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Re: The Trump Pandemic

Post by JimC » Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:18 am

A very interesting article in the Melbourne Age about the US Covid-19 pandemic and the response to it:

https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-a ... 55x67.html
People have pre-existing conditions that make them especially vulnerable to the coronavirus and so do countries. The US had an array of co-morbidities that made the nation especially vulnerable to COVID-19. The virus has exposed, with fatal efficiency, the country's underlying political, economic, medical and societal weaknesses.

First there was the country's sprawling geography and decentralised political system. With 330 million people spread across 50 states, the nationally co-ordinated approach that many European countries used to drive down transmission rates was not possible in the US. The relatively steady national death toll obscures the way the outbreak shifted from states such as New York and New Jersey to Texas and Florida in the summer and now on to Alabama and Georgia following the reopening of college campuses there. There hasn't been one national pandemic but a series of regional ones.

Each US state, and in many cases individual cities, has adopted its own rules on the reopening of businesses, wearing of face masks and post-travel quarantine.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has acknowledged he may not have the legal authority to implement a national mask mandate if he wins the November election: he would have to try to convince local mayors and governors to do so.

An estimated 45 per cent of Americans suffer from chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and hypertension that put people in the high-risk category if they contract COVID-19.

The country's mostly for-profit health system is riven with wasteful spending and inequities; meanwhile spending for state and local public health departments has dropped by almost one-fifth since 2010.

Robert Redfield, the head of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, recently said the US had failed to appropriately invest in public health for more than five decades.

The Brookings Institution estimates that 44 per cent of all US workers are low wage, with median annual earnings of US$18,000 ($24,000). Many are restaurant workers, bus drivers and grocery store clerks – jobs that put them at high risk of contracting the virus.

If they lose their job, they lose access to their employer-funded health insurance. Emergency unemployment payments approved by Congress expired at the end of July, forcing people back to work if they want to be able to pay their rent and bills.
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Re: The Trump Pandemic

Post by rainbow » Mon Sep 21, 2020 6:21 am

JimC wrote:
Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:18 am


Robert Redfield, the head of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, recently said the US had failed to appropriately invest in public health for more than five decades.

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Re: The Trump Pandemic

Post by Tero » Tue Sep 22, 2020 12:45 am

We have a state prison on the main highway thru the South end of town. Dozens of prisoners are sick at any time. One died:

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird and the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department announced on Monday that another resident has died from COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths in Lancaster County to 24. The individual was a man in his 50s who was hospitalized. This death is the one reported last week from the State Penitentiary. Mayor Gaylor Baird expressed condolences to his family and friends on behalf of the City.
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Re: The Trump Pandemic

Post by rainbow » Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:50 am

pErvinalia wrote:
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Plus if you add those in the UK and NetherRegions who won't wear masks, you could take that number up to 90%
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Re: The Trump Pandemic

Post by Tero » Wed Sep 23, 2020 12:14 pm

From toilet paper to refrigerators:
Spikes in coronavirus cases swept through major hubs for shipping and manufacturing of appliances and parts: China, the U.S., Mexico. Many factories had to close or allow fewer people inside, slowing down production.

The final twist was unyielding, unexpected demand.

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Re: The Trump Pandemic

Post by macdoc » Wed Sep 23, 2020 8:59 pm

ripped

Hear what Trump supporter told his daughter before dying from virus

The daughter of a Trump supporter who died from coronavirus tells CNN's Don Lemon what she talked about with her father right before he went to the hospital. Source: CNN

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Post by Scot Dutchy » Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:03 pm

Did you buy the newest 8k television?
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Re: The Trump Pandemic

Post by Tero » Wed Sep 23, 2020 11:13 pm

Obese American infected
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Is this virus strong enough to kill, still?
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Re: The Trump Pandemic

Post by pErvinalia » Thu Sep 24, 2020 12:23 am

When's Trump going to get it?
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Re: The Trump Pandemic

Post by Tero » Thu Sep 24, 2020 12:38 am

Nov 3. We won't need to fumigate him out.
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Re: The Trump Pandemic

Post by macdoc » Thu Sep 24, 2020 12:54 am

Fuck off Scot .....don't piddle in what you haven't a clue about... :lou: 8k is niche.

Got anything on topic?? didn't think so. :coffee:

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Re: The Trump Pandemic

Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:25 am

Play Nice please macdoc.
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Re: The Trump Pandemic

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Re: The Trump Pandemic

Post by Sean Hayden » Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:08 pm

What a wimp!

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