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Nice one, antithesis.

I-T-A-L-Y

Not to mention the rest of Europe on lockdown with uni med and yet still succumbing.

Did I mention the US has overtaken them all on case count despite being late to the game in catching it?

Something about NYC, the center of Planet Earth where more flows through in a day than does through most continents in a decade?
Not that that would explain Angola and the Maldives tho, now would it?

'Sides, Italy has uni care, as does the UK and all the rest that are just beginning to pick up whereas the US is totally unprepared even though it'll be us to the rescue yet again because these foreign dolts can't wipe their butts without VOA instructing them how to on a daily basis.

China turned it around because our version of a lockdown is what they would call spring break.
No. one. goes. out. till. the. sick. finish. dying. there. No exceptions. pew pew

If New York City makes us so vulnerable, we should make ourselves more prepared, not less!

Yes, therefore Trump is considering quarantining NY & NJ.

They've been building a 311 substation nearby for a few years, bif ugly shiny box with hardly any windows that can be seen from surrounding neighborhoods. NYC got a record number of 911 calls yesterday. Like so what.

Again, those countries with uni med haven't been able to stifle the spread.

Plus we have 'free' health care for some via Medicaid and Medicare. Love to see how 'free' care for all doesn't supply the limitations and substandard crap they do without giving a big FU to the poor. Of course, crappy medical care for those who truly can't afford is ok, just like $1200 for those above recieving regular welfare or the elevated amount Bush granted for EBT in 2008 because newbs couldn't survive on the amount and quality of food that the needy aways do.

Add to that the explotation by the medical industry. Meet me at St Barnabus in the Bronx to see how the lower half lives. Damn horror show.

hahaha, in the UK, do they have to line up down the block at the office where they make appointments to get to the Dr's to make an appointment there for Corona testing as well? THAT'S a beaut, make an appointment to make an appointment. And that's a new system in the land where screwed up teeth is the norm and people sign up to get their tonsils removed years in advance just in case. The Diary of Adrian Mole, what a classic.

>> Yes, therefore Trump is considering quarantining NY & NJ.

I said prepared. Quarantining an entire city after we have been caught off guard is not preparation.

>> Again, those countries with uni med haven't been able to stifle the spread.

Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong - in as much as they're able to operate autonomously from China - stifled their spreads, using their universal healthcare structured around their experiences with SARS. The UK, Italy, Spain, and Greece have spent the last twenty years gutting as much funding out of their medical systems for twenty years - the lesson there is to make universal healthcare stronger, not weaker.

>> Plus we have 'free' health care for some via Medicaid and Medicare.

American workers cannot afford to go to the doctor or to stay at home when they get sick. This should not be news to you. Our country is a place where you can work full time and still not have any money. Our healthcare outcomes are terrible, and everybody says so.

>> Love to see how 'free' care for all doesn't supply the limitations and substandard crap they do without giving a big FU to the poor.

People write papers on this topic. Entire journals are published just on that topic. It's too complicated to be handled in a simplistic imgflip comment. If you actually want to know how Singapore runs a healthcare system that keeps COVID-19 at bay, you can probably find out.

>> Of course, crappy medical care for those who truly can't afford is ok

Right? Better than drinking a can of Mountain Dew and crossing your fingers that you'll feel better by your lunch break.

>> Add to that the explotation by the medical industry.

Then get government oversight involved. Demand it. Before austerity, Britain kept a tight check on its contracts - pretty big contracts that companies drooled over, too - to make sure they were getting value for money. If they weren't, the contract would go to someone else and the supplier's company would collapse.

>> hahaha, in the UK, do they have to line up down the block at the office where they make appointments to get to the Dr's to make an appointment there for Corona testing as well?

Actually, the NHS have very loudly and publicly made it clear not to go into the medical offices to get tested, exactly to avoid that situation. They're not idiots. They tell people to report in by phone, quarantine, and wait for a medical professional to come to them. Your guesswork is not giving an accurate picture.

Prepared how? Quarantining in January would have been better?

Some tiny islands with far less personal freedoms than here were able to take draconian actions early on as they were afflicted earlier than here with less cases proportionately because they're not as big as Australia and it already crested since it started earlier just like it will here in 21 days? Cool.

The gutting of uni med in Euro countries is not to be meanypants because reasons, but because it isn't quite free. Despite the streets of gold myth (has any of these imbeciles ever asked for a photo?) the land that polices, feeds, and has the entire planet on the dole has even higher expenditures. As the home of medical science and the pharmaceutical industry (other than the awesome Bayer and their Aspirin), costs must be recouped. Limits overseas curtail that, so looks like their homebase pays the bills. Sucks, I know, but so does death from these diseases.

Skip the cute papers, I LIVED three blocks from St Barnabus for 21 years. Meet me on Arthur Ave, we'll talk to some real people and not a pile of stats put together by the Spitzbergen Institute of Nobody Lives Here So Our Medical Costs Are Less Than Vet Bills For the Sheep.
Naivete is still naivete even if by intent.

Speaking of naivete by intent, this begins to bore me a lot. Let's skip what Communist China accomplished since November was it? and reply to me when the UK & EU eliminate what they haven't yet still despite having uni care since the Truman Administration footed the bill. Sure, we got Capt Tweeter to whine about, but what's their friggin excuse?