> No, it really isn't. Men in civilian clothing or blank fatigues blowing things up with zero identification is indeed distinguishable from men in uniform with American flag and POLICE patches.
A reasonable observer could conclude that they are almost certainly American law enforcement. Is is difficult to tell that these German fellows are police officers?
The LGM had no patches, no flags, nothing to indicate to a reasonable observer where they were from or what authority they might have. This was more pronounced with LGM in civilian clothing:
I'm not a giant fan of the cammies. I think a solid color would suffice for all but snipers and it looks less militaristic. But that doesn't negate the fact that all of the videos show men with POLICE patches in the middle of their plate carriers and American flags on their uniforms.
> A reasonable observer could conclude that they are almost certainly American law enforcement. Is is difficult to tell that these German fellows are police officers?
>https://i.redd.it/b6xjl7nugoq41.jpg
Based on the comments here, it is difficult for these people. Perhaps they are not reasonable observers?
As someone living in Minneapolis and owned a business in St Paul Midway where police have actually been defunded I feel no less "defendful" than last year. The police are pretty useless at keeping me personally safe and keeping my property safe,there has been no sudden spike in crime. Guns are essentially an adult nightlight and are rarely used. Shit is not hitting anything, crime is far below where it was in the 90s when Minneapolis was known as Murderapolis and I see no evidence showing it's going to go that way but I read a massive amount of fear mongering online. People bought a ton of bitcoin and thought the price was going up to $100,000...they were wrong.
Concrete has poor liquidity though both literally and figuratively so when it turns out you spent way too much money on concrete instead of agricultural development you are screwed. Also, US financiers are bondholders, meaning the public. The public reposessing corporations would mean nationalization, which...Chinas economy is already far more nationalized than the US.
The Fed is buying up all the corporate junk bonds.
And with all the impending bankruptcies, they’re probably a few steps away from buying company stock outright. You can sugar coat this all you want, but it is effectively nationalization.
Jared Diamond, who is much more researched than anyone else commenting here, has written a lot on this topic, and briefly stated - it has more to do with a society's capacity to receive and process outside ideas. It's less about American culture and more about the fact that America has been for the most part an open society, but more so American metropolitan society and not America as a whole.
Onlyfans will commoditize what your cousin is selling in short order, just like early adopters on Uber, Airbnb, Ebay, etc...the laws of supply and demand will only allow this to last a couple years, tops! Then what will she have learned and what skills and experiences will she have to be ready for the following two years? What skills and experiences will you have at that time? Easy come, easy go.
Also, "depressed," is different than, "discouraged." Careful of your word choice and make sure you are labeling your emotions correctly.
It's going to end up killing people. Chloroquine is nasty stuff and irresponsible to be hawking...pharmaceuticals can cause as much damage as they can prevent! There is no clinical basis and Trump continues to hawk it ultimately because he is so vested in hotels and hospitality and is more focused on financial damage control of his own investments than the health and safety of the American people.
I really don't get where this comes from. It's a generic drug that's been used for 70 years all over the world in tens of thousands of patients to treat malaria. It's already standard of care in China and South Korea where the recovery rates are high and the death rate is low.
I think your extreme Donald Trump hatred is clouding your judgement.
You can overdose on it if you take more than 1.7 grams. The recommended dose is 400mg. For reference, you can overdose on tylenol and die if you take 4 times the recommended dosage.
The retinopathy happens after several years of taking the drug for rheumatoid arthritis. The course of treatment is six days for coronavirus.
> You can overdose on it if you take more than 1.7 grams. The recommended dose is 400mg. For reference, you can overdose on tylenol and die if you take 4 times the recommended dosage.
Now tell us what the half life of chloroquine is compared to acetaminophen..
I’ve been hopeful for CQ/HCQ since the French small study came out about 10 days ago... but i wish Trump hadn’t tweeted about it. Now we are being inundated with “CQ can kill you!” headlines, and people are trying to hoard it, harming the people already relying on it.
If you read the list of side effects for basically any drug on WebMD, you’d never take any medication again.
We just need to be patient and let the doctors/scientists do their work. Doesn’t mean we can’t be hopeful though.
I watched that press conference. He was trying to give hope to people and was optimistic. He even said he views things in the glass half full positive way. Even Dr Fauci said that they don't disagree - he just wants to see more studies because he's a scientist. It's the media's fault for trying to sensationalize it. I have pretty much stopped reading the media. They have cried wolf too many times now.
You don't get to, "not buy the argument," because R&D costs are constrained by layers of unimaginably complex legislation and compliance. The company had to jump through ridiculous hoops for every component of said machine. Until you pull out the book and say, "Nope, see here Section 93...they did not have to do X, it's needless," you don't really have a good counterpoint because this is the case for all medical equipment. You can't just out of the blue say, "Yeah but not this one!" The entire medical regulatory and compliance system is overly complex. You're making the $10000 toilet seat argument...yeah, well the toilet seat needed to be delivered to a highly regulated aircraft. Ironically those $10,000 toilet seats are now $300 because they are 3d printed.
Nobody has mentioned how much an entire ventilator costs. Best I can find is between $5-50k usd. For example a Puritan Bennett 980 quoted as around $50k (by the manufacturer) with a $2k a year service contract.
So why is a valve $10k? Note that a replacement battery for the above ventilator costs < $1k.
Is the valve a disposable part (at 20% cost of the whole unit?) Is it some special valve that is the core IP (that other medical valves can't replace?) Is it made from some special material? Do they have to make each one from scratch? Does individual certification cost a fortune (and maybe this is a fixed cost regardless of what you're testing)? How much does a similar replacement valve cost for a similar ventilator?
Bear in mind that $10k implies a $3k cost to the company, at a typical hardware engineering markup.
I don't think we can handwave "Rnd" or some mystical "compliance" cost without knowing more details.
Seems like a valve for anaesthesiology is a Class II medical device, which may be a start?
> So why is a valve $10k? Note that a replacement battery for the above ventilator costs < $1k.
I'm guessing the valves are single-use (due to contamination), so the cost is passed along to the customer. They can't charge every customer for a battery (I mean, they could prorate it, but that's not how medical billing works). The hospital doesn't care what a valve costs if they're passing-along 100% of the cost to you.
> The entire medical regulatory and compliance system is overly complex.
And big companies take advantage of their position as the only ones who can navigate such a system to justify their sky high prices, and then they lobby to maintain that position.
The valve in question looks to be for IV drug delivery, which is not a new technology. It's probably just a simple check valve.
> And big companies take advantage of their position as the only ones who can navigate such a system to justify their sky high prices, and then they lobby to maintain that position.
This is something most people don't comprehend. People tend to think that it's the government putting in place these regulations and the companies are against them, but more often than not the regulations exist at the behest of the incumbents to constrain competition.
In a sense, it's the government. It's just that, thanks to massive donations, committee stuffing and other shenanigans, they got to write the regulations themselves.
How so?