You’re welcome @FreeAndClear…
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The Italian government ordered all mortgage payments suspended by private lenders for small firms and households.
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That doesn’t mean the tests are being processed in your hospital lab.
What I do know is that according to CDC all fifty state labs have the test kits and are performing the tests. As per their announcements last week hospital and private labs are in the process of getting certified to run the actual tests but I haven’t seen anything as far as h ow many have been certified to this point and are up and running.
You’ve had a local/state problem from the start and it appears to be continuing.
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conan
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This is non political thread…but lets leave it at this. Your defense is one and same with forums big goverment bureaucrats.
And if we had the production capability in the US we would not be dependent on their production. We then of course move to the issue of transporting and distribution which is greatly complicated with them being overseas.
MoleUK
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Only if you nationalised it. Otherwise the shortage would be exactly the same. But yeah leave the politics for the other thread.
Simply a fact. The CDC isn’t in charge of US industrial output or production.
The articles also don’t state that there IS a current shortage of the reagents just a concern that the supply could become limited and thus impact testing in the future.
JayJay
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I was going to say the same thing.
The economy is global whether you like it or not.
Manfactured goods go to those who pay for it. With free flows of capital, those people could be anywhere.
Are we going to now suggest nationalizing certain types of manufacturing and making sure those goods could only be sold in the United States?
Or having the government buy up those goods and distribute them?
Completely false. There are lots of ways to encourage industries to come back to the US that don’t require nationalization.
No, nobody is suggesting that.
JayJay
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You can’t force them to sell their goods only here as well.
And with some goods, the manufacturing takes place in other countries to be close to where the raw materials are…it makes sense from a supply chain perspective, and no amount of “government encouragement” would be able to offset that.
JayJay
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Then since demand is global, shortages would still exist.
Your solution solves nothing.
It creates production here in the US and competition for those abroad.
If this type of testing requires specific reagents the demand globally for them is only going to increase as a result of this outbreak.
conan
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No they aren’t…but they are now in charge what hospitals can release to media.
Do you understand that?
The CDC has no such authority.
They simply have no such authority. Your local people have been screwing this up from the start and trying to pass the buck to Atlanta and DC and it appears they are just continuing to do so.
conan
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Yeah…then why does the media only report the numbers directly from CDC?
Why not report all the “other” numbers as well?
I understand the need to defend goverment bureaucracy.
The gov’t can’t dictate what numbers the media releases either.
conan
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Then why aren’t the media doing it?
