Subj : Re: Pandemic
To   : Ron Lauzon
From : Richard Falken
Date : Thu Mar 26 2020 01:11 pm

  Re: Re: Pandemic
  By: Ron Lauzon to Richard Falken on Thu Mar 26 2020 10:19 am

 >  RF> I suspect we are getting there. Lots of Spanish politicians are getting
 >  RF> it. I suspect that the reason why we know it is because politicians are
 >  RF> taking the test, and everybody else isn't.
 >
 > Most of us are going to get it over time.  The good news is that the
 > majority of us won't get very sick and will naturally get better.  The
 > better news is that once that happens, herd immunity kicks in and naturally
 > controls it.

That is more or less what I suspect will happen. I don't bet a vaccine will show up soon enough to cut this crap short.

But until it happens, it sucks. I mean, I have insider information that some Spanish hospitals are not taking old people in. If you show up with sympthoms, they tell you to go to your house. If your are very bad, they tell you to go to your house and die there.

Like that.

At least the US is provisioning stadiums and the like for making campaign hospitals. Our disease management consists in blaming the prime minister we had before for the budget cuts in welfare while miss-managing the resources available now.

The Spanish government bought a big pile of COVID-19 test kits that resulted to be chinesse counterfeits. The Spanish government asked for personal protection equipment (masks, respirators) to firms, and failed to pay them in time with money that is available, so somebody else bought the equipment instead of us. Meanwhile we have lots of doctors and nurses that are working with insufficient equipment, and nobody but politicians is getting tested.

There are doctos who are symthomatic, and everybody knows they are infected, but since there is no official confirmation and no sense of responsibility, they put them to work anyway.

I am sorry I am so sour, but it is depressing. The subject popped up in certain web forum I am active in which has a No Politics rule, and moderators essentially started punishing people who disliked the current management of the situation while allowing everybody who supports the current policies to spread their crap.