[PLUG-TALK] Covid-19 mortality rates

[tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com]

My feeling, based on the reporting - it is out of manufacturer's hands:
  - CDC fully controls all aspects - the test supply, who can test and who can
be tested.
  - CDC decided to manufacture test themselves - they screwed that up - making
not broken tests
  - CDC tried to hide it - by restricting demand - by restricting who can be
tested
  - The result is a mess and people are dead

Normally - CDC is competent - in today's political climate - competency and
taking initiative - will, I stress WILL, get you fired, and your brother too.

So, if I would be a manufacturer or a lab capable of making test and/or testing
- I would do nothing against this vindictive clique running the show. You would
get sued and end up in chapter 11.

Bill Gates with his health foundation for saving the "third world" is one of the
very few people who can actually take action and do not get bankrupt in some
administration payback for providing real data about how serious the spread is.

Just my 2c,
-T

On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 16:20 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:42:11 -0400
> tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com dijo:
> 
> > Right now, the testing here is still limited by test availability
> > supply - so expect to see new cases acceleration as people can get
> > tested without restrictions. With this spread visibility restrictions
> > the number of new cases doubles almost every 1-2 days => here will be
> > about to 20k new cases by the end of the weekend - that translates to
> > 400 future deaths just for this week.
> 
> For the past week or two I've been asking myself where the
> manufacturers of medical testing equipment have been. If I owned such a
> company the moment COVID-19 made the news I'd have gone to three shifts
> a day. The South Koreans can test 10,000 people in a day, but not us.
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