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I would say the same thing regardless of the man on the podium. You're the one bringing partisanship into this. It's hype because nothing has been demonstrated
by aazaa 7y ago
I would say the same thing regardless of the man on the podium. You're the one bringing partisanship into this.
It's hype because nothing has been demonstrated yet using practices that have been worked out through a hundred years of painful trial and error. It's hype because he's saying he thinks it will work when he has no data to support that conclusion. It's hype because as the president must surely be aware, Americans are scared right now, and with good reason. To continue to double down on a "feel" in the current environment is hype.
The study from France, with its many flaws, is the only one that has been published. The "guidance" from the Chinese authorities is suspect to say the least.
- m0zg 7y ago> I would say the same thing regardless of the man on the podium. Must have been hard for you to stomach 2009 then when 60 million Americans got infected with H1N1, nothing whatsoever was done, and the CDC budget was cut the very next year.
- rbanffy 7y agoWe didn't have to stomach much. https://www.propublica.org/article/no-president-trump-the-coronavirus-is-nothing-like-h1n1-swine-flu-either https://www.propublica.org/article/no-president-trump-the-co...
- m0zg 7y agoDidn't seem like it at the outset (which is where we are now) - the initial estimates were wildly inflated: https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/22/1/7/489927 https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/22/1/7/489927. And yet still, nothing whatsoever was done. Nobody was criticized for the lack of response, and, as I said above, the CDC budget was cut the following year.