Let me explain, you have a leader that a group in this country thinks is a God and you have some Americans who think that if a leader of a group doesn't know a fucking thing about a subject , that the ass hole would just keep his fucking mouth shut, because someone stupid enough to follow him might believe him even though he is the biggest liar in politics in history.
Versus the media that’s whipped everyone into a panic already? No country is gonna stop this virus flat in its tracks without severe restrictions of rights. The only thing you can do is buy time. Our shelves in grocery stores are already empty, and we’re not even close to seeing the worst of this. Bureaucracy is awful at preparedness and response to things like because...bureaucracy. We’re not prepped for any disaster period because bureaucracy is short sighted. We weren’t prepared for Katrina (despite 60 years of throwing money at levies that never seemed to get to the levies), we’re not prepared for a volcanic eruption, we’re not prepared for a coronal mass ejection, and we’re not prepared for a pandemic. That’s been true since bureaucracy became the ruler. If you’re looking for someone to blame on the government side, look to the self serving political machine that is the bureaucracy. Our hospitals don’t (and never did) have the masks stockpiled necessary to fight this pandemic. Now they can’t because the herd of cats are running out grabbing up all they can thanks to the media using the scare factor for ratings and political maneuvering. Like it or not the travel restrictions to China bought us a month. The restrictions to Europe may buy us another couple of weeks. Luckily we have a few treatments, like plasma therapy, that seem to be effective, and maybe even a vaccine in the works.
You nazi wannabee 1st rule, defined by Hitler, attack the press. You Nazi wannabees are all the same. The rest of you response , what the fuck are you talking about Katrina, volcanoes ,What the fuck.
I was talking about how our disaster preparedness level is abysmal. Thought that was pretty clear. It was certainly clear in Katrina, and it’s certainly clear now with the corona virus. And it’s been that way for a long time. Now think about what’s gonna happen in a real disaster? Say a Carrington event. They happen every 100 years or so, +\- 50 years. Last one was in 1859, didn’t do that much damage, all the telegraph lines caught fire. Imagine if that happens today? Virtually every home burns to the ground, no electronics, no cars, no refrigeration, no running water. 90% of us die within a year, the survivors spend their time stabbing their neighbors for scraps of food. Shouldn’t the correct response in the wake of seeing the corona virus expose our preparedness level be to wake the fuck up and demand the government take these issues more seriously, instead of bickering about what a president said on the news? Trumps response wasn’t great, but like all other world leaders he’s trying to walk a thin line of not causing society to panic and cause greater turmoil for millions, while still trying to protect the thousands that could be endangered by the virus. Pandemics are hard to prep for because you don’t know wtf the disease is going to be, how to test for it, how to immunize, and how to treat. It’s a race against the clock. But still, our hospitals should have had plenty of masks and protective gear stockpiled. Procedures to combat spread, and streamline testing and treatment R&D should have been in place. They weren’t. This is true for every other president before him, let alone every other country out there. However, there’s no excuse for our government not shielding our energy grid from a Carrington Event, it’ll still cause significant death and damage, but it would stop it from being an extinction level event. There’s no excuse for not having a plan, and the capabilities in place to prevent an asteroid strike, we have the tech for it after all.
So, I don’t understand how saying the self serving government should definitely up its game in preparedness levels makes me a nazi. That’s ludicrous. It’s one of their freaking mandates after all, one that virtually every American would agree on. And yes, the media did use this, like they do every negative story out there, to make the world seem like a much more dangerous than it actually is, even though statistically the world is safer and more prosperous on a man per man basis than its ever been in human history. There has never been a better time to be in abject poverty than there is today. And the media does this because their business model is to drive up ratings and clicks, and tragedies statistically do that better than the reality. Realistic stories don’t cause people to glue themselves to the couch and turn on the nightly news. The husband who kills his family does, and then it’s “stay tuned after these commercials to find out if you’re eating poisoned chicken.” For Christ sake there’s only been a single case of a kid eating poison candy on Halloween, and it was his own father that did it. Yet we all make sure to X-ray our candy for razor blades every year. Why is that? You got it. “Tune in to found out how to keep your kid safe this Halloween from tainted candy.” And the media does this without care or concern to the consequences for the normal folk like you and me. Talk about some evil greedy business, amaright? Traditional media is a dying medium, but they are creaming their pants on air with this tragedy.
