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

It's been a whole 24 hours, and no one has posted this? This is where I can't stand the double standard of this forum. This guy is the worst of them all.

 

Yeah, sure, the worst.

 

Two faced, "moral superiority" is.

 

The hypocrisy from Como here is rich.... but that is a politician for you (regardless of the political party).

 

I'm not following. What am I missing? Aren't all governors saying the same thing? Aren't we all dealing with the same unmanageable mess? Isn't Cuomo across the country? Kind of, who cares? was half my point.

And if there was ever a time for a group, let's say liberals for example, to feel a pretty justified sense of moral superiority, I mean, come on...

 

governors in every state are dealing with an unmanageable mess. The fed under trump has abdicated nearly all responsibility. The CDC has been gutted, marginalized, and mostly silenced. The states have limited resources and cratering budgets because of the pandemic. Governors are basically fucked, no matter which party they belong to

even under those conditions, many states have done much better at managing the unmanageable than the federal government. But Hawaii is the only state that can effectively close it's borders. Anti-mask morons from Idaho can freely travel to Oregon. And the Christmas/New Year's surge is starting to slam into an exhausted population and nearly broken hospitals.

So yeah, of course, lets worry about Cuomo's inconsistent messaging

 

I've got an in-law who is a nurse that said Cuomo is their hero (he's been touted as such). Told them they and the front line workers were mine.

 

I feel Oregon is behind the curve as compared to other Sates where both testing and vaccinations, logistics, have outpaced ours.

 

i disagree, at least in part:




I see one state doing better; the only state that can effectively close it's borders, Hawaii

State ranking of deaths/million (last column):



Oregon has more people than those last 4 states combined

state ranking of tests/million (last column):



now, if Oregon is close to doing the best in terms of both cases/million and deaths/million, they are doing just fine in their testing rate

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as for vaccinations, there doesn't seem to be a clear concise answer for why Oregon is lagging behind other states. But there sure does appear to be some bureaucratic constipation somewhere in the mix

I read this:



my first thought was WTF??? why the hell did this committee not have any meeting until Jan 7???

I'd have thought they should have stated work over a month ago. It makes no sense, at all, to me that they didn't have a meeting about vaccination process until 5 days ago.

now, this isn't all just on Oregon. From that same article, a section about CDC protocols:



I'd ask the same type of question...why is there no clarity from the CDC about phases 2-4

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/01/11/oregon-coronavirus-vaccine-schedule-covid-19-pandemic/

maybe there's some hope:

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/01/11/oregon-covid-19-vaccinations/

 

I understand putting teachers before us old farts, which goes against CDC. Im not opposed to taking a more decentralized approach for each State it seems they could learn from one anther in terms of logistcs and what works well.
I though The Gov did a decent job of keeping the cases down during the first several months, its our snail pace of in testing and vaccines.

 

like I pointed out, if the testing is way ahead, comparatively, of cases and deaths, it's not a slow pace

vaccinations are another story. I will say I've heard from a source in state government that the budget is totally hammered shit and there's no pool of available funds for anything. That's understandable I guess

 

https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavi...rom-oregons-peak-outpacing-drop-in-cases.html

 

https://www.the-sun.com/news/212801...edium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly

COVID BOMBSHELL
Trump to ‘declassify secret intelligence claiming Covid leaked from Wuhan lab linked to country’s army’ in days

 

Turns out my grandpa had a false positive test as he now tested negative and never had symptoms! Great news.

 

Amazing how many false positives there are? Great to hear!

 

Well, we are nearing 40% used of the vaccines shipped here almost 1 month ago. And now more is on the way, I sure hope they have a plan to quickly initiate to get more vaccinated, other is it back up even more.

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/202...cinated-against-covid-19-starting-jan-23.html

 

Good news for Sly and HCP, 65 and older can get the vaccine in Oregon starting jan 23rd.

 

That's not good.