Where does this bizarre “this is a virus, but not a pandemic!” talking point come from, anyway? I heard this early on from my winger acquaintances. I kept asking them if this is a highly contagious virus that was racing through nearly every country on the planet, what would they call it if not a pandemic? How would they DEFINE pandemic? I always got crickets back. I wonder who is pushing this and why?
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Good is destined to become another deplorable in the Guardians Of Pandemics (Shit for) Brain(s) Trust.
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It was just a thought that crossed my mind after seeing Johnson’s pic.
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“This looks like a group of people that gets that this is a phony pandemic,” Good told thousands of pro-Trump demonstrators on Saturday. “It’s a serious virus, but it’s a virus. It’s not a pandemic.”
WTAF?
“It’s a virus. It’s not a pandemic.”
What on God’s Green and Toasty Earth does this imbecile think a pandemic is, if it can’t be caused by a virus? What caused the Influenza of 1918-19?
Dear Lord, they’re getting even DUMBER.
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I hate the 1% mortality quip, I just want to ask “so do you feel lucky asshole”.
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How come all these immigrants, first generation people keep inventing stuff?
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They all claim it’s no big deal, more people die of ____________in the US than what COVID has killed now. Which is bullshit. I think I would remember if hospitals, everywhere, were reaching critical capacity. And not to mention the brisk business funeral homes are having.
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Well then that does it, will definitely will have to redo the Census when we reach ___________.
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I don’t know, but I’ve heard that claim, in the same words, from several people–and it started way back in March. Usually it’s accompanied by allegations that Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates are in cahoots for imposing a “vaccine dictatorship” on the nation that will force non-vaxxers to wear yellow stars, like the Jews in Nazi Germany…(!!!)
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You mean actually work for a living? Actually govern? Actually take responsibility? LOL!
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I know, I know, but it would be so much easier than what they are doing now. The key to power is to outmaneuver your opposition. But I don’t think that’s what they really want. They prefer to self-destructively wallow in their growing obsolescence, even though that requires more effort and diminishing returns.
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Good doubled down on his grievances over COVID-19-related restrictions by dismissing the pandemic as a “hoax” and brushing off the more than 300,000 COVID-19 fatalities in the country by saying the deaths constitute less than 1 percent of the population in a series of tweets posted the day after.
While I certainly don’t approve of Good or his motives, what he actually said in the tweet was less that .1 (i. e. 1/10) percent - about 300,000 deaths. And that is quite correct today. (And horrible enough, although the true number could be even larger.) In 10 days or so it would be wrong (barely).
But 1% of the population is almost 3.3 million. Perhaps we should be blaming DeVos and the private school nuts for failures to understand per cents. But I’m afraid it’s not that simple…
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OT, but useful -
Johns Hopkins has an on-line assessment tool that lets you see where you might be in terms of Covid-19 risk (and priority wrt receiving the vaccine as a member of the general public):
My personal belief - It takes a lot of passion and bravery to leave your home and start anew. These same characteristics also help contribute to a person’s success.
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Thank you for sharing this!
I should have used s/
I suggest Rep. Good visit a covid ward and then a morgue or funeral home and talk to families who have lost loved ones and see if this is “flu” or not. Last flu season there were about 25 million cases of flu and 14,000 deaths from it and it was considered a particularly bad year for flu. There are now more than 300,000 dead from covid.just in America. I submit this is a real true disaster and Mr Good is a full fledged Idiot if he cannot see it.
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now feeling nauseated
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Machiavellians, at least, and ayone else who wishes us unwell
Oh, most of them understand per cent and per dollar quite well. Percentage and probability, maybe not so much.