Posted on 03/11/2020 7:12:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
Confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus are swiftly ballooning across the United States, and President Trump's former Homeland Security Adviser Thomas Bossert says time is running out to control the spread.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), who is overseeing one of the country's largest clusters, said "if you do the math" there could be 64,000 cases of COVID-19 in the Evergreen State by May, while New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the positive cases in the city are "coming in so intensely now" that public officials are struggling to keep up with them. He said he wasn't in a position to give the media a "detailed case breakdown" because of the rapidly changing number.
That seems to lend credence to Bossert's claim Tuesday that hospitals could soon be overwhelmed.
Bossert, who in his old position coordinated the U.S. response to global pandemics (he was not replaced by Trump, who made cuts to national security), wrote an op-ed published Monday by The Washington Post saying the U.S. should take notes from places like Hong Kong and Singapore, which were able to level off their infection rate thanks to tougher measures early on.
You know bureaucrats won’t be happy unless they have at least one administrator for every single case.
I don’t think this is about Trump. And I don’t think it will bring Trump down. Who thinks Senile Joe could do a better job?
But I think this guy is sort of right. I’ve seen projections of the healthcare system being overwhelmed by early May and by mid-April.
This is the earliest projection I’ve seen. Seattle was already talking about having to triage CV patients. Italy is having to triage patients, because they have more severe/critical cases than ICU beds.
So what happens is Doctors start having to make triage decisions like, do you give the ventilator to the 85 year old who has a low chance of recovery regardless. Or the 57 year old?
“He resigned after a day after John Bolton was appointed National Security Advisor.”
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Well, he probably didn’t have a whole lot to do since the global health security team he was in charge of was disbanded about the same time.
Yeah right. Well see in ten days wont we
Clueless libs love the number 10.
Ten years until climate catastrophe.
Ten days from virus catastrophe.
Oh well, it does involve the limit of their counting ability.
Good lord people. This thing actually is serious.
Viruses don’t care if the president is a Republican or a Democrat, or if the tissue they infect is a Capitalist or Socialist.
It’s a real thing. It is very contagious, and while most people get well, not all people get well, and those who don’t get well are going to need hospital beds and if the virus spreads TOO rapidly there won’t be enough hospital beds.
Slowing the SPREAD of the outbreak IS KEY to saving lives. This is a FACT. It is not partisan. It is not fake news. It is not scare tactics.
This is happening all over the world, not just here. Get the head out.
EXCELLENT!!!!!........................
80,000 US citizens died of the flu in the winter of 2017-2018 and nobody said a word because they were too busy with the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA hoax.
This is a completely manufactured “crisis” meant to bring down Trump.
The obscure fourth tier expert that Trump appointed.
And sadly we have FReepers completely on board with these Deep Staters and the Fake News in pushing Coronavirus as some type of pandemic! Amazing how hysteria can cloud your judgement and good sense!
Current COVID-19 death toll worldwide: 4,382.
Current US COVID-19 death toll: 31.
Most people are indeed recovering!
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”...Rahm Emmanuel (D) IL, Clintonista...................
The only reason a hospital would get creamed is if the media panics everyone with a sniffle to rush to the hospital instead of calling their doctor - this is a crime.
The average age of the people dying is 80.
But keep pretending it’s not.
I have a close friend who is a doctor and an ultra-Conservative. He says everything needs to be shut down for two weeks. Everything. He’s never said anything like that before.
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Logically explainable, of course, but is it really?
Does it have the hallmarks of a deliberate biological warfare attack?
Not saying that it is but it sounds like something the moon god worshippers or the norks would do.
Over the past 6 months there are roughly 4000 Coronavirus deaths globally vs roughly 300,000 flu deaths.... This is insanity.
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