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This was just 2 days after the January 31st Public Health Emergency was issued.
"The risk to New Yorkers from coronavirus is low and our preparedness as a city is very high"
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Where did you get that number?
when Trump stopped travel to the US from China in January, he was called racist and a xenophobe. Face it, no matter what Trump does or did, the Left will be all over him. Its a lose lose for Trump no matter what. Just a bunch of noise. For days, all over the press, it was him being racist for calling it the Chinese virus.
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In January and February there were many people and articles down playing the coronavirus threat, comparing it to the flu, even in the washington post. Trump and whoever was giving him information probably thought they had it contained to a handful of people, but it had obviously been spreading for longer and wider than most really knew at the time. China had covered it up initially and the WHO, which they apparently own, even tweeted that the Chinese have found no clear evidence of human to human transmission.
During the 2017-2018 flu season, 900,000 Americans were hospitalized and 80,000 Americans died. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/26/healt...-bn/index.htmlComment -
They are now recommending that we wear masks? You see how ass backwards that it? The apec is around the corner. The medical professionals need those. He should have done this at the start and lock this shit down but these half ass measures are going to cost lives and moneyComment -
For some reason or another people HATE changing their mind from their original choice/opinion. The show Let's Make a Deal illustrated this quite well for YEARS. People almost never changed their mind even when they should have. Granted, most people didn't understand the math behind the Monty Hall Problem. But even when you explain the math to them... they STILL don't want to change their mind even when it means doubling their chances of success. I've ran a version of the Monty Hall Problem with friends, family, and coworkers over the years... what I learned was... people trust their initial gut feeling over data... regardless of the evidence.
Combine that with the Dunning-Kruger Effect and people will make A LOT of bad decisions while always maintaining that their decision was a good one.
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wiki you put too much emphasis on ONE GUY. he is just "one guy" in a huge huge government system
did you already forget that back in January and February HALF of that huge huge government wasted their time and energy on an impeachment trial that anyone with any kind of logic knew it was doomed from the start? if those people really gave a shit about average Americans they should of spent their time and energy asking questions of the virus back then when news about it was first breaking.........
instead we got one big fuckin CLOWN SHOW over and over in the news those 2 months..... dont put all this on "one guy" man. you're better than thatComment -
lol they were drrrraaaaaaged into those proceedings as a result of the lefts 'personal' vendetta against trump
but yeah you're right. they should of both been looking and asking questions back then about it. like i said, instead we all had to witness a clown show... sad the way politics work these daysComment -
I agree Trump likely could not have predicted how bad this would be and China screwed the world but we should stop comparing it to the flu.
Flu season is defined as year-round by CDC with increases in cases starting in October and tailing off through May. Lets call it 7 months out of the year to be conservative (its actually 8 months). With 80,000 deaths thats about 11,400 deaths/mo. and is spread across all 50 states at roughly the same time. Sure there are some deaths in the other 5 months, but apparently they are relatively low in numbers compared to Fall/Winter.
The White House indicated there could be 90,000 deaths in the next 2-3 weeks (lets conservatively call it 4 weeks) mainly in NY, Wash, Calif, Detroit, New Orleans, and other hotspots. So CV will have more deaths in 1 month than the flu caused in 7-8 months. They are also saying the hospitalization rate for the flu is roughly 1 in 5. While for Covid-19 it is 1 in 4.
Which do you think hospitals can manage more easily and save more lives?
P.S. I voted for Trump and have been a republican for decades.Comment -
Let's say if back in January during the impeachment nonsense, Trump was taking a very serious stance towards this virus. Would the Democrats have back him up on this?
I am thinking that they would have not. They would have claimed that he was using the virus as a means for taking the attention away from trying to get him removed from office.
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How would the impeachment trial stop Trump from doing his job? He didn’t need to be there. The House Republicans were doing nothing as their job in the impeachment process was over. Like I said above, there were plenty of people around to look into this. Why should Trump care what the Dems say or think while he does his job.
If everyone would have stopped blaming the other side and just done their jobs, we wouldn’t even be discussing this.Comment -
I do agree with this poster, Trump makes choices, statements and decisions based on the polling, what the DEMs might do, how his numbers re looking. he does not lead with skill but sort of feels his way around. He felt at that moment that his base and stock market and electability would benefit if he called out the DEMS as worrying about a virus, that their worry was a HOAX. with todays total 180 he now feels that owning up to this crisis will salvage his base now as his popularity is a bit higher now than it was in January so now is a better time to just admit this is and he is a master of this sort of feeling his way around being president and still a favorite in the fall election he now says today its an epic problem in the USA not a hoax, not the flu its going to be a hard 30 days. it is what it is and this poster nailed it .Last edited by trytrytry; 03-31-20, 07:16 PM.Comment
