Methinks you are judging past actions in light of current knowledge.

Nothing was stopping every American + dog from doing these things on their own. Even though WHO and CDC guidance did not recommend these things _at that time_.

Mod parent up. Regardless how you feel about the issue, presenting it fairly should be a base expectation.

Hmm, very interesting idea. I think we should start by applying your ideas on the first amendment rights to see how well it goes before moving on to the second.

Oh to have mod points. My first trip outside the country was quite the eye-opening experience. Doesn't mean we (the US) can't do better, but it sure helps to be appreciative of we already have.

Only if your furniture is small and made of marshmallows. Two of them together have a payload of like 80 pounds. And you'd still have to program them to work in tandem. :)

Instead you come here to vent all that steam? Niiiice. Doesn't make you wrong, though. :)

I read that as 'if some fickle outrage mob descends on you for eating pickles at a potato chip event, we will arbitrarily ruin any and all contributions to this project, and every other aspect of your life. Because we can'.

Sure, it reads quasi reasonable in the Evelyn Woodhead sped reading course sort of way, but it isn't. Any time you exceed your scope of X, you REALLY need to ask yourself "why?". Is the name also changing to Free*BSD? Feel free to fill in the asterisk disclaimer below.

I had to do a double take on your post. I automatically corrected it in reading to "should have been". I was like WTH is the problem with that? So damn common, my brain is trained to tune it out...

And for GPP I'll toss lose/loose on the pile with a side of 'if you will'.

I've done that. There was a movie about it a while back. I sat through it just to say I did. So, here I am, saying I did it. I'm FINALLY getting the pay off! WOOHOO FOR ME!!!

Hot poker in the eye is still preferable, if not for the whole permanently blind thing.

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Thank you, oh virtuous one, for deigning to frequent the crude environs of the plebes. /s

Two points geek cred for you. Minus 1 for statutory age discrimination.

I'm sorry, I have to call BS. Name the hospitals. Just 2 of the 'several' will do.

Running a hospital requires far more than medical care. How many senior experienced doctors know how to build a negative pressure room? I don't mean 'know' what a negative pressure room is--that is a fact knowable by a 7 year old. Do you want your doctor trying master two domains of knowledge when more medical information is created in a month than a single person can learn in a lifetime?

Did you know that hospitals have Chief Nursing Officers, and Chief Medical Officers?

You can find asshats in every field in every company--even posting on /.!

Hospital margins are razor thin so there isn't much room for waste--not that it doesn't happen, it just can't happen for long.

By the checkbook. I'd add a 'dumbass' after the comment, but I'm sure you know perfectly well that buying supplies in excess of anticipated need is stupid. Manufacturing supplies in excess of anticipated need is stupid.

Personal protective equipment is in short supply for EXACTLY THE SAME REASON YOU CAN'T BUY TOILET paper right now (with the exception that there aren't a huge number of unwiped butts).

Ramping up production requires the entire supply chain and a bottleneck anywhere in the chain limits capacity to deliver end product. I know I'm stating the obvious, but sometimes that's what is needed to provide perspective.

Disaster planning generally accounts for localized events like weather, or mass casualty accidents/violence where the elevated need is less than 30 days. By the end of that time, the treatment and inflow of supplies _from unaffected areas_ have met the need or stabilized. It is not feasible to try and stock supplies for a once a century world wide pandemic where there is no unaffected area to draw from.

Oh, to have mod points.

You are more charitable than me. I would have gone with WHOOOSH! :)