Yesterday was July 4th for the US and we celebrated with over 45,000 new cases.
As an American I'm sad and annoyed.
Canada, European nations, and so many other countries around the world are beating this thing and the US is going backwards. Florida is averaging over 10,000 cases a day and has closed bars again.
Partly because Trump is an absolute buffoon. All he needs to do is tell people to wear a mask and be safe/careful when outside and stick to small groups, but he won't do it. Instead he floats conspiracy theories and claims to wear a mask in private while too many Americans don't wear masks because of "freedom." What a bunch of idiots.
Yes, masks aren't perfect, but they help keep people safe. I'll most likely be fine, but I see my 90 year old grandmother once a week and my brother has a 2 month old. I'll gladly wear a mask to keep them safe. It doesn't infringe on my liberty much like wearing pants and shirt in public.
So many other countries are in great decline because they took this seriously, distanced, wore masks, and tested. Oh, and Trump suggested a few weeks ago we slow down testing.
Ignorance and lack of leadership. It's infuriating and it makes me embarrassed to be an American. Trump said in his inauguration that other countries would no longer be laughing at us. Well guess what, countries are no longer admitting American tourists because of how we've handled Covid. That includes Mexico. Oh the irony. The US is a joke.
Nonsense. The number of new cases means NOTHING. The more new cases, the faster herd immunity can set in.
What matters is the death rate.
Look at Sweden, they did no lockdown and there daily new cases are generally soaring. but their number of deaths keeps falling. And has steadily since min-April.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/So if you and most other people whom have no idea what they are talking about on COVID-19 were true...then Sweden's number of deaths should be skyrocketing. Yet, they are doing the opposite.
As for the US death rate? The CDC has shown that the death rate for COVID-19 is basically that of a bad flu.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.htmlGo down to Table 1 and to Scenario 5 (the most likely).
It shows the death rate of those whom are symptomatic is only 0.4%.
Now add in the fact that the CDC says at least 35% of all COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic (and we know it's far higher than that).
That brings the death rate down to only 0.23%
That is no worse than a bad flu season.
And that is according to the CDC.As I have said for months - this ENTIRE COVID-19 'pandemic' is NOTHING but overblown hype.
And you mentioned Canada.
Here are the official COVID-19 numbers from the Canadian government:
https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html#a7Look at the age breakdown of deaths?
97% of ALL COVID-19 deaths are for people over 60. This is the same as just about everywhere.
This disease ONLY kills the old and the weak (with very few exceptions).
What should have been done is the government offered old/weak people who wanted it, government-paid for isolation.
And everyone else should have been allowed to live their lives as normal.
It would have saved trillions of dollars and lots of misery.
COVID-19 is nothing but a bad flu.
And that is a fact...whether you, the government, the MSM or that media whore Fauci want to admit.