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The unnecessary panic generated by the media is going to be the worst part of this pandemic, by far.
You have a .01% chance of dying from this virus (assuming you even get it in the first place), statistically speaking. That's just a bit higher than the odds of dying in a car crash.
The odds of you dying from heart disease, cancer, or an opoid overdose, are much, much higher. Yet the vast majority of people don't bother with adopting a lifestyle that help you avoid those things.
Life is weird, sometimes.
Provincial officials getting tossed in Hubei for trying to suppress the outbreak.What was? You lost me
Ah. Yes.Provincial officials getting tossed in Hubei for trying to suppress the outbreak.
Huh? What makes you say this when no one has any clue how much this has spread because of lack of testing? None of the epidemiologists or scientists that study the spread of these deseases have even hinted at this. What I read based on 4 different models, this is going to result in between 200k and >1M deaths. That's not happening in a few weeks.My belief is the spread will die down in a few weeks which is greatly accelerated compared to China because of our government (as bungling as they are), tech and medical superiority.
He is indicating he has no idea how exponential growth will work in an unmitigated environment.what do you mean with this post ?
Pointing fingers at Obama at this point for ANYTHING represents diversion and nothing more.He reportedly told Biden to stand down and allow Hillary to sail to the nomination. This is when Biden still had a few brain cells left.
That is ridiculous.And if you want to make fun of Trump supporters then realize they are no more ignorant than the Obama coalition, who looked just as uninformed and uneducated in 2008 and 2012.
Ah. Yes.
My belief is they were fall guys.
I didn’t want him elected and I didn’t like Hillary one bit either. I was optimistic when Tillerson was announced and it was all downhill from there. A couple positive blips along the way. The problem is Trump is bullet proof. A lot of people wanted the ******* president and they got their guy. @Jangles is a good example of truly blind and deaf faith meeting enlightenment.Pointing fingers at Obama at this point for ANYTHING represents diversion and nothing more.
That is ridiculous.
I will say that the reasons many of them voted for Trump in '16 were borderline understandable -- feeling forgotten by government, wanting to change business as usual, etc. But anyone still standing by him at this stage = blind tribal loyalty.
what do you mean with this post ?
Im not defending Trump. What this turned into wasnt anticipated by him. Just take off you're partisan glasses long enough to realize that pretty much everyone else were caught off guard as well. They were calling Trump alarmist and accused him of using it to further agendas. I can only imagine the outrage had he banned European travel inDecember and January. This is what politics does and if a Democrat were president you'd see the same rhetoric reversed by each party. Ive been through Presidential election cycles since 1972. Aside from being more divided as a country, nothing has changed about the way its played. Dont vote for him. Im not. But whoever gets my vote it wont be because what they did or didnt do in first few months of this crisis. If I used that as a reason then i wouldnt be voting for anyone.I'm telling you that Trump has failed this - period. And he has. He lost whatever credibility he ever had (although how he ever had any is beyond me). in the same campaign stop where Biden was decrying the travel ban - which really made little sense in teh way it was enacted, he was calling for other measures to be put in place.
And of course it's politics - being the leader in a time of crisis is the very definition of politics. Want to see how Trump is doing? Compare testing in the US to South Korea and other areas - and we refused the WHO kits because...because why?
Trump downplayed it day after day. "A hoax." "It'll just disappear." We are weeks behind where we need to be, and months behind where we'd be if someone hadn't dismantled the Pandemic Response Chain of Command at the White House.
He's failed. Utterly.
By the way, it was the Governor of California that convinced Eiger to close Disney. Leadership from the White House has been...nonexistent.
I've seen a number of models. Best case, worst case etc.Huh? What makes you say this when no one has any clue how much this has spread because of lack of testing? None of the epidemiologists or scientists that study the spread of these deseases have even hinted at this. What I read based on 4 different models, this is going to result in between 200k and >1M deaths. That's not happening in a few weeks.
Is this just wishful thinking so you internally don't panic?
I'm showing that so far the US is doing a better job at containing this than China.
Sounds like you got yourself a crappy situation there...Did the selfish assholes who bought up all the cold/flu medicine, toilet paper, water and cleaners vote for red or blue? Either way they have left my family behind to suffer. I don't care who you voted for. Loading the guns tonight....
Yes because the way Trump looks is what everyone should be worried about.The left wing media is in danger of overplaying their hand here. They’re playing it like it’s the Spanish Flu. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people will die, says they.
If this ends up with numbers in line with the swine flu (10,000 to 20,000 dead) then it sets Trump up to look like a genius for having done such a great job.
sorry but i seriously think you are missing the situation...you are delayied then China...
you are really not following the right picture...
infortunately, and i do NOT hope it, USA will have the effects later on...
and, again..., i HOPE to be wrong...
Also very possible. Bad culture.That's possible. It's also possible they were trying to conceal it from the big bosses.
I think we still have a good handle on how many people died of it. When someone actually *dies*, there are coroner investigations, a cause of death, etc.Because of the lack of testing in the US (11,000 since this started vs 10,000/day in places like South Korea) we:
a) have little idea how many cases there actually are
b) have little idea how many people have died from it so far.
(b won't really be a problem for long, because going forward the severe symptoms are clear enough that when people do start dying from it in numbers it will be clear what to attribute to the deaths to even without doing a test.)