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50 minutes ago, Mainecoons said:

Do you honestly believe the world can stand a crashed economy for the time it will take to do this?

Do you have any idea how much suffering there is among just the people of this country already?  Do you think the U.N. is kidding when they predict an explosion of poverty if this goes on much longer?  Do you understand that poverty already kills far more than this virus ever would?

 

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One of the purposes of social isolation and lockdowns is to prevent the virus from overwhelming the existing medical infrastructure and to provide time to devise a treatment and possible cure. Another purpose is to protect the frontline workers from constant, repeated exposure to infection. Wanna just let it run wild through the general population? Then let the New York example be your guide.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...uh...don't get fooled again." --George W. Bush

Shame on you Jim Bowie, you've been fooled again. Texas sits in fourth place among states with the fewest number of covid tests per capita, so you can't see what's coming your way. The death rate is climbing and the spillover of infections into Mexico is creating havoc along the border.

17 minutes ago, Mainecoons said:

Minor point, they really don't know why the death toll has dropped, they are ASSUMING it is because of the measures.  Yes, the main model used is from University of Washington and it has varied greatly.  It cannot be proven why the death rates are being revised downward.  BTW the most recent prediction from that model revises the numbers back upwards.  

Other than that, exactly what don't you like besides my opinion doesn't agree with yours?  You do remember the apocalyptic predictions I cited, yes?  They were real and they didn't pan out.

Also it is a widely cited fact the young and healthy haven't died in great numbers from this relative to other similar serious pandemic episodes.  To suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate.  Look it up.

I'll leave it to you all to research Dr. Fauci's hardly error free record.  It is never a good idea to listen to just one voice in matters like this, that was the point I was making.  The doctors in the OP represent another point of view and one from people who are in the field.  To me that has value as well.

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33 minutes ago, mudgirl said:

And that may have been an accurate prediction had state governors and others around the world not brought in isolation and lockdown orders. 

You're referring to a post that was full of distortions, inaccuracies and misleading information. Dr. Fauci didn't make the prediction, he was relying on a study prepared at the University of Washington, not by Washington, D.C., insiders, as stated in the post. He was also clear in stating that the study predicted a range between 140,000 and 200,000 deaths. The authors of the study have since revised their figures downward, reflecting how seriously the population has responded to the covid crisis. The death toll keeps rising...and we still have a long way to go.

On 4/25/2020 at 4:45 PM, Jreboll said:

Here’s the other side of the story. Let’s understand that Kern county only has one major city(Bakersfield), is mostly desert-like withnsparse population. If these doctors want to learn about pandemics they should go visit New York. And you my friend should be smart enough than to paste such a one-sided story.

https://www.turnto23.com/news/coronavirus/kern-county-public-health-does-not-concur-with-statements-made-by-accelerated-urgent-care-doctors

"As I was driving home late one Sunday evening through Bakersfield California/Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station/I heard the preacher say/You know you always have the lord by your side/And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran 20 red lights in his honor/Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord"    --Jagger/Richards

Seeing this, some people might say, "Fine, let the damn fool kill himself." On the other hand, some people might say, "No, call the cops. He might run over an old man too slow to get out of the way...or a baby held tight in her mother's arms...or crash into an ambulance rushing to save someone's life."

Hey Hud, time to sharpen that little pencil of yours and redo your math as Texas emerges as the latest hotspot in the coronavirus pandemic.

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