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Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better, watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
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And there it is !
From that bastion of accurate balanced reporting ...
The New York Times !
I think the Weekly World News's reporting is a step behind the NYT.
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Trump's lawyers sent out a cease and desist letter on this ad that only contains sound bites of him. Wonder if it is "patently false, misleading, and deceptive advertisement" because he doesn't like it or because it is what he said?
DustyDriving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better, watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
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Looks like that horrible human has lead the states to be #1 again!
"The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. rose to 83,836 on Thursday — more than any other country, overtaking both Italy and China — while the death toll passed the 1,000 mark, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University.
The university said Thursday at least 1,209 people in the U.S. have died from the disease caused by the coronavirus..."
EDIT: and one week later (April 5, noon EST):
"The number of people infected in the U.S. has soared to more than 312,000 as the fatalities climbed past 8,500. New York City, with close to 60,000 confirmed cases so far, is the epicentre of the U.S. outbreak, but other areas have been slammed as well. More than 400 people have died in Louisiana, where state authorities have been rushing to find ventilators. Michigan has more than 14,000 infections and 500 deaths, mainly in Detroit."
If buildin' old school choppers was easy, anyone could do it... ain't nobody said it's gonna be easy...Comment
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Hilary would have handled it like she did Benghazi....too little, too late...too bad, move let's move on.
Like him or not, it's a good thing we've got someone from the business world and not a career politician in the White House at the moment. At least Trump will spin up the economy again as opposed to spinning up the blame......which is job security for Nadler, Schiff and Pelosi.....let impeach attempt 2.0 begin, cuz it's there only chance for 2020Last edited by Fetch; 03-27-2020, 5:51 PM.Comment
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Lack of readiness was a national fuckup. POTUS are very short term officials but simpletons imagine them gods. Fascination with Presidents is the mark of those too lazy to study history. Trump is cunning (different than highly intelligent) but we don't elect people who are competent organizers, Dwight Eisenhower (see his military record for those too young or lazy to know it) being the last one.
The US had decades to build sufficient medical surge capacity but generally refused. That means we don't have the capacity (anyone ever wait for hours in an ER?) to handle moderate surges without breaking the system. If this were a biowarfare attack we'd have already lost.
BTW the only reasonably accurate media are basically professional journals and ya gotta crosscheck those. Political media (ALL mass media be they libtard or Foxtard) are for the gullible who want a black-and-white world.
Too bad COVID doesn't kill everyone who trusts politicians. That would bowl a strike for the human race.Comment
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How do you properly prepare for an unknown event?
How do you know a biologic attack is going to effect respiratory system and not digestive or tissue?
Remember the bomb shelters from the 50's & 60's? Not a thought about Ventilators back then.
What impresses me the most is our manufacturing is able to switch from cars to ventilators, from pillow cases to N95 masks in a matter of weeks.Comment
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Has anyone else noticed the previous post from this thread in the last two months that have been deleted????? It make you wonder what they are ashamed of???????????Comment
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How do you properly prepare for an unknown event?
SARS and pandemics in general are very far from unknown. Too bad our government neglected its duty because our politicians are hacks, but that's what our public elect so that's what they deserve no matter how much damage those choices do.
The first SARS pandemic hit in 2003 and was extensively studied, one reason Singapore, South Korea and Japan were well prepared and China, while not, responded fairly well but the jury is out because Beijing lies about numbers to save "face". It got plenty of US publicity but Americans were too busy being silly and promptly forgot about it, including most leadership. It's not a mystery event at all but elderly politicians are rarely good at anything but pandering to enough morons to get elected. They have mental room for one specialty and entertaining enough human sandbags to win office. The quality of effective advertising and intellectual level of pop culture should tell you how the average 100 IQ voter thinks which dictates the leaders they like. Ignorant voters choose ignorant hack bosses. Americans failed America across the board because Americans only care about trifles and reject the idea of a well-rounded education.
There are many highly specialized subjects those who aren't specialists will know nothing about but are desperately important for leadership to understand.. Those mildly interested at an enthusiast level need to dig AND enough serious background self or professional education to understand useful amounts of info. Anyone CAN do it but some effort is required. It's interesting stuff so go for it! If you can understand engines you can understand far more than that.
If you wonder why the US government lacks better public health policy I invite you to study how lobbyists manipulate gullible voters via the media. American health care is insanely expensive but much of that money is not used to provide care. Note I take no political position here because when Americans think of politics they instantly switch to emotional mode and become even sillier. If you're curious you'll form your own opinion. The only obligation of business is profit and they spend mad cash trying to program the public, which works until shit breaks down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLuZjpxmsZQ Have some George Carlin but listen to the details. The guy was a masterful speaker who used humor superbly.Last edited by farmall; 03-28-2020, 12:30 AM.Comment
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Perhaps we rely too much on the "hacks" in Washington ?
A small and leaner Federal presence would probably be more effective.Comment
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Now support that assertion with evidence, logic, facts and reason! It's not OK to just have random thoughts then believe them because that doesn't result in analytical thinking. On what pandemic management evidence is your belief based? I understand you've been taught by right wing media to want to think that (they don't teach you how their revenue stream works, you'll enjoy learning), but in that case you should be able to swiftly and easily support the contention that (proven to be badly prepared) US states would somehow do better unsupported by national efforts.A small and leaner Federal presence would probably be more effective.
Both right and left wing media exist to elect people to powerful positions. Don't confuse that with helping the public. They are tools to influence you and your buying habits and all your personal data including opinions are worth billions to marketers.
You have plenty of historic and now modern examples of effective national intervention. Did you read about those before forming an opinion? Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Iceland are all modern countries successfully controlling their pandemics via effective central government marshaling of people and resources.
Thinking clearly is always useful but people aren't shown how to teach themselves independently of the mass media bullshit factories and politard agendas which are no substitute for independent thought.
We already have a very lean Federal presence in pandemic management because we abandoned serious preparations to defend against biowarfare despite 9/11 and the Al Qaeda crew who died while experimenting with bubonic plague. That's a fact. OTOH the limited (due to budgets focused on procurement) federalized National Guard response (the military is big government too) is managing decently so far at standing up additional hospital space to free specialty facilities and boost surge capacity. The states don't always have the money. California is wealthy and has some magnificent facilities, but Louisiana and elsewhere in the Deep South CHOSE not to do the smart thing. Their response to pandemic is a national matter because it must be controlled throughout the country to prevent even more medical overload and economic destruction than it will already cause. Less Federal intervention in LA doesn't just mean a few dead folk in one place. Survivors with no resources are hard to contain.
This sort of thing is what LA does left to its own devices. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/us/lo...rus/index.html That ocean of ignorance is why Katrina did so much damage to NOLA (and why idiots imagine it's OK to live in a flood plain guaranteed to be destroyed by storm surge). Federal intervention there is a provable national necessity to keep it from collapsing and spewing infected refugees elsewhere to overwhelm other states. The US looks big but is highly interconnected. It's not 1900 any more.
Now take my assertions for nothing but do your own homework. Did your school teach you how pandemics and herd immunity work? If not, you can learn that yourself and it's interesting stuff.
America needs Americans to be genuinely informed or the team will be less capable. One infected person can infect hundreds.
The Guard relies heavily on Federal funding so never confuse state guard actions with "not being Federal":
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