nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

[The Sicatoka]

Re: nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

Pays though to have as many infections as possible

Fear sells.

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

I'm going to have to change my standard malady* to MadAsianSwineCowSARSMonkeyEbolaBirdPox-19.


*It's what I tell people I have when I stay home sick.

[Kepler]

Re: nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

Pays though to have as many infections as possible

Harvard's selectivity metric is based on this.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

Fear sells.

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

I'm going to have to change my standard malady* to MadAsianSwineCowMonkeyEbolaBirdPox-19.


*It's what I tell people I have when I stay home sick.

You'd have less fear and panic if two things had happened.

1. Trump had left the infrastructure in place that Obama had created for dealing with pandemics.
2. Trump had kept his ****ing mouth shut and let the CDC handle the messaging.

Since both of these were ****ed up you have more panic and fear everywhere.

[Kepler]

Re: nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

Cool. Now we're living in Planet of the Apes.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...tdsSvH9Q5vBtAk

As the federal response to the coronavirus outbreak continues to take shape, among the most important recent reports on the issue is this Foreign Policy piece from a month ago, which said the United States "has never been less prepared for a pandemic."

Of particular interest was the article shining a light on Donald Trump's May 2018 decision to order the shutdown of the White House National Security Council's entire global health security unit. NBC News had a good report on this, also, noting that the president's decision "to downsize the White House national security staff -- and eliminate jobs addressing global pandemics -- is likely to hamper the U.S. government's response to the coronavirus."

For his part, Trump doesn't deny the fact that he disbanded his global health security team and proposed cuts to programs intended to prevent the spread of infectious disease. Instead, the president has argued that he can simply reassemble the operation as needed.

"I'm a business person," he explained on Wednesday. "I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly."

That may sound sensible. It's not. The Washington Post reports today:

Former federal officials and public-health experts argue that an effective response to a epidemiological crisis demands sustained planning and investment. While the administration's response to coronavirus has been criticized in recent weeks as slow and disjointed, people in and outside the White House have warned for years that the nation is ill prepared for a dangerous pandemic.

[Kepler]

Re: nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

That may sound sensible.

No. It doesn't even sound sensible.

This is what happens when the 33% stupidest people in the country elect their own people to office.

The Electoral College had one job...

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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Why spend money on global health? That’s for brown people, why should Americans care?

I’m sure republicans will trust whatever Betsy D or her brother come up with to handle via one of their private companies

[Kepler]

Re: nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

Why spend money on global health? That’s for brown people, why should Americans care?

I’m sure republicans will trust whatever Betsy D or her brother come up with to handle via one of their private companies

Just pile the bodies of poor people around the rich people's buildings for insulation.

This is the one time Dump will have use for fatties.

[unofan]

I'm hearing COVID-19 mortality rates. That calculation is "deaths divided by infections".

But reports from WHO and CDC are that many infected are asymptomatic (or have mild symptoms attributable "flu season").

So how do you have a solid mortality calculation if you don't have an accurate denominator?

Should we be talking about mortality rates for verified infections?

Yeah, because the U6 number of infections is the real one!*

*Offer applies only when it hurts a Dem president.

Seriously, you have like the same 10 arguments you cycle through. "But what's the real number?" is grossly overplayed.

[French Rage]

Re: nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

No. It doesn't even sound sensible.

This is what happens when the 33% stupidest people in the country elect their own people to office.

The Electoral College had one job...

Screw you, I need that money, that KFC sandwich in between the donuts ain't gonna buy itself!

[JF_Gophers]

Re: nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

Settle down. I'm sure that "pray the gay away" Pence has this under control.

[ticapnews]

Re: nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

No. It doesn't even sound sensible.

This is what happens when the 33% stupidest people in the country elect their own people to office.

The Electoral College had one job...

The electoral college did its job exactly as intended.

[The Sicatoka]

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Kep, I thought you wanted to cull the herd. Poor people with poor health care systems (Trump demographic, and Southerners) will be hit hardest. Isn't that a win by your standards?

[aparch]

Cool. Now we're living in Planet of the Apes.

I had a horrifying thought this morning that this might become a Wes Anderson Isle of Dogs situation.

[The Sicatoka]

Re: nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

Seriously, you have like the same 10 arguments you cycle through. "But what's the real number?" is grossly overplayed.

No, your ad hominem is the overplayed tactic.

'What's the number' is asking for a fact so we can deal with facts and not fears.