Because when our social contract with each other fails, we rely on the generosity of the wealthy few to step in to assist.
Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US
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#12Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.
Yeah, it's a reminder of where we shipped our industrial capacity (both real and human).
Re: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US
#13The limiting factor right now is the availability of approved labs to perform the test
A big point of the Presidents address today was around relaxing regulations to help the response. So hopefully this will get sorted out.
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#14Re: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US
#15Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.
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Re: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US
#16One of the reasons the US developed its own test was that the test that China was using had a 48% false negative rate. These are probably the same tests.
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#17"Test kits" are just for sample collection. You still need throughput on a qPCR machine to get results.
Shouldn't there be hundreds of labs with these machines though? The United States government spends far more on healthcare than any other nation on Earth. That's not including private health costs. South Korea has the capacity to test 20,000 per day and has 1/6th the population.
Every PI at a major research university who does something related to genetics should have one. There are probably some logistics challenges in getting them all into facilities with the right biosafety level and competent technicians to run them.
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#18Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.
Jack Ma cannot be trusted. He swings high and low, doesn't know where the ball is. He once hit a Alibaba home run and thinks he is a hotshot. It's hard to trust Jack Ma with undertones of the CCP propaganda in this humanitarian aid.
Elon and Jack Ma debates in Shanghai, just listen this guy talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3lUEnMaiAU
Edit: I am not defending the United States. Just look at what our president said this afternoon. Couldn't even string a cohesive sentence together. If Jack Ma is genuine and wants to help - who knows? To me it feels like a huge power move as the OP said - it feels "correct" to me. This news is trending big time on Twitter.
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#19Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.
Jack Ma cannot be trusted. He swings high and low, doesn't know where the ball is. He once hit a Alibaba home run and thinks he is a hotshot. It's hard to trust Jack Ma with undertones of the CCP propaganda in this humanitarian aid. Elon and Jack Ma debates in Shanghai, just listen this guy talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3lUEnMaiAU Edit: I am not defending the United States. Just look at what our president sa…
That hardly seems like the point, does it?
Re: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US
#20One of the reasons the US developed its own test was that the test that China was using had a 48% false negative rate. These are probably the same tests.
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