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Re:Social Distancing Festival by onion2k on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:55AM (#22602432)
It's a virus and our medical system has limits.

Governments shutting down pandemic response units (eg https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/14/world/science-h...) because there hasn't been a pandemic recently is a self-imposed, short-sighted, and unnecessary limit.

It's not fair to say the healthcare system has limits if you're only providing the bare minimum (or less).

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Re:Social Distancing Festival by paublyrne on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:14AM (#22602521)
> Governments shutting down pandemic response units

One government specifically did this.

> It's not fair to say the healthcare system has limits if you're only providing the bare minimum

Healthcare systems all over the world are struggling are preparing to struggle in the coming weeks, many of which do not provide only the 'bare minimum' but seek to provide good national coverage.

While we'd all love to see more joined up thinking between countries in tackling these kinds of crises both during and before, you're being unnecessarily harsh. We are human after all.

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Re:Social Distancing Festival by taborj on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @09:47AM (#22604813)
>One government specifically did this.

Except they didn't, see my reply above.

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Re:Social Distancing Festival by taborj on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @09:46AM (#22604806)
> Governments shutting down pandemic response units

Check your source. This appears to have been disproved.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/16/no-white-...

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Re:Social Distancing Festival by mixmastamyk on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:12PM (#22606372)
It’s a long-winded article stating that it was downsized and consolidated due to “bloat.” Arguably not exactly disproved.
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Re:Social Distancing Festival by taborj on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:15PM (#22618915)
It specifically says: The reduction of force in the NSC has continued since I departed the White House. But it has left the biodefense staff unaffected

So, yes, they downsized and consolidated, but the area of importance at the moment is still there, still functional. That's very different from what's being portrayed and parroted here and elsewhere.

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Re:Social Distancing Festival by goatherders on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:03AM (#22602466)
Agreed. And shutting 5hat down is a betrayal of those that dont know by those that we trust DO. There are 330 million people in this country (approx) that trust fewer than a couple thousand to guide us safely from pandemics. Those couple thousand are largely controlled by a few dozen whose motivations are political or economic in nature.
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