mo4ch:>‘We scared the hell out of the American people’ over ‘flu’ says Fox News guest | Mo4ch News
Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett has been savaged online for suggesting that the coronavirus is “not a pandemic” and calling for the lifting of lockdown measures, as the debate rages over reopening the shuttered US economy.More than half a million Americans have caught the coronavirus, with just over 22,000 passing away. While the numbers are dire, the University of Washington’s forecasters revised their total predicted Covid-19 deaths down to 60,000 last week, a number comparable to deaths from Influenza in 2017-2018, and significantly lower than the six-figure death toll floated by President Donald Trump’s top medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, last month. “For this, we scared the hell out of the American people, we lost 17 million jobs, we put a major dent in the economy, we closed down the schools...shut down the churches,” Bennett said on Monday’s edition of Fox and Friends. “You know, this was not, and is not a pandemic. But we do have panic and pandemonium as a result o…