06-14-2020, 04:32 PM
(06-12-2020, 08:13 AM)David Horn Wrote:(06-11-2020, 09:13 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(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.
Exactly! Why should anyone think the US is doing even a mediocre job with this pandemic. We have the two best infectious disease entities in the world (the CDC and Fort Detrick), yet we failed miserably at what we've always done best. We need to admit that the GOP do-nothing model is an abject failure, and pretending otherwise just makes matters worse.
We'll look back in 50 years, and wonder how we allowed a conspiracy theory spouting party to run roughshod over even the most communal of activities. I hope the look-back will also include a narrative about our eventual success, but that narrative requires us to, you know, actually succeed!
There ya go!