The Elephant In The Room

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(04-28-2020, 03:22 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Funny, I asked how any based on testing and you jump to estimates> Why? Because the number actually tested fro swine flu was far less than has been tested for this flu? This will go down as the biggest economic colossal ______ in US history thanks to to the Chinese and WHO.

Okay, so what does China and the WHO have to do with us shutting down the economy?  Did either of them force Trump's hand to make any of the decisions he has made? Or the governor's? Or the NIH, HHS, CDC, FDA?  How can we blame China and the WHO for not being forthcoming with how bad this pandemic was going to get and then on the other had blame them for a "medical overreach"?  Basically, this is really f'n bad because of China and the WHO, but not bad enough to warrant anything we have done?  How do we reconcile those two thoughts? Not to mention, if the mitigation strategies work and there aren't hundreds of thousand or millions dead then we conclude the mitigation strategies weren't necessary because we didn't have a bunch of deaths (because the mitigation strategies prevented those deaths) and this was just a bad flu.