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Strangely there can be a calming effect, with many people armed. Believe it or not, unscrupulous folk may hesitate to act in times of shortage if their neighbors are armed.
I’d be much more worried they’d be carrying out the looting if layoffs continue with no relief.
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Not to bail Trump out because I have found his reactive leadership bad (all he had to do was get out of the way of the experts), but America--in my humble opinion--has always been bottom up. The idea that >300 million people can agree on anything always amazes me, and the design of the country is to allow as much autonomy to localities as possible while maintaining broad collaboration and cohesion. This is already sh…
>This is already shining where the US testing capacity has gone from basically zero to the highest in the world (>40k per day) in a matter of 2 weeks. Do you have any sources/links for this? I've struggled to find credible info.
But now that I look more closely, I can't find source data. Let me know if you find any more details.
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Exercise due caution with regard to CBD, megadose Vit C, “MMS” (aka industrial bleach), etc, etc. The people advancing these miracle claims are almost always either indulging, selling, or both. Ego and money corrupt even good science when we let them; imagine what they do in presence of unquestioning, evangelical Beliefs. And they are out in force right now, putting even the most venal pharma corp to shame. Panic is…
this is unrelated to snake oil, also this was for people already infected to help SARS also most readings on the topic are from ncbi/pubmed or springer books
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/cbd-oil-the-new-miracle-cur...
What’s the current medical recommendations where you are? I’m not going to guess—too much dodgy advice going around as it is—but best to follow that.
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I've also felt very encouraged by this. To see my own town almost completely shut down before any legal order even required it shows me that people will still voluntarily make sacrifices for the benefit of the whole. Everyone I know is doing their part. And beyond that to see the scientific community come together, to see that even with the blunders there is real cooperation between the various states and the federal…
> I'm in the U.S.---we have gigantic hospital ships in the ports of two of our largest cities right now Not true. The west coast one is deploying soon, but the east coast one was undergoing repairs at the time and is weeks away from deployment.
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I've also felt very encouraged by this. To see my own town almost completely shut down before any legal order even required it shows me that people will still voluntarily make sacrifices for the benefit of the whole. Everyone I know is doing their part. And beyond that to see the scientific community come together, to see that even with the blunders there is real cooperation between the various states and the federal…
> I'm in the U.S.---we have gigantic hospital ships in the ports of two of our largest cities right now Not true. The west coast one is deploying soon, but the east coast one was undergoing repairs at the time and is weeks away from deployment.
The Mercy is also already in LA.