Re opening is a crazy idea...

@Roadsterrider The biggest problem with that logic is unlike many other nations the US is testing virtually nobody so it is very easy to keep the numbers artificially low when you conveniently have no clue how many people are infected.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow "The slow ramp-up in testing was due in part to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's initial decision to create its own test, rather than using the WHO's. The agency shipped 90 test kits to approved state labs on February 6 and 7, but more than half of the tests turned out to be faulty and gave inconclusive results. The agency reported the flaw on February 10, but state labs were not given a fix for another 16 days. By the end of February, only three out of more than 100 approved state labs could run the test."

"I'm from the government, and I am here to help."

@sunsporter1649 Well that is 50 percent better results then the CDC made kits. And you can make all the excuses you want and pretend it is about bureaucracy but that doesn't reflect the reality.


And nice to see your entire worldview boiled down to a childish mindless Reagan slogan.

How is that private sector working out for you?

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Private sector worked out pretty well for me, living comfortably in retirement, going fishing every day, with my pet duck, and amused at the idiocy of the left

@sunsporter1649 Yeah sure. One virus and the entire system comes to a complete grinding halt and instead of solutions we get oligarchs begging for yet more free money.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow If people don't get sick enough to seek medical assistance, that lowers the number of total cases and would increase the death rate artificially. If 100 tested positive and 1 died, that would be one percent, but if there were 100 that tested positive and 100 untested but had the virus, and one died, then it is 1/2% fatality. The website I posted give a number of 97% for mild cases. They get better on their own or have minor treatment. It isn't as bad as the models, not as bad as the rhetoric on the news.

@Roadsterrider Actually if someone is not tested and they die of "pneumonia" they never get counted at all. And the US has thousands of people tested in a country of hundreds of millions. So nice try.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow You could always go live in your socialist paradise of Venezuela, where I am sure you will be welcomed

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow The guys doing the counting are trying to factor those deaths in according to the CDC. Either way, 97% have mild symptoms and get better on their own or with little aid. The number of those who get better on their own will wildly outnumber those who die, so back at you with a nice try.

@sunsporter1649 Again you prove you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground repeating a Fox News fabrication.

@Roadsterrider 97% is a completely worthless figure if you have no idea and no possible way of accurately even figuring out how many cases you have.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-17/coronavirus-antibodies-study-santa-clara-county

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow The 97% is from confirmed cases. With all this going on, it is being looked at with a microscope.

@sunsporter1649 No shit Sherlock of course the virus is more widespread. But you are too thick to realize that doesn't help your argument.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Helps tremendously in showing the kung flu is not nearly as deadly as you are hoping it is

@Roadsterrider Confirmed cases in the US by definition are drastically understanding the problem.

@sunsporter1649 I so sorry you suck so bad at math and science. Perhaps a remedial math course would help.

@sunsporter1649 And if anyone is hoping to rack up even bigger numbers it is you right wing luddites who want cover your eyes and pretend the bad thing doesn't exist and open up the country to an even bigger wave of illness in May. Very reminiscent of the South Korean death cult.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Stay under your igloo

@sunsporter1649 And back to primary school insults. Shocking.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I was offering you good advise, if you choose to ignore it, well, ok

@sunsporter1649 Lol. You haven't offered anything except right wing ideology in complete contradiction to reality and dusty anti communist cliches that were dated when you were a child.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Then come out from under your igloo, matters not one bit to me

@sunsporter1649 Says the guy with his head buried 6 feet underground.