(06-23-2020 07:10 AM)MajorHoople Wrote: Politically-motivated hoax. Another Trumpster. Expected better from you.
If you read first-person accounts from people who actually experienced COVID-19 you might feel differently even if you want to ignore the still-mounting death toll.
And the long-term effects are unknown but sound potentially life-altering.
I don't claim covid-19 is a hoax, and never have. Nor am I a "Trumpster" (although I admit, as the left continues to manifest outrageous and nonsensical extremisms over the past few month, far beyond even my wildest imagination, I am siding more to the Trump end of the spectrum, and think many other previously anti-Trump folks are too). I do, however, firmly believe we are being manipulated, and those who manipulate to fulfill an agenda use all mechanisms and circumstances available. Covid-19 and social unrest are conspicuous examples of opportunities or vehicles which serve as kindling for capable manipulators in politics, media, or elsewhere to start fire.
The President, regardless of what he did or didn't do, was going to be torn apart by the left and the media (which is the publication division of the left). He was criticized for not "shutting down" the country literally at the same time the same pundits and politicians were insisting (correctly) that he has no authority to shut anything down, as that is vested within the states and their governors. He was criticized as racist when he closed travel from China, by the exact same people who now claim he didn't do it soon enough. He has been slammed by the left for expressing a "positive" outlook of Americas covid-19 recovery, and giving daily briefings in person, when, if President Obama did exactly the same thing, the media and the left would have described him as heroic, and compared the briefings to FDR's fireside chats (calming, comforting and inspiring).
While many on the left wanted to diminish the significance of the economic growth during the first four years of this administration, the reality is that any incumbent president would love to have such numbers, and while I was not a Trump fan, I do believe he deserves the credit for the turnaround. The only thing that would stop the momentum of that fast moving economic train was an artificial stoppage of the economy. Covid-19 did it.
I am indeed skeptical of covid-19 being deemed a "pandemic", and anyone who has paid any attention at all would have to concede that it isn't the lethal and uncontainable disease that the "experts" immediately claimed it was, leading to models and US death predictions in the multi-millions, ".....if Trump didnt do the right things". Where is the credit from those same experts now?
Lets not lose sight of the fact that during the early stages of this thing (but at the same time many were already critical of Trump not taking covid-19 seriously) Democrats, including Pelosi, that Bozo mayor of NYC, and many others, were encouraging people to go out and mingle socially at large public functions. The double standard is beyond hypocrisy, it is hilarity. Only those who have given up entirely on free thought, and follow this insanity without the scrutiny of logic, the facts, or historical perspective, cant see what is happening with the manipulation.
The left kept saying "follow the science and the numbers". But now, both the science and the numbers prove covid-19 is far different that what was previously thought. In fact, we now know, without question, that there is a very specific category of people who are vulnerable, and those people are the same exact people who have always been very vulnerable to almost any virus, flu or bug; very old, and people with pulmonary, heart or other like weaknesses. Most others who get covid-19 are not at serious risk; and a large percentage have no symptoms at all.
But you are right, if I had first person experiences of people who have suffered from covid-19 my perspective might be different. But the reality is that most people in America don't have such experience, because suffering from covid-19 is not nearly as rampant as most would have us believe. It is not a hoax, but is is likewise not worthy of shutting down our economy; and it never has been. Facts vs fiction.