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Originally Posted by Toolong
I take no comfort in that. Cases have exploded in the last two weeks and the disease that afflicts many of those folks hasn't progressed to the point they need an ICU bed. 132 deaths were reported today. That is a lagging number in that many of those people were ill for weeks before they passed and their deaths may not have been reported until even later. In a month or so, we'll know how many of the 10K to 15K a day being infected now actually die or suffer debilitating effects .
The President said this was the equivalent of war and covid is the enemy. Our goal as a nation should be to defeat the enemy, not to downplay it.
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It is the president doing the down playing it and people are scrambling looking for reasons to agree with him. It is real and if everyone took it seriously we could win the war.