Birx May Replace Fauci as Conronavirus Spokesperson

[Harpy Eagle]

Well.......TDS does make people like you think that way about us. It's a perfect example how people react to spoon fed propaganda.

I just go by the things you people post on forums like this..maybe this is all just lies from you all but down deep inside you know the truth

 

[debbiedowner]

Yep, she will say whatever Trump tells her to say and will never question it...not even once.

That is who we need right now...someone that will lie for the president to the American people

We cannot let the truth get out

How do you know he's telling the truth? At a time like this, you don't tell the American people that it's possible 100,000 Americans could die. That's the last thing we need. If he has some factual evidence of something, that's fine. But he should keep his defeatist predictions to himself.

Someone needs to counter balance the sunshine and rainbows bullshit coming from Trump.

So we need somebody to spread panic while Trump is trying to calm people down? Are the shelves at your grocery store not empty enough or something?

If people don’t think there is a serious risk posed by COVID, are they likely to comply with unprecedented and costly restrictions?

That has nothing to do with it. My only point is that this guy is trying to spread panic, and that's not what President Trump needs right now. It doesn't mean to be careless, or loosen social restrictions, it simply means don't let the top medical guy tell people hundreds of thousands of us are going to die.

It has everything to do with it. People need to know what’s at stake when you ask them to sacrifice. Otherwise why would they do it?

In many places they have no choice, that's why. Here in my state, they closed bars down. They closed dining rooms in restaurants. They closed down dentist offices except for emergencies. All non-essential businesses were ordered to close. So like I said, people have no choice.

We do know what's at stake and have for some time now. But that doesn't mean somebody needs to get on television and make it sound like a huge asteroid ten times the size of our plant is on course to hit us. We can maintain caution in a cool, calm, and collective way.

Ray, you may know what's at stake but come on down to Florida and drive around and tell me everyone here know's what's at stake. I drove around yesterday and although many things are closed or take out only Sam's, Lowes, Bj's warehouse and many scattered retail shops were packed.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Fauci gave bogus advice during the onset of HIV/AIDS. He has been consistently behind the information curve on chloroquine. He is more of a bureaucrat than he is a scientist.

He's getting involved in the politics of the situation. Obviously there has been some backlash, and that's why Brix is now backing him up by supporting his statement.

 

[eagle1462010]

It's not their job to make predictions or scare the shit out of people. Their job is to report on the advancements made against this disease. It's their job to educate us about it. Leave scaring the shit out of people to the Democrat party and their media.

It is there job to offer Hope..........not pessimism............and to say what steps to take to minimize losses.

The media needs to be 24/7 stating Common sense precautions to the spread of the disease.........Not 24/7 I HATE TRUMP BS.

Kinda like a ROLL TIDE COMMERCIAL......

Today......we have a 50% chance of Rain.........WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS........tomorrow Partly Cloudy ......WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS..........and the Weekend Sunny .........WTF.........WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS AND WHY ARE YOU HUGGING THE COUGHING GUY.

 

[eagle1462010]

Yep, she will say whatever Trump tells her to say and will never question it...not even once.

That is who we need right now...someone that will lie for the president to the American people

We cannot let the truth get out

How do you know he's telling the truth? At a time like this, you don't tell the American people that it's possible 100,000 Americans could die. That's the last thing we need. If he has some factual evidence of something, that's fine. But he should keep his defeatist predictions to himself.

Someone needs to counter balance the sunshine and rainbows bullshit coming from Trump.

So we need somebody to spread panic while Trump is trying to calm people down? Are the shelves at your grocery store not empty enough or something?

If people don’t think there is a serious risk posed by COVID, are they likely to comply with unprecedented and costly restrictions?

That has nothing to do with it. My only point is that this guy is trying to spread panic, and that's not what President Trump needs right now. It doesn't mean to be careless, or loosen social restrictions, it simply means don't let the top medical guy tell people hundreds of thousands of us are going to die.

It has everything to do with it. People need to know what’s at stake when you ask them to sacrifice. Otherwise why would they do it?

In many places they have no choice, that's why. Here in my state, they closed bars down. They closed dining rooms in restaurants. They closed down dentist offices except for emergencies. All non-essential businesses were ordered to close. So like I said, people have no choice.

