Coronavirus Outbreak...

[Mountain Man]

Urm, testing allows you to identify cases, track contacts and contain the virus. S. Korea has very effectively used testing to combat the virus. So, this is false.

The US has 6x the population of S. Korea, and 'the best healthcare in the world', so, there's no excuse it can't test 15,000 people per day (which S. Korea is running at now), times 6, like in S. Korea. Which, btw, has socialised medicine.

FYI before your start praising South Korea's socialized medicine...

https://www.breitbart.com/health/202...e-for-all-aoc/

Pay attention to that last paragraph: a private company was able to ramp up production only after the government got out of the way. Interesting, isn't it?

[Zara]

FYI before your start praising South Korea's socialized medicine...

https://www.breitbart.com/health/202...e-for-all-aoc/

Pay attention to that last paragraph: a private company was able to ramp up production only after the government got out of the way. Interesting, isn't it?

Whatever S. Korea is doing, it's working to stop the spread of the virus. They aren't closing down entire provinces.

Sorry, do you have a point or are you just trying to score points? The US has largely private healthcare, it produces what, 1,200 test per day on a population 6x that of S. Korea, three months into the crises?

[seanD]

Welp...the City of Barstow has asked that gatherings of 250 or more be at least postponed to the end of April.

My church sponsors an annual Eggstravganza - this will be our 13th year, I think - the Saturday before Easter. We often draw at least 3,000 people. It is entirely funded by us. Wow...praying that we make the right decision on this.

I had thought about that. How potential quarantines would affect church gatherings, and how the church would respond to that.

[JimL]

Whatever S. Korea is doing, it's working to stop the spread of the virus. They aren't closing down entire provinces.

Sorry, do you have a point or are you just trying to score points? The US is largely private healthcare, it produces what, 1,200 test per day on a population 6x that of S. Korea, three months into the crises?

Unfortunately I don't think the Trumpsters here, including Trump himself, understand the importance of testing as a means of counteracting the spread of the virus.

[NorrinRadd]

Still waltzing along with the President I see. "China virus". What a bunch of crock. ...

I'd been enjoying using the "proper" terminology, Covid-19. But since the libtard media have declared certain terms to be "racist," I am morally compelled to rely almost exclusively on terms such as "China virus," "Wuhan virus," and my favorite, "Kung Flu."

[Mountain Man]

Sorry, do you have a point...?

I forgive you. And yes, the point is that S.Korea's successes can not be reasonably attributed to government bureaucracy.

[Zara]

I forgive you. And yes, the point is that S.Korea's successes can not be reasonably attributed to government bureaucracy.

The logical fallacy in your post is so glaring btw, that it beggars belief that you post with a straight face.

Ironically, if you re-read your earlier post, it can be attributed to such bureaucracy - who created demand for the tool? The planning and procedures to deal with such a crises, including the use of external tools, also government bureaucracy. It's not like it wasn't the government that said we will fight this, and deployed the tools across its entire economy, public and private, to do it. I don't assume private can solve all problems, that doesn't mean it can't solve some problems, and vice-versa.

Meanwhile, do you have a response to the lack of testing in the US? No, of course not, you take one point from a post you have a response to, and ignore everything else, like the usual troll you are. Your little chump champion, meanwhile, says that it's not his responsibility, doesn't know what's going on in his own government and blames everything under the sun for the failure of an adequate response.

[Mountain Man]

Meanwhile, do you have a response to the lack of testing in the US?

Domestic production of test kits was ramped up weeks ago, thanks to government bureaucracy getting out of the way of private industry (gee, that sounds familiar), but these things take time. The good news is that kits are now being produced in significant numbers and are being shipped across the country. Trump announced today that drive-thru testing could begin soon.

(The latest liberal spin on that last point is that Trump hates people without cars. Seriously. )

[rogue06]

Domestic production of test kits was ramped up weeks ago, thanks to government bureaucracy getting out of the way of private industry (gee, that sounds familiar), but these things take time. The good news is that kits are now being produced in significant numbers and are being shipped across the country. Trump announced today that drive-thru testing could begin soon.

(The latest liberal spin on that last point is that Trump hates people without cars. Seriously. )

There is also grousing about how the CEOs and such at Trump's speech weren't diverse enough.

[JimL]

Domestic production of test kits was ramped up weeks ago, thanks to government bureaucracy getting out of the way of private industry (gee, that sounds familiar), but these things take time. The good news is that kits are now being produced in significant numbers and are being shipped across the country. Trump announced today that drive-thru testing could begin soon.

(The latest liberal spin on that last point is that Trump hates people without cars. Seriously. )

Well, it isn't really that serious anyway, right?

[Mountain Man]

Well, it isn't really that serious anyway, right?

1,200 known cases in the US. 33 dead.

Yet people are acting like those figures are in the millions.

[rogue06]

Try telling that to Italy. They ran out of ventilators.

Apparently they're rationing them.

[Zara]

Domestic production of test kits was ramped up weeks ago, thanks to government bureaucracy getting out of the way of private industry (gee, that sounds familiar), but these things take time. The good news is that kits are now being produced in significant numbers and are being shipped across the country. Trump announced today that drive-thru testing could begin soon.

(The latest liberal spin on that last point is that Trump hates people without cars. Seriously. )

Not in S. Korea, they take time in the US - where the people that matter haven't taken the issue seriously. The crises started months ago, not weeks ago. Assuming what you say isn't garbage.

But spin away, you talk so much garbage anyway - who actually believes what you say these days?

[Mountain Man]

The crises started months ago...

Yes, and Trump has been dealing with it for months, but Democrats were too focused on their impeachment scam throughout January to bother doing anything useful. Instead, they mocked Trump and accused him of racism when he tried to restrict travel from infected countries, and even now Democrats are demanding that the President be stripped of his authority to close the borders.

[JimL]

1,200 known cases in the US. 33 dead.

Yet people are acting like those figures are in the millions.

And those numbers are the result of a lack of testing. The actual numbers could be in the millions right now for all we know. According to the Ohio Governor the suspected number of cases in Ohio alone is over 100,000. They expect that number to double in 6 days!