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Originally Posted by freebeard
Shilling for the Chinese, are we?
Who was it beat us to closing the border? Russia and Mongolia? The waffle diddling happening in Congress no problem?
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We didn't close the border with China. On January 31st, we banned foreign nationals that had traveled to China in the past 14 days from entering the USA. US citizens, permanent residence and their families were allowed to return.
The government did this after American, Delta, United, Air France, British Airways, and SAS had announce they were no longer flying to China.
Here is Trump saying COVID 19 isn't as severe as the common flu on March 5th. (After bragging he had things under control because he closed the border with China).
Sean Hannity:
I know you have Vice President Pence at the helm of running this task force, and people like Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is warning it could be a pandemic, it could get worse. And, at times, we might have to take more severe safety measures.
Donald Trump:
That's right.
We have a report today the global death rate at 3.4 percent, and a report that the Olympics could be delayed. Your reaction to that?
Donald Trump:
Well, I think the 3.4 percent is really a false number. Now, this is just my hunch, and -- but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this, and it's very mild. They will get better very rapidly. They don't even see a doctor. They don't even call a doctor.
You never hear about those people. So, you can't put them down in the category of the overall population in terms of this corona flu and -- or virus. So you just can't do that. So, if we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work -- some of them go to work, but they get better.
And then, when you do have a death, like you have had in the state of Washington, like you had one in California -- I believe you had one in New York -- you know, all of a sudden, it seems like three or four percent, which is a very high number, as opposed to -- as opposed to a fraction of one percent. But, again, they don't know about the easy cases, because the easy cases don't go to the hospital.
They don't report to doctors or the hospital in many cases. So I think that that number is very high. I think the number -- personally, I would say the number is way under one percent. Now, with the regular flu, we average from 27,000 to 77,000 deaths a year. Who would think that? I never knew that, until six or eight weeks ago.
I asked that question. I said, how many people die of the flu? You keep hearing about flu shot, flu shot, take your flu shot. But I said, how many people die of the flu? And they said, sir, we lose between 27,000 and, you know, somewhere in the 70s. I think we went as high as 100,000 people died in 1990, if you can believe that.
But a lot of people, regardless, I think it averages about 36,000 people a year. So I said, wow. And that's -- now, that's a percentage that's under one percent very substantially. So, it would be interesting to see what that difference is. But, you know, again, a lot of people don't report, because they get the coronavirus, and they get better relatively quickly.
It's not that severe.
Then they start talking about nobody giving him credit for killing a Iranian general in an airstrike in Iraq.