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The Contagion death rate is overreported because bureaucrats are requiring coroners to list COVID-19 as the cause of death for almost any pneumonia-related fatality.
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We should be able to start loosening some of the restrictions on social activities by the end of the month, at least in certain areas.
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The lockdown could and should last for months. Loosening it now would spark a renewed outbreak.
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The enormous burden of The Contagion is wrecking the healthcare system, overworking healthcare workers and exposing our lack of hospital beds and respirators.
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With the exception of a few hotspots, the healthcare system is managing pretty well, and, as has been the case for awhile, the biggest problem hospitals are having is too many empty beds.
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Politicians' responses in ordering shutdowns and requiring self-isolation have, in general, been altruistic and effective in keeping the death rate far lower than initial estimates.
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Politicians are using The Contagion opportunistically to impose coercive restrictions on economic activity and personal freedom in order to advance their own leftist collectivist agenda and their personal power.
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We don't have enough respirators.
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With the exception of the very, very sickest patients, a respirator is one of the worst things you can do for a Contagion victim. What they really need is oxygenated blood.
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Boris Johnson is "at death's door."
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Boris Johnson has been sent home, testing negative.
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Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine antimalarial drugs are proving very effective against The Contagion.
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It is dangerous to begin widespread use of these drugs for both safety and efficacy reasons, and because the proper testing has not been done.
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Companies are making remarkable progress in identifying promising vaccines.
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Not nearly remarkable enough to keep us from killing civil society while we wait.
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Flattening the curve was worth the enormous damage to the economy. You can't put a dollar value on human life. The market doesn't work in situations like this.
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No, it wasn't, and yes, you can. We do it all the time in allocating resources and engaging in unpredictably risky social interactions.
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If you've had it, you're immune.
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If you've had it, you're not immune.
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In an interview email, the Pope stated that The Contagion is "nature's response" to humans ignoring the ecological crisis.
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No word on God's response.
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The Contagion will permanently alter our way of living. People will become accustomed to solitude, doing without, working away from traditional offices, spending less, saving more, home schooling.
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Lifestyle changes will vanish when restrictions are lifted. The economy will boom with pent-up demand and people's normal appetites. The longing for personal contact will return after a short period of readjustment.
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Masks are highly effective in preventive the spread of The Contagion.
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Masks are all but useless. Just keep washing your hands and stop picking your nose.
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The Chinese Communist Party is largely to blame for the worldwide pandemic.
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Bats and pangolins. Pure coincidence they were in China at the time.
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People are stupid to hoard toilet paper.
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What do you expect when you make people defecate solely at home for months at a time?
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The Contagion will be a boon to the Green and Climate Change movements because it demonstrates the world's susceptibility to catastrophic natural events and vindicates the value of expert analysis and powerful central governments.
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The Contagion will make the Green and Climate Change movements look ridiculous because expert forecasts were so wildly wrong and the economy-killing cure imposed by bureaucrats and politicians was worse than the disease of increased, but not limitless, deaths.
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Trump's approval rating has increased since the onset of The Contagion. His response was timely enough under the facts as we knew them at the time, and appropriate since the seriousness of the situation became apparent. He has shown leadership with his initiatives and especially his outreach to other world leaders.
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Trump's approval rating has declined since the onset of the coronavirus. His press conferences have been foolishly optimistic and at odds with his own experts. Having portrayed himself as a boorish bully for three-and-a-half years, his attempts at empathy ring hollow.
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Joseph Biden is unelectable because he is obviously unwell with age-related issues and The Contagion has effectively halted his campaign. His appearances have been pathetic and his Contagion response insipid. The Democrats are desperate to replace him with someone electable.
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President Biden.
Yes, these all contain an element of truth, just not all of it.
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