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/ …
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Replying to @yudhanjaya
I think the blame here is more properly on the public health response, headed by the President. Italy has universal free health care and is just as overwhelmed as we will be. The broken US healthcare system makes everything worse, but the fault is not entirely there
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Replying to @Pinboard
More the biases in the testing system. It's geared in such a way that you're going to have insane underreporting of data.
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Replying to @yudhanjaya
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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Replying to @Pinboard
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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