Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Thu 05/29/2025 View Wed 05/28/2025 View Tue 05/27/2025 View Mon 05/26/2025 View Sun 05/25/2025 View Sat 05/24/2025 View Fri 05/23/2025
2020-03-15 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Ohio Official Who Claimed 100,000 Covid-19 Cases in the State Says She Was 'Guesstimating'
[PJMEDIA] The director of Ohio's Department of Health, Amy Acton, shocked a lot of people on Thursday when she said in a presser that she believed 100,000 Ohioans had already contracted Covid-19.

The Hill:

"We know now, just the fact of community spread, says that at least 1 percent, at the very least, 1 percent of our population is carrying this virus in Ohio today," Acton said. "We have 11.7 million people. So the math is over 100,000. So that just gives you a sense of how this virus spreads and is spreading quickly."

The Columbus Dispatch offered effusive praise of Acton for being a "voice of knowledge."

Amid the increasing fear and confusion of the coronavirus
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
 pandemic, a voice of knowledge reassures Ohioans every day.

At daily live-streamed press briefings, Dr. Amy Acton follows Gov. Mike DeWine’s announcement of orders and restrictions with calm explanations of outbreaks and community spread.

Speaking candidly but calmly, the director of the Ohio Department of Health translates complex medical theory to plain English, then immediately lets her humanity shine through.

"We all, myself included, need to learn to live through something we’ve never dealt with before," she said at Thursday’s briefing.

What an incredible human being, to let her humanity "shine through" like that. Brings a tear to my eye, it does.

But Director Acton forgot to mention a small detail about her Apocalypse Now statement; it wasn't true.

The Hill:

The director of Ohio's Department of Health said Friday her statement the previous day that 100,000 people in the state currently have coronavirus was based on "guesstimating," casting doubt on the high number.

"I am not saying there are absolutely for certain 100,000 people, I'm saying I'm guesstimating," the director, Dr. Amy Acton, said at a news conference.
Posted by Fred 2020-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Tar+feathers+Ronson
Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-03-15 00:31||   2020-03-15 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Shitshow, Ohio version
Posted by Lex 2020-03-15 01:43||   2020-03-15 01:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Given the way it spreads, her mistake was saying it mic.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-03-15 02:36||   2020-03-15 02:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Cleveland school district alumnus?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-15 05:32||   2020-03-15 05:32|| Front Page Top

#5 We only had 576 cases in a city of 30 million, a bit more crowded than Ohio. I'm happy to say that today there are no known cases in Chongqing, China. 0. We had 576 here. 6 died, 570 recovered. So, I think she is overestimating a bit ...
Posted by Beau 2020-03-15 05:54||   2020-03-15 05:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Idiot Gov. Dewine shut down the state. He will be coming after guns next.
Posted by Thimp Clusort2035 2020-03-15 08:11||   2020-03-15 08:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Thanks, Beau. That's good news.

When we look back on this we will see that this crisis was almost entirely due to

1) China's lies and brutally incompetent state efforts to kill the messenger in the early days of the crisis;

2) the PC refusal of non-Western states (US under Trump admin excepted) to shut down travel from China and infected regions as the contagion began to gather steam globally;

3) the combination of medical incompetence, an aging population and high lung/respiratory vulnerability in Iran and Italy.

It will be seen that these three factors - none of them in any way specific to this virus and all of them reflective of social or political failures - caused unnecessary death and panic.

And that it was the Trump administration, along with South Korea, that showed the greatest skill, competence, and compassionate effectiveness in minimizing the damage done by what was never worse than a case of the winter flu.

