Bill Bennett compares coronavirus to the flu, claiming that "this was not and is not a pandemic."

[Dennis Donovan]

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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]

1. I thought we were past this, but the flu narrative.🙄

Isn't FOX worrying about being sued? This doesn't help matters.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. It's maddening and irresponsible

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]

2. If the question is, "stupid, evil, or crazy?"...

...the answer is "yes."

[MyOwnPeace]

3. And which "Faux Spews" guy was it that said

"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]

5. Looks like he chose not to go into the studio to make that claim, though.

[Windy City Charlie]

6. Pushing the narrative

As each week goes by, Fox will have people saying stuff like this to try and get the economy reopened in May.

[underpants]

7. 1. Dr. F'ING Oz is their medical guy. 2. The "panic" is what is keeping the numbers down

You moron.

Oz said the schools shouldn’t have closed?

Bennett also combines two years of flu deaths that don’t include ANY mitigation other than individuals.

[The Magistrate]

8. The Numbers Are Laid Out Well Here, Sir

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213275777

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]

9. They love to say the flu deaths were 61K...like it's just the same...first of all that's the top end

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]

13. Deaths are being undercounted. When excess mortalitity figures are compiled, there is only one expla

only one explanaton.

[spanone]

10. Did they dig him up to regurgitate this tired old bullshit?

faux just never quits lying to it's idiots

[Mr. Ected]

11. Spoken from the comfort of his own quarantine

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]

12. "And your medical qualifications are ?" The Medical School of Life ?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. And this idiot used to be Secretary of Education

[MFGsunny]

15. When the "educated" are the poster children for THE incurable STUPID. n/t

[Snake Plissken]

16. Well how else was he supposed to get on TV?

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.