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@John Johnson You are factually incorrect, the "cloth" (even DIY sewn masks) do prevent the particles, the mask producers have to do testing to prove the efficacy of masks that are sold as PPE (also against dust, chemicals or other germs). And they were so kind to even test materials for DIY masks. See the website of smartairfilters(dot) com Not sure if links are allowed by this channel, so replace the dot with . in order to have a link. They have an article on materials for DIY masks, from spring or early summer 2020. I was surprised how good the (theoretical) protection is. Theoretical because gaps dramatically reduce effectiveness that is much more important than the material used. And the lawmakers and producers cannot control how the masks are worn: If you wear them in a sloppy manner to be defiant, or to avoid fogging of glasses, better fit around the nose would solve that, or to breathe more easily. A president that leads by example and that explains it to the masses and a unified message would have helped with that. So it is possible that the Asian countries get more out of mask wearing because the population is disciplined and are told to wear WELL fitting masks. Trump could have positioned himself as leader in difficult times and as someone to follow. But he ran in 2016 as "outsider" and rebel. That is harder to pull off as sitting president, so he had to find another wedge issue to get people riled up (people that are very willing to be riled up anyway). And his PERSONAL VANITY was also in the way of modeling mask wearing and mask information and messaging (Dr. Fauci could not overcome that. Dr. Brix said she and her aide were the only ones that wore masks IN the White House I mean - Trump could have worn a better fitting bandana from April on (when the masks were recommended) and look badass. One of the recommendations of smartairfilter (dot) com was to use 2 layers of cut up T-Shirt material (cotton or a blend with mainly cotton) - that was a good compromise between comfort (ease to breathe) and protection.
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"If you hand out masks, don't wear sandals, wear shoes in which you can fight ... or run." - Only in America.
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part 5 Politicians who did their homework without the lobbyists in their ear (Sanders, Jayapal) have not fallen for the seemingly innocent, seemingly small difference: Why not give "choice ?". Why not install the public option first (Warren ! Yang, Gabbard ..), and when it is better the sceptics (that kept their private plan = opted out) will follow.
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@BigBallJerry She is WEAK on healthcare, and disingenuous. If you know your opponent has the better plan (or you should know if you do your homework) and you are considered as an ally or a potential cabinet pick, you do not muddy the waters. - I used to be a fan of Warren, I know single payer systems from experience. Sanders gets it - and all other candidates that were and are in the race don't get it. It is not that hard (I guess having the live experience helps, but the politicians could also exchange information with experts from other countries. They have staff to support them and after all it is their job to understand things like healthcare in a first world country. Nothing messes with insight and learning like the need to chase the money of donors.
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@BigBallJerry I posted some comments - if interested on some substantive information about healthcare.
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@ceterisparibus8966 Regime change wars - chicken coming home to roost. The U.S. has supported many right wing authoritarian regimes and coups abroad (or started wars).
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9:15 words of wisdom from that lawyer.
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@uberneanderthal alternative facts much ? Asymptomatic spread has been proven, and it is worse than they first thought (it is bad because it makes it harder to find the chain of infections and thus disrupt spread). - See the mass testings in Europe where they found people testing positive (either having virus OR they had antibodies but never knew they had contracted the virus). I saw a doctor (Florida) who got visit of family in summer. He was tested by default at work. (He is the medical head of the department dealing with critically ill CoVid 19 patients in a hospital). he had it - he had a fever one afternoon, but was feeling well, and helped his staff online with the data. The kids tested positive, no symptoms at all. Some of the relatives were from new york. If they had found out after the visit that they had it - they would have called so he would get tested. people in Europe have paid sick leave, their governments (unlike the U.S.) were fast to deploy testing, so anyone that suspected to have it, could get tested and could stay home with pay if needed. So no reason to ignore symptoms and hope it is not CoVid-19, but still there were many asymptomatic cases and some of them must be able to also produce a sufficient viral load to infect others. Such cases were known right from the beginning. A man in Paris with an "asymptomatic" pneumonia (he recovered). That was before anyone knew CoVid19 had reached Europe - at a larger scale, that is. (I seem to remember he had that in December 2019). The doctors were already on the alert regarding this new disease in China and paid attention to unsual cases of pneumonia, if the persons had travelled (especially from China) - but he had not left France. Authorities revisited the case in late spring or early summer, he was tested and his wife was tested. She too had antibodies but never got sick. He / they had not been "suspects" for the new disease because they did not travel. But his wife works in a shop nearby a large airport.... The person infecting her most likely also had no or very harmless symptoms that can be conflated with a cold. Or they would have followed the chain of possible infections. even then (late December 2019) epidemiologists were worried they just did not want to spook the population then.
