I didn't post it for him to respond, I posted it as an interesting information that was in the same article he was quoting. I don't care about your internal political fights. For the life of me I can't figure out how you guys can turn even a world wide pandemic with such grave repercussions for millions of people and for the whole world economy into a polarization issue. This is ****ing insane to me. I think Trump has been a complete and utter embarassement in this whole crisis. This doesn't mean everything he does or says should be dismissed out of hand. I remember him mentioning people should wear scarves if they don't have masks outside and being mocked for it from the other side. Why? He was completely right. In a situation in which there were shortages of masks people absolutely should have been wearing scarves if they didn't have the masks. The evidence worldwide show that masks or any mouth guards/scarves help in limiting the spread. Do they help as much as masks... no but that wasn't the quesiton. Now, of course - it's harder to take anything he says seriously when he's had so many embarassing and ridiculous statements to go with it along the way.
Now I'm trying to research why and how the Georgia situation seem to be improving or at least not going worse with relaxing measures(seems like they are testing a lot more, but I'm still having trouble finding the number of actual tests they are doing because from that and the number of positives you can draw conclusions about whether they are catching good number of them or if there is a huge iceberg under the calm water ready to sink your ship). I think it's important to study this thing all across the globe and take the best practices from the places that seem to have success with it in one way or another - from South Korea to Germany to Israel to New Zealand to ... yeah, even Georgia if they are able to stifle the spread well. Sweden is another interesting case that might not be replicable everywhere, but they haven't had a full lockdown at any point and they seem to be handling it well enough that they are not overburdening their healthcare system. True, they are much worse when it comes to deaths and cases than their neighboring countries, but everywhere there should be a trade off at which something like this might be worth it. For example, lets say they reach herd immunity without overloading their healthcare system. It's possible they are suffering a hard hit initially, but will be better off at the back end of the crisis.
But again... I don't care about your republican vs democratic petty fights. This is not a time for petty ****. Get your act together, guys. The US used to be a leader in the world and now in a time of the biggest non-war crisis in the last decade your administration is the laughing stock of countries with much lesser means and resourses(injecting disinfectants and bleach? are ****ing serious?).
