Why are Americans are so Dumb?

[Chicks]

Karen pees in Middle of Verizon Store After Refusing to Wear Mask

https://www.complex.com/life/2020/07...t-wearing-mask

Donny would have loved this!

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Chicks

How Taiwan beat the coronavirus

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/15/how-...ronavirus.html

Spoiler: Everyone wore masks...

So goddamned simple but we have a fecking malignant narcissist squatting in the WH.

Henceforth, I'll not be doing business or socializing with anyone who voted for this traitorous regime. I see that pos red hat and I'll be crossing the street. I don't even want to share the same sidewalk or air with such miscreants.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Peak hours of sunlight around here are brutal in Summer, and will lead to skin cancer. My daily walk generally occurs between 7am and 10am, well before the heat and UV peak. I always wear a two-layer commercial cloth mask, with a 5-layer filter in the pouch. I leave it outdoors in direct sunlight and overnight to sanitize, so it's getting pretty faded already.

Walking ca 45 minuits at dawn before sunrise, no mask needed.

[FordGT90]

Originally Posted by Chicks

How Taiwan beat the coronavirus

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/15/how-...ronavirus.html

Spoiler: Everyone wore masks...

Not cloth masks. They stockpiled medical/surgical masks and dispensed them. On top of that, Taiwan has a long history of using masks in public because of air pollution. And they're an island nation able to effectively limit travel to and from the island, contract trace everyone that has arrived. In short, they were able to keep all of the cases outside of their country and they had everything necessary to quarantine anyone that came in.

Taiwan was impacted by SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 wasn't their first rodeo. South Korea and China the same. South Korea is more effective than China because of the North Korean buffer effectively making South Korea landlocked like Taiwan.

[bobabode]

Before you two get into a schvantz measuring contest...please don't.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by FordGT90

Not cloth masks. They stockpiled medical/surgical masks and dispensed them. They're an island nation able to effectively limit travel to and from the island, contract trace everyone that has arrived. In short, they were able to keep all of the cases outside of their country and they had everything necessary to quarantine anyone that came in.

The WH occupant could have put these measures in motion six months ago. Testing and contact tracing for thousands then instead of hundreds of thousands now. Six months ago it would have been far easier to collect enough masks and PPE gear if this virus hadn't been allowed to run unchecked. Instead we have a paranoid nissarsist who's more concerned with his reelection instead the American people.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

The WH occupant could have put these measures in motion six months ago. Testing and contact tracing for thousands then instead of hundreds of thousands now. Six months ago it would have been far easier to collect enough masks and PPE gear if this virus hadn't been allowed to run unchecked. Instead we have a paranoid nissarsist who's more concerned with his reelection instead the American people.

If any rational adult were sitting in the Oval today, this thing would be well under control, and the economy starting to ramp up nicely.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

If any rational adult were sitting in the Oval today, this thing would be well under control, and the economy starting to ramp up nicely.

He had one thing to do. All Tweety had to do was listen to the experts, follow recommendations and procedures and come out looking like a champ instead of a chump. He just couldn't get there. Now he's changing campaign staff to save his sorry ass from loosing the election.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Karen pees in Middle of Verizon Store After Refusing to Wear Mask

https://www.complex.com/life/2020/07...t-wearing-mask

Donny would have loved this!

The demagoguery preying on susceptible persons really can damage their sanity.

In this case it's worth noting that anti-psychotic medications can cause urinary incontinence.

[FordGT90]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Testing and contact tracing for thousands then instead of hundreds of thousands now.

Except Americans have a serious problem with giving the government data. I believe Reuters/IPOS polled people back at the beginning of this thing that if a contract tracing program were set up, would Americans comply? >60% said no. If you don't have 100% compliance (or damn close to it), it doesn't work.

South Koreans actually trust their government which is why they were so effective in contract tracing and general compliance.

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Six months ago it would have been far easier to collect enough masks and PPE gear if this virus hadn't been allowed to run unchecked.

Six months ago everyone was showering China in PPE so it could contain and stop the virus there so no one else would have to deal with it. Five months ago all of the inventory was gone and the virus escaped. Four months ago, medical staff all around the world were reusing disposable masks because they couldn't obtain replacements.

Originally Posted by Chicks

If any rational adult were sitting in the Oval today, this thing would be well under control, and the economy starting to ramp up nicely.

Where in the world is the virus "under control" and the economy not slowing? Taiwan and South Korea are exceptions because of their isolation. What worked there would never work in the European Union nor United States.