@Melvin
I know Fauci released the 100,000 number. Dr. Birks said 100- 200,000.
No, I was referring to the 2.2 million they said would die if they did nothing. Trump took that 2.2 number and ran like an Olympic speed skater with it.
"2.2 million, blah, blah, blah"
"2.2 million, that's a lot of people."
"2.2 million. Wow, 2.2 million."
"2.2 million if we did nothing. Because of the great job we are doing it will be 100,000 He will always choose the number that best suits his cause so Birk's possibly as high as 200,000 doesn't get thrown around). That's a lot, but it could have been s-o-o-o many more. Hopefully, it won't even be that many, but if it is, we will have done a great job."
He has cited the 2.2 million number and contrasted it with the 100,000 so many times since it was first stated it's nauseating. He is selling his followers on the idea that he has saved 2.1 million lives. Never mind that the 100,000 will be too many and how many less than that might there have been if he hadn't buried his head along with those of his base for 2 months while this thing spread all over the nation.
He also keeps bragging about how the US has tested more people than any other nation in the world, over 800,ooo. The US has a population of 327 million. less than 1% of the entire population has been tested. How many people are carrying this thing around? No one has a clue. Trump and company refused the test kits from WHO. They wanted to use their own. The first ones were a fiasco as they basically didn't work. Finally got them up and running , but had so few only people who showing severe symptoms were eligible for testing, so the rest were still at large in the country. The stated all still say they can't do adequate testing. You stop this thing by finding who is positive and removing them from circulation. Can't do that without, as every epidemiologist n the country keeps saying, test, test,test. Every day we keep hearing about all of the new easier tests with shorter turnaround results that have been developed, but not sure exactly who is using them/where they are, but the test numbers still don't show a huge number of people being tested.
The ideal would be to have every American tested. I don't see that happening, but they could/should deluge the hot spots with testing if the tests are available in those kind of numbers. It's probably more prudent to test out the population in all of the states with low numbers of positive cases. Otherwise we will continue to see what has been happening. States with very low numbers have slid along for weeks and then, BAM! Michigan and Florida are examples. Louisiana, Texas, and Michigan hit the big time. It's going to go from state to state. The virus doesn't have any political leanings, but many of the states have huge trump followers and they bought all of his BS for months now and it's only a matter of time.