The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-11-2020, 08:35 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Eric said "total cases", "much higher", and "any EU country"; your numbers aren't relevant to any of those claims.  Unlike Eric, though, I don't think you're not stupid enough to realize your post is irrelevant to the discussion.

It depends on whether you care about how effective the various plans are, or if you just care about making partisan points.  The US blew the chance to defend the borders looking at China and letting the virus getting hold in dense states via Europe and by lack of a national approach.  We definitely made mistakes, and it shows no matter if you look at absolute numbers or per million averages or however you arrange the statistics.

I care less about assigning the blame for mistakes already made than for the ones we are currently making.  We can revisit the first few months later when this is all past.  For now, the states relaxing isolation with their rate of infection still going up and their hospitals nearly at capacity are inviting catastrophe, and the federal response seems to be to walk away.  Ignoring the science and the problem may work in the short term against global warming, but the bug has a shorter incubation time.