Those who still insist there is "no evidence" of voter fraud in this election need to explain the evidence discussed in the following articles:
https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/16/republicans-have-good-reason-not-to-trust-the-election-results/
https://spectator.org/pennsylvania-voting-doesnt-add-up/
https://spectator.org/trump-pennsylvania-lawsuit-fraud/
One can always find reasons for any election to be less than perfect.
As for COVID-19, how do you reason with people who argue that the transmission rate "doesn't matter"? You don't need any medical training to understand why the transmission rate of a virus is crucial information. How do you reason with such ignorance?
You think the transmission rate is down? I’ve looked at the rate at which people are coming down with COVID-19.
In the United States as a whole:
160,000 new cases each day. Before mid-October, our highest rate was 75,000 a day back in July.
But that’s not the bad news. The bad news is that this rate has been doubling every 2.5 to 3 weeks, since the last week in October. With the onset of cold weather. Particularly in the northern states.
The Dakotas and Wisconsin are close having their hospitals overwhelmed. And there might be 30% more sick next week, just from the people who now have it but don’t show any symptoms yet. It might be really bad throughout much of the United States by mid-December.
Question:
Who on this board said the transmission rate doesn’t matter? How do you reason with people who abjectly refuse to confront the well-documented, easily verifiable fact that for ages 0-49, which is 2/3 of the U.S. population, COVID-19 poses either a smaller risk of death than the common flu or the same risk of death as the common flu?
Ignoring these facts, and ignoring the fact that the death rate for ages 50-64 is below 2%, they continue to insist that these senseless one-size-fits-all lockdowns are the only way to combat the virus.
I agree with you on one point. The number of deaths to those of school year age seems to be roughly comparable to the number of deaths by flu, in a really bad flu year like 2016-2017. In the 2016-2017 flu season, 125 children between 5 and 18 died from the flu. This year, 93 children have died in the United States from COVID-19.
However, I do have one caveat. During 2016-2017, 125 children died. But 17,000 were hospitalized. If hospitals are overwhelmed, the number children who die could shoot up into the hundreds pretty easily.
The rest of the world, for the most part, keeps the schools open. I think this is the correct decision. Our children are too far behind the rest of the world as it is. I think schools should be open, despite the risks. There are big risks, even cost in lives, in the years to come, with closing the schools.
And what New York is doing, is insane. Closing the schools, but keeping open restaurants and gyms.
And for the claim that does under 50 years old don’t have a great risk of dying. Yes. But this is assuming the hospitals don’t get overwhelmed. Throughout much of the country they are getting close to that. And it could be a lot worse in two weeks, or next week.
