‘We have a serious situation here’: Fauci warns COVID-19 could be as bad as 1918 flu pandemic. https://bit.ly/2ZwoRl1 https://twitter.com/FOX10Phoenix/status/1283729395820064772 #fauci #Phoenix
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you want to get rid of the one guy in government who knows what's going on here?
> knows what's going on here
@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix Well #Trump is a dummy when it comes to this stuff but he needs someone better and more reliable than #AnthonyFauci
@mewmew @FOX10Phoenix He's been very unreliable and wrong a lot of the time, more recently leading Americans astray with alarmism and bad recommendations.
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.
If you say, "if you don't take action, X will happen" so people take action - then X not happening doesn't mean you were inconsistent.
And changing his mind - this is a basic misunderstanding of the scientific process.
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 #USA 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.
@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 #USA were caused by the Spanish flu, so we'd need 67.5 million total infections to reach that number.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html
It isn't 8% deaths like originally proclaimed, but plenty of real people without known pre-existing conditions, even in their 30s and 40s, are dead and plenty more are damaged for life.
Thanks to some people's politics and refusing to mask up, you can still expect a similar or greater death count.
@lnxw37a2 @mewmew @FOX10Phoenix
Well since we don't know the efficiency of non-N95 masks, we don't know that the death rate will increase substantially.
And remember to follow not the death numbers, but the percentage of people who get it that die. That is the true measure of its deadliness.
@lnxw37a2 @mewmew @FOX10Phoenix
P.S. the reason I'm saying to watch the percentages is that there's a very real likelihood that more people could die from the #Coronavirus than the Spanish Flu because of population density, but that does not speak to the deadliness of the disease. I deadly bioweapon may kill say a thousand people in a stadium, but that doesn't mean it's less dangerous than than a flu that kills tens of thousands of people in a nation of millions.
