Brit Hume Cites Two Reasons Why The Case For National Lockdown Is Getting ‘Weaker And Weaker’

Daily Caller ^ | April 28, 2020 8:57 PM ET | SCOTT MOREFIELD REPORTER

[Hojczyk]

“Two things,” said Hume. “First the collateral damage from it is extraordinary.”

Hume explained that the initial reasons for the full lockdown was to “protect our medical system from being overwhelmed.” Except, he said, “hospitals are failing across the country.”

“The damage to our medical, our health care system it seems to me is something we really have to take into account here,” said the Fox News correspondent. “It’s very serious.”

Hume cited the “economic damage” and “budgetary harm” as other examples: “We are saddling our country and future generations with debt on a scale that was already high and now it is far, far worse. Not to mention the toll on businesses with which won’t reopen and so on. The unemployment.

The consequences for children being locked up at home and not being able to go to school with their friends and be outside, the mental health issues that arise from that, the domestic domestic violence … That’s part of it, the damage from it.”

The Fox News correspondent’s second reason centered around the fact that coronavirus “overwhelmingly affects elderly people and those with serious underlying medical conditions.”

“Everyone else is much less vulnerable, down to children who seem almost totally invulnerable to catching this disease,” he said, contending that it “can be addressed” by having the vulnerable quarantined.

“This is not in my view all about simply we are so good at the mitigation efforts,” Hume said after observing how the virus has failed to spread to places outside major metropolitan areas like New York City. “I think there’s reason to believe that this disease turned out, outside of certain populations, not to be not early as severe and dangerous as we thought and certainly the death rates I think will end up reflecting that.”

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Maybe the lockdown is hurting Brit’s masters in China.

I expect it is. Payback is a bitch.

Of course, the lockdown was always intended to be ended, so Captain Obvious isn’t really saying anything, here.

I am thinking that our leadership has failed to come up with any solution better than the approaching Summer. Still, they did far better than China, by all accounts.

If control remains, and Summer provides the final control for this season, it appears that this will have the death-toll of a horribly-botched flu vaccination and outbreak.

My work is instituting daily monitoring, so they should have a record and a means of control when normal work returns.

[Alberta's Child]

The media has successfully scared the heck out of most Americans.

Well, no. Most Americans spend their lives LOOKING FOR things to be scared of. And if they don't find anything, they'll make sh!t up to frighten them (global warming or "weapons of mass destruction," for example).

[brownsfan]

“Well, no. Most Americans spend their lives LOOKING FOR things to be scared of. And if they don’t find anything, they’ll make sh!t up to frighten them (global warming or “weapons of mass destruction,” for example).”

That’s an excellent point, and one I’ve noticed. A lot of people seem to embrace the fear, and spend each day looking for more scary things to make the threat appear to be even worse.

I’ve noticed it, but can’t understand it at all.

[T.B. Yoits]

President Trump is right about one thing; the push to reopen the country has to come from individuals, including the "chicken little the sky is falling / I believe what my television tells me" people.

Facts don't work for Dunning-Krugerants.

Lawsuits against totalitarians and their media propagandist will have some impact but far more impact if the populace sees the light.

[Alberta's Child]

I posted this earlier today, and it really goes to the heart of the matter:

In my neck of the woods the state is still under a stupid lockdown order, but a number of public officials are ALREADY coming out in public and asking: "What went wrong?"

There was an interesting interview on the radio this morning with a county official who is pushing back against his state's leadership on this, and he said something that reinforces something I've been saying since this fiasco started:

"The biggest mistake we made was putting state health officials in charge of this instead of our emergency management office."

[Alberta's Child]

My explanation for this is that a modern, affluent society is filled with people who are literally bored to tears. And they don't have the courage to take risks by doing things like mountain climbing or skydiving, so their stunted personalities drive them to do something else: They subconsciously take their normal dull existence and turn it into a daring adventure against unseen dangers -- by making up the dangers out of thin air.

[5by5]

My interpretation of the poll is that this poll is garbage.

[brownsfan]

“They subconsciously take their normal dull existence and turn it into a daring adventure against unseen dangers — by making up the dangers out of thin air.”

That makes sense. It gives them a purpose.

