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  • Dire predictions for Apple's supply chain, retail demand were wrong

    Dan_DilgerDan_Dilger
    firelock said:
    “ without a functional public health system”

    Oh please. I generally like DED articles but this is just a hyperbolic political screed.
    The US healthcare system is pretty good for employeed healthy people making over $50k, but that's not representitive of the overall population. If you lose your job or run into a temporary financial situaion, just gettting treatment for COVID can easily return a $70,000 bill, and most Americans don't even have $400 saved up for such events. What we are finding out is that the healthcare available to the poorest can impact the affluent. There is no "public health" system in the US, as millions of its citizens have no insurance at all. That includes many people who work full time. Public health is a system that covers the public, not just people who have employeers paying $300-500/month to cover their medical expenses.
    tmaydysamoriakiltedgreenCuJoYYClolliverdedgeckofastasleepDon.Andersenp-dogwatto_cobra

  • Apple must expand its COVID tracing technology into large scale testing

    Dan_DilgerDan_Dilger
    headfull0wine said:
    corrections said:

    2lowes@att.net said:
    Interesting. I believe government and the people have had to face this pandemic as best they could as it developed. Hindsight is always clearer than foresight. 
    Now is a good time for gathering data and hashing it through to determine truth from fiction and lead to remedies and vaccines at some rational point. 
    We are all sick of partisan conflict and need to rally as a nation and globally for a better future.
    The Unites States completely fumbled this situation. The elected administration decided to terminate advanced research into pandemics and new diseases even as the scope of the threat continued to grow in tandem with our understanding.  

    The federal government has continued to fail in every aspect of its disaster preparedness and in its ability to even react to needs as they arise. It has taken zero responsibility and has left the states on their own.

    I can’t imagine a more incompetent government for the United States than one that demands political favors before granting assistance to its states in a pandemic.

    This is the worst crisis of our generation. The federal government has massively failed. This is the result of having a tv show personality and minor casino grifter run the most important office in the country. Absolutely incompetent on every level. A rejection of science at every turn. Attempts to spin the problem as if it’s just an unpopular episode of the Apprentice.

    This is real life and the president is an absolute jackass surrounded by incompetent lickspittal dipshits 
    Through the lens of the media, that’s certainly how it looks from the outside. It can’t really be THAT bad, can it??? 

    hucom2000 said:
    Really? All this talk about the importance of privacy all these years, and now we're lost without "big brother"? Is it the only possible path to recovery? Is that really the kind of sacrifice it takes? Not every invention coming from the tech-industry turns out to be for the greater good in the end. I don't have the answers. But I have doubts.
    Corporations that demonstrate an interest in preserving privacy, and who work against efforts by the state to surveil wherever they can, are “us.” 

    Apple in particular has demonstrated that it is more competent and better aligned with the needs of its customers than whatever political party those customers may have voted for. 

    It’s not a matter a sacrifice, it’s simply acting in your own self interest and aligning yourself with others who share that same self interest. 

    When that comes to survival, to economic prosperity, to protecting the vulnerable, to maintaining privacy and security, and protecting the environment and the future world of our children, we should pay more attention to the reality in front of us than some trite images of imperialist era corporate barons. 
    fastasleep

  • Apple must expand its COVID tracing technology into large scale testing

    Dan_DilgerDan_Dilger

    2lowes@att.net said:
    Interesting. I believe government and the people have had to face this pandemic as best they could as it developed. Hindsight is always clearer than foresight. 
    Now is a good time for gathering data and hashing it through to determine truth from fiction and lead to remedies and vaccines at some rational point. 
    We are all sick of partisan conflict and need to rally as a nation and globally for a better future.
    The Unites States completely fumbled this situation. The elected administration decided to terminate advanced research into pandemics and new diseases even as the scope of the threat continued to grow in tandem with our understanding.  

    The federal government has continued to fail in every aspect of its disaster preparedness and in its ability to even react to needs as they arise. It has taken zero responsibility and has left the states on their own.

    I can’t imagine a more incompetent government for the United States than one that demands political favors before granting assistance to its states in a pandemic.

    This is the worst crisis of our generation. The federal government has massively failed. This is the result of having a tv show personality and minor casino grifter run the most important office in the country. Absolutely incompetent on every level. A rejection of science at every turn. Attempts to spin the problem as if it’s just an unpopular episode of the Apprentice.

    This is real life and the president is an absolute jackass surrounded by incompetent lickspittal dipshits 
    tmayheadfull0wineDAalsethwatto_cobrafastasleepjony0

  • Apple must expand its COVID tracing technology into large scale testing

    Dan_DilgerDan_Dilger

    mike1 said:
    Not sure about the concern with testing now.
    About 6 weeks into this mess and I can now walk into any urgent care or lab and have either an infection or antibody test performed. No symptoms required anymore.That's not so bad considering.
    That’s not the case for most people. 
    StrangeDayswatto_cobrafastasleepjony0

  • Apple must expand its COVID tracing technology into large scale testing

    Dan_DilgerDan_Dilger
    hucom2000 said:
    Really? All this talk about the importance of privacy all these years, and now we're lost without "big brother"? Is it the only possible path to recovery? Is that really the kind of sacrifice it takes? Not every invention coming from the tech-industry turns out to be for the greater good in the end. I don't have the answers. But I have doubts.
    Corporations that demonstrate an interest in preserving privacy, and who work against efforts by the state to surveil wherever they can, are “us.” 

    Apple in particular has demonstrated that it is more competent and better aligned with the needs of its customers than whatever political party those customers may have voted for. 

    It’s not a matter a sacrifice, it’s simply acting in your own self interest and aligning yourself with others who share the same self interests.

    When that comes to survival, to economic prosperity, to protecting the vulnerable, to maintaining privacy and security, and protecting the environment and the future world of our children, we should pay more attention to the reality in front of us than some trite images of imperialist era corporate barons. 
    tmayStrangeDayswatto_cobrafastasleepjony0