It's an election year and Dementia Joe is their candidate. Corona panic is their only shot.
A major Party in a nation of 330M and the best they can come up with is Confused Angry Joe?
We don't panic, and we don't under-react. We find the middle and hit it hard.
The Inherent Instability of Centralization:
SOBERING THOUGHTS:
Europe’s Coronavirus Fate Is Already Sealed: One reason Britain and Italy are struggling: Their medical systems are too dependent on government.
Scientists around the world have worked overtime to get a handle on Covid-19, we still don’t know for sure whether this is only a medical crisis, or also a medical system crisis.
Doctors in Italy know what to do to treat severe cases, such as using ventilators in intensive-care units. But hospitals lack the beds and equipment for the influx of patients and Italy doesn’t have enough doctors even to make the attempt. Ill patients languish in hospital corridors for want of beds, recovering patients are rushed out the door as quickly as possible, being treated by sick and exhausted doctors and nurses can’t even muster the energy to throw up their hands in despair.
Poor Choices By Government:
Italy lags other large European countries in provision of acute-care hospital beds, furnishing 2.62 of them per 1,000 residents as of 2016, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In Germany it’s 6.06 and in France and the Netherlands it’s 3.15 and 3 respectively. That year, Italy devoted around $913 per capita to inpatient acute and rehabilitative care, compared with $1,338 in France, $1,506 in Germany, and $1,732 in the U.S.
U.K. policy makers understand what such analyses portend—because underinvestment in Britain’s creaking health-care system is even worse. The U.K. spent the princely sum of $901.70 per capita on acute care in 2016, according to the OECD. British data don’t distinguish acute-care beds, but a comparison of available beds overall isn’t any more favorable to the U.K. (or to Italy). In 2017, when Germany provided 8 beds per 1,000 residents and France offered 5.98, Italy managed 3.18 and the U.K. only 2.54.
U.S. healthcare system isn’t really a free market system, being possessed of so many layers of cronyism and regulation a fauxket — something that kind of looks like a market at first, but really isn’t.