Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO...
by jcranmer on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:09PM
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> by all appearances our CDC still doesn't even know how many tests are performed per day much less how it's going to scale up testing so we can "reopen our economy".
A few weeks ago, IIRC, the CDC said that since the states were providing all the numbers, it wasn't going to bother doing any collation.
It strongly looks to me that the federal government has given up trying to help, being led by someone who is utterly incompetent to the task demanded of him. The response at this point is largely being driven by the 50 state governments + various territories + DC, with the president hoping to steal all the credit and avoid any blame whatsoever. And the rest of the federal government seems to be unwilling or unable to take charge of the response.
Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO...
by chkaloon on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:51PM
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@jcranmer absolutely agree. This is maddening, and unfortunately we all can't do much except sit at home and watch this train wreck. Can't protest, complaints are seen as partisan attacks, and trying to volunteer locally to help out with something that involves leaving the house is seen as either incredibly risky or frowned upon by the mask police. It's driving me nuts.
Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO...
by throwaway894345 on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:08PM
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By no means has Trump done a good job, but I don't think he deserves credit or blame for masks or the testing fiasco. CDC exists to prepare for and manage exactly this scenario and as far as I can tell, it's done neither. There's lots the president can do (and much of which he's failed to do) as well, so there's no shortage of blame to levy at him and his administration, but I'm far more concerned about the CDC's failure because the CDC will outlast any particular president.
Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO...
by miohtama on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @08:00AM
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But he shut down the department that was especially created to make sure the US is prepared to health crisis like COVID-19?
Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO...
by throwaway894345 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:48AM
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Yeah, that was dumb. But the job of that team was to coordinate with the CDC, it wasn't the CDC. There's lots of blame to go around and much of it to POTUS, but the CDC failed in its most fundamental capacity and unlike POTUS, CDC has no term limits so we need to hold them accountable.
Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO...
by sharemywin on Monday April 13, 2020 @04:00PM
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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
it has tests and tests per million as columns. Have no idea where the data comes from.
Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO...
by shalmanese on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:11AM
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https://covidtracking.com/data , a project started by The Atlantic, currently seems to be the best aggregation of the data.
It was almost inexcusable in the first month--CDC was clearly planning for an outbreak on the order of thousands of people in total (tiny reserve of masks and ventilators, severely limited testing capacity, etc), but now it's been a month that South Korea has had drive through testing facilities and by all appearances our CDC still doesn't even know how many tests are performed per day much less how it's going to scale up testing so we can "reopen our economy".