We do know what's at stake and have for some time now. But that doesn't mean somebody needs to get on television and make it sound like a huge asteroid ten times the size of our plant is on course to hit us. We can maintain caution in a cool, calm, and collective way.

Ray, you may know what's at stake but come on down to Florida and drive around and tell me everyone here know's what's at stake. I drove around yesterday and although many things are closed or take out only Sam's, Lowes, Bj's warehouse and many scattered retail shops were packed.

Same in Alabama and the world. People still gotta eat..............And people don't believe the Media anymore................

The very thing we don't need..........Let's all pack into a store........with Shared Ventilation......so if anyone has the virus.......we all get sick...................

You can't stop human nature til the bodies start stacking up..........and you can't turn into China to stop it. Just the way it is............Darwinism.........LOL

 

[debbiedowner]

Yep, she will say whatever Trump tells her to say and will never question it...not even once.

That is who we need right now...someone that will lie for the president to the American people

We cannot let the truth get out

How do you know he's telling the truth? At a time like this, you don't tell the American people that it's possible 100,000 Americans could die. That's the last thing we need. If he has some factual evidence of something, that's fine. But he should keep his defeatist predictions to himself.

No, that's the best thing to tell American's, maybe some will listen and stay away from other's to prevent the spread. Scare the shit out of people and it might slow down.

It's not their job to make predictions or scare the shit out of people. Their job is to report on the advancements made against this disease. It's their job to educate us about it. Leave scaring the shit out of people to the Democrat party and their media.

You said it right here: It's their job to educate us about it

If scaring the shit out of people works it's education.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Yep, she will say whatever Trump tells her to say and will never question it...not even once.

That is who we need right now...someone that will lie for the president to the American people

We cannot let the truth get out

How do you know he's telling the truth? At a time like this, you don't tell the American people that it's possible 100,000 Americans could die. That's the last thing we need. If he has some factual evidence of something, that's fine. But he should keep his defeatist predictions to himself.

Someone needs to counter balance the sunshine and rainbows bullshit coming from Trump.

So we need somebody to spread panic while Trump is trying to calm people down? Are the shelves at your grocery store not empty enough or something?

If people don’t think there is a serious risk posed by COVID, are they likely to comply with unprecedented and costly restrictions?

That has nothing to do with it. My only point is that this guy is trying to spread panic, and that's not what President Trump needs right now. It doesn't mean to be careless, or loosen social restrictions, it simply means don't let the top medical guy tell people hundreds of thousands of us are going to die.

It has everything to do with it. People need to know what’s at stake when you ask them to sacrifice. Otherwise why would they do it?

In many places they have no choice, that's why. Here in my state, they closed bars down. They closed dining rooms in restaurants. They closed down dentist offices except for emergencies. All non-essential businesses were ordered to close. So like I said, people have no choice.

We do know what's at stake and have for some time now. But that doesn't mean somebody needs to get on television and make it sound like a huge asteroid ten times the size of our plant is on course to hit us. We can maintain caution in a cool, calm, and collective way.

Ray, you may know what's at stake but come on down to Florida and drive around and tell me everyone here know's what's at stake. I drove around yesterday and although many things are closed or take out only Sam's, Lowes, Bj's warehouse and many scattered retail shops were packed.

It's not just Florida, it's everywhere. I just came home from McDonald's. There was a group of teens or guys in their early 20's standing in front of the restaurant about two feet away from each other having a conversation. In Louisiana yesterday, a church held mass and it was packed. Mind you, this was after what Fauci reported.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Yep, she will say whatever Trump tells her to say and will never question it...not even once.

That is who we need right now...someone that will lie for the president to the American people

We cannot let the truth get out

How do you know he's telling the truth? At a time like this, you don't tell the American people that it's possible 100,000 Americans could die. That's the last thing we need. If he has some factual evidence of something, that's fine. But he should keep his defeatist predictions to himself.

No, that's the best thing to tell American's, maybe some will listen and stay away from other's to prevent the spread. Scare the shit out of people and it might slow down.

It's not their job to make predictions or scare the shit out of people. Their job is to report on the advancements made against this disease. It's their job to educate us about it. Leave scaring the shit out of people to the Democrat party and their media.

You said it right here: It's their job to educate us about it

If scaring the shit out of people works it's education.

No, informing us is education us. Scaring the shit out of people is politics.

