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What is Alex Berenson's credentials for writing about this? He isn't a doctor, an epidemiologist, nor even a particularly well-sourced and thorough reporter. He's just a guy who writes bad novels and posts what you like to hear on Twitter. Why should I trust any random weirdo on the internet over the experts at the CDC, WHO, etc.?

To be fair, most I'd argue on here are Trumpists first..... essentially anything he does is OK and anyone who criticizes anything he does even the slightest is anti-Trump.

I'd look at the two companies the VA ordered it from using a no-bid emergency ordering process. I guess any news that conflicts with Conservatives shaky grasp on reality is fake news now.

That would be a biased survey. Those who it killed aren't around to tell us how they feel about it.

Testing is going to be key in getting back to normal. Most companies are going to have a negative Covid test as a qualification for a sick employee to return to work when this opens back up. This is a total mismatch with the reality in most states where tests are being rationed to only the most sick and those with a potential exposure. Without testing capacity this will result in billions in lost productivity as employees sit at home without access to a test because they weren't sick enough or who had other less contagious conditions.

The VA's experience with hydroxochlorquine was disastrous and likely resulted in the hastened death of 100's of veterans. At this point, it's a snake oil cure but Trump pumped it up as it's manufactured by folks who support his campaign, who will likely pay him back with a campaign donation.

I was just adding some context to your question..... To answer, Obama is light years more intelligent than Trump. Trump is a total moron who's functioning at the intellectual level of a 4 year old.

You have no idea that he didn't mean literally injecting people with disinfectant. You want to assume he isn't that stupid because it makes you feel better about your support for him but I think considering the whole sum of his statements and actions, it's abundantly clear that he is that stupid.

Obama unfroze $6 billion of Iranian cash that was sitting US bank accounts in exchange for Iran suspending their nuclear program. Trump tore that up and now Iran has re-started the program. Trump is letting North Korea develop and enhance nukes in exchange for a few love letters from time to time.

Trump could control the narrative a little more if he actually took the time to prep for these briefings and didn't just utter every idiot thought that entered his head. It's not the media's fault that he repeatedly says insanely moronic statements at these.

Would it have been better if he started it off with the more accurate description of "idiot" crowd? These protestors actually blocked access to hospitals for ambulances in Michigan and Colorado. Is the type of behavior that you want to encourage?

Oh come one now..... we have numerous posters posting about epidemiology and statistics, that are clearly pulling stuff out their ass (ie. Oxbow, UND1983, etc.)

Well let's look at what we have and what we don't have twelve weeks into this Dont' Have -Wide spread testing (we also have no timeline for getting it in the future) -Sufficient PPE (nor do we have a system to allocate PPE to support hospitals during outbreaks as evidenced by NYC, Albany GA, Michigan, etc.) - Sufficient monetary support to individuals and small businesses impacted by the shutdown to prevent foreclosures and other personal financial hardship. -Sufficient financial support for hospitals to keep them open and fully staffed during the outbreak Have -$500 billion slush fund with virtually no accountability and no concrete plans for deploying -$390 billion SBA loan program that has turned into a boondoggle with little to no actual funds being disbursed -Some retroactive tax cuts that will take months for taxpayers to monetize -Six or seven distributors of PPE that get free products from the federal government that they turn around and sell at an extremely high mark up to the various state goverments Describing our response as second world is extremely charitable as there are multiple third world countries who've addresses this better than us.

Widespread is a relative term.... with a 15% hospitalization rate it wouldn't take much more than an outbreak of 500 active cases to overwhelm a rural hospital with 75 hospitalizations.

So using that methodology, you'd assume the flu season is roughly 13 weeks long which amounts to around 691 deaths a day. 799 died in New York City alone yesterday. One can only imagine what that would mean in terms of daily deaths if this disease was a as widespread as the flu. Rural Americans are kidding themselves if they think this won't impact them. A widespread outbreak would overwhelm rural health care systems quickly and since urban healthcare systems would already be overwhelmed or on the brink of being overwhelmed there will be no backup valves to handle critical care patients when the limited ICU beds available to rural hospitals are full.

This is extremely concerning.... apparently both Dr. Scott Jensen and Chris Berg have zero reading comprehension skill as that most certainly is not what that 7 page document says. It's well know that Berg is moron but it's still shocking to see a doctor and state senator exhibit such stupidity.

It probably doesn't need to be said but the planning for D-Day probably would have been quite a bit different if 80 year old grandmothers and six month old children were on the front lines so this comparison is meaningless. Also, we're looking at casualty number in the U.S. alone that exceeds any military battle in history.

This is pretty goddamn rich coming from you, Oxblowhard. You should stop pretending to be a doctor on Siouxsports. Your advice will likely kill people.

It would seem that whoever the President is does matter, because if Hillary Clinton would have won in 2016 we'd probably have had this under control after a few hundred cases and we'd all be enjoying our spring now. Instead Trump threw the pandemic response team and resources that Obama developed in the trash can because he's so racist that he needed to try and undermine everyone of the Obama administrations accomplishments.

His election in 2016 was a fluke.... how do you think he's going to win Michigan after trashing the state and denying aid to them because he has a disagreement with their governor?

Trump will lose and lose badly in November. He's hated by 2/3rd's of this country and has completely disgraced himself and the presidency during this crisis. His administration is the most incompetent in U.S. history and the only actions that have saved lives during this were taken by competent, mostly Democratic Governors (Cuomo, Walz, Newsome, etc).

When was the last time the flu killed 400 Americans in a single day?

You're not sharing a statistic or a fact. You're providing an unattributed anecdote about discussions you had with "well connected friends". Personally, I have a hard time believing someone who is as well connected as you claim to be would spend as much time on this website as you do.

This isn't surprising... nothing is ever Trump's fault in the eyes of his supporters so someone else has to be to blame. He can never fail but can only be failed.

It's classy of you to be rooting for another human being to contract this horrible disease. You obviously have a lot in common with Dear Leader Trump and his mockery of Mitt Romney going into isolation.