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Post by TC on May 19, 2020 15:18:20 GMT -5
According to Admiral John Polowczyk, head of the supply-chain task force at FEMA, we manufactured roughly 30 million N95 respirators domestically a month before the COVID-19 crisis. He says we are on a path now to ramp up to 180 million N95 respirators a month." How much of that is staying in the US?
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Post by SSHoya on May 19, 2020 15:19:30 GMT -5
According to Admiral John Polowczyk, head of the supply-chain task force at FEMA, we manufactured roughly 30 million N95 respirators domestically a month before the COVID-19 crisis. He says we are on a path now to ramp up to 180 million N95 respirators a month." How much of that is staying in the US? Who knows? You can't take anything said by the Trump Regime at face value. Unless you're cultist. The inference is that the ramp up is for US consumption.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2020 16:08:50 GMT -5
There’s a term in Silicon Valley for software that’s advertised before anyone can guarantee it will even exist. It’s called “vaporware.” Much of the federal government’s response to the crisis has been vaporware. We’ve gotten lots of advertising and an implicit promise of a world-class operation to fight the disease. But it doesn’t exist yet and it’s becoming clearer that the White House is spinning its wheels, looking for something — anything — to do other than solving the crisis at hand. www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/the-vaporware-presidency/That NR quote made a lot of sense. But if you're going to quote NR, here's another article from yesterday: "In a briefing for reporters last week on FEMA’s work securing PPE, FEMA administrator Peter Gaynor laid out the raw numbers: FEMA, HHS, and the private sector have shipped or are currently shipping 92.7 million N95 respirators, 133 million surgical masks, 10.5 million face shields, 42.4 million surgical gowns, and 989 million gloves. According to Admiral John Polowczyk, head of the supply-chain task force at FEMA, we manufactured roughly 30 million N95 respirators domestically a month before the COVID-19 crisis. He says we are on a path now to ramp up to 180 million N95 respirators a month." www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/the-massive-trump-coronavirus-supply-effort-that-the-media-loves-to-hate/Imagine if we started preparing for this back in January. It's impossible to describe this as a good job, and we haven't even begun to start talking about testing.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2020 16:17:50 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on May 19, 2020 20:23:53 GMT -5
Everyone complains about lack of testing, but isn't the problem that we are doing too much testing? The clear implication of the President's gem on this one is that if there was less testing, there would be fewer cases. My wife the neurologist went stark raving bonkers over that one.
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Post by SSHoya on May 19, 2020 20:59:05 GMT -5
Everyone complains about lack of testing, but isn't the problem that we are doing too much testing? The clear implication of the President's gem on this one is that if there was less testing, there would be fewer cases. My wife the neurologist went stark raving bonkers over that one. The stable genius is nuts. All he cares about is the appearance not the substance. If we can't discover that there are more infections, it must be getting better, right? The numbers are good! He is an absolute moron.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2020 10:49:23 GMT -5
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Post by badgerhoya on May 20, 2020 11:00:18 GMT -5
Sounds like a circular firing squad...
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Post by tashoya on May 20, 2020 12:29:26 GMT -5
Trump has made it exceedingly clear that he doesn't care about people in Ed's generation. Their lives may just be the cost of doing business. Forgive me if I vehemently disagree.
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Post by SSHoya on May 20, 2020 12:45:59 GMT -5
Trump has made it exceedingly clear that he doesn't care about people in Ed's generation. Their lives may just be the cost of doing business. Forgive me if I vehemently disagree. I'm thinking the GOP has given up being the self-annointed "pro-life" party?
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Post by badgerhoya on May 20, 2020 17:19:25 GMT -5
Leading the world...
