Margaret Thatcher: Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them.
Around the world, countries are winning the battle against the coronavirus and beginning a responsible return to work, school and leisure, confident that their governments have the deadly virus in check.
But the United States plays the loser. Unwilling to do the hard work needed to beat the pandemic, we are quitting: forcing people back to work without protections people in other countries enjoy. The most powerful country in the world is failing.
In October, Johns Hopkins University rated the United States the country best prepared for an epidemic, as President Trump boasted in February. But this week, a Hopkins scientist told Congress we are “the worst affected country in the world.” How did the best become the worst?
Trump has abandoned attempts to control the pandemic, though there is no downturn in cases. His administration ignores its own reopening requirements and shelves guidelines written by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Instead Trump applauds reckless reopening in a way that, as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, admitted, “will lead to an increase and spread. It’s almost ipso facto.”
This is state-sanctioned killing. It is a conscious decision to accept 2,000 preventable deaths every day, because our leaders believe the victims are the poor schlubs who work in meat-processing plants, not “regular folks,” as Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack memorably put it this week.
In Texas, the fastest growing Covid-19 outbreak isn’t in Dallas or Houston or San Antonio, the state’s most densely packed metro areas.
It’s hundreds of miles to the north, in the dusty, windswept flatlands of Moore County, population 20,000.
According to data reported Monday by the state health department, 19 out of 1,000 residents in Moore County have so far tested positive for the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19—10 times higher than the infection rates in the state’s largest cities.
So what’s in Moore County that’s making people so sick? One of the nation’s largest beef processing facilities, where huge armies of employees slice, shave, and clean up to 5,000 cattle carcasses a day.
Last month, Texas health officials launched an investigation into a cluster of Covid-19 cases linked to the massive meatpacking plant, which is operated by JBS USA, a subsidiary of the largest meat processing company in the world, based in São Paulo, Brazil.
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And it’s not just the US. Large Covid-19 clusters have also appeared in meatpacking plants around the world, including Canada, Spain, Ireland, Brazil, and Australia.
“One, two, or three meatpacking plants—fine, you might expect that.
But these outbreaks are clearly a worldwide phenomenon,” says Nicholas Christakis, head of the Human Nature Lab at Yale where he studies how contagions travel through social networks.
“To me, that’s evidence that there’s something distinctive about meatpacking that’s adding to people’s risks of catching Covid-19.”
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According to the CDC’s latest report, the chief risks to meatpackers come from…
It is another mystery of the coronavirus: Large numbers of Covid-19 patients arrive at hospitals with blood-oxygen levels so low they should be unconscious or on the verge of organ failure. Instead they are awake, not struggling to breathe. Now, instead of rushing to put such patients on ventilators, some doctors are holding off on the invasive treatment, believing many of them will be fine without them.
The Very Stable Genius displays his awesome analysis skills, this time on the subject of testing:
“She’s a wonderful young woman, Katie. She tested very good for a long period of time, and then all of a sudden, today she tested positive…. She tested positive out of the blue. This is why the whole concept of tests aren’t necessarily great. The tests are perfect, but something can happen between a test — where it’s good, and then something happens, and all of a sudden — she was tested very recently and tested negative. And then today, I guess, for some reason, she tested positive.”
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Evidently, this is why testing was not available for so long — because the concept ’aren’t necessarily great’.
And yet, people in the WH are tested all the time.
I’m sure The Disciples are totally comfortable with the contradiction.
stellanova87 over 4 years ago
Go see Millie from Ozy And Millie, I’m sure she’ll be willing to give you a trim.
kaffekup over 4 years ago
Yeah, our dog is getting shaggy, too. He’ll probably go full curly furball before this is over.
Cheapskate0 over 4 years ago
Check out today’s Mother Goose and Grimm! Covers both topics at hand very well!
And a wonderful guest cameo to boot!
jbmlaw01 over 4 years ago
Day 18 of the Georgia Economic Recovery.
Margaret Thatcher: Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them.
