Will there be a serious shortage of chemical reagents for coronavirus testing?

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Saturday March 28, 2020 · 6:19 PM PDT

2020/03/28 · 18:19

Does anyone know if this is true?

"In three to four weeks, there will be a major shortage of chemical reagents for coronavirus testing . . . . any public health response that counts on widespread testing in the United States is doomed to fail. . . .instead, to immediately gear up for epidemic intelligence, based on techniques used for many decades. Among those is so-called illness surveillance . . . .”

Quote taken from this article from yesterday’s New York Times.

It’s Too Late to Avoid Disaster, but There Are Still Things We Can Do

I found this highly detailed article on testing, which points out the potential bottlenecks, but ventures no opinion on how soon testing might become rare or impossible.

Coronavirus Testing Materials That Are in Short Supply

In my understanding, replacing testing with epidemic surveillance would be brain-work intensive and require people who are experienced and as objective as possible. In other words, a work force not easily and quickly assembled.

Will there be issues with shortages of testing chemicals before the U.S. has even gotten minimum testing processes in place? If this might be an issue we should be hearing about mitigation plans from leaders right now. I keep hearing proposed plans that hinge on that perfect moment when the U.S. can perform as many tests as needed. Might that time be much farther off than we’re being led to believe?

My Jackass O' Lantern

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Wednesday October 30, 2019 · 6:26 PM PDT

2019/10/30 · 18:26

At least I enjoyed carving the scariest lantern I ever made.

Why we can't "Just wait a year and let the voters decide"

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Thursday October 10, 2019 · 9:11 PM PDT

2019/10/10 · 21:11

“Impeachment bad! Just wait a year and let the voters decide . . . .”

Obviously this is a standard bullet point distributed to Republicans. I just heard it from Rand Paul on “The Daily Show” and the local paper two days ago featured Senator Rob Portman saying the same thing.

I still haven’t heard the obvious response from the interviewer that Trump is being investigated for corrupting THIS EXACT PROCESS! The Republicans would have us abide by the outcome of voting when there is evidence that Trump is using government assets to control the outcome of the voting?

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Sunday March 05, 2017 · 10:37 PM PST

2017/03/05 · 22:37

To be sung to the melody of “The Little Nash Rambler”

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While scrolling through the latest news, what to my surprise

A crazy tweet had just come out, with Presidential lies

I thought that we had taken away his access to his phone.

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We’ve got to make this President behave as though he’s grown

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His phone went tweet tweet tweet

I walked back to his office door to confiscate the tool.

Who could have known that he would be as stubborn as a mule?

Who knew this spoiled and pouty brat would need a chaperone?

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We’ve got to make this President behave as though he’s grown

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His phone went tweet tweet tweet

He shouted “It’s Obama’s plot to bring my greatness down!”

I watch the sunrise on the sea--of course we should have known--

Someone who craves the spotlight can’t resist a megaphone.

We’ve got to make this President behave as though he’s grown

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His phone went tweet tweet tweet

Steve Bannon lumbered out to see just what was going on.

He grinned as I tried helplessly to reach that goddam phone.

I pleaded for his help and cried “Oh surely you have known!

“We’ve got to make this President behave as though he’s grown.”

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His phone went tweet tweet tweet

Steve Bannon .shook his massive head and then he said to me,

“You just don’t get it, do you? This is a regency.

“I need anger, seething chaos, distraction, fear and hate

“I need a crazy President to destroy the United States!”

The Catholic Church in a Nutty Shell

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Sunday December 30, 2012 · 5:04 PM PST

2012/12/30 · 17:04

OK, I kind of enjoy it when my enemies (Catholics trying to impose their sexual morality on everybody else ) kick another of my enemies--and incidentally their own allies (rabid anti-abortionists trying to put their religion into secular law) in the head.

Catholic school fires teacher for being an unmarried mother

A former first-grade teacher at Kettering’s Ascension Catholic School is suing the school, Ascension Church and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati in federal court, saying officials discriminated against her a year ago when they fired the unmarried woman after she told the principal about her pregnancy.
Kathleen Quinlan of Kettering, who has since delivered twin girls, said in the Dec. 14 lawsuit that her firing for moral reasons was discriminatory because male employees who engage in premarital sex don’t face the same consequences “insomuch as they do not show outward signs of engaging in sexual intercourse (i.e., pregnancy).”

OK, over the curlicue, can anyone think of a way a woman can avoid showing outward signs of engaging in sexual intercourse (ie., pregnancy)? Read More

They are coming for your civil unions too

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Saturday March 03, 2012 · 10:00 AM PST

2012/03/03 · 10:00

But you knew that.

New Hampshire: Defend Marriage

Civil unions were in place before the legislature created same sex marriage, and they were repealed when the same-sex marriage law was passed. Thus, the proposed amendment to HB 437 largely reinstates the situation which was in place before the same sex marriage law took effect. The Diocese of Manchester consistently has opposed legislation that would establish civil unions. However, the proposed amendment to HB 437 falls into a category of legislation which the US Bishops have previously considered: bills in civil law which may not reflect the fullness of the Church’s teaching, but which nonetheless provide an 'incremental improvement' in the current law and a 'step toward full restoration of justice.'

