Not sure where you live, but I had success after finally going to a discount grocery store like Aldi. Every other grocery store, gas station, and drugstore was out.
Yep. Hospitals are not doing elective surgeries. Hours are getting cut for the nurses, and they also spend their time sitting around waiting. My fiance has been working on some projects because they haven no patients to tend to. I'm curious what it's like for the doctors in these situations.
Rand Paul read Atlas Shrugged then started hating leaves and property lines. This culminated in a chain reaction that ultimately resulted in a Goldberg-esque spearing by his neighbor. Fearing that his innards were ruptured and his Ayn Rand-style healthcare in America was inadequate, he fled to Canada (your country) for hernia surgery.
clear step back but i still liked it. the first one is fantastic. i know its cool to hate kevin hart but i love the chemistry him and the rock have
Imagine being stupid enough to be elected governor. Just four synapses and a $200 haircut walking around making the wrong decision all goddamn day long.
So the US Surgeon General just learned asymptomatic people could spread the Virus? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
Here's that "blame the states" part of the "do nothing and then blame the states or take credit" process.
He's not entirely wrong on this one, at least as far as hospitals go. Around here many of the hospitals are owned by small private companies. I know of at least one of them that made drastic cuts in all this stuff heading into this crisis because they're trying to be bought out by one of the bigger groups and were improving profit margins. I kinda think of it like insurance companies not actually having enough money to make payouts. If we are to have private care going forward, failing at your basic mission ought to be criminal. I'm hoping, if nothing else, both right and left can come together on that afterwards.
My understanding is that regular masks (non n95) and other face covers (scarves, etc.) do a much better job of preventing you from spreading it than of preventing you from contracting it. Because of the amount of community spread now believed to be caused by asymptomatic people who are out, I think this is more of a measure to protect others from you from unwittingly spreading it rather than protecting you from others. Essentially, it’s taking the “act as if you have it” mentality one step further due to better understanding.
Great leaders are proactive and their leadership shines through in times of chaos. Shitty leaders are reactive and never take the blame when chaos ensues.
Do you think hospitals that weren't stocking up before all of this might have been more apt to stock up if the POTUS was taking it serious from the get and advised them to do so rather than saying this was all nothing and would just go away?
Great now hospitals need to build airstrips capable of handling large cargo planes. Insurance about to go up again
There could be due process issues, but I agree. What court is going to listen to that case currently, let alone find for the shit heads with emergency police powers authorized?
Why do we have a Potus and federal govt if they are going to defer to governors during a national crisis? If the governors are left to fight against each other and make their own decisions in what policies to put in place, what's the point in having a fed? The fed should be overseeing this entire thing, not sitting back and taking no action in order to avoid blame. Trump is in way over his head and his natural reaction was to downplay in the beginning, avoid all responsibility during the crisis, and then blame others for the mountain of deaths.
The response to the president's tweets this morning... and it's clear the Democratic opposition's messaging is completely missing - it's a bungled mess when there is any... is that states and hospitals shouldn't be competing with each other on the open market for PPE, medicines, and medical supplies. Along with the Trump administration's massive failures leading up to this (cutting the balls off of the CDC in 2018, relying on crony capitalism to supply the nation with testing kits, allowing Libertarian think tank economists to decide when to respond, etc.), he continues to fail the American people by not in part nationalizing the response. That includes using the defense act to produce medical supplies and PPE. That includes price caps and a bureaucracy in place to manage distribution. It probably should include some sort of household goods rationing with stiff penalties for violators and black marketers (but I have no idea how that would work or what it would look like). It was clear this was going to be a big deal by mid February. It was clear to everyone reading this thread that it was in this country and wasn't contained. It's clear now, on April 2nd, that the Federal response to this is completely chaotic and people are dying in scores as a result. I don't accept this and you shouldn't either.
I’ll disagree with most people here and say that if you’re capable of analyzing the flaws in her philosophy, mainly her lack of empathy, compassion and decency, Ayn Rand is definitely worth a read. Despite these flaws she’s highly intelligent and it will help you understand how some people could be seduced by such an ideology. If you are someone who’s easily influenced and without a clear, well thought out view of the world, avoid that shit like the plague.
Budgets are a real problem for state hospitals as well due to reimbursement cuts over the last decade+.