Trump weighs restarting economy despite warnings from U.S. public health officials

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  1. Josephwalker

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    Im comparing relatively few deaths from Corona to highway deaths in the tens of thousands so in that respect it is apples to oranges I agree.
     
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    I didn't propose a scenario where industry was forced to do anything.

    Boris Johnson succeded without using force. Trump failed to even try.
     
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    Good. We can put that craziness aside and get back to COVID then.
     
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    It is now. But that’s because there are multiples of identified cases which have not been identified due to lack of testing. South Korea has flattened the curve and has a mortality rate ~ 0.6%. We are currently at ~ 1.2%.
     
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    Are you familiar with the term red herring?
     
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    Our cases are still increasing exponentially with NO flattening. Medical experts are saying this is going to get way worse.

    And, I would suggest that we could continue with no flattening as long as we have a population that isn't ready to implement the one tool we have for doing so.

    The message to citizens needs to be that we have to take this seriously for it to work.

    And, that is NOT the message coming from many of our leaders - including Trump.
     
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    Are you familiar with the term running from reality?
     
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    Dodge noted.
     
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    Yes I noted your dodge
     
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    That is what I said!!

    He then tweeted that he was not going to use it.

    And, that can be shown in his answer to NY's request for help in filling their need for 30,000 ventilators.

    He told NY to pound sand.
     
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    So what ???
     
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    So far, it's you who has run from the reality carefully and consistently explained by medical experts.
     
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    That’s funny. Where do you get this stuff ??
     
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    He didn’t need to use it because industry was willingly asking what they could do
     
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    No, I'm pointing out that the whole idea of comparing this to traffic accidents is LUDICROUS.

    By the way, if you have a traffic accident and our hospitals are overrun, what are you guessing will happen?
     
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    I asked a simple question. Is your plan to keep industry shut down until there is a vaccine which could be over a year from now. No answer. Dodge noted.
     
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    Trump's tweets are public.

    Do you think I don't scan them?

    Do YOU fail to scan them, yet think you know what he's saying??
     
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    This is a straw man:

    FAIL
     
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    Is your plan to keep industry shut down until there is a vaccine which could be over a year from now?

    No answer again? Dodge noted.
     
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    Pathetic. You claim to be a mind reader. Where did Trump tell Cuomo to pound sand ?? Where did Trump say he wouldn’t use resources ??? You won’t respond because that is not true.
     
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    You and others like you are already in a panic.

    Calm down...
     
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    Bull. Trump is proposing to consider relaxing our plan for defeating COVID by Easter. THAT is the issue, not what I think. And, I answered.

    Experts says that serious attention to social distancing and staying home can prevent our hospitals from being overrun and can allow time for finding effective treatments - which could relieve the situation.
     
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    And he dodged the question again. LMAO
     

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