Similarly, intermittent funding only drives up costs as you now have to waist time on paying someone to hiring back and training skilled lab workers, rebuy all the reagents that expired while the lab was shuttered. Plus researchers now have to budget in extra 'runway' money to use for grant writing purposes incase their funding gets unexpectant cut.
#1 is a partisan issue. If you can't test, you can't have higher #s
#2 is partisan because cities need it more than rural areas and we know which way cities vote
#3 is partisan because some neo-idiots make their party about 'open borders' and the other assholes care more about the 'stock market' than people.
#4 is partisan because one party doesn't believe in Science
1 out of 4 is a problem with Democrats are handling things
4 out 4 is a problem with Republicans
Neither can be trusted to do what is right. However, shame seems to be the only way to produce some action. Since most of the stupidity is happening from the party in charge this is going to continue to look politically divisive until corrective actions are taken.
Claiming that the mortally rate because the majority of people are getting sick is an "invalid point" because not only did saloomy not provide any evidence - he's flat wrong only 31% of those catching it are 60+.
Similarly, 1/2 a million might die across the world from the flu every year is nothing compared to what this virus can do. It doesn't take a math degree to calculate that at an 80% infection rate and 1% Mortality rate (provided the hospitals aren't overwhelmed - otherwise it goes up to somewhere between 6-12 %) is WAY worse. 7.7 Billion * 80% = 6.16 billion infected. 6.16 * 1% = 616 million deaths.
This isn't a game where everyone's "opinion" is correct.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones