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The Washington Post editorial board made a chilling prediction about what would happen if U.S. businesses that have been shuttered amid the coronavirus pandemic were to reopen by Easter, as hoped by President Donald Trump.
The newspapers board in a column titled Why choosing between the elderly and the economy is a phony, barbaric choice warned Friday that many elderly Americans would get sick and die in the ensuing weeks and months maybe hundreds of thousands, very likely millions.
And so would countless other people, it added, echoing a point made by Anthony Fauci (the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) who earlier this week warned young people are not absolutely invulnerable to suffering complications arising from COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.
The board imagined a social, political, moral and economic cataclysm in worrying detail:
The quick and certain result of a damn-the-torpedoes approach would be to overwhelm and break the health-care system. Hospitals would fill to overflowing. Those in need of ventilators would be out of luck not only covid-19 patients but also babies, children, tweens and anyone else in respiratory distress. People who suffer strokes, heart attacks, broken bones and gunshot wounds would arrive at hospitals if they were lucky or rich enough to find ambulances to find emergency rooms resembling Grand Central Terminal at rush hour. Doctors, nurses and medical technicians would face extraordinary risks; many would not be spared.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/washington-post-editorial-board-barbaric-coronavirus-choice-085118137.html
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,534 posts)gulliver
(13,168 posts)He's just pulling the media's chains and trying to look like the "protagonist" in the show he wants us all to be in. It would be nice to think no one would do something that terrible, but I think Trump would.
It's not April 12th he's saying (like it was data driven). He's saying Easter, like it's marketing to Christians.
Hekate
(90,565 posts)Then there's his DC hotel -- where as of yesterday the management was planning to have a big Easter brunch at $130/head.
Donald Clusterfck Trump cares not how many he murders.
BSdetect
(8,995 posts)Shermann
(7,399 posts)dickthegrouch
(3,170 posts)We all die.
Thats a sobering thought.
Stay at home, please!!