My 2 Cents: Surgeon General Warns Of Hardest Week Of Coronavirus (COVID-19)

I was taken aback by Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams’ solemn words when he told Fox News "This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans' lives."

Hyperbole?

He added that it would be our Pearl Harbor or 9/11 moment.

Strange comparison, those two events blindsided our country, we've been warned about the COVID-19 peak for a couple of weeks now.

But the Surgeon General has made a couple of inaccurate comments recently.

In his defense, many experts have, doctors, politicians, statisticians.

Dr. Adams tweeted out a cutesy poem in February saying the risk of getting the coronavirus was low but the risk from the flu is high, then he poo poo'd the idea of wearing masks as effective protection against the virus, now the CDC is recommending them.

All of the experts have been fooled by this virus.

Early on they leaned toward the low threat side.

Now their warnings are dire even though they've been undercut in the last couple of days by revised projections reducing the spread and deadliness of COVID-19.

Their about-face is understandable.

Who's the messenger and what's their motivation?

No public health official wants to be caught with their guard down twice, hence the extreme caution about the horrors to come.

I'm Kelly Ogle and that's My 2 Cents.