Shocking that Karen responded like that.
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Spain and France look to be pretty royally fucked. US not far behind.
One thing that surprises me (as a poorly informed Canadian, apparently) is that the mythology here is that places like Spain and France are solidarity-oriented quasi-socialist states. How did the efforts to contain fail so spectacularly? The US I understand, their government is designed to fail.
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Was going to say “that dude for president” based solely off the video and that FB post, but a quick google says he’s only 30.
If he’s even half as good as the little I’ve seen, he should be running to boot Marco’s ass out of the senate in 2022.
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Your info is 30 years out of date. Post Thatcher/Reagan neoliberal consensus has taken over EU completely.
Also, literally no health system in the world has the capacity to deal with this. To do so would have seemed extraordinarily wasteful (routinely tens of thousands of empty hospital beds all the time?) Sure, ramping up in February would have been good, but the worldwide capacity to produce what is needed (ventilators, etc) and local capacity to build hospitals is just not sufficient to get enough done in a month or two.
Even just the social distancing measures necessary are so antithetical to how people live in e.g. Spain, its a huge ask.
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I‘m pretty sure most European countries would have been better prepared for this during the 80s with Cold War emergency plans, more military hospitals, etc. OTOH today we are much more likely to get to a working vaccine faster, due to advances in computing and biotech.
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Terrifying and heartbreaking. Actual good guy Lawbro David Lat, an otherwise healthy 44 year old male, is in critical condition.
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The only way to do it is to isolate it in one or a handful of areas, so that help and resources can be brought in from the rest of the country. (Bringing in help from the entire country was probably just as important to the response success in China as building all those temporary hospitals. We will see over the coming months if that was just a temporary success.)
But it’s too late in most (all?) countries to isolate it now.
I did a bit of a deeper dive into his political views (aka I read his Twitter). If I say that he was a strong Buttigieg supporter and now supports Biden, while re-tweeting several anti-Bernie tweets, does that change anyone’s views about Hardy’s future in politics?
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From a US perspective, 3/11. The NBA shutting down was the first thing that I think resonated with a lot of people that this was real.
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Yes. With the bolded being by far the most problematic.
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Yeah, the French failure was basically just starting too late. They went from thinking they wouldn’t have to close schools on Thursday lunchtime, to shutting them at 8pm, then shutting all businesses Saturday evening, then a lockdown on the Monday. It was all surprised reaction.
If what they’re saying now is true, and that the effects will be seen in two to three weeks, then maybe the advantages over the US of a health system accessible to everyone, and a government that’s trying to give help to most will show, but at the moment the problem is not seeming to understand the scale and speed of it.
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He’s perfect for the Florida Dem Party.
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Where are you seeing these stats?
Are other people tracking the days since their last potential exposure? I went to Costco last Monday, unmasked and in pretty close proximity to other people. If I have it, that’s most likely where I got it. On Wednesday I went to the office and the store on the way home, but had a mask on when near other people. Didn’t quarantine / clean groceries before bringing then in the house though. Not even really sure how that’s supposed to work - are people wiping down frozen food boxes with bleach/alcohol? What about fresh food / vegetables?
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One of my wife’s best friends is an ER doc at a couple of the big hospitals in Minneapolis, we video chatted with her yesterday because she is confined to her house and the hospital and she says alot of her coworkers are basically in full on WAAF mode. One dr had a mental breakdown at the start of his shift and had to be sent home. They need PPE, there are doctors getting sick but testing has been almost nonexistent so far and some are scared to come to work because they know they’ll get it and probably end up passing it on to their families.
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COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer is where I’ve been getting my numbers from. They seem to be doing a decent job of keeping current.
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