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Truth and consequences
Mar 25 2020 09:47AM more by sherkahn
Tags: Current Events

Looks like the mishandling of the pandemic has been going on for some time.


“ DHS wound down pandemic models before coronavirus struck
A vital modeling program was sidelined amid a bureaucratic battle, former officials say, leaving U.S. less prepared to face the virus.

From at least 2005 to 2017, an office inside DHS, in tandem with analysts and supercomputers at several national laboratories, produced detailed analyses of what would happen to everything from transportation systems to hospitals if a pandemic hit the United States.

But the work abruptly stopped in 2017 amid a bureaucratic dispute over its value, two of the former officials said, leaving the department flat-footed as it seeks to stay ahead of the impact the COVID-19 outbreak is having on vast swaths of the U.S. economy. Officials at other agencies have requested some of the reports from the pandemic modeling unit at DHS in recent days, only to find the information they needed scattered or hard to find quickly.“

In short, the stuff we had in place for such contingencies was dismantled because of Trump admin looking for money.
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Harthat
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Mar 25 2020 11:31AM     link to this

"Looks like the mishandling of the pandemic"

You know more reporters of this mishandling will surface.
The priority of the general population and trump do not mesh.
Or the Republican party for matter.
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Mar 25 2020 02:11PM     link to this

WSJ article by Professors of Medicine at Stanford University, headline today.......
(I included the link but you can't read the article without a subscription)

"Is Covid-19 as Deadly as They Say?"

Bottom line for these 2 doctors is................NO!

They go thru the actual statistics in population samples from China, Italy, Iceland and the US.
Their analysis put the underestimates of actual cases to reported cases at between 30x to 130x in these various populations based on reliable reports by the various agencies involved.
Meaning that death rates promulgated in the popular media of 2 - 4% are 10x too high. There is a lot more to read in the article.......

Their last paragraph is as follows:

"A universal quarantine may not be worth the costs it imposes on the economy, community and individual mental and physical health. We should undertake immediate steps to evaluate the empirical basis of the current lockdowns."

I don't have any idea if they're Dems or Reps and it doesn't fucking matter. This is their professional opinion that they stepped up with, leading with their faces in a public newspaper of high regard. This is not MY opinion so i don't want to hear your shit from either side of the aisle. I'm just the messenger here.
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Harthat
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Mar 26 2020 08:52AM     link to this

I would bet that you could find more professional opinions that contradict the ones you are referring to.
And if we wait, say six months, we won't even need so called professional opinions .
Even Forster Gump would be able to come up with a correct conclusion.
Even without Mama's help.
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Mar 26 2020 09:53AM     link to this

Look, the insiders, Globalists, what ever you want to call them, Already knew what was going to happen long ago... Hollywood was suppose to tip you off. No one believed it.

No need to keep throwing money at it.

Like I said, they are 20 years a head of what we now know.
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