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DynaLo said:
Religion based way of saying that once you get married be prepared for and embrace less frisky behavior as the norm???

I thought everybody already had that figured out somewhere during year two of their marriage 🤣
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Oh, I see. So, when a critical decision is to be made, Mr. Azar will make it, not Mr. Pence.
 
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LouderVol said:
An hour? The transcript had him speaking for 9 minutes. And it was the opening parts of it.

If anyone talks for an hour how much actual information do you expect to be conveyed? Velo listed four items he was saying Trump should have done. I pointed out that Trump did in fact address those points. In three minutes. The first three. Points addressed, now time for filler.
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9 minutes?

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I'm not a religious person, but if I were I'd sorta think God is punishing my country if I were Iranian.

 
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“It's really important we correct this impression that it will require this massive hospital isolation for normal patients,” Azar said. “If we end up having broader spread, it’ll be a much more common approach. As [CDC’s Principal Deputy Director Dr. Anne] Schuchat called it, it’ll look and feel to the American people more like a severe flu season, in terms of the interventions and approaches you see.”
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Azar said most people who get coronavirus will have mild to moderate symptoms and will be able to stay home, treating it like the severe flu or cold.
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Coronavirus news: Italy, China, Iran, South Korea all confirm new cases - CNN

The more I read about this the more I think 95% of all this is just an overreaction. I bet in 6 weeks time it isn't even news anymore. I know there are certain pockets where it needs to be contained and what not, but I'm not going out prepping or anything.
 
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LouderVol said:
Pretty sure the CDC has spent tens of millions on guns, ammo, and office furniture. Seems like an easy place to cut.

Always plenty to cut from government entities without impacting actual performance. The trick is to make sure those entities cut the nonessential stuff first. But there are greedy bureaucrats in place to make sure their sacred office furniture cows dont get cut.
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I get being comfy at your desk, but who are all these folks getting ready to wage war on? It’s a jaw dropping and head scratching read...

67 non-military federal agencies spent $1.48 Billion on guns, ammo and military-style equipment from 2006-2014.

58 non-military federal agencies, including 40 regulatory & administrative agencies spent $158 Million on guns and ammo over FY 2015 and part of FY 2016.

Why Are Federal Bureaucrats Buying Guns And Ammo? $158 Million Spent By Non-Military Agencies

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DynaLo said:
I get being comfy at your desk, but who are all these folks getting ready to wage war on? It’s a jaw dropping and head scratching read...

67 non-military federal agencies spent $1.48 Billion on guns, ammo and military-style equipment from 2006-2014.

58 non-military federal agencies, including 40 regulatory & administrative agencies spent $158 Million on guns and ammo over FY 2015 and part of FY 2016.

Why Are Federal Bureaucrats Buying Guns And Ammo? $158 Million Spent By Non-Military Agencies

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Guns in people's hands bad.

But dozens of non military or security based government agencies buying billions of guns needs to be protected!
 
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DynaLo said:
I get being comfy at your desk, but who are all these folks getting ready to wage war on? It’s a jaw dropping and head scratching read...

67 non-military federal agencies spent $1.48 Billion on guns, ammo and military-style equipment from 2006-2014.

58 non-military federal agencies, including 40 regulatory & administrative agencies spent $158 Million on guns and ammo over FY 2015 and part of FY 2016.

Why Are Federal Bureaucrats Buying Guns And Ammo? $158 Million Spent By Non-Military Agencies

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The IRS will start shooting people for tax evasion.
 
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Well, imagine that. Exactly what level-headed professionals have been saying.

Trump’s budgets have proposed cuts to public health, only to be overruled by Congress, where there’s strong bipartisan support for agencies such as the CDC and NIH. Instead, financing has increased.
Indeed, the money that government disease detectives first tapped to fight the latest outbreak was a congressional fund created for health emergencies.
Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness — the front lines in detecting and battling new disease. But that decline was set in motion by a congressional budget measure that predates Trump.
The broader point about there being “nobody here” to coordinate the response sells short what’s in place to handle an outbreak.
The public health system has a playbook to follow for pandemic preparation — regardless of who’s president or whether specific instructions are coming from the White House.
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“The CDC’s response has been excellent, as it has been in the past,” said John Auerbach, president of the nonpartisan Trust for America’s Health, which works with government at all levels to improve the nation’s response to high-risk health crises. Some Democrats have charged that Trump decimated the nation’s public health leadership, but Auerbach said CDC’s top scientific ranks have remained stable during the past three years.
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kiddiedoc said:
That's complete nonsense. Say: they are wasting 50% of their funds. If you cut funding by 10% and make them 25% more efficient, it would actually have a net positive impact.

Point is: you have no idea, and nobody at the CDC has demonstrated that a reduction in funding would hurt anything at all. This is just another case of you whining about nonsense because "muh, Trump."
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Another thing, not sure if the case here but many times when they say they've cut their budget by 10% meant they cut their increase by 10%.
 
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Seriously, Mike Pence just got told he was the starting QB of an unwinnable game that he's never played.

We should All be terrified that a career politician and sycophantic yes man is 'in charge' of a global pandemic.
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Pence is CDC's version of Butch Jones at AL. They'll be fine as long as he stays in his place and doesn't attempt to supervise/micromanage. They need a politically connected water boy to fetch what they need ... we'd be so much better off nationally if business and political "leaders" could understand this simple fact when it comes to resolving technical issues.
 
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From yesterday's CDC release:

And so the idea that we might have a pandemic of influenza or a pandemic of a respiratory viral infection is something that we’ve known about and have been planning and preparing for. That’s why we at CDC have been exercising with the state and local health departments. That’s why the whole of government exercise last year, that’s why we’ve invested so much on the foundation we are now responding.
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It's unbelievable how some people are politicizing a respiratory infection from China. Might want to redirect your frustration. . . . Just absolute proof of TDS to the rest of us.
 
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AM64 said:
Pence is CDC's version of Butch Jones at AL. They'll be fine as long as he stays in his place and doesn't attempt to supervise/micromanage. They need a politically connected water boy to fetch what they need ... we'd be so much better off nationally if business and political "leaders" could understand this simple fact when it comes to resolving technical issues.
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I hope you're right. The last thing we need is for partisan assclowns to get in the way of the experts in order to usurp or one up the other side. This virus is an equal opportunity infection...
 
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LouderVol said:
You know cheap means slow right? If you want something fast that means more work, more risk, more costs incurred. You are asking a pharmaceutical company to risk bankruptcy or major losses in order to attempt saving lives in a short time.

Good feels wont keep them afloat.
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Drug companies might be more willing to stick their necks out in developing a solution if they were protected from lawyers. They know that despite their best efforts to develop a safe drug in minimal time, they will face lawsuits with damages that would potentially ruin them. One litigious person who claims harm can damage us all ... look no further than antivaxers. In today's legal climate vs a more realistic populace in the 50's, we'd still be in the midst of a polio epidemic.
 
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