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How does it feel to be volunteered for a grand GOP Experiment — which in reality will turn out to be NOT all that grand?
by Nancy Cook, Dan Goldberg and Adam Cancryn, Politico.com — May 4, 2020
The White House guidelines recommend that states only begin to reopen once they show a downward trend in positive tests or a downward trend in new cases over a two-week period — with hospitals able to treat all cases, without being in crisis mode. The same guidelines also call on states to set up testing sites for all residents with symptoms and be able to trace the contacts of those infected.
A scientifically-minded public health expert explains what this means, as society abandons the recommended benchmarks, in their rush to “get back to normal”:
Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at Harvard’s School of Public Health, warned of repeating an earlier cycle of the outbreak by opening up too quickly while the disease continues spreading through thousands of transmission chains. “As each of those communities begin to open up, we won't have sufficient herd immunity for anything different to happen from what we saw in January or February,“ Mina said.
“What that means is as things open up, any one of those transmission chains or thousands of them could potentially ignite new outbreaks,” Mina said. “That’s how a second wave can potentially be more disruptive, more damaging and larger than the initial phase of the epidemic.”
A GOP-minded Trump fan explains their new rapidly-expanding, GOP world-view:
“The reality is we can’t stop the coronavirus,” Iowa’s Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, told reporters Monday. “It’s going to remain in our communities until we have a vaccine available. So, we have to learn to live with it without letting it govern our life.”
If they’re not carefully, these Trump-fearing Governors, by conducting their own free-wheeling experiments — are liable to take the rest of the nation down with them. When their Second Wave promotion efforts come crashing down — around all their care-free intentions.
Sadly it is a state’s citizens who are be forced into this unproven, unwise, and unguaranteed Back-to-Normal lab experiment. AND we will ALL be paying the price — of ignoring Scientists and Experts, and marching in-lockstep, with the hopes and hunches of idiots and corporate fools.
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Some extra-credit reading if you care about the path this nation is now recklessly pursuing:
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If only this were another stupid episode of the reality TV show: Celebrity Apprentice …
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Oh wait, as a matter of Truth and Consequences, maybe it is?