04-18-2020, 03:11 PM
(04-17-2020, 09:44 PM)gabrielle Wrote:(04-17-2020, 07:43 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(04-17-2020, 07:40 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The way I am figuring it, the more you test, the more you find. The more you find, the worse Trump looks in ignoring the problem early.
Sure - because your beliefs are politically motivated. A lot of conservatives see it as the opposite: the more you find, the lower the fatality rate becomes, and the better Trump looks.
Except that deaths are being under reported as well. People are dying in their homes without being tested or being admitted to a hospital.
That is the fact. Testing could have been made available to all as it was in South Korea, Germany, China and some other places, and deaths and cases could have been reduced. Instead the Trump USA is the epicenter of the outbreak now, and deaths and cases are still growing at the same rate despite the shutdowns. Many people may not be sick, or not in the hospital, but still carry the virus. Any one of us could be among them, but we don't know because there is no testing. We don't even know for sure that people who recover are immune.
The shutdowns have likely reduced the case and death rates, which otherwise would have still been increasing much more rapidly. The linear trend is still straight up, however. If social distancing and shelter in place/lockdowns are relaxed now, all these increasing numbers of people with the virus will spread it and the outbreak will mushroom, and Trump's hopes for a reopened economy in time for the election will be gone.