“the warning from the [Norway’s] largest university, with some 40,000 students, applies “especially” to students staying in nations with “poorly developed health services,” as well as countries, “for example the USA,” with a “poorly developed collective infrastructure.” www.huffpost.com/…
Anyone who expects ANY management skill from this WH has been living under a rock. His entire life has been a cascade of unaccountability . There has never been a hint that the iMPOTUS has ever risen to a challenge. A career spent blaming others, bullying and buying favors is perhaps the poorest possible foundation for the slightest bump in the road- let alone a real crisis....
There is ZERO room for complacency. A bit of wikipedia fact checking: On Mar 4 , Italy had the same KNOWN cases as the US did on Mar 15- apprx 3100......By Mar 10, they were at 10,000 known cases and Prime Minister Conte increased the quarantine lockdown to cover all of Italy, including travel restrictions and a ban on public gatherings. 5 days later, [Mar 15 ]Italy was at 24,700 known cases... Buckle up. Its gonna be a bumpy ride…
We ARE on the exact early trajectory as Italy or Spain- [and given our few test kits, maybe well beyond that] However, we do not have nearly the robust social safety net of those countries- a safety net that means their citizens are much more able to ride out weeks of self quarantine.
the unequivocal case for universal socialized medicine [and paid sick leave and child care and maybe even emergency UBI ] will be made by this pandemic very soon..... think about it- the only way to handle a pandemic is to first- isolate all known cases . that means test should be free and contextually mandatory [maybe even incentivized] and paid sick leave and child care have to be universal ; no one will “self quarantine” if that means no pay check-i.e. no rent, no food, no car payment, no internet and no utilities. Estimates range that between 50 and 80% of American workers are left out of the recent House measure…. [and this estimate may well omit the millions of workers caught up in the underground economy] One missing paycheck is a financial disaster for many many citizens….Second- once a vaccine comes on line, to get as high a percentage of the population inoculated as possible- ergo : it has to be free …... any other tactic is just so many band aids. And we will need those precise safety net measures to restart a ravaged economy.
It will take a New Deal type of govt intervention to avoid the catastrophe feared by this Doctor in Bostonwww.theatlantic.com/... We see zero from the GOP and, I fear, precious little from a Dem leadership still wedded to the protection of corporate wealth and seemingly little empathy for the common folk…. These actions are what is needed to take care of ALL of us….