Kolek planning to go pro
Here's hoping he has a complete recovery.
Have a Happy Easter Mike! https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-trump-job-approval-hits-new-high-as-voters-rally-during-crisis
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. It's a shame that this country is made up of that many ignorant, uninformed people, but..here we are.
What’s that supposed to mean?
Good NYT Opinion Piece. "The U.S. Approach to Public Health: Neglect, Panic, Repeat"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/opinion/coronavirus-public-health-system-us.htmlMakes a good argument that the success of public health measures a century ago led us to complacency and financial neglect of the public health system.“It was like a great forgetting took place,” Wendy Parmet, a public health law scholar at Northeastern University, told me. “As the memory of epidemics faded, individual rights became much more important than collective responsibility.” And as medicine grew more sophisticated, health began to be seen as purely a personal matter.Health care spending grew by 52 percent in the past decade, while the budgets of local health departments shrank by as much as 24 percent, according to a 2019 report from the public health nonprofit Trust for America’s Health, and the C.D.C.’s budget remained flat. Today, public health claims just 3 cents of every health dollar spent in the country.
Ugh. Wave two now in some of the Asian countries. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/09/world/asia/coronavirus-hong-kong-singapore-taiwan.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwAR33R2cMvjhu7q4KuzkoQ5WhPqRyUbWXptMO3hkuwab4vAo_8LhdCKprhJY
It’s been explained many times in this thread that this won’t happen. #LastDays
Really, who said that this won't happen. Interested.
#ProneBoi
Aren't you in your 40s?
So we're basically screwed until we get a vaccine next year, right?
Less than 1 week ago Dr Fauci and Dr Birx estimated (if we did everything PERFECTLY) that between 100,000 and 240,000 would die in this outbreak. So 170,000 if you take the average. Now estimates are 60,000 and seemingly still dropping. Wonderful news, to be sure, But why do Scoopers think the models were so wrong?
Yes - that has been repeated here many times.The only real question is how screwed we are, and that will depend on how well people comply with stay at home orders, and how quickly we can develop extensive and quick testing and contact tracing. And effective treatments are a wildcard.
Definitely. I understand the plan of a few phases of physical distancing to limit the strain we put on the healthcare system. As is, I just don't see a realistic path for sports, entertainment, bars and restaurants to re-open until a vaccine is established.Like you said, things could change with effective treatments and more testing. The lack of clear plan nationally is making me more pessimistic than usual. Isolation is starting to get to me!
Your thoughts are reasonable. There is nothing promising we've seen yet. Of course we can TEMPORARILY flatten the curve if everyone sits at home. But then what? There are potential answers, but are they achievable in any reasonable amount of time? Don't know. And no one does.Most likely, earth is done.
The sad thing is that we know what will happen in just a few short months. Peoplw will start calling to cut Medicare, MedicAid and Social Security. As night follows day.....