ManaByte
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You sure about that? Not all 327 million people need to be tested. Some don't WANT to be.
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Mask Efficacy |OT| Wuhan!! Got You All In Check
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You sure about that? Not all 327 million people need to be tested. Some don't WANT to be.
Captain Zyrain
Member
Can you read? It says NY/KY/etc. They updated it WITH California numbers. Come on, man.
Edit: nice edit btw.
Just the flu.
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Smiles and Cries
Member
New Turquoise Jeep song title, 'Let me touch your face, like Corona'
Just kidding but I needed a music break
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Okay back to the shitty mess
CDC director says there's not enough staff and equipment in public health labs
From CNN's Amanda Watts
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention budget on Capitol Hill, on Tuesday, March 10. Andrew Harnik/AP
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield said state and local public health labs are underequipped and understaffed.
"The truth is we've not invested, we've underinvested in the public health labs," Redfield said at a House Appropriations hearing for the 2021 CDC budget.
“There's not enough equipment, there's not enough people, there's not enough internal capacity, there's no surge capacity,” Redfield added.
“Public health labs, we built the technology in those labs to monitor flu, that uses a certain equipment, which we call thermocycler, that equipment, maybe a good lab could do 300 tests a day. University of Washington can use these high machines, like New York is about to do, those machines can do thousands, and thousands and thousands,” Redfield said.
Redfield also said that 99% of the novel coronavirus cases recently confirmed were outside of China. According to the latest numbers from the World Health Organization, which were released on Monday, there were 3,948 new cases outside China and 45 new cases in China-- roughly 1%.
“The epicenter, the new China is Europe. And there’s a lot of people coming back and forth from Europe. We’re starting to see these communities and we are moving quickly to understand how address Europe,” Redfield said.
www.cnn.com
don't they have like a few billion to spend now?
Just kidding but I needed a music break
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Okay back to the shitty mess
CDC director says there's not enough staff and equipment in public health labs
From CNN's Amanda Watts
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention budget on Capitol Hill, on Tuesday, March 10. Andrew Harnik/AP
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield said state and local public health labs are underequipped and understaffed.
"The truth is we've not invested, we've underinvested in the public health labs," Redfield said at a House Appropriations hearing for the 2021 CDC budget.
“There's not enough equipment, there's not enough people, there's not enough internal capacity, there's no surge capacity,” Redfield added.
“Public health labs, we built the technology in those labs to monitor flu, that uses a certain equipment, which we call thermocycler, that equipment, maybe a good lab could do 300 tests a day. University of Washington can use these high machines, like New York is about to do, those machines can do thousands, and thousands and thousands,” Redfield said.
Redfield also said that 99% of the novel coronavirus cases recently confirmed were outside of China. According to the latest numbers from the World Health Organization, which were released on Monday, there were 3,948 new cases outside China and 45 new cases in China-- roughly 1%.
“The epicenter, the new China is Europe. And there’s a lot of people coming back and forth from Europe. We’re starting to see these communities and we are moving quickly to understand how address Europe,” Redfield said.
CDC director says there's not enough staff and equipment in public health labs
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield said state and local public health labs are underequipped and understaffed.
don't they have like a few billion to spend now?
ManaByte
Gold Member
Also that Twitter account is run by the American Enterprise Institute, which is the Koch Brothers. Check sourcing.
Cybrwzrd
Banned
LabCorp is one of the shittiest companies in America, mind you. They scam the fuck out of their customers. They aren't BBB accredited. You trust them to do the right thing when it comes to national security?
Kadayi
Banned
Why wouldn't people WANT to find out that they were carrying a highly infectious and left threatening disease exactly? Seems like a Cunt move not to tbh, a bit like that French Air Steward dude in the 70s who knew he had AIDs, but decided to fuck his way through every bathhouse on both sides of the Atlantic regardless until he eventually expired. Sometimes I think people let this 'Freedom' thing get in the way of common sense and social responsibility.
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Captain Zyrain
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Here's the thing.
Let's assume China is truthful for this exercise, and they're magically cured and now IMPORTING cases from other places instead of having any internal cases. How did they get there? With a STRICT no quarters given lockdown. They were tracing people who left Wuhan via their phones and other means, they went to 11. It took a few weeks, locking down 700+ million people, but it appears to have worked.
South Korea was looking like another spot to explode, but they jumped on things fast and seriously and now, a couple weeks later, things look under control. Look at how many tests they ran. They were being proactive as FUCK. As of now, it appears to have worked for them.
Iran.. who the hell knows what is going on there.
What have our western nations done? We hem and haw and cancel a few big events (to much consternation) and mostly just making poor panic decisions (TP & water) and making fun of said panic decisions.
Italy is now completely locked down. Which country is next? How long until it IS here?
Is the media hyping this up for ratings? Of course. That's why I don't generally give a shit what CNN/MSNBC/FOXNEWS/etc says about this. They're usually days or hours behind in breaking news anyway, and they have to put their Anti-Trump or Pro-Trump spin on things first.
