Posted on 11/01/2020 4:56:59 AM PST by John W
President Trump has described his campaign rallies as “fun,” “wonderful,” “the Greatest Show on Earth,” and, of course, “BIG.”
An effort to calculate whether those events have increased the spread of the coronavirus in the United States suggests that “contagious” and “deadly” would also apply.
A rigorous attempt to gauge the after-effects of 18 of the president’s reelection rallies, all held in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, suggests they have led to more than 30,000 additional cases and at least 700 additional deaths.
Those casualties would not have occurred if the campaign events had not taken place, according to a team of Stanford researchers. Media coverage of the rallies made clear there was little effort to follow guidelines about social distancing, and mask use was optional for attendees, who typically numbered in the thousands. (Indeed, face coverings were disparaged by the president on several occasions.)
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Estimates ;)
BS alert...
And how many deaths did the Stafford research estimate for BLM protestors?
#FakeNews
I’d walk thru a crowd of Covid infected people, without a mask, to vote for Trump and save the country
...or Anti-fa.
Pure Propaganda...
They will say anything to save Biden from defeat.
Estimates are like guesses, mostly useless.
Lovely!!
700 DEATHS? BS. The vast majority of COVID deaths are people in nursing homes, on hospice, with serious heart/lung conditions, & other major co-morbidities, expected to die anyway, etc. These people are NOT attending rallies (may be watching, however!).
The attendees all made a choice to go or not go to a rally.
I believe thats what freedom is all about, not having an authoritarian tell you where you can go and what you can attend
Their desperate, pathetically sad. If this election turns out as we believe it appears to be headed. These people writing this propaganda need to be ridiculed loud and often.
“And how many deaths did the Stafford research estimate for BLM protestors?”
And how many deaths did the Stafford research estimate for BLM protestors?
Worth repeating.
Actually imprisoned or swinging from a tree.
That sounds like a low-ball estimate. 200,000,000 would be closer.
“suggests they have led........”
new form of maybe might have possibly aka SOS
CDC says that only 6% of their estimated 210,000 are not associated with at least 2.6 comorbilities. So 12,600 out of 350,000,000.
I had to check my math with a percentage calculator.
It’s 0.0036%
so without the comorbidity it’s 99.9965% survival rate. They’re creating a climate of fear and control.
Fake news!!!
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