7/6/20: Deep into the gravest health crisis our nation has faced in a century, Donald Trump still hasn’t figured out the basics. Faced with a mountain of evidence to the contrary, ignoring logic and math, he continues to insist that he has done a fantastic job of handling the virus. We have the best testing in the world, he brags. “Now we have tested over 40 million people,” he says. “But by so doing, we show cases, 99% of which are totally harmless.”
On July 6, we had
46,329 new cases.
Let us now turn to computation. As of this morning, (posting on July 8), Johns Hopkins University reports that 131,480 Americans have been killed by COVID-19. For starters, to argue that 99% of cases are “totally harmless,” you would have to believe 13,148,000 Americans have been infected. Then you would have to pretend the Centers for Disease Control was run by “Deep State” scientists and they were lying about the number of Americans who have been or are currently laid up in hospitals.
Then you would have to ignore the numbers coming from the states. A check this morning shows Texas has had 211,000 cases of the virus, including 10,028 on July 7, the worst day yet. According to the Texas Tribune, working from state health department figures, more than 9% of those infected are spending time in hospital beds.
So,
if 99% of the cases are totally harmless, and in Texas, we have 9,286
individuals in hospitals, that would have to mean 928,600 Texans were currently
infected. And then we’d have to multiply all the dead by 100…
Also, scientists believe that a gene sequence inherited from Neanderthal ancestors may increase our likelihood of catching the COVID-19 virus.
So,
there’s that.
FUN FACT: On a rare positive note, Peyton Manker, an 18-year-old high school senior, was denied by the spreading virus a chance to attend her senior prom. Undaunted, she came up with a creative way to memorialize her lost opportunity. She fashioned a “prom dress” out of duct tape.
It
has a lovely COVID-19 theme.
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