 

[White 6]

Only you commies cower. Bogus in telling people this is the end of the Fn world. The prediction of "millions" of infected people, and hundreds of thousands of Americans dying. Those bogus figures.

I haven't seen one person say, or suggest that this is the end of the world.

Your panties must be wound tight and deep up in there.

#LOLGOP #TooFunny #CLASSIC

Making an unfounded prediction like hundreds of thousands dead Americans is the end of the world to a lot of people. So are "millions" of infected people.

Heck, Fauci could be easily be right. I only say, he did not need to quantify it for the public today, since Trump has backed off the early openings and rosy sunshine blowing up my ass talk for his base. Did you see where Falwell reopened Liberty University and now they have right wing religious kids coming down with Coronavirus at the school now?

What you have to understand is the President is trying to balance things out. End of the world predictions would tank our economy so bad it may never come back for years. You can maintain using caution while at the same time, providing hope. When the top infectious disease doctor says things like that, people do lose hope.

I think if he made a statement like this is how we are going to have to live for the rest of the year at the least, people would be committing suicide over it.

Bull. End of the world? Suicide over it? For a self determinant conservative, you show a surprising lack of confidence in the American public to persevere through adversity, or do you just look down on the majority of the public, as a committed trump supporter? Hopefully I haven't misjudged your self determinism.

Well people have gotten worked up about a lot less than this. I think that Fauci and Birx should not be telling the public that hundreds of thousands will die and millions more catching the disease.

Try not to let yourself get worked up. Not sure, I would have put that out, but he may have thought it necessary to keep pressure on trump to stay the new course, or quite possibly with white house approval to give cover for the president's new course. He is the trusted voice in this crises. What things seem on the stage often does not clue the audience to the behind the scenes stage management of the director, whoever that may be.

 

[eagle1462010]

Well.......TDS does make people like you think that way about us. It's a perfect example how people react to spoon fed propaganda.

I just go by the things you people post on forums like this..maybe this is all just lies from you all but down deep inside you know the truth

'That TDS is real and you have it...........YUP........if Trump walked on water today.....they would say he can't swim tomorrow.............

NO ONE TRUSTS THE MEDIA.....they don't trust the gov't anymore...........so the people are ignoring this shit..........and it will take it's course..........

1957 or 1968 possible scenarios adjusted for population.............or maybe one of those vaccines are gonna work.......EARLY

Just might have to beat the living crap out of the crats who say we need to test it for a year or more before using it...........and if anyone who isn't dead yet needs the vaccine please come by and get your shot.......LOL

We don't need it in a year...........and whomever makes it first that passes...............they are gonna be rich as hell..........NEVER UNDERESTIMATE the POWER OF I'M GONNA BE RICH.

That is the GREED we need right now...........and you know it.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

It's not their job to make predictions or scare the shit out of people. Their job is to report on the advancements made against this disease. It's their job to educate us about it. Leave scaring the shit out of people to the Democrat party and their media.

It is there job to offer Hope..........not pessimism............and to say what steps to take to minimize losses.

The media needs to be 24/7 stating Common sense precautions to the spread of the disease.........Not 24/7 I HATE TRUMP BS.

Kinda like a ROLL TIDE COMMERCIAL......

Today......we have a 50% chance of Rain.........WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS........tomorrow Partly Cloudy ......WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS..........and the Weekend Sunny .........WTF.........WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS AND WHY ARE YOU HUGGING THE COUGHING GUY.

I don't think it's their job to offer hope either. It's their job to report their findings is all. Like the President said a few nights ago, they are getting new research results nearly every day. Their job is to evaluate that research and tell us what it means in plain English.

 

[Dragonlady]

Yep, she will say whatever Trump tells her to say and will never question it...not even once.

That is who we need right now...someone that will lie for the president to the American people

We cannot let the truth get out

How do you know he's telling the truth? At a time like this, you don't tell the American people that it's possible 100,000 Americans could die. That's the last thing we need. If he has some factual evidence of something, that's fine. But he should keep his defeatist predictions to himself.

Someone needs to counter balance the sunshine and rainbows bullshit coming from Trump.

So we need somebody to spread panic while Trump is trying to calm people down? Are the shelves at your grocery store not empty enough or something?

What we need is a straight shooter, and that’s who Fauci is. This article is bullshit, Fauci isn’t going anywhere.

