Posted on 03/24/2020 10:11:11 AM PDT by Mariner
Thread #25 here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3827443/posts?page=1
Sounds like a Monty Python skit... Is this where I say, Im not dead yet, Im feeling much better?
I have a partial solution:
Since people in their 70s and up are going to die soon, and some of them are actually looking forward to it (I know my grandmother was, on her 90th birthday), let’s set up a volunteer program for the elderly.
Test them first to make sure they’re not infected, then send them to help out wherever trained health personnel are doing jobs untrained people can do. To free up the health workers a bit.
“I expect to see a lot more of that in the next few weeks.”
Yes. Sigh. Idiots. We can only really fight effectively with valid data.
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How old are you? Parents? Grand parents?
It is likely your grandfathers were yanked out of high school, trained for six weeks, and sent to some hell hole in the Pacific.
In my case he was sent to France in 1918.
They had no choice. Period. At least three years of their life, spent killing other people in muck you can probably only imagine.
We are asking you to sit on ass for two weeks.
Grow the F up. You sound like a scared little child.
“Since people in their 70s and up are going to die soon, and some of them are actually looking forward to it (I know my grandmother was, on her 90th birthday), lets set up a volunteer program for the elderly.”
How about if younger people will volunteer to work in the hospitals and quarantine centers, once they acquire the virus and have their case resolved, not only are they green lighted and exempt from all lockdowns, but they get to conscript their parents into hospital and quarantine service?
Yeah...these were not silver. I found the silver. Before my sister did. There is one bonus to being the child that cleans out the house.
She needs a tour of duty volunteering in a third world country, watching people of all ages dying in her arms.
Some Americans are just spoiled rotten and do not understand how fortunate we are, and why every life is important.
Honestly, I dont think they CAN be in the slums. That will be horrifying, then the cholera...
It makes me sick thinking about it.
btw, the illinois guy took ibuprofen
"This is a new virus. Never seen before by a human immune system.Everyone will get this. Everyone. Not one person exposed to this, at a infectious dose, will not get infected."
A+
I would expect that based on this experience, the US - and probably most countries - will elevate bio-terror from the semi-mysterious boogieman WMD class to very real, non extinction level national security threats that require real-time monitoring, detection systems, rapid response plans, multi-agency (fed/state/local) coordination charts, etc - the list goes on.
Then, detailed matrices cross-cutting geography, city/urban/suburban/rural impacts, age, health, environment, ... the variable and permutations are practically endless. As I privately mentioned to you, I really see the CDC or some kind of equivalent essentially being militarized and charged with responsibility for the entire bio-threat detection/response/management process.
Ultimately, the proglibs have a point: how were we so unprepared? (Not Trump's fault - not anyone's really to this degree). But what the hell where CIA, DoD, and the rest doing? Detect/defend against nukes yes, chem yes, but bio? Waiting for the Russians to launch an obvious attack? No one seemed prepared for how this all went down. End result: Multi-trillion $ hit on US economy, suspension/possible compromise of civil liberties, the list goes on. Truly, an epic break-down on par (or exceeding) Pearl and/or 9/11.
When Trump is done, he will have so many legacy moments it will be hard to count them. Dealing with CV, and the subsequent elevation and re-org of how this country treats bio-terror, will be just one of them.
The Biebs may get the Rona
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Okay. What is the criteria/metric for when the shutdown can be rolled back in selected areas?
And, when my grandfather left, my grandmother started nursing school. In 1917.
She graduated into the Influenza.
Can you imagine the PTSD in that house? Well...actually I can!
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