On 3/13/2020 2:59 PM, Bob F wrote:
On 3/13/2020 9:12 AM, trader_4 wrote:
On Friday, March 13, 2020 at 12:02:24 PM UTC-4, Davej wrote:
On Friday, March 13, 2020 at 10:50:57 AM UTC-5, A K wrote:
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I wish I had bought stock with companies who sell toilet paper. :-)


Today the stores are crowded with people pushing grocery carts
and in almost every cart is a bulky package of TP. What is that
all about? Do they believe American paper plants going to stop
producing TP?

I suppose many are seeing how China quarantined cities and towns,
how Italy has the whole country locked down and they are figuring
that's coming here.Â* Trump couldn't handle testing, what makes you
think he's qualified to handle toilet paper?

Ooooo! That's brutal!

But true. Read the article that mikey posted about the Philadelphia
parade.

After his initial failure to prevent the epidemic from exploding, Wilmer
Krusen had attempted to address the crisis, largely in vain. He asked
the U.S. army to stop drafting local doctors, appropriated funds to hire
more medical workers, mobilized the sanitation department to clean the
city, and perhaps most important, clear bodies from the street. It was
too little too late. On a single October day, 759 people died in the
city and more than 12,000 Philadelphians would die in a matter of weeks.

Important line:
But it will also be a good moment to remember the damaging costs of
shortsighted medical decisions shaped by politics during a pandemic that
was more deadly than war.