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Exactly, every week it seems the predictions and positions by the so called "experts" changes. One week over two million people are gonna die in the US, the next week it's 100,000. One week the virus doesn't pass between humans, and we should not worry, the next we we ban all flights and its a national emergency. you get whiplash one week to the next listening to Dr. Fauci and his ilk.
That is because we constantly are learning new things about the virus. Of course that means things change week to week, even on the daily. The virus is an iceberg and we are scratching the surface and still don't know what lies under the water.
As for the numbers it shows that many don't understand forecasting and models. Models are based on a formula and when new data is inputted, it can alter numbers. I don't recall a 1m death toll for the US let alone 2m from any model. I heard 200,000 and that was with no social distancing measures. I heard 100,000 when we started getting actual data in and not projections and it later went down to 60,000 based on early data reflecting social distancing. Now it is back to 100,000+ based on rolling back social distancing and the virus entering rural America.
Mid Dec - Intelligence agencies brief Trump on virus in China
Dec 18th - House Impeaches Trump
Jan 8th - First CDC warning
Jan 9th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 14th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 16h - House sends impeachment articles to Senate
Jan 18th - Trump golfs
Jan 19th - Trump golfs
Jan 20th - first case of corona virus in the US, Washington State.
Jan 22nd - “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Jan 28th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 30th - Trump campaign rally
Feb 1st - Trump golfs
Feb 2nd - “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
Feb 5th - Senate votes to acquit. Then takes a five-day weekend.
Feb 10th - Trump campaign rally
Feb 12th - Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551.42
Feb 15h - Trump golfs
Feb 19th - Trump campaign rally
Feb 20th - Trump campaign rally
Feb 21st - Trump campaign rally
Feb 24th - “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb 25h - “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
Feb 25h - “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
Feb 26th - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb 26th - “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Also "This is a flu. This is like a flu"; "Now, you treat this like a flu"; "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."
Feb.27th: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Feb 28th - “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
Feb 28th - Trump campaign rally. “This is their new hoax.”
March 2nd - “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2nd - “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5th - “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5th - “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6th - “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6th - “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6th - “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 6th - “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
March 7th - Trump golfs
March 8th - Trump golfs
March 8th - “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
March 9th - “This blindsided the world.”
March 13th - [Declared state of emergency]
March 17th - “This is a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
March 18th - "It’s not racist at all. No. Not at all. It comes from China. That’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate."
March 23th- Dow Jones closes at 18,591.93
March 25th - 3.3 million Americans file for unemployment.
March 30th - Dow Jones closes at 21,917.16
April 2nd - 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment.
April 13 - 561,103 infected with COVID-19, 22,000+ deaths in US.
Trump was on it right away. Nancy Pelosi wanted people to go to Chinatown! LOL
And now Trump wants to dismantle the coronavirus task force because we're all good. No more Covid! SMDH.
Seriously, Nancy Pelosi was talking about Chinatown when this all first started, but I haven't heard her saying anything about it recently. However, Trump continues to put out lies and disinformation. It's a shame. We sure could use a good leader right now.
If he had responded early, he would not have had to shut down the country.
He could have followed real leaders, like Biden and Obama during Ebola. They kept their infectuous disease teams intact, worked with (instead of against) other governments, sent a team TO Africa to deal with it before it was America's problem, and limited exposure to us.
You seem to think the only option is shutting down. Well, only after blowing all other options. Maybe he should have step aside and hired Biden to lead his pandemic team, we'd be in a lot better position, based on history.
And now Trump wants to dismantle the coronavirus task force because we're all good. No more Covid! SMDH.
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Seriously, Nancy Pelosi was talking about Chinatown when this all first started, but I haven't heard her saying anything about it recently. However, Trump continues to put out lies and disinformation. It's a shame. We sure could use a good leader right now.
Mid February is when this all first started?
What about de blasio telling his people to go see a movie, get out, during the first part of March 2020?
If he had responded early, he would not have had to shut down the country.
He could have followed real leaders, like Biden and Obama during Ebola. They kept their infectuous disease teams intact, worked with (instead of against) other governments, sent a team TO Africa to deal with it before it was America's problem, and limited exposure to us.
You seem to think the only option is shutting down. Well, only after blowing all other options. Maybe he should have step aside and hired Biden to lead his pandemic team, we'd be in a lot better position, based on history.
Have fun with this response.
Fauci said the virus was no bigger deal than the flu in the beginning
Fauci said the virus was no bigger deal than the flu in the beginning
The WHO said it was not contagious
Should Trump have gone against them?
They are not his only source -You have many players out in the field - not just in the USA. He doesn’t trust anyone. That is the #1 problem.
He says it all the time. “Gonna have to wait and see” he needs to see the holes in Jesus hands.
Fauci said the virus was no bigger deal than the flu in the beginning
The WHO said it was not contagious
Should Trump have gone against them?
I think you are re-writing history. Or maybe just conflating it.
All I remember is that Trump was ignoring it, and the rest of the thinking part of the country was going nuts AT THE TIME because the experts were saying it was a big deal, and Trump was telling us it was contained, and that any remaining risk was going to be cured by a miracle.
It was the second half of March before Trump came around the first time. ("first time" because he dithered back and forth a few times after that...)
I don't know what quotes from Fauci and WHO you are talking about, but I clearly remember people being upset with Trump telling us it was not a big deal, and "just the flu" when the experts disagreed. So I think you are probably either misinformed, or intentionally misleading.
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