This is precisely the role though of government when working with pharma...pharma has no moral stake, their only goal is to make money and when it comes to medicines this can be a very unethical undertaking. Could Trump have predicted hydroxychloroquine would be so popular...of course not...but their does need to be a mechanism in place to drive production of certain medicines whether it makes profit or not. If the pharma company doesn't like it..they can go to another continent to work. Sadly they will lose even more profits because no other country is as friendly to big pharmaceuticals. The free market can never work when a person's life depends on a drug or a resource...ie water, basic food, or energy. Water and energy are basically public or have harsh profit caps...the same should work to some extent for medicine..of course certain medicines can be considered non-essential and be market based but others need pretty consistent regulation. Thousands of people die every year because pharma either doesn't think their medicine is profitable, drive up prices to make it profitable, or have created drug epidemics(opiates), to increase profit...
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Chloroquine-resistant P. falciparum first developed independently in three to four areas in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and South America in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Since then, chloroquine resistance has spread to nearly all areas of the world where falciparum malaria is transmitted.
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/malaria_worldwide/reduction/drug_resistance.html
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. Here in WV we may have escaped a high first wave as our Governor half assed his way into a stay at home order earlier than I thought he would. It helped having DeWine and Beshear as neighbors.
Get past this first wave, hopefully have some luck with treatments and then be smart about bringing people back together in public spaces. See more than a little Dunning Kruger here on the board (although not from you).
First off, that science argument doesn't hold water. Trump has put money back into NASA and projected our investments into space exploration that Obama cared nothing about (he sent NASA scientists to the Mideast in 2009 as part of a program meant to make those countries feel good about themselves - Google it). His administration rewards research and development from the private sector far more than Obama ever would. Drug companies have zero reason to pursue much of the expensive R&D work that socialized medicine would make completely cost-ineffective. It's the Republican party that acknowledges the actual time that life begins and not the one that tries to call it a lump of cells. It's Trump and the Republican party that seem to be the only ones willing to make hard decsions based on medical science like closing borders rather than act like the morons in Italy that were hugging Chinese people. Our technology companies have slowly come to realize their future is with the Republican party, and not with a party that is slowly creeping toward socialism. It's DJT that took a hardline with China in the first place, the country that steals our technology and violates our patent laws. Science is not a woke, foodstamp president. I could go on and on with this one.
My favorite is "lab test not required." Why would we need a test?
Lmao. This entire thing is garbage. Go back to your lives people.
Safe to say we will have a football season.
Are those stores in Colorado that sell those brownies I like so much still open? Asking for a friend.
can confirm. they are considered essential, just like liquor stores.
Similar things happen for flu season, part of the reason I said yesterday that using numbers for the past 30 days to years past is misleading. Reporting and testing after the fact isn’t the priority, and perfect accuracy isn’t the goal here. There will be people attributed that weren’t truly COVID-19 related and people not attributed that should have been. This is the same type of thing that happens every flu season. Many consider these statistics to not be valid until at least 30 days post report for this very reason.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/...w-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf
Hot damn. Road trip....for those that, you know, go for that kind of thing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/05/so-much-trumps-bump/
The perception of Trump’s performance has changed dramatically. “Trump’s approval for his management of the coronavirus is now under-water, 47-52%. Approval is down from 55% in the poll released on March 20, and closer to where it was in the March 13 poll, when it was 43%.”
The perception of Trump’s performance has changed dramatically. “Trump’s approval for his management of the coronavirus is now under-water, 47-52%. Approval is down from 55% in the poll released on March 20, and closer to where it was in the March 13 poll, when it was 43%.”
It's quite unfortunate that Trump is useless in this situation, but that was predicted based on his lifetime performance in business and the first three years of his presidency. So no, I'm not thrilled. But I live in the real world, not one made up by Fox News.
People die every year. 100s of 1000s. The real damage is being done now. Next time when it's something serious no one will listen. The longer this charade goes on to give you a false sense of security the longer people will be out of work and financially ruined.
Not the paper pushers who sit on conference calls all day or the academics or govt employees, but the ones already hurting, living paycheck to paycheck in lower wage jobs.
Not the paper pushers who sit on conference calls all day or the academics or govt employees, but the ones already hurting, living paycheck to paycheck in lower wage jobs.
I'm sure you disagree with his actions here, as well?
I don't have a dog in this fight at all. I live in a city where my vote doesn't count, so I don't even cast one for president.
it's just fun to point out some, eh, inconsistencies in staunch believers' opinions from time to time.
"But, but, you're literally killing people." Sarcasm. And yes, I'm tempting the karma gods. But, WTF I've got a bunch of bad karma built up.
That guy can retire immediately. He can take his false statements and ******** recommendations with him. He's been as wrong as wrong gets.
umm.. he's talking about the potential dangers in letting someone with no experience drafting public policy write the rules on the fly.
you know, kind of like if a news reporter was thrown into a science lab.
Of course I do, he’s a jackass. It is absurd to think the President should be getting advice on a pandemic from an entertainer, who pretends to be a journalist. But if A-Rod is a trusted advisor on Covid-19, then I guess this clown can be too.
Tucker Carlson is no longer a news reporter, but a right wing performance artist.
You should vote, at least to feel good about yourself and let your voice be heard. At least in a minor way.
so, you don't think it was a good idea for one of the few MSM talking heads who's taken this seriously since January to tell the president to shape up with regards to COVID-19?
you'd rather he stayed home and kept to himself?
god forbid you agree.
my choice not to vote lets them hear it more than others toeing the line
I'm never happy with the 2 puppets that are paraded in front of us to 'lead the free world'. I wish 100% of people didn't vote for president, maybe then things would actually change.
Modeling is not science, and the scientific community has not been doing true science in a long time. Models are already tainted as the perceived outcome is built into the calculation. Conjecture. Look at the models that our politicians are using for this, it doesn't matter if data is showing a decrease over a few days, there is always an increase 2 to 4 weeks into the future. Flawed models.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
I think it is a joke that a TV personality would have the ear of the President and that a “news” reporter would feel they can influence the President. The President of the US has the top scientific minds in the world at his disposal, he is privy to all kinds of info Tucker Carlson isn’t. He should give this clown’s opinion about as much thought as any schmuck off the street.
Are you able to leave Trump out of this and look at all known information logically?
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