I follow the numbers. Are they perfect prognosticators of the future? Absolutely not. But we're not looking at a static event, we're looking at an event that's coming AT US.
Hur-dur-dur only 723 people in the US have it. There are like 327 million people in the US. That's such a tiny percentage! Don't worry, be happy! Hur-dur-dur!
Look at the number explosions in other places, and those other places (outside of China) are much, much smaller than the USA. While the USA has the benefit of being spread out a bit, it also means the virus can take hold in a lot of different places at the same time. How will quarantines work? Will CA state police be at the borders keeping out the evil Oregonians?
I, emphatically, 100% want this to be a wet fart that goes away fast. I want to go to E3, I want to sell my house, I have plans for 2020 and this is right fucking things up, but I am not sticking my head in the sand and justtheflubro'ing because somehow it makes me feel better about my poor preparedness.
IF you feel like this is no big deal and overblown and whatever.. come in here and back it up with facts, post more info about how South Korea and China are beating this thing, and how we've learned those lessons and are applying them abroad. We're (generally) posting facts and details about how this is continuing to spread, if you doubt those facts, back them up with counter facts, not stupid non sequiturs.
Let's assume China is truthful for this exercise, and they're magically cured and now IMPORTING cases from other places instead of having any internal cases. How did they get there? With a STRICT no quarters given lockdown. They were tracing people who left Wuhan via their phones and other means, they went to 11. It took a few weeks, locking down 700+ million people, but it appears to have worked.
South Korea was looking like another spot to explode, but they jumped on things fast and seriously and now, a couple weeks later, things look under control. Look at how many tests they ran. They were being proactive as FUCK. As of now, it appears to have worked for them.
Iran.. who the hell knows what is going on there.
What have our western nations done? We hem and haw and cancel a few big events (to much consternation) and mostly just making poor panic decisions (TP & water) and making fun of said panic decisions.
Italy is now completely locked down. Which country is next? How long until it IS here?
Is the media hyping this up for ratings? Of course. That's why I don't generally give a shit what CNN/MSNBC/FOXNEWS/etc says about this. They're usually days or hours behind in breaking news anyway, and they have to put their Anti-Trump or Pro-Trump spin on things first.
I follow the numbers. Are they perfect prognosticators of the future? Absolutely not. But we're not looking at a static event, we're looking at an event that's coming AT US.
Hur-dur-dur only 723 people in the US have it. There are like 327 million people in the US. That's such a tiny percentage! Don't worry, be happy! Hur-dur-dur!
Look at the number explosions in other places, and those other places (outside of China) are much, much smaller than the USA. While the USA has the benefit of being spread out a bit, it also means the virus can take hold in a lot of different places at the same time. How will quarantines work? Will CA state police be at the borders keeping out the evil Oregonians?
I, emphatically, 100% want this to be a wet fart that goes away fast. I want to go to E3, I want to sell my house, I have plans for 2020 and this is right fucking things up, but I am not sticking my head in the sand and justtheflubro'ing because somehow it makes me feel better about my poor preparedness.
IF you feel like this is no big deal and overblown and whatever.. come in here and back it up with facts, post more info about how South Korea and China are beating this thing, and how we've learned those lessons and are applying them abroad. We're (generally) posting facts and details about how this is continuing to spread, if you doubt those facts, back them up with counter facts, not stupid non sequiturs.
Cybrwzrd
Banned
It isn't about freedom for those kind of people, freedom requires social responsibility. They desire power over others.
Captain Zyrain
Member
CONTAINMENT AREA DEPLOYED
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Smiles and Cries
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Kadayi
Banned
By those kinds of people, I assume you mean retards Right?
Fuk Dat, what about Ma Freedoms!!! Fucking Gorvnt Telling me what to do. Burn it down, burn it all down!!!. I'll infect every sonoabitch I want to. No National Guard is gonna stop me.
Smiles and Cries
Member
US public health labs have run 4,856 coronavirus tests, CDC says
From CNN's Amanda Watts
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield said 4,856 novel coronavirus tests have been run in public health labs across the United States.
Redfield said that number, which was last updated on Monday, does not include clinical labs or private labs.
www.cnn.com
So much for the 1 million promise lol
From CNN's Amanda Watts
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield said 4,856 novel coronavirus tests have been run in public health labs across the United States.
Redfield said that number, which was last updated on Monday, does not include clinical labs or private labs.
US public health labs have run 4,856 coronavirus tests, CDC says
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield said 4,856 novel coronavirus tests have been run in public health labs across the United States.
So much for the 1 million promise lol
Starlight Lotice
Member
Which Doctor are you GAF?
The Chilled out one?
The one who looks up forums?
Or the one who says that we are all going to die?
Of course it is scary for older folk who are vulnerable but wanted to lighten the mood.
Jsut saw the post above me...so did Voldemort do it to Harry Potter?
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Cybrwzrd
Banned
By those kinds of people, I assume you mean retards Right?
I mean sociopaths.
Eiknarf
Banned
Careful there Citizen. I may have to mark you down for one of our futurere-educationFreedom camps, where you'll learn allabout the problematic nature offreedom of speech and thought.
