Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, gave a sobering prediction of daily American COVID-19 cases when pressed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday.
Trump and Trumpism is DEADLY!
Dr. Fauci has given up all of any guarded optimism he had remaining.
Heâs preparing the public for what he knows is coming. And the people who need to be listening, arenât.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned listeners not to put too much stock in the opinion of government health experts who âwe, like sheep, blindly follow.â [âŚ] He later implored Fauci for a change in tone: âWe need more optimism.â
I agree. Letâs be more optimistic about the prospect of Rand Paulâs angry neighbor getting his hands on a baseball bat.
âItâs important to realize that if society meekly submits to an expert and that expert is wrong, a great deal of harm may occur,â he said.
So, itâs better we submit to an optimist with little knowledge of the subject? Man, heâs an incredibly stupid person and an unrelenting asshole. In some ways, heâs as Trumpy as Trump.
As of just after 2 PM EDT
Nate: Trump 56.4/40.4 Disapprove/Approve
A 16 point gapâŚhigher than almost 2.5 years
Heâll be having a Death Fest RNC CON-Vention
There are too many needless deaths for this to go onâŚand the going-through-the-motions-that-this-monster-is-a-functioning-president has got to STOP.
My question to the senator is, whose advice should we follow? His advice, from someone who was so unqualified to be a physician that he had to invent his own certification board? Trumpâs advice (which we know is worthless)? Whose guidance, really?
A larger excerpt from Rand âI Drank My Dadâs Kool-Aidâ Paul:
âWe shouldnât presume that a group of experts somehow knows whatâs best for everyone. Only decentralized power and decision-making based on millions of individualized situations can arrive at what risk and behaviors each individual will choose. Thatâs what America was founded on, not a herd with Washington telling us what to do and like sheep we blindly follow.â
Oh, Rand, youâre such a kidder!
What you say? Really?
[headdesk headdesk headdesk]
To Rand Paul: your libertarian bullshit dismissal of âgovernment expertsâ would by definition extend to elected officials , like Senators. And it would also suggest we shouldnât have to obey the laws you non experts pass? Have a nice day and get new writers.
You would think that someone who actually contracted COVID-45 would have a tad of a smidge of awareness, even if the whole thing is just another Democratic hoax?
Add to that the new Swine Flue that is coming and that nobody has told Trump aboutâŚhumanity is overrated anywayâŚ
Let me step over to the memory hole and see what I can find there.
March 29:
April 9:
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Not to worry, Tony. Theyâll be the best, most beautiful cases of the hoax virus in the world. After all, âWeâre #1!â
Aluminum I hope, lest a Louisville Slugger crack whilst he cracking Randalâs skull.
They loosen the restrictions and now we are to our original 100-200K estimate.
Wow. Everyone knows the most effective army is one where thousands of soldiers do what they damn well please based on whatâs in front of them at that exact second. Itâs Organization 101, man! /S
Thatâs great in a marketplace, like for blue jeans. No matter how many times I hear it, itâs still weird how everything libertarians see is a marketplace. Emergency surgery, public health measures⌠Itâs all the same as selling chocolate bars, really
Later this week itâs very likely to be 60k on its worst day.
The next week, 80k.
Thatâs what curve looks like
Oh, donât be so pessimistic.
When I taught high school government, I used to tell my students that there really isnât such a thing as a Libertarian politician, because by definition true âlibertariansâ donât believe in government. To your point, Senators should hold an even lesser standing than Doctors, because they need no expertise whatsoever to qualify for their jobs - so yeah, Rand Paul is full of shit.
How much harm might occur to those who meekly submit to the âknowledgeâ of an utter know-nothing imbecile? Or put another way: if you want to avoid harm (possibly a great deal of it), whom should your put your faith in?
If you look at the bar graph of new cases, it is consistently a sine curve with a period of 7 days that varies up and down. We should be at a low point in the curve at this point but yesterday was the second highest number of new cases ever. This indicates we are in a period of rapid increases and you could very well be correct. Fauciâs statement that we could reach 100k/day is easily in reach if something major isnât done, like requiring all the stupids to wear masks whenever they are in public.