In response to your article “Lawmakers criticize governor’s extended ‘stay home’ order” from April 11.
Unfortunately, our own Lenawee County state Rep. Bronna Kahle and state Sen. Dale W. Zorn are following President Donald Trump’s denial of sound science and become conspirators of unnecessary deaths by not supporting social distancing and stay home orders and attacking our Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s prudent decisions. Anybody with a minimum of common sense and some basic science education can find the relevant information, and if you compare the expected death rates of doing nothing compared to measures as the governor promotes, it takes basic math skills to realize how criminal calls for a loosening of the rules are. And if you did not realize yet, Lenawee County is not isolated from the rest of Michigan and if travel, work and gathering restrictions are softened, we can easily see hundreds if not thousands of cases and many deaths!
Inform yourself — do not believe the demagogues!
Compare the severity of COVID-19 to the flu and other recent pandemics: http://adrianoil.blogspot.com/2020/04/to-all-who-compare-covid-19-to-seasonal.html
Compare today’s U.S. numbers: www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
to what it would be without the commonsense measures in place now:
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/03/a-new-analysis-predicts-1-1-million-coronavirus-deaths-in-a-medium-case-scenario/
Original study published by the Imperial College in London, which estimated the death rate from the pandemic if no control measures are taken: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf
You may say we need to go back to work to make money so we can survive, but is it worth your life, your health, and the health and life of others? In the richest country on Earth, nobody should be forced back to work during a pandemic. What you should do is demand that the stimulus money goes to people who need it to survive instead of big corporations. What you should do is support politicians who run to change the broken system and create sick leave, unemployment benefits and health insurance for everybody as a human right.
Read at the DT: Do not believe demagogues on coronavirus - Opinion - The Daily Telegram - Adrian, MI - Adrian, MI
Unfortunately, our own Lenawee County state Rep. Bronna Kahle and state Sen. Dale W. Zorn are following President Donald Trump’s denial of sound science and become conspirators of unnecessary deaths by not supporting social distancing and stay home orders and attacking our Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s prudent decisions. Anybody with a minimum of common sense and some basic science education can find the relevant information, and if you compare the expected death rates of doing nothing compared to measures as the governor promotes, it takes basic math skills to realize how criminal calls for a loosening of the rules are. And if you did not realize yet, Lenawee County is not isolated from the rest of Michigan and if travel, work and gathering restrictions are softened, we can easily see hundreds if not thousands of cases and many deaths!
Inform yourself — do not believe the demagogues!
Compare the severity of COVID-19 to the flu and other recent pandemics: http://adrianoil.blogspot.com/2020/04/to-all-who-compare-covid-19-to-seasonal.html
Compare today’s U.S. numbers: www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
to what it would be without the commonsense measures in place now:
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/03/a-new-analysis-predicts-1-1-million-coronavirus-deaths-in-a-medium-case-scenario/
Original study published by the Imperial College in London, which estimated the death rate from the pandemic if no control measures are taken: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf
You may say we need to go back to work to make money so we can survive, but is it worth your life, your health, and the health and life of others? In the richest country on Earth, nobody should be forced back to work during a pandemic. What you should do is demand that the stimulus money goes to people who need it to survive instead of big corporations. What you should do is support politicians who run to change the broken system and create sick leave, unemployment benefits and health insurance for everybody as a human right.
Read at the DT: Do not believe demagogues on coronavirus - Opinion - The Daily Telegram - Adrian, MI - Adrian, MI
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