Glenn Beck joins Angela Merkel (who said 70% of Germans would get C19 - Gee, I wonder why The Potus cancelled European flights?) the NP, Brian Williams, Biden, the NYT and countless "experts" in failing at Math. Today the Doomster (he still sells Gold and Food Can Packs for the Apocalypse) declared that "We're all going to get it." Well, it just put its ugliest foot forward in China and they have about 100000 cases out of 1 billion plus people, out of 15 million Wuhaner's. It's death rate has been 3% at worst, infection .01%.
If the death rate is really 1 %, then Beck would be predicting effectively (affectively?) that 3 million Americans will die from this! Less than 4000 have died from this worldwide. I understand that maybe the idea is to prepare us mentally for the worst case scenario Ben Franklin style. But, when the facts get in the way, how about thinking before you talk for a change? How about NOT making people feel and think worse than they are when you hold in your hands the responsibility of such an enormous megaphone as a nationally syndicated radio show? Oh and BTW, get some remedial math studies done.
Beck suggested, no doubt, jokingly in the same bizarre riff that there would be zombies after this is over. Well, if Glenn Beck and the others who needlessly and recklessly stir the flame of panic over this relatively un-deadly virus outbreak were zombies, they'd only eat their own or each other's brains. Then Heroic zombie-fighters would not have to kill them because they'd just starve to death.
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