"Pandemic" - pshaw. "Dem Panic" is more apt.
Posted by Lex 2020-03-15 08:21||   2020-03-15 08:21|| Front Page Top

#8 * the PC refusal of states outside the US, Taiwan, SKorea and a few others to shut down travel from China ...
Posted by Lex 2020-03-15 08:23||   2020-03-15 08:23|| Front Page Top

#9 "Democolypse" rolls off the tongue a little better :-)

You odds-maker types, what are the chances Pelosi, Sanders, Biden, Ginsberg, and Feinstein all perish from non-Clinton related old age before the election? Just asking for a friend who wants to buy some stock.
Posted by Beau 2020-03-15 08:41||   2020-03-15 08:41|| Front Page Top

#10 The Cincinnati Enquirer is painting her in a rather saintly light:

Ohio Department of Health director Dr. Amy Acton is calming leader in coronavirus crisis
Posted by Raj 2020-03-15 08:42||   2020-03-15 08:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Dewine is bad news. Glad he's not a senator anymore. With any luck he will retire.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-15 08:51||   2020-03-15 08:51|| Front Page Top

#12 I read her name as Dr. Amy Action. What a great name that would be for a pron star.

Dr. Amy Acton is a DeWine appointment. DeWine is a Pub. I wonder if he is a Never-Trumper.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-03-15 10:42||   2020-03-15 10:42|| Front Page Top

#13 do they ever retire?
Posted by Chris 2020-03-15 10:43||   2020-03-15 10:43|| Front Page Top

#14 Dewine does not appear publicly with Trump. Guess that says a lot.
He has raised taxes, requested to settle more illegals, supports red flag laws. Issues he did not campaign on.
Rumor from his supporters is, he will run for reelection and serve a short time, upon retirement he will hand over his office Husted or Yost.
Posted by Thimp Clusort2035 2020-03-15 10:54||   2020-03-15 10:54|| Front Page Top

#15 But she DID get her name splashed all over the front pages, which was probably her goal in the first place.
Posted by Tom 2020-03-15 11:58||   2020-03-15 11:58|| Front Page Top

#16 We had 576 here. 6 died,

About a 1% fatality rate, which seems to be going value as we start to get some real data.
Posted by SteveS 2020-03-15 13:30||   2020-03-15 13:30|| Front Page Top

#17  Dewine is bad news. Glad he's not a senator anymore. With any luck he will retire.

You go to the election with the candidates you have. The alternative was the Democrat, who was completely unacceptable.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-15 14:14||   2020-03-15 14:14|| Front Page Top

#18 Ohio bars and restaurants are shut down @ 9 tonight for dine-in; to-go only, by the guv.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2020-03-15 17:13||   2020-03-15 17:13|| Front Page Top

#19 Heard PeeAye state stores will close. Here comes Prohibition II, with all that entails.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-15 17:34||   2020-03-15 17:34|| Front Page Top

#20 Do the lock down now, nationally. Every day counts.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-03-15 17:37||   2020-03-15 17:37|| Front Page Top

#21 Check out the "Whack-a-Do" interpreter for the hearing impaired at video right. Facial expressions are something to behold...:



Almost enough to make me want to set up a fifth of Jack, a revolver and one bullet.
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-03-15 17:46||   2020-03-15 17:46|| Front Page Top

#22 People I know who sign generally have impassive faces for the most part. I'd imagine lots of deaf people think "WTF?" when they see something like this.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-15 18:23||   2020-03-15 18:23|| Front Page Top

#23 JB the Hut has shut down all dine in restaurants and bars as of Monday in Illinois.
Posted by illeagle  2020-03-15 19:19||   2020-03-15 19:19|| Front Page Top

#24 WA state has shut down all dine in restaurants, bars and limited gatherings to 50 people effective tomorrow morning throughout the state, but King County (Seattle) is doing that immediately.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2020-03-15 23:03||   2020-03-15 23:03|| Front Page Top

#25 Madness.
F---ing insane.
Posted by Lex 2020-03-15 23:29||   2020-03-15 23:29|| Front Page Top

21:10 newc
20:17 SteveS
18:44 magpie
18:33 Frank G
18:33 badanov
18:26 Hellfish
18:23 Hellfish
17:40 swksvolFF
17:34 Ebbuger Whuque4103
17:30 Ebbuger Whuque4103
17:02 Melancholic
16:27 Gravilet Snanter4154
16:20 Chaise Speaking for Boskone7897
16:02 Skidmark
16:01 Skidmark
15:46 Skidmark
15:41 Skidmark
15:37 swksvolFF
15:36 Skidmark
15:34 Skidmark
15:27 Skidmark
14:48 NoMoreBS
14:31 NoMoreBS
14:16 NoMoreBS









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com