Bill Bennett crawls out from under a rock and declares, "This is not a pandemic!"

[yellowcanine]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/this-is-not-a-pandemic-fox-news-guest-compares-covid-19-to-flu-even-after-22k-die-in-one-month/?utm_source=push_notifications

Conservative Bill Bennett told “Fox & Friends” on Monday that the coronavirus isn’t any worse than the seasonal flu, even though the disease has killed more than 22,000 Americans over the span of just one month.

During the segment, Bennett said that losing 60,000 Americans to COVID-19, which the University of Washington’s model projects will happen even if the United States continues to implement social distancing restrictions, would be akin to a very bad flu season.

What Bennett failed to mention, however, is that this projected death toll would have been an order of magnitude higher if the U.S. hadn’t placed any restrictions on social gatherings.

The conservative commentator then tore into everyone who said that COVID-19 should be taken seriously.

STFU, Bill. Don't you have some new rich people virtues to discover, or something?

[mikeargo]

1. I thought he was dead

[HarlanPepper]

4. They all live well into their 90s unfortunately

[Wounded Bear]

16. "Only the good die young..."

but assholes apparently live forever.

[walkingman]

2. Maybe the Fox listeners will heed these morons and self-destruct. Problem is they will

put us all at risk. Just hope the zombies stay away from us.

[FarPoint]

3. I sense...

This is what will have to happen to wake them up...most unfortunate.

[liberalmuse]

5. Satan really doesn't want him, does he?

And just when I’d completely forgotten about this lying blowhard, there he is. I think we’re the ones actually in hell.

[JHB]

6. He's just ticked that all the Vegas casinos are closed down

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. K and R for the STFU part

[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.

[hatrack]

9. Huh. The Bookie Of Virtues is . . . apparently alive

Who knew?

[Alacritous Crier]

10. They won't be satisfied...

until they've killed us all.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. Wow. The last time I saw Bennett was on like CNN in 2008.

Maybe he comes out every time a Democrat is poised to win big. I'm okay with that.

[2naSalit]

12. Yikes.

[dawg day]

13. And people still get the flu.

It's not like these are replacement deaths. These are deaths that wouldn't have happened.

Never fails to amaze how far GOPers will go to insist that Trump isn't dangerous. Now it's another 60k deaths,
Big deal.

[Mariana]

22. Actually, because of the social distancing, handwashing, masks, etc.

flu infections have dropped off drastically, much faster than they usually do at the end of flu season.

[scrabblequeen40]

14. c'mon karma, go get 'em! eom

[malaise]

15. What exactly is his area of expertise? n/t

[Wounded Bear]

17. Bullshit...like most Repubs, he's good at spewing bullshit...nt

[malaise]

18. I thought so

[gibraltar72]

19. Degenerate gambler Bill Bennett.

[lettucebe]

20. They fail to realize seasonal flu deaths are based on annual totals -- We have 22,000+ deaths in two

months? And they are the same? Insanity reins supreme with these nutjobs

[Mariana]

21. Bill Bennett should consult a dictionary. nt.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

23. He's really behind the curve on this

isn't he?