Mortality rates might be higher because there isn't enough testing.
Mortality rates are also inflated due to inaccurate reporting. There are tons of studies out there that show this. Infection rates are likely MUCH higher due to people not going to the hospital over having a bad cough for a week or two. But not due to a lack of available testing.
That's just silly. Let's look at the % of deaths over the country. We can see what areas are doing really poorly and if they are democrat controlled areas. Spoiler alert: They are.
Columbia study shows if we shut down weeks earlier thousands of lives would be saved.
Trump tried putting in place travel restrictions that were called racist, right before everyone decided putting in travel restrictions was prudent. Trump reacted to it as quickly as possible. Any life saving measures not taken were due to Democrats refusing to help the Trump administration, who took action anyway and saved lives. Without help from Democrats, who also fought him on the stimulus and now are currently fighting him to try to remain closed. And why? Because if they admit that Trump did a great job, they think they have no chance in 2020. Which they don't. Joe lost the black vote just now. Lucky for him, he doesn't consider them black, I guess.
Since our states have had such different responses, it points to weak federal leadership. Handing power to the governors indicated that Trump did not have a plan.
It points to democrats fighting the Trump administration no matter what he does. Democrat governors are flat-out ignoring the Trump administration for political purposes only. Trump's plan worked. Here's proof. You're alive. No thanks to Democrats who are turning this virus outbreak into a self-induced depression specifically to try to make Trump look like he has no plan. But you're alive, so you know that's bullshit.
Trump is responsible for 100,000 deaths
No, that was the butterfly in Australia that flapped its wings and caused a tornado over here. Here's how you respond to this. "Orange man bad". That's just ridiculous. That's like trying to blame Obama's policy to separate children and parents at detainment facilities on Trump. Total utter horseshit of a claim.
America has a higher mortality rate than all other countries.
"Thanks" to the super "accurate" reporting. See above on the New York stuff. More horseshit.
*Trump's early messages (downplaying) about the virus were damaging.
Yes, orange man bad, we know. Here's the thing, he said it wasn't as deadly as the media made it out to be. He was right. Just like he was right about hydroxychloroquine, how he's going to be right about re-opening and fixing our economy... again. Democrats and media did their best to trash it for political purposes. Trump's response to the virus was fantastic and quick, implementing travel bans and shutdowns and being told he was wrong to do so the whole time. Then everyone else did it too, and now they are saying he wasn't quick enough. Absolutely ridiculous. Again, it's a political attack, disgusting using victims like the democrats are climbing on top of a pile of bodies to use as a political soap box.
Governors requiring people to wear masks in public is necessary because masks do more good than harm.
Masks do not measurably protect people from viruses. Even the big best mask, the N95 mask, which is named so for protecting you from 95% of airborne particles of 300 nanometers or bigger. Viruses like covid-19 are 125 nanometers on average. An N95 mask is not considered measurably effective to stop transmissions of viruses. Surgical/disposable ear loop masks that are MUCH worse than an N95 mask are effectively and measurably useless against viruses.
How about we look at a box of disposable surgical ear loop masks and see what the manufacturer says about them.
https://imgur.com/a/28R1T79
Or we could go check out the CDC website, where a scientific study peer reviewed by actual virus experts have this to say...
*Government was too slow in shutting things down.
Duplicate. See above about "Trump not having a plan". The government OVER-reacted to this silliness. We agreed to flatten the curve as hospitals being overwhelmed was an actual legitimate concern. That was done fast and hospitals were not overwhelmed. In fact, most laid a bunch of people off as not as many people were going to the hospitals. It's ridiculous to say the Government botched this by not reacting sooner or stronger. They reacted way too hard. We've been shut down much longer than needed.
You're getting sick. There's no not getting sick. It's a pandemic, right? Lives wouldn't have been saved because we shut down Bob's flower shop sooner, destroyed his business and bankrupt him, ruining his kids' lives. Note that while Bob wasn't allowed to sell flowers to his maybe 20-30 customers he sees a day in the flower shop, Kroger was open and selling flowers the whole time and literally no one was concerned about the hundreds of people in there. People are panicking and now seriously out of their minds with misinformation. Misinformation you call "FUD" (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt). FUD being spread by people whose only agenda is a political one. Democrats don't care if you die. They'll have you vote for them after you die anyway.