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@thewildcardperson Scaling things up and down ! SYSTEMS ! Medicine needs admin (= systems and they better be straightforward, and simple). In single payer systems the goal of that admin is not to maximize profits, it is to help with the delivery of the real thing = delivery of care. (So the public non-profit agency works quietly and with littel overhead in the background). the real thing = medical care - happens in hospitals and doctor practices and labs (or mobile care for people at home). It is also standardized (standards and protocols are inherent to medicine). Standardized = lends itself very well to a managed system and to being scaled up and down. One doctor practice will not serve 200,000 people, one hospital cannot serve 5 million people - for general care Most of medical care are generic diseases and treatments. It is different when you have very specialized treatments, think organ transplants, neonatal care if they are VERY early born, or sewing back on severed limbs or fingers, or severe burns, .... - but while those units are one per xx milliion residents - that is also planable and they will airlift patients in emergencies to these larger and specialized units. Which are typically located in the larger cities. And the need for those airlifts is also plannable and calls for systems. Most of the care is provided by 1) doctor practices. 2) general and usually smaller hospitals - "country hospitals" often. In the rural areas or small towns. Located at a town with 5,000 - 10,000 people and serving the surrounding rural areas. Of course you can have as many or few as fits the size of the nations, and the geographic needs. the remote areas of Australia, Norway, Canada have a disadvantage. Either they need to have a lot of small clinics (just in case), or they need to finance more airlifts. They deal with the very COMMON generic cases, heart attacks, strokes, broken limbs, appendix surgery, gall bladder surgery, cuts and bruises - here and there they are specialized in eye surgery and hip surgery. Where I currently live - Austria - these small general hospitals often have ONE station for one type of plannable procedures. In most cases surgery. For that they draw in patients beyond their region most of their stations serve. That helps them fill the beds, they get revenue (from the public insurance agency), and helps to make the whole house more economic. If they have spikes or slow times they can speed up of delay surgery. So they can utilize the resources. It helps to pay for fix costs that they have, like the lab that the hospital must have staffed at all times etc. For emergency or more time sensitive care they need more "capacity reserves" then for the planable procedures. The hospitals for general care must be in short driving distance (for emergencies) and also for comfort the population should not need to drive longer than 30 minutes (max). So whatever the size is of the country (and the densitiy of the population) a number of providers is needed (and you can run the stats on that). in EVERY region. That is the case in a country with 10, 30, 85 or 330 millions. The admin around medicine (and health "insurance" coverage is part of admin) is also systesms and can and should be kept simple. you can run the numbers, 100,000 or 1 million people in a region, how much dentists, family doctors, hospitals do they need ? How many car accidents, severe burns, broken limbs, and births will they have per year ? Absent of things like a pandemic, you know the stats. A rational cost-efficient system will spread the providers out (often there is a quote a system resp. when a region has enough but not too many hospital beds the next hospital would not get a contract, it is not that it is illegal to have a private for -profit hospital. But those would have to compete with good hospitals where the patients get services "free at the point of delivery". So there may be some weight loss clinicis, or specialities like plastic suregery, but nothing related to general care.
