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Comment Re:Science Goes Out The Window (Score 1) 334

You can take any numbers reported by any agency in the world and none of them agree with this idea that only 0.4% of people with symptoms will die. The math doesn't add up. Besides, this number isn't really the one that matters anyway. What matters is the rate of hospitalizations. If the hospitals are not overflowing they can deal with most cases. Once they are overflowing or brought to capacity the death rate skyrockets. So, the goals should always be to protect the hospitals first. We've seen in other countries and to some extent in our own what happens when it goes uncontrolled.

I know for a fact that the CDC has ideas that do not match with Trump's. If you look just at their Facebook page from a couple weeks ago they were making posts about how it was dangerous to have indoor services at places of worship. Since Trump has come out and said he wants to reopen them the CDC has removed all material from their Facebook page that makes references otherwise. This is clearly a politically lead CDC and science doesn't matter anymore.

Comment Science Goes Out The Window (Score 1) 334

This doesn't make sense if you look at any of the numbers from anywhere in the world. They have retracted their recommendations that were just available two or three weeks ago in favor of repeating what Trump is saying and what Trump wants. At this point I no longer trust that anything they say is based on science and fully believe what they're saying to be primarily politically influenced.

Comment Re:sounds like he is being force fed lines (Score 1) 275

To be fair many states are reopening and even before they hit the guidelines provided by Trump and the CDC a couple weeks back. In a lot of cases it seems to be working with numbers remaining steady. Many places are taking things cautiously and leaving open the option to go back a step or two if needed. The goal is, or at least has been for my state, to ensure that the hospitals aren't being overloaded. Overloaded hospitals mean that people are dying that don't need to. We've succeeded so far. I don't think it's wise to open everything up at once and let things go totally back to normal but there does need to be a balance. If we stay closed too long the government will go broke.

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