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

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

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

Sen. Toomey told Breitbart News in an interview Friday that political leaders are “overstating the danger” of coronavirus to most Americans.

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8 May 2020 ~~ By Matthew Boyle
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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Nobody ever contemplated the government shutting down our economy. It’s just so bizarre and so unprecedented. So there’s no plan for how you restore the economy. I think it’s something we’ve got to have a vigorous debate about, and I feel like I have a point of view and I have an opportunity to get input from a tremendous wide range of really valuable sources all over Pennsylvania and beyond and so I’ve got a responsibility to lay out a vision, a process, a mechanism by which we restore our ability to have a livelihood.”

Comment:
President Trump is playing this brilliantly.....give Dem governors the rope to hang themselves with.....and then, at the appropriate time, have some local GOP surrogate act as the hangman, while keeping his own hands clean. Governors (especially PMS/DSA Democrats) that are dragging their feet will be left in the dust while the bravest American states will prosper and outshine the Blue ruled ones.
It's imperative to open our economy especially to feed the people, but the elderly need to be protected. We aren’t going to test the whole nation but targeted testing should be done where it makes sense.
Anyone entering nursing homes, daycare centers and schools should be tested since there are machines that can do it quickly.
These are just a couple of ideas to make opening safer. But in order for that to happen Trump would have to use his powers to start many more companies making the machines and tests capable of testing quickly. But he has been silent on this. I think these decisions should have been made long ago and I think many elderly have died because of it. From that very important perspective I think Trump has done a poor job leading through this crisis.
As an example NY City is the epicenter of the virus, but upstate counties in the Southern tier and above have not been affected . Why then would Cuomo want to quarantine the whole state? We know that the densely populated lower section of New York state is responsible for 90 percent of the infections and deaths. All you have to do is check the charts to see I'm correct.
Scientists claim that they will have a vaccine by September. I suggest that like the 1957 Asian Flu that mass inoculations of the vaccine will control the virus in the meantime we have a proven inexpensive weapon, HCQ to fight the virus.
The big question is why Progressives refuse to accept the use of this drug.

Even liberals agree that unless you are very old and already dying of several other things there is virtually no risk at all. Sadly, had killer cuomo not killed so many in NY nursing homes even the very ill elderly would not have died nearly as much

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

“While Toomey invited his Democrat colleagues in the U.S. Senate to participate in the roundtable to get advice and information from the scientists and medical and economic experts, only Republican senators ended up joining him.”

That tells you all you need to know.
Democrats want failure for two reasons; blame it on Trump and perpetuate fascistic socialist control.