candrew
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Yep. Schools in Cranford are closed today - they were originally supposed to be closed on Monday but they moved it up. They announced it yesterday afternoon - gave parents no notice.
My guess is they're not opening back up.
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Yep. Schools in Cranford are closed today - they were originally supposed to be closed on Monday but they moved it up. They announced it yesterday afternoon - gave parents no notice.
My guess is they're not opening back up.
Safetydan
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Get help.
@Everybody else, I just got done with a team meeting discussing the virus in detail. We're one of the heavy hitters when it comes to delivering front line tests for respiratory diseases that are not Covid19. Hospitals use these to test for other respiratory diseases first to save the low supply of Covid19 tests for those who test negative to other possible root causes. We're a week away from getting FDA approval on a test panel that includes the Covid19 virus. This should help to increase the number of tests available in the near future.
All of this is to say, the number of confirmed infected in the United States is going to shoot up. I don't know how much. I don't think anybody knows. However, people have it and they're not being tested so the numbers reported are artificially low.
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Red
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When you spend your time in office lying nearly every single day, and creating alternate realities that comfort you("the testing is going fine"), this is what you sow:
https://www.newsweek.com/majority-a...uth-about-covid-19-coronavirus-threat-1492125
Most Americans do not trust President Donald Trump to be honest about the COVID-19 threat, a new poll has found.
The latest survey from Yahoo! News and YouGov found that 53 percent of polled U.S. adults did not have faith in the president to tell the truth about the threat of the new coronavirus, while a third of those polled said they trusted the commander-in-chief.
A further 14 percent of the 1,635 U.S. adults polled said they were "not sure" whether they trusted Trump on the matter.
https://www.newsweek.com/majority-a...uth-about-covid-19-coronavirus-threat-1492125
Most Americans do not trust President Donald Trump to be honest about the COVID-19 threat, a new poll has found.
The latest survey from Yahoo! News and YouGov found that 53 percent of polled U.S. adults did not have faith in the president to tell the truth about the threat of the new coronavirus, while a third of those polled said they trusted the commander-in-chief.
A further 14 percent of the 1,635 U.S. adults polled said they were "not sure" whether they trusted Trump on the matter.
JazzyFresh
Banned
So a good chunk of people who have it don't even know they have it because it's so mild but stores are emptying, people are losing their livelihood, businesses will be permanently closed, and the entire country suffers.
Safetydan
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If only there was somebody at the head of the country who could do something about this panic. Somebody who could produce a clear message of non-panic with facts based on science, and comprehensible and effective instructions in a timely fashion (months ago) /s
JazzyFresh
Banned
Like he did weeks ago and you all hated him for it? I was fully aware of the seriousness when he was canceling travel and the left called him racist for it in January. Hell the left just barely suspended their bill against his travel restrictions for obvious reasons. Now I'm reading your hero Pelosi is putting abortion things in these bills that are dedicated to Corona. Good people...
Has Trump been great here? No. Could've he been more prepared? Yes. You could say the same thing about most countries if not all. Personally I never even though of blaming Obama like you guys do, but I never had an obsession to blame something like a world wide virus on the president. Lol that's literally crazy.
Safetydan
Well-Known Member
Yes
Yeah, People who do that are super crazy. I haven't found anybody but yeah.
JazzyFresh
Banned
Yeah, People who do that are super crazy. I haven't found anybody but yeah.[/QUOTE]
Lol then you haven't read this thread...
Anyways I stand by my argument that this fearmongering by @Red is just that. If I am wrong I will fully admit it but none of his crazy numbers make sense. If someone wants to enlighten me why Americans will get sick at 2000% more of the rate of the rest of the world, I'm all ears. Why there is one billion people in China yet only 80,000(let's double that 160,000) got sick there yet 150,000,000 will get sick here? What is the thought process behind this? There are only 180,000 reported cases world wide yet the USA is going to have 45% of it's population sick when no other country is even remotely close to 1%? I don't think I'm asking a stupid question here like you all are claiming am I? I think it's pretty reasonable.
