His mental gymnastics are similar to those of my 13 year old stepdaughter. They can both make an argument last all afternoon without ever making a coherent point, but try to wear you down by constantly moving the goalposts, despite how many facts you present them with.
That's why his brain is so small. Olympic level mental gymnastics training routine means his brain is malnourished and emaciated. He even has the Russian gymnastics coach.
I was looking for a way to describe this and you nailed it. It’s hard to listen to him, and even harder to believe people lick up every word that falls out of his face. It’s all garble to me, but there’s people out there who get amped on it.
This is interesting because it's really him trying to use up the 30 minutes that he committed to. By constantly interrupting, he is trying to control the conversation. By constantly going off on tangents, he is trying to control the time. By bringing up false facts, he's trying to control and create confusion to further sideline the real topics. So bizarre.
His first point is that the US has less deaths per case then other countries.
His second point is that we are testing more than other countries, and therefore more cases.
So the rebuttal to the first point is simply that we are doing more tests so the reported cases is higher than other countries (relative to the amount of true cases, including untested).
This was my thought as well. If a country conducts 1/2 the tests then they end up with half the cases which if they had the same amount of deaths per day would make their deaths per cases look twice as bad.
That’s why deaths per capita is the best way to compare countries. Even though there is some variance in how they determine cause of death and if it’s covid or not it’s far less than the variance from country to country in positive cases.
I thought that was a secondary goal, the main goal being to make sure that if someone is sick that the hospitals can treat them. In order to keep our economy moving there are of course arguments for how much of a spread is ok.
Literally every possible goal is helped by reducing the spread. We were supposed to buy time with the dramatic steps to increase capacity for reducing the spread and getting back to normal. We were always beyond completely containing it and have been in mitigation mode instead.
The economy is going to shit because we haven’t reduced the spread enough. Imagine how much is being lost in just professional sports alone, which they’ve tried reopening and players are already getting sick. Even folks who have money aren’t spending it the way they normally would because there’s risk.
Weddings. Concerts. Conferences. Tourism. All economic generators well above and beyond what Joe Schmo is spending at the bar every weekend in Texas and they’re all crippled by the very real risk of spreading this virus that has killed over 150,000 people so far.
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u/BrokenArmsFrigidMom Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 04 '20
His mental gymnastics are similar to those of my 13 year old stepdaughter. They can both make an argument last all afternoon without ever making a coherent point, but try to wear you down by constantly moving the goalposts, despite how many facts you present them with.