Imaginos1892 wrote:Enough with the panic already!
This year, as in any other year, almost 1% of everybody in the United States is going to die of something. That is INESCAPABLE. That is NORMAL. That is, by the way, one of the LOWEST percentages in the world. Can you begin to understand the meaning of that fact? I know most ‘graduates’ of our leftist-controlled government schools can’t.
It means that almost 1% of the people who do NOT catch the ‘pandemic’ are going to die. It means that almost 1% of the people who DO catch it will die of something ELSE, something completely unrelated to one particular cold virus. It means that if 40 million people catch that virus, and 345,000 of them die, THAT IS JUST HOW MANY WOULD DIE ANYWAY!
How is it possible that this far into this pandemic you are still this clueless?
Yes, people die. People die all the time. Lots of people because we have lots of people.
The problem is our system is set up to handle a normal number of people getting sick and dying at a normal rate. It is not set up for that number to almost instantly multiple by several times all at once. It's overwhelming hospital capacity. It's endangering healthcare workers. And that is *with* all the extraordinary measures some of the state governors and mayors at the center of the current hot spots are taking to slow down the transmission rate and spread things out as much as possible. Do you have any idea how bad things would be getting right now if those people weren't taking the steps they've been taking?
This is not the Doomsday Plague. This is not ’The Last Centurion’ or ‘Contagion’ no matter how many idiots scream that it is. The facts are finally starting to come out, and they show that the panic is senseless.
Who the hell is actually seriously saying this is a doomsday plague? Nobody. The title of this thread aside which is clearly tongue in cheek not a single person here, or anywhere else I have seen, has said this is going to wipe out most of the human race or something. They are just capable of recognizing that what it is capable of doing is really really REALLY bad.
gcomeau wrote:Yep. He did literally nothing to push increased production of medical equipment.
What should he have done?
Ummm, ORDER SUPPLIES in advance in anticipation of it not being contained in China?
How about that as a freaking minimum?
Start contracting with existing manufacturing facilities to retool to start making critical equipment?
Or, you know, do anything that was in the pandemic response playbook they inherited from the last administration and then ignored?
The government does not have mask and glove factories sitting empty, waiting for Trump to start them up. Most of the factories are in China, because of idiotic tax laws. How was Trump supposed to ‘push’ them? The government does not
MAKE anything, it just meddles. The best thing Trump can do right now is STOP the government from meddling.
gcomeau wrote:A pandemic playbook that outlined steps for dealing with all of this specifically including instructions to prep stockpiles of PPE
There
was a stockpile. 0bama used them up, and did nothing to replace them.
Ummm, no.
The Trump administration shipped 17 tons of critical medical supplies to China in early February then THEY did nothing to replace them.
https://www.state.gov/the-united-states ... ronavirus/And btw, the shipping the supplies to China part? That wasn't a stupid thing to do. It was in fact one of the only intelligent things they did, trying to fight it and slow it down at the source before it broke out is a very effective time saving strategy.
But then they did NOTHING with the time. Trump just kept saying it wasn't a problem. They didn't develop and produce tests. They didn't replenish stockpiles. Even after cases started showing up in the US Trump was all over tv saying it was nothing and the cases would go to 0 in no time like magic and everyone should just conduct business as usual. They they had it completely contained and under control. His only concern was thinking if the numbers in the US were *reported* as going up it would make HIM look bad for ffs. Because his ego is always and forever his primary overriding concern.
Which is why the US is now on the path to becoming the global epicenter of the outbreak.