“Only if you believe that any of the numbers coming out of china are “facts”. In the U.S., for example, zero people who’ve contracted the virus have died ... is that not a fact?”
There are numbers coming out of other countries as well, and the CFR ranges wildly due to the smaller data set. However, excluding Hubei Province where Wuhan is (where the medical system has clearly been overwhelmed), the mortality rate for resolved cases is still pretty high. 1.8%. And given what we do know about China and Iran, at least, the overall CFR is certainly higher if the problem is ignored. Because the medical system gets overwhelmed...
It is not a certainty that no US deaths have occurred due to the lack of testing. It may be a fact, but we cannot actually declare it so at this point.
In any case, an excessive response is a lot less dangerous than an insufficient one, so people calling this a hoax and such risk doing more political harm than good. Trump is handling this properly, Presidentially. The media and Democrat clowns will have their lies exposed. There is no more point in panicking about media lies and Deep State conspiracies than there is in panicking about global pandemics or what ever.
“In any case, an excessive response is a lot less dangerous than an insufficient one”
agreed .... BUT deliberately creating ignorant panic, which too many in the media (and at FR) seem hell bent on, does NOT help at all, and in fact is extremely counter-productive ... such panic creates so much static that any actual truth or facts can’t penetrate ...
one of the worst things i’ve seen posted here is the fake daily mail article where they declared there was a food panic in the U.S. and “proved” it by showing pictures of some empty homemade shelves in a bunch of low-rent street bodegas ...