Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should resume normal life soon. The death and destruction caused by a DEPRESSION like the Great Depression is going to be much worse than primarily elderly people dying. Think of how many homeless kids and substance abuse deaths are going to be caused by a depression. All to enable an 80 yo to live to see 83. It is very wrong.

How many times, across how many threads are you going to say this exact wrong thing?

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Anonymous wrote:We should resume normal life soon. The death and destruction caused by a DEPRESSION like the Great Depression is going to be much worse than primarily elderly people dying. Think of how many homeless kids and substance abuse deaths are going to be caused by a depression. All to enable an 80 yo to live to see 83. It is very wrong.

How many times, across how many threads are you going to say this exact wrong thing?

We should resume normal life soon. The death and destruction caused by a DEPRESSION like the Great Depression is going to be much worse than primarily elderly people dying. Think of how many homeless kids and substance abuse deaths are going to be caused by a depression. All to enable an 80 yo to live to see 83. It is very wrong.

Kansas cancels school the rest of the year.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/live-blog/coronavirus-updates-countries-across-world-step-restrictions-combat-crisis-n1161301/ncrd1162416#liveBlogHeader

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sanjay Gupta’s interview on CNN right now is seriously depressing. He was alarmed at footage from SF today, where people are supposed to be sheltering in place but aren’t, and Florida, with all the partying spring breakers. All of the sacrifices that people are making across the country to socially isolate, and these people don’t give a sh!t.

Gupta doesn’t have a lot of optimism today. Me either- I thought the US could do this.

And it only takes one large gathering to break the system. South Korea had things under control until one person went to a cult/religious gathering and got many many people sick.

JFC. You are right.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sanjay Gupta’s interview on CNN right now is seriously depressing. He was alarmed at footage from SF today, where people are supposed to be sheltering in place but aren’t, and Florida, with all the partying spring breakers. All of the sacrifices that people are making across the country to socially isolate, and these people don’t give a sh!t.

Gupta doesn’t have a lot of optimism today. Me either- I thought the US could do this.

Don’t worry, they’ll do the right thing when they run out of every other choice. It’s the American way.

You'e missing the point. It will be too late then.

They must act now. We all must.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sanjay Gupta’s interview on CNN right now is seriously depressing. He was alarmed at footage from SF today, where people are supposed to be sheltering in place but aren’t, and Florida, with all the partying spring breakers. All of the sacrifices that people are making across the country to socially isolate, and these people don’t give a sh!t.

Gupta doesn’t have a lot of optimism today. Me either- I thought the US could do this.

Don’t worry, they’ll do the right thing when they run out of every other choice. It’s the American way.

The problem is our media.

During WWII, during Pearl Harbor, most of the country got behind FDR because the respectable media all did. (Before Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh and other anti-immigration types, and some eugencists, and some actual American Nazis all prevented FDR from entering by supporting the Axis.)

After Pearl Harbor there was a basically unified message from our newspapers and via radio. Not that there wasn't a struggle to control the message, but journalists and everyone saw the Japanese attack as an attack on the US and mostly unified as a country.

Today, our media is fractured, and some media cares more about their party than about the country. Coordinated messaging supporting the president, even as he makes mistakes, has prevented a unified call for social distancing. And the real media is still entrenched in chasing ratings (CNN, MSBC), or bothsidesism (NYT, WaPo).

Gotta fix the media if we want to fix the country. Shrug. We know what we have to do.

Anonymous wrote:Sanjay Gupta’s interview on CNN right now is seriously depressing. He was alarmed at footage from SF today, where people are supposed to be sheltering in place but aren’t, and Florida, with all the partying spring breakers. All of the sacrifices that people are making across the country to socially isolate, and these people don’t give a sh!t.

Gupta doesn’t have a lot of optimism today. Me either- I thought the US could do this.

Don’t worry, they’ll do the right thing when they run out of every other choice. It’s the American way.

Anonymous wrote:RIP Florida.

If only. The problem is so many get in a plane and share the virus all the way home.

RIP Florida.

Anonymous wrote:Sanjay Gupta’s interview on CNN right now is seriously depressing. He was alarmed at footage from SF today, where people are supposed to be sheltering in place but aren’t, and Florida, with all the partying spring breakers. All of the sacrifices that people are making across the country to socially isolate, and these people don’t give a sh!t.

Gupta doesn’t have a lot of optimism today. Me either- I thought the US could do this.

And it only takes one large gathering to break the system. South Korea had things under control until one person went to a cult/religious gathering and got many many people sick.

“Pain, suffering and death that Americans could control, but we’re not.”

Sanjay Gupta’s interview on CNN right now is seriously depressing. He was alarmed at footage from SF today, where people are supposed to be sheltering in place but aren’t, and Florida, with all the partying spring breakers. All of the sacrifices that people are making across the country to socially isolate, and these people don’t give a sh!t.

Gupta doesn’t have a lot of optimism today. Me either- I thought the US could do this.

i do agree that we need to have more doctors but at the end of the day we are never going to have as many doctors as we need in pandemics.

Anonymous wrote:The problem with the doctor shortage is IMO 100% because of congress not giving more residency slots. Medical schools can't graduate so many students that they aren't getting residencies.

Which lobbyists are pressuring congress into this?