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@lnxw37a2 @mewmew @FOX10Phoenix I don't think the worst in necessarily over tho. The are likely countless immunocompromised and elderly people who haven't been exposed. The key will be finding an effective way to isolate or protect them from the rest of the population. By and large most people will be fine, but people in those groups won't.

@realcaseyrollins @mewmew @FOX10Phoenix That's standard when testing is involved. In early stages, they only test obviously very sick people or those in close contact with them. As testing increases, testing expands and catches people that are less sick, such as asymptomatic or presymptomatic.

@lnxw37a2 @mewmew @FOX10Phoenix So? The issue is not infections but deaths. "Of course it's deadly, lotsa people get it" is not a logical argument pointing to lethality.

Remember that 675,000 deaths in the were caused by the Spanish flu, so we'd need 67.5 million total infections to reach that number.

cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources

@lnxw37a2 @mewmew @FOX10Phoenix Why is the death rate going down while infection rates rise? Surely this must be some highly deadly disease...🙄

This day took a wrong turn some time around noon and has grown into a fully fledged train wreck. Energy levels point to bed

@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix

Well the problem is that nobody trusts him anymore specifically because he's been so unreliable. He's been all doom and gloom and all the while the remains largely non-lethal. A lot of people prefer to follow what is happening in the real world to what someone might say from a political pulpit. It's easier for people to distrust Fauci than other pundits because people like are talking about people's motives; Fauci is talking about things that are objective and it's easier to see whether or not he's objectively wrong or not.

If the "experts" had just said "masks are good, wear those in public" the entire time, that would've helped. They knew for most of this time that they are at least somewhat effective. Problem is, when people actually followed their advice when they said to buy masks early on, they realized that the medical community couldn't get masks due to the shortage, they told people not to wear masks. People said okay, stopped buying masks, but then the "experts" said to wear masks again, and thus people are like "make up your dang mind" and don't trust them anymore.

It would have been far better to tell people to make their own masks instead of not using them at all.

Now the experts are right on a lot more than we give them credit for. It's just the instances of false alarm and bad advice that chip away at our faith in them. For me personally my faith in the Task Force as a whole has started to grow, due to a combination of more reliable recommendations as well as listening more to pediatricians and doctors rather than his own intuition, but still Fauci has shown no signs of getting better. It's been a good run but he's got to go, man.

@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix

You don't understand; it's not that his predictions are wrong (while that can be an issue too), but also that his recommendations tend to be inconsistent. It seems that, not just him but the team at large tends to change their recommendations over and over again. Thankfully this doesn't seem to have been a problem fairly recently, he seems to remain consistent in that we need to reopen things soon.

But another issue is his chronic pessimism that he uses to sell fear to the people. The virus would have to mutate into a far more powerful and lethal version in order to even come close to the 675k death toll of the Spanish Flu pandemic. 675 million people would need to be infected. And earlier on he said we should not take comfort in lower death rates in the face of rising infection counts. Why not? Common sense tells us that he is being at least a tad manipulative/misleading in that regard.

@tuxcrafting @realcaseyrollins I don't know if it's a real pattern, but when I was in school, it seemed like everyone had July and August birthdays.

@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix

Constantly changing his mind about shutting things down, predicting things would be far worse than they ended up being, etc.

He's probably a good guy and likely means well, but his advice has just been lousy, ever-changing, and hard to follow. You can't ask people to trust someone who can't be consistent.

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I'm doing great just lonely in my room with the computer

@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix He's been very unreliable and wrong a lot of the time, more recently leading Americans astray with alarmism and bad recommendations.

@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix Well is a dummy when it comes to this stuff but he needs someone better and more reliable than

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