Oso planning to go pro
It would be irresponsible and very disappointing if either party held its convention this year, at least in a large-scale, in-person format. The conventions were created to nominate the respective parties' candidates and to adopt a party platform. We already know that it will be Trump and Pence vs Biden and whomever he chooses. The rest is just a high school pep rally with people in suits.Have Trump and a few supporters give televised speeches before a small gathering, have Biden and his supporters do the same, and get on with the election.
I figured the difference would be significant, but that is just mind-boggling. Trump spends almost 9x as much per year?!? Wow...
Obama took 1.6 million in salary as president. Trump has taken nothing.
Correct. I mean, the $1.2 million (at least) in federal money (and counting) he's directed into his companies isn't technically salary.
Obama took 3.2 million in salary as president. Trump has taken nothing.
Math error on my part. President Obama made 3.2 million in salary.
Fascinating and very on topic.
Trump can afford to give up his salary. Honestly, I could not care one bit about how much someone makes prior to becoming a public servant, but how so many of these people become millionaires after they are public servants is where the real investigations should be. The level of corruption in both political parties and our system is grotesque.
I thought this was a good article. https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-doesnt-have-to-be-so-deadly-just-look-at-hong-kong-and-singapore-11590491418?mod=e2fb
The concept is correct but it is not something that would work in western society. Authoritarian regimes are always going to have an advantage in pandemics because they can dictate to the citizenry how to behave. Under no reasonable scenario could we get to something on the order of 150 Million tests conducted a day and "locking folks up" who test positive for 14 days. It works but it just isn't practical for the US.Side note, we also could have reduced our death toll if we just hadn't put infected patients back into nursing/assisted living facilities. If we had locked down sooner we would have seen better results, and if we had pushed masks/spacing consistently from the start we would have been better off as well.This isn't a conspiracy theory per se, but I think 5 years from now we're going to look back on the Imperial College modeling from the early days as A) a tipping point that got us into a lockdown (good) and B) and a wild overreaction that killed people because governments assumed catastrophic hospitalization needs that created choices that ultimately killed more than saved (ie NY saving the Jaffit Center and Comfort for net new patients that never showed versus putting at-risk patients there for recovery instead of nursing homes)
The concept is correct but it is not something that would work in western society. Authoritarian regimes are always going to have an advantage in pandemics because they can dictate to the citizenry how to behave.
NY saving the Jaffit Center and Comfort for net new patients that never showed versus putting at-risk patients there for recovery instead of nursing homes.
This is entirely possible. We should also be cautious in assuming we’re anywhere near the end. This thing can still mutate and resurface. That doesn’t mean keeping a lockdown but aggressive reaction to outbreaks and tracing contacts.
The concept is correct but it is not something that would work in western society. Authoritarian regimes are always going to have an advantage in pandemics because they can dictate to the citizenry how to behave. Under no reasonable scenario could we get to something on the order of 150 Million tests conducted a day and "locking folks up" who test positive for 14 days. It works but it just isn't practical for the US.
Yep.https://apnews.com/86b061844589b6e3f218007544d0de80“Right now, we’re not in the second wave. We’re right in the middle of the first wave globally,” said Dr. Mike Ryan, the World Health Organization’s executive director.———————-This will still be a big deal in 2021. As other areas of the world (some that we know about and some we may not) experience first waves long after we are done with ours, travel will eventually bring cases back here when our guard is down.
My hope is, since we’ve identified that this is a pandemic, the people tackling it in labs are given all the resources necessary to help us mitigate it moving forward.