Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

The mere fact this CDC head hasn’t resigned in disgust over the move on numbers makes him tacitly complicit in the scheme.

 

No. If the head resigns, the replacement will be someone who graduated from Liberty University in 2015 with a degree in religion and business. Be disgusted. Don’t give Trump and his klan a chance to make things worse.

 

On second thought, I revise and extend my previous remarks.
You are correct that his decision to remain makes him complicit. Unfortunately, his only choices are complicity in sustaining the status quo and complicity in facilitating a future that's even worse.

 

I can believe that. When I worked in La Grande about 15 years ago, the health care system was less than robust. I came down with bronchitis sometime around December 15 and was having trouble breathing, but the soonest the Grande Ronde hospital could see me was January 3. If memory serves, I ended up driving to an urgent care clinic in Pendleton to get it sorted.

 

All they have is the cliches.

 

She lost me when she said that trump really understood the data.

 

He is a trumper, I believe.

 

we, on the other hand . . .

 

They didn't fuck up the long-term care places like we did. Remember, at the virus' first peak, long-term care facilities accounted for 42 percent of US deaths. Contain that, and the snowball never has much momentum to begin with.

Germany began relaxing social distancing measures and opened businesses on April 15 --- before the US did. They gradually began opening schools on May 4 --- while many US states were still shut down. They never had a total lockdown, did not have a curfew as many other EU countries did --- yet a month later the virus had shown few signs of recurring.

So this "we opened too soon!!!" just doesn't cut it. We opened later than Germany. And still have several things closed that they have opened.

Emerging COVID-19 success story: Germany’s strong enabling environment

 

Gott im Himmel! I wonder if there are any other differences between the US and Germany.

I wonder.

 

The kids are (not) alright, according to this study:

Covid-19 Spread Fastest by Teens and Tweens, Korea Study Finds

 

It's not an issue. It's just because there are more tests.