Where's the petri dish thread?

[pdub]

Happy Jan 20 2017 -- some date in the future, everyone.

[DCHawk1]

Good that the experts in this field are being silenced.
Who wants to hear from them anyways?

And away we go...

FuCKinG tRUMp neEDS a coOrdiNAtEd rESPonSe! AnyTHinG LesS iS unFOgiVaBLe!

AlSo, EVEryONe, EVeryWHerE iN eVEry BUeauCrATiC AgeNCy muSt bE aBLe tO SPeaK hiS mINd aT AlL tiMes!

[pdub]

"FuCKinG tRUMp neEDS a coOrdiNAtEd rESPonSe! AnyTHinG LesS iS unFOgiVaBLe!"

No.
We're better off if he just let the CDC act how they think they should act.
We don't need a moran of a VP trying to filter out what info is important to us.
We don't need a moran of a President thinking he knows more than the organizations that specialize in this.

[jfish26]

"FuCKinG tRUMp neEDS a coOrdiNAtEd rESPonSe! AnyTHinG LesS iS unFOgiVaBLe!"

No.
We're better off if he just let the CDC act how they think they should act.
We don't need a moran of a VP trying to filter out what info is important to us.
We don't need a moran of a President thinking he knows more than the organizations that specialize in this.

It's not even that (although you're not wrong). It's that Trump sees this only through the lens of his reelection. He does not care about anything else.

[pdub]

If we had a competent leader, then yes, we would need a coordinated response, and I'd be upset that the response hadn't happened yet.

Instead we have a drugged up lunatic who relies on misinformation and lies and just repeats this misinformation over and over again as if it was true. And then the people who voted for him think it's true.

So, no, I actually don't want a coordinated response from him.
Let the CDC tweet out their reccos.

[Shirley]

[Shirley]

Relax everyone, they got this!

[Shirley]

Good that the experts in this field are being silenced.
Who wants to hear from them anyways?

And away we go...

FuCKinG tRUMp neEDS a coOrdiNAtEd rESPonSe! AnyTHinG LesS iS unFOgiVaBLe!

AlSo, EVEryONe, EVeryWHerE iN eVEry BUeauCrATiC AgeNCy muSt bE aBLe tO SPeaK hiS mINd aT AlL tiMes!

Sounds reasonable, DC:

[DCHawk1]

Once this becomes a partisan issue -- which it is clearly on the verge of becoming -- The 40% are going to tune it all out because that's what they do with all partisan issues.

Aaaaand we're dead.

Good job everyone.

Pat yourselves on the back.

[twocoach]

White House's attempts to reduce government by slashing health programs could hurt response to coronavirus

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/politics ... index.html

[jhawks99]

So all information will come out of the Ministry of Propaganda errr...,,, pence's office?

Nice

[jfish26]

White House's attempts to reduce government by slashing health programs could hurt response to coronavirus

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/politics ... index.html

Smoking could increase the risk of lung and other cancers.

[Shirley]

White House's attempts to reduce government by slashing health programs could hurt response to coronavirus

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/politics ... index.html

I know we've been told that we're not supposed to talk about these things, but it matters.

Reductions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Security Council, two key groups needed to coordinate and respond, could make it more difficult for the federal government to combat the growing epidemic.

In 2018, the CDC stopped funding epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries, including China, after the Trump administration refused to reallocate money to a program that began as part of the government's response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014.

At that time, Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the CDC from 2009 to 2017, said the move "would significantly increase the chance an epidemic will spread without our knowledge and endanger lives in our country and around the world."

...As the Trump administration continues to deal with the fallout from coronavirus, a review of recent budget proposals suggests it would be in much worse shape if some of its requested cuts had taken place.

Trump's budget proposal for fiscal year 2020 called for an approximately 13% cut to the National Institute of Health. The previous year's budget proposal called for incorporating three Health and Human Services agencies into NIH, a move that would have reduced federal staff dedicated to healthcare research.

In June 2018, the Trump administration proposed slashing the number of commissioned corps officers of the US Public Health Service by nearly 40% -- a request that could have significantly lowered the number of federal health professionals dedicated to handling disasters and disease outbreaks, including physicians and nurses in many rural parts of the country.

"If these cuts had gone into effect that would have had incredible impact on the Corps' ability to deal with the coronavirus," said Jim Currie, executive director for the Commissioned Officers Association, who called the proposal "dumb."

Earlier this year, as part of its fiscal year 2021 budget request, the White House proposed cuts to the country's main public health preparedness programs, including a $25 million reduction to the CDC budget for these efforts, and a $18 million cut to the hospital preparedness program inside the Department of Health and Human Services.

[...]

[Geezer]

I don't think any of that happened.

[TDub]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/health/c ... index.html

[Shirley]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/health/c ... index.html

From your link:

The US has its first novel coronavirus-related drug shortage

The United States has its first novel coronavirus-related drug shortage, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. The maker of an unnamed drug that has recently been added to the FDA Drug Shortages list told the agency that the shortage is due to the novel coronavirus.

[...]

I'll go out on a limb and guess the mystery drug is biotech co., Gilead Sciences', (GILD), experimental drug, remdesivir. And, among the reasons there is a shortage, in addition to it still being an "experimental" drug, is that an active ingredient for remdesivir is manufactured primarily in China.



As luck would have it, (and totally unrelated to the COVID19 scare), I have an oversized position in GILD, which is by far my largest health care-related stock holding.




Some days you eat the bear, some days, the bear eats you.

[TDub]

Sometimes your the windshield, sometimes your the bug

[Shirley]

Sometimes your the windshield, sometimes your the bug

I always think of Mary Chapin Carpenter when I hear those lyrics. Didn't know this guy wrote it:

(Can't believe I forgot to learn to play the guitar like Mark.)

[TDub]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/business ... index.html


People are fucking stupid. 38% of Americans wont drink corona because of the virus and 14% wont drink it in public? 52% of Americans think the beer has something to do with the virus? Who the fuck are they polling?



Yea yea. "Trumps base!" Ok super hilarious joke has already been made. Next.

[CrimsonNBlue]

Probably Trump's base.