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[Speedy]

deckeda wrote:
[quote=mrp-admin]

Sorry it's come to this...

Thank you
MRF-Admin

And I'm sorry that anyone seeking information about, or a shared experience regarding covid-19 will be forced to come to grips with the reality that a pandemic doesn't occur in a vacuum, independent of politics.

Yeah, it really is a shame.
I agree. Important information is mandated to be posted to this side. I guess when the response to this pandemic has been so badly handled that comments about it must be moved to this side to protect the sensitivities of some members, it’s sad. Truth hurts.

[cbelt3]

UK experience... this is why PPE is critical. And why the Federal government's incompetence in the US can become critical. Because when so many medical professionals become ill, healthcare collapses and every very sick patient WILL die.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/uk/uk-cor...index.html

[voodoopenguin]

Paul

[Lemon Drop]

voodoopenguin wrote:


Paul

This is excellent. Thank you.

[Grateful11]

My nephew sent me this this morning. I've been looking for something like this for a while and this one explains it best to me.

'Why Did The World Shut Down For COVID-19 But Not Ebola, SARS Or Swine Flu?'

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why...swine-flu/

[pdq]

Someone said this in 2014:

There may and likely will come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly. And in order for us to deal with that effectively, we have to put in place an infrastructure — not just here at home, but globally — that allows us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly. And it also requires us to continue the same path of basic research that is being done here at NIH...

So that if and when a new strain of flu, like the Spanish flu, crops up five years from now or a decade from now, we’ve made the investment and we’re further along to be able to catch it. It is a smart investment for us to make. It’s not just insurance; it is knowing that down the road we’re going to continue to have problems like this — particularly in a globalized world where you move from one side of the world to the other in a day.

Oddly enough, not a word about “total authority”.

[Speedy]

pdq wrote:
Someone said this in 2014:

There may and likely will come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly. And in order for us to deal with that effectively, we have to put in place an infrastructure — not just here at home, but globally — that allows us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly. And it also requires us to continue the same path of basic research that is being done here at NIH...

So that if and when a new strain of flu, like the Spanish flu, crops up five years from now or a decade from now, we’ve made the investment and we’re further along to be able to catch it. It is a smart investment for us to make. It’s not just insurance; it is knowing that down the road we’re going to continue to have problems like this — particularly in a globalized world where you move from one side of the world to the other in a day.

Oddly enough, not a word about “total authority”.

Well, I knew it couldn’t have been Pres. Trump who said it because he can’t string three sentences together without screwing it up.

[timg]

Anyone see Governor Newsom's big announcement today?

What a bunch of crap that was. No specifics, just vague "we need all of this to happen" with no timeline.

[hal]

There is no timeline - how can anyone know the timeline? There are conditions that have to be met before any dates are announced. CA is now reaching its peak in infections (we hope). Would you rather he just pull a date out of his ass like Trump's Easter date? How does that help?

[Speedy]

Yup, the virus determines the timeline. But at least the governor has a plan which is more than I can say for the president.