“Gold Star Families? What a bunch of suckers and losers. They were just weak. I like my families who don’t have such loser children.”
Not sure I care to believe this is something Trump said. More like another fake rant attribution. But in regard to the level of concern for people exposed in these events........
Pretty sure all these people have heard the news.
I think I did hear a denial being pushed in the news cycle that the WH was not going to do the contact tracing on the President. Obviously a minimization notion, but probably not the truth.
Everyone who has been anywhere near the events in the news or any event with shared contact possibilities knows what they need to do, and it is more likely, even with the deflections/minimizations, that the word is being spread to go get the test by five days and as late as 14 days.
I think the idea in the WH statement was more like they didn't care to try to find out who specifically brought it onboard. That fact is not as useful as the notice and realization that everyone is getting tested. Regardless of where it came from.....
Spreader persons might not have ever been symptomatic, and most able-bodied active sorts are not the high-risk case, so a large majority of those who had the contact and got the virus, with this kind of publicity, are making decisions about their further schedules/contacts or self-isolating and doing the testing. If they develop any symptoms they have a good chance of treating it.
This "outbreak" or spreader event is nothing like the ordinary person going about life and infecting five, ten, or twenty persons in an event or a day, with no one having any clue they have been in contact. A publicized event like these, relatively high-profile, gives sufficient public notice for however many, scores or hundreds of persons, possibly exposed, to take immediate precautions.
still, it is likely that a lot of infected people with positive tests at this point will not be running out and shouting it in the streets, and that puts it back on for further outbreaks consequently.
We will, inexorably, continue to have Covid cases...... forever. Maybe, in five or ten years, someone can do an eradication campaign worldwide, to terminate the virus forever, but this is not such a serious thing as smallpox that would even justify that effort.
The result will be a general "herd" immunity developing, and better treatements coming out, and better vaccines. We've come a long way in less than a year, and we are in fact past the need for such "Pandemic" public health measures. Common sense is what we need. And Trump is right about that.
Concentrate our efforts on the more vulnerable populations who need more precautions and more monitoring and testing.
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