GWB says:

There is no correlation between the situation in China and the situation here in the States.
Whoah. You don’t even need to go that far. She is comparing the death rate in ONE densely packed Chinese CITY, to the whole of the USA. You can stop right there because they don’t even compare – before all the good reasons you get to.

There are many reasons that the situation in Italy is applicable to the situation here.
Think you missed a “not” in front of “applicable”.

He reminded us that Asian-Americans are not responsible for Covid-19.
And that’s a partial yes. Most “Asian-Americans” are not Chinese who go back to China regularly for Chinese New Year. However, some of them are. And some of them here live in conditions similar to back in China – providing close quarters for spread of the New Year present.
I don’t blame them. But they are probably one vector of the disease making it to our shores. (The other, bigger one, is the large number of Chinese nationals we allow to work and study in this country.)

If you pretend like none of this is happening, it’ll all just go away
Funny, but I recall screeching when he shut down flights to and from China earlier than almost anyone else. Didn’t you notice that? I thought it was pretty loud, myself.

President Trump never called the pandemic fake news or a hoax.
I’m surprised that’s all you kicked at in there. That whole paragraph you quoted was full of malarkey and lies.

Wall Street is not the economy.
A mistake our betters in the GOPe and “conservative elite” kept making for the longest time. As long as the DOW or S&P was moving UP, then everything must be good!

Look, in other couple of weeks, we will have a better idea of how to prevent and treat the Kung Flu.
I have a really good idea NOW. And it doesn’t involve just shutting everything down. Instead target your efforts on vulnerable populations and do the old-style vaccination NOW, in groups, with treatment.
But that doesn’t comport with our “modern” vision of medical care. So they’ll ignore it for something “better” some 3 weeks after everyone is “dead” from the economy being shut down.

FAH-q says:

PEOPLE WILL DIE, NOT FOR WALL STREET, FOR THE CORPORATIONS THAT OUR NOW OUR TRUE GOVERNMENT. DONALD TRUMP IS A PAWN, AND HE TAKES HIS ORDERS FROM JEFF BEZOS AND ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT BOUGHT HIM YEARS BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED. GET A CLUE PEOPLE, WE ARE NOW FASCISTS, THAT IS WHY THIS IS THE TOP PROPAGANDA ARTICLE ON GOOGLE. WHOEVER WROTE THIS ARTICLE IS YOUR ENEMY AS MUCH AS DONALD TRUMP

Adam says:

So to begin, let me just say that I find it delightfully ironic that you refer to Twitter as “that sewer of the internet”. I wholeheartedly agree: It’s the favorite home of your “President” (read: grossly incompetent kleptocrat).

Now, let us evaluate the drooling stupidity of your article, and explain why every American has a right to be angry at Trump for his handling of the crisis. While I agree that he’s probably not sacrificing animals to Satan in the back yard of the White House (so much as he is cowering inside it), he also has consistently shown that he was much more concerned with the stock market than the welfare of the average american. For example, the first major speech that he gave on the COVID-19 was the day immediately after the first major stock market downturn, despite ample warning from the CDC in weeks previous about the severity of the potential crisis. In it, he downplayed the severity of the COVID-19, compared it to the flu (a disease that it is approximately ten to fifteen times more lethal than despite being more contagious), and said that the number of infected would go down to zero. He also said that they would have a vaccine ready “soon” when the first clinical trials of a vaccine were months away. All of these statements were lies. They were lies calculated in clear response to the stock market downturn the day previous to assuage investor panic. Spreading blatant misinformation during a developing crisis, while also showing a complete lack of initiative in basic measures like making sure people have enough masks and tests, ignoring CDC recommendations, and trying to somehow blame Obama, means that at best he was grossly incompetent and at worst, he just didn’t care as long as he could pump his numbers up for election season. Moving on.

“The fake news media was trying to create a panic. True fact.”

Firstly, facts are, by definition, true. Consider retaking high school english. Secondly, they weren’t “trying to create a panic”. People were panicking all on their own, because there were plenty of them that were smarter than Trump who rightly predicted that our medical system was completely unprepared for a community transmissible virus with no effective treatment and a fairly high fatality rate. Again, at a very low estimate of a 2% case fatality rate and 20% severe symptoms rate (and yes, that’s with adequate medical care), that’s still 6 million Americans who die if the virus fully spreads across the country, and 60 million needing serious interventions to prevent death or permanent organ damage. Even at a fraction of those numbers, with only around 1 million physicians nationwide, if these drastic measures aren’t continued at least until the growth of the virus stops, we’ll be painting red crosses on doors and digging mass graves before 2021. Also, I know that laypeople have trouble comprehending this, but medical professionals aren’t invincible, we have very limited equipment, and we can only handle so many cases before we’re forced to turn people away and let them die in the street. And if it gets to that point doesn’t matter whether there’s a miracle cure because we can only deploy and distribute it so fast. Keep in mind that people who come into the hospital for any other reason will start dying too, since the system will be at saturation, and since we have one of the most obese, unhealthy populations in the world, with 1.5 million cases of heart attacks and strokes and 3.1 million severe trauma cases annually, that won’t be a small number.

“Wall Street is an investment vehicle and represents anxiety and stresses America. Wall Street is not the economy. Trump is worried about the economy. The engine of the United States economy is the small business owner.”

Again, you should take a critical look at the actions of the administration during the early stages of the crisis. But regardless, the point is moot. The economy is going to perform badly regardless. It’s going to suck, and people will be out of work, no matter when the businesses reopen. The question to be determined now is how much more economic damage the incompetence of conservatives will continue to do to do to the country by killing its work force. Shockingly enough, you will find yourself unable to run a small business if you’re buried in a mass grave. You may also find it hard to find employees when the ones who aren’t dead refuse to work out of fear, and much harder to serve customers if they fight each other for the last stocks of your crucial supplies and don’t buy anything else. That’s what an uncontrolled pandemic is like. Businesses will not be profitable if consumers are scared to go outside and constantly fearing for their lives.

Social distancing works to stop the pandemic, but only if it’s done correctly and persistently. Epidemiologists (again, people much smarter than you or the orange-haired conman that you helped to besmirch the highest office in the land) are in universal agreement over that. The point is not to imprison people for years until a cure can be found, but to avoid overwhelming the medical system until the exponential growth of the epidemic decreases, and crucial manpower and equipment can be restored. The fact that the lockdown in Wuhan is now being lifted after just three months is evidence that these measures work– but only with commitment, and certainly not if they last only a few weeks.

Let it never be forgotten that the fact that COVID-19 (which you’ve termed the “Kung-Flu” in a fashion befitting your racist views) is so bad is solely the fault of Trump and mindless drones like you that don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. Unless there’s some miraculous change in the next few weeks, lifting the lockdown by Easter would be an incredibly foolhardy idea. Feel free to ignore common sense if you wish, but if you come down with a bad case of viral pneumonia, don’t you dare call the ambulance and make others suffer for your stupidity. Instead, I’d recommend calling Dan Patrick. I’m sure he’ll be very pleased hearing about your sacrifice while perched atop his ivory tower.