Posted on 03/11/2020 9:54:26 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Dr. Redfield, Dr. Fauci & Others Testify on Coronavirus Response - C-SPAN 2hr video
There isn’t a soul here at FR that didn’t expect it to get worse.
It’s the degree of “worseness” that folks are divided over...
So far the regular flu has been worse this year. Way overblown !
Our domestic enemies are very hopeful.
Could be worse, could be raining.
Of course it will “get worse”, but will it be the END OF TIMES? No...
Jesus they need to stop this.
“There isn’t a soul here at FR that didn’t expect it to get worse.”
I’m not sure, since a good way of predicting effects of the “disaster of the day” drivel oozing from the MSM is to expect the inverse.
I’ll panic when I see bodies piling up outside local morgues.
In the meantime, car accidents have killed more people in Upstate NY than WuFlu.
Well, the number of dead will increase, but what matters, statistically, is the number of deaths per week. Is it increasing or decreasing or remaining stable?
And how about that same statistic in China?
Just came from a few stores and talked to some of the store managers ..they tell me they are pissed at the mediaVOMITS for their constant 24/7 panic narrative..THEY ARE SICK OF IT!! People are still shopping and some are avoiding the news outlets altogether and are going about their business!! FU MEDIAPUKES!!
Because the coronavirus is at the beginning stage of a growing pandemic. This shouldn't be that hard to get.
Check his background. He a bureaucrat trying to pad his rice bowl
In 2 weeks when this turns out to be totally false, what consequences should these knowing liars pay for deliberately spreading panic and disinformation
“I’ll panic when I see bodies piling up outside local morgues.”
Don’t assume you won’t be one of them.
Fauci is a loose cannon. Doctors and scientists should not be making political and economic public policy. Their expertise and recommendations are just one factor in the decision process.
I never assume. But I can do basic math. And my odds of croaking of Corona are miniscule. I’m more likely to die in an MVA on my way to Wally to try to buy face masks.
China is the origin of the virus and still accounts for over 80 percent of cases and deaths. But its cases peaked and began declining more than a month ago, according to data presented by the Canadian epidemiologist who spearheaded the World Health Organization’s coronavirus mission to China. Fewer than 200 new cases are reported daily, down from a peak of 4,000.
Subsequent countries will follow this same pattern, in what’s called Farr’s Law. First formulated in 1840 and ignored in every epidemic hysteria since, the law states that epidemics tend to rise and fall in a roughly symmetrical pattern or bell-shaped curve. AIDS, SARS, Ebola — they all followed that pattern. So does seasonal flu each year.
Clearly, flu is vastly more contagious than the new coronavirus, as the WHO has noted. Consider that the first known coronavirus cases date back to early December, and since then, the virus has afflicted fewer people in total than flu does in a few days. Oh, and why are there no flu quarantines? Because it’s so contagious, it would be impossible.
As for death rates, you can’t employ simple math — as everyone is doing — and look at deaths versus cases because those are reported cases. With both flu and assuredly with coronavirus, the great majority of those infected have symptoms so mild — if any — that they don’t seek medical attention and don’t get counted in the caseload.
He’s lying! Part of the global secret really, really vast conspiracy against Trump! WE all know there’s no virus, just maybe a tiny touch of a head cold somewhere that nobody ever caught! This guy is a fraud!!!
What? He’s the Trump-Pence medical point man? Neverminddddd......
“I’ll panic when I see bodies piling up outside local morgues.”
“Don’t assume you won’t be one of them.”
If mewzilla is, mewzilla won’t have to panic.
It’s the degree of “worseness” that folks are divided over...
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I’m not sure you are correct about all Freepers expect it to get worse. I hope you are right because it has been doing just that every single day since we started paying attention to the CV about a month ago.
Every day it gets worse.
We can live with that if we are “getting worse” at a slow enough rate. That rate is maybe 7% or less new cases per day. Rates much higher than that push us rapidly (weeks to months) into the millions or more infected.
So your comment about the “worseness” being what we are arguing about here is spot on.
But note 2 things:
1. In the U.S. we are nowhere close to that 7% target. It’s more like 35% new cases daily. Either that number comes down or we have a disaster on hands.
2. The experts may know the level of “worseness”. But if they do they are not telling us. Personally I don’t think they really know.
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