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| DATE | 2021-02-16 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Where are we at not and how we got here ==>
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This is being quoted from a forum:
charley said: ↑
The result... 500,000 lives lost, headed for 600,000,and
Politics continues to grin, and Common Sense has been removed from the
stadium.
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There is no "common sense" answers. Personally, I would never had
any lockdown and I think that doing everything possible to keep social
life and the economy up and running in the face of an epidemic is the
governments first job.
I would have fortified our stripped down healthcare system which
have been understaffed for decades, thrown out Obamacare health
organizations systems that are starving providers, and spead of the
FDA's approval for vaccines, and accepted the increased risks in a
crisis. I would bring ashore PPE production and essential healthcare
industries that are essential to the national security.
In the end, a strong economy is all that can defeat disease by
having infrastructure for drugs, research, clean water, and uncrowded
housing. It is better to have COVID-19 in the US than disentary in Somalia.
There would be no masking mandate accept on public transportation
and airports. Limited quarantines would have been implemented with
standard gumshoe tracking techniques to attack hot zones. There would be
mandatory vaccination.
I would have encouraged decentralization of populations, opening
summer camps and temporary housing as needed in rural areas so city
dwelers could escape. These are all techniques that have been used in
previous generations. I would also take away Andrew Cuomo's and Anthony
Faucci's barber and manicurist.
I would trust that people understand there own tolerance for danger
and had left restaurants, etc open. At the start of the Pandemic people
stopped going to Madison Square Garden. They didn't need help to be told
not to do that.
I would had made the information clear, especially the age based and
comorbidity data, so people could protect themselves, rather than
confusing the data with misinformation about racial politics. I take it
that these are ALL COMMON SENSE things to do. I am sure others disagree.
I would have NEVER have sent infected patients to nursing homes. I
would never had the testing fiasco that happened early in the pandemic
and had used the German tests.
By protecting the elderly, I could have cut deaths in half... at least.
Most of all, I would ask people, what do we do if COVID-19 can not
be defeated? It might be with us for a long time. Are you ready to be
locked down in your house for the rest of your life, and to never have
open schools for children again?
I would have allowed for vaccines to be distributed and purchased by
normal channels and centered vaccination around existing nursing
orgaziaitons and the family MD, and the used the US Army reserve to
suppliment this. This would have increased availablility and production
and we would likely all be vaccinated by now. And then there was the
sputnik vaccine from Russia that was all but ignored by the US. That was
a huge mistake.
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Post II
John Burgess said: ↑
why are we double the deaths, and double the amount of critical
patients than other countries? and why are we #10 globally for deaths
per 1 million population, Yeah we have a big population but so does
China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Nigeria, Pakistan."
All fine countries with reliable data, political freedom and great
economies. The reason I was so blunt is because it is a mantra that is
wrong. The US mortality rate is just not that high, especially when
compared to other western countries and compared to previous pandemics.
Let me know when 30% of Congress dies of this plague. You can bet a
different response then. The disease, IMO, is just not virulent enough
to justify the extreme measures we have already taken. It will take
YEARS to shake out the affect on our economy, if we aren't heading
straight into a decade long depression right now. Additionally, the
local governments threw fire on the pandemic by exposing the elderly to
the virus. The virus itself was likely in the US since November, 3
months before it made the press. If you wantg to point to anything,
blame our very integrated global economy and high number of foreign
traveling immigrants and tourists. The idea that would could have taken
measures like New Zealand, IMO, is laughable. That would have thrown the
world into a mass famine, if it is not going to happen anyway.
We have been making wrong political decisions about the epidemic threat
since Joe Biden and Barack Obama decided to sell off all the PPEs
emergency supply and allowed for overseas production of essential
medical equipment after MERS. They are directly responsibly for the PPE
shortages that we faced early in the pandemic. And then we tossed our
elderly to the wolves, especially Andrew Cuomo in NY. That single act
literally accounts for half the deaths during the peak.
Regardless, wishful thinking aside, we have really only TWO tools to
fight this virus. One is treatments, and the other is vaccination. He
have made considerable advances in treatment and it shows in the
enlarging gap between positive cases and hospitalizations, and
hospitalizations and deaths. And more treatment options are on the way
as has been reported coming out of Israel. Treatment can only be
improved with increased capacity in our local hospitals and funding
healthcare providers who have been cut to the bone by politicians and
the vultures in the medical benefits ogonology through obamacrare.
As for vaccines, it took FOUR DAYS to create the Moderna Vaccine.
Everything else was FDA foot dragging. Intransigent, empowered, federal
bureaucrats at the FDA have used fear to whip up political backlash
which empowers them, but has screwed the rest of us. We should have had
worldwide distribution of these vaccines 6 months ago. The Russians did it.
The idea that we can just safely stick everyone in a safe box until this
blows over is a complete fantasy. CHILDREN are being abused on a massive
scale. A whole generation now has lost a year of child development and
socialization. And there is NO END yet in site. We let fear mongers make
decisions and we get no where. That is all my opinion based on a broad
review of the facts. You are entitled to your own opinion, but don't
shackle me with a "Green Passport" which is nothing better than a
permanent political tracking device for the general population. My
family survived the Nazi's who tattooed them like cattle in order to
track them and more efficiently control and murder them. The "Green
Passport" and other ingenious inventions out of such bastions of
Democracy and freedom such as Singapore and Beijing can keep there lies,
and deceit. We will muddle through with our political freedom intact and
our economy sustained. Hopefully we will prevent a world-wide famine on
a biblical scale, which is what has been projected, at the same time.
--
So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://www.mrbrklyn.com
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Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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