Lol then you haven't read this thread...
Anyways I stand by my argument that this fearmongering by @Red is just that. If I am wrong I will fully admit it but none of his crazy numbers make sense. If someone wants to enlighten me why Americans will get sick at 2000% more of the rate of the rest of the world, I'm all ears. Why there is one billion people in China yet only 80,000(let's double that 160,000) got sick there yet 150,000,000 will get sick here? What is the thought process behind this? There are only 180,000 reported cases world wide yet the USA is going to have 45% of it's population sick when no other country is even remotely close to 1%? I don't think I'm asking a stupid question here like you all are claiming am I? I think it's pretty reasonable.
Red
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Washington Post: I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it.
Beth Cameron is vice president for global biological policy and programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. She previously served as the senior director for global health security and biodefense on the White House National Security Council.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...0de09c-6491-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html
When President Trump took office in 2017, the White House’s National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense survived the transition intact. Its mission was the same as when I was asked to lead the office, established after the Ebola epidemic of 2014: to do everything possible within the vast powers and resources of the U.S. government to prepare for the next disease outbreak and prevent it from becoming an epidemic or pandemic.
One year later, I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like covid-19.
The U.S. government’s slow and inadequate response to the new coronavirus underscores the need for organized, accountable leadership to prepare for and respond to pandemic threats.....
......It’s impossible to assess the full impact of the 2018 decision to disband the White House office responsible for this work. Biological experts do remain in the White House and in our government. But it is clear that eliminating the office has contributed to the federal government’s sluggish domestic response. What’s especially concerning about the absence of this office today is that it was originally set up because a previous epidemic made the need for it quite clear.
Beth Cameron is vice president for global biological policy and programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. She previously served as the senior director for global health security and biodefense on the White House National Security Council.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...0de09c-6491-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html
When President Trump took office in 2017, the White House’s National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense survived the transition intact. Its mission was the same as when I was asked to lead the office, established after the Ebola epidemic of 2014: to do everything possible within the vast powers and resources of the U.S. government to prepare for the next disease outbreak and prevent it from becoming an epidemic or pandemic.
One year later, I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like covid-19.
The U.S. government’s slow and inadequate response to the new coronavirus underscores the need for organized, accountable leadership to prepare for and respond to pandemic threats.....
......It’s impossible to assess the full impact of the 2018 decision to disband the White House office responsible for this work. Biological experts do remain in the White House and in our government. But it is clear that eliminating the office has contributed to the federal government’s sluggish domestic response. What’s especially concerning about the absence of this office today is that it was originally set up because a previous epidemic made the need for it quite clear.
JazzyFresh
Banned
JazzyFresh
Banned
I just got back from Costco. In the Salt Lake Valley we have one Costco that is easily twice the size of all the others and it opens at 7am vs 10am for all the rest. So I left work and went there, a bit of a drive. When I got there at 6:50am there was a line halfway around the building. They had a 1tp and 2 water limit. I was there to get some meat to freeze, canned food and I did snag a package of TP. I wanted some chicken, there was no kirkland chicken. There were no rotisserie chickens (but maybe because they just opened). A lot of the meat was gone already. I got fresh pork loin chops and country style spare ribs and some hamburger. I planned to get a big bag of rice but all the rice was gone. There was an okay selection of canned goods.
I was pretty quick and was walking out the door at 7:30am the lady checking receipts said 850 customers in the first 30 min. That was how many receipts she had checked. As soon as she checked my receipt they were passing the word to the employees that the TP was gone.
****ing madhouse!
I was pretty quick and was walking out the door at 7:30am the lady checking receipts said 850 customers in the first 30 min. That was how many receipts she had checked. As soon as she checked my receipt they were passing the word to the employees that the TP was gone.
****ing madhouse!