Testing stops viruses ... who knew?

First it was ventilators and PPE. Then it was hospital beds.

Now it’s testing. And of course, a tried and true vaccine.

If it were up to the Democrats, we’d never reopen the country.  I truly believe that. 

The idea of waiting for a proven vaccine is absolutely ridiculous. I won’t even waste my time addressing that, beyond saying there isn’t a proven vaccine for the seasonal flu after years of trying.  What makes anyone think there’s suddenly going to be one for Covid-19? 

The real answer is, they don’t. No one with the brains God gave a sweet potato thinks we’re going to have a proven vaccine for Covid-19 anytime soon.  That’s why Democrats are demanding it – they’re asking for something they know won’t happen before the next election.   

It's an idiotic demand.  From idiots who think the rest of us are idiots. Promoted by idiots in the media who think we’re all idiots, too. 

I feel the same about their demand for more testing. We’re testing millions every week.  But Democrats want everyone in the country, not just citizens, to be tested. 

For what purpose, someone should ask. That seems to me to be a logical question. What’s the point of testing everyone?  So we know how many people have been exposed to the virus? And then what?  What’s the next step, Nancy and Chuck?

This may be the dumbest recent demand from those nincompoops.  Of course, the media is on this latest demand like white on rice.  Again, more nincompoops in the mix. 

Nancy just said in a press conference that Trump’s plan for testing is inadequate.  And we need more testing to stop the spread of the virus.  Now, on most days Nancy is as dumb as a bag of rocks in my opinion. Maybe this time she’s on to something all the scientists have overlooked.

Tests stop disease. Who knew?  Did Fauci? Birx?  

Maybe a “journalist” out there should ask her how a test can prevent the spread of a disease. And if so, shouldn’t we drop all the effort on a vaccine and just put all our money on testing?

What a jackass. Even St. Fauci – at least this week – would probably remind her and Chuck and the rest of her merry band of brain-dead bozos in the House that because someone tests negative today doesn’t mean they can’t get infected tomorrow, or even later that same day.

Next week, St. Fauci might change his mind, but for now I suspect he’d hold the line on the need to only test people who show symptoms.

Remember, only a tiny, tiny percentage of people without symptoms test positive, anyway.  And there are studies that now show the actual rate of infection and development of symptoms from the virus to be so miniscule as to be almost negligible.  In fact, some scientists believe perhaps 20-50% of the population has already been exposed to the virus and either didn’t get sick or had symptoms so mild they recovered without ever knowing they had the virus.  

People do die from Covid-19. Mainly the old and those with serious comorbidities. But among the general population of about 330 million we’ve had less than 2 million confirmed cases and of those only about 100,000 deaths.

For the math challenged – like Nancy, Chuck, and the media – that’s confirmed cases of 0.6% of our population, and deaths of about a half percent of those confirmed cases. 

More testing is likely to uncover more people exposed to the virus, and perhaps more confirmed cases.  To what end, however. We already know even those with a confirmed case are unlikely to die unless they have other serious health issues, or are an advanced age; in short, the same groups most susceptible to succumbing to the seasonal flu or pneumonia.   

Net/net, while every death matters, and the number of infections and deaths is cause for concern, the Covid-19 virus is not particularly deadly – highly contagious, yes; highly lethal to anyone who gets infected, no.  And for the most part it seems to be winding down. 

But there’s an election coming. 

Democrats – after first accusing Trump of overreacting in January with his travel ban – are now also claiming more than 50,000 lives could have been saved if Trump had only acted sooner. 

Sooner than when they attacked him for overreacting? How would that work? 

Today it’s testing.  Tomorrow it will be something else.  Democrats are desperate to pin this disaster on Trump no matter what.  Oh, and to keep the economy from coming back too soon. So they can blame Trump for the economic collapse, too. 

This is the weirdest political strategy I’ve ever seen.  Terrify the population, keep people out of work, shut down businesses, and destroy the economy to win an election. 

I guess if you’ve only got Joe Biden to work with, what else can you do?