Russian bio-terrorists now have a perfect blueprint for how to destroy this country.
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We need to seriously streamline our regulatory oversight of the development and production of all the tools we need to fight a pandemic. Our response to the coronavirus has been severely by too much red tape.
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I’m as bummed as anyone, especially about losing sports.
But read about the Italian health care system right now and get back to us.
That’s here, in 10 days or so, unless we act.
Hence, my point
We essentially have no surge capability in our hospitals. We have no stockpiles of crucial medical items, like masks, ventilators and IV bags.
Listen to the experts - the epidemiologists - not the internet crockpots.
to the point that doctors are literally having to make decisions about who lives and dies due to resource availability.
Are you suggesting we have enough health care infrastructure in this country to deal with 1% of our country being sick? We don't. People that could survive this will die due to lack of ventilators if we don't slow the growth.
Just as an example, at least 10X more people will die of opioid overdoses today, which is a problem largely born out of the healthcare industry. And this epidemic has been going on for decades. Corona will come and go and people will barely remember it like the swine flu a decade ago and whatever the next one is. In the grand scheme there are more solvable problems that would save many more lives.
Opioid deaths don't double every 4 days. Exponential growth is the issue, and that is not statistically insignificant. Some countries have figured out how to contain it. Others (including the US) haven't.
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If we were testing and quarantining like Japan then that would be the relevant comparison.
The data indicates there are two types of countries: those like Italy, Iran and the US where this is spreading exponentially
And countries like Japan, Singapore, and (now) China where the growth is linear or stagnant.
And the layers of bureaucracy along with hyper-partisan division in our government and society prevent it.
The Opioid epidemic is 27Xs the problem here as in Italy, it's been a problem for decades, no one cares. Individual politicians have raised the issue and it always falls on deaf ears due to some other overly-dramatized current event. And again, this is just an example.
The first step is Trump declaring an emergency (hopefully he will today). Then there is nearly unlimited resources to deal with this.
Due to the social media driven panic, schools cancel classes for a month across the country, prompting daycares to also close down, parents now have to take FMLA to take care of their children with no other options available. Think about the economic impact that will have. Especially since most Americans are already overly financially leveraged and don't have an emergency fund to handle such. All this for a virus that really isn't that scary, especially for the young and healthy.
Single mom, she's going to struggle a bit, but she is lucky that her parents are probably going to be able to help her out a little bit if needed.
Some will not be so lucky.
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I think I can still blame China for that.
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Social media is a primary cause for the anti-vaxxer movement. Again, it's a menace.
Anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers doubt he experts.
Epidemiologists are the experts here. Lots of trump supporters doubt them. Thanks, Mr. President.
Trump and many of our other societal issues are phenomena only possible because of the social media platforms. Ya know, the platforms that elevate internet dopes and virally propogate disinformation. Fake news travels at the speed of light and feeds the confirmation bias beast. This is not good for human societies especially in times such as this.
But the policies we are enacting are not the result of twitter - they are right out of the public-health playbook.
The reason that local school administrators would not follow this advice is a direct result of social media driven panic.
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The panic epidemic means that the average person has no access to things like hand sanitizer, anti-bacterial wipes, toilet paper, etc. The panic could be a major contributing factor to the pandemic becoming a localized epidemic. Twitter and other social media contributes to the panic.
checked. That’s not MSM or Drudge which has also been playing this up. Those are his experts.
You are okay with that risk to avoid your “overreaction”, because most will be older or sicker already?
Typical.
There are zero cases in my area. My girl has been hearing all the problems and decided that we should go toilet paper, paper towels, Clorox wipes, hand sanitizer, or rubbing alcohol to make our own if we need to.
Went to Kroger, all that shit is sold out.
Again, we have ZERO cases in my area.
I'm waiting for the first person to be infected and everything will shut down here. It's ridiculous.
The president’s reaction to this is causing more harm. Look at his tweet storm this morning: attacking the cdc, Obama and Biden.
America has to get through this with a misinformation fountain in the White House.
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The engineer in me loves the mechanical beauty of the design of a high quality revolver or especially the semi and full automatics. Beyond that the ballistics tuning and pursuit of accuracy and terminal performance are also fascinating concepts. I do cartridge reloading as a hobby, wish I had more time to dedicate to it.
The gun problem is a human problem, I like guns, I don't like all people with guns.
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