Subj : Re: Pandemic
To   : Richard Falken
From : Ron Lauzon
Date : Sat Mar 28 2020 09:57:00

-=> Richard Falken wrote to Ron Lauzon <=-

 RF> That is more or less what I suspect will happen. I don't bet a vaccine
 RF> will show up soon enough to cut this crap short.

You're right.  A vaccine won't show up.  We do have treatments that are showing
to be effective - hydrocholoquinine (probably spelled that wrong) is showing
itself to be effective as a pre-treatment as well as a post-treatment.

All we can really do is keep the health system from being overloaded.  But I
think we are getting close to that right now.

 RF> But until it happens, it sucks. I mean, I have insider information that
 RF> some Spanish hospitals are not taking old people in. If you show up
 RF> with sympthoms, they tell you to go to your house. If your are very
 RF> bad, they tell you to go to your house and die there.

Ya, socialized medicine is bad.

 RF> At least the US is provisioning stadiums and the like for making
 RF> campaign hospitals. Our disease management consists in blaming the
 RF> prime minister we had before for the budget cuts in welfare while
 RF> miss-managing the resources available now.

The finger pointing and blame game are happening everywhere.

The bad thing is that will prevent an honest post-problem evaluation from
happening so that we can put plans in place to mitigate future pandemics.

My wife and I just watched a 10 year old presentation about this topic.  It was
made partly in response to the 2009 bird flu pandemic.  The interesting take
aways were:
1. Most of these epidemics were caused by domestication of animals.  They have
the diseases and by domesticating them, they were able to pass them on to us. 
But we developed immunity to those diseases and moved on to...
2. The next wave of diseases was caused by the industralization of the domestic
animal products.  We keep the animals bunched u too tightly and the new
variations of the old diseases spread fast - and spread to us.

The presentation (and we respect the doctor giving it) made a good case for
going vegetarian.

 RF> I am sorry I am so sour, but it is depressing. The subject popped up in
 RF> certain web forum I am active in which has a No Politics rule, and
 RF> moderators essentially started punishing people who disliked the
 RF> current management of the situation while allowing everybody who
 RF> supports the current policies to spread their crap.

Don't be sorry.  This is depressing for everyone.

I get my hearly flu shot and keep healthy, like many people.  I'm lucky in that
I'm still working, but many people aren't.  And the stock market tanked, so
retirement funds are getting hit.

All the "leaders" can do is point fingers at the other guy and try to blame
someone else.

I take it as reality smacking us hard to teach us a lesson.  With any luck, we
will learn something from this and be better next time.

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