If these idiots faced a real war, as in one on our soil, or times like the depression in the 1930s, they’d be too busy trying to survive and they wouldn’t make things up.

Now, if you can explain how, of all the items a person needs, how toilet paper became the first thing people rushed for in what they perceived to be a crisis? Toilet paper?! I’m thinking ammo, weapons, dry goods, batteries... tp is no where near the top 10.

[Petrosius]

Hume explained that the initial reasons for the full lockdown was to “protect our medical system from being overwhelmed.” Except, he said, “hospitals are failing across the country.”

What better way to create the need for national health care?

[FlipWilson]

Quote: “For those of you who doubt the power of the legacy media, here it is on full display. The media has successfully scared the heck out of most Americans. That fear is so deep that no amount of logic, reason, or data that eases those fears is acceptable.”

Well said, but there is something about fear. Once you unleash that monster, there is no controlling it. The pressure of another more monstrous fear is building. Like a volcano, it is erupting. That is the fear of economic ruination and it is starting to overwhelm the fear of the virus.

I hope that I am wrong, but my state of NJ is ground zero for it. The war will start right here. I am not saying that anyone is going to go out and start shooting the state up. How it will start, however, is with a shot. Our citizens are increasingly ignoring Murphy’s orders, especially by the shore. Oh sure, the sheep in the state pay lip service to obeying. But everyday I can see lefties that I know violating the orders. I know one who decries the protests as “reckless” yet is out playing a pickup basketball game with friends on his driveway everyday.

This weekend it is supposed to be in the 70’s. The dam will break and Murphy will not see as a sign that he should loosen things up. Oh no, instead he will double down on enforcement that will become even more thuggish.

It is only a matter of time before the tension reaches such a boiling point that law enforcement uses deadly force somewhere. And then, there will be blood on an increasingly larger and larger scale.

[volunbeer]

Trump is no dummy. He has to see what we do. However, it is clear the doom doctors are telling him to keep it shut down. It is also clear his back is against the wall in that the media will blame him for the inevitable new hot spots and deaths.

Fauci is not lying about a second wave. We will probably have continual hotspots for some time. We will NOT have a vaccine anytime soon. There is no zero risk option healthwise, but there is likely a point of no return for the economy and we are getting very close to that.

Congress will not help as their only answer is to remain locked down and continue to lob half trillion dollar debt bombs at the problem to promote their socialistic ideas.

Why are we not hearing them break down the true numbers based on age and health risks at these daily pressers? Some Governors are saying this - Desantis said it yesterday.

I truly do not understand this. Navarro and others in his inner circle have to be saying this because it is so obvious!

[SoundApproach2]

I’ve never been able to understand why so many people liberals) who have been living the good life are so intent on destroying it...

[MinorityRepublican]

So what should we do?

[Bommer]

Including many on FR!

Too many! People go outside and get some sun, please? Then relax with a Clorox pina colata and a lysol colonic, while shining a flashlight down your throat!

[livius]

Good observation about the error of putting medical “experts” in charge. Of course, we do have to remember that some state governors then seem to have turned themselves into medical experts. Consider Whitmer, who banned the hydroxychloroquine treatment based on her vast medical knowledge.

[volunbeer]

We need to smartly reopen the country immediately based on the real numbers. Allow those not in a high risk group to engage in commerce and labor. Continue to isolate those in high risk groups. At this point even 50% of the country back at work will greatly minimize the damage being done.

There will be outliers and there will be some new outbreaks, but we know that is going to happen regardless of how long we postpone the decision.

[Jeff Chandler]

the emotional members of our society.

And that's 51%.

[FamiliarFace]

I can be emotional at times, but I am also logical and very skeptical of anything the MSM says, to the point that I presume they are telling me lies or distorting the truth for whatever agenda they have at the time.

I have friends that I thought were clear thinking, but this virus coverage has shown me that they aren’t as clear thinking as I thought. They are so frightened. It is surprising how many have given into fear.

[DoodleBob]

Speaking of data, here is the latest installment of the updated tracking of size- and time-adjusted COVID-19 deaths at the state and national level.

