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Lol, gfy you credulous tool. Fauci disagrees with Trump and has disagreed with Trump—as all credible experts have—on key issues, right from the outset, because Trump is dangerously ignorant, incompetent and utterly venal. What he wants is for people to ignore Trump and to not put him in a position where the toddler-in-chief will sideline him. God, I always think you couldn't be more pathetic if you tried, and still you keep surprising me.
How is the situation in Aruba? I've not heard anything from there, its unpleasant to be ever marooned anywhere but there are certainly worse places you could be stuck and they might be better off there than in Boston. Hope they're not stuck for long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
Most companies did the right thing, a few acted like idiots faced a humungous backlash (WH Smiths tried the same stunt) and have had to realise they're not essential and close.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steely Glint
Passenger numbers today are down 88% (source: TfL)
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And yeah Dr. Fauci is already trying to walk back that goal.
"I wanted to ask you about something that I've seen transpiring over the past couple of days, especially as it relates to you. It seems like increasingly a bunch of the questions from the media are designed to create a rift between you and Dear Leader. Or at least to sort of emphasize differences of opinion in a way that creates distance between you and Dear Leader. Are you sensing that as the media continuously asks you questions about the differences you have with him?" co-host Ri Chun-hee asked.
"That is really unfortunate," O Chun Bok responded. "I would wish that would stop because we have a much bigger problem here than trying to point out differences. They're really fundamentally at the core when you look at things, they are not differences."
See the whole interview on KCTV.
Well, they managed to get places on a flight out. On April, 1st, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
One unexpected advantage of Covid-19 delaying the Olympics: Now I know there is someone named - and I swear this is true - Dick Pound.
USA is #1!
USA, USA, USA!
Of course it's not. But it's impossible to miss the attitude that certain people should just die, so the economy can get going again. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
You'd think that Trump might have an issue with elderly New Yorkers being sacrificed. Turns out no he's happy to take one for the team :bulb:Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Prince Charles tests positive. God Save the Queen? :bulb:
The spike in New Orleans, LA is disturbing. As are the fundamental Christians laying on hands and "praying away" the virus. Yeah, let's pack churches by Easter. Never mind that even the Pope cancelled Easter Mass.
No, the wealthy won't be sacrificed, elderly or not. They have their own private physicians (and ventilators) and access to testing. But the first responders won't be able to escape the fallout, police and military included, and they'll stress *all* healthcare systems.
I haven't heard much about India, but that scenario could spiral into a nightmare with millions of deaths. :eek:
Things rapidly getting worse in the south while a surprising number of healthcare staff here in the north are just not taking this seriously. Two positive patients admitted to a general internal medicine ward with no particular precautions taken until 24h later because someone decided it was "unlikely" that they'd be positive. Staff going on about how they intend to continue hanging out in crowded gyms and pools because they "believe in washing hands", and their kids with coughs don't need to be isolated at home so they're free to play with ill family members. Everyone's been so focused on ICU beds and PPE, I'm not sure they've sorted out the necessary supply of medications like propofol and fentanyl, stocks of which are going to be drained rapidly even with support from other hospitals (also a concern in NYC), esp. with epidemics spiraling out of control in large parts of the western world. My sister wants to come back home for a spell, being alone wfh in DC is not fun right now, but she doesn't wanna be stuck here or risk infecting our mother.
Yeah, "washing hands" isn't enough. The only thing that will stop the person-to-person spread is strict social-distancing. That means no gyms, or even playing one-on-one basketball. The US Senate shouldn't act like they're immune (see Rand Paul)....and it's disturbing to hear that medical staff in Sweden aren't taking this seriously, either. :eek:
I am not surprised in the least. Two weeks ago, days because we call got splattered by the shit that had been hitting the fan I had an appointment at the municipal health service. They are kind of the front workers when it comes to testing etc. I had to point out to the doctor that we're not shaking hands these days. And when I walked out I overheard a conversation that boiled down to; 'ridiculous over reaction to what's basically a flu'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
It's pretty sad when even medical professionals don't take this pandemic seriously. :(
Over nine thousand dollars to take a test the government won't allow to be processed.
https://www.comicsands.com/walking-d...645575867.html
How are we still this fucked?
The Tale of Two Economies. It's not just a reality TV show based on an old book. :rolleyes:
edit: making matters worse, the US using its power to command & control the production and distribution of life-saving PPE and ventilators (or future vaccinations) for its own use.....leaves the rest of the world at higher risk. We already have states out-bidding one another and driving up costs. Gee, what could go wrong there? :rolleyes:
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What a plonker.
And we have a new winner. Over $900 for the test and almost $35000 for treatment
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US healthcare is a fucking joke
Amen to that, *cough*Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
And it's now a joke to think the US leads the world.
Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Why not try a search to find something else?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/tec...nal-cathedral/
Yes, the source is Popular Mechanics, wiggin. You dismissed that in the Infrastructure thread, too. :bored:
The Very Holy Reverend what's his name has located a stockpile of important personal protection equipment (PPE) stored in church vaults. It's still good to go. Yay for the voluntarily cooperation b/w church and state? Or should we wonder why the government didn't have the same stockpile?
