Exclusive – Sen. Pat Toomey Calls for Reopening America Faster: ‘Danger’ of Coronavirus to Most Americans Overstated

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Battle lines are being drawn; this thing is full on political now

Nobody is saying the virus is defeated, or that precautions still don't need to be taken. No one is saying that there will be no more deaths; but we are saying that we cannot live this way, we also do not accept losing our civil liberties

we are at the point where we need to be talking about risks vs rewards, costs & benefits

Florida has had some of the most relaxed policies of any state in the Union, yet has one of the lowest death totals per 100,000. In contrast, NY has the highest. This despite Florida's larger population of elderly people

Exclusive – Toomey Calls for Reopening America Faster: Virus ‘Danger’ to Most Overstated

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Friday that American political leaders are “overstating the danger” of coronavirus to most Americans while “underestimating” the economic “carnage” that lockdowns nationwide are causing.

Toomey, a key U.S. senator from a Rust Belt battleground state, conducted this interview with Breitbart News after rolling out a plan to much more quickly reopen Pennsylvania than the plan the state’s Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf has begun. Toomey, a widely respected Republican who serves alongside a Democrat, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), is not known for making outlandish claims so his statements here that the panic driving policy decisions around the country instead of science—which shows the disease is much less severe than originally thought—are a huge step for the country as the conventional wisdom behind the lockdowns nationwide is challenged ever so more. He is the first U.S. senator to offer such criticism of the conventional wisdom that keeps much of the country—and much of Pennsylvania—in a state of perpetual pseudo-lockdown limbo. Toomey in recent days hosted a roundtable with medical and economic experts presenting for U.S. senators actual data about the virus, bringing together top medical and scientific officials from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)—Pennsylvania’s largest hospital system—and Stanford University, Duke University, and New York University.
 
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Battle lines are being drawn; this thing is full on political now

Nobody is saying the virus is defeated, or that precautions still don't need to be taken. No one is saying that there will be no more deaths; but we are saying that we cannot live this way, we also do not accept losing our civil liberties

we are at the point where we need to be talking about risks vs rewards, costs & benefits

Florida has had some of the most relaxed policies of any state in the Union, yet has one of the lowest death totals per 100,000. In contrast, NY has the highest. This despite Florida's larger population of elderly people

Exclusive – Toomey Calls for Reopening America Faster: Virus ‘Danger’ to Most Overstated

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Friday that American political leaders are “overstating the danger” of coronavirus to most Americans while “underestimating” the economic “carnage” that lockdowns nationwide are causing.

Toomey, a key U.S. senator from a Rust Belt battleground state, conducted this interview with Breitbart News after rolling out a plan to much more quickly reopen Pennsylvania than the plan the state’s Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf has begun. Toomey, a widely respected Republican who serves alongside a Democrat, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), is not known for making outlandish claims so his statements here that the panic driving policy decisions around the country instead of science—which shows the disease is much less severe than originally thought—are a huge step for the country as the conventional wisdom behind the lockdowns nationwide is challenged ever so more. He is the first U.S. senator to offer such criticism of the conventional wisdom that keeps much of the country—and much of Pennsylvania—in a state of perpetual pseudo-lockdown limbo. Toomey in recent days hosted a roundtable with medical and economic experts presenting for U.S. senators actual data about the virus, bringing together top medical and scientific officials from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)—Pennsylvania’s largest hospital system—and Stanford University, Duke University, and New York University.


Canadas economy was getting crushed before this pandemic, it will continue to get crushed afterwards, do NOT follow our path. We know once this economy gets back to normal it will remain in bad shape, that's the scary part. The nations citizens are broke.

We have decimated our civil liberties for decades, seen expanding police forces and powers at the municipal, provincial and federal level while accountability decreased. All it has done is left us with anemic growth and systemic abuses. I think some secretly and others openly want to copy our system, don't allow it to happen.

My opinion has always been that we are already shopping at Big Box stores and grocery stores, we can practice social distancing while keeping the economy moving.
 

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