Well, the initial coronavirus spread in the U.S. should have been stopped by the CDC and federal government with proper availability of tests, screening, and travel restrictions from abroad. That’s how it was done in South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong. Those are things that don’t work at the state level - you can’t…

Well, it’s hard to invoke a shelter in place policy in one particular state when the federal government on daily briefings says go about your business. It’s also hard to buy ventilators when there aren’t any available to buy. Finally, New York sends a ton of money to support states with lower income, leaving the state…

Cool, are you volunteering at the hospital and forgoing PPE so that the health care providers and high risk individuals can have it? 

It’s really hard not to be “partisan” when truth tends to align with the Democrat viewpoint.

I’m a big SpaceX proponent (despite disliking Musk for several reasons). But I don’t see why this testing is being done at this particular time. The only space shit over the next several months should really be essential missions for the ISS. Texas has 6000 something COVID-19 cases. There’s absolutely nothing…

Just wait until he hires Elizabeth Holmes to help coordinate testing!

it was in reference to those two movies!

With a name like Eduardo Moreno, I’m sure Trump will probably use this to declare war on Mexico, or at least demand more funding for his wall. If he’s anything but the pastiest of pasty white people, definitely being treated as an act of terrorism

Can’t wait for Trump to blame Liam Neeson or Keanu Reeves for this

We have a large assortment of morons

Fucking Eagles are going to ride that number 15 for the next decade. 

“Because of Obama, we don’t have enough body bags. I’m getting calls every day from people who are out of work because of Obama, who are just saying, put me to work making body bags, my factory is empty because of the Obama immigrants. Many Americans in Ohio and Michigan will be employed to make the body bags, and…

We used IVF so I feel for these families, but it’s not reasonable to demand or expect these procedures at this time. This is not something that you do at home on your own. It requires keeping a clinic open 6-7 days a week for monitoring staffed with people to collect and run labs, nurses/techs, ultrasonographers,…

Hah, definitely, although he’s probably at the higher end of the competence scale and we’d expect him to underestimate his abilities. But maybe the asshole metric is on a different scale 

This. I’m sure he’s quite brilliant and can apply his knowledge and skills to a problem and make a meaningful difference. The problem is that a lot of people like him don’t have good self awareness of where the knowledge and skills end, and assume that with some self-directed research they can master any problem,…

The problem is that even if some states that started early effective lockdowns manage to stop new infections, there are always going to be states that were behind the ball on that. It’s not really feasible to close state borders

I think that manufacturing medical devices requires a different physical setup with clean rooms, so I don’t think it’s trivial to retool a turbine plant. A more realistic option would be using skilled workers from one plant to do the ventilator assembly at a plant that’s already configured by adding 2nd and third…

I was debating whether to get the box set - I own IV-VI on DVD, and that nice new 4K UHD one looks so pretty once I’m fully employed enough to afford that kind of splurge. I think I’d watch the newer movies again at some point, but honestly have little desire to go back to the prequel. I assume most people here have…

I was debating whether to get the box set - I own IV-VI on DVD, and that nice new 4K UHD one looks so pretty once…

It’s not just tech industry. One of my (former) physician friends one day decided he didn’t need to go to a barber to cut his hair. Not for financial reasons, his reasoning was “I have two advanced degrees and I’m training to be a surgeon, and if someone with a minimal education can cut hair, I can do it too”. His…