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Those who don't remember the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them...
While those who do remember are doomed to watch others repeat the same mistakes. Believe neither the #FearPorn nor the #ComfortableLies
Social distancing works to reduce disease.
qz.com/1816060/a-char…
In 1918, Philadelphia chose to not cancel a parade as the flu was just impacting the city. 3 days later their hospitals were filled, we have learned the hard way that discounting a disease because it is in the early stages of it's spread is how to spread it.
The more effective social distancing & travel bans are in slowing the spread of the disease will lead people to reinforce their false belief that it was never a big deal to begin with. We are going to get the St. Louis chart & people will say Philly would never have happened...
Spread out the time of infections is critical to saving lives, as the system can handle a low level of infections for a long time but not a high level for a short period. We don't want more people needing respirators at any given time than we have respirators.
In northern Italy now, no one over 60 is getting a respirator. No one under 60 with preexisting health problems is getting a respirator.
They are choosing who doesn't get a chance to live because the outbreak spread too fast.
If you are trying to claim this isn't so bad, in a kneejerk response to Dems trying to blame this on Trump don't. It feeds into the Dems propaganda in several ways. If you say it wasn't bad & it is, you feed into blaming Trump for not taking it seriously.
But worse, if the response works, it undermines the success of Trump & the government's response in slowing it. The Dems get to take your, "See it wasn't that bad" and spin it into "It would have been better if Trump hadn't screwed it up."
The only way for Trump to get full credit for our response, is to have everyone compare what actually happens to the worst case scenario. Compare to the nations that didn't institute travel bans quickly & mobilize the resources of their governments. Don't spread #comfortablelies
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