Sharing Ars Technica's excellent and comprehensive guide to COVID-19. Using actual epidemiology experts(tm) as ingredients. Also, the US is fucking up badly. This is why you need healthcare that's not purely focused on short-term market gains. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/ …
We needed someone in authority to freak out starting in January and get the test program scaling up so it would be able to handle millions. In our decentralized bazaar of a health care system, that job belongs to the Federal government, and mostly the executive branch.
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I'm curious to see, when all of this is done, whether the US will learn anything from this about the need for free, universal healthcare.
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There's already broad national consensus for it, but we have the structural problem in passing it. It is frustrating to live in a political system where the most rural 16% of the country has veto power over all policy.
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