03-06-2020, 10:54 PM
(03-06-2020, 10:23 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Well, every death from the virus in the US, so far, has involved individuals with underlying health issues. You can continue to take the WHO as the Gospel if you want to, heck they might even be as credible as the UN.. As for me, I'll continue to take the word of our President, who gets his info from the best researchers that the US has to offer.
And I will consider that decision to go with Trump's words over anything else as particularly irrational.
Which leads me to the same point again: How on earth can you overlook his constant, permanent lying about all kinds of matters big or small?
I get why one would still vote for him nonetheless, again that is not my issue, but this blind belief is inexplicable to me. To actually give him credibility over anything and everyone else. Until everyone but Trump, everyone who ever contradicted him, the whole world is lieing and crooked. While he in fact at the same time lies at every turn and it is obvious like the sun that he does.
In this corona lethality case, even Trump was aware enough to at least call his careless words a "hunch". While the US' own experts, the ones you'd consider "the best", contradict him on that. Still you take the hunch as truth and at face value. This seems like a really absurd level of worship.
To the point at hand, again no one is disputing that the virus behaves like almost any other illness in being more deadly for the weak, the elderly and the ones already ill of some sorts. You behave as if those deaths don't really count. But that's not how lethality rates work.