This is where the true test begins.
Was the shut down pointless or not? We have more active cases then ever so this should get much worse
But will it?
Yes. We have seen what COVID is doing in other countries, and the death rate when countries did not shut down (Brazil, Sweden), or when they shut down late (UK, Belguim.) There is no reason to think things will magically be different here in the US. Our shutdown was not pointless, and ending it now, we will see a surge in cases and deaths.
There are way more cases than reported. They tested a local nursing home of around 100 residents. 62% of them tested positive, all were asymptomatic.
But were they followed for 2 -3 weeks after testing to see if/when they developed symptoms? It's known COVID can have a 14 day incubation period, some cases have reported 24 or even 40+ days (unlikely but....who knows?) A positive test tells us that someone is contagious, it doesn't tell us if or when they will develop symptoms.
They're all following your boy Trump's lead. He's completely blown this entire mess. Trying to blame China for the weak US response isn't landing anywhere outside of conservative circles. People are dying. His economy has tanked. He is down 6-8 points to Biden. Polls in swing states not looking good. The US outbreak is quickly becoming the worst in the world. This is the only move he has left. Rip the bandaid off. Get it over with as fast as possible so that the economy can come hopefully back before the election. Hope that fewer than 150,000 people die. Send out the best propagandists you can find to muddy the waters. Invent some nonsense about China creating the virus in a lab.
All that's going to happen is that the virus will target his base (old, obese) and kill a significant amount of them off.
In spite of Trump's mishandling of this virus (and plenty of Republicans and Democrats in congress also mishandling it)....Trump being down in the polls is a blip. Nobody is going to vote for Biden, who quite obviously has serious Alzheimer's/dementia. And this will be clear once the debates start. Biden is an insult to all Democrat votes, they had an entire panel of good candidates, anyone of which could have put up at least a reasonable fight against Trump, and the Democrat elite went with the senile candidate who literally has no chance against Trump. For me, I will 100% be voting 3rd party (and before you tell me that means I'm really voting for Trump, (or for Biden
), no, it means I live in IL which is 100% a Democrat state and the Democrat candidate will 100% always win the state even if he has advanced dementia. Trust me, even dead people vote Democrat in IL, so it really doesn't matter how I vote. I can vote 3rd party and help the 3rd party get ballot access without "throwing" the election.)
There is over reporting of deaths and the patients that test positive are tested a second time because of the high margin of error from the available test kits... We are way below any projection. Meanwhile, hospitals around the country are functioning at <50% capacity and 20+ million have filed for unemployment. Businesses are filing for bankruptcy, the country is spending trillions of dollars we do not have to sustain this COVID overreaction.
But sure... lets blame the white, racist, Trump supporting, gun-toting, xenophobic, heterosexual, Fox watching, air breathing, meat eating, non-organic consuming, non-gender fluid, CO2 producing, Republicans for protesting government overreach. You know, something every generation of American has done since the inception of this country.
Everything I've seen says deaths are *underreported.* You might be right that we can't sustain a lock-down, but that doesn't by any means the lockdown was an "overreaction." It just means society can sustain the best course of action.
Lol, says the Democrat.
When are we going to stop pretending this about COVID and start talking about how American citizens are getting screwed from back and forth political games.
But it is about COVID, not politics. My SO is a strong Trump supporter (other's on this thread, please don't judge me....), yet my SO in spite of love for Trump, recognizes that COVID is a serious problem and not something made up by anti-Trumpers. Many Trump supporters feel the same way. But maybe this is the difference between the independent voters who voted for Trump as the best (or least worst) of the major candidates, as opposed the the deranged Trump supporters who think he is God and can do no wrong.
The *ONLY* reason we are below projected cases/deaths, is because most states have done lock-downs....for the sole purpose of keeping down projected cases/deaths. But because the lockdowns worked, people like you
are thinking they were unneeded?