Kolek planning to go pro
One easy solution - instead of waffling whenever asked about states that haven’t yet implemented stay at home orders - he could strongly and consistently call out every holdout, pointing out that we are all in this together and need to do what the public health experts are recommending. Consistent, unifying, and supported by what scientists currently know about the virus.If he repeated that mantra sincerely and consistently, we would have the ability to fight the pandemic in a unified way.
Every leader has made mistakes, but this isn’t one of them. It is up to individual doctors - not politicians - to decide whether to prescribe off-label use of medications that are approved for other conditions. I suspect most docs aren’t doing this because the scientific data is lacking, but you would have to ask them.
But this IS a mistake made by Cuomo...Because of an executive order issued by the Democratic governor, any new prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine must go through the already overrun hospital system. This makes no sense.And...Doctors DO want to prescribe it...I live on Long Island and many doctors are telling me that they want to prescribe this medication to their patients who test positive for COVID-19 – the disease caused by the coronavirus – but do NOT need the patient to come to a hospital. However, Cuomo’s executive order forbids pharmacies from filling the prescriptions.
In all honesty and sincerity though, in thinking about this for some time now, wouldn't we have been better off to have states with major infections(Like New York), be on lock down like they currently are and the states that don't have so many(like say North Dakota) not be on lock down BUT not allow them to leave the state?? You can control that too, you have "border" patrols. Isn't that in effect a way to control the spread. That way at worst you're containing it to just people in the state and in effect, "slowing the spread"?? I mean don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily have a problem with the "shelter in place orders" as I 100% understand why it needs to be done, but I also think the way I described above would also be effective, wouldn't it?? One thing that is obvious with all of this, and it makes total sense, but the bigger cities are the one's most affected, where there's so many people basically on top of each other and that makes total sense why it would be that way.For example, the county where i live is rural, and we have had under 20 positive cases here.
Your right, and fortunately there's just enough people that aren't complete idiots that we SAVED this country from being run by someone who would have absolutely been the worst President we have ever had by a wide margin, and that's saying something since we have had Carter and Obama. Then again, you probably thought she was an outstanding candidate. MY GODMaybe if you can ever get over your far left wing agenda, you'd be able to understand that.
What you are doing is exactly what you are criticizing him for, being partisan during a time when We should be uniting like post 911, which lasted all of about a day and a half btw.
After reading hundreds of even handed, straight down the middle posts on Scoop, I sense that you and others here are yearning for the end to partisanship. So sad that Donald Trump won’t let you. I love ya, Gooo, but c’mon. Not your fault that the President is lacking in self awareness, but that’s no excuse for losing yours.
So when guru goes on one of his barely intelligible, hyper-partisan, my-side-is-right-and-everybody-else-is-wrong rants, who cares? But when the president of the United States says that Democratic governors have to "appreciate" him more if they want the U.S. citizens who live in their states to have access to life-saving equipment; or when he blames the opposition party for things that he actually had control of; or when he calls everybody who disagrees with him the "enemy," I think it matters a little bit more.
Sweden taking a different approach. Is the PM going for a herd immunity approach? He suggests that any shutdown cannot be sustained.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden-idUSKBN21L23R
In all honesty and sincerity though, in thinking about this for some time now, wouldn't we have been better off to have states with major infections(Like New York), be on lock down like they currently are and the states that don't have so many(like say North Dakota) not be on lock down BUT not allow them to leave the state?? You can control that too, you have "border" patrols. Isn't that in effect a way to control the spread. That way at worst you're containing it to just people in the state and in effect, "slowing the spread"?? I mean don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily have a problem with the "shelter in place orders" as I 100% understand why it needs to be done, but I also think the way I described above would also be effective, wouldn't it??
I don't get this at all...why would you NOT want to TRY to help your own people?? There is really ZERO to lose.https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sean-hannity-gov-cuomo-stop-denying-new-yorkers-hydroxychloroquine
It amazes me how truly uninformed people are about things..talk to people and they say "well that's what i heard on the news" so they believe it.
Says the guy who thinks we should pump unproven vaccines into billions of people...
It would be effective, but incredibly difficult to enforce. Furthermore, the essential parts of our economy that have to keep running during this time have to cross state lines. For example, Wisconsin "exports" dairy products to other states. That has to be done by truck.I was talking to someone months ago about the gasoline distribution business. He told me that supplying the daily gasoline needs for the state requires contant shipping and trucking from refineries located elsewhere.State borders have never been meant to be treated like national borders.And if you look at the article that Frenns linked above, you can see why partial shutdowns just don't work.
Guys:Since the inception of this thread, I estimate 90% of the posts have been good information or discourse on options, 8% non-partisan criticism of various actions or recommended actions, and 2% partisan.That has flipped in the last 12 hours.Let's start out Palm Sunday by getting back to where this thread started. And for MU82, let's start out National Deep Dish Pizza Day by getting back to where this thread started.
I wish I could have a good deep dish pizza. Here in Charlotte, it's mostly a pizza wasteland, and certainly devoid of deep dish pizza....
If you or a loved one has little to no chance of survival from Covid-19, but this COULD possibly save your life...you're not going to take it?? I call BS if you say you wouldn't. I'm not talking about giving this to people with mild symptoms. I'm talking about giving this to people who's outcomes are otherwise grim. At that point, what is there to lose??