For those new to the data, I standardize each municipality's cumulative COVID-19 fatality count per GitHub by its population, then multiply the resulting quotient by the US' population of 329MM to put everyone on a common/US scale. I then index each municipality's time-series to Day 1, where their size-adjusted fatality count is right before it breaches 1,000 people. This corrects for what I call the "Golf Problem" where broadcasts of the Masters etc have to show not only each golfer's score, but which hole they're at. I also list the Day 1 date and the population for reference. I've posted the history back to Day 1 on my About page.

Note for the US as nation, that Day 1 is March 25, which means Day 35 is April 28 for that row of data. You can do the math for the other municipalities to find out what Day XX means for them in calendar times; as a general rule, the last actual data point is the freshest date, but on a Golf timeline it gives each municipality's score as of the "35th hole."

The sort order is Day 35 for the international table. For the states' data, I sort by Day 31 which generally keeps the relative ranking steady for later days. For those states that haven't played the 31st hold, the sort order is Day 25.

I dropped the West Bank because their fatality total rose then fell, so I don't trust the data. I replaced them with Canada, which is doing very well (if I can even use that terminology). The international ranking of the US hasn't changed in a long time. Sweden and the Netherlands' "hands off" approach hasn't yielded fewer fatalities than the US, and Sweden deserves its own scrutiny because they aren't truly a hands-off/'flubro' nirvana. But that doesn't mean we should ignore what they're doing.

Stateside, for Day 35 the ranking of municipalities adjusted fatalities higher than the US as a whole remains unchanged: New York (Blue), New Jersey (Blue), Connecticut (Blue), Massachusetts (Blue), Michigan (Red), Louisiana (Red) and District of Columbia (Blue), respectively.

This data could/should be used to help assess where we can re-open for business on an unchained basis, and where a more risk-based approach to re-opening can be used adopted. But we must re-open.

Pray for those impacted.

Country	Date of Day 1=day priot to hitting 1,000+ population-adjusted deaths	Population	Day 25	Day 26	Day 27	Day 28	Day 29	Day 30	Day 31	Day 32	Day 33	Day 34	Day 35	Day 36
San Marino	3/3/20	33,574	206,132	215,948	215,948	245,396	255,211	255,211	294,475	294,475	314,106	314,106	314,106	333,738
Belgium	3/19/20	11,524,454	102,947	111,611	118,875	126,967	138,892	147,643	155,935	162,513	166,659	171,520	179,070	185,590
Andorra	3/21/20	77,543	131,749	140,249	140,249	148,749	148,749	152,999	157,249	157,249	157,249	157,249	169,999	169,999
Spain	3/13/20	47,100,396	93,346	98,271	103,498	108,081	112,517	116,190	120,410	124,237	126,336	130,898	135,145	139,952
France	3/18/20	67,076,000	68,052	70,809	73,629	77,373	84,448	88,147	91,891	95,045	97,006	99,698	102,337	105,009
Italy	3/5/20	60,243,406	58,966	63,408	67,986	71,963	76,121	80,311	84,036	86,908	90,388	93,692	96,657	99,994
United Kingdom	3/20/20	66,435,550	56,287	60,166	63,961	68,252	72,459	76,878	79,840	82,097	86,204	90,039	93,214	97,063
Ireland	3/25/20	4,921,500	38,236	40,847	46,003	48,883	51,494	53,168	67,900	71,181	72,788	73,793	77,610	-
Netherlands	3/17/20	17,451,031	47,589	50,101	51,876	53,500	55,804	59,392	62,829	65,549	68,230	69,816	71,082	74,198
Sweden	3/23/20	10,333,456	42,512	44,649	48,189	49,114	50,390	56,290	61,775	64,454	68,632	69,908	69,971	72,523
United States	3/25/20	329,556,365	38,664	40,661	42,094	44,444	46,622	49,954	51,949	53,755	54,881	56,259	58,355	-
Switzerland	3/16/20	8,586,550	36,385	38,457	39,762	42,449	43,677	45,059	47,553	49,165	50,931	52,505	53,464	54,846
Luxembourg	3/17/20	613,894	28,989	33,283	35,431	37,041	35,968	37,041	37,041	38,652	38,652	39,189	40,262	41,873
Macedonia	3/24/20	679,600	23,761	23,761	24,731	26,186	26,671	27,156	27,156	27,641	28,611	29,581	31,520	34,430
Canada	4/1/20	37,979,093	22,118	23,108	24,652	25,884	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Portugal	3/23/20	10,276,617	20,171	21,069	22,031	22,897	23,570	24,436	25,174	26,296	27,387	28,220	28,958	29,760
Germany	3/25/20	83,149,300	17,673	18,176	19,270	19,948	20,923	22,096	22,829	23,293	23,685	24,280	25,025	-
Denmark	3/22/20	5,822,763	17,489	18,168	19,017	19,583	20,092	20,602	20,941	21,734	22,300	22,809	23,658	23,884
Austria	3/23/20	8,902,600	15,177	15,955	16,399	16,732	17,398	18,176	18,879	19,323	19,620	19,842	20,064	20,323
Iran	3/9/20	83,331,064	12,497	13,027	13,652	14,249	14,787	15,313	15,791	16,254	16,737	17,231	17,694	18,133
Iceland	3/23/20	364,260	7,238	8,143	8,143	8,143	9,047	9,047	9,047	9,047	9,047	9,047	9,047	9,047
Cyprus	3/23/20	875,900	4,515	4,515	4,515	4,515	4,515	4,515	4,891	4,891	5,267	5,267	5,267	5,644