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@johng.sprague4524 Germany has 85 million people, Japan has ? 130 France / Italy / U.K. around 60 millions. Where is the cut off where you cannot up or downscale ? (hint: a country with 10 % of the population might also have less tax revenue to pull it off ... just sayin')
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Couldn't have happened to nicer people :)
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361 dislikes ?? (versus 7981 likes)
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And deprive people of meds (for which the drug has been tested, and these people are under The care of a doctor who knows about the drug and has experience in applying it).
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the postal service is one of the few public government funded services that are explicitely mentioned in the Constitution. (streets, army, postal service).
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User +tenofive did one better - scroll down and like, please ! The postal service is one of two entities mentioned in the Constitution. Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads".
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Statue of a slave trader of Memphis that got rich of his "biz" and later was a big fish in the KKK. He got his statue in Nashville, TN in 1970 = 2 years after Dr. King was shot in Memphis. I guess the folks of Memphis did not dare to honor that son of their city in 1970, so the next best choice was giving him a statue at a very visible spot in Nashville (if you come into the city).
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@synthwavesmatter8466 the colonists invented industrial style slave trade at a time when servitude was fading out in Europe, and it was massively ramped up while the ideas of the enlightenment took hold. Those ideas and ideals also were the framework to justify that he colonist broke away from the British empire.
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@synthwavesmatter8466 1790 there were 700,000 slaves in the U.S.. Of course of African descent (not white ones). in 1840 there were 4 million slaves. (most of them bred in captivity, they were counted in the census !). even genuine cases of black people being slave owners in the U.S. ! does not compare to that. Never mind that was only possible - if it did happen - because the whites made those laws.
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@synthwavesmatter8466 VA passed a law that converting to Christianity did not free a slave OR even only their (future) children. I think even the Muslim slaveholders were better than that. That was after 1660s Chattel slavery law of Virginia - but not long after. The slaveholders closed all "loopholes". That was important, if they wanted to sell them across state's borders. Having a white, even rich father did not give you freedom. Converting to Christianity did not free you either. So the slaves owned by colonists still were forced to become Christians (obviously - they all converted) - but did not even have the reward of freedom. If not for themselves at least for their children.
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@synthwavesmatter8466 But you brought all the typical right wing talking points. the bullet points of the aplogists. Do people like you EVER check out what is behind those claims. I means some of it is common sense, you do not even need to read into history.
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@synthwavesmatter8466 No one in this comment section or their parents owned slaves. So WHY would you be apologetic, defensive about the past and engage in WHATABOUTISM. Are you INDENTIFIED with a certain image that was painted of the past ? Slavery spilled over into Jim Crow and that spilled over into violent resistance against desegregation and voting rights (the discrimination in the North was informally, in the South it was enshrined into law). And sneaky ways to undermine that (Virginia Prince Edward County closed down ALL public schools, they would rather do that than integrate. That lasted for 5 years until the mid 1960s. When ANOTHER Supreme Court decision forced them to stop funding the private schools (that took in the low income white students that before had gone to public schools too). The people that were O.K. with it in 1960, likely did not change their mind in 1965 all of a sudden. They - and the children they raised during that time - are still alive. If you are honest you have to see that the effects of the old injustice (slavery, Jim Crow) still play out. Reconstruction was an effort to right things and progress was made. But that was all rolled back. It was alway like that, some progress - and then violent resistance and / or LOTS of sneaky death by thousand cuts measures too.
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On the flip side with that kind of behavior she might get herself infected. Of course that could all be a cynical plot to get her base riled up, she makes a point of airing those "woe me" clips. Maybe she is careful in real life and the grandkids of course are not in shcool but do distant leraning.
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@DeeDee Warren Buffet made his money with exploiting developing countries, promoting outsourcing, no one that has billions has clean hands especially when the money comes from finance. Stephen Price is a multimillionaire (or may have a few hundred millions) and that may be feasible with a honest product and honest business practices. But Buffet NOW that he is mega rich and towards the end of his life might see things a little differently. I do not think he goes that far as Stephen Prince, but he has a little insight. Also maybe that the pitchforks might be coming if that goes on. Ongoing economic hardship and frustrated expectations * either will turn a country towards the populist left or the far right populist right (and that will be authoritarian, xenophobic, with reactionary tendencies, often militaristic). Right wingers always operate with exclusion, there is always the "other" that is the enemy, scapegout, target and does not deserve whatever goodies are promised to the masses.
