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Someone who isn’t afraid to speak honestly about the science:Fauci will issue a stark warning on the risks of reopening too soon.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/us/coronavirus-updates.html#link-6f63d836“The major message that I wish to convey to the Senate HLP committee tomorrow is the danger of trying to open the country prematurely,” he wrote. “If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to: ‘Open America Again,’ then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country. This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.”Dr. Fauci was referring to a three-phase White House plan, Opening Up America Again, that lays out guidelines for state officials considering reopening their economies. Among its recommendations: States should have a “downward trajectory of positive tests” or a “downward trajectory of documented cases” of coronavirus over two weeks, while conducting robust contact tracing and “sentinel surveillance” testing of asymptomatic people in vulnerable populations, such as nursing homes.
Anecdotally it all makes sense That we misattribute and miss deaths. I think everyone needs to take a step back and try to remember why we count in the first place. We are trying to understand the magnitude of the problem, whether or not we have it in control and to allocate resources. Personally, I think we are close enough for those purposes and that’s validated through the excess death research. So I don’t know what the fuss is about.
Could we maybe keep this thread on topic and focus political responses to the pandemic? Seriously guys, it's not hard.
With all due respect, the behavior and tweets of POTUS in the middle of a pandemic that demands an 'all hands on deck' approach is related to the pandemic, because it shows that his focus is not on the critical issue of the day.
Yeahhhhh, OK.I'm not even going to touch this one, but it's backwards as the things Barr has done should disgust every American.End of any further response.
No. Sorry. That's a lame excuse to let you unleash whatever opinions you wish. Quoting about his weird "Obamagate" diatribe lends nothing to the topic. Everyone knows he's distracted and doesn't want to talk about the pandemic.
Guess we're gonna have to disagree. The more distracted he is, the more lives we lose.
What will be more entertaining and educational? Fauci in front of the Senate? Or Supreme Court arguments over the subpoena of Trump's tax records?
Let the bureaucrats handle the logistics and planning, and keep trump focusing on the issue of the minute in his mind.
Both have the potential for a flush in the background - so push?
I'd argue that [u]the less trump is saying and tweeting dumb things, the better off we are[/u].Let the bureaucrats handle the logistics and planning, and keep trump focusing on the issue of the minute in his mind.
This has been a major failure in our ability to rally together as a country.
Gonna have to disagree here. There might be second or third order effects, but the orange buffoon being distracted for a couple of days doesn't correlate directly to further deaths, this is just hyperbolic. It's just not how the federalism worksInherently the problem is that all sides (left, right, and media) have politicized the pandemic. The right is astroturfing the loss of rights and "acktullay it's just the flu". The left is turning this into another front on the #resistance campaign and generally seeing this as an opportunity to win/landslide in November. The media is amplifying all its worst instincts (if it bleeds it leads, selective usage of data, gotcha journalism, tribalism) which is sharpening the political divide.None of this is an argument for or against anyone simply trying to articulate what I'm seeing as a dispassionate observer.
Sorry, but I simply want POTUS to let the scientists and epidemiologists do their things, without contradicting them and distracting the public into thinking that the crisis is somewhere else. Does that make me "left," "right," or simply American?Suppressing the full CDC reopening plan; putting federal resources "right behind" the states instead of in the lead; making false statements about the availability of testing and then questioning whether it's even needed; making public recommendations for 'treatments' that have no basis in science; calling for the 'liberation' of states that don't meet any of the CDC's reopening criteria - all of these things hamper our ability to deal with the crisis at hand. If all that isn't directly related to the COVID crisis, we might just as well shut this entire thread down....
I, for one, knew we were in a messed up timeline when Leicester City became champs.
I still think this whole Corona thing is a hoax to stop my LFC from winning the Premier League. Probably propagated by Man U supporters!
Agree 100%. That's why I think it is relevant - and frightening - that he still is saying and tweeting dumb things in the midst of a crisis.
David Roth is the foremost authority on understanding all things Trump imo. Once you read a couple of his columns and start seeing this administration's actions and messaging through that lens, you kind of can't unsee it.