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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Bennett compares coronavirus to the flu, claiming that "this was not and is not a pandemic."
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Bobby Lewis @revrrlewis
Fox News contributor Bill Bennett compares coronavirus to the flu, claiming that "this was not and is not a pandemic."
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8:32 AM - Apr 13, 2020
is WRONG with these people???
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Isn't FOX worrying about being sued? This doesn't help matters.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)According to something I read recently, Faux was lawyering up because of what they were broadcasting thru late March, but it appeared that they had changed their tune. Guess not.
Even the normally reserved Brian Stelter was PO'd about it:
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Girard442
(6,075 posts)...the answer is "yes."
MyOwnPeace
(16,928 posts)"Waterboarding is not torture?"
Yet he would never go on TV to prove it.
How about giving Bill Bennett an hour in an ER in NYC - no mask! - then let's wait and see what happens then............
Probably a good chance we wouldn't see him around to correct his bullshit!
tanyev
(42,568 posts)Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)As each week goes by, Fox will have people saying stuff like this to try and get the economy reopened in May.
underpants
(182,829 posts)You moron.
Oz said the schools shouldnt have closed?
Bennett also combines two years of flu deaths that dont include ANY mitigation other than individuals.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Calculated on a 'deaths per day' basis, the fatality rate from covid-19 runs about fifteen times greater than from the worst recent outbreak of a new flu strain.
And of course the ignorant oaf seems to be making a rookie error in understanding what the term 'pandemic' means. It does not mean an illness of devastating lethality, on the order of bubonic plague, so that something must kill an outlandish proportion of a populace to be denoted a pandemic. The term simply means a contageous infection which has spread to every quarter of the globe, and so poses what threat it does to everyone alive, rather than to only persons of a specific region of locale.
Liberal In Texas
(13,556 posts)of a range in estimates. Second we have vaccines for the flu virus. Thirdly the death rate is 30 times the flu death rate.
The flu doesn't overwhelm our hospitals.
Transmission of covid seems to be more easily done than influenza. But we just don't know.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)only one explanaton.
spanone
(135,844 posts)faux just never quits lying to it's idiots
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Come out, come out to play, Bill. Go hang out in the city for a few days. Take a few deep drags of the air around you, touch your face, lick your fingers. You got your flu shot, you're safe.
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)Going full Alex Jones might be the lazy way of doing it, but it works, acting like an idiot gets you on cable news. The Westboro Baptist church made a career out of it for almost a decade.