Coronavirus - What Are The Implications?

Doctors, pharmacies, and drug companies should be the people who handle drug shortages. They can best determine who needs what and adjust accordingly.

 

True. And as well ANY POTUS should not go against the medical advice of virtually all the scientists and opening back up prematurely and arbitrarily while the outbreak is exploding exponentially in this country. Hospitals and pop up emergency care facilities are already a disaster in the hardest hit areas and woefully equipped with the bare necessities as it is only in the beginning stages.

 

I get why he did it too. And the reason is entirely political.

The only people who should be approving a drug for patients are the doctors who are treating them. Not state politicians who with no medical experience.

 

We'll have to agree to disagree on what his motive was.

 

But so we should be listening to federal politicians (ie the president) when it comes to treatment recommendations, timelines on when they’ll be approved, timelines on alleviating lockdown restrictions, etc? Even when those fly in the face of what the professionals are saying?

For example, Easter would be a good time to open the country back open and have everyone go to church. Not because the epidemiologists are saying that will be a safe time in terms of virus spread. Not because that is the timeline after which economic pains outweigh public health concerns. But because it seems like a beautiful time and Easter means a lot personally to the president?

 

Trump's economic advisors are professionals too. Should he ignore their advice?

Trump hasn't banned drugs or treatments for this disease. But this Democrat governor did. There's no excuse for it.

 

Can you cite any economic advisors claiming that Easter is a good timeline? Because Trump himself hasn’t. He said it sounds good and would be beautiful.

Trump went in the opposite direction and has been advocating and pushing certain treatments contrary to what has been validated medically. The point is he’s discussing things out of his realm of expertise that should not be a political matter. Same thing you’re calling out the Nevada governor for.

For people who are so quick to point to Democrats as biased and doing things for political purposes, you sure do seem to be able to do mental gymnastics to defend each and every action/statement from Trump. You can deny it all you want, but I can damn sure guarantee that if the tables were turned and Obama was pushing for hastened loosening of lockdown restrictions at the expense of public health, you’d be outraged instead of giving him the benefit of the doubt as gambling on unverified medical treatments saving the day.

 

https://economicstrategygroup.org/resource/economic-strategy-group-statement-covid19/

Letter signed by multiple prominent economists across the political spectrum. Saving lives and saving the economy are NOT in conflict right now. Stopping the virus spread and equipping the healthcare system is our paramount concern. Only when we’ve made progress on testing, equipping hospitals with more ventilators, PPE, etc, can we resume economic activity without a resurgent virus spread that would cause even more severe economic effects.

 

Mental gymnastics? I'm not the one pouring out multiple paragraph posts about an innocuous statement Trump made about Easter.

 

LOL, just going to disregard the substance of 8 sentences huh? You’re kinda making my point. Find any economists saying we need to open things back up by Easter?

 

Nobody is recommending an Easter deadline. Not even Trump.

As for economists who disagree with the shut-down, here's one to start with.

https://mises.org/wire/governments-pandemic-strategy-reckless-one

 

That’s one economist, the link I posted is co-signed by 34

That article’s idea of restaurants seating patrons further apart as an effective solution does not sound very bright. Many restaurants would maximize profit and try to squeeze in as many people ... and that ignores the facts that restaurants are still open right now anyways. Vaguely pointing to South Korea as the goal doesn’t make sense when we don’t have the testing options to take their approach.

I literally saw Trump himself discuss his desire to have the country back open by Easter in multiple separate interviews. Obviously he’s keeping it vague and non-comittal enough because it’s a ludicrous suggestion, which will become more apparent as the cases continue to grow this week.

So when the virus continues to spread and Trump inevitably changes his tune and concedes to needing longer term restrictions, are you going to disagree with him and continue to take the “we need to open the economy ASAP to prioritize long term economic effects over short term health effects” stance?



This is also, once again, incredibly irresponsible. He’s suggesting the legitimate arguments from professionals to keep lockdowns in place are an election hoax. Not a difference in professional opinion, but a conspiracy. And his base will eat it up and be less willing to comply with lockdown restrictions, and that will lead to more deaths.

Sorry for the multiple paragraphs...

 

The key is maintenance. If hydroxychloroquine & azithromycin can keep those who contract the disease from having to go to the hospital and recover at home, then we can possibly build herd immunity without straining our limited space for hospital beds. The vaccine won't happen until late next year, at the earliest. Do you want us all to shelter-in-place until the fall of 2021? Something has to give.

 

#insertalterboyjoke

 

Spot on.

 

people trying to use this time for outrageous financial gain or furthering political agendas can burn in hell.