He also meant Pulitzer prize, there's no Nobel prize for journalism.
There was always going to be individual states stockpiling vs future need the moment the federal government allowed each state to have its own response.
It's a catch-22 of the entire situation. The same policy that would allow the federal government to punish hoarding stats like California, is the policy that would force the federal government to bring the hammer down on the 15-20 states that have done absolutely nothing.
When you have both individual states and the federal government in a bidding war over supplies, it's absolutely something you keep quiet over.
Those fucks should be investigated and charged with price-gouging.
That worries me because the Bernie bots have literally been clamoring that he invoke it since Day 1. It's literally them demanding he seizes the means of production without an ounce of fucking shame.
H1N1 was absolutely a pandemic, the problem is even that 12,469 death total is a CDC estimate based on their estimate of 60.8 million cases (0.019% mortality) between 2009-10. The actual confirmed deaths due to H1N1 were 3,433, the majority of which came from the second wave of infections (Spring 2010).
At the moment the CDC is estimating that COVID-19 carries a 0.25% to 3% mortality rate in their risk assessments. So the next 12-18 months are going to be crucial as we find out whether COVID-19 is likely to hit us again in 2021 as spring rolls back around.
In that respect, it almost seems silly to compare stuff like MERS, SARS, or H1N1 to COVID-19 because what we're seeing is unprecedented, and it's taking an entirely new approach to even remotely get a handle on what we're seeing.
You'll never get a legit diagnosis if you're younger because you won't ever get tested. Only like 0.01% of young people die to Kung flu, that can be a big number if we start talking like 0.01% of 1 million, but it's still not worth it to test for.
So all the actual numbers aren't actual numbers because a young person who's sick will literally go to a hospital, get treatment, get better, and leave without ever coming within 100 yards of a COVID-19 test.
The only time they actually test is if the person is so fucked, that the doctors need the extra information to know exactly what's wrong.
Why the hell did Fox cut the feed?
Actually had to check back and find a stream online, when local cable shut it off.
I live in Palm Springs and the Police/Media response was fucking pathetic.
A bunch of people like 100-200 (most in like flip-flops and shit) were milling around Fred Waring Dr with like random cardboard signs.
Police announced the 6:00pm curfew to the crowd, and the moment people start moving literally all the cops form up and 2-3 reporters among the crown start asking people "Where are you going!? WHY IS EVERYBODY SCATTTERING? Is something organized in violation of the CURFEW?"... and every response is like "Uh there's no parking on Fred Waring, we're just walking back to our car".
And it's like no shit you just told a couple hundred people to go home, what did you think that they all weren't going to disperse to get back to their cars???