There are two important components of this situation. The first is medical and we need to have the best professional medical guidance possible and LISTEN TO AND FOLLOW that guidance. The second is more important in the long run IMO. I see more and more the extreme left using this as an excuse to push us into socialism. Two examples Bill DeBlasio has advocated nationalizing the pharmaceutical industry and just this morning called for a WPA program for people put out of work. Yes he’s a flaming idiot and asshat but he has a large platform and I believe it’s likely that others will echo him. This will fundamentally change our country for the worse. We really need sane measured leadership to stop this in its tracks. Private enterprise and private citizens must step up and take responsibility to guide us through this. If we don’t act responsibly now we dig ourselves a deep hole to get out of.
"If you are caught unprepared by a sudden rainstorm, you should not run foolishly down the road or hide under the eves of houses. You are going to get soaked either way. Accept that from the beginning and go on your way. This way you will not be distressed by a little rain. Apply this lesson to everything."
I am sure this will get me shite upon, but when the country cannot respond in 2 months to an OBVIOUS pandemic that is ramping up, and once we start, we utterly fail in testing, maybe some changes are needed. Everyone says "big government" is bad, until they need it.
I honestly dont get why the big deal over testing. Its not important unless you are going to lock the country down and by that I mean in-force people to stay home. Further, for a country of our size, it is absolutely impossible to have enough tests for everyone. There is no cure. Its best to get the symptoms out there and tell people what to do with said symptoms. One of our field techs wife went to the hospital last night. She has it. They sent her home to self quarantine. I was thinking, how many people did she infect going to the doctor???? Same can be said for those wanting to get tested. To me, a logical response would be to set up centers for people who exhibit symptoms, tell them to go there. Which seems to be their plan.
I think that is what the Administration Public/Private alliance is doing. Drive up testing stations, so you stay in your car and stay out of the hospital. I think the US is taking in all the info from other places of what and what not to do. S. Korea is the best example so far. Suffice it to say, setting up those protocols in a Nation like the US vs S Korea is quite different.
You are falling more and more in line with your sympaticos at CNN and their ilk as well as the leftist lunatic fringe politicians. So tell us Mr Know it All, in light of the fact that there was a serious problem in this country has become obvious in much less than 2 months, how would YOU have handled it? There are no protocols for dealing with this situation since there has not been al pandemic since 1918. We can only look to what nations that have experienced worse than us earlier than us, study what works and what doesn't and find the best and most doable solutions for a country with a population of over 320 million people. Nobody NEEDS big government. Any feelings of need and dependence upon big government is a mindset conceived and fostered by big government itself to perpetuate their power over the masses of sheeple.
Viruses are composed of billions of tiny organisms. They entered this country as refugees from China. Recognizing their status as illegal aliens Bernie Sanders has stated that if he is elected his first act will be to issue an executive order to give eacb virii a drivers licence, food stamps and a free college education.
I may be about to post something very stupid, but here goes..... There's this mad rush for a COVID-19 vaccine; news is reporting clinical trials started today. But even if it works, its too late to prevent any spread this year. Its going to be good for limiting the spread next winter. But a vaccine isn't a cure; if I've already got it, the vaccine does no good. Kind of like the flu; there's no "cure" for that either. All you can do once you have it is take steps to help your body resist it as well as possible. Which is basically all anyone can do with covid. So if the treatment - common sense medicine and hope - and the prevention - common sense hygiene and limiting socialization - are exactly the same whether its flu or covid, does it really matter on a personal level if you know which one you have? Other than piece of mind - the MSM has done a marvelous job of terrifying most people about the effects of covid when in fact, the odds of surviving it are overwhelmingly good - it really doesn't matter. That said, I'm sure the clinicians out there would say the more cases we have documented, the more we can learn about it, and I can certainly understand that.
