Trump is misinforming I hesitate to even print the United States president's words here, because they're so at odds with what health experts are saying. But the president's statements to Sean Hannity are significant because millions of people were watching live. In a phoner with Hannity on Wednesday night, Trump reacted to the World Health Organization's data-driven assessment of the global death rate for the novel coronavirus — 3.4% — by saying "I think the 3.4% is really a false number." "Now, this is just my hunch," Trump said, which should have spurred Hannity to interrupt, but he didn't, so Trump continued, "based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this, and it's very mild -- they'll get better very rapidly, they don't even see a doctor, they don't even call a doctor -- you never hear about those people, so you can't put them down in the category of the overall population, in terms of this corona flu, and/or virus. So you just can't do that." Trump continued by discarding his own administration's advice to stay home if you're feeling sick: "If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better, just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work, some of them go to work, but they get better, and then when you do have a death, like you've had in the state of Washington, like you had one in California, I believe you had one in New York." No deaths have been reported in New York. "You know," Trump said, "all of a sudden it seems like 3 or 4%, which is a very high number, as opposed to a fraction of 1%. But again, they don't know about the easy cases because the easy cases don't go to the hospital. They don't report to doctors or the hospital in many cases. So I think that that number is very high. I think the number, personally, I would say the number is way under 1%." Hannity televised Trump's irresponsible "hunch" to the world... Ignorance on display Trump went on to reiterate his ignorance about the seasonal flu. He made remarks to this effect last week, but I'm surprised he's still saying it, since his aides surely cautioned him not to admit that he didn't know about the fatal nature of the flu. "With the regular flu, we average from 27,000 to 77,000 deaths a year. Who would think that? I never knew that until six or eight weeks ago," Trump told Hannity...
A Beijing hospital confirms coronavirus attacks central nervous system https://cntechpost.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-attacks-central-nervous-system/
And the research indicating it has a high probability of damaging the kidneys and testicles. On advice of a medical friend I banked some as my wife wants a kid and I'm nearly 50 so probably getting problematic anyway. It would be better to know with greater cartainty as few have the disposable resources to just take this precaution.
After learning about risk to the testicles I banked some semen as well....in the hot woman who works at Starbucks and the yoga instructor down the block. boo yah
Pence's press briefings VP Mike Pence continues to take the lead — and his Wednesday briefing was back on camera, one day after the White House forbid audio and video of a briefing. As the Q&A ended, Brian Karem asked "Can the uninsured get tested?" but Pence walked away...
I should have mentioned, I am to fly to Seattle tomorrow for a 1000 person event. I am deciding whether to go.
I think Seattle has issued emergency orders saying that people who defecate on the streets must wash their hands afterwards, so everything is under control there.