Municipality	Date of Day 1 = day prior to breaching size-adj 1,000 COVID19 fatalities	Population	Day 25	Day 26	Day 27	Day 28	Day 29	Day 30	Day 31	Day 32	Day 33	Day 34	Day 35	Day 36
New York	3/20/20	19,795,791	167,410	180,362	192,881	202,970	213,458	222,448	230,888	238,846	246,854	254,745	262,036	269,062
New Jersey	3/23/20	8,958,013	129,424	141,270	149,731	154,587	161,025	174,858	186,263	197,483	206,644	215,694	218,453	222,353
Connecticut	3/23/20	3,590,886	89,114	95,080	99,668	103,431	122,154	130,597	141,702	150,421	161,892	170,887	176,668	184,653
Massachusetts	3/25/20	6,794,422	75,666	82,748	87,744	95,116	105,836	114,469	123,976	132,416	140,613	145,657	152,933	-
Michigan	3/24/20	9,922,576	73,932	76,622	79,345	81,903	89,608	93,394	98,874	102,428	108,705	110,067	113,123	118,503
Louisiana	3/20/20	4,670,724	62,373	71,475	77,825	81,565	85,587	89,397	91,443	93,701	99,134	103,932	108,659	112,963
Rhode Island	3/29/20	1,056,298	56,471	58,966	63,022	67,078	70,510	72,694	74,566	-	-	-	-	-
District of Columbia	3/24/20	672,228	42,161	44,612	47,064	51,476	54,907	62,261	68,144	75,007	80,890	87,264	90,695	93,147
United States	3/25/20	329,556,365	38,664	40,661	42,094	44,444	46,622	49,954	51,949	53,755	54,881	56,259	58,355	-
Pennsylvania	3/28/20	12,802,503	41,701	44,275	44,353	45,974	47,416	48,162	50,093	52,667	-	-	-	-
Illinois	3/27/20	12,859,995	34,826	37,902	40,413	43,463	46,230	48,280	49,792	51,048	54,456	-	-	-
Delaware	3/27/20	945,934	25,084	28,568	31,007	32,052	34,839	39,020	41,807	43,549	47,730	-	-	-
Indiana	3/26/20	6,619,680	27,979	28,327	31,364	32,907	35,148	36,890	39,081	40,475	42,018	44,856	-	-
Colorado	3/24/20	5,456,574	23,494	24,702	25,427	27,058	29,232	31,768	33,641	40,586	40,465	40,949	42,579	44,452
Georgia	3/23/20	10,214,860	19,712	21,325	21,616	22,003	24,745	26,133	27,004	28,101	28,681	28,939	29,262	31,649
Mississippi	3/27/20	2,992,333	18,613	20,154	21,256	22,137	23,018	24,340	25,000	25,221	26,322	-	-	-
Ohio	3/29/20	11,614,373	17,309	18,614	19,579	20,175	20,657	21,366	22,672	-	-	-	-	-
Nevada	3/24/20	2,890,845	17,214	17,670	18,012	18,582	18,582	21,318	22,230	23,142	23,484	23,484	24,966	24,966
Virginia	3/29/20	8,382,993	13,720	14,742	16,236	17,140	17,612	18,005	19,342	-	-	-	-	-
Florida	3/29/20	20,271,272	15,054	16,030	16,989	17,135	17,444	17,672	19,037	-	-	-	-	-
Washington	3/8/20	7,170,351	11,444	12,501	13,467	14,616	15,811	17,603	18,798	19,763	20,958	22,199	22,889	23,486
Vermont	3/18/20	626,042	13,160	14,213	14,740	15,266	15,792	18,424	18,424	19,477	19,477	20,004	21,057	21,057
Wisconsin	3/29/20	5,771,337	14,104	14,675	14,961	15,189	15,646	16,046	17,131	-	-	-	-	-
Oklahoma	3/27/20	3,911,338	12,049	13,818	14,239	15,082	15,840	16,346	16,430	16,599	17,441	-	-	-
California	3/27/20	39,144,818	10,296	11,079	11,997	13,075	13,630	14,245	14,447	15,154	15,693	-	-	-
