Almost 5000 dead in the US in the past 48 hours if anyone's still keeping up.
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Almost 5000 dead in the US in the past 48 hours if anyone's still keeping up.
Everyone is looking at what China is doing. It's the antibody testing and an app for your phone. Basically let's wherever you go know if you're clear or not. They're also checking temps. Disney in China is checking everyone.
Bill Gates wants us all chipped though. He's the devil.*
I don't know jack about the stats the blogger's bandying about. But I do know this:
John Hinderaker, the blogger, is a career trial attorney who's run a political blog for 15 years or so. His analysis of the stats is that we did not and do not need to "flatten the curve."
On the other hand, Vanderbilt's Division of Infectious Diseases, the Tennessee Chapter of the American College of Physicians, the Tennessee Medical Association, the State of Tennessee's Medical Examiner, and hundreds of physicians across the State of Tennessee signed a petition begging our governor to issue a mandatory "shelter in place" order when he repeatedly refused to do so. They did this because their analysis led them to conclude that not doing so could be disastrous.
Until I gain the expertise necessary to conduct a meaningful analysis of our state's public health system and virology, I'm going to err on the side of listening to the analysis of the overwhelming majority of physicians in my state.
ETA: That wasn't meant to disparage independent analysis or you in particular, 7. It occurred to me after posted that it may have come off like that or as condescending. Sorry, dude. I didn't mean it like that. The unification of health officials and doctors from all practices and backgrounds from across Tennessee (and likely the country) is telling to me. And, full disclosure for context, if you're interested: My father's a recently retired physician boarded in internal medicine and occupational and environmental medicine. He's as die-hard a pro-business, anti-socialized medicine conservative as I've ever met in my life, and he always has been. He's not only firmly on board with all the other doctors in Tennessee, but he could preach a day-long sermon about the national public health system's response to the pandemic, which he views as one of the biggest failures of the federal government in his lifetime. Hearing him talk about this and reading the stuff that he sends me has no doubt colored how I'm viewing things, for better or worse.
I have no idea of the author's credentials for writing this. Perhaps he has none.
As far as when the country will open again... doctors have an educated idea on the medical side, but probably limited on the economic side. Vice versa for business guys. I would hope our leaders are considering both sides of this though, and strike a balance between the 2. I guess what I'm saying is doctors shouldn't be the only consultants on this matter.
The author of the blog may not be worth listening to on either side.
Well, there is this letter signed by 32 prominent economists from both parties: https://economicstrategygroup.org/re...ement-covid19/
But it's almost 3 weeks old, which seems like a lifetime these days. I wonder what their thoughts are now.
The statement in bold is one example of where your entire argument goes out the window. As an advocate of UBI, you somehow think that people working less hours for less income is going to somehow magically make products appear on the shelves at the same prices as they are today?
I'm going to chalk it up to you simply trolling the board at this point.
Most definitely, 7. That's why I was interested in the MIT article I posted earlier that discussed prominent economists' opinions and the economic study of the 1918 pandemic and why I think Taiwan's success is so promising. (And why it's so disappointing that we're so far behind in the US by comparison, but that's a different issue.)
Just an hour or so ago, our county's health department announced that testing on demand for anyone regardless of symptoms or doctor's orders is starting Thursday. Granted, the announcement in the paper also said that private testing companies say we've got a long way to go to build an infrastructure that we need for that. But regardless, it's a step in the right direction.
I don't think most on this board understand the photo you posted earlier, so I'm replying with it here again in hopes they re-read to understand why the initial projections can't be used as an argument against the measures that have been taken.