I don't believe that Trump was walking a thin line when he was very specific about our preparedness for this malady due to his closing of the borders which would prevent it from coming here, etc., when the medical community was saying just the opposite and Fox news
was playing down the situation in support of Trump.
The media, again, was and is reporting what they are given by the medical experts and it is time that the Trump minions begin to realize this rather blaming the media for this catastrophe and recession to follow.
Who in the medical community was saying don’t close the boarders? That’s laughable. As soon as we heard about it’s transmission and that you can walk around for a week without symptoms acting as a carrier, and that the young are often asymptomatic carriers, everyone at my work (an infusion center) said we need to close off from China. That’s like an evil genius level form of transmission. SARS is a far worse disease but it’s easily contained because symptoms show, and then you become a carrier. That’s the whole point of a quarantine. That’s not racist policy, it’s been a mandate of the federal government to keep deadly diseases out since the inception of this country. We did it with ships, we did it on Ellis island, and we do it at our boarders and POE today. I mean the entire world made an infected cruise ship drift about for weeks like a plague ship from the 1500s. The EU just closed it’s boarders to non-EU citizens today, but it’s a little too late for them. We’re not stopping this disease from spreading, all we can do is buy time in order to find effective treatments and vaccinations. This is really the first major fast spreading pandemic (Can’t think of another) since the Spanish Flu of 1920. I mean it’s no where near as deadly as the Spanish flu, but it could have major ramifications still. And guess what, air travel wasn’t much of a thing in the 20s. At least back then it took a few days for ship travel, and you could quarantine a ship with passengers showing symptoms. Today, you could get anywhere within a day, and still travel about and interact for people for a full week without showing symptoms.
The concern about people panicking isn’t about the economy. That’s already fucked. no interest rate manipulation or money infusion is going to help with that. It’s people panicking and rushing for supplies, specifically, that hospitals need, as well as the everyday living supplies that everyone needs. Yea we got plans in place now for restocking everything, but what happens when the virus actually starts to hit and 25% of truck drivers delivering those supplies are home sick for 2 weeks. The. Next week it turns into 50% of truck drivers being out sick for 2 weeks. It’s gonna really fuck with a lot of people when our shelves are already bare, and we haven’t even seen the beginning of this. I mean so far, maybe 40%-50% of the people are panic buying right now. That’s going to jump up a lot more. And the news isn’t even telling y’all what you should be buying, outside of the masks that hospitals are already short on. And we kind of need those to treat the already sick people in the hospital, as well as the people this virus is an actual danger too. Everyone is going for the non-perishable items, hey dumb fucks, go for the perishable items first. That’s what the media should be saying. The perishable items are routinely produced (because they’re perishable) and there’s an abundance of non-perishable items out there. Food banks are up to their eyeballs in non-perishable food to the point where they’ve been asking for money donations instead...but will still accept your donated food cans. We also don’t want people panicking and over-stressing our systems, especially our hospitals. Don’t go to the hospital, family doctor, urgent care, etc. unless your life is endanger, or you’re old/other at risk person and contract corona. Hospitals stay pretty full without a fucking pandemic. Plenty of doctors and nurses are definitely going to catch this (probably from their loved ones at home if not from their workplace) and have to stay home for a couple of weeks. 95% of my patients are cancer patients, cancer and corona doesn’t mix well. I am doing my best to stay isolated and safe. Short staffed hospitals and hypochondriacs in a pandemic also don’t mix well at all. This is what the media should be vehemently stressing...along with stop buying up all the masks fucktards. The media is starting too, but it’s a little too late since corona has been a thing since January, and they’re just starting to say it now. Panic has already set in unfortunately. But hey, nothing juicier for ratings than disease or war. If you’re young and relatively healthy, take the fever and chills on the chin, stay home for a week or two...AND EVERYONE STAY AWAY FROM THE ELDERLY EVEN IF YOU FEEL FINE. Find a way to get them groceries or whatever they need as best as you can. We do this, and we’ll come out of this just fine, it’ll still get bad, but it won’t be devastating. And by devastating I mean riots for supplies, and hospital systems collapsing as more and more patients get sick. Remember, hospitals still have a shit ton of patients in dire need that don’t have corona virus.
