NSR: Coronavirus: A global Pandemic.

But he's not wrong about the toilet paper.

 

I used to live across the street from a hospital. Definitely had its pluses and minuses.

 

I didn't play hockey as a kid, but I've liked the sport from the first time I watched it from the age of, like seven.

About 30 years later, at a college game, I was sitting above the entrance to the home team's locker room.

When they passed beneath at the end of the first period, only then would I know what you're talking about: Ho. Lee. Shit.

@Paul Berry: Is it just that the girls are unsuspecting, while 15 y/o boys have been told enough that they smell that their feet are guaranteed to smell like some variation of Axe Body Spray?

 

But did they have shallots?

 

I don't know why this is great, I just know it is:

Bagpipers play at Walmart in front of empty shelves of toilet paper 😂https://t.co/jis4u9HLgf pic.twitter.com/JpHhwXM4am

— New York Post (@nypost) March 16, 2020

 

heard that until there's a vaccine, when the social distancing measures are relaxed, the virus will begin spreading rapidly again

 

I was specifically talking about the USA, where university scientists apply for government grant money (and it's very competitive). The people doing the research are not government employees. I have no idea how it works elsewhere.

 

Just saw a clip of Daniel Goldman, a contributor to Scarborough's show. He details what he had to go through with his diagnosis of Corona virus. Had to drive himself to Connecticut to get a test that confirmed it. Hospital (NY Presb) he initially went to couldn't test him because they are rationing tests and he did not meet the standards of the protocol (had contact with a known carrier). Not a comforting story

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/w...scusses-his-bout-with-coronavirus-80702021977

 

I'm proud of how our local media and first responders (healthcare workers, emergency service public providers etc) are handling this crisis. Usually I'm dismissive of our feel good local media but I love the facts not fear and rational based reporting they are doing on Covid19 in our area. Especially since we were the first reported community case in the nation. Same with our healthcare workers and responders here and everywhere of course.

 

I mean....our researchers who apply for federal grant money are employees of the State of Kansas. Their salaries come from a mix of those federal grant dollars (for their research effort) and state appropriations (for their teaching and service efforts). Tax payers are paying their salaries. They are absolutely government employees.

(Obviously this doesn't apply for researchers at private universities.)

 

I do, I do, I do.

the one in the middle

 

Nobody here advocated that, but you have a sizable portion of the electorate insisting that government should take over healthcare, and also insisting that corporations are bad. Just putting 2 and 2 together. If you eliminate the private sector, you are left with the public sector.

I don't disagree with the rest of what you say; it actually proves my point. The government was not prepared, but universities and private sector companies saw what was coming - and that's where the trial vaccines, diagnostic tests, etc. are coming from. No doubt the actual scientists working for the government can do great work (and I'm not limiting that to the healthcare field), but somebody is telling them what to work on. And if the people in charge are incompetent, or just advancing a political or religious agenda, then you get what we see now.

 

Three dead pheasants left in the trunk of a car for a week

 

Dude. . . it's on the ********ing internet! Of course it's true. Jeez.

 

A whole bunch of research money at Ohio State is from industry.

 

I think it just means you have access to a very unusual Target store.

 

OK, state employees whose salaries are bolstered by the overhead written into federal grants. (I'm talking about the principal investigators, not the technicians.) But they are not under the direction of the agencies that might give them grants. That's the point.

 

Virtually nobody is insisting that government take over healthcare, it's that they take over the process of PAYING for healthcare. If anything they would be taking over the health insurance industry, or at least rendering it moot or elective.

 

It's behind a much larger Walmart that gets all the traffic.

 

Speaking of the 1918 Flu, this is worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5BZ3gQleTk-PJqIejFf4Rh2

To my knowledge, the 1918 Flu may be the closest comparison to what we are dealing with today.

 

I see a lot of rhetoric on social media that is against big pharma.