Posted on 05/05/2020 5:49:03 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former head of the Food and Drug Administration and a lead booster of social distancing, admitted Sunday that the draconian measures aren’t working as the experts promised.
The concerning thing here is that we’re looking at the prospect that this may be a persistent spread,” Gottlieb said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” further noting 20,000 to 30,000 new reported cases per day despite intense lockdown orders in most states.
“While mitigation didn’t fail, I think it’s fair to say that it didn’t work as well as we expected,” he said. “We expected that we would start seeing more significant declines in new cases and deaths around the nation at this point, and we’re just not seeing that.”
That’s hardly the sort of settled science that justifies the abrupt and costly disruption to the American way of life wrought by social distancing.
The alarming reality is that social distancing never has been tested on a massive scale in the modern age; its current formula was conceived during George W. Bush’s administration and met with much-deserved skepticism.
“People could not believe that the strategy would be effective or even feasible,” one scientist told the New York Times last month. A high school science project—no, I am not joking—added more weight to the concept.
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Opening now is a big mistake.
We have eliminated diseases before, and we will eliminate this one too, as long as we stick with what is working. Yellow fever and malaria used to be endemic in the US, but we have so effectively eliminated them that no one alive now remembers when they used to be significant killers.
Right now, the rate of growth of new Covid-19 cases in the US is falling. As long as we keep this up, we will reach a point where there are no more new cases.
The economy will NOT recover if the virus is allowed to spread uncontrollably. In fact, the economic impact will be much worse.
So we bankrupt ourselves, destroy our country along with people dying and starving, but we will save ourselves from the virus. It is Illogical and lacks Common Sense.
By that rational then we should close down for every disease that comes out, Flu, this Virus, any Virus, etc. and etc..
We have tried to suppress this by artificial means and yes we will have new cases when we open, but keep in mind the main vectors for the spread have been the Nursing Homes, their workers, and hospitals along with their workers. Neither situation has been addressed and continues.
So tell how when we have 50 Million plus unemployed and 50% of restaurants and small businesses never reopening then what? More people will die from a lack of food, inability to pay bills, other diseases, and the fact many hospitals will close.
We will have destroyed our tax base and government will either cease to exist, and/or will be laying off the very people and stopping the very services we need. The Federal Government and The Fed cannot and will not be able to bail the states out. Who will buy all the new debt to finance that, The Fed Itself?
It’s obvious we have politicians who have not thought past today and are not seeing the Big Picture along with being now drunk with power doing all sorts of things that are blatantly Unconstitutional. Ponder all that and get back to me.
We did not shut down with Yellow Fever, Malaria or any other disease including the Spanish Flu. Go back and check the stats of the 1968 Hong Kong Flu and tell me why we did not shut down then.
I would expect cases to increase as the lockdown ends and social distancing ends....
That is exactly what I am afraid of.
I would like to see President Trump going front and center, showing people that the measures *are* working. It would be terrible to throw away all of the progress we have made in containing this disease.
everyone KNOWS THAT AND ACCEPTS THAT in exchange for avoiding the worst depression and human calamity ever to strike America. America must open up.
We will have to come up with an alternate idea. The lockdowns are not sustainable. Even some hard a$$ governors have turned on a dime this week seeing the handwriting on the wall. What’s an alternative?
“That means that actual cases are 86% below what would have happened without social distancing policies.”
We don’t know this to be true, it is conjecture based on the same “modelers” who claim global warming is a disaster in the making.
People are creative and will come up with solutions, as long as we do not allow the left to use the pandemic as a means to destroy the economy and conduct a total power grab.
I really do think we will adapt to a new way of doing things. Long before the pandemic, we have been instituting practices that allow for business to continue without face-to-face contact. Things like automatic teller machines at banks, telework arrangements, internet shopping, video conferences, etc., are all practices that are already in place. Encouraging people to wear masks in public is a cultural change (since we really hate to see covered faces), but does restrict transmission of disease. Etc. We'll work things out.
Actually, I do know it to be true. I used the case data and conducted the analyses myself, according to the known principles of infectious disease transmission.
Believing that the mitigation measures have had no effect on the spread of Covid-19 is like believing that measles spontaneously disappeared, rather than recognizing the role of vaccines in getting rid of measles. Preventive measures work!
Vaccines work. Check Sweden and South Dakota for efficacy of “mitigation” vs reality.
You forgot it killed sports, concerts and casual sex.
Michigan deaths attributed to the virus is 4139, 3rd in the nation. Most are in in Detroit and surrounding areas. What should have happened is those hot counties ought to have been quarantined from the rest of the state instead of locking down the whole state.
Reminds me of Jimmy Carter's "Incomplete success" of our raid in Iran.
How can anyone believe ANY of the figures now being reported when you have officials admitting things like a person testing positive at different times is counted as an additional infection - or, other fatalities being counted as a virus death.
Especially when the States are paid per victim reported.
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