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So Senator Sanders was heavily criticized for having said in the 1980s (as mayor) some positive things about how Cuba improved education and did well regarding healthcare (acutally very well considering their small budgets). - Those hypocrites in the D establishment that wanted to poison the well in the primaries did not mention that Obama said the same decades later. Well, what about "terrible" Cuba now (the obsession with such a small country is ridiculous anyway, Cuba couldn't be a danger to the U.S. if they wanted to. I guess Cuba is now glad they don't get any U.S. tourists, and they are not protected by a wall, they have the ocean to protect them.
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part 4 NO OTHER wealthy country has a Public Option (the other side of the coin of: "You can keep your plan" = people can OPT OUT). Germany has a weird hybrid (see next comment) - for historic reasons. - There is a good reason that the nations that pay half of what the U.S. is paying do not have Public Option / do not allow opting out. Not from paying into it and they strongly nudge even the affluent citizens to USE the public coverage. There may be some emerging or developing countries that have Public Option (could be in Chile) but that invariably leads to a two class medical system and higher costs than necessary. In genuine single payer systems they mandate everyone to pay into the system - and that mandate constitutes also the RIGHT to have full and comprehensive coverage. - So why would you pay extra, especially if the services are good - and THAT is easy to achieve provided the agency gets reasonable budgets, so they can pay reasonable but sufficient rates. If the lower income to upper middle class people use the system, that is a strong correcting mechanism for good quality AND cost efficiency. When people do not want to use the same services and doctors as their fellow citizens - they have to pay out of pocket. You cannot have insurance for essential medical procedures (No duplicative coverage). That is a deterrent for doctors to offer that. Doctors have an additional incentive to accept the contracts of the public non-profit insurance agency - in the U.S. Medicare.
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There must be a strategy what to use for deflection (it is absurd and was done reapeatedly, do they have formal trainings on that). "but, but but Hunter Biden (He should not have gotten the job in the Ukraine and that is completly irrelevant whether the handling of the election was correct, fair and lawful). I guess they have figured out that "Obama was born in Kenya" and but, but Hilary Clinton do not make an impact anymore. (at least HRC finally keeps stays under the radar). So now it is but, but Hunter Binden. It has NOTHING at all to do with the outcome and handling of the U.S. elections.
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Every time a crime is prosecuted (imagine the offender is 75 and may not live that long anymore) it is a "waste of money" to prosecute according to the law. - That is not how an orderly society works.
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@thomaswillard6267 he did not have 6 years in federal office, he would not get a pension anyway. Jimmy Carter does not get one - maybe they changed the rules after that. Not sure about the Secret Service protection either.
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speaking = exhaling more = possibility to spread it even more than by normal breathing. He also arrogantly endangered others when he knew in spring 2020 he had been infected (tested positive) but used the gym at the Capitol anyway. Instead of going into quarantine. Thing is: 1) no one knows for sure if HE still has immunity (it should hold for 6 months, but he had it 10 months ago). 2) They also know that there are some infectious diseases where the person does not get sick (immunity from a former infection or from vaccination) BUT can spread it, for instance measles - with CoVid19 they do not yet know that. 3) new variants anyone ?? His immunity - if he has had it - might not help against those. For the moment it looks like most vaccines also help against the new variants, which would imply that natural immunity would also work. Heaven help us when there are other mutations .... As for his conduct in spring 2020 - when the new treatments were not yet available. Sure he could assume with some confidence that HE was going to be fine (not old, healthy, has good insurance) Situation NOW: VIPS can get the scarce resources (very efficient antibody treatments), but the staff of the politicians not. Or the staff doing cleaning, running the cafeteria and the gym. They usually work for contractors, they are not well paid and they typically do not have (good) insurance. Trump got the effective treatments (antibodies) right in the beginning - just in case. Same for Giuliani. The politicians (many are older) likely would also get those treatments if Rand Paul helps to infect them. But they have contact with other persons, too. Also Not every citizen knows that he had it already when they watch C-Span and that he might not be able to spread it anymore (epidemiologists have not yet figured out for THIS disease). So citizens would only see him not wearing a mask - and he gives a bad example. Instead of putting up with a little discomfort for the greater good, and to be a role model. He does it for the next election. He is in Kentucky and he is signalling hard core to the Trump crowd. The mask defiance is part of the shtick.