RobinHood over 4 years ago
She asks me why, I’m just a hairy guy
I’m hairy noon and night, hair that’s a fright
I’m hairy high and low, don’t ask me why, Don’t know
It’s not for lack of bread, like the Grateful Dead
Darlin’, give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there hair, shoulder length or longer
Here, baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my hair
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Around the world, countries are winning the battle against the coronavirus and beginning a responsible return to work, school and leisure, confident that their governments have the deadly virus in check.
But the United States plays the loser. Unwilling to do the hard work needed to beat the pandemic, we are quitting: forcing people back to work without protections people in other countries enjoy. The most powerful country in the world is failing.
In October, Johns Hopkins University rated the United States the country best prepared for an epidemic, as President Trump boasted in February. But this week, a Hopkins scientist told Congress we are “the worst affected country in the world.” How did the best become the worst?
Trump has abandoned attempts to control the pandemic, though there is no downturn in cases. His administration ignores its own reopening requirements and shelves guidelines written by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Instead Trump applauds reckless reopening in a way that, as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, admitted, “will lead to an increase and spread. It’s almost ipso facto.”
This is state-sanctioned killing. It is a conscious decision to accept 2,000 preventable deaths every day, because our leaders believe the victims are the poor schlubs who work in meat-processing plants, not “regular folks,” as Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack memorably put it this week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/08/other-countries-are-winning-against-virus-we-are-quitting/
Silly Season over 4 years ago
In Texas, the fastest growing Covid-19 outbreak isn’t in Dallas or Houston or San Antonio, the state’s most densely packed metro areas.
It’s hundreds of miles to the north, in the dusty, windswept flatlands of Moore County, population 20,000.
According to data reported Monday by the state health department, 19 out of 1,000 residents in Moore County have so far tested positive for the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19—10 times higher than the infection rates in the state’s largest cities.
So what’s in Moore County that’s making people so sick? One of the nation’s largest beef processing facilities, where huge armies of employees slice, shave, and clean up to 5,000 cattle carcasses a day.
Last month, Texas health officials launched an investigation into a cluster of Covid-19 cases linked to the massive meatpacking plant, which is operated by JBS USA, a subsidiary of the largest meat processing company in the world, based in São Paulo, Brazil.
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And it’s not just the US. Large Covid-19 clusters have also appeared in meatpacking plants around the world, including Canada, Spain, Ireland, Brazil, and Australia.
“One, two, or three meatpacking plants—fine, you might expect that.
But these outbreaks are clearly a worldwide phenomenon,” says Nicholas Christakis, head of the Human Nature Lab at Yale where he studies how contagions travel through social networks.
“To me, that’s evidence that there’s something distinctive about meatpacking that’s adding to people’s risks of catching Covid-19.”
✄
According to the CDC’s latest report, the chief risks to meatpackers come from…
https://www.wired.com/story/why-meatpacking-plants-have-become-covid-19-hot-spots/
William Robbins Premium Member over 4 years ago
I’m reliving the 60’s here.
jbmlaw01 over 4 years ago
It gets curiouser and curiouser. From WSJ today:
It is another mystery of the coronavirus: Large numbers of Covid-19 patients arrive at hospitals with blood-oxygen levels so low they should be unconscious or on the verge of organ failure. Instead they are awake, not struggling to breathe. Now, instead of rushing to put such patients on ventilators, some doctors are holding off on the invasive treatment, believing many of them will be fine without them.
Holden Awn over 4 years ago
I look for salons and barber shops to emulate speakeasies.
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
The Very Stable Genius displays his awesome analysis skills, this time on the subject of testing:
“She’s a wonderful young woman, Katie. She tested very good for a long period of time, and then all of a sudden, today she tested positive…. She tested positive out of the blue. This is why the whole concept of tests aren’t necessarily great. The tests are perfect, but something can happen between a test — where it’s good, and then something happens, and all of a sudden — she was tested very recently and tested negative. And then today, I guess, for some reason, she tested positive.”
.
Evidently, this is why testing was not available for so long — because the concept ’aren’t necessarily great’.
And yet, people in the WH are tested all the time.
I’m sure The Disciples are totally comfortable with the contradiction.