Mortality rates are also inflated due to inaccurate reporting. There are tons of studies out there that show this. Infection rates are likely MUCH higher due to people not going to the hospital over having a bad cough for a week or two. But not due to a lack of available testing.
Graph showing inaccurate reporting in New York as an example. https://media.thedonald.win/thedonald/post/dkB1MqlO.jpeg
That's just silly. Let's look at the % of deaths over the country. We can see what areas are doing really poorly and if they are democrat controlled areas. Spoiler alert: They are.
https://imgur.com/a/rmuxDof
Trump tried putting in place travel restrictions that were called racist, right before everyone decided putting in travel restrictions was prudent. Trump reacted to it as quickly as possible. Any life saving measures not taken were due to Democrats refusing to help the Trump administration, who took action anyway and saved lives. Without help from Democrats, who also fought him on the stimulus and now are currently fighting him to try to remain closed. And why? Because if they admit that Trump did a great job, they think they have no chance in 2020. Which they don't. Joe lost the black vote just now. Lucky for him, he doesn't consider them black, I guess.
It points to democrats fighting the Trump administration no matter what he does. Democrat governors are flat-out ignoring the Trump administration for political purposes only. Trump's plan worked. Here's proof. You're alive. No thanks to Democrats who are turning this virus outbreak into a self-induced depression specifically to try to make Trump look like he has no plan. But you're alive, so you know that's bullshit.
No, that was the butterfly in Australia that flapped its wings and caused a tornado over here. Here's how you respond to this. "Orange man bad". That's just ridiculous. That's like trying to blame Obama's policy to separate children and parents at detainment facilities on Trump. Total utter horseshit of a claim.
"Thanks" to the super "accurate" reporting. See above on the New York stuff. More horseshit.
*Trump's early messages (downplaying) about the virus were damaging.
Yes, orange man bad, we know. Here's the thing, he said it wasn't as deadly as the media made it out to be. He was right. Just like he was right about hydroxychloroquine, how he's going to be right about re-opening and fixing our economy... again. Democrats and media did their best to trash it for political purposes. Trump's response to the virus was fantastic and quick, implementing travel bans and shutdowns and being told he was wrong to do so the whole time. Then everyone else did it too, and now they are saying he wasn't quick enough. Absolutely ridiculous. Again, it's a political attack, disgusting using victims like the democrats are climbing on top of a pile of bodies to use as a political soap box.
Masks do not measurably protect people from viruses. Even the big best mask, the N95 mask, which is named so for protecting you from 95% of airborne particles of 300 nanometers or bigger. Viruses like covid-19 are 125 nanometers on average. An N95 mask is not considered measurably effective to stop transmissions of viruses. Surgical/disposable ear loop masks that are MUCH worse than an N95 mask are effectively and measurably useless against viruses.
How about we look at a box of disposable surgical ear loop masks and see what the manufacturer says about them. https://imgur.com/a/28R1T79
Or we could go check out the CDC website, where a scientific study peer reviewed by actual virus experts have this to say...
"Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza." https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
*Government was too slow in shutting things down. Duplicate. See above about "Trump not having a plan". The government OVER-reacted to this silliness. We agreed to flatten the curve as hospitals being overwhelmed was an actual legitimate concern. That was done fast and hospitals were not overwhelmed. In fact, most laid a bunch of people off as not as many people were going to the hospitals. It's ridiculous to say the Government botched this by not reacting sooner or stronger. They reacted way too hard. We've been shut down much longer than needed.
You're getting sick. There's no not getting sick. It's a pandemic, right? Lives wouldn't have been saved because we shut down Bob's flower shop sooner, destroyed his business and bankrupt him, ruining his kids' lives. Note that while Bob wasn't allowed to sell flowers to his maybe 20-30 customers he sees a day in the flower shop, Kroger was open and selling flowers the whole time and literally no one was concerned about the hundreds of people in there. People are panicking and now seriously out of their minds with misinformation. Misinformation you call "FUD" (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt). FUD being spread by people whose only agenda is a political one. Democrats don't care if you die. They'll have you vote for them after you die anyway.
This was really helpful! Thanks for including those sources and I love the flower shop story