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It's totally ridiculous that the WHO, other health authorities, and the mainstream media are still not advising healthy people to wear N95 masks or better to protect themselves from sick people when they go out. They only talk about wearing a surgical-type mask so that you can protect others in case you are sick. It's totally counter-intuitive and unacceptable. We live in the Information Age and it's not easy to get the proper information. What does that say about us?
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CNN said the United States is 4 percent of the worlds population. The United States has 28 percent of the Coronavirus cases. What does that say? I have been waiting for a Strong federal government response similar to what most European countries are doing.
I am totally baffled by your statement. Again, we live in the Information Age and at least with respect to this subject it's easy to find relevant information.
The US Military knew what was happening in China back in December. Trump was advised and did nothing. That’s what I call baffling.
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CNN said the United States is 4 percent of the worlds population. The United States has 28 percent of the Coronavirus cases. What does that say? I have been waiting for a Strong federal government response similar to what most European countries are doing.
I am totally baffled by your statement. Again, we live in the Information Age and at least with respect to this subject it's easy to find relevant information.
The US Military knew what was happening in China back in December. Trump was advised and did nothing. That’s what I call baffling.
He didn't do anything until late February. That's even more baffling.
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MileHigh
It's totally ridiculous that the WHO, other health authorities, and the mainstream media are still not advising healthy people to wear N95 masks or better to protect themselves from sick people when they go out. They only talk about wearing a surgical-type mask so that you can protect others in case you are sick. It's totally counter-intuitive and unacceptable. We live in the Information Age and it's not easy to get the proper information. What does that say about us?
I agree but where are people going to get N95 masks? Hospitals are desperately trying to get them.
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It's totally ridiculous that the WHO, other health authorities, and the mainstream media are still not advising healthy people to wear N95 masks or better to protect themselves from sick people when they go out. They only talk about wearing a surgical-type mask so that you can protect others in case you are sick. It's totally counter-intuitive and unacceptable. We live in the Information Age and it's not easy to get the proper information. What does that say about us?
I agree but where are people going to get N95 masks? Hospitals are desperately trying to get them.
Not to be argumentative, but just like people complain about the government being late in taking action, if individuals took action early enough they would have had easy access to N95 masks. The writing was on the wall in January. Now that N95 masks are in mass production overdrive, I assume that production capacity will be greater than the needs of the medical professionals. They have to start selling N95 masks in volume to the public soon.
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It's totally ridiculous that the WHO, other health authorities, and the mainstream media are still not advising healthy people to wear N95 masks or better to protect themselves from sick people when they go out. They only talk about wearing a surgical-type mask so that you can protect others in case you are sick. It's totally counter-intuitive and unacceptable. We live in the Information Age and it's not easy to get the proper information. What does that say about us?
I agree but where are people going to get N95 masks? Hospitals are desperately trying to get them.
Not to be argumentative, but just like people complain about the government being late in taking action, if individuals took action early enough they would have had easy access to N95 masks. The writing was on the wall in January. Now that N95 masks are in mass production overdrive, I assume that production capacity will be greater than the needs of the medical professionals. They have to start selling N95 masks in volume to the public soon.
Production might be in overdrive but they're just scrambling to catch up. Nurses and doctors go through many throughout the day, not just a couple. It seems states in the US are competing with each other for limited supplies. And as far as the states goes, when the president says this will probably go away on its own by April, as well as they've got it under control, why would a person want to go out and try to buy them?
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Hindsight's always 20/20, hopefully we learn and are better prepared next time.
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CNN said the United States is 4 percent of the worlds population. The United States has 28 percent of the Coronavirus cases. What does that say? I have been waiting for a Strong federal government response similar to what most European countries are doing.
I am totally baffled by your statement. Again, we live in the Information Age and at least with respect to this subject it's easy to find relevant information.
The US Military knew what was happening in China back in December. Trump was advised and did nothing. That’s what I call baffling.
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MisterDDDD
Britain under Boris Johnson has been as insouciant. Johnson advocated striking a balance between restrictive measures and a strategy of "taking it on the chin," under which increasing numbers of people would become infected until the virus would "move through the population."
But, as the interviewers protested during the very interview at which Johnson revealed his strategy, his policy was bound to fail because Britain's hospitals, under its single-payer National Health Service, lacked the capacity to handle the influx."
[www.cnn.com]
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KingmanBarstow
BV, the link above leads to this NYT article:
Angry Fans Say First the Concerts Were Canceled, Then the Refunds
It’s a general report on the current status of the concert ticket industry and the lack of refunds.
Not that I didn’t mind reading it mind you.
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BV, the link above leads to this NYT article:
Angry Fans Say First the Concerts Were Canceled, Then the Refunds
It’s a general report on the current status of the concert ticket industry and the lack of refunds.
Not that I didn’t mind reading it mind you.
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In a show of leadership seldom demonstrated, Jacinda Ardern, PM of New Zealand responded to concerns expressed by children by signing a proclamation declaring the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy to be essential workers. Full props to her for realizing that kids need this kind of assurance or normalcy during a crisis, and not being afraid to sweat the small stuff to deliver that assurance. (Oh, they’re also flattening the curve like crazy... this is in addition to the big stuff, not instead of it...)
[www.washingtonpost.com]
She is a real leader--I've admired her ever since seeing her handling of the mosque killings.
Yes our NZ prime minister certainly is very good at self promotion. There were calls to shut our border weeks before she did but she was hell bent on having a one year memorial for the mosque shooting with all the bigwigs from the world media in attendance first. She was even promoting crowd gatherings and hand shaking. In the end she was forced to cancel the commemoration one day before it was due to take place due to pressure from the people to ban large gatherings and shut the border, but still managed some media coverage of her dressed in a headscarve. Being an Island if we had acted when we should have we likely wouldn't be in lockdown now with the economic carnage it is causing. Vast majority of our cases came from travellers. So yea, great prime minister whos main ambition is a seat on the UN and will do anything to get there. We need more substance than hugs and fairytales.
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IGTBA
The US is counting COVID 19 deaths, by counting anyone who tested, or is presumed, positive who dies. So those who are very old and/or have serious other conditions will be counted as COVID 19 deaths, if they tested or were were presumed to be positive for the virus. That will make US deaths look worse on a worldwide scale, but it is indicative of the seriousness of COVID 19.
Does anyone believe the US already has more than three times the deaths from COVID 19 as China??? That's what the numbers show! The WHO numbers! What does that say about the veracity of the WHO's numbers?