It evidently did since Biden beat Trump in part because he's promising to take it seriously.
There are several observations worth noting. First, as we have long known, people of college age and younger are very unlikely to die. The 5-9 and 10-14 age groups are the least likely to die. (Note that an IFR of 0.001% means that one person in that age group will die for every 100,000 infected.) The 0-4 and 15-19 age groups are three times likelier to die than the 5-9 and 10-14 age groups, but the risk is still exceedingly small at 0.003% (or 3 deaths for every 100,000 infected).
Second, the IFR slowly increases with age through the 60-64 age group. But after that, beginning with the 65-69 age group, the IFR rises sharply. This group has an overall IFR just over 1% (or 1 death for every 100 infected). That's a fairly major risk of death. (The red line in the chart marks where the "1% threshold" is crossed.) The IFR then grows substantially and becomes quite scary for people in their 70s and older. People in the 75-79 age group have more than a 3% chance of dying if infected with coronavirus, while people aged 80 and over have more than an 8% chance of dying. That's roughly the same chance as rolling a four with two dice.
Trump only wanted to ban travel from China, even though the virus was already in other countries by then, too. Unless you were banning travel from all countries, a travel ban is completely pointless. Trump fucked up the response. He was the president; he's responsible for shit in the country. You Trump cultists, however, want to say he's never responsible for anything he fucked up on.
Yes a virus that has crippled the global economy and shut down several countries is no big deal, people like you are doing the stereotype of Americans being self centered ignorant assholes proud I must say. And Pelosi didn't call Trump's travel ban racist she called it lazy and ineffective because Chinese and Americans were still being allowed back into the country.
When I saw the headlines where health professionals were clapping to the BLM protesters in the streets is when I saw everyone should be wearing clown noses instead of masks.
BLM/Antifa didn't care about being "super spreaders" and the media mostly advocated their bullshit until it became impossible. There's a threshold of willful ignorance to own the Drumpftards, and most of the people LARPing to do so are trying too hard, regardless of the Kiwi Farms being a place to laugh at tards and losers
It was racist (or just completely stupid, your choice) when he just wanted to close it to China, even though the virus was already in Italy, UK and Iran by then (and probably others). If you want to stop the virus by closing borders, you have to close it to all countries or someone with the virus from those countries could still get in. It's not a tough concept, I know you can get this. Trump just wanted to do the bare minimum, and then did the bare minimum. He even told his cult to not wear masks or socially distant. He literally couldn't have fucked it up more if he tried.
The virus did not cripple any economy. The government response did.
You do know that hospitals and ICUs are overflowing right now, right? It's not just old people that get hit hard by the virus.
What the hell do you think happens when hospitals are overflowing? What do you think happens when someone has a heart attack and there's no room for them in the hospital? 335k Americans are dead in the past 9 months and you don't think that's a big deal? We went to war over 3,000 dead Americans on 9/11.
Also aren't most Americans obese which is a comorbidity for Covid deaths?
So you are against people taking breaks at work? If you have a job, I hope you never take a break or that makes you a hypocrite
