Pence: There Isn't a Coronavirus 'Second Wave'

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Thanks for the reminder, Joe.My.God.

HEALTHCARE

There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’
June 16, 2020 4 minute read

By:

Michael R. Pence

Vice President of the United States

In recent days, the media has taken to sounding the alarm bells over a “second wave” of coronavirus infections. Such panic is overblown. Thanks to the leadership of President Trump and the courage and compassion of the American people, our public health system is far stronger than it was four months ago, and we are winning the fight against the invisible enemy.

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The truth is that we’ve made great progress over the past four months, and it’s a testament to the leadership of President Trump. When the president asked me to chair the White House Coronavirus Task Force at the end of February, he directed us to pursue not only a whole-of-government approach but a whole-of-America approach. The president brought together major commercial labs to expand our testing capacity, manufacturers to produce much-needed medical equipment, and major pharmaceutical companies to begin research on new medicines and vaccines. He rallied the American people to embrace social-distancing guidelines. And the progress we’ve made is remarkable.

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[soothsayer]

1. Well, we're losing

But I agree it’s still the first wave.

[lagomorph777]

13. Trumpence are diligently amplifying the first wave into a permanent wave.

So, true. No second wave. Just a tidal wave.

[PJMcK]

2. Well, I feel so much better

Not.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Fuck him and the president he rode in on.

[42bambi]

4. Pence and his God need to have a chat about telling lies. nt

[lagomorph777]

14. He should have a chat with Trump? Trump is already coaching his lying skills.

[CanonRay]

5. Facts are going to bite them right in the ass

[Beartracks]

7. Who needs facts when you've got FOX?

2 + 2 = 5

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[Beartracks]

6. Being able to handle the second wave does not mean there isn't a second wave...

... any more than decreasing testing makes the virus go away because you stop finding sick people.

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[Ohioboy]

8. "He rallied the American people to embrace social-distancing guidelines????"

When was he doing anything to promote social -distancing? He certainly wasn't leading by example. He was always the one making a point of not wearing a mask!

[marie999]

9. Fauci said we are still in the first wave.

Tuesday interview with The Wall Street Journal.

[Marcuse]

10. Note that he uses the present tense: "There IS no second wave."

He didn’t say there will be no second wave in the summer/fall. He is not even a competent liar.

National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said on Friday "there is no second wave" of the coronavirus as cases climb in over a dozen states including Florida, Texas, Nevada, and North Carolina.

[elias7]

11. He's right. This is still the first wave.

The epidemiology of the virus does not get to be defined by how much press it gets or how many people decide to stop paying attention

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Lies, damned lies, and Mike Pence's op-eds

Cases have stabilized over the past two weeks, with the daily average case rate across the U.S. dropping to 20,000—down from 30,000 in April and 25,000 in May

Reality: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

7 day moving average never dropped below 21,000; now back up to 24,000. That's from the public statistics; the internal CDC statistics he has access to are worse still:

Leaked CDC document contradicts Pence claim that U.S. coronavirus cases 'have stabilized'

Yet the CDC’s June 16 COVID-19 Response Update appears to paint a darker portrait of the state of the pandemic, with maps showing many counties in the U.S. experiencing increasing rates of the coronavirus. Of the figures highlighted, a chart shows that the U.S. rate of increase for the coronavirus using a three-day average is 18.3 percent. By comparison, two of the hardest-hit countries have declining rates based on this same three-day average: Brazil’s cases came down 27 percent, and Russia’s have decreased by almost 7 percent.
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The explanatory text accompanying the CDC maps also appears to contradict Pence’s optimistic message about the coronavirus. “There remains a large number of counties whose burden continues to grow or are in an elevated incidence plateau, including in Wyoming, Iowa, Washington, California and in parts of the Southwest and Southeast,” the CDC document reads in a caption accompanying a map showing large swaths of the country as either in “elevated incidence” or “rebound” for coronavirus cases.

A separate map showing the number of new cases notes that “elevated incidence of disease during the past 2 weeks remains widespread, including in the Northeast (and the New York City area), the Southwest, the Southeast, DC, areas around Chicago, and parts of California, Minnesota, Iowa, Washington.”

https://news.yahoo.com/leaked-cdc-document-contradicts-pence-claim-that-us-coronavirus-cases-have-stabilized-195520821.html

[LisaL]

15. Yea, because we are still on the first wave.