Over 600 doctors signed a letter urging President Trump to end the nationwide coronavirus shutdowns and referred to orders issued by states keeping businesses closed as a “mass casualty incident” with devastating consequences.
"We are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of consideration for the future health of our patients," the letter said. "The downstream health effects ... are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude error."
“In medical terms, the shutdown was a mass casualty incident,” the letter continued. "The millions of casualties of a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight, but they will be called alcoholism, homelessness, suicide, heart attack, stroke, or kidney failure. In youths it will be called financial instability, unemployment, despair, drug addiction, unplanned pregnancies, poverty, and abuse.”
One of the doctors named in the letter, Dr. Mark McDonald, told Fox News that the indirect effects of the shutdown outweigh the direct consequences that would follow if the shutdowns were lifted.
"The very initial argument ... which sounded reasonable three months ago, is that in order to limit the overwhelmed patient flux into hospitals that would prevent adequate care, we needed to spread out the infections and thus the deaths in specific locales that could become hot spots, particularly New York City ... It was a valid argument at the beginning based on the models that were given," McDonald said. "What we've seen now over the last three months is that no city — none, zero — outside of New York has even been significantly stressed."
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If this was under a Democrat President, they wouldn't have needed to resort to a hoax like an annual flu and turn it into a pandemic. They would have already placed us under a One World Government.
OH! yes not only one world government socialism and communism will be a live and well.
that's right and that's the reason why the virus is demonic
The agenda of the tyrannical democrtas is to destroy Trump and this country. They don't give a damn about the peple or the conditions that are deteriorating at a violent pace. When the hell are we going to use our power of the people to set things straight? Have we become so sheepish that we won't confront these tyrannical despots? 8 years ago, over 2 million people showed up in DC to protest teh actions of our government. NBo arms were taken, just sheer numbers. There were actually as many protesters as the total armed forces. All we needed to do was walk across the street and go into the capitol buliding and take hold of all of the tratorous congress people and thrwo them into the street, no guns needed. It is time we have another march on DC, no guns, just sheer man/woman power!