Also, the AARC recommended in 2006 and 2008 that HHS add 10k+ ventilators to the SNS, but they didn't. The SNS ventilators that were stored were mostly unmaintained and unusable thanks to the lack of maintenance funding.
"Regulations" exist to prevent unreasonable, dangerous externalities from being socialized onto the people, like the 1976 swine flu vaccine that killed a number of people because clinical trials were skipped.
There is only one party, the Property party, with two wings: Democrat and Republican. - Gore Vidal
Tribal bikeshedding about flavors of lying, corrupt sociopaths and their particular brands of chicanery is the surest way to remain divided-and-conquered and ignore the 800 lbs. gorilla in the room: calcified, entrenched corruption that has ubiquitously surrounded and infiltrated the political, economic, judicial and mainstream media systems such that idealistic reforms from within are tilting at windmills while waiting for Godot. It doesn't matter which flavor of party does what, they serve the same masters; the only differences are the theatrical renditions of pseudo-democracy. Voting, petitions, "antiestablishment" candidates, and other ostensible but weak measures are futile to restore power and public administration to work for the people. It is imperative that any actual, successful revolution separate church and state and wealth corruption as a prime directive to prevent a painful relapse.
Remote: I lost it in the couch. Please find me another on eBay and dip it in your stockpile of Purell, or I'll be getting up and touching the TV like an animal for the duration of this pandemic. I feel like a frickin' criminal!
Willing to relocate: As long as I don't have to get on a plane, go outside or go to the grocery store. If you can teleport me in a bubble-boy suit, then yes.
Technologies: Kung fu, meditation, whistling, arguing on the internet with anonymous/unreasonable people, singing in the shower until the neighbor dog howls, and (racist?) accent impersonations that are half-way decent. I can also do jumping jacks while filing taxes.
CV: It was a dark and stormy night, my mother and father were stuck in a cheap hotel on their way to Alberquerque. I don't remember the rest and don't want to. Gross!
Email: Keep your electrons physically-distanced from my electrons. Don't send me anything, or I'll have to stick it in the oven for half-an-hour at 170 F like snail mail. What a PITA!
I would prefer all something-for-nothing checks be sent to my bank using direct deposit. Cool?
Day-to-day: When there's a vaccine, in about 18-36 months. If you look at the data, there will likely be multiple lockdowns in order to "reset the clock" on the pandemic curve, but it will probably be like Groundhog Day to lesser degrees over-and-over again with smaller pandemic curves until there's a vaccine. Overall, a million dead globally before a vaccine is deployed.
Economically: 10 years (a long time) because bouncing back isn't possible when ancillary businesses close and cause others to close. Right now, unemployment is going to around 35% whereas the Great Depression peaked at around 23-25%. This is, in essence, the Greater Depression. There were most recently structural problems and the global economy was overdue for a contraction, but not to the depths as being experienced without a pandemic; in essence, it is a forcing function that artificially-depresses economic activity in a lasting manner.
Overall: Not everything will be the same, but some things will. Don't let fear or magical wishful-thinking be guiding forces.
Treating the populace like the Radium Girls who were told it was "safe" and ended-up painting their nails, skin and teeth with a deadly substance and dying horrible deaths from it.
A worthless, unprepared third-world country that doesn't have universal healthcare while it lies to and manipulates its impoverished, ignorant citizens. This is all about health kabuki to prevent panic at all costs, not effective public health to save lives.
F-ing A. I haven't left the house in three weeks and have a year of basic food (3 months of most things). To me, people who continue at this time the European-style habits of shopping at markets every 1-2 days or even every 1-2 weeks like most Americans are dangerously stupid.
Also, after waiting on Instacart customer support for 6 hours today without anyone answering or resolution to missing, damaged goods, and wrong quantities in a single order, even though they're YC alum, I can't honestly use them again (sorry folks). I'd rather make a trip to the markets every 6 months in indirect vent/non-vented goggles and a solid N95 NIOSH mask than pay someone else $60 to buy terrible produce and throw bags onto the ground without any care.
PS: We're "autoclaving" the mail at 170 F for 30 minutes to denature any enveloped virus "guests" and letting packages rest in the garage for 4 days before handling them.
Also, the AARC recommended in 2006 and 2008 that HHS add 10k+ ventilators to the SNS, but they didn't. The SNS ventilators that were stored were mostly unmaintained and unusable thanks to the lack of maintenance funding.
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