COVID-19 is 10x as deadly as flu.
Let's be explicitly clear: "learning to live with it" means needlessly accepting hundreds of thousands more preventable deaths and letting our hospitals get nuked yet again.
Why would the President call for that?
Let's be explicitly clear: "learning to live with it" means needlessly accepting hundreds of thousands more preventable deaths and letting our hospitals get nuked yet again.
Why would the President call for that?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313449844413992961
"Close the country" vs "learn to live with it" is a false choice, and one that exists only because of Trump's mishandling of the pandemic.
Peer countries have had shorter closures than we have precisely because they chose not to live with it but to control it.
Peer countries have had shorter closures than we have precisely because they chose not to live with it but to control it.
There is an option besides indefinite closure vs let-it-rip: evidence-driven reopening + aggressive public health interventions centered around mass testing and tracing.
Trump's whole game since back in April/May is to make you forget that option exists.
Trump's whole game since back in April/May is to make you forget that option exists.
https://twitter.com/JeremyKonyndyk/status/1261131391984717825?s=20
Instead he wants to make you choose between a disastrously mismanaged indefinite closure or a disastrously reckless reopening.
The fact that those are the only choices he can imagine does not mean those are the only choices we should accept.
The fact that those are the only choices he can imagine does not mean those are the only choices we should accept.
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