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IS CORONAVIRUS A HOAX?
Powerline ^ | FEBRUARY 29, 2020 | JOHN HINDERAKER

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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To: datura

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%.


81 posted on 02/29/2020 12:27:51 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: little jeremiah

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


82 posted on 02/29/2020 12:36:26 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: WildHighlander57

I like “Scamdemic”!


83 posted on 02/29/2020 12:41:08 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: little jeremiah

Scamdemic GREAT WORD!!!


84 posted on 02/29/2020 12:44:05 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Black Agnes

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.


85 posted on 02/29/2020 1:05:25 PM PST by Ron H. (Gab.com)
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To: palmer
Just read that it averages about 1% but in 1918 it was 2% with the Spanish flu. I guess that is the number that got stuck in my head. Thanks for the catch.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-flu.html

86 posted on 02/29/2020 1:10:27 PM PST by Ron H. (Gab.com)
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To: Ron H.

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.


87 posted on 02/29/2020 1:12:14 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: palmer

But at 2% isn’t that still a small number for people to be losing their heads over? That was my original point.


88 posted on 02/29/2020 1:12:16 PM PST by Ron H. (Gab.com)
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To: Hojczyk

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89 posted on 02/29/2020 1:13:17 PM PST by sauropod (David Horowitz: “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”)
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To: Ron H.

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.


90 posted on 02/29/2020 1:15:13 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Ron H.

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.


91 posted on 02/29/2020 1:17:03 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Hojczyk

Trump didn’t say the virus was a joke, he said the Dems using it as a weapon was the HOAX.


92 posted on 02/29/2020 1:27:55 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (Congress is not made up of leaders however they are representatives of their voters.)
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To: Ron H.

2% is the mortality rate from the 1918 flu.


93 posted on 02/29/2020 1:32:22 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: bitt

Interesting


94 posted on 02/29/2020 2:20:18 PM PST by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: laplata

Ok so you ARE, it appears, too thick to detect obvious sarcasm

Thank you for clearing up how obtuse you are


95 posted on 02/29/2020 3:10:04 PM PST by Calif Conservative (A)
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To: Jim W N

That’s not what he said. That is BS made up by the media. He was referring to the evil RATs.


96 posted on 02/29/2020 3:13:26 PM PST by abbastanza
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To: abbastanza

That too.


97 posted on 02/29/2020 3:21:51 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Ron H.

You May find this of interest

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/


98 posted on 02/29/2020 4:27:19 PM PST by HollyB
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To: Ron H.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/


99 posted on 02/29/2020 4:29:33 PM PST by HollyB
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To: null and void

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.


100 posted on 02/29/2020 6:55:09 PM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways to Sunday)
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