Ron Johnson: We don't shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways.

[RandySF]

“Getting coronavirus is not a death sentence except for maybe no more than 3.4 percent of our population… probably far less. We don’t shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways.”

— Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), quoted by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.


https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/18/quote-of-the-day-2504/

[msongs]

1. or when 30K+ are killed by gun owners every year for decades nt

[guillaumeb]

16. It is always too soon to talk about the gun deaths.

Johnson is exceptionally ignorant even in a party that values ignorance.

[pbmus]

22. This ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

[JDC]

38. Yes, why must we politicize!

Ron Johnson is a f*ck.

[guillaumeb]

39. It is not politicizing to speak of the truth.

Except to the GOP.

[kimbutgar]

2. I hope he gets the Coronavirus and STFU

Please karma make it so!

[Funtatlaguy]

3. Wow. Just wow 😳.

[beachbumbob]

4. we don't see Ron Joihnson kissing and hugging infected do we? Otherwise STFU

[Texaswitchy]

5. Fuck you.

What goes around comes around.

[LakeArenal]

6. Says he who has Cadillac health care and job security

And an employer that isn’t shut down.

[crickets]

15. +1000000

[bluestarone]

7. ALL these complaining assholes need to get the virus

They need to be quarantined! So fucking tired of them!

[LakeArenal]

17. I'm assuming that's what they think of us!

[Alacritous Crier]

8. Last I heard...

automobile accidents aren't contagious.

What a jackass!

[thesquanderer]

9. 3.4% of our population would be about 10 MILLION.

Though he's underplaying traffic deaths.

No matter how you look at it, he doesn't know what he's talking about.

[Yavin4]

10. Republicans are still the deadliest virus in this country.

Once we get through covid-19, we have to eradicate them.

[thesquanderer]

11. ...and I can't believe this is the guy who beat Russ Feingold. n/t

[LakeArenal]

18. 🤪

[33taw]

35. He didn't. Russia did.

[rurallib]

12. Gotta be about the dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard

[DBoon]

13. Highway deaths are not contagious

Coronavirus is very contagious, hence measures to limit its spread are appropriate, just as are speed limits, DUI penalties, and mandatory auto safety measures. All of which, BTW, people like Ron Johnson opposed as unnecessary and a burden on industry back when they were proposed.

If driving a car resulted in a 20% chance of being intubated in an ICU and a 3% chance of death, we WOULD shut down all highways until the death rate was reduced.

[Caliman73]

14. Idiot.

Yes, about 45,000 people a year die from MVA. 35,0000 from gun violence, 40,000 from flu. 100,0000 from tobacco related deaths. Those numbers are horrible, but they are predicatable and people ARE trying to intervene to reduce the numbers. We as a society live with that while we search for answers.


Does the idiot know that 3.4% of 330 million is 11,220,000? That is more than 11 million people that would die in the course of a year to 18 months. He doesn't think that that would impact our economy if we don't stop it? Those are the people who might die. The prediction is that 60% to 70% will get the virus. That is between 198 million and 231 million. If even half of those affected are debilitated, that means that between 99 million and 115 million people will be out of commission at one point within the next year. What does that asshole think that will do to the economy?

[LuvNewcastle]

40. When a government official shows that their reasoning capabilities

are insufficient, we should have a panel that removes such people from our government. They do more damage than serial killers.

[Jamastiene]

19. Another fucking moron heard from.

He can shove it up his ass along with the rest of the greedy, selfish Republican Party.

[gratuitous]

20. Shouldn't you be at work, Senator?

What are we paying you for?

[sinkingfeeling]

21. That guy must have flunked basic math. 3.4% of 365 million is like

over 12 million!

[lettucebe]

24. ha, you beat me!

[lettucebe]

23. Does he do math? That would mean 11,193,743 deaths

Eleven million deaths. How do these people get elected?

[hatrack]

25. And annual highway deaths don't destroy the highway system

Or kill the transportation engineers or road repair crews, or drain gasoline and diesel from the pumps, to take this shitbird's lousy analogy to its logical extreme.

[mcar]

26. Assh#le

[kacekwl]

27. They pull the same crap

regarding gun deaths.

[Greybnk48]

28. Yeah RoJo, car accidents are contagious

just like covid-19, you fucking, ignorant putz.

[doc03]

29. Wow what an ass.

[defacto7]

30. Don't you love it when they get all empathetic?

I mean psychopathic.

[Chainfire]

31. How do they get elected

When they are so goddamn stupid. It is one thing for him to say it, but to say it in public? Idiot.

[Greybnk48]

34. They rig the election. n/t

[spanone]

32. BlackHeart....who are these people?

They're like fucking aliens

[Doodley]

33. But why did we shut down the economy? Because this Republican administration was incapable of

testing to see who had the virus and who needed to be quarantined.

[VMA131Marine]

36. If you figure about 1/80th of the population dies annually

to all causes, that is about 4.3 million deaths. A 3.4% mortality rate from COVID19 would add 11.9 MILLION DEATHS to that number. It’s doubtful we have the infrastructure to cope with that many in such a short space of time. The government would end up storing corpses in refrigerated trailers until they could be buried or cremated. It would be a disaster.

[RockRaven]

37. We certainly WOULD if 2.2 million Americans were gonna die on highways in the next year.

That was the projection from the British study which finally spurred The Dotard to admitting there was a real danger here -- 2.2 million dead Americans if nothing further were done.