Sometimes I feel bad for railing hard against Trump supporters, especially on here where we're all Evertonians, then he says stuff like this and I don't feel too bad about calling them out.
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Trump's actually correct. If you increase the amount of tests you do, you will obviously detect more cases. That would suggest in the numbers and graphs that there has been a large increase in infections and something's going wrong, but it is actually the result of you simply increasing the capacity to do more tests.
Not testing does not change the number of actual cases/infections. It just leaves you ignorant, but you know this and are just on a wind up.
yea, he's not wrong. You test more, you get more results.
The issue is that he's using testing as an excuse.
Why mention that at all, what's the point.
Christ, he's a terrible leader.
Sorry for the delay in circling back.
I think the travel “ban“ was a bit misunderstood, it still meant there were a lot of people traveling to the US, they were just asked to voluntarily self quarantine https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...elf-quarantine-after-returning-china-n1138731. However agree it was a good move to reduce new infections, at least from China.
We significantly disagree on the issue of PPE, even now the supply seems far too erratic and should have been anticipated many weeks earlier - same with testing (both PCR and antibody). Also think there has been a scandalous lack of co-ordination leading to price gouging and unnecessary competition between states and even with the federal gov.
We’ve discussed umemployment support before - this is one area where I think the UK government has done well. The $1200 stimulus checks will have helped many and had the advantage of being a quick boost but really haven’t helped maintain employment and feel overall the focus has been more business than individual level. That criticism isn’t just for Trump btw, also for the House dems.
The effect of COVID-19 and disease suppression policies on labor markets: A preliminary analysis of the data | Brookings
Preliminary data on both the labor market and incidence of COVID-19 across OECD countries indicate a diversity of approaches to handling the pandemic, many with different results.
www.brookings.edu
Perhaps if he can’t even grasp the basics he should just shut up and leave the talking to those professors then.
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”
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Annnnnd there go the last vestiges of any possibility that you were anything other than a windup merchant having fun off the back of something that people actually care about.
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I think medical issues, during a pandemic, are a pretty large exception to the “just wing it” approach as they can quite literally get people killed.
I think, having spent 12 years living in the States, I'm no closer to understanding the concept of 'freedom'.
I get the idea of the American dream. I think there's something to it. Such a huge free market breeds opportunity.
It has it's flaws because that opportunity is nowhere near equal. But I can see the point and the goal.
Freedom, though, has baffled me.
I feel far less free in this country than in any of the others I've lived in. (Ireland, UK, Germany, Australia).
There's a myriad of reasons why, from finance, to policing, to privacy, to education, to society, to security, and even stuff like transportation.
Don't get me wrong, for the most part, I love living here, I love the opportunities it provides but there's definitely a payoff, and one most Americans don't see.
There are soft restrictions on freedom that aren't considered, like the unmanageable higher level education costs, the lack of serviceable public transit, food deserts, the taxation system that makes it very difficult for US citizens to work abroad, even the lack of clean drinking water in some places, and on and on.
So when it comes to dealing with covid 19, there is little to no policing of lockdown. States don't stop interstate travel or individually close off in any way, a blind eye is turned to protesters breaking every 'recommendation'. And all because, to do so would be infringing on their freedom.
All of these protesters are white, all the people who feel their freedom is being infringed on are white. You won't find any black person from Flint who's had to drink bottled water for years complaining about lockdown taking their freedom away because they never really had it, not like these idiots on the protest lines.
When ever I ask friends why we're not doing this or that in response to the spread of this deadly disease, the usual response is "because this is America". Some say it with exasperation and resignation and some with pride.
These protesters seem like happy hamsters in a big cage. They think the idea that they have to move to a smaller cage for a short time to protect them is an infringement on their freedom. They've no idea they are in a big cage.
Anyway, appologies for the rambly post, kinda using it to get these ideas straight in my head!
I get the idea of the American dream. I think there's something to it. Such a huge free market breeds opportunity.
It has it's flaws because that opportunity is nowhere near equal. But I can see the point and the goal.
Freedom, though, has baffled me.
I feel far less free in this country than in any of the others I've lived in. (Ireland, UK, Germany, Australia).
There's a myriad of reasons why, from finance, to policing, to privacy, to education, to society, to security, and even stuff like transportation.
Don't get me wrong, for the most part, I love living here, I love the opportunities it provides but there's definitely a payoff, and one most Americans don't see.
There are soft restrictions on freedom that aren't considered, like the unmanageable higher level education costs, the lack of serviceable public transit, food deserts, the taxation system that makes it very difficult for US citizens to work abroad, even the lack of clean drinking water in some places, and on and on.
So when it comes to dealing with covid 19, there is little to no policing of lockdown. States don't stop interstate travel or individually close off in any way, a blind eye is turned to protesters breaking every 'recommendation'. And all because, to do so would be infringing on their freedom.
All of these protesters are white, all the people who feel their freedom is being infringed on are white. You won't find any black person from Flint who's had to drink bottled water for years complaining about lockdown taking their freedom away because they never really had it, not like these idiots on the protest lines.
When ever I ask friends why we're not doing this or that in response to the spread of this deadly disease, the usual response is "because this is America". Some say it with exasperation and resignation and some with pride.
These protesters seem like happy hamsters in a big cage. They think the idea that they have to move to a smaller cage for a short time to protect them is an infringement on their freedom. They've no idea they are in a big cage.
Anyway, appologies for the rambly post, kinda using it to get these ideas straight in my head!
No he's not saying that. I grant you he doesn't always articulate things great, but that's because he's unscripted unlike Obama with his teleprompter.
What he's saying is the suggestion that things are getting worse because of actions he has taken isn't necessarily true, it's the result of increasing the testing massively. It's simply the lag that I alluded to above. This graph is a month out of date, but you get the point:
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No he's not saying that. I grant you he doesn't always articulate things great, but that's because he's unscripted unlike Obama with his teleprompter.
What he's saying is the suggestion that things are getting worse and this is because of actions he has taken isn't necessarily true, it's the result of increasing the testing massively. This graph is a month out of date, but you get the point:
You have been using witchcraft to hide who you really are. Unless you have actually been in France, Australia and the US today, you are removed from this site.
Take it up with management.
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