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Zoso
Banging Gangs!
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Dirty South, United States
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quote: | Originally posted by Lews
A lot of the problems in the US have actually been because of government regulations limiting who was allowed to carry out tests :/ |
That is indeed, unfortunately, correct. This pandemic is going to shine a lot of light on just how broken our private, for profit system is here. Unfortunately, that system is dug in like a tick, and the people whom it makes VERY wealthy are going to fight HARD to keep it all in places, as is. And it won't be that difficult for them, really. I mean, my god, when all you have to do to keep your system in place and your pockets lined is cry "Socialism!" then you have very little to worry about. I don't know if we, as a nation will EVER get over the McCarthy years and fears. Not in my lifetime.
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Mar-16-2020 10:57
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Lews
Platipus And Prog Addict
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Hugging Whales And Saving Trees
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quote: | Originally posted by Zoso
That is indeed, unfortunately, correct. This pandemic is going to shine a lot of light on just how broken our private, for profit system is here. Unfortunately, that system is dug in like a tick, and the people whom it makes VERY wealthy are going to fight HARD to keep it all in places, as is. And it won't be that difficult for them, really. I mean, my god, when all you have to do to keep your system in place and your pockets lined is cry "Socialism!" then you have very little to worry about. I don't know if we, as a nation will EVER get over the McCarthy years and fears. Not in my lifetime. |
Well, US health-care is not expensive because of the for-profit parts. It's actually far less profitable than health care in many countries, such as France, the UK, and Germany.
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Mar-16-2020 11:05
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SYSTEM-J
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
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Mar-16-2020 11:06
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Zoso
Banging Gangs!
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Dirty South, United States
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quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I think you should be explaining to me how we can. No public gatherings of people for a year. Schools closed and children at home for a year. The elderly isolated for a year. Travel banned for a year. Tell me how that is possible. |
I wish I had logical, specific examples and answers. But the truth is, we'll probably adapt in ways that no one ever expected/predicted. I don't think a prolonged, true "shutdown" is feasible. For example, someone will somehow have to deliver food stuffs to local grocery stores. Someone will have to deliver medicines to pharmacies. And so on. It may be that we, as societies, come up with new rules for how those goods are delivered, by whom, and then how we, as safely as possible, distribute them to the populace. Again, I don't know, specifically, how we'll do that. But I believe we will come up with systems/protocols for such, and I think many of them will be ways or combinations of ways that we've not yet thought of/predicted.
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Mar-16-2020 11:36
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Zoso
Banging Gangs!
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Dirty South, United States
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Mar-16-2020 11:44
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SYSTEM-J
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Location: Manchester
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Mar-16-2020 11:51
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Mar-16-2020 11:54
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SYSTEM-J
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Location: Manchester
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Mar-16-2020 12:16
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