Ron Johnson: Getting The Coronavirus Is Not A Death Sentence, Except For Those Who Die

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Source: Crooks and Liars




3/18/20 4:34pm
The real quote is not any better: "getting coronavirus is not a death sentence except for maybe no more than 3.4% of our population."



Perhaps the dumbest man in the U.S. Senate really outdid himself with some comments he made today to his hometown newspaper. As others were quick to point out, 3.4% of the population is 11 million dead Americans.

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Republican Ron Johnson of Wisconsin raised some eyebrows last week when he was quoted in The New York Times suggesting the media was devoting too little attention to the high rate of survival among people with coronavirus.

“Right now, all people are hearing about are the deaths. I’m sure the deaths are horrific, but the flip side of this is the vast majority of people who get coronavirus do survive,” said Johnson, chairman of the Senate's Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Johnson did not shy away from that kind of calculus in an interview with me Tuesday.

“I’m not denying what a nasty disease COVID-19 can be, and how it’s obviously devastating to somewhere between 1 and 3.4 percent of the population,” he said.

“But that means 97 to 99 percent will get through this and develop immunities and will be able to move beyond this. But we don’t shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways. It’s a risk we accept so we can move about. We don’t shut down our economies because tens of thousands of people die from the common flu,” Johnson said.
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Ron Johnson is a creep. He was ? is known as sun spots-he believes climate change was due to sun flares/spots. Don't ask me to explain as I do not know what he means.

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[RhodeIslandOne]

1. This has always been the right's endgame

Who knew Darwin really was their god?

[madaboutharry]

2. He is a deeply stupid man.

Shallow, dumb, and no critical thinking skills are just a few of his characteristics.

[machoneman]

5. ...Just like Trump!

[joshdawg]

26. trump, gohmert, and now johnson.

republican stupidity never ends!

[Scarsdale]

27. Fortunately for him

his father in law financed his run for office. Must have been something in it for daddy in law. When is he up for re-election, and will the gop in Wi. protect him once again? Gop = Goofy Old Pricks.

[iluvtennis]

3. Fkn a-hole. What is the 3.x% who dies is your family member or friend. Jerk. nt

[3catwoman3]

4. Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Wisconsin. You could have had...

...Russ Feingold back, but you re-elected this flaming jackass.

[scarletwoman]

13. Think: voter suppression. Scott Walker & the repug legislature really did a number.

I remember reading somewhere that thousands of voters were kept from the polls in that election.

[3catwoman3]

14. Oh, I know. We live just over the border in northern Illinois.

Wisconsin seems to specialize in finding just the right number of votes in the trunks of cars or other odd places, right at the last minute.

Scott Walker is a real prick.

[scarletwoman]

17. I'm next door in Minnesota. At least WI finally got a Dem governor, but they still have a long way

to go to undo all the damage from the Walker years.

[Scarsdale]

28. A democratic governor,

who has his hands tied by the gop. They changed rules to reduce the governor's power. Walker is stupid, too. Typical of the gop, pick the dumbest in the bunch, then promote the hell out of him. What anyone saw in Walker, or this fool is beyond me. I live on the border between Wi. and Il. Thank goodness, we have a SANE democratic governor now.

[Coventina]

6. I hope he gets it and gets really, really sick.

[Dem2theMax]

19. This sick.

[totodeinhere]

7. I just don't understand how he defeated Russ Feingold twice.

How dumb can the voters of Wisconsin be.

[rockfordfile]

9. Russia has messing with Wisconsin. Look up the republican gov and Russia

[totodeinhere]

10. You mean Scott Walker? He lost and they have a Democratic governor now. n/t

[3catwoman3]

21. And on his way out the door, Walker and his buddies...

...did everything they could to diminish the powers of the office of governor.

They most certainly do have a very long way to go.

[Progressive Jones]

16. I spend a lot of time there. Visiting family, etc. The righties up there

keep lunging further to the right. It's hard to understand.
Most of my family there are Center-Left. The others keep moving closer to
the fringe all the time. A huge issue with them is firearms.
They don't understand that nobody wants to take their deer rifles.

[UpInArms]

8. Missouri has tested 217 people ... has 23 confirmed cases

And has reported its first death ...

I know this looks like a small sample ...

There is no way to know how many will die from the foot dragging

What I do know is that this was no accident ... this was a calculated failure of government

40 years of trying to drown it in a bathtub

[area51]

11. And this is part of the reason why we don't have healthcare as a human right in this country.

Ron Johnson: "So what if some people die?"

[Stuart G]

12. Johnson ain't up for reelection till 2022. (lost in 2016) He thinks he can say what he wants,

and he will be reelected. 2022 is a long ways away.

[apnu]

15. 3.4% of the population? We can do that math. Its 11,118,000 people dead.

US Population: 327,000,000 (in 2018) thus...

3.4% of 327,000,000 = 0.034 × 327,000,000 = 11,118,000 people.

Ron Johnson folks, doesn't care if 11 million people die in the US.

[Traildogbob]

18. Pro life at its finest.

What if a Pregnant woman gets the virus and it will kill the fetus? Maybe he would stand up for the child?

[TygrBright]

20. Wisconsin's long and storied tradition of great Senate representation... wow... n/t

[AllyCat]

22. I really despise this man.

[truthisfreedom]

23. Jesus, what a lamebrain. 3.4% of the population, if we all get sick, is staggering. Death sentence?

It's a death sentence for someone vulnerable if you spread it to them unknowingly during the invisible 2-14 day (or up to 24) day incubation period when you're totally contagious. And it's not a good way to die, drowning in your own juices. It's seriously horrible.

This guy minimizing the danger is the last thing we need. But we can only hope that 45's base and the general repuke base listen to these kinds of repuke lamebrains and go party like it's 1999, sucking up every bit of sneeze mist.

[RealityChik]

24. Remember...ya can't fix stupid!

He was born that way. No hope for the whole lot of 'um!

[Kablooie]

25. Yeah, 3.4% That's only 11 million people. Not that bad.

[Scarsdale]

29. Poor Ron.

He can not help being STUPID. He left out the last part "I hope that 3.4% are all democrats" After all, the repubs. he associates with are too "smart" to get sick - right??

[Lucky Luciano]

30. He did the math on the social security that won't need to be paid and he got a hard on.

[Marthe48]

31. what do his base have against smart people?

My God in Heaven, does he even have the ability to hear what he's saying? What a sorry excuse for a human.

[Mickju]

32. A real idiot

And there are so many more in his party.