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Kid Berwyn

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43. We had a plan. Dump did the opposite.
Sun Aug 2, 2020, 11:36 PM
Aug 2020

At every turn, he not only did the wrong thing, he has elected to do the worst thing possible. Take having no plan to deal with the outbreak since he first heard about it.



How many needless Covid-19 deaths were caused by delays in responding?

Most of them


By ISAAC SEBENIUS and JAMES K. SEBENIUS
StatNews, JUNE 19, 202

EXCERPT...

To compare each country’s responses to the pandemic on a consistent basis, we turned to the work of an Oxford University team that has constructed a stringency index based on 13 policy responses (lockdowns, border closings, tests, etc.) to measure how strongly each country responded over time. The Oxford index shows that 14 days from the date of the 15th confirmed case in each country — a vital early window for action — the U.S. response to the outbreak lagged behind the others by miles. The U.S. stringency score of 5.7 at that point was 25% of Australia’s (23), 23% of Germany’s (25), 18% of Singapore’s (32), and only 15% of South Korea’s (38).

Related: Rising Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations underscore the long road ahead
Due to exponential viral spread, our delay in action was devastating. In the wake of the U.S. response, 117,858 Americans died in the four months following the first 15 confirmed cases. After an equivalent period, Germany suffered only 8,863 casualties. Scaling up the German population of 83.7 million to America’s 331 million, a U.S.-sized Germany would have suffered 35,049 Covid-19 deaths. So if the U.S. had acted as effectively as Germany, 70% of U.S. coronavirus deaths might have been prevented.

Continues...

https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/19/faster-response-prevented-most-us-covid-19-deaths/



Precisely as you noted, crickets: Not incompetence, it is intentional — and it is global.
Kick dalton99a Aug 2020 #1
Thanks, dalton99a! Jared turned to Facebook for expertise... Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #10
Reactivate the Independent Prosecutor law and prosecute them all, Nuremberg tribunals for all Fiendish Thingy Aug 2020 #2
Yes! We do not know who is embedded in the gov't now and it will take major investigators to root Hestia Aug 2020 #11
Independent being the operative term. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #14
There's one additional point that would need to be addressed... JHB Aug 2020 #33
+1000,000!! ancianita Aug 2020 #26
Depraved indifference. blm Aug 2020 #3
Blueprints Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #20
We need media willing to call this what it is. blm Aug 2020 #21
+100 Duppers Aug 2020 #34
THIS malaise Aug 2020 #40
Genoside came to my mind. BigmanPigman Aug 2020 #29
+1. dchill Aug 2020 #32
THIS! Zoonart Aug 2020 #4
No kidding. From this to the bounties Trump should be lead away underpants Aug 2020 #6
Yes. Zoonart Aug 2020 #7
Must avoid anything that upsets the monster and one's place in the pecking order. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #25
That was part of my take when I read it the other night underpants Aug 2020 #5
"Politically Advantageous" Depravity merits prosecution to the fullest. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #35
Master of incompetence underpants Aug 2020 #42
Lock them up! malaise Aug 2020 #8
It's like destiny. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #38
This is a kakistocracy on steroids malaise Aug 2020 #39
Absolute thieves. Plus, they're incompetent. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #41
Agreed. We will never regain standing in the world as a nation if we allow crickets Aug 2020 #9
We had a plan. Dump did the opposite. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #43
At The Hague? 2naSalit Aug 2020 #12
Dump must be held to account for all of it. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #44
I've been saying we need a new Nuremburg CanonRay Aug 2020 #13
I misread "prosecuted" as a much harsher word. Works for me. niyad Aug 2020 #15
Genocide. It's genocide. CaptainTruth Aug 2020 #16
As usual, their incompetence resulted in more red state deaths than blue state ones. Nitram Aug 2020 #17
This one is simple. They need to be in jail.!!!! ashredux Aug 2020 #18
kick miyazaki Aug 2020 #19
I agree to the fullest. NNadir Aug 2020 #22
nevermind that trump is in the white house, the only reason they think they can certainot Aug 2020 #23
And conservative voters are complicit with it. They are sick. ffr Aug 2020 #24
My former BFF of 36 years is a MAGAt whose father was an official at the Nuremberg trials. Go figure OMGWTF Aug 2020 #31
Negligent Genocide RealityBasedNewYorkr Aug 2020 #27
Recommended. H2O Man Aug 2020 #28
Indeed they must. PatrickforO Aug 2020 #30
Kushner torpedoed the plan because Trump told him to do it Lasher Aug 2020 #36
K&R smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #37
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