OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

Can't wait till they start making team sport medical masks.

 

I'm wearing a mask everywhere that's not home as of today.

 

Its the biggest money grab in quite some time and its accessible to us commoners for once. Work the system, yo.

 

God Bless India.

 

lives of American doctors, nurses, and health-workers will have been sacrificed on the alter of free-market capitalism:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidd...yers-and-this-is-what-i-learned/#7894117a56d4

 

They have been sacrificed by years and years of inefficient management, red tape, inadequate supplies and a lack of modernization.

My fiancee was again exposed to a patient who tested positive for COVID several weeks ago. She got an email from the surgeon last Friday who copied everyone else in the room saying they are under the assumption that the patient contracted COVID after the surgery. No further tests or quarantines were indicated at that time. Nothing from the Health System, nothing from admin, it was just the doctor giving a "heads up".

Hospital admins are throwing these workers under the bus. Its so disorganized on an institutional basis. Many departments are "winging" it.

 

It will not. It will be good for the American shale oil manufacturers which is who this president cares about.

 

pure deflection....which of course is another word for bullshit

they haven't lacked PPE with potentially fatal consequences before. This is a crisis without modern precedent. It is a national emergency and has even been declared as such. That declaration allows export restrictions & prohibitions on critical supplies. Those exports should be blocked; there are no moral or practical reasons not to

did you actually read the article? All we've heard about is the critical need around the country for N95 masks. The author of that article witnessed 280 million N95 masks being earmarked for export....on a single day. There is no fucking excuse for that...NONE

so then, while the federal government is irresponsibly allowing that to happen, it's busy outbidding New York and Michigan for PPE, then turning around and shipping that PPE to Florida and Oklahoma. MASAAA - Make America Stupid Again & Again & Again

 

You think the US Healthcare system is a model of efficiency? Have you been to urgent care or an ER in the past? They fucking suck.

Have you dealt with Hospital Administration? I have, many times. Layers and layers of bullshit. Shit is run by people who's job it is to run it as slow as possible.

 

LOL...typical Trump bullshit trying to refocus attention from republican senators who definitely traded on inside information

maybe this D did something slimy...maybe she didn't, but there are some factors that make this a piss-poor example of both-sides-do-it

to start with, it may not have been $50,000 in stock like trump said; the article said between 15K and 50K, which is the range of 1/30th to 1/50th of what the GOP senators did, or less. Second, there's no confirmation yet that she attended the briefing. It's probably safe to assume she did, but it's not certain yet

finally, there's the nature of the sale itself. She sold shares in Disney and converted the proceeds to shares of Target. That doesn't exactly reek of an insider move. Since she bought the shares of Target, they have dropped 20% in value

 

again...you're just deflecting and trying to change the subject.

I'm not interested in engaging in a debate about the normal efficiency of the US health care system. It's certainly inefficient. In this country we are paying cadillac prices while driving a moped. But the biggest reasons for that is how fragmented it it while being far too heavily influenced by market forces and profit motives. But that's another debate I don't give much of a shit about right now

I'm talking specifically about the fact that in the middle of an extreme crisis of PPE supplies for health care workers, massive amounts of needed inventory are being shipped overseas when we have easy mechanisms to stop that drain

 

There were other other D politicians involved besides this crooked wench you’re defending here. You’re literally taking the legitimate argument of “both sides do it”, which is absolutely true, and trying to turn it on it’s head by splitting hairs and using semantics.

Wouldn’t it just be easier to admit that you don't care/disregard when Democrats do corrupt shit because those examples hurt your one-sided narrative?