Scholarship table
I mean, before mid-April, your hero lied more than most (actually all), including famously predicting that cases would be “close to zero within days” on Feb. 26.But again, from mid-April on, from the moment he went against his own guidelines and told gun-toting, non-mask-wearing thugs to storm their state capitals and “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” ... “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” ... “LIBERATE VIRGINIA!” his response was an unmitigated disaster. 175K American deaths on his watch, blood on his hands, an economy ruined.If you’re being objective.
Yikes, take a breath man. I acknowledged it wasn't a perfect response but overall a solid response. Mistakes were of course made but when initial projections called for 2.2 million American lives to be lost and to be able to limit that total so far to less then 10% of what the experts were fearing I'd say that's pretty good.Your comments over the last 6 months have proven you are not able to have a reasoned or rational discussion on this as evidenced again by your comments above.Stay safe and stay sheltered MU82!!
Yikes, take a breath man. I acknowledged it wasn't a perfect response but overall a solid response. Mistakes were of course made but when initial projections called for 2.2 million American lives to be lost and to be able to limit that total so far to less then 10% of what the experts were fearing I'd say that's pretty good.
Overall solid response? If you mean for the economy then maybe? If you mean from a health care/lives lost perspective I can think of nothing worse in the United States in my nearly 50 years in being alive.
It has been interesting. It’s easy to forget about everything that was done in the first 30-45 days during the fog and panic of everything but aside from not mandating masks it really is impressive what federal and local officials have been able to do in such a short amount of time.The field hospitals, navy ships, ramping up ventilators, rapid development of a vaccine, therapeutics, shuttling the economy down to flatten curve, PPP, increased UI and stimulus, testing, etc....not too many stones left unturnedWas it a perfect response to a once in a lifetime pandemic, of course not but hard not to give everyone involved a passing grade if you’re being objective
As discussed above, the models showed if we did nothing 2.2 million American deaths. We prevented over 90% of those predicted deaths by doing things, there was no scenario based in reality that involved zero deaths. In hindsight could we have kept deaths lower with sooner action from federal and local officials sure. The goal from day 1 is how do we limit those predicted 2.2 million deaths and to further complicate the decisions that needed to be made they had to look at not just deaths related to the virus but deaths associated to extended lockdowns with increased mental health challenges, addictions, etc.
How cute. You think this is somewhere near over.
This is just bonkers, that this change in CDC rules happened while Dr. Fauci was in surgery.https://twitter.com/cnnpolitics/status/1298730671259684875?s=21
I never once said it was near over....I think it will be around long after the vaccine is made available but from a gov’t response view I’m not sure what else they can do.Up to us know to protect the vulnerable and stay home when we’re showing symptoms.
Whoa .. this is good news:https://twitter.com/FayCortez/status/1298751202361069568BREAKING: Abbott launches $5 coronavirus test that yields results in 15 minutes, without needing any laboratory equipment. This will significantly speed testing efforts. 50 million tests a months, headed our way.
Just look North of the border, and it's pretty easy to see what a competent and coordinated response could have looked like, and what it could have achieved.Cumulative confirmed cases per 100,000 over the past 2 weeks, as of today:Canada: 14.7US: 192.7
Ridiculous.Reminds me of when I was on a jury in downtown Chicago and the plaintiff's lawyer asked early on for $60 million for his client. We ended up giving the client $22 million. But during deliberations, several members of the jury kept asking why we weren't giving the $60 million, or closer to the $60 million or at least half of the $60 million.A couple of us had to say, "There IS no $60 million. There never was. That's simply what the lawyer wants. Get the $60 million out of your head!"Similarly, there is no 2.2 million. There never was. It was a theoretical, hypothetical number based on models if we had taken absolutely no mitigation steps as a nation -- you know, kind of what your hero did at his deadly (but thankfully poorly attended) Tulsa rally. That's what he wanted to do the entire time; he didn't give a shyte about anybody's life. He wanted the "church pews filled on Easter." He told thugs to storm state capitals in violation of the guidelines he had set out less than 18 hours earlier. He encouraged the governors of Florida, Texas and Arizona to re-open their states; that sure went swell. He threatened governors who didn't re-open (and who weren't "nice" to him) that he would deny them PPE. He claimed to have absolute power to re-open the country; thank goodness the Constitution said otherwise or we'd have had many, many more dead. By mid-May, he stopped even mentioning the coronavirus except to bring out his inner racist and call it the Kung Flu. He went to a mask factory, where masks were required to be worn, and he didn't wear a mask. He constantly downplayed the coronavirus, even made fun of it. He could not possibly have given worse leadership, especially once we all know exactly had to be done.I wonder what you'd be saying had this happened when Obama or Clinton were president. "180K Americans dead (and counting)? Millions and millions unemployed? The economy in tatters? And, as a bonus, racial unrest out the yin-yang? Solid job by Obama, for sure! Really super solid!"
We have done 79 million tests, they’ve done less then 5.Calm down.
I would say the 2.2 million that was never actually a real guess was just to scare the public.Canada also only tests those with symptoms.