[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 4/5/2020 at 9:56 AM, Griff88 said:

What? Afro?

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Oh the outpour of people yelling 'racism!' about that on social media is going to be stronger than the virus that caused this

[dcro 10,210]

  On 4/5/2020 at 9:56 AM, Griff88 said:

What? Afro?

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Take a pick.

 

 

[heywoodu 15,355]

If the world survived that ^, we'll get through this virus. Thanks, I am now full of hope again.

[Griff88 1,971]

  On 4/5/2020 at 9:59 AM, dcro said:

 

Take a pick.

 

 

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Eh I guess I will take any North Korean state approved haircut

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Moral of the story is this. Let the doctors handle the cases and let them do the full report. This is all easier said than done. Lots of countries in the world including USA still have the president as the front line person to handle the pandemic and do daily reports. No wonder the situation worsens. Politicians can never replace doctors.

[Agger 1,664]

  On 4/5/2020 at 9:47 AM, Monzanator said:

 

You can't trust a single politician to handle this pandemic. Nobody was ready for it and since there is no cure (vaccine) they're all fucked. Hell, Florida still had spring break gatherings or whatever when the virus was rampant in Europe. USA being a federal country with states being basically independent actually didn't help their cause. Not to mention nobody will rally around Trump in Democratic states regardless of what he says/does. This is still a political battle to be won rather than than a health crisis.

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Yes, it's a political battle, which it should absolutely never be!

When some states get whatever they ask for (and even more) for being friends with the president or a battleground state, while states with governors that won't come begging on their bleeding knees for mercy from the almighty president gets questioned whether they need what they're asking for.

It becomes a bidding war between states with the federal government as an actor pushing up the prices. Meanwhile the EU is using RescEU to do the shopping for EU countries making it more affordable.

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This is really scary.

 

 

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 4/5/2020 at 10:08 AM, up and down said:

Moral of the story is this. Let the doctors handle the cases and let them do the full report. This is all easier said than done. Lots of countries in the world including USA still have the president as the front line person to handle the pandemic and do daily reports. No wonder the situation worsens. Politicians can never replace doctors.

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Yeah, I'm happy at least our government makes it's decisions pretty much entirely based on scientists, medical experts and others like that.

Edited April 5, 2020 by heywoodu

[Agger 1,664]

  On 4/5/2020 at 10:08 AM, up and down said:

Moral of the story is this. Let the doctors handle the cases and let them do the full report. This is all easier said than done. Lots of countries in the world including USA still have the president as the front line person to handle the pandemic and do daily reports. No wonder the situation worsens. Politicians can never replace doctors.

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There is no way to take politicians out of the equation. But it's really a matter of how much you listen to them.

But even so, it's pretty clear that there are major differences between doctors. It's not like it's the politicians making the calls on keeping the society pretty open in Sweden. They're following the ideas of a doctor. 

Meanwhile it's also necessary with the politicians to consider how the country is to keep moving on (both during a lockdown and when slowly opening up).

 

Meanwhile I must admit that I'm starting to fear if Denmark may be getting through this too easily. Things are working very well and the numbers of people hospitalized has been going down for a few days now while the numbers in ICU has been pretty steady. What I could fear is if too few has had the corona a potential second wave may need the same kinds of policies. Not expecting some kind of herd immunity, but one case more now may be one case less next time and former pandemics has shown that the second wave may very well be worse than the first. But it should be made clear that my knowledge on the subject is pretty limited.

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  On 4/5/2020 at 10:30 AM, heywoodu said:

Yeah, I'm happy at least our government makes it's decisions pretty much entirely based on scientists, medical experts and others like that.

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Good to hear about this.