New York had more than 5 times the number of deaths than the next most deadly place in the country. There is no other place that experienced anything like what happened in New York. And New York owes this unique experience to the incompetent and irresponsible Democrats who run the state and the city of New York.
The problem is that some of you seem to think that I care what you believe or don't believe, think or don't think about me. What on earth gives you that wacky impression? I think you suffer from terminal hubris and a misplaced sense of self-importance. Not surprising as those are classic symptoms of TDS.
I think they are going to stick with Biden. If they don't I think they are more likely to go with Cuomo than Hillary. Cuomo did a great job in NY during the pandemic. More people got infected in NY than in any enitre foreign country in the world. Great job Cuomo.
The measure of President Trump's success is not how closely he follows the advice of "experts." The measure of his success is how well the country does. That is a much bigger purview than any expert can address. I'm sure the doctors would be perfectly satisfied to shut down the entire country for a year or so. But that would result in an unrecoverable collapse of the US economy and be a catastrophic event for the entire planet. Probably HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people would die if that happens.
So it's only natural there is some a certain amount of tension and disagreement between any experts in only one specific aspect of this crisis and President Trump's much larger responsibility to balance all aspects of the crisis.
Again, no one elected the doctors to run the country. They don't make the big decisions. Their job is to provide advice about ONE ASPECT of the crisis that President Trump has to consider and he is the one who makes the decisions about how much weight to give that advice.
By the way. Someone I know died from CV yesterday. I belong to a hiking and kayaking club and this was a guy in our club. He was 71 and in excellent shape and health.
There is one other important thing that President Trump did that is helping us in this crisis. He ran on a platform of making America less reliant on foreign countries ESPECIALLY China. For 3 years he has been building up out manufacturing capacity which was almost completely demolished before he took office.
From the very beginning President Trump warned us that we have become too reliant on foreign companies some of whom don't like us very much and some of whom downright hate us. He warned that in a crisis that would put us in a very bad position.
HE WAS EXACTLY RIGHT. And here is the very kind of crisis he warned about and has been working so hard to inoculate us against by bringing these critical industries back to our shores. Over 90% of our antibiotics or the materials needed to make them are made in China! And just a couple of weeks ago, China threatened to CUT THEM OFF so we couldn't get the medicines we need. We cannot have this situation. America needs to have the means to produce the things we need to be self reliant and self sufficient.
President Trump already accomplished that with energy. Under his administration, America became energy independent for the first time in 75 years. We no longer have to rely on the countries that chant "Death to America" for our energy thanks to President Trump (and by the way NO thanks to the Democrats who fought him every step of the way and STILL are).
President Trump GETS IT. And we are truly blessed that he is the president.
Maybe it was impossible to have all these medical equipment on hand just in case something like this happened. Who knows, even having it, may not have done anything. It sure would have been costly.
You are smarter than you give yourself credit for. That's exactly right.
If you spend your entire budget preparing for an unlikely event (this is extremely rare and noone could have predicted it), then that means you have to cut back on all of the things you need for things that are far more likely to happen. And those things kill people too: like floods, hurricanes, fires, military attacks, car accidents. These are the more likely events that kill people. You can't consume the entire budget preparing for things that have very little chance of happening or you take money away from the things that are much more likely to kill people. Money isn't unlimited and it doesn't grow on trees. You have to spend it where it makes sense and take chances.
By the way, as of now there have been 1,696 deaths from CV in the United States.
Compare that with an average of about 48,000 American deaths in an average year just from the regular flu and the 12,500 deaths from the H1N1 virus when Obama was president.
And I don't recall ANYONE in the media criticizing Obama when that virus was killing Americans.
Let's keep things in perspective and not ignore history and facts.
I have heard that with this virus, no person will be turned down from receiving healthcare.
In the United States no person is ever turned down from receiving healthcare, not even illegals. Every person in the country has access to healthcare and has had it going back at least 75 years.
The United States does have the best healthcare in the world, by far. No country in history has developed more lifesaving pharmaceuticals, medical technology or medical breakthroughs than the United States, not even close. When leaders and the wealthy in other countries around the world (especially those with “socialized medical systems”) need lifesaving major medical procedures, they come to the United States to get them. America leads the world in medical care.
The answer to your question involves both statistics, medicine and politics.
First, the number of cases a country has doesn’t necessarily tell you anything at all about the quality of their medical system. In fact, it’s possible that the more cases they identify the BETTER their medical system because if a country does more tests, it’s going to identify more cases. If a country does little testing then naturally they cannot identify many cases. That doesn’t mean they don’t have many people with the virus, it means they don’t KNOW if they do or not. That’s not good.
The statistic that tells you much more about the quality of care is the death rates. America is an open country, we let people in from all over the world. You can’t blame the health care system for people bringing in infections and making our people sick. The question is after the get sick, what are the outcomes.
The death rate from CV in the US is the second lowest in the world: 1.3%. The only country that has a lower death rate is South Korea and it is only marginally lower at 1.2%. China’s death rate is at least 4.5% and I think Italy’s death rate is far higher than that, maybe 10 or 11%.
That means, if you do get the virus, you are far more likely not to die from it in America than almost any other country. THAT is the statistic that tells you about the quality of American health care.
And there is another factor here too. The Chinese are lying about their numbers. They expelled reporters, and literally murdered the doctors who attempted to warn the world about this biological warfare attack from the communist government there. They are claiming that they have defeated the virus, but satellite images expose that as a lie showing long lines of people there trying to get into their hospitals. However bad their numbers were, they were probably far worse yet as they intentionally lie to make them look better.
Finally, it’s one thing to handle a crisis like this in a country with 20 or 50 million people and another to handle it in a country with 330 million.
No country has done a better job handling this crisis than the United States.
It's so much easier with Biden. Don't even have to doctor the videos for him to look like he belongs in a nursing home. Poor guy needs some meds, bingo night and someone to read him childrens' books at bedtime.
That was today's demented behavior, here is the day before yesterdays when he called Super Tuesday, Super Thursday and couldn't remember a simple line from the Declaration of Independence.
This happens every time this guy appears. Why aren't the Democrats withdrawing his candidacy? This guy obviously has serious medical mental issues.
The most ridiculous thing of all is that the media isn't even allowed to comment on his obvious dementia. You don't need to be a doctor to see that he has serious cognitive issues. My mother and my aunt both have dementia and I can see the exact same things going on in Biden's head. Couldn't be more obvious yet the press isn't even allowed to point it out. It's like there is a blackout on that topic.
Reminds me of the "Emperor has no clothes" tale.
For the first time I heard a show host on Fox today say that Biden will have to deal with defending his apparent cognitive issues. HA! Apparent?????!!!! At least they had the guts to mention it! The fake news just completely ignores it.
And that isn't the only issue with Biden that goes unmentioned...
Riiiiiight... that's why President Reagan's tax and regulation cuts and supply side economic policy achieved the highest GDP growth rate in modern history in 1984, 7.24% and the longest economic recovery in history.
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Why New York Had More Deaths From The Chinese Virus Than Any Other Entire Country In The World
New York had more than 5 times the number of deaths than the next most deadly place in the country. There is no other place that experienced anything like what happened in New York. And New York owes this unique experience to the incompetent and irresponsible Democrats who run the state and the city of New York.