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Your response is so dopey. There's a wide range of ethnic slurs, some viewed as "more offensive" than others. I find it amusing that you think that "etymology" somehow mitigates an ethnic slur. As I've pointed out before, even a word as simple as "boy" has a long history of being used as a...

Hmmm... Between the CDC that projected 1.2 million deaths back in March... Or the President who predicted that Covid-19 would disappear like a miracle when the weather got warmer... Yeah, I'll stick with the CDC on this one. "Why should they be trusted with numbers"? Because the CDC are the...

You are worried about all those times that Italian people call other Italian people "Fredo" in order to take the power of that word back from their former slaveowners?

Yes, I mean isn't "Sambo" intended as a compliment? You know, like the way that "Sambo" triumphed at the end of the story? And, hey, Sambo is South Indian, he's not even black, right? I guess Salt is arguing that he should just be able to walk up to any black person, slap that person on the...

It actually is an ethnic slur. There are thousands of insulting words that can be used to call someone "stupid". The choice of a surname from a movie about Italians is, in fact, intended as an ethnic slur. Or are you, with a straight face, honestly trying to convince us that "Fredo" is just...

Your argument dissolves like salt in water when you acknowledge that your "concerns" could have been addressed by hospital data being sent to the Trump administration AND the CDC. Not INSTEAD OF the CDC.

More selective quotation from you. More lies from you. I never said WHO "offered to sell test kits to the US". This is your problem. I know the facts, I can actually have a conversation. All you can do is cut-and-paste stuff and act like you understand it (you don't). Here's the relevant...

I don't give a **** what your opinion is, you are entitled to that. But I'm not going to let you lie about me, or lie about the facts.

"Tons of countries" is just the tip of your conjecture-and-bullsh!te iceberg.

Not only are you a liar, you are a buffoonish liar. The issue is not "making your own kits". The most advanced nations PRODUCE their own kits. The issue is, was, and always has been that the US chose to DEVIATE from the blueprint of the testing kit provided by WHO. Nobody claimed that WHO...

Yeah, and that is the problem. You add "100% utilization without Covid around" to "Covid", and you have a very bad situation. You're a good dude, and this is not personal, just be aware of why some people get sick of hearing MAGA talking points to "debunk" every problem. Take the environment...

Right, I agree with you that the CDC has a history of "making its own". But this was the exact wrong time to do so, the virus was spreading quickly and there was already a delay in China's communication to WHO. Either way, we basically agree. It's either the wrong time to make our own kit, or...

Hilarious. I've never worked for a publicly-traded healthcare company. (*Spoiler alert, I have*)

All good, you are a fair person, I just wanted to clarify what I was saying because there has been some "political talk" that has tended to blame the FDA (more common a few months ago, less common now). I've said it before, we have an election in 4 months, all of our "differences" should be...

There's no cheap shot, so stop complaining. The process needs to be beyond the reach of any petty opinions of any one person. I didn't make that stuff up, he actually said he wanted less testing so his numbers would be lower. Don't be mad at me, be mad at the person who didn't order more...

Yeah, all those bankrupt pharmaceutical and health insurance companies...

Agreed. I think the military model is an excellent example of how to work both sides of the equation. Private industry is not, independently, sitting in a room dreaming up new guns and tanks and ships and planes. The military shares information about what works in the field, what does not...