Bowser: "We have flattened the curve in an amazing way"
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Anonymous
Guess I have to spell it out. Since reading comprehension isn't your strong suit. I've included sources. You might consider doing the same? US deaths due to influenza in an average year: 8200-20,000 https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/qa/how-many-people-die-from-the-flu-each-year-in-the-us US Deaths so far due to coronavirus: 50,439 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html Total deaths at the end of this year in the US will likely be more than double this number, at least. How many people did Ebola kill in the US? 2. We are talking about the US and more specifically the DC area. |
Anonymous
Death rate you moron not total number of deaths. You seem to be the person with reading comprehension issues |
Anonymous
Did you want to address the meat of the post, or just pretend you didn't see it? |
Anonymous
Also, Ebola was far less catchy than coronavirus. That's the main point. |
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Anonymous
DC has been on shut down for 2 months In those first few weeks, Bowser Administration was presiding over a covid testing system that was testing a meager 100 people a day ... in a city of 700,000 FLASH FORWARD to mid-April , BOWSER's best effort to get testing in DC has achieved : 300 people a day being tested in a city of 700,000 Now its MAY Folks.... and still we are at a max of 700-950 tests a day. AT THIS RATE, it will be YEARS before even 10 % of the District is tested. We should be testing 20,000 a day |
Anonymous
| I don’t know if Bowser took a COVID-19 test, but if she took an IQ test, a double digit score would not surprise. She can spout platitudes, but on substance and accomplishments she is a complete dimwit. |
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Over the past seven days, DC proper has conducted an average of only 700 tests per day, which is simply dismal. Bowser needs to announce a plan to massively increase testing *now". We have the capacity. We just don't have leadership.
Plus, Bowser says she's going by total case counts, not percentage of tests that are positive. So yeah, we're gonna be under lockdown until next spring unless Bowser gets off her cretinous ass. https://dcist.com/story/20/05/06/as-virginia-and-maryland-move-toward-reopening-in-may-d-c-wont-commit-to-a-timeline/ |
Anonymous
She’ll be forced into it when federal workers come back |
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'DC proper has conducted an average of only 700 tests per day'
I have not looked at the data in a bit. This can't possibly be true. There is absolutely no way that six weeks into this thing that we are testing fewer than 1,000 a day. If that is the case, can't DC Health just drive down the streets testing door to door? Please tell me that PP botched these stats. |
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When do federal workers come back? |
Anonymous
Way less than 1,000, it's true: https://twitter.com/wmaxson/status/1258408129051705347/photo/1 The baseline needed in DC is 1,650 tests per day, which we're not close to reaching even though we have the capacity (public and private) for 3,700 tests per day (and that was like two weeks ago, the capacity probably has gone up since): https://twitter.com/ski/status/1253725328834428929 A dismal failure by Bowser. |
Anonymous
Likely before she officially reopens the city. |
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According to Harvard's Global Health Institute, only New Jersey and Massachusetts have a larger testing deficit -- the difference between actual testing rate and the minimum testing rate needed -- than DC.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/07/851610771/u-s-coronavirus-testing-still-falls-short-hows-your-state-doing?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social It's as if Bowser wants this lockdown to go on indefinitely. |
Anonymous
Meanwhile she has restarted contested “hearing” proceedings for development projects online and with no provision for the public to testify and be heard! Surprised ?! No, she’s in the pocket of big developers. |