You're the one who mentioned TrumpOriginally Posted by Lewkowski
. You tried to twist my statement into an anti-Trump comment, then you cry foul because no one bit? Despite months of my postings in this thread talking about how Trump knew about the threat as far back as Feb/Mar and not caring to do anything about it because his team thought it would only decimate the inner cities. A position you parroted and defended until Texas and the Dakotas exploded.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
This whole "not caring to do anything" bit is silly. Closed borders to China and was attacked by the left for it. Put together a task force, helped push funding for research/distribution of PPE/vents, Operation Warp Speed, sent hospital ship to NY (turns out not needed but the effort was there).You're the one who mentioned Trump
To hightlight your ignorance, this program didn't go active until May 15, even though we have reports that Trump ignored covid briefings as early as Jan.
and didn't you defend the federal's inaction on ppe funding? its not states money after all
Pence leading the taskforce let everyone know from the beginning he didn't take this thing seriously considering pence's previous outbreak disasters.
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"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Turns out I was half right. It's quite possible that Britain has a somewhat more contagious strain of Covid. But it's equally likely that so does most of the West. Britain is just better at identifying new strains.
Hope is the denial of reality
That's a far more accurate statement. There are other places that also have ok surveillance, but I would bet good money that the horses have definitely left the barn and this strain is widespread.
"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." - Werner Heisenberg (maybe)
What goalposts did I move?
How many Americans got into America from China after the borders closed?
If Trump cared about the virus and Americans, why did he hold superspreader rally events?
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
Agreed. Just because it was identified here doesn't mean it is only here. It is remarkable how few countries are monitoring strains.
Scary seeing some of the numbers all over the place. Just under a thousand died yesterday in Germany, that had managed to do ok in the first wave. Quite plausible that Supercovid is already spreading there and behind the surge in deaths - and if it isn't then scary what could happen when it does get there and everywhere else.
Spokesman for DeSantis and dude with "my head is stuck up my ass" resting face says this, deletes his twitter account due to the understandable and entirely appropriate backlash.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
British Airways flew 33 passengers to Stockholm despite the flight ban. Authorities were aware the plane would arrive, but not that it would be carrying passengers. All were permitted to enter (4 went on to Helsinki). None were tested. No contact info was taken. According to some sources, no information was given to the passengers wrt the concerns about the new lineage that had led to the flight ban—because there were posters at the airport encouraging people to visit some website for general covid info; according another source, the passengers may have met with a physician and encouraged to quarantine themselves. I suspect that, if a physician was involved, the assessments and info may nevertheless have been inadequate, given how the whole mess has been described. Our authorities considered this situation to be an unmanageable logistic problem.
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"I can't wear a mask because of health issues and you can't ask me to because of the law but I don't need to wear a mask because I'm healthy I'M FINE LOOK AT ME"
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How come they were not sent back?
Congratulations America
This is the pathetic, shit-eating face of modern American conservatism:
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No legal basis atm for refusing Swedish citizens entry to Sweden—they basically have an absolute right to enter. Though there is a passenger flight ban from the UK, the ban itself does not amount to a ban on individuals entering Sweden (so people can freely enter by transiting through other countries, whether by air or by car/train). But, of course, that shouldn't have stopped authorities from eg. asking people to get tested at the airport, or taking down relevant contact info in order to ensure adequate follow-up with testing done upon arrival at their ultimate destination. Most of these people likely did not even wear masks on the way to those destinations.
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Stockholm Syndrome.
So, the idea is that the American public doesn't need to be told so in order to do the right thing.. and therefore they ste refusing to do the right thing, out of principle? Am I missing something here?
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Meanwhile, the Swedish minister of justice—who has been quite vocal about the whole personal responsibility thing during the pandemic—was seen at a mall during the Boxing Day sale, trying to get a belated Christmas gift for an elderly relative.
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"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Catching up on the Ioannidis saga and it's just sad. One of the most well-regarded scientists in the world promulgating whiny covidiot takes. In other news, an unfortunate systematic review in JAMA, of studies looking at household secondary attack rate, is being used to argue that presymptomatic transmission is practically non-existent. Practically none of the included studies even attempt to distinguish between transmission in the presymptomatic vs. symptomatic stages—which is understandable, because it is very difficult in general, and nigh impossible when looking specifically at household transmission—and the largest study that does attempt to distinguish between those modes of transmission shows, consistent with modeling-focused studies, that risk of presymptomatic transmission is not much lower than risk of transmission in the symptomatic stage. This has certainly been a banner year for science—both good and bad.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Rubio is a hypocrite -- especially about the "elite bubble" -- but he's talking to Trump's base that's anti-science, anti-government, anti-vaccine, etc. and believes in conspiracy theories. A majority of Republicans surveyed don't think covid-19 is really a big deal, but over-exaggerated or manipulated data, or even a "hoax" perpetrated by the radical left or Deep State.
