Yes, it is called SCIENCE
But you don't believe in science. You post disinformation. Every single piece of science refutes your bogus propaganda.
We, the U.S., have been averaging about 800 deaths per day since mid-July. If that rate were to continue to the end of the year, that would be an additional 37,600 deaths in the U.S., plus the 245K who have already died, giving us a grand total of 282,600 deaths for the year. That is not terribly more than the number of Americans who died from the Asian Flu in 1958 (216,000 adjusted for current population), during which we did not close schools, or businesses, or churches, etc., and therefore did not cause tens of millions of people to lose their jobs, did not cause tens of thousands of people to wipe out their life savings waiting for restrictions to end, did not cause tens of thousands of businesses to shut down (about 30% of which would never come back), and did not senselessly force tens of millions of school kids to stay home.
More disinformation.
The United States is averaging over 1,000 deaths per day and the current death rate is the highest it's been since the pandemic started where Donald Trump and the right wing media called it "hoax".
Medical experts are warning in the coming weeks we will see over 2,000 deaths per day. Again, deaths are not "dropping", they are increasing.
People lost their jobs because of Donald Trump refusing to take on the virus head on like New Zealand did. Unless you get this virus under control, the economy will always suffer because of it.
The reason we are witnessing a surge is because kids went back to school and are COVID superspreaders. Businesses opened and people are getting sick. Democrats and medical experts warned this would happen and it did.
"Like what? Opening up states, allow mass gatherings and do away with masks and social distancing? What.... do tell?"
Well, first of all, let's remember that states that opted for no lockdowns or only mild lockdowns did just as well as, or better than, states that opted for harsh lockdowns. So your assumption that lockdowns were the correct approach is flawed from the outset. I have asked you guys several times to address this fact, but you keep ignoring it.
Florida (21M) -- 17.5K deaths/875K cases // MILD LOCKDOWN
New York (19.4M) -- 33.5K deaths/561K cases // HARSH LOCKDOWN
Georgia (10.6M) -- 8.7K deaths/408K cases // MILD LOCKDOWN
Michigan (10M) -- 8.3K deaths/275K cases // HARSH LOCKDOWN
A rational person willing to be honest would look at these numbers and conclude that the harsh lockdowns were not necessary to combat the virus.
More propaganda. If no lockdowns happened the numbers would be 10x's worse. What's flawed is your propaganda. The lockdowns didn't work because there was never a National Lockdown implemented and right wing morons in each state refused to follow them.
Counting the Lives Saved by Lockdowns—and Lost to Slow ActionOn May 20, disease modelers at Columbia University posted a preprint that concluded the US could have prevented 36,000 of the 65,300 deaths that the country had suffered as a result of COVID-19 by May 3 if states had instituted social distancing measures a week earlier. In early June, Imperial College London epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, one of the UK government’s key advisers in the early stages of the pandemic, came to a similar conclusion about the UK. In evidence he presented to a parliamentary committee inquiry, Ferguson said that if the country had introduced restrictions on movement and socializing a week sooner than it did, Britain’s official death toll of 40,000 could have been halved.
https://www.the-scientist.com/features/counting-the-lives-saved-by-lockdownsand-lost-to-slow-action-67689Here is the approach that many disease experts and other scholars have suggested:
Focus protective measures on the two high-risk groups: the elderly and the medically ill.
Reopen schools, since people aged 1-24 face a much lower risk of death from COVID-19 than they do from the common flu. Require teachers over the age of 35, or those who are medically ill regardless of age, to wear masks at school. Require teachers who are over 65 to both mask and social distance.
Allow mass gatherings but require the elderly and the medically ill to mask and to social distance, until they can be vaccinated. For sporting events, we could even designate a reasonably sized section of seating for the elderly and the medically ill, and still require them to mask--again, until they can be vaccinated.
Allow "non-essential" businesses (they're surely essential for those who own them and who depend on them for income) to operate at full capacity, but require elderly and medically ill customers to mask, and require workers who serve/interact with them to mask during service/interaction.
If we had followed this approach from the beginning, we would have suffered far, far less economic damage, both as a nation and in many cases as individuals, and our death numbers would probably be lower than they are now, or at least no worse.
You're showing your ignorance. This has already happened and it's why new cases and deaths are surging. Kids are back in school and businesses were reopened, as a result, more mass death and infection.
Now states are being forced to lockdown again. 8 wasted months and now the pandemic is worse than it was in March.
If everybody worse a mask and the U.S. locked down for 8 weeks, scientists said the virus would be under control. We already should have done this and we wouldn't be facing this disastrous surge right now.
