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To: fhayek

lol

That’s plenty of calories to survive :)

At my weight, sustained food shortages of 18 months would get me back to my college weight


13 posted on 03/12/2020 4:46:48 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: dp0622

meanwhile, NYT tells it readers:

12 March: NYT: Tom Hanks Got Sick in Australia, Where Coronavirus Testing Isn’t Such a Hassle
In the United States, little if anything about the testing has been efficient or convenient. In Australia, it is free and widely available
By Damien Cave
SYDNEY, Australia — Here, testing is free and widely available, thanks to early and coordinated planning for a pandemic...
Some countries, like the United States, are looking increasingly ill prepared...
Although Canada has relatively few cases so far, its testing system is also well developed...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/australia/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-coronavirus.html

in fact, it’s not easy to get tested in Australia, even if you have acute, flu-like symptoms:

11 Mar: ABC Australia: Coronavirus guidelines ‘confusing and frustrating’ for NSW doctors
By Liv Casben
Dr McMullen said information coming from the Federal Government and different state health authorities was “confusing, frustrating and challenging”...
Yesterday, the country’s chief medical officer Brendan Murphy addressed some of the confusion around testing.
“At the moment we are not recommending people with acute, cold, flu-like symptoms, unless they are a returned traveller, or unless they are a contact of a confirmed case, be tested,” he said...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-11/coronavirus-panic-source-of-frustration-for-nsw-doctors/12043182


18 posted on 03/12/2020 4:52:13 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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