I ran into a man in the grocery store not wearing a mask so I asked him nicely, "Where's your mask?". He said, "I don't believe in them". Yeah, we've got a lot of that going on here.
But Republicans wanted business "liability protections" (immunity from law suits) written into Covid relief legislation. That's partly what made congressional 'negotiations' so slow and difficult.
Republicans also want to keep that same type of blanket immunity for Police (who shoot and kill unarmed black men), but want to get rid of any 1st Amendment/Free Press protections for Social Media outlets (that perpetuate disinformation and Fake News).
Do we have too many lawyers who become politicians, or that too many politicians are lawyers?
A) that legislation hadn't passed yet at the time of exposure. B) they aren't a business. They are, in fact, the customer(s). Wouldn't apply to them anyway.But Republicans wanted business "liability protections" (immunity from law suits) written into Covid relief legislation. That's partly what made congressional 'negotiations' so slow and difficult.
Republicans also want to keep that same type of blanket immunity for Police (who shoot and kill unarmed black men), but want to get rid of any 1st Amendment/Free Press protections for Social Media outlets (that perpetuate disinformation and Fake News).
Do we have too many lawyers who become politicians, or that too many politicians are lawyers?
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
Thanks Fuzzy, but you skipped over my question about lawyers as legislators. In the big scheme of things, I have a hunch we have so much polarization in the US --- because we have too many lawyers that can bring law suits willy-nilly. Like Sidney Powell or Giuliani or Gohmert who can turn the judicial system into a circus, and/or elected officials like McConnell or Paul or Rubio who enable them.
Seems to me the ABA is as absent as the GOP; not condemning or removing the crazy conspiracy theorists from their ranks, but enabling the kooks who thrive on challenges without merit.
We have a highly infectious pandemic that's been political at every level, and our political process has failed, no thanks to lawyer-legislators. Sorry for rambling on....I know you hate that...but it's just ridiculous that our legal system keeps giving credence to quack lawyers.
Meanwhile, the Netherlands will be the last European country to start vaccinations. It is because they started planning much too later, assumed it'd be similar to flu vaccinations and had to change plans late when they found that out (note that all info was available on time). Of course the responsible minister pretends like this is okay and everything is on track and the whole thing wasn't mishandled.
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JvD has been taking his talking points straight outta the Swedish playbook. Sad but not surprising that those who have relied on his advice are making mistakes.
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Huh, really? I haven't been blown away by US preparation or ramp up, but most of my network in patient care settings has already received their first dose, and now I'm already seeing people getting vaccinated who work in long term care facilities and patient-adjacent healthcare roles. It's not like we didn't have a reasonable idea of the scale of the logistical challenge back in the summer...
I'm pretty shocked at the variable rate of vaccination in the rich world, ranging from nil to over 5% of the population in Israel (they're targeting a vaccination rate of 150k a day(!), which as a percentage of population is higher than the cumulative total of any country other than Bahrain). Obviously as we get to harder to vaccinate populations rates should slow down, but right now it's a clearly defined and easy to corral population - logistics should simply not be a problem.
"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." - Werner Heisenberg (maybe)
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An MP. Ffs.
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They started planning early, but based on incorrect assumptions that they corrected far too late. What annoys me more is that, as with being late on ramping up testing capacity earlier this yerlar, the people responsible are not taking the responsibility but somehow try to pretend that this approach is actually better.
Thr newspaper did a reconstruction on how they fucked this up, and it's really almost exact copy of the delay with the test capacity, looks like zero lessons were learned. At least the first time you can plead ignorance, but as you say, it's not like there wasn't time to prepare.
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Cockney Covid has been found going back through the records of a German who died in Germany. He would have caught the bug in November.
I still suspect that Cockney Covid is all over Europe already. The case numbers in places like Germany simply make more sense if it is.
Its been confirmed in the US too, Colorado of all places, so you know that shit is all over the US by now.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nated-n1252486
Operation Warp Speed at a crawl: Adequately vaccinating Americans will take 10 years at current pace
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
I just saw, was about to post it here. An individual with no travel history either so was caught locally.
It (or similar) almost certainly is everywhere or will be soon. Vicious bugger of a strain from what was already a vicious disease.
Could be worse. In the first three days of vaccinations the French managed to vaccinate a grand total of 100 people. Not a typo.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...08d0452b087484
Very concerning considering unless their distribution is different there's 970 doses of vaccine in a box and once defrosted it is use it or lose it within 3.5 days.
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