runrussellrun wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 8:17 am
Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 5:33 pm
a fan wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 5:28 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 5:08 pm
Nah, that's what we have
national intelligence agencies for. We don't have states doing this.
And the IC knew. And Trump knew.
US intel has the exact numbers of dead? Or heck, within a reasonable range?
I'd wager they don't.
And yes, we ALL assumed they are lying. But again: in what world does that give them a pass?
And again, if it was a EU nation reporting the real carnage in real time, with real media cameras? I believe that would have been ENORMOUSLY helpful. Its really difficult to picture what a pandemic looks like....
Agree to disagree. Let's move on...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 114753.htm
Smart people had been anticipating something like this. We were slow to react. Lots of reasons why.
While stretching yesterday in the public park, overheard the conversation of 3 people. Talking about the value of education. How UN-educated people are hurting society. Other elitist nonsense.
I was actually laughing, they were such stereotypical pretends. Finally, asking them, since they came next to me, while I was stretching, in my best Ferris, "Yeah, education IS important. Are you talking actual life experience as education , coupled with college degrees, or just college degrees alone". They looked at each other, nodded that it was an interesting question, all 3 concluding that " college degrees. Especially Masters & above"
Ok......the pretends, stereotype was in full view now. I sardonically replied, " RIGHT.....and where they earned those degrees, is important too, right? I mean, I'm listening to someone from Harvard over UMass-Boston, right? "
The two women, picked up the sardonic tone, remained silent. the guy.....nope. He went on blabbering , agreeing with me. .
Finally done with stretching, I got up, and declared my faux affinity for their bigotted viewpoint.
"Yup..you are correct. College degrees are ALL that matter. Especially from the "right" ones. (oh, I emphasized the RIGHT alright) Lincoln, Truman, just horrible Presidents. No degrees. " and quickly, of course added,
" since you don't value NON-educated people, guessing you don't listen to college drop outs like Bill Gates, " at this point, he too picked up the sarcasm . The two woman, actually, looked ashamed.
"
And, yes, I left them with the question,
"do you realize how closed minded and bigotted you all sound ? "
Smart people? Any of these 7 recommendations appear to be coming from "smart people"?
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org ... tions.html
I mean, with smart people REALLY laying out the groundwork, and details, on what, when and how, to do things. Seriously, this is the best that "smart" people can come up with? Vague, rudderless,
I do so love these smart people. writing junk like this: (from recommendation #2 )
During a catastrophic outbreak, countries may be reluctant to part with scarce medical resources. A robust international stockpile could therefore help to ensure that low and middle resource settings receive needed supplies regardless of whether they produce such supplies domestically.
What the heck.......can any of you quantify what that number would even be? ROBUST...stockpile. What does this even mean, in the real world?
TLD, you think AFAN is making ROBUST amounts of alcohol, or, could he give you a pretty gosh darn close & accurate number?
So, you guys are agreeing with me. That event 201 was useless. A complete waste of time? The coffee IS great at that hotel tho....