Goldman has gone ahead and put a $ impact of anti-science Republicans being in power 5% of GDP!!! https://www.marketwatch.com/story/w...rowthand-goldman-has-done-the-math-2020-06-30
Is this before or after the market cap increase of the S&P and NDX since Trump won the election? Once again, you've completely misquoted the article to suit your own political narrative. " Mask wearing could save the domestic economy from a 5% hit to GDP, Goldman says" That's all it says. Mask wearing "could" save the economy from a 5% hit. Doesn't say anything about republicans, doesn't even say it will happen. Read the article for the story.
Look at all these Republicans defying mask wearing. Totally against Science. The party of stupid, for sure!
Let's see an example of another idiot who believes in myths. "Natural Herd Immunity" is a farce. Over 40% of those infected by COVID-19 don't develop antibodies. The immunity in those who develop antibodies disappears in 2 to 3 months in many people. Even in heavily infected places the level of immunity of the population at any point in time rarely exceeds 10%. Let's see the statement on public health policy from an idiot who does not understand science... Top Republican on Alabama's coronavirus task force wants "to see more people” get infected Sen. Del Marsh champions "herd immunity," which experts say isn't possible without hundreds of thousands of deaths https://www.salon.com/2020/07/10/to...-force-wants-to-see-more-people-get-infected/ An Alabama Republican lawmaker who serves on the southern state's coronavirus task force said he wants to see "more people" contract COVID-19, because he thinks it will result in herd immunity. State Sen. Del Marsh, the president pro tempore of the Alabama Senate, was asked by a reporter on Thursday whether he was concerned over the surge of the disease in the state amid a record-high 2,164 new confirmed cases. "I'm not as concerned as much as the number of cases — and in fact, quite honestly — I want to see more people, because we start reaching an immunity as more people have it and get through it," Marsh said. "I don't want any deaths, as few as possible . . . so those people who are susceptible to the disease, those with pre-existing conditions, elderly population — those folks, we need to do all we can to protect them. But I'm not concerned." Marsh was appointed by Gov. Kay Ivey, a fellow Republican, to serve on the state's coronavirus task force in March, The Daily Beast reported. The comments from Marsh, who has no medical background, were starkly different from the warning issued by hospital officials in the state after the state's ICU capacity approached 90%. "I think this is probably the most frightening part of this: None of these numbers reflect the effect of the Fourth of July," Dr. Don Williamson, the president of the Alabama Hospital Association, told local news outlet WBRC. "There is major movement in the wrong direction, and really these movements have accelerated and that's the most concerning part of this." Studies have increasingly cast doubt on the idea that herd immunity is possible without a vaccine. "Around 70% to 90% of a population needs to be immune to protect the uninfected," the BBC reported. Even hard-hit Spain found that only about 5% of its population had developed antibodies. "This cannot be achieved without accepting the collateral damage of many deaths in the susceptible population and overburdening of health systems," researchers said in a recent study published in The Lancet. "Without a vaccine, over 200 million Americans would have to get infected before we reach this threshold," warned another study from Johns Hopkins University. "Put another way, even if the current pace of the COVID-19 pandemic continues in the United States – with over 25,000 confirmed cases a day – it will be well into 2021 before we reach herd immunity. If current daily death rates continue, over half a million Americans would be dead from COVID-19 by that time." "This cannot be achieved without accepting the collateral damage of many deaths in the susceptible population and overburdening of health systems," researchers said in a recent study published in The Lancet. "Without a vaccine, over 200 million Americans would have to get infected before we reach this threshold," warned another study from Johns Hopkins University. "Put another way, even if the current pace of the COVID-19 pandemic continues in the United States – with over 25,000 confirmed cases a day – it will be well into 2021 before we reach herd immunity. If current daily death rates continue, over half a million Americans would be dead from COVID-19 by that time." While herd immunity would inevitably result in rampant death, many critics of coronavirus restrictions also miss another important point: The virus can wreak havoc on patients for months — even if it doesn't kill them. A study published by JAMA on Thursday showed that 87% of recovered patients still experience coronavirus-related symptoms — even 60 days after getting sick. "Everyone should be reminded that the coronavirus is not just the flu, and also that death isn't the only relevant outcome, nor even hospital cases discharged or deemed 'recovered' by a hospital," Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist at Harvard University, warned. "We now know of these chronic symptoms, many debilitating . . . Even 'mild' cases are known to have many of these chronic symptoms." ------------------------------------------------------------------- For today's bonus... Antibody tests around the world suggest very, very few people have built immunity to the coronavirus https://www.businessinsider.com/cor...-around-the-world-positive-results-low-2020-7