Democrats and the MSM chorus constantly hammers Republicans and particularly Trump and Pence for failing to believe in science. This is similar to the way many agnostics assume anyone with faith is naïve and relies on fairy tales rather than science. The reality is exactly the opposite. It is atheists and agnostics who believe things that are mathematically impossible.
The scientific experts the MSM demanded make every important decision got almost everything wrong. Here are the real facts and they are devastating for those who think they follow the science while believing in things that are absurd. Following are just some of the major things reported by the MSM that are being proven wrong.
Ventilators are essential.
There are many reports, from various sources, that ventilators may do more harm than good. Doctors routinely put people with COVID 19 on ventilators assuming this would help with breathing. But these patients were not actually gasping for air or showing other signs of lung impairment. Doctors have learned that non-invasive breathing aids may work better and reduce the risk of death or permanent cognitive and respiratory damage.
These reports have been coming in from all over the world. They are just now being recognized here in the U.S. The following report from Yahoo News is an example, but there are many other similar reports out there:
https://sports.yahoo.com/doctors-think-ventilators-more-harm-162500782.html
“Dr. Scott Weingart, a critical care physician in New York, said he thinks patients do “much, much worse” on ventilators than non-invasive devices. “I would do everything in my power to avoid intubating patients,
Hydroxychloroquine is worthless and extremely high risk.
Many doctors say it is unproven whether or not it cures Covid 19. That may be the wrong question. A better question is whether it helps people recover from COVID 19 and whether the risk is greater than the reward. This drug has been used since the 1950s. I was given this drug while I was in Vietnam. There are side effects, as with any drug, but they are well known because of clinical trials taking place over many years. Trump is exactly right when he says we know the downsides and we can live with them and it just might work. There are reports from all over the world that it does work. It doesn’t cure COVID 19, but it helps stop the damage to the body and speeds the recovery. There are more and more reports from the U.S. that it works. A black female Democratic politician from Michigan says she was seriously ill until she learned about hydroxychloroquine from, gasp, Donald Trump. She had to beg her doctor to use it, because the Governor of Michigan tried to ban it. She finally got the drug, almost immediately started to feel better and has now recovered.
The only way to stop this disease is to allow government to micromanage our economy.
The government has been very successful at destroying our economy. Now they are trying to make up for it by spending money they don’t have. Democrats are trying desperately to turn this into a redistribution of wealth, failing to understand that the people they forced to stay home are the ones who should be the first and possibly only ones in line for relief.
It is far from certain that this worked. It is clear that the disease spread very rapidly, in predictable areas like New York. The shelter in place guidelines may have been very important in places like New York. It is less certain that shutting down 90% of the economy was necessary or effective. If you listen only to the doctors, none of us would ever do anything. That would reduce the risk of some disease but increase the risk of dying from boredom.
Trump failed to realize the danger and warn everyone.
This is frankly absurd. In a blatant attempt to blame everything on Trump the MSM has only exposed its own ignorance. Nothing would have been gained if Trump had told people we were about to be invaded by a virus that could kill millions of people. In addition we now know that this prediction was way off. If he had said this was coming, we can’t stop it and millions will die the only thing that would have done is caused panic. Trump did exactly what he should have done. He did not over-react with his public statements and privately behind the scenes he got the entire federal government in action.
Trump cut funding for the CDC n and disbanded critical agencies.
He did do some restructuring, but the same people were still in charge with the same responsibilities and authorities. If anything his mistake was not replacing Obama and Bush holdovers. It is clear that the CDC was totally incapable of handling the testing. They told Trump they would handle the testing and they weren’t actually capable of doing that at all. Trump actually showed great leadership by letting the governors handle their own states and putting the federal government in a position to facilitate without trying to micromanage. That is why so much was done in such a short period of time.
Trump ignored warnings from doctors and scientists.
The famous memo was from Peter Navarro the top White House trade adviser. He is not a doctor. People like Dr. Fauci were not predicting this. In addition, what Navarro wanted was a travel ban on travel from China and Trump did exactly that.
We are very close to the point where everyone will realize the truth. If Trump had taken advice from people like the idiots on CNN or even the CDC, things would be even worse. It is increasingly obvious that the number of deaths will be far less than these people predicted, as recently as one week ago. If Trump lets them make decisions now the country will be lucky to reopen for Christmas. We should all rely on science, but we should also recognize the difference between scientific facts and scientific models. For example, every global warming model has been proven to be wildly inaccurate. If the forecasts by brilliant scientists like Al Gore were accurate the people in New York would be pleading for canoes to paddle to the hospital ship. There also would be a worldwide shortage of boats and sunscreen because of all the people bathing in those warm arctic waters.
TDM