We have 2,500 deaths from this scourge. After three months, I do not see how we get to 100,000, let alone 200,000.
Let me be precise. I do not trust Dr. Fauci. Why? Because he is so typical. Dr William Frieden predicted that Africa would have 1.2 million deaths from ebola in 2014. They had 11,323 deaths 2014-2016. Africa did not have the quality of facilities equal to the worst hospital in the USA.
Dr Fauci is no different than Dr Frieden in their approach to forecasting casualties.
At this present moment, we have doctors going off label with medications to fight this dreaded disease. And we are having success with that. All of us have seen multiple people who indicated they were on the verge of death, and took this drug or that, and their life was saved. As more and more doctors gain further knowledge in using these drugs, the fight against this virus strengthens. And with warmer temperatures, it begins to decline within the USA.
When this kicked off, I indicated this virus would result in 40,000 - 60,000 deaths in the USA. At this point, I think that number may well be less. And with the protocols established for fighting this disease, and the effort to flatten the peak with the draconian measures adopted to date, we get to a place where the threat is reduced sufficiently to resume normal living. Yes, there will be changes. Hand washing by all will make a difference into the future. Distancing will not end with the end of this virus, I expect a large element of the population to continue with distancing no matter what.
And if our leaders are worth a good BM, we end much of what we are doing with China. China is a rogue nation, and they have had multiple diseases that have killed millions in the world and have never answered for it to date. That changes with this outbreak.
The Chinese Communist government covered this up for weeks because I believe it was released from their bio weapons lab in Wuhan. They thought they could contain it, and cover up the outbreak. It got away from them. They have told their people that it was the USA military that unleashed a bio weapon on them. Russia is reporting the same story to their sheep. This is dangerous what they are doing. All the more reason to greatly scale back interaction with China. I say do what is necessary to end their theft of intellectual property. Why we have tolerated that all these years never made sense to me. Again, there is no place for this rogue nation in the world today.
