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Build a wall around Louisiana!

 

Unbelievable....In post #7290 you made a blanket about a group of people and while you were at it you decided to lump me in with them (you "assumed) by claiming what I would say/do if certain things had or had not happened.

Can you or can you not prove what I would have said, yes or no? ...Of course you can't, hence "you can't prove a negative".

 

Very early in this thread, I mentioned that my fiancee was scrubbed in with a surgeon and that the hospital was kind of keeping it under wraps. Now that its more ubiquitous, he has an article out in Allure about his experience.

https://www.allure.com/story/plastic-surgeon-covid19-experience

 

Unfortunately, she has been redeployed to a drive up testing center now that elective surgeries have slown to a grinding halt.

She is the one sticking up the swabs up the nose. Pretty nervous about exposure since she is on the front lines now.

 

No, you didn't "nail" anything...you lumped me in with a group of people and "assumed" what I would say or claim...are you denying that?

 

Sorry CC...didn't see your post.

 

Okay sounds good. I’ll just ignore negative generalizations and will try my best to not make the same negative generalizations.

 

Just read that they approved a home test kit that they can send you, you swab your nose, put it in a vial of saline and mail it back. Hopefully, that gets people like her away from the risk of doing that.

 

https://apple.news/AaKnlMt7tSdeugukvLQH75A

Reasoning why getting a vaccine for a “SARS strain” will take much longer than an “influenza” strain.

 

I disagree with the "government is inept" stuff. In fact I think it's bunk and that government is getting blamed for the ills of bureaucracy. Social Security and Medicare have been operating extremely well for decades. Don't talk about the funding, that's another issue. But their mission has been to deliver targeted services and they've done that well. Or think about electrical grids like the BPA or TVA

the US DOT worked very well for decades too. The interstate highway system was copied by just about every industrialized world. Again, funding became an issue, but that's not the fault of the DOT. We have let our infrastructure degrade to a shameful level, but that's the fault of corrupt and divided politics coupled with a lazy and ignorant electorate. The Army Corps of Engineers have been very well run. And by the way, the standard can't be perfection in a real world

but getting back to conflating government with bureaucracy, think about this: have you ever had any issues dealing with the bureaucracies of Comcast, or AT&T, or Apple, or Verizon or Sony? Ever had issues enforcing warranties on cars or electronics? Ever had problems with PGE or PP&L? Private sector bureaucracies are every bit as "inept" as public sector bureaucracies, so again, blaming government for bureaucratic sins is assigning blame to the wrong place

and of course, when we keep putting people in charge who hate government and want to destroy it, we're going to get the kind of results we've had over the last 20 years

as far as the local level government, there are simply some things that have scales too big for local governments to handle. Although I'd be just find with the 3 left coast states seceding and forming their own 'local' government. Bring along Nevada cause we'd need somebody to make book; BC and Alaska can join too if they want

 

I think having a level of pessimism against the government, especially at the federal level. I think that’s healthy.

I also agree that citizens will get the best “care, focus, whatever” at the local level.

 

https://cnn.it/34Saj00

Looks like Congress has reached a deal.

I think the additional verbiage the Democrats put in is fair and much needed. Seems like this is further proof that bipartisan action is most optimal.

 

Agreed. I would also add local as well (mayors and city council).