SavannahMann
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I wish I could lead off saying I am joking. But I am honestly not. Trump is trying to lose the election. I am sure of it now.
Ok, reading that article, we see the Trump Administration trying to block money for testing, tracking, and block more money to the CDC. Because in the midst of a Pandemic, the one thing you don't want to do is give money to the Centers for Disease Control. Because. Um. America I guess.
The problem is that the original response was not great. But you can recover from that, and improve. The problem comes when even as the evidence mounts, and it has been mounting for a while, you stubbornly stay the course. Even when it is wrong, Trump thinks he would look like a Pussy if he changed course. The problem is in avoiding the image of a pussy for changing course, you look like an ass for ignoring the evidence. Well the answer to that is to get rid of the evidence.
It is not just that there are more people testing positive. That could be explained by non symptomatic people testing positive. Ok. But locally, our Hospitals are approaching capacity. Hospitalizations increase in Coastal Health District; Savannah hospitals have surge plan
Now what does that mean? It means that for all those non symptomatic people, there are also seriously ill people overwhelming the Hospital's ability to care for them. But Trump wants to believe it is just testing that is the problem, and tracking, which leads to more testing.
That by the way is how we run down Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Let's say you test positive for Gonorrhea. You give the Health Department folks the names of people you have had sex with, and they contact those people and tell them to get tested right away. If they are positive, they give up names, and they track the disease until they run out of names. This technique is not new, and it isn't untried. It works. For COVID. you tell those who were exposed to get tested. Then anyone they interacted with gets tested. You throw out the net in an effort to minimize the spread.
True story. I was home from work for about three hours when I got a call from the Manager. I had used some equipment after another guy, and he had tested positive for COVID. When I went into that equipment I had sprayed Lysol and wiped down the surfaces with Alcohol wipes. I wore a mask for the first twenty minutes giving the stuff time to work. I came up with no symptoms and returned to work two weeks later. But that kept me from possibly spreading the disease if I had contracted it. During those two weeks I left the house twice. Both times I masked up to make sure I didn't spread the disease and maintained the social distance. Precautions seemed to have worked, since I did not get sick.
That is how you stop the disease from spreading. You contact those who may be infected, and tell them to get tested, and then if they turn up positive you track and track and track until you get the net cast wide enough to stop the spread.
Now there are two possible explanations for Trumps adamant determination to cancel testing and tracking. 1) He really wants to lose the election. 2) He is so petty that he wants to risk the entire nation to satisfy a grudge. I tend to believe that it is number one. While it is possible that he is that petty, it is not the most likely answer. The most likely answer is that Trump wants to lose. The economy will take a longer, harder hit, and that is his claim to fame, and he knows it. Unemployment will stay high through the election, and that will be a bodyblow to his campaign anyway. He might as well just lose and get it over with. Then he hands the smoking ruins to Biden, who is completely unsuitable to manage it, and Adios America.
Ok, reading that article, we see the Trump Administration trying to block money for testing, tracking, and block more money to the CDC. Because in the midst of a Pandemic, the one thing you don't want to do is give money to the Centers for Disease Control. Because. Um. America I guess.
The problem is that the original response was not great. But you can recover from that, and improve. The problem comes when even as the evidence mounts, and it has been mounting for a while, you stubbornly stay the course. Even when it is wrong, Trump thinks he would look like a Pussy if he changed course. The problem is in avoiding the image of a pussy for changing course, you look like an ass for ignoring the evidence. Well the answer to that is to get rid of the evidence.
It is not just that there are more people testing positive. That could be explained by non symptomatic people testing positive. Ok. But locally, our Hospitals are approaching capacity. Hospitalizations increase in Coastal Health District; Savannah hospitals have surge plan
Now what does that mean? It means that for all those non symptomatic people, there are also seriously ill people overwhelming the Hospital's ability to care for them. But Trump wants to believe it is just testing that is the problem, and tracking, which leads to more testing.
That by the way is how we run down Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Let's say you test positive for Gonorrhea. You give the Health Department folks the names of people you have had sex with, and they contact those people and tell them to get tested right away. If they are positive, they give up names, and they track the disease until they run out of names. This technique is not new, and it isn't untried. It works. For COVID. you tell those who were exposed to get tested. Then anyone they interacted with gets tested. You throw out the net in an effort to minimize the spread.
True story. I was home from work for about three hours when I got a call from the Manager. I had used some equipment after another guy, and he had tested positive for COVID. When I went into that equipment I had sprayed Lysol and wiped down the surfaces with Alcohol wipes. I wore a mask for the first twenty minutes giving the stuff time to work. I came up with no symptoms and returned to work two weeks later. But that kept me from possibly spreading the disease if I had contracted it. During those two weeks I left the house twice. Both times I masked up to make sure I didn't spread the disease and maintained the social distance. Precautions seemed to have worked, since I did not get sick.
That is how you stop the disease from spreading. You contact those who may be infected, and tell them to get tested, and then if they turn up positive you track and track and track until you get the net cast wide enough to stop the spread.
Now there are two possible explanations for Trumps adamant determination to cancel testing and tracking. 1) He really wants to lose the election. 2) He is so petty that he wants to risk the entire nation to satisfy a grudge. I tend to believe that it is number one. While it is possible that he is that petty, it is not the most likely answer. The most likely answer is that Trump wants to lose. The economy will take a longer, harder hit, and that is his claim to fame, and he knows it. Unemployment will stay high through the election, and that will be a bodyblow to his campaign anyway. He might as well just lose and get it over with. Then he hands the smoking ruins to Biden, who is completely unsuitable to manage it, and Adios America.
