The massive lockdowns and shutdowns and curfews are the doings of state and local authorities.
Posted on 04/06/2020 4:47:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
"Trump ruined our economy and all for naught!" "Trump and his capitalism put millions out of work for nothing!"
If you haven't already heard this from the "mainstream media" (AKA "fake news"), you soon will. Fake news media, doing the bidding of their leftist and Democrat masters, have been trying to destroy Donald Trump with hoaxes since he announced his candidacy, or maybe ever since Trump first questioned Barack Obama's claim of being born in the U.S. The fake news first claimed that President Trump overreacted to COVID-19, then Trump was belittling COVID-19 and ignoring the experts, then Trump didn't act fast enough, and soon the fake news media will come full circle to proclaim that Trump hyped it all up and shut down the U.S. economy for nothing. For once, will the fake news media report something real? Will this be a scandal with some weight of truth, eating into the base that never bought the prior hoaxes?
As an expert in computer modeling and simulation, with some familiarity in epidemiology, I can assure you that the computer models upon which Trump has based his policies are absolute bunk. The real-world data from Wuhan (however much you want to believe it) and the Diamond Princess and other countries and cruise ships suggest that COVID-19 kills more of the people it infects (0.5% vs. 0.1%) but infects far fewer people than influenza (3% vs. 15%). There might have been 50,000 deaths in the U.S. if we had done absolutely nothing. The fake news media will have plenty of experts to back that up, and they will be reinforced with the final numbers, which might not even top 20,000, including the exaggerations.
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The massive lockdowns and shutdowns and curfews are the doings of state and local authorities.
If we had a democrat president instead of Trump, we would be Venezuela by now.
Calm down everybody. It is obvious what they, The Globalists, have been up to for almost 4 years.
Actually, they are the best site right now. They get that the real toll of the upcoming depression is going to be far greater than this hyped up virus that primarily kills people with less than a year left anyway.
Of course, I am not surprised as you are are one of the biggest panic pushing members of team sheep on FR.
Fauci not wearing a mask.
Birx not wearing a mask.
We saw this coming from the beginning, didn’t we? That rip roaring economy was Obama’s and Great Depression II is Trump’s.
Remember, they don’t have to convince a majority to vote Dem to oust Trump. They only have to bray loud enough and long enough that the masses won’t question the Dem voter fraud that ousts Trump.
Hussein ruined health care and many other things.
Why should they wear a mask during the briefing? President Trump is not wearing a mask either
David Begnow at CBS ws wearing a mask during his report next to the Navy ship an nobody near him for 500 yards, the media is corrupt and foolish.
Oh Blah, Blah, Blah Why don’t you sue me *rme*
So will I.
I didn’t, so whatcha gonna do, sue me?
China ruined our economy, temporarily but at trillions in expense. Time to start getting back to work by May.
That may be accurate if all things were equal between the flu and covid, but the covid number is with all of the mitigation we have done.
Actually, at this time there is no way to know what the infection rate really is.
All test up to this time has been on people suspected of having COVID-19 based on presented symptoms.
The only way to have any idea what the true infection rate in the population is, is to have random testing in the general population. Without random testing we can have no idea what the hospitalization rate is or the morbidity rate.
As things stand, we can only corollate morbidity with hospitalization. This is only useful for telling decision makers how well treatment protocols are in saving lives (if they are followed).
My opinion, for what it’s worth, is start random testing ASAP so we can get on with restarting the economy.
Probably the best data to look at today is these cruise ships that had people bottled up with the virus for months. If they test 100% of the passengers and crew we can get some idea of the infection rate, hospitalization rate and morbidity rate.
Listen to the Scientists they said...
You know, from the same People who attacked POTUS Trump for his Travel Ban from China. The same People applauding Nancy Pelosi while she handed out Taxpayer Funded Gold Impeachment Pens while POTUS Trump was putting together the Pandemic Task Force.
You know, those People.
This is why Fauci is pushing so hard to have President Trump declare a national shut down
Imagine Hillary as president! even worse imagine Biden!!
I agree. He really had no choice. If this had happened in, say, his first year in office, he could have acted differently. But with an election looming, he had to act as he has.
How CORRUPT is the government? The government is so CORRUPT that only advocates for the INNOCENT VICTIM of THE GREATEST SCANDAL IN AMERICAN HISTORY went to jail.
535++++ vs. 330 MILLION
Prepare a list of grievances for each INDIVIDUAL CRIMINAL and the platforms they amply from for the world to see. Founding Fathers were very smart and radically cool.
American
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