Some Ask the Taboo Question: Is America Overreacting to Coronavirus?

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  1. Space_Time

    Space_Time Well-Known Member

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    Is the Left completely right and the Right completely wrong:
     
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    With over 200,000 cases, it would seem America is under-reacting. Big time.
     
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    Right now, what would be a proper reaction?
     
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    Eleuthera Well-Known Member Donor

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    In large part, those numbers are increasing because the number of test kits in the field is increasing.

    This has been around since last December, unreported and untested, with most people surviving and becoming naturally immunized.
     
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    Josh77 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    200,000 doesn't seem that bad to me as far as viruses go.
     
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    Especially considering that over the last 10 years, >250,000,000 people had the flu.
     
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    Why not a deep cut in spending?
     
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    Does flu carry a 20% hospitalization rate?
     
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    On February 29, 2020 the Surgeon General, Jerome Adams,Tweeted that the public should stop buying masks – despite scientific agreement that the virus is spread by sneezing, coughing and talking.
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    Joseph G. Allen is an assistant professor of exposure and assessment science, director of the Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-author of “Healthy Buildings.”

    "The debate is over. You should be wearing a mask when you go out."--Joseph G. Allen, April 2, 2020

    Unmasking the Truth on Masks to Protect Against Coronavirus: Fire the Surgeon General
     
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    Are they still asking this?
     
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    Over reacting? I don't know, not much I could do about it anyway.but I've been putting my time to good use
     
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    You mean the government has been lying to us???

    Prepare my fainting couch...
     
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    Don’t make an Anesthesiologist Surgeon General.
     
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