The data being gathered through the testing protocol is only as good as the time frame during which the testing began. The rest of the world started mass testing well before the United States.
South Korea was testing 10,000 people per day at a time we had tested less than 500 people total in the United States. Once we finally began to test as a country (we still aren't fully ramped up with testing yet, especially in more rural areas), what you saw was a drastic uptick in cases and deaths on a daily basis in the United States because the virus had already spread throughout the country well before testing started.
We will continue to see a drastic uptick moving forward and likely won't see our peak for some time in the United States. We have already overtaken the NUMBER 1 spot in countries with the most cases in the world, our numbers are going up by over 15000 cases a day at this point and with more testing, that number will grow.
The simple fact is that we, as a country, got into this far later than everyone else, and the reason why is political in nature.
During the weeks the world was treating COVID-19 as a pandemic, what you heard from the President in the United States was how it wasn't an issue at all and would just go away. He wanted to keep his numbers low, and that was clearly evident when he made the statement about the cruise ship off the shore of California. He said he didn't want to bring those people ashore because it would make his numbers go up for something he didn't cause.
This isn't a contest to see who can have the lowest numbers. This is a worldwide pandemic that requires everyone to respond accordingly to contain and minimize the virus' impact on the world as a whole.
Now we are testing, and hospitals are still in dire need of supplies because the government waited to long to act. They reacted to the fact the virus was spreading quickly, instead of acting in advance to ensure a more manageable quarantine of the virus up front. the President is pushing response on to the states when he should have had the federal government take over centralized control in the beginning (and by beginning I mean when we should have started a response and not when we did start a response) of all ordering and distribution of supplies and test kits. Now you have all of the states and the federal government bidding against each other for product instead of the US Government getting the supplies and distributing them accordingly based on need.
Response to this point has been abysmal, and yet during the daily briefings, the President pats himself on the back for 90 minutes regarding his response....because he can't help but make everything about him. An individual went through the entire transcript of the last briefing for COVID-19 and highlighted every part that including Trump patting himself on the back, and it was more than 25% of the entire speech. You know what he isn't talking about? The number of cases in all major cities, the spread, the number of deaths, etc.
Now, because of the impact on the economy, Trump has been talking about opening up for business as usual on Easter. That is the worst possible solution and is in no way grounded in any scientific analysis. There is nothing supporting that decision; in fact, science supports the exact opposite. So if he says this and we have countless thousands of people going to large gatherings at churches around the country, this virus will win. He says there are areas not hit by the virus. Those are rural communities, but chances are people there already have the virus, so if you tell them all to come together, hug, and hang out in a building for an hour, the virus will do what it does best; spread.
Through his words he has essentially expressed that the markets are more important to him than human life. I would love to say that is a stretch, but it isn't. Anyone who has watched this man for the past few years will understand completely that empathetic is not a descriptive term for Trump. Sociopathic Narcissist is a far more accurate term.
Please, stay safe, practice social distancing, help those in need, and lift each other up in these hard times. I am going to end this BLOG with the statistics as they are at this very time, so that I can put up the same statistics in comparison on my next blog.
TOTAL CASES (WORLD) - 576,878
TOTAL CASES (USA) - 94,425
TOTAL DEATHS (WORLD) - 26,423
TOTAL DEATHS (USA) - 1,429
Until Next Time,
DUNK
South Korea was testing 10,000 people per day at a time we had tested less than 500 people total in the United States. Once we finally began to test as a country (we still aren't fully ramped up with testing yet, especially in more rural areas), what you saw was a drastic uptick in cases and deaths on a daily basis in the United States because the virus had already spread throughout the country well before testing started.
We will continue to see a drastic uptick moving forward and likely won't see our peak for some time in the United States. We have already overtaken the NUMBER 1 spot in countries with the most cases in the world, our numbers are going up by over 15000 cases a day at this point and with more testing, that number will grow.
The simple fact is that we, as a country, got into this far later than everyone else, and the reason why is political in nature.
During the weeks the world was treating COVID-19 as a pandemic, what you heard from the President in the United States was how it wasn't an issue at all and would just go away. He wanted to keep his numbers low, and that was clearly evident when he made the statement about the cruise ship off the shore of California. He said he didn't want to bring those people ashore because it would make his numbers go up for something he didn't cause.
This isn't a contest to see who can have the lowest numbers. This is a worldwide pandemic that requires everyone to respond accordingly to contain and minimize the virus' impact on the world as a whole.
Now we are testing, and hospitals are still in dire need of supplies because the government waited to long to act. They reacted to the fact the virus was spreading quickly, instead of acting in advance to ensure a more manageable quarantine of the virus up front. the President is pushing response on to the states when he should have had the federal government take over centralized control in the beginning (and by beginning I mean when we should have started a response and not when we did start a response) of all ordering and distribution of supplies and test kits. Now you have all of the states and the federal government bidding against each other for product instead of the US Government getting the supplies and distributing them accordingly based on need.
Response to this point has been abysmal, and yet during the daily briefings, the President pats himself on the back for 90 minutes regarding his response....because he can't help but make everything about him. An individual went through the entire transcript of the last briefing for COVID-19 and highlighted every part that including Trump patting himself on the back, and it was more than 25% of the entire speech. You know what he isn't talking about? The number of cases in all major cities, the spread, the number of deaths, etc.
Now, because of the impact on the economy, Trump has been talking about opening up for business as usual on Easter. That is the worst possible solution and is in no way grounded in any scientific analysis. There is nothing supporting that decision; in fact, science supports the exact opposite. So if he says this and we have countless thousands of people going to large gatherings at churches around the country, this virus will win. He says there are areas not hit by the virus. Those are rural communities, but chances are people there already have the virus, so if you tell them all to come together, hug, and hang out in a building for an hour, the virus will do what it does best; spread.
Through his words he has essentially expressed that the markets are more important to him than human life. I would love to say that is a stretch, but it isn't. Anyone who has watched this man for the past few years will understand completely that empathetic is not a descriptive term for Trump. Sociopathic Narcissist is a far more accurate term.
Please, stay safe, practice social distancing, help those in need, and lift each other up in these hard times. I am going to end this BLOG with the statistics as they are at this very time, so that I can put up the same statistics in comparison on my next blog.
TOTAL CASES (WORLD) - 576,878
TOTAL CASES (USA) - 94,425
TOTAL DEATHS (WORLD) - 26,423
TOTAL DEATHS (USA) - 1,429
Until Next Time,
DUNK
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