Lol what a terrible system
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speaking of, what happened to contact tracing apps?
oh yeah here's texas lol
With two API you can integrate with every android and every iphone (prob 99.9% of all smart phones in the USA) and instead we are state by state building shitting websites
This whole thing is a shit show. Hopefully there's a massive after action and we improve the system when we get out of this. I doubt it though.
Did you see where the fucking moron didn't want to buy extra vaccine doses so now we aren't getting more until the summer, after the initial doses arrive.
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Yes I did.
And for anyone following along: Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb confirms U.S. turned down offer for more vaccine doses
This is straight executive failure. I mean, there are things that you just blame on the machine or is really unpredictable that you can't hold the boss accountable. But "should we stock pile extra vaccines while we can or should we gamble that there will be a better vaccine in the future so lets not do that" is a straight up failed executive decision. The cost there would have been 10-19 bucks according to a quick google. So we went in for 50 million = 500-1000 million. But then we decided not to be in for 1500-2000 million. But what's the trade off? Waiting for more not yet made vaccines hoping they will be there and that they would save more money than that???
Should we gamble one billion on a shotgun approach guaranteeing 150million vaccines up front? Downfall if the whole vaccine can't be out you are now out 2000 million instead of 1000 milllion.But you aren't going to save on the next vaccines almost assuredly.
We need to inoculate about half that population to slow this thing to a crawl.
Now we have to manage multiple vaccines with different supply chain requirements to make up the gap.
Even at our clinic and hospital level, that is hard to do because of the inefficiency of ordering, storing, etc.
I'm hoping NVax starts to also start producing that vaccine as well. They have the capability to do like a billion doses a year.
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There's an eponymous theory that basically states medical interventions seldom stop disease. We typically develop them after the disease has done a majority of its harm and public health interventions are far more important than medical response. We are always late to the game on tech and response. Our medical interventions typically only stop the next one, but always miss the current one.
I am trying to remember the term. But regardless, that's what I see here. We blew it up and by the time we get a vaccine rolled out broadly, we have let the disease cause the majority of its harm and only prevented the next outbreak.
I am trying to remember the term. But regardless, that's what I see here. We blew it up and by the time we get a vaccine rolled out broadly, we have let the disease cause the majority of its harm and only prevented the next outbreak.
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I hope so! It'd sure be nice if we were sitting on 150 million right now, done and done. And then the other options are just that...options to improve our position instead of there to just get to 'enough'.
It's not as if we couldn't have exported the remaining overruns in a soft power move for diplomacy anyways
Have you heard the executive order rumors?
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Nope what's that
Stop being so cryptic
Apparently Trump is kicking around an America First vaccine order that would prohibit export to other countries until there's enough vaccines for Americans.
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Lmao.
Turns down extra vaccines literally earmarked for "America first". Makes rule limiting exports after intentionally minimizing inventory.
Off the top of my head I don't even know where these companies are headquartered. Or where manufacturing happens. But that executive order can't apply to the entire supply chains If they aren't made here.
I won't be surprised to see China be much smarter about this. they create the problem and then they will export their vaccines in a soft power move to countries they want to influence.
Herp derp america can offer you guns!
China will probably make deals with the usual along south asia and africa.
We make pretty sweet guns though.
Apparently because Pfizer (the first producer) is American headquartered, they're beholden to American laws. Personally, as someone who would be directly negatively impacted by such a move I also can't help but acknowledge that if the shoe were on the other foot, I'd want our PM to do the same, particularly if we were in America's somewhat dire position. So fair (albeit stupid) play to him. That being said, if there's one thing we've learned during the Trump presidency it's that executive orders aren't worth the paper they're written on.
Also, please tell me more about these guns.
What kind would you like? Sans-serial number maybe?
I hear ghost guns are all the rage. The spookier the better.
Do you have anything in a haunting?
I have one in Marine Corps Woodland Digi. That close to what you are looking for?
I'm not sure if they produce in the US (probably), but I know it's being produced in Germany and Belgium.
So whatever.
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Wow
These are very short-sighted interventions. Companies aren't dumb. Bullying a company to give you their supply after turning it down when repeatedly offered just means that we have a volatile marketplace.
If I'm a company in that sector I start hedging my bets into other large markets like the EU to shore up against this type of intervention in the future.
When we earmark these through executive order We will both be disrupting Pfizer's existing contracts and pissing off our allies.
I think the public nature of knowing that we turn them down ahead of time and want to rewrite the rules afterwards will be seen as just that. And I think that feels different and is different than using the defense appropriations rules proactively.
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The FDLE claims it originated from Jones's home.
It seems like a hush tactic imo, and a bungled one at that. She sounds pretty adamant that she never hacked into the system. Shouldn't that be easy to prove by tracing IP addresses?
Not to say your post isn't completely correct. But does "I'm out of here in a month Trump" strike you as someone playing the long game?
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The warrant specifies an IP address. So this should be pretty straightforward. What I don't see is that they took that IP address and subpoenaed user information from the internet service provider. so without that piece historically other cases have been dismissed because an IP address is not an identity without server logs from the ISP.
Every bit of it feels like a government overreach and as such I really hope it blows up in their face
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Trump has stated on more than one occasion that he plans to run in 2024.