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What's wrong with liquor stores? In some areas that liquor store is the primary grocery store. I feel like there's a lot of better things to get frustrated about than those
The only hope is we find effective treatments and soon.
This always was the only hope.The leadership at the top has been incompetent and negligent at best and I have zero doubt that has made the situation worse.But it's also a feature of our system that there never was going to be a unified, national approach to this. We can debate the New Zealand approach vs the Sweden approach vs any other approach all we want, but none of them would have produced similar results here because of who we are.
But it's also a feature of our system that there never was going to be a unified, national approach to this. We can debate the New Zealand approach vs the Sweden approach vs any other approach all we want, but none of them would have produced similar results here because of who we are.
On behalf of your inferiors everywhere, thanks for your prayers that we be delivered from our stupidity. So thoughtful, so kind - just what we hope for from our superiors. Apologies that despite your efforts we continue to disappoint you. It must make your life very difficult.
I actually think the next month will be interesting. In my opinion, the northeast went through a real hard phase 1 of this because we had no confirmation it was circulating. It damn near broke the health system, and caused really bad deaths/1M (like worse than Italy, Spain, UK or pretty much anywhere else). People here are shell shocked, but I think there is a hope we can relax a bit now that the health system caught up. The govt's are going to find ways to turn things on and are working to improve testing and tracing. The other parts of the country acted quick enough to slow that from happening, benefited to some degree and now are quick to return. We (the NE) may actually get to learn from them this time . Most people are tired of this, but also have low desire to go back to the way it was until at least later this month.
On a good note, over the weekend I saw my neighbor works in the Yale-New Haven Hospital Medical Lab and she has obviously been very busy but said the hospital was ramping up now for massive increases in testing.
You are correct - it would never be fully unified like in SK or China.But if we had a strong president who emphatically and consistently encouraged stay-at-home orders, and leaned hard on governors who didn't follow, we could have been close. Look at the reality - most of the states that were late in closing or that never closed have Republican governors. And they knew he wasn't really serious about stay-at-home orders, because he waffled back and forth between that and his 'liberate' tweets. A strong leader who took the experts seriously might very well have gotten us to 90% or better compliance in closing and then opening up in a more scientifically sound manner...and that would have been much better than we got.
Agreed, whether you like his politics or not, is one thing. But he is a genuinely enjoyable and kind individual.
It would be nice to think so, but the cynical portion of me has its doubts.We live in a country where powerful influences on both sides of the debate (looking at you Fox News and MSNBC) have worked very hard to profit off portraying the other side not just as wrong, but as malevolent. Where a president has spent the last few years openly attacking and fomenting distrust in our institutions. Where a significant portion of our population view our government as a swamp. Where the phrase "government worker" is used as a pejorative.I agree that a better president would have produced better results, but I think the combination of our political structure combined with our current political climate and culture would make it very difficult to bring about a unified approach.
He doesn't have to turn it on, hes always been charming. Politics and presidency aside, hes always been an enjoyable and charismatic person to be around. Michelle Obama loves him, that speaks volumes.
Alexander Hamilton misses the genteel old days.
One can always serve up the exception as the rule. We have had periods of time with cooperation and bipartisanship, and periods of endless fighting. Guess which one we are in now.
This would be crazy if true. https://thehill.com/policy/international/europe/496075-french-hospital-discovers-it-treated-coronavirus-patient-in
Lincoln, too. He was one of the two worst-treated presidents in history, I'm told.
The fact that you responded in this manner to a post that wasn't directed specifically at you says it all.