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Wow kiddos, you just got a huge bone...I'm pretty impressed, since I didn't get student loan interest waivers or anything of the such during 911.
Furthermore, for the sports fanatics on this sports forum, this is uncharted territory and amazing that the leadership of this country was able to engage the private sector, abolish and rewrite laws on the books only within a few days. Guess what... there will be testing centers for you in a couple weeks.
Holy cow... maybe the sports events will only be pushed off a couple weeks. Wouldn't that suck for all of those doomsday people who hate our leadership and think that the world should go up in flames, because we've got a vendetta?!
Damn... a freakin' GOOGLE WEBSITE is being development for all of the idiots out there who can't stay off of social media, or read a book, or find a library. And for those fat lazy people who don't want to get out of their McDonalds mobile, they'll be able to sit their ass right in a car and get tested.
What more could us lazy Americans want? I mean, besides torching the current administration.
This should end well.
Ok boomer
Please esplain Lucy... what does this "boomer" mean...?
'76 so that'd make me a gen-x'er, and as a long haired liberal musician for the first part of my life... I think that makes you a complete fuckin' idiot right?
Boomer Remover is coming. Careful fam.
Dude, I'm just now seeing your awesome original post. It made my morning. You're exactly what I had in mind when I commented on jmblue's diary ("... learning from the example of Europe ...") a few minutes ago.
Seriously though digship... a google fuckin website, to hand hold people, and engagement of the worlds largest diagnostics and logistics firms in the Pharm world.
I voted independent, but I'll be damned if I've ever seen such a mobilization in my lifetime!
WIN
Quit smoking crack and go to bed.
Because other administrations would have had millions of kits ready? Especially Obama in his "we are the world" mentality? ROFLMAO
Hey... though this Administration did say they'd be able to get them asap... ya can't just magically make them appear, it takes the resources of those private sector folks to make that happen.
Secondly, the tests do all of JACK & SHIT... so you've got the virus, there's no fuckin cure, jokes on you. What... are you gonna go on Facey-space or Twittler-Wink and brag or seek sympathy because you've got it? Regardless if you have the flu or Covid19 your ass should be at home in bed, and you should be washing your hands and cleaning up after yourself.
Ok... now I'll stop being logical...
It is quite clear that being logical is not a requirement to graduate from Hopkins. One tests so that others who may have been exposed can quarantine themselves. Or, in an example you might be able to relate to, so that if you are asymptotic but have it, you can stop shaking hands with all the experts who need to be focusing on solving this crisis and can’t afford to get sick.
Further, since Obama put in place an apparatus to deal with this that Trump disassembled, it is probably safe to assume that he would have gotten a quicker start on the testing that so many other countries have been able to do.
Absolutely... and tests are not absolute either... I guess they don't teach 'logic at Michigan'. Since you believe that tests will always yield an absolute result at anyone one given point in time. Medical tests don't work that way my friend.
March 13th, 2020 at 10:10 PM ^
Why don’t you read what you wrote, then read what I wrote, then explain how anything you just sprouted is logically related to refuting my argument.
Actually Obama n co commissioned antiviral drugs and test kits en masse within 1 month of the initial swine flu outbreak in Mexico/Cali with the first state of emergency in April 2009. He then commenced a second one in October when the numbers of infected passed 1 million in the fall.
Wish we had him running this fiasco actually.
Nope.
Why does it take resources of the private sector to make testing happen? The US government has more resources and a larger reach than any private company.
What leads you to the conclusion the tests do jack shit? By that logic lets not test people for AIDS and just ignore the problem and hope it goes away. There are things that can be done to treat it. There is no "corona cure pill" but that doesn't mean there aren't treatment options. And more importantly testing allows for isolation measures to prevent the spread. Testing is part of getting back to normalcy.
You're just butt hurt about your portfolio doing poorly so you're throwing a tantrum using some bullshit talking points you heard from Alex Jones. The "doomsday Dems" as you put it didn't put Italy and Wuhan on lockdown. They didn't invent a virus to take down Trump. And they didn't tank the stock market. You can blame "the media" for causing an unsubstantiated panic, but all of the nonsense you're posting is also completely unsubstantiated. You're no better than the media with all your scorching hot takes that have no basis in either logic, science, or public health.
It would be much easier to coordinate things for a pandemic if say... Trump didn't fire the one federal agency that's in charge of dealing with them... Oh wait he did just that.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
Oops.
It's Obama's fault tho.
