Scholarship table
How do people who aren't working and can't pay rent able to donate to a food bank
I wasn't trying to jump on you. I apologize if you felt like I was trying to, but it was intended as a general comment about how we don't have any of the testing that we were promised by our federal administration.
Just doing what you do. Pick the lowest hanging fruit and stick to it constantly.
If all the billionaires in the US donated everything except for $1B each, we could stay in this quarantine for plenty long enough to wait for a cure/vaccine, with all bills being paid for the middle and lower classes. No one would have to risk their lives to go back to work, and no small businesses would have to go out of business.
Show you work (the math) on this, please.
Well, the excess (above $1B each) for the US billionaires is $2.6T. That is roughly 12% of the entire US GDP. It would amount to $8k for every single American.Also, I didn't mean "literally long enough to wait out a vaccine/cure". But it could buy 3-4 months.
Milwaukee hospitals at critically low levels of personal protective equipmenthttps://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/milwaukee-hospitals-at-critically-low-levels-of-personal-protective-equipment
NYT: “He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus”Pretty damning report on the administration repeatedly ignoring warnings:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=HomepageNothing surprising, but new details about who said what and when.
That is absolutely damning."Mr. Trump was walking up the steps of Air Force One to head home from India on Feb. 25 when Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, publicly issued the blunt warning they had all agreed was necessary.But Dr. Messonnier had jumped the gun. They had not told the president yet, much less gotten his consent.On the 18-hour plane ride home, Mr. Trump fumed as he watched the stock market crash after Dr. Messonnier’s comments. Furious, he called Mr. Azar when he landed at around 6 a.m. on Feb. 26, raging that Dr. Messonnier had scared people unnecessarily."FEBRUARY 25!!!!
Also, I didn't mean "literally long enough to wait out a vaccine/cure". But it could buy 3-4 months.
So you said we could but you meant we couldn’t. Fair enough.And if we took all of their money, we’d have another 621 billion to pass out. But even if every billionaire was broke (and everyone they employ was out of work) it still wouldn’t be enough.
So what confuses me is how they are at such low levels with only 950 COVID hospitalizations statewide. I’m not downplaying the seriousness of anything, but just how unprepared or improperly set up they were logistically for it. They aren’t at overrun or capacity levels (I saw estimates of 2500ish ICU beds in the state). Happy to understand otherwise, but this seems like more of a process and prep issue than being overwhelmed by cases