Posted on 03/29/2020 5:27:45 PM PDT by conservative98
Speaking at a contentious White House coronavirus news briefing on Sunday that involved testy standoffs with multiple reporters, President Trump declared that "the peak in death rate" in the coronavirus pandemic "is likely to hit in two weeks," and said the federal government will be extending its social-distancing guidelines through April 30.
"The modeling estimates that the peak in death rate is likely to hit in two weeks. I will say it again. The peak, the highest point of death rates, remember this, is likely to hit in two weeks... Therefore, we will be extending our guidelines to April 30, to slow the spread," the president said in the White House Rose Garden.
Saying his earlier hope that the country could reopen by Easter was "just an aspiration," Trump added: "We can expect that by June 1, we will be well on our way to recovery" and that "a lot of great things will be happening."
When asked about worst-case scenarios if the country were to remain closed indefinitely, the president responded, "You're gonna have large numbers of suicides -- tremendous [numbers of] suicides... You will see drugs being used like nobody has ever used them before, and people are going to be dying all over the place."
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And if they’re wrong and we get less than say (God forbid) 20,000?
Acton (Ohio) says we’ll see 6,8, up to 10,000 admissions per day!
Nasty press corps. One of them (CNN or Bloomberg) said talk of quarantine scared the people.
Transparency, they got a problem with that?
Why shouldn’t the Pres. let the people know what’s being considered? Why keep secrets?
This is such a fu*king scam!
We are being played by the Fake News!
Perhaps not if progressives forcibly pack them in homeless shelters.
This website Dr. Birx referenced projects 2700 deaths in Ohio through August.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
#coronavirusscam
We......got a mouse in yer pocket ?
“contentious White House coronavirus news briefing”
Those were some of the best parts.
Not much will be left to reopen at the end of April.
Most restaurants, especially the mom and pops, are never going to reopen. 1/3rd of this country will be unemployed. Savings will be wiped out. And people will be behind in rent and mortgages.
He needs to not keep raising expectations. It is better to lower them, & then when it is exceeded, it is a win.
To save us from what amounts to the common cold. Its not even an influenza virus which CAN be deadly to the masses.
Ioannidis is the epitome of a humble scientist.
spend an hour watching this and ask: why is this man not a regular - or even an irregular - on FakeNewsMSM?
AUDIO: 1hr2m46: 25 Mar: Youtube: Perspectives on the Pandemic with Dr. John Ioannidis
(recorded 23 March interview by John Kirby, The Press and The Public Interest)
In this extended interview, Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University cautions that we do not have reliable data to make long-term decisions about COVID-19, and that an extended lockdown might have far graver effects than the disease itself.
Use this index to jump to points of interest; though we do recommend taking the time to watch the full interview:
00:50-Dr. Ioannidis summarizes his article titled A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data (linked below)
03:47-The truth about COVID-19s death rate ETC
from the comments:
Discussion of Itays high fatality rate, starting 16:48 - This needs 1 billion views.
Too bad this will never run on MSM. Their panic bubble would burst pretty quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEr4rmjwd0g
Ioannidis properly refers mostly to SARS CoV2, which is the original name of COVID-19. I call it SARS 2.0. the original SARS resulted in 744 deaths worldwide. if SARS 2.0 ends with 10,000 or less US deaths, Ioannidis admits it might have been lost in the bin of the seasonal flu figures, except for the media.
he says theres a media halo over much of this adventure. Google showing 9 billion results for coronavirus and 100 million results for influenza.
(paraphrasing) I think we really have a pandemic of news stories and news clips and anecdotes about COVID-19. I dont want to diminish its importance, but we need to get solid evidence, at a minimum.
ends on how to avoid the public seeing the next such occurrence as being a scam, if proclamations about 50m will die turn out to be wrong. must not lose the confidence of the public. hopes shelter-in-place can be ended in a few weeks, if data becomes available. says it is inadmissible data wont be available within 3 weeks (from date of recording).
https://twitter.com/ISCResearch/status/1243843226521534464
No, it’s not.
Look at it. You can touch it. And it can touch you.
I am sick of Dr. Fauci. Enough of him already.
We need to know how Fauci is going to measure the death rate. If a positive-testing deceased has a serious pre-existing condition, will the death be automatically listed as a Corona death? Will everyone who dies of a heart attack after testing positive go on the death list? Truth in labeling is the only option — no matter how many Phd.s a popular expert may have.
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We are being played by the Fake News!
I agree, that if one just looks at the raw numbers, this isn’t as bad as yearly flu, but the reactions of virtually all world leaders tells me that this isn’t a scam but something that has them truly scared.
You and I are exactly on the same page. My goal is to save any citizen, even a rat, from fear. The easiest way is with numbers and logic...much easier with a republican. Have dinner with friends, share a bottle of wine and tell stories and laugh! Its much more therapeutic than a mask.
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