LOL. Your posts are a cornucopia of asshattery.
the administration had nothing to do with diagnostic tests being developed
They started working on this in Jan when China released Coronavirus information to the world... this administration was caught off guard, clearly, science was not
At least they had the sense to fast track approval of the new test, which was basically a no brainer since the analytical equipment used for the test is already readily available in many hospitals
Don't deny science at every turn and then try to steal credit when It succeeds to improve society in spite of your ignorance
March 13th, 2020 at 11:26 PM ^
I wish we would stop denying science. At some point the world must awknowledge the science that proves, with no doubt, that an unborn fetus is a living human. Disgusting that we ignore that scientific fact !!
March 14th, 2020 at 12:24 AM ^
Google actually isn't making the website https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-donald-trump-google-website/
March 13th, 2020 at 11:18 PM ^
I agree on your second point but I couldn't resist dropping it here.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
This is a bad translation from the original Russian.
O'cmon Putin, grease the palms... or at least my backside bruh.
Baby boomers are directly responsible for the greatest transfer of wealth from young to old people in human history, and you're upset about a temporary reprieve for student loan interest?
You misunderstand my tone McCunty...
I was elated and pleased, it's more than I ever got, I'm happy for the youngins! Your current leadership just lifted a weight off of your shoulders, which is what they're supposed to do.
By the way "Shaft" says hello... get it... your name...
Well then the tone of you post was very confusing.
Try to keep up.... - Hopkins Grad
The good news is that flights to Bolivia are still operating, so you should be good to go. Have a nice trip, and try not to come back.
—Turned down Hopkins to go to Michigan
Bullshit you did, and if you did, then Michigan deserves you.
And if JHU could see you now, JHU would cancel your diploma and expunge your name from its alumni records.
Why are you posting so much on a Michigan blog if "Michigan deserves you" is something you consider an insult? Fuck off to a John Hopkins blog. You're not special and you're not better than anyone here.
March 14th, 2020 at 12:43 AM ^
I will take this as both a compliment toward Michigan and toward me. And I turned Hopkins down for grad school too.
Real talk here, you seem to reference having graduated from Hopkins in about 90% of your posts. Is that some sort of appeal to authority for your nonsense ideas? Are you hoping that impresses people? That maybe their world class hospital confers some sort of luster to some dude like yourself that majored in interpretive dance 30 years ago?
It does raise a host of interesting questions
1. What did you major in at Hopkins
2. Why does a Hopkins grad spend so much time on a michigan sports blog, especially when no Michigan sports are being played?
I'm going to guess insecurity about his small and weird looking penis.
March 13th, 2020 at 10:13 PM ^
I didn’t know Trump’s forgotten son, Eric is it, tries another route at impressing daddy—shitposting is not going to work despite the fact that daddy likes gold toilets. In fact, that gold just makes him flush his massive shits six or seven times in one sitting (or should we say one tweetstorm).
You’ve accomplished looking like a dumbass and and ass. That’s upping the game around here. (I’ll never read your reply because you’re persona non grata—just wanted to harmonize with the chorus.)
Unless you're at Hopkins for medicine, philosophy or lacrosse, what possibly makes you smarter than the rest of us Michigan plebs?
March 13th, 2020 at 10:23 PM ^
It's going to be like a 3-6 month break of interest on the loan. A 10 YEAR LOAN- or more. It isn't that big of a gift. STFU.
Your username does check out with the whole student loan interest waivers thing.
I like how this is being phrased as some great benevolence and not just, like, the bare minimum required to make sure the working class doesn't die if they can't work.
Hell, Republicans are still blocking the bill that would guarantee paid sick leave, affordable testing, and lunches for poor school students.
Edit: In actuality, while this is nice, lots of members of the working class don't have college degrees and thus have no government student loans to have interest on (also interest rates are VERY low right now so it's not as large of a benefit as it seems on its face). What they could really use would be guaranteed sick leave/paid leave if their workplace goes on hiatus. Y'know, stuff that's in the bill that Republicans are blocking.
I believe the repubs are holding out because they want more to be given to drive that engine called our economy.
Hell all of the Doomsday Dems just bombed our confidence and wallstreet back into 1987
Right, it was the doomsday dems and not the fact that this administration's roll out of diagnostic testing made Katrina look well-organized. If only Obama hadn't slashed CDC funding and fired the U.S. Pandemic Response Team. Wait...
Maybe if the Democrats hadn’t wasted so much time with the hoax impeachment the government could have focused on being more ready.
Is your view that Trump did nothing wrong? Or that he did a bad thing but that it wasn't impeachable?
I'm genuinely curious.
Nothing to rise to the level of impeachment. He wanted influence peddling looked into (which, let’s be honest, most politicians are guilty of). Certainly not as serious as the former President spying on him and getting shoddy FISAs to do it.
Or if Trump hadn’t gotten rid if the office designed to focus on pandemics