Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
 Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy



The misdirected Trump obsession continues.

Despite the science that increasingly shows this shutdown is not the most effective way to contain the Covid-19 virus and save lives.

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We already knew the shutdown wasn’t the most effective way but because our government blew it on testing at the beginning of this that was what we were left with. As of last week we still don’t have enough testing despite what Trump has said. States are starting to partially reopen but it could happen a lot faster with less risk with more testing capacity.

And I don’t think it’s been established that you have immunity after having contracted Covid. Actually it sounds like that is very much in doubt right now. Hopefully that is not the case!



No. Not true.

The goal was to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, and doctors and nurses having to "triage" and choose what patients they would attempt to save, and which would be left to die unassisted, as occurred in Italy, Spain, and China.

The goal of the shutdown was successful: Trump set up temporary hospitals, and used the military and private sector to assist im manufacturing ventilators and other vital medical equipment. So successful that much of those un-needed resources have been rediverted and shared with other parts of the country, and with other harder-hit nations in other parts of the world.

The closest our hospitals came to being overwhelmed was in the New York area, where there were 40,000 beds prepared, and at the high point of the crissis only 18,500 beds were filled. Thank God. Better overprepared, than not enough.
The point being, you are either lying, or misled by other Democrats' lying propaganda. It was sucessful, we are now over-prepared, and stocked up for another outbreak of Coronavirus or some other new outbreak.

Out government (at least not Trump) didn't "blow it". They prepared for the worst, and were successful. Gocvernor Andrew Cuomo estimated that 140,000 beds would be needed, and both he and his statisticians were dead wrong, and yet were never called on it. Ohhhhh, he's the golden governor, he's so presidential, what leadership! fawns the liberal media. Never citing the facts that if not for Trump's massive and disproportionate aid to New York state "Presidential" Cuomo would have been overwhelmed, and Cuomo's failure to act on the 2015 recommendations of his OWN STATE HEATH DEPARTMENT to prepare for such an emergency would have been exposed. Cuomo looks "presidential" despite that he failed his state and did nothing, and then Trump came in with federal aid that his Cuomo'ss negligence, and saved Cuomo's bacon.

To date, the U.S. under Trump has done far more testing then any other nation, abut 4.8 million tests, well on schedule for Pence's goaal of 5 million tests by the end of the month, and 20 million by the end of May.
It is only by completely misrepresenting the true facts that you can slander Trump. But the facts remain the facts.


Here is Newt Gingrich a week ago deconstructing how Democrats are deliberately stalling legislation and causing economic chaos, throwing tens of millionss of working Americans under the bus, just to try and damage the economy, to try and damage Trump, in the months before an election. Democrats don't give a damn about these people.


Gingrich: Democrats like Pelosi, Schumer, Whitmer, believe they have god-like decision-making capacity -April 20, 2020