Plus side: the more idiotic the red states behave, the less republican voters survive. Every cloud has a silver lining...;)

Wait, which states have been ground zero and had politicians until March telling people to go to festivals and marathons?

Projected? By whom? I don't believe a word they say about anything.

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Lmao you mean red states like VIRGINIA?

By keeping the infection-rate as low as possible, which means keeping people apart as much as possible AND stocking up on intensive-care-beds and respirators. If your health-care system was wonky already, now's the point where that gets noticed. It would have helped to have a plan in the boxes for such a situation already. If only smart people had had a plan, if only there were an agency that makes such plans. You could call it "Centre for Disease Control" or something!

Properly handled, the death rate of Covid is less than 1%. However, 10-15% of cases will turn up in critical care. If you aren't careful, the USA is going to be another Italy which just hit 12% death rate because they did not have the infrastructure to handle everyone who had the virus at the same time. No, you can't stop it. But there are things you can do to slow it down and your government is doing pretty much everything BUT those things.

1, by actually doing testing as recommended by everyone who knew anything about the virus. 2, by purchasing ventilators when they become needed. 3, by ensuring doctors and nurses are getting paid for their critical service rather than having them endure pay cuts from the hospitals because "covid doesn't make us money". 4, by not agitating to end the lockdown early because millions of people's lives are apparently less important than the economy. 5, by not blaming everybody except yourself and withholding funding from the WHO. Shall I go on? Maybe look into how some other countries are handling it and see how flat their curve is compared to the USA. Spoiler: It's not looking good for you.

Hi Russian troll Ben Smith, does Putin pay you well?

F**k, you're stupid. Go lick a toilet seat and spare us further "wisdom."