This quote refers, of course, to the attempt to repeal same sex marriage in New Hampshire. I can't tell you how often I've heard opponents of same sex marriage whine "THEY'VE got civil unions; why do THEY need to get married?"

Well, I guess the church doesn't intend for THEM to have civil unions for one second longer than they can help.

Clearly if the Catholic Church succeeded in defeating same sex marriage, they would target civil unions next. If they succeeded at that, the next step would be re-criminalizing homosexual sex acts. Then the Catholic Church wouldn't feel persecuted by other people's private lives. Poor, pitiful church.

A song about Sarah for Joe the Plumber's country album

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 8:06 AM PST

2008/11/06 · 08:06

I couldn't resist the project suggested by a commenter on dansac's highly recommended diary (Just For Fun: Palin Spending Spree MUCH WORSE Than Thought)
yesterday. The challenge was to write a country song for Joe the Plumber's first album about Sarah's experience as a VP candidate. So here you are Joe. You can have it for free. Don't say a Democrat never gave you anything.

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Tuesday October 16, 2007 · 11:02 AM PDT

2007/10/16 · 11:02

of the Republican Samaritan when he vetoed SCHIP?

Jesus told many stories to illustrate his teachings. The story of the Republican Samaritan is one of the most helpful in understanding how Jesus wants us to live our lives. Surely it influenced the Decider when he decided to veto. We know that Bush is famously reluctant to discuss his faith and its role in his life, but I think he should have made an exception and reminded us all of the story of the Republican Samaritan. Read it once again, below the fold.

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Thursday July 19, 2007 · 1:14 PM PDT

2007/07/19 · 13:14

They will escape earth's atmosphere in seconds, moving at unbelievable speed toward their penultimate target—a wormhole near Alpha Centauri. They will plunge into this wormhole and emerge into the Neocon Alternate Universe, never to be approached again by earthly beings.

U.S. diplomat sees some progress in Iraq

[Ambassador Ryan Crocker] also warned lawmakers against relying heavily on a list of benchmarks to measure gains made in Iraq. Earlier this year, Congress asked the White House to report on progress made in 18 target areas for political, security and diplomatic reforms; last week, the administration reported mixed results.

"The longer I am here, the more I am persuaded that progress in Iraq cannot be analyzed solely in terms of these discreet, precisely defined benchmarks because, in many cases, these benchmarks do not serve as reliable measures of everything that is important — Iraqi attitudes toward each other and their willingness to work toward political reconciliation," Crocker said.

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Saturday May 05, 2007 · 11:36 AM PDT

2007/05/05 · 11:36

I suppose the media hasn't given this much attention, since they figure Americans don't remember what happened two weeks ago.

Iraq's prime minister said Sunday that he has ordered a halt to the U.S. military construction of a barrier separating a Sunni enclave from surrounding Shiite areas in Baghdad after fierce criticism over the project at home.

"I oppose the building of the wall and its construction will stop," al-Maliki said during a joint news conference with the secretary-general of the Arab League. "There are other methods to protect neighborhoods, but I should point out that the goal was not to separate, but to protect."

He did not elaborate but added "this wall reminds us of other walls that we reject, so I've ordered it to stop and to find other means of protection for the neighborhoods."

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But what do we find in an AP article from yesterday?

He lied. The barrier is still going up. It is certainly reminiscent of Bush's famous denial that the U.S. government spied on American citizens without a warrant.

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Wednesday March 14, 2007 · 11:35 AM PDT

2007/03/14 · 11:35

OK, if you think that you can reason with Bush, if you believe that he has the best interests of the United States at heart, I beg you to read Glenn Greenwald's column in Salon, found by way of Attaturk's post at Atrios' blogspot: Well there's one thing we know Bush sure loves him those historians

Glenn Greenwald's article: The president receives "lessons" from his neoconservative tutors

Greenwald demonstrates that Bush's mind is closed to common sense and the will of the American people. Bush is the creature of the neocons, and welcomes the poison they continue to pour into his ears. Greenwald uses several different accounts of a "literary luncheon" written by the neocon attendees to prove that Bush is lost to the real world, and that the danger to the world is incalculable.

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Saturday March 03, 2007 · 9:04 AM PST

2007/03/03 · 09:04

So we were sitting there with Friday night pizza and cheap wine and listening to the Dixie Chicks' award-winning CD, The Long Way Home.

If the Right Wing Nutters hadn't politicized this group during the invasion of Iraq, I probably wouldn't ever have purchased and enjoyed a Dixie Chick album, since I rarely listen to country. Probably without their intense anger and sorrow over the reaction to Natalie's 2003 remark, the Dixie Chicks wouldn't have been inspired to write these fine songs. Apparently millions of other people have had an experience similar to mine.

But what I want to know is, why aren't rightwingers/Republicans/conservatives all over America jerking in stiff-limbed little dances around their living rooms, quivering in an ecstasy of Bush Hate?

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Will there be a serious shortage of chemical reagents for coronavirus testing?

My Jackass O' Lantern

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The Catholic Church in a Nutty Shell

They are coming for your civil unions too

A song about Sarah for Joe the Plumber's country album

Why didn't Bush invoke the parable

The goalposts have achieved liftoff

Al Maliki: All I really need to know I learned from the Bush administration

Just-In-Time (I hope) education for Blue Dogs

Why isn't Bush Hate Syndrome a Republican phenomenon?