Coronavirus:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Do you suppose she doesn't know she's far beyond the need for TP ?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

:shock: Do you suppose she doesn't know she's far beyond the need for TP ?

The all consuming need for TP

[HONDO74]

US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found

The United States was ranked the best-prepared country in the world to handle a pandemic in late 2019 by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS) -- an assessment seemingly at odds with claims by Democrats that the Trump administration left the country vulnerable to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

The Global Health Security Index that was "developed with guidance from an international panel of experts from 13 countries, with research by the Economist Intelligence Unit," The Washington Post reported last year. "More than 100 researchers spent a year collecting and validating publicly available data.”

At the same time, the paper noted that the U.S. score was still not perfect, and that "factors driving down the U.S. score include the risks of social unrest and terrorism, and low public confidence in government."

Separately, the Biden team has repeatedly argued that the president once referred to coronavirus as a "hoax." That claim has been refuted by numerous fact-checkers, including the Post's, which found that Trump was clearly referring to Democrats' efforts to blame him for the pandemic, not the virus itself.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found

The United States was ranked the best-prepared country in the world to handle a pandemic in late 2019 by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS) -- an assessment seemingly at odds with claims by Democrats that the Trump administration left the country vulnerable to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Yet it's painfully obvious that S. Korea has outperformed the world while our office for responding to pandemics had been discontinued.

[HONDO74]

US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found

The United States was ranked the best-prepared country in the world to handle a pandemic in late 2019 by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS) -- an assessment seemingly at odds with claims by Democrats that the Trump administration left the country vulnerable to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Yet it's painfully obvious that S. Korea has outperformed the world while our office for responding to pandemics had been discontinued.

The people in S Korea are more compliant to do what the government tells them to do. The people in this country stick up their middle finger and say we will do as we please. Look at all the young one still on a party frenzy. And they don't care if they catch it and bring it home to their parents and grandparents.

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US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found

The United States was ranked the best-prepared country in the world to handle a pandemic in late 2019 by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS) -- an assessment seemingly at odds with claims by Democrats that the Trump administration left the country vulnerable to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Yet it's painfully obvious that S. Korea has outperformed the world while our office for responding to pandemics had been discontinued.

The people in S Korea are more compliant to do what the government tells them to do. The people in this country stick up their middle finger and say we will do as we please. Look at all the young one still on a party frenzy. And they don't care if they catch it and bring it home to their parents and grandparents.

I CAN'T AGREE MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Always considered the folks in the KCMO area (and MO) to be a little more conservative, wise, educated and with more common sense than many areas of the country. But, the reason we went to lock down last night at 12:01AM was because the college kids and other millennials along with millennial minded oldsters wouldn't quit gathering in parks, restaurants and ???

[Rufus T. Firefly]

US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found

The United States was ranked the best-prepared country in the world to handle a pandemic in late 2019 by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS) -- an assessment seemingly at odds with claims by Democrats that the Trump administration left the country vulnerable to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Yet it's painfully obvious that S. Korea has outperformed the world while our office for responding to pandemics had been discontinued.

The people in S Korea are more compliant to do what the government tells them to do. The people in this country stick up their middle finger and say we will do as we please. Look at all the young one still on a party frenzy. And they don't care if they catch it and bring it home to their parents and grandparents.

Only country that actually responded w/o delay, did what was needed, and got it all under control while this country, Europe, etc. refused to prepare, denied, lied, and are now paying the price.

It's not just young ones here -- it's all ages that think that this is not real, won't happen to me, etc.

[rogruth]

My wife is unhappy, no, mad at us because we won't let her go anywhere. We're both 85.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

My wife is unhappy, no, mad at us because we won't let her go anywhere. We're bth 85.

Nothing wrong with going outside and taking a walk; just keep away from everyone else.

[rogruth]

My wife is unhappy, no, mad at us because we won't let her go anywhere. We're bth 85.

Nothing wrong with going outside and taking a walk; just keep away from everyone else.

I know but that is not what she wants.

[Roy]

There's always sock puppets.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

My wife is unhappy, no, mad at us because we won't let her go anywhere. We're bth 85.

Nothing wrong with going outside and taking a walk; just keep away from everyone else.

I went to the grocery store, today, with a plan in mind, not so much for exact groceries, but regarding what I would allow myself to touch and be aware of what got touched. Handles on large jugs on Arizona Green Tea were the most frequently touched items.

Here's what else got touched:
_The front of the cart. I never have pushed them like normal shoppers do. I pull the cart, at its nose, around the store, easy to do.
_the store had several cashier lanes open, more than usual, to accommodate the waiting customers with large spaces among them. The cashier was the closest person to me , ever.
_the individual packaging on each item. When I got home, I discarded the packaging of each product, then re-packaged each item within my plastic Tupperware-type containers. As time goes along, and I use the various jugs of drinks, each jug will be sprayed with sanitizer and/or washed before opening/using.
_Even the counter where I had placed my purchases down, at home, I washed down with sanitizer.
_I washed my hands after handling these procedures.

Tomorrow is garbage-day, so the packaging went directly down to the garage and into the trashcans.

_I prepared a small washing bin with a good dose of Palmolive dishwashing soap, and soaked every nectarine and orange and tangerine in it; the same was done to the cantaloupe. I let them sit for a few minutes; then, I rubbed each fruit round-and-round with the soapy water, scrubbing it, then rinsing it thoroughly, and letting it dry on a new drip-cloth.

[robert.]

Today Bucks county shut down their parks. Put a padlock on all the gates. No problem right Governor said "we could walk and be outside. 25 ladies from a yoga club parked in the grass. Next to the locked gate. went around the gate on foot and did yoga. 25 cars received tickets. 1 got towed before the rest noticed.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

My yard-keeper-upper, today, told me that when he was traveling locally in his dumptruck, with its trailing trailer full of mowers and blowers and various other tools and machines for him to do yardwork, he got stopped for having his assistant in the cab with him. He was told they would let him go "this time" because they knew him. However, when he told the police the guy riding with him worked for him, he was told the man could follow him in a separate vehicle, but not ride so close (under 6' away) to him in his truck.