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SmokeyTheBear

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  1. 34 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Not sure exactly what you are seeing those graphs, particularly the death chart. Trajectory of deaths appears fairly consistent among western nations. Japan and SK are clear outliers.  I don't think that we can place high confidence in counts coming out of Iran and China. Can you elaborate how you see that otherwise?

     

    The doubling factor for the US is way worse than others. Just because they follow parallel paths, doesn't mean we are tracking similarly. I'm sure you know this, but our catastrofuck becomes a bigger catastrofuck faster than everyone else if our trend line continues. 

  2. 4 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

    The china ban bought time - and then he did absolutely nothing with it. 

    This. In parallel we should have been ramping up testing capacity, aligning resources to mitigation efforts, daily governor briefings on strategies moving forward, daily conferences with world leaders on global strategies, etc. Instead we got "it's contained and will go to zero soon, just a dem hoax". 

  3. Just now, Hiphopopotamos said:

    Things like means testing are just going to slow down and complicate the process of getting money into the hands of people who need it.  The easiest way to do this is to give it to everyone and then tax appropriately on the back end.

    Fair enough. I don't know the process of means testing but with everyone's recent tax filings, I don't see why it can't be an easy reference based on reported income. 

  4. 28 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

    Did you get the ignore feature sussed out?

    I don't ignore on here. I try not to quote the ones that are repeat offenders, but I do want to keep an eye on them. 

     

    I didn't and have used that methodology, but he really doesn't bring anything of value to any discussion.... So, time for a change. 

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