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The COVID-19 Virus is Coming For Us All Thread
BlackNMild2k1:
If a president wants to be presidential and bring hope to the masses of worried individuals around the world, he can simply state that they are working on many different treatments and have found some that are promising that are currently going through testing.
To irresponsibly start naming drugs as good treatments, when that has not yet been proven as such and also stating that it has been approved as it is already available, is not only stupid, but highly irresponsible. It has led to may hospitals around the world not only treating the virus, but also overdoses/poisoning from people taking the supposed treatment that was touted as approved and available now.
I'm not gonna dig up videos of him touting such, but will just provide a link, and just for semantics (cure/treatment, same difference) here
the effect being the the desperate and very uninformed now look for this cure/treatment that is "available" and the manipulative opportunist start using that info to make money and push product.
All things that wouldn't have happened under actual responsible and accountable leadership. here.
but we don't need to focus on that.
As for the GM thing.... bullied not bullied, it's something he should've enacted the minute it was decided the plants were being shut down and the products were needed. He shouldn't have waited an additional 1.5 weeks to do it. Everything about this crisis is being mishandled. And that article goes back to show someone showing the same behavior that led him to being impeached in the first place.
BlackNMild2k1:
And now they considering locking down New York State as a whole.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52079121
Rhode Island police already hunting down New York escapees to send them back to QUARANTINE!!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/rhode-island-police-to-hunt-down-new-yorkers-seeking-refuge
This is getting comical in the darkest of humor ways.
ThePerm:
Also pathological marketing is a problem. It's best to state the facts without going into 2 minute marketing spasms. Any drugs you take you should consult a physician. There's no need to take one instance of something you heard offhand and pivot on it because "you got a feeling" The study he was talking about was like 20 people. You can't do percentage math on 20.
BlackNMild2k1:
One day.... the movie/limited-series* on this whole previous 3+ years is going to me AMAZING
I wonder how all the corporate bailouts will be handled :rolleyes:
*it will be 6 seasons and a movie, each season more ridiculous than the last.....
that Baby guy:
On a different note, back with the Florida stuff, we're at nearly 4k cases. That said, almost half of all our cases are in two counties at one end of the state. My impression based on local things I've seen, these two counties get a lot of traffic from New York, and I believe it's suspected that many of the cases came from people fleeing New York just a little too late or via plane, getting exposed. If I had access to legacy numbers, I'd like to track our spread and growth of cases over the last two weeks. It seems like a lot, but it also feels like it's going slower in all counties but those two than were expected.