I've always had my doubts about him. He was on Laura's show a couple of times. She questioned him about the use of hydroxychloriquine. It's like he didn't want to answer. He kept repeating crap about clinical studies. Well.......we don't have clinical studies, and it's been prescribed for other things the last couple of decades. In most of the patients that were put on hydoroxychloroquine and azithromycin, they had amazing recoveries from COVID-19.

It just seems like he's too pessimistic; almost like he's hoping this will be a tragedy.

He's not pessimistic, he's realistic. His reluctance is give out false hope on hydroxychloriquine shows that he is NOT an alarmist, and is going strictly with science. Whatever success has been shown with the drug, it is a treatment with a LOT of really nasty, long term side effects, including blindness, and permanent kidney damage.

Hydroxychloroquine Uses, Dosage & Side Effects - Drugs.com

Hydroxychloroquine is a quinoline drug used to treat or prevent malaria. It's also used to treat symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, discoid and systemic lupus erythematosus.

www.drugs.com

It's not something that should be glad handed out without a LOT of testing.

 

[eagle1462010]

The vaccine will be out before the end of the summer.............

Why..............BECAUSE it will **** up College Football if it doesn't.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Only you commies cower. Bogus in telling people this is the end of the Fn world. The prediction of "millions" of infected people, and hundreds of thousands of Americans dying. Those bogus figures.

I haven't seen one person say, or suggest that this is the end of the world.

Your panties must be wound tight and deep up in there.

#LOLGOP #TooFunny #CLASSIC

Making an unfounded prediction like hundreds of thousands dead Americans is the end of the world to a lot of people. So are "millions" of infected people.

Heck, Fauci could be easily be right. I only say, he did not need to quantify it for the public today, since Trump has backed off the early openings and rosy sunshine blowing up my ass talk for his base. Did you see where Falwell reopened Liberty University and now they have right wing religious kids coming down with Coronavirus at the school now?

What you have to understand is the President is trying to balance things out. End of the world predictions would tank our economy so bad it may never come back for years. You can maintain using caution while at the same time, providing hope. When the top infectious disease doctor says things like that, people do lose hope.

I think if he made a statement like this is how we are going to have to live for the rest of the year at the least, people would be committing suicide over it.

Bull. End of the world? Suicide over it? For a self determinant conservative, you show a surprising lack of confidence in the American public to persevere through adversity, or do you just look down on the majority of the public, as a committed trump supporter? Hopefully I haven't misjudged your self determinism.

Well people have gotten worked up about a lot less than this. I think that Fauci and Birx should not be telling the public that hundreds of thousands will die and millions more catching the disease.

Try not to let yourself get worked up. Not sure, I would have put that out, but he may have thought it necessary to keep pressure on trump to stay the new course, or quite possibly with white house approval to give cover for the president's new course. He is the trusted voice in this crises. What things seem on the stage often does not clue the audience to the behind the scenes stage management of the director, whoever that may be.

I think the President does listen to Fauci and all the other experts. It's the media that's trying to create this dichotomy between the President and his advisors. They pulled the same thing with Barr. The least different view or different opinion, they report it as a major conflict.

 

[colfax_m]

Yep, she will say whatever Trump tells her to say and will never question it...not even once.

That is who we need right now...someone that will lie for the president to the American people

We cannot let the truth get out

How do you know he's telling the truth? At a time like this, you don't tell the American people that it's possible 100,000 Americans could die. That's the last thing we need. If he has some factual evidence of something, that's fine. But he should keep his defeatist predictions to himself.

Someone needs to counter balance the sunshine and rainbows bullshit coming from Trump.

So we need somebody to spread panic while Trump is trying to calm people down? Are the shelves at your grocery store not empty enough or something?

If people don’t think there is a serious risk posed by COVID, are they likely to comply with unprecedented and costly restrictions?

That has nothing to do with it. My only point is that this guy is trying to spread panic, and that's not what President Trump needs right now. It doesn't mean to be careless, or loosen social restrictions, it simply means don't let the top medical guy tell people hundreds of thousands of us are going to die.

It has everything to do with it. People need to know what’s at stake when you ask them to sacrifice. Otherwise why would they do it?

In many places they have no choice, that's why. Here in my state, they closed bars down. They closed dining rooms in restaurants. They closed down dentist offices except for emergencies. All non-essential businesses were ordered to close. So like I said, people have no choice.

