Originally Posted by
Chuck D
The odds aren't unreasonable... Trump's got a sister Judge. I know a sort of crazy number of highly successful sibling pairs. But ooh, let's ignore things like, you know, China literally decimating their economy, closures and cancellations and quarantines in every single country where it's getting detected.
Yeah it's the flu exactly like the bird flu, the swine flu and the regular old flu (that's sarcasm btw). These are still early days but so far it seems more contagious and more deadly by a good bit than the "regular old" flu, but with sizable numbers of people who show little indications but are contagious... plus we're not even really testing much for it yet. Fast moving target it seems. So who do you go to for guidance? The CDC, The WHO, other groups of doctors and scientists, or someone who literally has politicized every single thing possible for personal gain and a guy he gave a medal of freedom to? Rhetorical question... no need to reply.
Just to clear something up, it was the minority leader and speaker who threw out the first political rhetoric on this. The POTUS counterpunches, like he has literally every single time in the last 4 years. And I’m not even counting them calling him racist for putting travel restrictions weeks ago. As far as the doctor’s statement, I think it was just sloppy wording. Unless she is God, she doesn’t know anything is for certain. I think she meant to say that the probability is high. And that’s pretty much what POTUS said, nothing is certain. It may happen, or may be bad or it may not be as bad.
The mortality rate, instead of how contagious, is what we should be more concerned of because without people actually dying at a rate significantly higher than the flu, then it’s more like the flu than anything else. The fact that they aren’t able to test as much, as you point out (and there may be many who never get tested because they simply think the have the common flu), should tell us that we don’t know the real mortality rate. If anything, there are many more that have been infected that we don’t know about, which would make the actual mortality lower.