Come back a month after opening and if folks are behaving themselves and infections are going down, you can call it a relative success. Of course, if folks are behaving themselves, your economy will still be somewhat screwed, just not lockdown screwed. — Baden
If it works, it works. — Hanover
Also, I heard some strange things that there are still places in the world with 0 cases. Where are these places? Why are there 0 cases and what can we learn from them? — Julia
I don't think we should go overboard and be ocd about hand washing and stuff. — Julia
A group of young, inexperienced volunteers was tasked with securing much-needed medical supplies for hospitals fighting coronavirus, hampering the government's response to a growing pandemic, according to reports by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The group of roughly a dozen volunteers, mostly in their 20s, were part of a broader coronavirus supply-chain task force assembled by the President's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, the two news outlets reported. - The volunteers, who were recruited from consulting and investment firms and began their task in late March, had little to no experience in health care and dealing with procurement procedures or medical equipment
two of the volunteers in March had passed along procurement documents filed by a Silicon Valley engineer, Yaron Oren-Pines, who claimed he could provide more than 1,000 ventilators. The volunteers forwarded the lead to federal officials, who then sent it to New York officials, who assumed Oren-Pines had been vetted, the Times reported. New York state awarded the engineer a $69 million contract, but didn't receive a single ventilator, which was first reported by BuzzFeed News.
It's a deadly virus, highly contagious, with no cure or vaccine. Nothing works except isolation. — Metaphysician Undercover
Lol.Though there may have been “missed opportunities”, unlike some countries, these volunteers didn’t sign bad contracts or purchase any crap.
What year did those masks expire in? — NOS4A2
So, prayers and enegies if you can, — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Is it really? I don't think so.This is an exemplary way of critiquing state overreach during COVID in a way that's not just a shitty reactionary vomit spew of 'Muh Freedoms" and "Muh haircuts": — StreetlightX
To be clear, technology is most certainly a key part of how we must protect public health in the coming months and years. The question is: Will that technology be subject to the disciplines of democracy and public oversight, or will it be rolled out in state-of-exception frenzy, without asking critical questions that will shape our lives for decades to come?
Yet it is the government and the political leadership that decides what it wants. — ssu
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