Stosh

What part of your post answered the question I asked? The federal government was not considered to have the role of disaster eliminator at all until the 1920s. Funding bills are written by congress. Funding for the CDC rose under Trump. And just how the heck can I be the man baby, if it's you people tossing insults left and right, while I coolly move beyond.

If you are well prepared, then you too have not been victimized. You wish to be a hero ,and march off to war.

If my statements are vapid, then they could just have been honestly responded to. Instead ,they were dodged and insults were thrown in. I put My fat finger directly on the sore spot.

Then you've got nothing to worry about, and nobody to blame.

I think, you people did not consider such preparations to be worth taking, you simply chose to endure some risk, and to an extent risk the welfare of others... just like we do when driving an automobile.

The sanitizer, you used , would be a measure to protect yourself and your family, it doesn't require everyone else to do it , the CDC recommend that one continues to do so ,when quarantined in your own home! You were never told that illnesses would never happen again . You Know that outbreaks happen ,you're just unwilling to take responsibility for your own part in your own circumstance.

I know you did a little sleight of hand there ,hiding behind some imaginary misfit to excuse your own behavior.

Again, Why did you personally not stockpile hand sanitizer?

You personally, claim to live irresponsibly paycheck to paycheck , you have learned no skill of value , and you claim to be generally incompetent on the computer to the point of not being able to order things on eBay? Is that correct? Because if it's not, then asking why you personally did not prepare is still valid.

You my friend, could have purchased a case of surgical masks on eBay in preparation for this event. Why didn't you do that?

None, How much of it is yours ,or mine?

Taoism touts 'enlightened self interest' , the useless tree for example, isn't doing anybody any favors, or demanding any in return. People collect in it's shade and carry out their own business. Get it backwards , and you have everybody imposing on everybody else. If I want to go to a ball game ,or cruise,I can't , it's closed down because the person who's health I would be looking out for, might get ill , right? But if they're worried about the virus, they wouldn't be there anyway! So nobody gets to choose to do anything.

True enough, because they are being used elsewhere. The choice of mentioning masks was intended as symbolic of applying prophylaxis on the most at risk, rather than squandering limited resources on people who's immune systems can handle it, or aren't likely to be exposed.

Halloween masks.

One last thing,, I recognize why people are concerned , and they have every right to be. Hole up in your house, pay for deliveries to be left at the door. Sacrifice your job savings and relationships for a year, until Fauci gives the signal you can come out. Go for it. BUT, if you come out and get sick ,it's on your own tab, you chose to risk it. That's not my fault, nor Trump's.

I just watched Fauci on Levin, he is operating from the luxury point of view, that thinks the community needs to respond at the level of our weakest people, and that money is not an important consideration. Poverty kills. That, those who have almost no risk ,need to suffer ,throw their jobs away, become beggars of the govt ,right along with old folks like me. Is bad and wrong. They've been given the two weeks to 'flatten the curve'... times up. Value estimations are not 'Science', and Fauci, while competent to advise on virus progression, is out his element making socio economic decisions. Upwards of eighty percent of people won't only get significantly ill , but they can sustain the country , businesses jobs. Give the masks to high risk folks , suggest they stay isolated and reopen.

It's exposing the corruptness of CON laws (certificate of need legislation)

Not really, my point is that you or I rely on other people's investigations, and we need to logically test whether conspiracy happened ,whether there was a confluence of strategy , or whether everything has been peachy -or nefarious. But in terms of dealing with the virus only, we individually need to weigh threats and values. We have to do that , at the risk of not being sheep, we may not come to the same conclusions.

The problem with doing one's own research , is that it removes all the expert opinion , the caveats and impartiality, which is illusion anyway. Why not just eat carrots?

I think they are trying to make you lose perspective ,so you panic, Rf wants us to regain a perspective which acknowledges the threat , but understands the importance of living well, bravely, and wisely, like you do. Above it all or down in the valley.

Trump probably likes him as well, and I see no reason for him not to. Shots are fine,just not cheap insulting ones... Other than joking around. Like saying I don't have an allergy to covid 19.😜

I missed it , when did Mr. Fauci become a god? I never even heard of him till a week ago.

Duly noted, that is precisely the argument presented.

What's bs about it? We all face threats ,certain death... It has truthiness no? The issue needs to be considered in such a light.

That's a grim tough people, no coddling there.