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What if they'd invoked the defense production act to actually crank out enough of the things? Or told everyone to make them, like the Czech republic did? http

by davidw 6y ago

What if they'd invoked the defense production act to actually crank out enough of the things? Or told everyone to make them, like the Czech republic did? https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/04/czech-government-implemented-face-mask-requirement-help-combat-coronavirus-column/2940393001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/04/czech-gove...

glofish 6y ago
the number of cases in Czech republic are going up, currently are higher then they have ever been ... so there turns out it makes no difference how many you crank out, what you lock down and when the examples that we should do this or that are pointless, everyone will run the same fate as Sweden, lots of cases, the epidemic runs it course, then it is over
- davidw 6y ago
  They apparently had some outbreaks in mines. But they're otherwise doing reasonably well.
- abootstrapper 6y ago
  That’s wishful thinking. The US has and had the ability to mitigate covid19, but the Trump administration is incompetent, and our citizens have thrown up their collective hands in frustration, and have settled on the strategy of “what can ya’ do?”
- TomMarius 6y ago
  That's because the country loosened the restrictions. It worked, and should've been kept. Sadly the leadership here is populist too, which worked at first (the popular thing in Europe was to restrict) but then didn't (the popular thing became to open up). If they listened to our experts instead of being populists, we wouldn't have opened up and the cases would go to zero, as it nearly did a few months ago. Source: am Czech.
ethbro 6y ago
I see it as a tail wagging the dog scenario. Government concerned about shortages + wasted N95 masks by untrained public -> recommendation against the public wearing masks -> additional evidence for airborne & asymptomatic transmission / opportunity to ramp mask production -> "I heard we recommended against the public wearing masks, so I guess we don't need to do that" To be fair, there are tons of valid reasons not to allocate scarce masks to the general public (economic panic, inability to properly fit test, inability to properly wear, no decon procedures or facilities, likelihood of proximity to Covid-positive patient). But unfortunately, it seems like the actual rationale (and suggestions it would have for subsequent action) got lost in the simplification, even on the government itself.

by davidw 6y ago

glofish 6y ago

the number of cases in Czech republic are going up, currently are higher then they have ever been ... so there turns out it makes no difference how many you crank out, what you lock down and when the examples that we should do this or that are pointless, everyone will run the same fate as Sweden, lots of cases, the epidemic runs it course, then it is over

davidw 6y ago
They apparently had some outbreaks in mines. But they're otherwise doing reasonably well.
abootstrapper 6y ago
That’s wishful thinking. The US has and had the ability to mitigate covid19, but the Trump administration is incompetent, and our citizens have thrown up their collective hands in frustration, and have settled on the strategy of “what can ya’ do?”
TomMarius 6y ago
That's because the country loosened the restrictions. It worked, and should've been kept. Sadly the leadership here is populist too, which worked at first (the popular thing in Europe was to restrict) but then didn't (the popular thing became to open up). If they listened to our experts instead of being populists, we wouldn't have opened up and the cases would go to zero, as it nearly did a few months ago. Source: am Czech.

ethbro 6y ago

I see it as a tail wagging the dog scenario. Government concerned about shortages + wasted N95 masks by untrained public -> recommendation against the public wearing masks -> additional evidence for airborne & asymptomatic transmission / opportunity to ramp mask production -> "I heard we recommended against the public wearing masks, so I guess we don't need to do that" To be fair, there are tons of valid reasons not to allocate scarce masks to the general public (economic panic, inability to properly fit test, inability to properly wear, no decon procedures or facilities, likelihood of proximity to Covid-positive patient). But unfortunately, it seems like the actual rationale (and suggestions it would have for subsequent action) got lost in the simplification, even on the government itself.