You muppet, shut the fuck up already.
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No need to dismiss, uncertainty is one of the biggest problems we're currently facing. It's a point people here have been discussing almost from the start:
“Regardless of severity, the actual nature of an outbreak is unpredictable. That's why public health surveillance, especially early on, is so important so that the health care system can respond rapidly. It's not about individuals asking to be tested in the face of common ailments, it's about surveillance and detection capabilities domestically and abroad. Weak systems struggle to tell the difference between common colds and novel diseases.”
Current federal government estimates suggest that without action there could be 2.2 million deaths in America from this disease. On the other hand this is starting to look like the most sustained widespread public panic in our lifetime, endangering the entire economy.
The zigzagging defensive inconsistent messaging is making things worse.
The problem is we diminished our public health response capabilities, which includes communicating these issues to the public, while at the same time 60% of Americans don’t trust the information they're hearing from the administration. So just like everything else this has become politicized with Republicans saying it’s all overblown and Dems seeing it as a real threat.
Either way it’s a massive US government failure, a "fiasco in the making."
The drafted ones volunteered?
@splat I think the military rule thing is a heck of a stretch.
with 1,000 cases already today, a 50% increase in deaths yesterday and what appears to be another large increase today, this graph doesn't seem to be aging well. i don't completely understand the graph but I noted the 33% increase listed next ti Italy and it seems for the last two days we have exceeded that
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also missing from the graph is the context in which it was posted, that we were gonna be much better off than Europe because of our trajectory
Life expectancy is dynamic. I'm betting the young fucks would whistle a different tune if middle 40s was still old age.
That's great of you, but what if you depended on that income to provide for your family and kids and pay your mortgage? You can see how this gets a bit sticky at some point? And its easy to impose restrictions on everyone, the hard thing will be to determine when everyone can go back in the water after this. If its an extended period of time, most families don't have the savings to weather that.
I just helped my 74 year old cycling buddy get his second cataract operation yesterday. He will need reading glasses, but, he's totally amazed how well he can see. This is a common procedure. New joints are making old age much more enjoyable for millions, and Medicare pays for it. It's a good time to be old.
That had/has a very specific purpose and nobody is "locked in". They are there to help cleanup and to keep order in what has the potential to be a bad situation. They are not there to restrict peoples movements or to begin a martial law situation. It's New Rochelle not Mt Vermin.
40% of Americans don’t have $400 in the bank for emergency expenses: Federal Reserve
https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-america...ry?id=63253846