Aseahawkfan wrote:Yeah, but we lose more from car accidents and the flu than we do from war in a given year.
Which proves my point. Car accidents and death by natural causes just aren't very scary when you compare it with a war, a plane crash, an active shooter, or a terrorist attack.
Aseahawkfan wrote:Here is the reality we face:
1. Death rate at roughly 4.24/10000 of population in the United States meaning about 4 in 10,000 people die of COVID19. Well below the 1% death rate and especially well below the 3 to 5% fear-mongering death rate they started with. This information is consistent across nations and only reaches this high level if you tend not to handle the lock down and preventive measures very well such as the United States. Brasil and Sweden didn't even bother to lock down and their death rate is in this range as well. Sweden's death rate with no lock down is 6 deaths per 10,000, so higher than the United States. Brasil is at a death rate of 3.65 deaths per 10000. These are some of the highest death rates per population in the world and ongoing.
And in good news for Washington State we are at 1.9 deaths per 10,000 in Washington State. So I guess Inslee has to be given some credit for that as much as I can't stand that guy. Then again we do have some of the smartest medical people in the nation in Washington State, especially at the UW medical center.
The death rate isn't the gold standard for measuring the impact of COVID. It varies depending on who contracts the disease and how robust the testing is. In March and April, it was nursing home patients that were contracting the disease and only those with symptoms were tested, but in May and June, more younger people became infected and testing ramped up to where asymptomatic people were tested. Naturally that will drive down the death rate.
I'd give Inslee an overall B- for his performance. Of the governors, DeSantis is probably the worst, waiting to shut down beaches, opening up too soon and not in a safe manner. They had it under control once, but now they're the epicenter in the entire world.
Aseahawkfan wrote:2. With all the blame being spread on Republicans for their handling of COVID19, there is little evidence to indicate they handled COVID19 any worse than Democrat run states. The states in general vary by population size and density. So this whole blame game is pretty ridiculous and not data driven at all. It's driven by emotion and political bias.
3. Dumb as Dirt should be doing far more to get this under control. His total lack of interest in Contact Tracing, improving testing, quarantining, and the like is ridiculous. He's the primary reason for guilt by association for being Republican at the moment. He has no national plan. He doesn't seem to be interested in a national plan. His administration is attacking their own experts like Fauci. The response has reached a level of stupid that I can't even fathom. We all have to wait for November election day to see if the American people are ready get rid of this idiot.
If America isn't ready to be done with the Dumb as Dirt experiment, I'm not even sure where to go from there other than make sure to protect yourself because Dumb as Dirt don't care about this pandemic.
I haven't had time to go back and analyze every governor's performance, but it sure seems like the states with Republican governors are doing worse than those with Democratic governors, but I'm not prepared to give them all grades or rank them against each other. We really need to table performance evaluations until after this pandemic is in the history books.
But except for the hard core holdouts, it's nearly universally accepted that Trump's response from start to finish has been absolutely 'deplorable'.