Thread by @YossiGestetner

1/ THREAD: If people did not have an election to win against Trump; TV views/website hits to generate and a vaccine to sell, so much about Covid-19 coverage and action would be different.

- Fauci would be hammered as to why his NIAID pulled a study on early use benefits of HCQ.

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- Fauci would be known as clueless: He said late Feb that we don’t need to change lifestyle; for saying March 9 that healthy people can go cruising; for saying mid-March that we do not need to slow travel to/from infected states, and for saying 2-3 week lockdowns are enough.

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When @JoeBiden offers up lockdowns and masks as a fix for Covid-19, he would be LOLed for offering things that were tried in many places yet they have worse deaths-per-million than the US, tanked their economy more and they still have serious issues with Coronavirus.

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- When people say that “HCQ does not work,” you would be told that the “not-work” is in hospitals based on limited study data and what is not fully clear is if it works when given early. (As noted above, Fauci’s NIAID killed their own study on this 6/20/20). Read attached:

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- When people talk about schools you would be told that deaths among the young from Covid-19 is very small relative to other ages and relative to other illnesses, and that they are much less likely than adults to spread it (because they are more likely to be asymptomatic).

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- When people want to shut schools and quarantine people because a few out of hundreds of students have Covid-19, you would be told that if this normal policy, then quarantine after going on a train/into a big store because some people there sure have Covid-19.

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- When you read about Covid-19 cases at schools, you would be told that it’s not like students are tested before school and no one has corona yet suddenly when they go into school some have Covid-19. Basically, if Covid-19 is in a region, it’s there with/without school.

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- When talking about schools, you would be told that many European countries (you know, the place that handled Covid-19 so well), opened schools to varying degrees in April-May (including some with no distancing or masks) yet cases/deaths in those countries kept dropping.

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You would be told of the 60K US deaths above the usual levels not attributed to Coronavirus; hence possibly caused by lockdowns. Instead, we are gaslit that those 60K deaths prove there is a mass undercount of Covid deaths despite the easy way deaths R attributed to Covid-19.

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- When told that the US economy last quarter was 9.54% lower than the same time last year, a HUGE drop, you would be told that healthcare spending dropped a way-worse 24.3% despite Covid spending which means that this cut may have indeed led to a lack of care and to deaths.

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- When speaking about the 60,000 added deaths in the US not attributed to Covid, you would be told of the data showing that there was a 40% to 63% drop in Emergency Room visits for strokes/heart issues when states moved into lockdowns, and this may have caused death.

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- When talking about the economic pull back in the US, you would be told that most large European countries had a steeper drop due to harsher lockdowns which means that when Biden rips Trump on the economy and also promises a shutdown, he will make things worse economically.

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- Instead of getting “HA” coverage when cases rise in places that reopened for adults (not just for students), you would be reminded that “flatten the curve” was a ploy to spread cases so that the health system does not break. It was not a move to cut cases. cc @JoeNBC

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When speaking about cases rising after society opens for adults (not just for students), you would be shown this chart as to how the percent positives in tests is rising across Europe including in countries who had steep lockdowns and in countries that handled Covid “well.”

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You would not be told to give NE states (NY, NJ, CT, PA) a break about their numbers since they were hit early and we did not know much about Covid-19 yet the deaths in those states are pinned on Trump. Those are fault-able deaths or not. Can’t protest Cuomo and hit Trump.

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- Instead of Cuomo being treated like a hero (while blaming Trump for NY deaths), you would be told that Cuomo relied on flawed data regarding ICUs so it drove panic; he did not shut the subways; did not asks JFK/LGA arrivals to quarantine; started cleaning trains in MAY!

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- You would be told that despite a steep lockdown March-May and a national mask mandate by mid-May, Spain’s infection rate is now WORSE than FL; a place with no statewide mask mandate.

Also, Spain’s death per million is 617.

Florida is 481.

Cuomo’s NY is 1,694 (!)

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- You would be told that the infection rate is rising in mask-wearing Japan and South Korea; two countries that handled Coronavirus “very well.”

(I wonder if @jonathanvswan saw these data points from Asia and the ones from countries in Europe that are unraveling now.)

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- You would be told that deaths in Mexico spiked in late May/into June which is 4-6 weeks before deaths rose in the Sun Belt states likely as a spill-over from Mexico. IN FACT: Some of the worst counties in the US for deaths-per-million are at the border. H/T @ianmSC

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- You would be told that Dr. Fauci said on Jan 28, 2020 that “even if there is some asymptomatic transmission, in all the history of respiratory born viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has never been the driver of outbreaks.”