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Post by SSHoya on May 20, 2020 17:51:30 GMT -5
There’s a term in Silicon Valley for software that’s advertised before anyone can guarantee it will even exist. It’s called “vaporware.” Much of the federal government’s response to the crisis has been vaporware. We’ve gotten lots of advertising and an implicit promise of a world-class operation to fight the disease. But it doesn’t exist yet and it’s becoming clearer that the White House is spinning its wheels, looking for something — anything — to do other than solving the crisis at hand. www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/the-vaporware-presidency/That NR quote made a lot of sense. But if you're going to quote NR, here's another article from yesterday: "In a briefing for reporters last week on FEMA’s work securing PPE, FEMA administrator Peter Gaynor laid out the raw numbers: FEMA, HHS, and the private sector have shipped or are currently shipping 92.7 million N95 respirators, 133 million surgical masks, 10.5 million face shields, 42.4 million surgical gowns, and 989 million gloves. According to Admiral John Polowczyk, head of the supply-chain task force at FEMA, we manufactured roughly 30 million N95 respirators domestically a month before the COVID-19 crisis. He says we are on a path now to ramp up to 180 million N95 respirators a month." www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/the-massive-trump-coronavirus-supply-effort-that-the-media-loves-to-hate/Front-line health-care workers still experienced shortages of critical equipment needed for protection from the coronavirus into early May — including nearly two-thirds who cited insufficient supplies of the face masks that filter out most airborne particles, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll. www.washingtonpost.com/health/mask-shortage-for-most-health-care-workers-extended-into-may-post-ipsos-poll-shows/2020/05/20/1ddbe588-9a21-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html
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Post by SSHoya on May 21, 2020 4:16:43 GMT -5
Excellent job Trump! Excellent! (Now I'd be willing to bet that the American public likely would not have complied with any shutdown order that early despite warnings but we will never know since Trump told us it'd disappear in April like a "miracle.") If the United States had begun imposing social distancing measures one week earlier than it did in March, about 36,000 fewer people would have died in the coronavirus outbreak, according to new estimates from Columbia University disease modelers. And if the country had begun locking down cities and limiting social contact on March 1, two weeks earlier than most people started staying home, the vast majority of the nation’s deaths — about 83% — would have been avoided, the researchers estimated. www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-nyt-earlier-social-distancing-model-lives-saved-20200521-azgooi3hevdo7p7t6jdf3oxv4u-story.htmlFrom ‘It’s going to disappear’ to ‘WE WILL WIN THIS WAR’ www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/trump-coronavirus-statements/Abstract and preview (not yet peer reviewed). Specifically, nationwide, 61.6% [95% CI: 54.6%-67.7%] of reported infections and 55.0% [95% CI: 46.1%-62.2%] of reported deaths as of May 3, 2020 could have been avoided if the same control measures had been implemented just one week earlier www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.15.20103655v1
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Post by SSHoya on May 21, 2020 13:46:27 GMT -5
Fr. James Martin, S.J. on opening churches.
Dear friends: In response to the President's words about opening churches;
Churches should open when it is safe to do so. Churches should open when public health officials, who know more about epidemiology than church leaders do, conclude that it is safe to do so. Otherwise, we risk infecting more people, especially the most vulnerable and causing needless deaths. Some humility is in order here.
That this issue has become so politicized is probably not surprising. But it is especially dangerous. Everyone religious person, including myself, hopes that churches will be able to open soon. But ignoring public health warnings is simply courting disaster. And it will inevitably lead to death.
As such, it is the opposite of pro-life.
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Post by tashoya on May 21, 2020 19:51:11 GMT -5
And now Trump is saying if (read when) a second outbreak happens after the sh**show of a re-opening, "we" will not shut down again.
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Post by SSHoya on May 22, 2020 7:43:49 GMT -5
Hey Trump cultists, hydroxychloroquine shots all around!! How about a hydroxy shot with a Clorox chaser??!! A study of 96,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients on six continents found that those who received an antimalarial drug promoted by President Trump as a “game changer” in the fight against the virus had a significantly higher risk of death compared with those who did not. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/22/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-study/
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Post by hoyajinx on May 22, 2020 7:58:43 GMT -5
Hey Trump cultists, hydroxychloroquine shots all around!! How about a hydroxy shot with a Clorox chaser??!! A study of 96,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients on six continents found that those who received an antimalarial drug promoted by President Trump as a “game changer” in the fight against the virus had a significantly higher risk of death compared with those who did not. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/22/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-study/Fake news. We all know people in places like Ghana and Croatia are just inflating reports of those risks to hurt Trump’s re-election or make him look stupid.
