So guess who makes the paper pulp that 3M uses? https://www.vicnews.com/business/na...ubled-pulp-order-for-medical-masks-and-gowns/
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Former President Donald Trump's United States of America
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AlvinofDiaspar
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Not angels - merely sane humans will do. And no one is laughing right now other than some perverse populists who think the current response in the US is worthy of a first rate industrialized country (nevermind making Obama sounds like Che with that "leftist" BS). Enjoy the dying a little more to own the Libs!
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Admiral Beez
Superstar
Or we should remember this the next they come calling for help. For starters, as shown on CBC today, Ontario or Ottawa should consider demanding that Windsor-based nurses working in Michigan hospitals must stay and work in Ontario.
And Canada needs to stop relying on US suppliers for its medical equipment. We can make these things at home, likely in partnership with normal nations, like UK or Germany.
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AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
UK? Sorry, there is nothing normal about a place that mere weeks ago was going to run with the herd immunity scenario (nevermind the precariousness of the NHS).
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Admiral Beez
Superstar
Swedes are trying it too, with few social distances or shutdowns even today. Herd immunity is what we’re all striving for, just in a controlled fashion.
But I must have caused confusion, I’m saying that we should work with countries we can trust, like Germany and yes, UK. Do you suggest that the UK’s failure to enact immediate social distancing means we cannot trust them if we co-develop medical equipment? I don't see the bridge.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Except that the Swedes followed through - and didn't went exponential (yet); the UK went 180 when confronted with the projections and still couldn't managed to clamp down properly for days. They could barely get their act together.
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Sweden's numbers per capita aren't all that great -- 638 cases per million; we're at 369. The US is at 941 but rising rapidly.
Their testing rate is less than half of ours per capita as well
Their testing rate is less than half of ours per capita as well
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Oh definitely, they're going to be #1 in every category the way they are heading 
Johnny Au
Senior Member
San Marino (0.78% of the total population) and Vatican City (1.1%) have two of the most cases per capita in the world; it doesn't help that they are very tiny countries completely surrounded by Italy.
New York City is at 0.774% of the total population.
These numbers will rise and 1% is not a small number.
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AlbertC
Superstar
Trump says 'there will be a lot of death' as virus spreads across U.S.
Published Saturday, April 4, 2020 5:30PM EDT
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump warned Saturday that the county could be headed into its "toughest" weeks yet as the coronavirus death toll mounts, but at the same time he expressed growing impatience with social distancing guidelines and said he's eager to get the country reopened and its stalled economy back on track.
"There will be a lot of death, unfortunately," Trump said in a sombre start to his daily briefing on the pandemic. "There will be death."
Published Saturday, April 4, 2020 5:30PM EDT
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump warned Saturday that the county could be headed into its "toughest" weeks yet as the coronavirus death toll mounts, but at the same time he expressed growing impatience with social distancing guidelines and said he's eager to get the country reopened and its stalled economy back on track.
"There will be a lot of death, unfortunately," Trump said in a sombre start to his daily briefing on the pandemic. "There will be death."
Trump says 'there will be a lot of death' as virus spreads across U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States was heading into what could be its 'toughest' weeks as coronavirus cases swell nationwide. He warned states not to inflate their needs for critical medical equipment.
www.ctvnews.ca
AlbertC
Superstar
‘Kushner urged Trump to open America up by Easter’
Kushner, who before his White House stint ran a newspaper into the ground and a real estate company into the red, has already made mistakes in the coronavirus crisis that cannot be recovered, his critics say.
It was Kushner who reportedly spread the word that Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, was being alarmist when Cuomo asked the federal government for 30,000 emergency ventilators for the state.
“I have all this data about ICU capacity,” Kushner was quoted as telling Trump by a White House source speaking to Vanity Fair. “I’m doing my own projections, and I’ve gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn’t need all the ventilators.”
It’s not clear why Kushner thinks that. Cuomo announced on Friday that the national guard would deploy across the state to seize ventilators from hospitals that do not currently need them to deliver to New York City and other areas in need.
And it was Kushner who urged Trump to overrule the health experts on staff and declare that America would be “open for business” on Easter with “packed churches all over our country”, in Trump’s words. Easter is one week away. The White House has since pushed the date back.
The White House did not reply to a request for comment for this story. Kushner on Thursday asserted that the administration was turning in a strong performance.
“We’ve done things that the government has never done before, quicker than they’ve ever done it before,” he said, without specifying what, exactly. A month ago, Trump said the country would perform 4m tests a week. As of Thursday, the total tests conducted in the United States so far was 1.3m, Birx said.
www.theguardian.com
Kushner, who before his White House stint ran a newspaper into the ground and a real estate company into the red, has already made mistakes in the coronavirus crisis that cannot be recovered, his critics say.
It was Kushner who reportedly spread the word that Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, was being alarmist when Cuomo asked the federal government for 30,000 emergency ventilators for the state.
“I have all this data about ICU capacity,” Kushner was quoted as telling Trump by a White House source speaking to Vanity Fair. “I’m doing my own projections, and I’ve gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn’t need all the ventilators.”
It’s not clear why Kushner thinks that. Cuomo announced on Friday that the national guard would deploy across the state to seize ventilators from hospitals that do not currently need them to deliver to New York City and other areas in need.
And it was Kushner who urged Trump to overrule the health experts on staff and declare that America would be “open for business” on Easter with “packed churches all over our country”, in Trump’s words. Easter is one week away. The White House has since pushed the date back.
The White House did not reply to a request for comment for this story. Kushner on Thursday asserted that the administration was turning in a strong performance.
“We’ve done things that the government has never done before, quicker than they’ve ever done it before,” he said, without specifying what, exactly. A month ago, Trump said the country would perform 4m tests a week. As of Thursday, the total tests conducted in the United States so far was 1.3m, Birx said.
Jared Kushner and his shadow corona unit: what is Trump's son-in-law up to?
Jared Kushner has become a key gatekeeper for help tackling Covid-19 and that’s a big problem, critics say
www.theguardian.com
Kushner is one to watch. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-trump-jared-kushner.html
So why is Trump touting this drug so much? How much money does he stand to make if it sells like hot cakes?
AlbertC
Superstar
American cartoonist, Drew Friedman's drawing of Jared Kushner in adaption to The Picture of Dorian Gray captures the relationship between the father and son-in-law pretty well:
Jared Kushner channels Dorian Gray
Season two of the Netflix series Dirty Money debuted on Netflix this month with the first episode a profile of President Donald Trump's s...
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