concordtom said:
BearNIt said:
concordtom said:
BearNIt said:
Yesterday, the country reported 205,557 new confirmed cases and 1,404 deaths. If this keeps going on we could have 400,000 - 500,000 deaths by 1/20/21. Wear your freaking mask and keep your distance. We don't have enough healthcare workers to keep up with the present rate of infection. The stupidity of people who refuse to heed this warning put my colleagues, me, and my family at risk.
1. Distribute masks widely, freely.
2. Install hand washing stations outside of all stores, restaurants, office buildings, public transportation.
Those are two leadership things Trump could have done at the get go to create a mindset that we are all in this together.
Easy.
He failed.
Miserably, just ask the families of the 265,000 Americans that have died.
The number was never going to be zero, or even 10,000.
But we are going g to cross 300,000 by year's end with the virus spread bigger than ever.
He did NOTHING but sew a non-plan for the future. Planted seeds. Will be hard for Biden to correct course.
No doubt Republicans will try to pin all post Jan 20 deaths on Biden one year from now.
Trump will declare "more people died under Biden than under me! Trump2024. MAGA!"
Setting the bar REALLY HIGH for the US, we could've maybe had about as many deaths per capita as Germany, which, for us, would be about 75,000.
However, given the nation that we are at this point in our history, that is probably more than we were capable of. But it was entirely within reason that we could've done as well as Gernany/UK/France/Italy/Spain combined, which would put us at about 190,000 deaths. (Easy to argue that we could've beaten that, but I'm just staying conservative with this.)
So, even with the bar set fairly low, I figure at least 75,000 American deaths so far can be chalked up to incompetent leadership. And that's going to go up to around 100,000 (or more) as we struggle to get through the next two months. Shameful.
