mr pete says I need to calm down today

[kpete]

grrrrrrrrr

We're nowhere near getting on top of this virus

One key paragraph of the Harvard doc —

We need to deliver 5 million tests per day by early June to deliver a safe social reopening. This number will need to increase over time (ideally by late July) to 20 million a day to fully remobilize the economy. We acknowledge that even this number may not be high enough to protect public health.

DIVOC-91 visualization of testing says the US has done 42.5 million tests cumulatively over the 130 days since we had 100 cases, and had a daily high of 823,375.

from page 6:
https://ethics.harvard.edu/files/center-for-ethics/files/roadmaptopandemicresilience_updated_4.20.20.pdf

[Kid Berwyn]

1. So I said to my people, "Slow the testing down, please."

“When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’ They test and they test.” — Putin’s Puppet

PS: These same fascists want to reopen the public schools. I, too, am spitting bullets.

[Vinca]

2. I had a Trumphumper encounter - a rare thing to happen in my blue neck of the woods - and

the moronic slob I got into an argument with is totally convinced it's "just like the flu." I finally got so mad I had to walk away before I caused a "call the cops" kind of scene. What total imbeciles. I was so upset I drove around listening to music for half an hour trying to get my blood pressure within the realm of high normal.

[Phoenix61]

3. It's like reasoning with a two year old. nt

[hunter]

4. My wife is a health care professional.

The place she works tried to implement weekly testing for people working on the front lines, where "social distancing" isn't possible, but there were not enough test kits available.

Personal Protective Equipment is in very short supply as well.

Our national response to this virus has been pathetic. Our president is the worst sort of loser.

Soon after Pearl Harbor my grandma started working in the shipyards as a welder. She was a young woman who'd grown up on a ranch, she knew a lot about cows and horses and not a lot about welding, yet the nation needed ships, so we built them.

So here we are in the 21st century and we can't even get enough tests and PPE for our health care workers...

God yes, I am angry. I would like to visit my family but there is no way in hell I want to be a vector for this virus, especially to older people like my parents and my wife's parents. I can't even visit my own parents because I can't be gone for the fourteen day quarantine it would require and I don't want to be stuck in a pressurized tube for many hours with people who might be sick.