Doc Holliday said:
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C'mon November 3rd! We just gotta hang on til then.
Do you think the headline will be that HC cures it or just that there will be no more headlines about it? This is all based on my assumption that it disappears if the DEM nominee wins. I also think it will disappear if the REP nominee wins because there wont be a political enemy for the media to destroy either way, the election will simply be over.
His comment mimics the trumpist talking point, this whole thing is a hoax fabricated to help Democrats. It's really sad given the hundreds of thousands that have died and will continue to die. The tribalist mindset can't fathom a world bigger than the dominion of the tribe, neighbors be damned.
Covid-19 has killed .00038 percent of America's 330,000,000 people.
No doubt that Covid is real, it is just not that deadly. Sorry.
I think overall, our tribes are safe.
That number would be much larger we had not shut down.
That number would be smaller if we would socially distance and wear masks.
Trump undermined the lockdowns and the mask wearing and by example refuses to promote social distancing.
That number would be much smaller had China and the WHO not promoted relaxing precautions even in February.
We take their advice: For the two-year budget cycle of 2018 and 2019, the U.S. government pledged to contribute $893 million to WHO's budget.
You'd expect them to give us the correct answers.
They downplayed that the virus was human to human. All while they knew the results in China for months.
You're pointing the finger at POTUS who got the recommendations from who we pay for answers and they were wrong...purposely wrong.
We knew about human to human transmission well before Trump started undermining social distancing and mask wearing as well as tweeting about "Free Michigan."
All that is on him.
And the other 8 European countries doing way worse than us, it's on their leaders too?
Trump should have gone rogue from the scientific globalist community and pushed for extreme measures instantly when nobody else was doing so?
Several points here.
First, "Our World in Data" puts 8 European Co countries with a worse overall per capita death rate while Statista lists only 6 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/) Not sure why the difference.
Second, Belgium always has the worst stats. That is because it reports probably Covid deaths even when there was no confirmed tests. While Belgium's numbers are likely more accurate, including it in the comparison is not really correct.
Third, that means there are 5 developed, populous countries that definitively have fared worse than we have so far: England, Italy, Spain,. France and Sweden. What do those countries have in common? They either never embraced social distancing (Sweden); were late to embrace social distancing (England); or had a population that in the early days of exposure ignored government directives to social distance (Italy, France and Spain). But those countries were smart enough to learn from their mistakes. As a result they eventually got serious about fighting the virus. Almost like magic their statistics vastly improved. As a result there curves in terms of number of cases are relatively flattened while ours rises.
Fourth, we have the best healthcare system in the world, we should get some benefit for that in a cirsis like this compared to other countries.
We had the benefit of seeing what could happen because Europe got hit first. Rather than organizing a coordinated and focused national response, Trump offloaded most of the responsibility on governors then undermined any of them that did not appropriately prioritize economic recovery. When it became relatively clear that mask wearing would help, his own vanity prevented him from leading on the issue. He was cheerleader for early and aggressive re-opening, in essence begging us to emulate the mistakes the five listed countries made at the beginning of the outbreak. As a bonus he has used a time of crisis to further divide us.
This was going to be bad no matter what. But the confused, undisciplined govern by twitter response has made it far worse than it had to be. You can insert "globalist" into every sentence you type and it doesn't change things. Trump' s leadership on the issue has been horrific.
There are other factors: how many people flew from China to Europe vs the US?
You can't just look at one set of stats and call it a day. Everything is much more complex than that.
What we're seeing right now is more cases because we have the best testing. No spike in deaths. That's actually good signs that we're treating it well and catching it quickly.
What stats did you use to determine 8 European countries had a worse record than us? You looked at one Covid death per capita chart. When I explain why that stat is not the be all and end all you then say " Oh, don't depend on one stat." What a crock of BS you fill.
Johns Hopkins disagrees with you on the best testing thing:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/international-comparison.
We will see relatively son how the recent surge in case numbers impacts mortality, too early to make that a point of argument.
But mainly I have seen POTUS with my own eyes and ears. He is easily distracted, over promises and under delivers, worries way too much about his re-election, delegates to and relies on people who have no experience and refuses to accept responsibility for anything. He is a case study in poor leadership/