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Post by SSHoya on May 22, 2020 8:59:38 GMT -5
10/10?? Feb. 25 - "People are getting better, they're all getting better.” Feb. 26 - "When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done." Feb. 28 - "Coronavirus. This is the new hoax... You'll be fine … It’s going to disappear.” March 6 - “Anybody right now … anybody that wants a test gets a test.” March 10 - "And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.” March 11 - "The vast majority of Americans, the risk is very, very low.” March 13 - "No, I don't take responsibility at all.” As of May 22, 2020, there have been around 94,729 deaths related to COVID-19 in the United States. www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/
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Post by EasyEd on May 22, 2020 13:20:56 GMT -5
Fr. James Martin, S.J. on opening churches. Dear friends: In response to the President's words about opening churches; Churches should open when it is safe to do so. Churches should open when public health officials, who know more about epidemiology than church leaders do, conclude that it is safe to do so. Otherwise, we risk infecting more people, especially the most vulnerable and causing needless deaths. Some humility is in order here. That this issue has become so politicized is probably not surprising. But it is especially dangerous. Everyone religious person, including myself, hopes that churches will be able to open soon. But ignoring public health warnings is simply courting disaster. And it will inevitably lead to death. As such, it is the opposite of pro-life. Do we wait until the public health officials tell us there will be no deaths from the virus before the churches open up? How about if they tell us only five will die? How about a hundred? Or a thousand? How about Father Martin telling us when is safe enough for him? In real life there will be some deaths from the virus after churches open up. And there will be some deaths that would not have happened had the churches (and society) not opened up. This is not a black or white situation. And it is certainly not against the pro-life position to seek opening up the churches since that, itself, does not kill anyone. It merely raises the risk for anyone who freely chooses to attend a church service. My parish is open while enforcing strict distancing and other restrictions. I have chosen not to attend Mass yet.
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Post by BSM on May 22, 2020 14:03:15 GMT -5
Fr. James Martin, S.J. on opening churches. Dear friends: In response to the President's words about opening churches; Churches should open when it is safe to do so. Churches should open when public health officials, who know more about epidemiology than church leaders do, conclude that it is safe to do so. Otherwise, we risk infecting more people, especially the most vulnerable and causing needless deaths. Some humility is in order here. That this issue has become so politicized is probably not surprising. But it is especially dangerous. Everyone religious person, including myself, hopes that churches will be able to open soon. But ignoring public health warnings is simply courting disaster. And it will inevitably lead to death. As such, it is the opposite of pro-life. Do we wait until the public health officials tell us there will be no deaths from the virus before the churches open up? How about if they tell us only five will die? How about a hundred? Or a thousand? How about Father Martin telling us when is safe enough for him? In real life there will be some deaths from the virus after churches open up. And there will be some deaths that would not have happened had the churches (and society) not opened up. This is not a black or white situation. And it is certainly not against the pro-life position to seek opening up the churches since that, itself, does not kill anyone. It merely raises the risk for anyone who freely chooses to attend a church service. My parish is open while enforcing strict distancing and other restrictions. I have chosen not to attend Mass yet. No offense but this sounds like a Fox News approach to worship: How dare Governor's keep Churches closed but I'm not going to actually risk going to Mass. Kind of like those brave Fox anchors risking their lives sitting at home urging people to get out and protest. I'm not sure what's offensive about Fr. Martin suggesting that Churches should open when it is safe to do so, although I think if Fr. Martin suggested the sun came up this morning, some people would take offense. We lost a Lay Deacon in my parish and a priest in a neighboring parish to this damn Virus. 46% of the people tested in my zip code in NYC have tested positive. My parish been live streaming Sunday Mass from a closed Church 2x/Sunday over Facebook since mid-March and holding Knights of Columbus council meetings over Zoom because the average age of our Knights is north of 60. I'm fine with waiting to hold Memorial services for all the parishoners who have died and resuming Mass in-person until it's safe to do so.
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