Posted on 03/29/2020 5:44:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If the virus was more contagious and deadlier than the flu, then wouldn’t there be more deaths from covid than the flu? Duh...
Ok, if we could just be more patient....
Trouble is the flunatics lie every day. Not sure most of us wanna wait until the lies come true.
That may be the case but I do believe the left-wing doctors have taken over the presidency.
No, Trump is firmly in control of the Presidency. He’s just giving the experts all the rope they want. FWIW those doctors didn’t create the hype behind this. To some extent they are caught in the same wave of hysteria that Trump is.
I agree but the docs should know better. if they succumbed to the hysteria they are not living up to their oath.
You don’t try to swim against the wave as it’s coming in you wait and use its momentum when it goes out ... if you want to go the other direction.
If Trump defied the tide on this he would have already been impeached. The doctors have to deal with that reality as well because that’s the reality of it and they are public officials. Trump’s employees.
This virus is also an unknown and there are very good reasons to consider it an emergency apart from the media-generated panic. That is also part of this reality and a part of both Trump’s duty and the duty of the doctors.
Look, CoVid-19 is filling ICU’s with highly contagious patients who are infecting, and sometimes killing, many caregivers (including even EMT’s). Can you honestly say that the same thing, only worse, routinely happens every year due to influenza? Seriously?
No, the virus probably won’t kill as many people in the U.S. this year as the flu, but maybe only because massive resources have been devoted to figuring out how to stop it or slow it down and render it less deadly. Hopefully, that is now happening, because if it doesn’t we will lose a more doctors and nurses as the virus hits one city after another.
And I think President Trump realizes that the pure panic, put out and harped on, took over sanity and caused serious damage that was impossible to halt due to sheer inertia.....most of us notice that it’s now the hard leftists that are insisting things stay shut down and making a possible treatment illegal to try.
I wish I didn’t have to crush this stupid WSJ article multiple times every day. The authors should have their licenses revoked.
This was not a research study, it was an editorial in a newspaper. The authors think it is rational to extrapolate the incidence of the Covid19 virus in Vo, Padua, Italy, population about 3,000, to the entire province of Padua, Italy, population 990,000. They do not mention that the reason the entire population of Vo was tested is because that is the town where the FIRST PERSON DIED IN ITALY from the disease. You could extrapolate the .9% infection rate of Vo to Greenland and find a theoretical mortality rate of zero since no one has died in Greenland of the disease. It is unreasonable to expect that the incidence of the disease in the “hotspot” where the first person died is not much higher than in areas where no one has died.
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