Call me a fool and a communist here, but if China wanted to get rid of Trump wouldn't it be a lot easier for them to just assassinate the man versus infect their own country with an uncontrollable virus and tank their own economy in the process? Or are we playing this entire scenario out using 24 Scriptwriting rules? In which case carry on.
They didn't infect themselves, but, they will use the opportunity as a way to undermine their current largest economic competitor. The USA
They dont care about their people, only their govt. They didnt engineer the virus but they're using the opportunity to undermine US economy. Trust me
Its like the old saying - never let a tragedy go to waste. Opportunism at its finest
They covered it up as long as they could. Once the bat was out of the bag, they are now happy to see our economy tank along with them.
Captain Zyrain
Member
(A) that's 2 days old
(B) the news isn't confirmed anywhere outside a twitter account with 128 followers
Ergo, likely just shitposting.
Captain Zyrain
Member
Two weeks it looks like (for now).
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Did they work well or were they shitty?
decisions
Member
Made sure to get my second major declared on paper so that when my university inevitably closes down I'll get two degrees instead of one!
(Think there is some policy where if the university has to cease operations for whatever reason degrees will be given to those who are within a small number of credits of obtaining them)
(Think there is some policy where if the university has to cease operations for whatever reason degrees will be given to those who are within a small number of credits of obtaining them)
12Goblins
Lil’ Gobbie
I can't speak to the validity of those numbers, but I feel like no doctor would ever post this in their office...Even if this virus is "just like the flu", any medical professional knows the devastating consequences of the Influenza virus
Regardless, when they do come up with a vaccine, its a matter of time until we start to see "skeptical" antivaxers, presumably a lot of the same folks who are out there hoarding useless items right now
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Smiles and Cries
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cleaning service too?
I dunno man. I've seen South Korea focus on hot clusters and even they have a hard time with them but unless they are willing to push as hard as South Korea and lockdown and test heavy statewide this is just a PR stunt to me. It is just to show he tried. NYC his huge, NY State is even bigger.
this is not a time to test things out, and fail New York.
I guess only time will tell if this step helps
HellforLeather
Member
This is one of the few bleak silver linings of a totalitarian government. It was said when the first few cases hit the US but containment here in the states was probably never a real option and I think that's playing itself out now. Especially considering that there is apparently a significant number of people that are crayon-eating levels of dumb and believe everything is fake news until their lord and savior say otherwise, despite the fact that he has repeatedly shown he doesn't know what the fuck hes even talking about when it comes to this shit. Asking if rolling out of Flu vaccination would make a dent in the problem, or bitching about letting AMERICANS off of those cruise ships because it would affect his infected numbers.
Yes , sadly that’s the down side of a democratic.
Art.Menegatti
Member
Fun Fanboy
Banned
I just want to go to E3 and Xbox FanFest. ughhhhhhhhhh
Kadayi
Banned
Captain Zyrain
Member
Smiles and Cries
Member
He paints a real difficult picture of what the challenges are to overcome for hospitals to even care for large numbers of people at one time.
The thing is I am not even sure they can stop it from getting to those numbers
Captain Zyrain
Member
No Italy for you!
Kadayi
Banned
HellforLeather
Member
Smiles and Cries
Member
I think PAX East was the last chance to go to a games related event this year. Everything else will be a Youtube video stream.
Nintendo once again predicted the future of gaming.
Captain Zyrain
Member
JESUS
My country is sacrificing, so that you guys can learn,
do lock down , not love
!
#justflu don’t sweat it , really , don’t prepare , don’t watch the news, just work , like the nice little sheep we are.
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HellforLeather
Member
Why is Italy so bad? Or are they painting a more realistic picture of what the other countries look like?
Smiles and Cries
Member
I would shake your hands but Italy just reported in
Kadayi
Banned
JFC. All thread joking aside. those are terrible gains on both fronts. Stay safe Italian GAF I wish you and your families all the best during this period.
Captain Zyrain
Member
Deaths is likely due to the aged population, since this hits them harder. Italy is (I guess) one of the oldest countries in Europe.
They also likely were the first ones to get caught unprepared. Other countries could be in for similar fates/numbers.
betrayal
Banned
After ~1.800 yesterday i expected 2.000+. So 977 is okay and gives some hope that containment over there will start to work, especially after what they have announced yesterday. But for that we will have to wait at least another week. Death count due to age is awful.
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Jtibh
Banned
Yes this video is very down to earth.
Too bad the thumbnail screams death to the world.
Everyone should watch it.
Smiles and Cries
Member
He went to the Youtuber school of click me Thumbnails
even when the content is good those things are brutal
Jtibh
Banned
Stick them into the darkzone . And let them rott there. Fuckin campers and large groups of assholes killing the new ones right at the door.Why is this so familiar?..........
Captain Zyrain
Member
Yes, the lowest new case # in 3 days or so, which hopefully is encouraging. Though deaths went down yesterday as well before jumping up. Hard to tell if there is a trend in either direction without more data.
GaviotaGrande
Banned
Amazing game, will play tonight.Why is this so familiar?..........
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