Kansas	3/29/20	2,911,641	12,564	12,677	13,243	13,469	13,582	14,261	14,375	-	-	-	-	-
South Carolina	3/27/20	4,896,146	8,346	9,087	9,423	10,096	10,568	11,173	11,712	11,914	12,923	-	-	-
Idaho	3/28/20	1,654,930	10,156	10,753	10,753	10,753	11,152	11,152	11,550	11,948	-	-	-	-
North Dakota	3/29/20	756,927	6,095	6,531	6,531	6,966	7,402	8,272	8,272	-	-	-	-	-
Oregon	3/27/20	4,028,977	6,135	6,380	6,380	6,789	7,035	7,116	7,443	7,525	8,098	-	-	-
Montana	3/29/20	1,032,949	4,467	4,467	4,467	4,467	4,467	4,467	4,786	-	-	-	-	-
Maryland	3/31/20	6,006,401	39,669	43,729	45,375	47,076	55,745	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Missouri	4/1/20	6,083,672	15,168	15,276	16,035	17,876	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
New Hampshire	4/1/20	1,330,608	14,860	14,860	14,860	14,860	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
New Mexico	4/1/20	2,085,109	14,699	15,647	16,437	16,595	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kentucky	3/30/20	4,425,092	14,448	15,118	15,491	15,714	16,086	16,757	-	-	-	-	-	-
Alabama	3/31/20	4,858,979	14,175	14,447	14,853	15,464	16,413	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Minnesota	3/31/20	5,489,594	13,267	14,648	16,329	17,169	18,070	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Arizona	3/30/20	6,828,065	12,404	12,935	13,273	13,369	13,369	13,273	-	-	-	-	-	-
North Carolina	4/4/20	10,042,802	11,912	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Iowa	4/1/20	3,123,899	11,815	12,448	13,398	14,347	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Maine	3/30/20	1,329,328	10,908	11,652	12,396	12,396	12,644	12,644	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nebraska	4/1/20	1,896,190	9,211	9,559	9,559	9,733	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tennessee	3/31/20	6,600,299	8,987	9,337	9,487	9,587	9,387	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Texas	4/2/20	27,469,114	8,110	8,386	8,626	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Arkansas	3/31/20	2,978,204	5,201	5,311	5,533	5,643	6,307	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Puerto Rico	4/1/20	3,680,058	4,657	4,746	4,746	7,701	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Alaska	4/3/20	738,432	3,124	4,017	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

[zeugma]

I have friends that I thought were clear thinking, but this virus coverage has shown me that they aren’t as clear thinking as I thought. They are so frightened. It is surprising how many have given into fear.

Same here. I can't talk to the fearmongers any more. Not that I even want to.

I need to go through all the first few weeks of threads and make note of all the FR fearmongers wanting us all to hide under our beds with pacifiers, so I'll know who to ignore in the future. This thing has been a real eye-opener for me.