This BRAND NEW virus pops up in late 2019. Scientists know nothing about it and of course research on it is brand new. Scientists trying to help the public try to make sense of it and come up with theories and predictions.
Whenever any of those theories turned out to be wrong, republicans jumped all over it in typical armchair critic fashion calling such officials hacks and calling their expertise useless. This of course ignores the many things these scientists were correct about. Republicans of course only want to cherry pick what they were wrong about and decide they don’t want to listen to the experts over, again, a BRAND NEW virus.
Because of that, the virus was made political. Republicans like to tout the low death rate and compare it to the flu. The problem with this, of course, is that if a virus is contagious enough, the low death rate becomes significant. It’s not like the normal flu kills 1 million people in the course of two years every two years. Good luck explaining that logic.
Whenever any of those theories turned out to be wrong, republicans jumped all over it in typical armchair critic fashion calling such officials hacks and calling their expertise useless. This of course ignores the many things these scientists were correct about. Republicans of course only want to cherry pick what they were wrong about and decide they don’t want to listen to the experts over, again, a BRAND NEW virus.
Because of that, the virus was made political. Republicans like to tout the low death rate and compare it to the flu. The problem with this, of course, is that if a virus is contagious enough, the low death rate becomes significant. It’s not like the normal flu kills 1 million people in the course of two years every two years. Good luck explaining that logic.