We do know what's at stake and have for some time now. But that doesn't mean somebody needs to get on television and make it sound like a huge asteroid ten times the size of our plant is on course to hit us. We can maintain caution in a cool, calm, and collective way.

How do people know what’s at stake if we can’t even discuss potential mortality without such severe restrictions?

 

[eagle1462010]

It's not their job to make predictions or scare the shit out of people. Their job is to report on the advancements made against this disease. It's their job to educate us about it. Leave scaring the shit out of people to the Democrat party and their media.

It is there job to offer Hope..........not pessimism............and to say what steps to take to minimize losses.

The media needs to be 24/7 stating Common sense precautions to the spread of the disease.........Not 24/7 I HATE TRUMP BS.

Kinda like a ROLL TIDE COMMERCIAL......

Today......we have a 50% chance of Rain.........WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS........tomorrow Partly Cloudy ......WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS..........and the Weekend Sunny .........WTF.........WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS AND WHY ARE YOU HUGGING THE COUGHING GUY.

I don't think it's their job to offer hope either. It's their job to report their findings is all. Like the President said a few nights ago, they are getting new research results nearly every day. Their job is to evaluate that research and tell us what it means in plain English.

It's not their job to push Gloom and Doom..........but Gloom and Doom sells............Every Hurricane the same..........and some times to try and scare people out of flood zones.......

They want ratings.........We need decent information .....what steps to take..........and not political BS.....those days are over the same as Leave it to Beaver days are over. Back then the news put out information and live went on. Of course they gave whatever message the Gov't wanted them to say.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Yep, she will say whatever Trump tells her to say and will never question it...not even once.

That is who we need right now...someone that will lie for the president to the American people

We cannot let the truth get out

How do you know he's telling the truth? At a time like this, you don't tell the American people that it's possible 100,000 Americans could die. That's the last thing we need. If he has some factual evidence of something, that's fine. But he should keep his defeatist predictions to himself.

Someone needs to counter balance the sunshine and rainbows bullshit coming from Trump.

So we need somebody to spread panic while Trump is trying to calm people down? Are the shelves at your grocery store not empty enough or something?

What we need is a straight shooter, and that’s who Fauci is. This article is bullshit, Fauci isn’t going anywhere.

I've always had my doubts about him. He was on Laura's show a couple of times. She questioned him about the use of hydroxychloriquine. It's like he didn't want to answer. He kept repeating crap about clinical studies. Well.......we don't have clinical studies, and it's been prescribed for other things the last couple of decades. In most of the patients that were put on hydoroxychloroquine and azithromycin, they had amazing recoveries from COVID-19.

It just seems like he's too pessimistic; almost like he's hoping this will be a tragedy.

He's not pessimistic, he's realistic. His reluctance is give out false hope on hydroxychloriquine shows that he is NOT an alarmist, and is going strictly with science. Whatever success has been shown with the drug, it is a treatment with a LOT of really nasty, long term side effects, including blindness, and permanent kidney damage.

Hydroxychloroquine Uses, Dosage & Side Effects - Drugs.com

Hydroxychloroquine is a quinoline drug used to treat or prevent malaria. It's also used to treat symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, discoid and systemic lupus erythematosus.

www.drugs.com

It's not something that should be glad handed out without a LOT of testing.

A lot of testing? We've been using it for decades to combat malaria. It's given to people who travel overseas. Can you show me any drug that doesn't have possible side effects? Grab any high dose over the counter aspirin bottle out of your medicine cabinet and read the warnings on it.

 

[White 6]

Well.......TDS does make people like you think that way about us. It's a perfect example how people react to spoon fed propaganda.

I just go by the things you people post on forums like this..maybe this is all just lies from you all but down deep inside you know the truth

'That TDS is real and you have it...........YUP........if Trump walked on water today.....they would say he can't swim tomorrow.............

NO ONE TRUSTS THE MEDIA.....they don't trust the gov't anymore...........so the people are ignoring this shit..........and it will take it's course..........

1957 or 1968 possible scenarios adjusted for population.............or maybe one of those vaccines are gonna work.......EARLY

Just might have to beat the living crap out of the crats who say we need to test it for a year or more before using it...........and if anyone who isn't dead yet needs the vaccine please come by and get your shot.......LOL

We don't need it in a year...........and whomever makes it first that passes...............they are gonna be rich as hell..........NEVER UNDERESTIMATE the POWER OF I'M GONNA BE RICH.

