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(19,945 posts)SergeStorms
(19,131 posts)but this is exactly what Trump's non-action will amount to. There's more than one way to get to the same stupid destination.
duforsure
(11,884 posts)I think he did this intentionally, prevented testing , downplayed the virus, claiming it was contained and under control , and spread propaganda then attacked the truth . Now he corrupts the real numbers from coming out because it would hurt him politically. Again over and over we watch trump put himself before the country and the American people.
SergeStorms
(19,131 posts)He didn't want the CDC to report the actual number of cases reported. He wanted to keep that cruise ship out to sea so it wouldn't drive up the numbers. It's all about him and how he's viewed by his cult. Oh, and the stock market too. He believes the stock market is the economy.
Forrest Gump's Momma said it best: "Stupid is as stupid does."
defacto7
(13,485 posts)ck4829
(35,034 posts)Cha
(296,728 posts)want to just let people die?
Lock him up.
(6,915 posts)Wait... 6-feet in between on all sides??
Freddie
(9,256 posts)Its how you get millions of deaths.
Immunizations cause herd immunity. If very few people get sick, theres no one to pass the virus onto and it peters out on its own. Just letting people get sick and die...??!! And there is no conclusion that survivors even achieve immunity.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)The coronavirus MERS had a 30% death rate but died off because it wasn't as infectious. Imagine a SARS-CoV-2 virus with the fatality rate of MERS.
diane in sf
(3,912 posts)cliffside
(165 posts)Boris and Trumo, great team She was supposed to fly on Wednesday, a US citizen, and then her husband, a British citizen two weeks later, decided to stay out. Nobody wants to be trapped. I read last week that a reinfection might trigger an immunologic (sp) response which is not positive.
anamnua
(1,102 posts)where we are doing our darndest to stop the damned thing spreading this is highly disconcerting.
malaise
(268,638 posts)after her atrocious response to questions
littlemissmartypants
(22,529 posts)jpak
(41,756 posts)OnDoutside
(19,945 posts)Layzeebeaver
(1,613 posts)... This scares the living F-ing shit out of me and my neighbours
On our right we have an 80 year old married couple
On our left we have a young LGBT couple with an infant
My wife is 50, I'm 60 and have a lifelong susceptibility to runaway chest infection/ pneumonia
Luckily (or unluckily depending on how things progress) we are in the Cotswolds - so a relatively low population density.
Herd immunity assumes widespread exposure. We might still have pockets where exposure is limited and immunity will be poor.
This is the poorest example of epidemic response planning I have ever seen.
Sadly, a general election is no longer possible - and the opposition is so well unorganised.
So we must suck it up, stiffen those lips, and look out for each other since the government clearly won't do it.
Let's hope we all can pass thru this first pandemic wave, and that immunisation research progresses at a reasonable pace.
If not, I expect a wooden cart rolling down the high-street with a crew yelling. "Bring out you're dead!"
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)such as brainwashed psychopaths in the Tory and Republican herds. Sadly for them, their voter herds may be thinned the most.
Thatcherism+Reaganism and decades of cruel austerity in the UK and USA has already killed thousands of the poor, the disabled and migrants even before this event.
My hope is that millions of American and British people will finally be awakened to the evil of severe cutting of tax bases and to the wrong-headedness of their demonization of healthy governments.
KY............. ........
maxrandb
(15,287 posts)"If you get sick, hurry up and die!"
CTyankee
(63,882 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Propose that, let us all get it and then move on?