JULY 14, 2020: The numbers don’t lie ~
First of all, the good news: the person I interacted with who we feared might test positive for Covid-19 has tested negative. BIG sigh of relief.
Now, on to the wacko sound bite from the president yesterday. When pressed on the idea that cases are exploding in nearly 40 states and how that isn’t necessarily related to additional testing, he said this:
“Well, you know that we have one of the lowest mortality rates anywhere. If you know, [former Vice President Joe] Biden and [former President Barack] Obama stopped their testing; they just stopped it. You probably know that. I’m sure you don’t want to report it. But they stopped testing. Right in the middle, they just went, “No more testing,” and on a much lesser problem than the problem that we have, obviously with respect to — this is the worst thing that’s happened since probably 1917. This is a very bad — all over the world. It’s 188 countries right now.But, no, we are — we test more than anybody, by far. And when you test, you create cases. So we’ve created cases. I can tell you some countries, they test when somebody walks into a hospital sick or walks into maybe a doctor’s office, but usually a hospital. That’s the testing they do, so they don’t have cases, whereas we do — we have all of these cases. So, you know, it’s a double-edged sword.“
This virus started four years after President Obama and Vice President Biden left office. For that matter, when is the current occupant of the White House going to stand on his own two feet? He’s been president for three and a half years… how much longer can he really blame the last guy for all his problems?
I guess he was referring to H1N1 testing over a decade ago, but wow, that was a completely different virus, and oh by the way, it was dealt with quickly and quite effectively by his predecessor. So I’m not sure where blaming the previous administration helps make his case.
And really, I just don’t care about the argument that the case count is up because the testing numbers are up. That’s been disproven over and over, but even if it were true, what are we supposed to do? Not care about those walking around with the virus that we don’t know about because they haven’t been tested?
I don’t expect the president (or any president) to be the smartest guy in the room on every subject. But if a president is going to give commentary on a subject, they’d better be able to speak about it truthfully, thoughtfully, and coherently. If they can’t do that, they just look like a dope.
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