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For @DOGS_MRG

This is not an argument.

The models DON'T MATTER.
REALITY is what matters.

Or are you claiming that New York, Washington, New Orleans, Detroit, Italy, and Spain didn't happen?

Why have Singapore and Sweden imposed lockdowns AFTER REJECTING THEM?

They waited, and they started suffering large outbreaks.
South Korea is now looking at a major outbreak in Seoul, where 55 PERCENT of the country's population lives.

THE MODELS DON'T MATTER.

Did you miss the press conference in which @realDonaldTrump said we'd emptied and replenished the strategic stockpile TWICE?
Trump began taking action LONG BEFORE THE FIRST MODELS CAME OUT.

Common sense is all that matters.

Every year about 4 million Americans have to go into intensive care units (ICUs).

About 7 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients go into the ICU.
We were looking at dumping another million people MINIMUM into the system.

We can't handle an increase like that.

In 2019, the flu season resulted in about 20,000 ICU patients.
We could NOT have gone from 20,000 to 1 million.

"Oh, well let them die."

THEY STILL HAVE TO BE PUT IN THE ICU EVEN IF THEY'RE GOING TO DIE.

We were looking at the TOTAL DESTRUCTION of the American medical system.
Get it through your head:

THE MODELS DON'T MATTER.

All that matters is what we see actually happening.

I'll point this out again:

We never had a nuclear war. Does that mean it was never a possibility?
I'm sure you've heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

What almost nobody knows is that the Soviets had TACTICAL nuclear missiles in the form of the Luna 9M21.

Kennedy didn't know about them.
Kennedy's plan was a massive airstrike on Cuba.

The Luna crews were under orders to fire off their missiles the moment they became aware of an imminent attack.

Kennedy was told of the Lunas on October 27, 1962, but Khrushchev backed down on October 28.
The the Soviet Minister of Defense and chief of the general staff gave local commanders authority "to make your own decision, and to use nuclear means for the destruction of the invaders of the Cuban territory and to defend the Republic of Cuba."
We were within hours of a full-on nuclear war.

Didn't know that, did you?

I've known it for 25 years.

People are encouraged to give opinions when they have no factual knowledge.
And people are encouraged to make up their minds FIRST and then ignore reality.

Don't kid yourself:

We were looking at the total collapse of the US medical system.

THE MODELS DON'T MATTER.
Trump used his head and made his decisions before anyone even knew how infectious COVID-19 is.

He followed his gut instinct.

And he was right.

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