It's pretty crazy that religious groups who want to "pray away" our problems have stocked up on N-95 masks....but now offer their stockpiles to the public. :bulb:
We had planned our vacation in NOLA six months ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Everything was paid for.
The Monday prior to Friday, March 13th, NOLA had 3 cases.
By Friday, 33.
I became hesitant. Others in our party wanted to go. We were not eligible for a refund.
We had until the following Thursday to cancel and lose half our money.
We messaged our host to get a feel for what was going on...
This is why it’s so bad down there now. This all started from Mardi Gras!Quote:
“Crawfish boils and fish fry Friday here today, as if nothing is happening anywhere on the world...very typical for Nola as some of our best tokes and parties are during “hurricane parties”!!“
We, against my better judgement, let the Thursday deadline pass.
Sunday we were notified we were eligible for a full refund.
I continued to watch their numbers grow. Ohio had lower cases than Louisiana and started shutting things down. They started a week later. It’s going to get real bad down there.
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US legislators are actual dumbasses.
It was a Tweet from Trump blaming the "Lamestream media" for damaging the stock market to hurt his re-election prospects.Quote:
Originally Posted by Being
Guessing you got a full refund then at least? I'm assuming you're not traveling?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bitter Jeweler
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Originally Posted by RandBlade
You screwed up when copying the numbers
Correct!Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
I am so relieved.
Not as much as Americans screwed up making this imbecile President ;) :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Yeah, imbecilic... oh, wait, we were talking about the US?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ventilator-row
Also, not joining the EU effort "just because" strikes me as a braindead notion. What would you lose?Quote:
The UK has instead chosen to source ventilators from British manufacturers who have never made the products before, ordering 10,000 machines from the household appliance firm Dyson.
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The head of Direct Access, Steven Mifsud, told the Nantwich News he had sourced 5,000 ventilators and millions of face masks and personal protective equipment through its United Arab Emirates partners. He registered the supply on the “ventilator challenge” page of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy website, but after five days he had heard nothing and the supplies went elsewhere.
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He said his partners in the UAE said they were getting responses from other countries within hours.
Andrew Raynor, of the medical parts manufacturer MEC Medical, told the BBC’s Newsnight that nothing happened when he contacted the government offering to make ventilators.
“The government should have given funding to existing ventilator manufacturers, and existing companies like us,” he said.
Is Sweden actually gonna try to go the herd immunity route? Do they really believe they are able to keep the virus from overwhelming the health care system? Does Sweden really have such a redundancy in the system? Do they really think in the Netherlands people live in multi-generational households?
Jesus Fucking Christ. It's like I hear the 'specialists' from the agencies that advise out government all over again. The people who first were convinced there was no chance the virus would reach us, forgot to stock up on testing material, did nothing to make the health care system more robust and THEN advised against cancelling Carnaval in the south of the country. Now, you guess, which part of the country has hospitals operating on 'black status' and has to send patients to hospitals in other regions to avoid triage of the lethal kind?
Regions that will only have the capacity to recieve patients of course untill the virus has a party there because too many people still think it's kind of a flu that doesn't really threathen them.
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They now say they didn't join because they were too stupid to check their e-mail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
I wonder if Trump realizes that by his fear for the 'economic damage' of covid-19 containment means that he could kill millions of Americans and bring ruin on millions more. A lot of them his supporters. The only person who's going to win the next elections is the candidate who promises universal healthcare and paid sick leave. Socialism in our time so to say.
He's probably looking at it striking New York and thinking it's a blue state problem. He's a narcissist unless it hits him he doesn't care.
Trump Claims U.S. States Don't Need the Amount of Ventilators They're Asking for: 'I Don't Believe You Need 40,000 or 30,000'
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-claim...u-need-1494599
More lewk level gut feeling decision making. No wonder Lewk gravitates towards this asshole so badly.
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Could have swore I touched on this already predicting GameStop was going to use the social distancing closures to shutter stores and layoff staff. Now that they made it through doom and animal farm, that's exactly what they are doing.
https://comicbook.com/gaming/2020/03...-closing-2020/
EDIT: found it!
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Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Well, let's see if BloJo will still be sanguine about the whole thing if his mild symptoms turn into something more problematic.
I don't know what planet you're on Khen. Here in the real world we have been taking this very seriously already. I suspect he's more worried about his pregnant fiancee than his own health but I guess you checked your humanity away a while ago?
I was about to post the Trump denies the need for ventilators story but I see OG beat me to it. What an arse. Meanwhile our government weeks ago asked manufacturers to produce ventilators and we've got thousand more sourced now. As well as Dyson I believe many Formula One manufacturers in this country have been able to repurpose their factories quickly to doing ventilators too.
Yeah, yeah. I'm not really sympathetic to "leaders" who give sweetheart deals to unproven manufacturers even in the time of crisis.
Why don't you ask the existing ventilator manufacturers in your country what they think of the Dyson deal?
Also, the initial response ("just let it rip!") betrayed his true intentions quite nicely.
