Raise the profit and see what happens.
He didnât think theyâd be needed by the time they got off the line.
I have a feeling we are going to agree to disagree on everything in this discussion save for this, so in the spirit of good discussion I will focus on that.
Are you sure he wasnât âinterestedâ? I say he was more concerned about what he perceived as the greater threat. And he hasnât been proven wrong yet. Do I need to report my human nature post?
OK I agree- he was focusing on what he perceived to be a greater threat. The question becomes how to get his attention by pointing out the threat of pandemic couldnât be wished away, and actually INCREASED the threat he was likely worried about?
Actually thereâs one more area of agreement.
That is an economic result. Driven by business decisions. The government does not make PPE nor does it have the logistics to handle it. You would have had warehouses full of unusable materials rats had been in. And a lot of that stuff has a shelf life.
I also agreed with this- I pointed it out- it was an economic decision to have much of this capability offshored. I wasnât talking about warehouses stocked to the gills with PPE like N95 masks.
I was talking about making sure that being able to rapidly make stuff like this should be prioritized as being in country. What types of capabilities could be decided by upgrading our surveillance capabilities as wellâŚto better predict what types of disease threats we might be facing. PPE would likely be the same no matter what infectious agent existed or what disease it was.
Itâs going to take him that long to retool?
Not a government decision.
Surveillance?
The size of the need for the PPE wonât because respiratory infections are harder to isolate. Itâs one of the big problems with them.
How do we make sure we can make it here?
She made several solid points and refused the media bait on speculation. I watched the entire update yesterday.
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He doesnât want to.
No, I donât think he does, but I also think heâs right. By the time they retool and ramp up production, theyâll be unnecessary.
Excellent question. In hindsight. I explained why it doesnât happen.
You donât shut down the plant on a sunny day.
He still hasnât been proven wrong by the data.
Itâs a huge risk for him. Itâs not what he does.
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I supposeâŚsame reason why if global warming is a threat we wonât do anything about itâŚeven those that think it is wonât do anythingâŚbecause the human mind massively discounts the future in favor of the present.
Made sense when we were scrawny primates with no natural defenses against predators. The slow changes in the background didnât matter anywhere near as much as the tiger sneaking up on you to eat you.
Somehow we have to find the way to make the future important enough to pay attention to when itâs important to pay attention to it.
Not bad. In their context. She doesnât understand the private sector.
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Now youâve done it. âWeâ who?
The same is true today. Just different tigers.
Who decides âwhen itâs importantâ?
I wish it appeared that Trump put as much thought into this as you have.
Thanks but I just read. Others have done the heavy lifting.
Yes JayJay the POTUS is asking the country for 15 days. In hopes of collecting empirical evidence to be the strong indicator on how to combat not only this pandemic, but also future health crisisâ that will surely crop up. It took a national mandate to shut down our way of life as we know it for a lot more people to start behaving more responsibly. And these type of preventative measures are something we all can easily practice now and forever more.
What National Mandate? There has not been a mandate from the Federal Government. Only local governments and State governments have issued any mandates. What are you referring to here?
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15 days was never going to be enough time.
Heâs hinting at measures to restart areas of the country without any empirical evidence that this is the right thing to do, and with little evidence, given the state of the rest of the world, will offer much in the way of economic benefit.
And heâs giving no indication heâs built a framework on which to base these decisions. It appears a lurching from position to position based on who he has talked to last.
This isnât confidence-building.
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