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that was a disingenuous jab at Sanders - she is a copy and a weak one at that. See the other comments I posted, I know a single payer system from experience very well - Austria and also know the German system. He is the only candidate in the race that get's it. - There are only around 90 comments so you can find my input if interested.
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Free market ? Make UPS pay for the retirement for their employees in advance and for DECADES in advance. - The Republicans force that cost burden on the post service because they were too competitive. To favor the donors that want to compete with the post service. - you can ruin any org - non-profit or for-profit - if the budgets are not enough. And of course the postal services have to be available in areas that the for-profits would not touch. they would service the "good" areas (densely populated) but not the rural and remote areas.
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Henderson shot a 22 year old IN his apartment. Was cleared. Of course. This is the department that also killed Elijah McClain. Which was a gentle soul. They called an ambulance after throwing him to the ground (an unlawful arrest, he listened to music in his earbuds, and waved his hands, while he went home from shopping for ice tea). Police had ambulance crew collude. (often police has a side hustle with ambulances. The cop that unlawfully arrested a nurse on duty in the hospital had a side hustle as ambulance driver. He was filmed arresting the nurse (completely in the wrong, but that did not deter him, and his collegue did not calm him down either). The video wen virial, it caused an outrage, and the department fired him. so he said in his other job that he would retaliate aganst the hospital, and would bring them all the bad patients. So he lost that job as well. Back to Elijah McClain Cops told ambulance (which were criminally negligent) that he was dangerous and showing a high level of resistance. As if they dealt with a highly trained, strong, very dangerous criminal. Ambulance drivers did not question police, shot him ketamine, when he was already vomiting. Elijah was slight (tall but very thin, he had a medical condition), he was in handcuffs (for doing nothing wrong, of course not), so there was no need to sedate him. And if a person is vomitting it can be dangerous to sedate them. At most you fix the legs too. They escalate for no reason at all. but that officer knew he was filmed, the doctor did not look like someone that can be easily bullied. When he said: this is my proprety cop took it down a notch. They have contempt for the low income people, but an assertive person that has property - they rather not mess with them (too much) - even if they have brown skin.
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It is almost as if the political climate has allowed some (plenty !) people to drop all pretense of politeness, manners and common sense. They are dropping that with a sigh of relief. Finally ! they can say racists stuff, be rude when asked if they want a mask, throw tantrums in shops.... What became of: "No, thank you." And maybe - if the mask donor are insisting or if they are in a hurry: Please leave me alone, no I do not want a mask. Note: I think the rude ones were all males.
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Bravo - I can only imagine - someone had to FIND the footage and therefore sit through a lot of footage (or can that be automated in the meantime ?)
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The good cops are mobbed out (or even framed).
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@Zuul Gatekeeper you deal in alternative budget numbers. Debt and deficit exploded under the Tories. They claimed austerity would fix debt and deficit - but austerity only depressed the economy - so less revenue, indirectly higher costs for welfare etc.
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@Zuul Gatekeeper So austertiy was useless and the Tories had to admit that a few years ago (approx. 2 years ago). Not that it changed their policies this was always about ideology and ruining the NHS so they could "justify" a privatization.
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Imagine aging like her, on April 3rd 2002, she has her 86th birthday.
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largest voting block NON-Voters. hint: the wealthy DO vote (and they are the only ones that get good if ridiculously overpriced healthcare). The next block are Independents (many of them of course embarrassed Republicans, but you can reason with many of them).
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