That is the GREED we need right now...........and you know it.

".if Trump walked on water today" Only a kool aid drinker could imagine it.
"NEVER UNDERESTIMATE the POWER OF I'M GONNA BE RICH. That is the GREED we need right now"
Beware of snake oil salesmen. Often you get snake bit standing next to a huckster, looking for a fast buck. Hopefully you are self quarantining or should be. Sounds like you might be kind of a sick old dude, already.

 

[eagle1462010]

Yep, she will say whatever Trump tells her to say and will never question it...not even once.

That is who we need right now...someone that will lie for the president to the American people

We cannot let the truth get out

How do you know he's telling the truth? At a time like this, you don't tell the American people that it's possible 100,000 Americans could die. That's the last thing we need. If he has some factual evidence of something, that's fine. But he should keep his defeatist predictions to himself.

Someone needs to counter balance the sunshine and rainbows bullshit coming from Trump.

So we need somebody to spread panic while Trump is trying to calm people down? Are the shelves at your grocery store not empty enough or something?

What we need is a straight shooter, and that’s who Fauci is. This article is bullshit, Fauci isn’t going anywhere.

I've always had my doubts about him. He was on Laura's show a couple of times. She questioned him about the use of hydroxychloriquine. It's like he didn't want to answer. He kept repeating crap about clinical studies. Well.......we don't have clinical studies, and it's been prescribed for other things the last couple of decades. In most of the patients that were put on hydoroxychloroquine and azithromycin, they had amazing recoveries from COVID-19.

It just seems like he's too pessimistic; almost like he's hoping this will be a tragedy.

He's not pessimistic, he's realistic. His reluctance is give out false hope on hydroxychloriquine shows that he is NOT an alarmist, and is going strictly with science. Whatever success has been shown with the drug, it is a treatment with a LOT of really nasty, long term side effects, including blindness, and permanent kidney damage.

Hydroxychloroquine Uses, Dosage & Side Effects - Drugs.com

Hydroxychloroquine is a quinoline drug used to treat or prevent malaria. It's also used to treat symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, discoid and systemic lupus erythematosus.

www.drugs.com

It's not something that should be glad handed out without a LOT of testing.

A lot of testing? We've been using it for decades to combat malaria. It's given to people who travel overseas. Can you show me any drug that doesn't have possible side effects? Grab any high dose over the counter aspirin bottle out of your medicine cabinet and read the warnings on it.

I took those things or a version of it a long long time ago to go to Kenya. Makes you feel ill.........stomach.......some had the same......some didn't show anything.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Yep, she will say whatever Trump tells her to say and will never question it...not even once.

That is who we need right now...someone that will lie for the president to the American people

We cannot let the truth get out

How do you know he's telling the truth? At a time like this, you don't tell the American people that it's possible 100,000 Americans could die. That's the last thing we need. If he has some factual evidence of something, that's fine. But he should keep his defeatist predictions to himself.

Someone needs to counter balance the sunshine and rainbows bullshit coming from Trump.

So we need somebody to spread panic while Trump is trying to calm people down? Are the shelves at your grocery store not empty enough or something?

If people don’t think there is a serious risk posed by COVID, are they likely to comply with unprecedented and costly restrictions?

That has nothing to do with it. My only point is that this guy is trying to spread panic, and that's not what President Trump needs right now. It doesn't mean to be careless, or loosen social restrictions, it simply means don't let the top medical guy tell people hundreds of thousands of us are going to die.

It has everything to do with it. People need to know what’s at stake when you ask them to sacrifice. Otherwise why would they do it?

In many places they have no choice, that's why. Here in my state, they closed bars down. They closed dining rooms in restaurants. They closed down dentist offices except for emergencies. All non-essential businesses were ordered to close. So like I said, people have no choice.

We do know what's at stake and have for some time now. But that doesn't mean somebody needs to get on television and make it sound like a huge asteroid ten times the size of our plant is on course to hit us. We can maintain caution in a cool, calm, and collective way.

How do people know what’s at stake if we can’t even discuss potential mortality without such severe restrictions?

I think by now we all know what's at stake here. Some will take it seriously, some will not, and some will take it to the extremes.