re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

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Who here wants more government influence over your healthcare?

This is a great example.

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South Korea and Singapore are doing a great job. Maybe it's not the government, but who's running the government and what their agenda is.

What would a private sector pandemic response look like?

I just got through with a situation where the ER discharged a relative suffering from delirium because her ins. carrier said she didnt meet the criteria for admission. Later that night she was back, in worse condition, and finally got admitted, after needless suffering for her and her family, and higher cost for all concerned. And while they are paying for the hospitalization, they still declined the second ER visit, which we will have to appeal. I'll agree with you that government run health care sucks. From where I sit, the private system is little better, if any.

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I like to live vicariously through dollar bills used to snort coke off of a hooker’s belly.

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Swine Flu was basically over when vaccine came out.

What is going on in Italy is an aged population of heavy smokers, Additionally, Milan itself has a lot of Chinese working in sweatshops for the fashion industry. That's what Italy did to counter cheap Asian garment prices by importing their own cheaper than dirt labor.

Wuhan is fully of people who have breathed heavily polluted air from coke ovens and open hearth steel manufacturing.

Note that only those who really suffer are those with already damaged lungs.

We already know that it has been circulating the state of Washington since mid January and those impacted were chronically ill.

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hooker’s belly.

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stripper sweat is a virucide....I have bottled some.

I would assume hooker sweat is similar.

Use fresh paper towels to turn on water, off water, and open door. Once you open door with paper towel, hold door open with your foot and throw towel in garbage.

I wash my hands in public bathrooms and then use sanitizer when I leave. I’m a bit of a germaphobe since having kids.

Also, I clean my phone with lysol wipes OFTEN. People continuously sanitize their hands, but when’s the last time you cleaned your phone? Think of all the nasty germs that you have on your phone... which you put next to your face

SK and Singapore most likely have a far more singular population. In race and beliefs than the USA. Government works very well at those smaller local levels like that.

Please consider below.  I was sent this from a trustworthy source. Take it or leave it.

Vitamin D deficiency may put you at risk for COVID-19, and if you do not already take 2000 units or more daily, I encourage you to talk to your physician. The guidelines sometimes recommend up to 400O IU/ day, but if you get plenty of sun exposure in the summertime, supplementation is not necessary then.

In 2006, as a USPHS officer and NIH scientist, I helped outline evidence that vitamin D deficiency was the seasonal stimulus driving epidemic respiratory infections like COVID-19[1].   This review, cited almost a thousand times, noted that hydroxyvitamin D levels of 50 ng/ml appeared to protect against viral respiratory infection.  The review argued that groups with low vitamin D levels - African-Americans, the obese, and the elderly - may require a daily supplement of 5000 IU of vitamin D to reach these levels, especially in the winter.   Others at NIH were interested, as were those at CDC, FDA, BOP, IHS, and the DOD, but no one had a mandate to explore an alternative to the existing vaccination program to prevent epidemic respiratory infection.  
 
Most vitamin D comes from production in the skin rather than the diet, so when sunlight induced vitamin D production is reduced, vitamin D deficiency becomes pervasive.  Anyone with inadequate sun exposure is at risk for vitamin D deficiency, but since sunlight induced vitamin D production in the skin is blocked by melanin, deficiency is twice as likely to occur in people with dark skin.  In the winter, UVB radiation from the sun may not be enough for vitamin D synthesis to occur.  In the summertime, excessive use of sunblock which blocks UVB may have a similar effect. Old age is also linked with reduced vitamin D synthesis.  Some people require a daily supplemental dose of vitamin D that greatly exceeds the typical recommendation level.
 
In 2017 the highly respected British Medical Journal printed a  review analyzing data from twenty-five randomized controlled trials[2].  These studies considered cases of acute respiratory infection in people given either vitamin D or placebo. The review concluded that vitamin D clearly protects against acute respiratory tract infection like COVID-19, and especially benefited those who were deficient.  Daily or weekly dosing was necessary - large bolus doses were not as effective.  The review indicated that the number of deficient people need to treat with vitamin D to prevent one case of respiratory infection was 4.  This compares favorably to the effect noted for vaccination.   As one might expect, Vitamin D is much safer and less expensive than vaccine.

It would be ideal to have more research, but considering the minimal risk of getting sun exposure or taking vitamin D, I advise that everyone should do what they can to increase their vitamin D levels to protect against COVID-19.  This is especially true for older people with dark skin. I hope that our national response to this looming epidemic will soon recognize the importance of this simple preventive measure.

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And that has what to do with the Trump admin?

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it has to do with the baseline expected from panicked masses needed to be lowered due all the pussy millennial and news media running around with their hair on fire