Posted on 02/29/2020 9:00:06 AM PST by Hojczyk
Democratic Party media are claiming that last night in South Carolina, President Trump said that the coronavirus epidemic is a hoax. Politico headlines
:Did Trump actually say the corona virus is a hoax? Of course not. The claim is idiotic. If the president thought the virus is a hoax, why did he do a press conference on it last week, along with various medical personnel? And why did he ban travel to China at the beginning of the outbreak?
This is what Trump actually said in South Carolina, according to the New York Post:
President Trump jeered Democrats Friday night for criticizing his response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, saying that it was a “new hoax” after a failed attempt to remove him from office over Ukraine.
“They tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia — that didn’t work out too well,” Trump told a cheering crowd in South Carolina. “They tried the impeachment hoax. That was a perfect conversation.”
“And this is the new hoax,” Trump declared. *** “Let’s get this right: A virus starts in China, makes its way into various countries all around the world, doesn’t spread widely at all in the United States because of the early actions that myself and my administration took against a lot of other wishes. And the Democrats’ single talking point and you see it is that it’s Donald Trump’s fault,” he said.
The hoax, obviously, is the Democrats’ unfounded criticism of the Trump administration. Never in American history have we seen such nakedly dishonest criticism of anyone in public life.
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Of the ones that died out of the total cases: 17 died/3150 total cases = about .5%
Of the ones needing hospitalization, 17/34 = 50%.
Many thanks for posting this!
little jeremiah wrote:
“THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE HYPE - New England Journal of Medicine: Coronavirus Could Be No Worse than Flu https://t.co/EWl3BggqZj via @BreitbartNews— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 29, 2020
“The authors note that coronavirus looks to be much less severe than other recent outbreaks of respiratory illnesses...”— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 29, 2020
The vast majority of patients recover, and among those who are hospitalized, the median stay thus far is 12 days.— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 29, 2020
I LOVE IT WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP AGREES WITH ME - President Trump: “Yes, I Think that CNN Is Very Disreputable, They’re Trying Their Very Best to Instill Fear in People” (VIDEO) https://t.co/ouzYtxCG6j via @gatewaypundit— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 29, 2020
So Democrats, if you are so afraid of Coronavirus coming to America, why are you for open borders?— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 29, 2020
The Democrats are already generating a #hateTrump narrative over a catastrophe that hasn’t even happened yet. These are some sick puppies.— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) February 29, 2020
To hear Democrats tell it, there are already millions of US dead and Trump did nothing to stop it. https://t.co/lGxTUqKGna—; Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 29, 2020
Wow, so that tweet didn’t age well. https://t.co/dtwQY8bXod—; Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 29, 2020
Democrats love the word pandemic. How about this one instead.
Scamdemic.— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 29, 2020
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I like “Scamdemic”!
Scamdemic GREAT WORD!!!
Including Influenza which also is a flu? Besides, cite your source for your claim if you know it. I’m curious and if true I will have learned something. If the CDC says it I’ll buy it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-flu.html
This is not a flu. It’s a coronavirus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_disease_case_fatality_rates
Right now I wouldn’t trust the CDC if they told me the sky was blue.
But at 2% isn’t that still a small number for people to be losing their heads over? That was my original point.
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Go to the CDC Influenza web page.
The total infected is estimated at about 35,500,000.
Hospitalized is in the high 400,000 rate
Deaths are about 32,000
This is for 2018-2019.
(I am estimating from memory)
The influenza death rate, overall is .91%. (Deaths/all infected)
Of course, the all infected is estimated.
The corona virus death to cases relate is 2.5 to 3%.
You can do the math.
The death rate in the US is 1 death from about 20 cases. Or 5%.
Aren’t statistics fun? You can make them do what you want.
At this stage of the epidemic in the US, the numbers are so small as to be useless. And since the cases of the flu are “estimated” they are useless too. (Most people never get tested for flu.)
Let’s just wait a couple weeks. It is literally a useless exercise to make comparisons here.
It depends on 2% of what?
Infections? Cases? The entire population?
And, I guess it depends on if your kid is in the 2%.
Everyone just needs to wait and see what happens.
Trump didn’t say the virus was a joke, he said the Dems using it as a weapon was the HOAX.
2% is the mortality rate from the 1918 flu.
Interesting
Ok so you ARE, it appears, too thick to detect obvious sarcasm
Thank you for clearing up how obtuse you are
That’s not what he said. That is BS made up by the media. He was referring to the evil RATs.
That too.
Thanks for the numbers. The drop is starting to look a little linear (with noise) rather than asymptotic. But we know the answer is not zero, and your guess is as good as any.
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