Posted on 06/24/2020 12:19:39 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
(CNN) Covid-19 has "brought this nation to its knees," Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday.
The country is probably going to spend about $7 trillion "because of one little virus," Redfield said during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing.
"We've all done the best that we can do to tackle this virus."
Redfield's comments were made as half of US states are seeing spikes in new coronavirus cases -- and it's not just due to increased testing, health officials say.
As of Tuesday, 25 states have recorded higher rates of new cases compared to last week: Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
And no state has effectively transitioned from stay-at-home orders "to a public health model of testing, tracking, isolating and quarantining," said Dr. Richard Besser, former acting director of the US CDC.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
"The number of new cases had been stabilizing in early May, and actually the positivity rate (in testing) had been improving," Humble said.
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"Progress" made during the stay-at-home order period?
People eventually have to get out of their homes... You cannot expect people to stay home for next 12 months...
Forcing healhy people to imprison themselves inside is bringing the nation to its knees.
Cancelling Easter, under a Republican leader while cities burn.. not Covid. The bad thing is.. the lock downs and drunken power grabs started before than half of the country started seeing cases.
Our lil rural county was exposed by a NYer, or so he claims on facebook.
Now the freedom to ban all traces of Christianity has been granted. It wont matter who is prez next term, or at least it doesn’t appear that way.
The enslavers' emoji.
Thank you media. This would feel so terrible but for your efforts to make it 'OKAY"!
No, the democrats and spineless republicans have.
This is ALL political.
That was the plan. Stay home, forever, until we say it’s safe. Why do you think they used they “2 more weeks” thing every time? Enough people said screw it, so now they have gone to mandatory masks to try to scare everyone once again.
“To it’s knees” only if the American people allow it.
Kneeling —That’s mostly Pelousy/Democrats, desperate virtue signaling brain washed “progressives” and Black Kampernickypoo type dudes—not Wuhoo Flu.
Real Americans are standing up and walking around whistling while they work, watching tv, surfing the Internet and making the best of a bad situation and stocking up just in case some nutso pantyfas come to town.
I think America will be rescued this time, in about two months time, by a big vaccine breakthrough.
But we really need to learn from this, in SO MANY WAYS.
For real.
Next time, we need to respond MUCH more efficiently.
We also need to stop importing everything from China.
For real.
With help from the CDC’s incompetence but NO Americans are not on their knees they’re moving on with their lives and not living in fear.
... And DemocRATS couldn’t be happier.
Go to work. Wear the masks in crowded, indoor places whenever feasible, and keep a little physical distance. Wash hands when needed. Play outdoors. Have fun.
Why is that so hard to understand for some people, and what kind of people are spooked by that? That’s not scary.
Exhausted soldiers are tactical enough in the field in the middle of the night, night after night, to see nothing more than the eyeballs of their buddies only when face to face, and that’s not scary. So how can masks be so scary? And since when are Americans so easily frightened?
Think of the epidemic as a training exercise for a worse bug in the future. Think flubola, and have some courage. Do it right while producing more wealth than ever. Americans shouldn’t be afraid of this.
Agreed. Timeline for the Moderna vaccine, only one of several good efforts.
https://www.modernatx.com/modernas-work-potential-vaccine-against-covid-19
Because the masks don’t work and they are meant to be a symbol of domination...that’s what’s so scary.
Hope you are happy with your “work,” a$$.
Statista: Covid deaths per million
#1 Belgium: 848.88
#2 UK: 641.41
#3 Spain: 606.20
#4 Italy: 573.49
#5 Sweden: 502.99
#84 Japan: 7.55
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
Sweden and Japan - who had very soft lockdowns should have multiples of the Top Four, according to the prophets of doom - they don’t.
Japan is different, from what,I read they sort of social distance without a virus.
Yes, see that city out west for reference. They are making it racial.
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