made-in-a-chinese-lab-cvd/
-Fauxi wrong again on State of Georgia reopening
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/dr-fauci-wrong-coronavirus-cases-drop-new-lows-georgia-opens-state-lifts-lockdown-orders/
-Dr Birx now believes CDC inflating death numbers by as much as 25%. distancing herself?
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-bombshell-report-dr-birx-believes-cdc-inflating-death-numbers-much
-First Case in US Treated with Remdesivir was January Two Weeks Later China Was Mass Producing the Drug The Firm Gilead Sciences and Dr. Fauci Are In the Middle
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/first-case-covid-19-us-treated-remdesivir-late-january-two-weeks-later-china-mass-producing-drug-firm-gilead-sciences-dr-fauci-middle
/
Fauxi’s own NIH - Breakthrough: Chloroquine Phosphate Has Shown Apparent Efficacy in Treatment of COVID-19 Associated Pneumonia in Clinical Studies
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32074
https://mobile.twitter.com/99freemind/status/1243171622661521409/photo/2
Two Fauxi mistakes led to nationwide Lockdown
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-two-mistakes-that-led-to-a-national-lockdown_3349318.html
Fauci and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study victims
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/dr_fauci_and_the_tuskegee_syphilis_study_victims.html#ixzz6MpATbmwS
Fauxi ties to Deep State, Soros, Gates, Clintons
https://youtu.be/KZmJ43hmHC8
Fauci caught in lie about inflammatory condition in children (May 2020)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/another-dr-fauci-lie-debunked-mysterious-inflammatory-condition-children-typical-every-year-13-100000-children-study/
Did Anthony Faucis promotion of dangerous research help create the COVID-19 pandemic?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/did-anthony-faucis-promotion-of-dangerous-research-help-create-the-covid-19-pandemic?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com&utm_campaign=a8ffd140b2-Daily%2520Headlines%2520-%2520U.S._COPY_782&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_12387f0e3e-a8ffd140b2-402230833
To: Artcore
Exactly! He is completely gutless and should be impeached!
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