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Obits and "thoughts and prayers" much?

Doing something about the supply isn't rocket science.

oralloy wrote:

Progressives don't have any real arguments to defend their ideology, so they fall back to misrepresenting other people's IQs.

what nonsense.

In the 1980s Redfield worked closely with W. Shepherd Smith, Jr. and his Christian organization, Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy, or ASAP. The group maintained that AIDS was “God’s judgment” against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.

Redfield wrote the introduction to a 1990 book, “Christians in the Age of AIDS,” co-written by Smith, in which he denounced distribution of sterile needles to drug users and condoms to sexually active adults, and described anti-discrimination programs as the efforts of “false prophets.”

There is question of your self-reported intelligence because so many of your arguments seem monumentally dumb and illogical and the product of extreme bias rather than reason.

I really don't understand the dichotomy.

I have both progressive and conservative values. You should try a little bit of variety.

Fauci Says Admin’s ‘Better Sense’ Of Coronavirus Is ‘Not Encouraging’

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci added to the uncertainty surrounding the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak during Sunday morning TV interviews.

After telling MSNBC’s Chuck Todd that the administration is “getting a better sense as the days go by,” Fauci also said that “unfortunately that better sense is not encouraging” due to community spread and that there won’t be a “vaccine that’s deployable for at least a year to a year and a half.”

When asked by Todd about “the most realistic way this ends,” Fauci responded that “it’s probably going to be a combination of both” immunity where “it just stops catching” and a vaccine that “ends this.”

US Still Has the Lowest Per-Capital Coronavirus Rate of the 10 Countries With Most Cases Reported

Surgeon General and coronavirus task force member Jerome Adams struggled to justify the Trump administration’s claims that the coronavirus is contained during Sunday morning TV appearances.

When CNN’s Jake Tapper mentioned the influx of coronavirus case reports in the past 48 hours — citing cases in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Nebraska, South Carolina, Hawaii, Utah, Kansas, Virginia, Missouri, Vermont and Washington D.C. — Adams responded that coronavirus is “absolutely” spreading.

Adams added that despite the administration initially having a “posture of containment,” it is now “shifting into a mitigation phase,” which he described as “helping communities understand, you’re going to see more cases” and “more deaths.”

After Adams insisted that there’s no need to panic, Tapper then asked him to respond to White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow’s and counselor Kellyanne Conway’s claims that the coronavirus is largely “contained.”

“Well, this is a novel virus. It’s a new situation. And the messaging, quite frankly, is hard,” Adams said, before saying that “the first thing you want to try to do is contain the virus” and that some parts of the country have contained it.

and that some parts of the country have contained it.

Clearly, our medical system has an eye on saving money! After all, once the patient croaks, there's no reason to waste time and money on a test.

Another reason that the U.S. has such low testing totals (for Covid-19) would be lack of kits and refusal from the CDC to allow hundreds (maybe thousands) of local testing labs to get going on this.

Alerting the community to the prevalence of the problem is considered a key measure in getting people to seek help.

Cross border narcotics shipments are thwarted regularly but much of the supply is domestic, either through the illegal distribution of prescription drugs or people manufacturing their own.

The opioid epidemic (also known as the opioid crisis) refers to the extensive overuse of opioid drugs, both from medical prescriptions and from illegal sources. The epidemic began in the United States in the late 1990s, when opioids were being increasingly prescribed for pain management and resulted in a rise in opioid use throughout the subsequent years

Go to bed.

If you don't want the covid numbers to go higher, the obvious solution is to be as slow as possible in providing testing kits that will raise those numbers.

Nursing Home Hit by Coronavirus Says 70 Workers Are Sick
As a federal team arrived to help, a spokesman for the Kirkland, Wash., center said 70 staff members were out with symptoms that resembled coronavirus.

Cheryl Lausch
@cheryllausch
Mar 6
I’m an older (57yr) RN. I lived through H1N1 & Avian flu. In hospital, clinic & public health units we were over prepared. Speaking out National Nurses United has stated alarm for our nurses. I am stunned by disregard & unpreparedness of this administration for coronavirus.