Is it possible he wasn’t telling the truth, and just doesn’t want to be quarantined?
Reading the debate about COVID is just stunning. It’s killed and left injured a staggering number of people, but there still seems to be a non-fringe debate about whether it’s overblown for some mysterious government/commercial plot.
I can see why traders would want to downplay the severity of the disease to keep revenue coming in from normal commercial activity. I cannot fathom why the Government would want to whip up fear or cripple its own revenues with shut downs. Nor can I see any sane basis for thinking the CDC is politicising its advice.
Probably because the lockdown has cost 40 million (40,000,000) jobs, cut the GDP 32.9% and spiked a serious increase in suicides. The cost of panicking because
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN!!!! will kill us all so we all have to shut the world down only shifts around the deaths.
Your own hyperbole is revealing. "Killed and left injured a staggering number of people ... " Wow. Yes. Okay, 4 million cases in America, and 150,000 dead. About a .5% mortality rate which is horrible if it's family or friend. Are you a tv news writer? Is it you that feeds words into the teleprompter the tv talking-head myrmidons mutter?
Yes, it's a
PANDEMIC. We had one 100 years ago and did not shut down the economy. We've had several epidemics since and did not shut down. We typically quarantined the sick and exposed but kept everyone else going.
If the government isn't "politicizing" advice why is it repressing hydroxycoquiline? Many doctors have and are still using it with good effect. It is not a cure, it's a treatment, but the dot gov is SAYING it's not a cure, as if it's proponents are claiming it is, and trying to prohibit or suppress it's use.
Sorry. This is a real epidemic; the covid19 virus really exists and it transmits like a laser. But this is also one of the most politicized diseases
ever, and if you can't see that, you are blinder than any bat, ever.