Ron Johnson: Getting The Coronavirus Is Not A Death Sentence, Except For Those Who Die
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. Im 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.
Im not denying what a nasty disease COVID-19 can be, and how its 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 dont shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways. Its a risk we accept so we can move about. We dont 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
(5,042 posts)Who knew Darwin really was their god?
madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)Shallow, dumb, and no critical thinking skills are just a few of his characteristics.
machoneman
(4,010 posts)joshdawg
(2,651 posts)republican stupidity never ends!
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)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
(19,871 posts)3catwoman3
(24,041 posts)...Russ Feingold back, but you re-elected this flaming jackass.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)I remember reading somewhere that thousands of voters were kept from the polls in that election.
3catwoman3
(24,041 posts)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
(31,893 posts)to go to undo all the damage from the Walker years.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)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
(27,172 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,653 posts)totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)How dumb can the voters of Wisconsin be.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)3catwoman3
(24,041 posts)...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
(6,011 posts)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
(51,284 posts)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
(11,920 posts)Ron Johnson: "So what if some people die?"
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)and he will be reelected. 2022 is a long ways away.
apnu
(8,758 posts)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
(8,797 posts)What if a Pregnant woman gets the virus and it will kill the fetus? Maybe he would stand up for the child?
TygrBright
(20,763 posts)AllyCat
(16,222 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,155 posts)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
(382 posts)He was born that way. No hope for the whole lot of 'um!
Kablooie
(18,641 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)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
(11,258 posts)Marthe48
(17,018 posts)My God in Heaven, does he even have the ability to hear what he's saying? What a sorry excuse for a human.
Mickju
(1,805 posts)And there are so many more in his party.