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From 550,000 to 20.000 just from distancing which most don’t adhere to while getting their toilet paper. He even said it was because more people had actually had it already than what they based their numbers on. He basically said the model was wrong period but gave credit to some of the implementations because they can’t be completely wrong. I actually applaud him for being truthful.

Maybe you read a different article I haven't seen. I don't see where he talks about more people having it. Another team released a model that said that. He says some of their assumptions don't match observed data.

It wasn't just distancing that dropped the projections. The distancing slowed it down and allowed hospitals to get more resources in place. It allowed infections to be spread out over longer periods. And, yes, a quick trip to the market isn't going to spread the virus as fast as kids in school or people sitting in close quarters in an office setting all day. Time and proximity aid in transmission.

I'm not trying to go to bat for one model or the other. I'm just for measures that allow our hospitals to stay ahead of the curve. So far, we're doing that. We'll see how the coming weeks play out.

I think the best long-term strategy is testing and tracing until a vaccine or better antivirals are available. The US and UK weren't there on the testing front when this thing started to take off.
 
yeah, i don't know. the president just said he doesn't believe the governor of new york needs the amount of ventilators he's requested, or that anyone is in desperate need for supplies (or else he would trigger the DPA); this pretty directly states the opposite. when people tell us they need help, we need to listen.
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yeah, i don't know. the president just said he doesn't believe the governor of new york needs the amount of ventilators he's requested, or that anyone is in desperate need for supplies (or else he would trigger the DPA); this pretty directly states the opposite. when people tell us they need help, we need to listen.
The governor of New York has stated they have all the necessary medical supplies that they need to cover the immediate need.

When talking about the president's job I think he is trying to walk a line of not inducing panic and letting people know the situation that is going on.

I normally try to look towards actions when trying to figure out what is going on. I am seeing private industries switch over to produce respirators, PPE, hand sanitizers, etc... They are filling up massive warehouses in places like New Orleans trying to prepare for the wave of increase cases.

It's strange times. I feel like we are currently coming together to do the best we can. For example a house in my neighborhood is had a booth with can goods, TP, and cleaning supplies with a sign that said Free. Everyone I know is practicing social distancing. Could we have been better prepared, yeah. But to be adequately prepared for what we were seeing would have taken much longer than we knew about this threat.
 
No BGS just likes to talk 💩, stir the pot, piss posters like you off, and drink damn good beer. Dont take it serious. This is a message board. I like to post funny GIF’s and Tweets.
Yeah, that sounds like BGS, except it's debatable whether or not he drinks damn good beer. Of course, he can change my mind, by simply sending me some of that beer for me to taste test
 
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The governor of New York has stated they have all the necessary medical supplies that they need to cover the immediate need.

When talking about the president's job I think he is trying to walk a line of not inducing panic and letting people know the situation that is going on.

I normally try to look towards actions when trying to figure out what is going on. I am seeing private industries switch over to produce respirators, PPE, hand sanitizers, etc... They are filling up massive warehouses in places like New Orleans trying to prepare for the wave of increase cases.

It's strange times. I feel like we are currently coming together to do the best we can. For example a house in my neighborhood is had a booth with can goods, TP, and cleaning supplies with a sign that said Free. Everyone I know is practicing social distancing. Could we have been better prepared, yeah. But to be adequately prepared for what we were seeing would have taken much longer than we knew about this threat.

he said "only" enough for the immediate need, implying they need more and can't get it.

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its good that companies are volunteering to help. i commend the administration for making hat happen. but getting the supplies made is only half the battle, there's a serious logistical vacuum right now as states are battling for supplies as they're made available instead of there being a coordinated federal effort. a letter signed by more than 100 current and former national security professionals, including former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, outlines as much:

“Some private companies have been willing and able to scale up production — and admirably so,” the letter says. “But as governors and local leaders around the country are making clear, private efforts without more extensive government support are proving far from sufficient to meet the current and anticipated needs. Beyond questions of supply, the private sector lacks the ability to process incoming requests, prioritize the most urgent needs, and coordinate with other companies absent more concerted government involvement. That is precisely what the DPA is designed to do.”
 
I’m not sure how many of you have ever had interviews with the news, but I have had more than I like and some that could have gone controversial. One issue in particular opened my eyes to how the media operates. There was a safety issue that kept popping up. Once we at the City identified it, I knew exactly what happened. It was a state project, so I expressed the error to TDOT, and it got corrected. It was so bad that I probably had 4-5 interviews on the subject. In at least 2 of the interviews, the reporter sensed something was wrong and kept hounding me and trying me to say something bad about TDOT. In the interview, I knew exactly what they were trying to do, and I stepped right around it.

As it was, I wasn’t the lead story. Something more sensational took that spot. I had the power to create a lead story though if I wanted. I could have made people look bad and created a firestorm about a process I’m still not sure is the most transparent practice. Instead, I took the diplomatic approach and was the second story on the 6 o’clock news.

Lesson learned: in media, the sensational or the inflammatory always sells first.

The peeks behind the curtains that I’ve had only confirm my suspicion that the news stories we see from the major outlets are the most extreme, most sensational stories out there. They’re in the business of selling fear, anger, disgust, political and controversy. It’s not about the middle ground.

Sure this is a serious illness (especially in places like New York), but pardon me for being calloused at what the media is feeding the populous. All I see is fear mongering to scare people into behaving like they think we should behave.
 
You’d think. Years ago, I had a woman call me at work and wanted to know if I had any empty 5 gl containers she could have. I told her sure (got them out my hair), but we would have to sanitize them first. They were all chemical buckets. When she picked them up, she told me about going and picking up buckets from everyone they could and explained what was going in every bucket. I don’t prescribe to that belief, but it is fascinating in that thinking.
I'm trying to find some 55-gallon drums myself (food grade) for some garden towers.

Simply don't have the time to till up and weed a plot this year if I want to garden
 
I got a bidet. Using my TP $ for juice. Got some Moonraker, Half Acre, Drekker chillin
Is that the same as using your TP $ for bud, because that's what I'm doing. Puff, puff, pass, beyotches. Moonraker sounds interesting, is that only in 'Zona or can I find it in K-Town ?
 
NYC had its highest 911 call volume ever, surpassing 9/11. It's just the flu tho
I think there’s some psychology that plays in to this as well, though. The overwhelmingly vast majority of people that want and get tested for the virus do not have it. I imagine a lot of people wouldn’t have called 911 with their same symptoms 3 months ago.
 
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