US ranked #1 to best deal with a disease outbreak

[The Joker]

What do you have to say Bullshitters? 
 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/01/27/the-countries-best-and-worst-prepared-for-an-epidemic-infographic/#506e1e735799

 Last October, the Global Health Security Index was released, exploring that very issue. It was the first comprehensive assessment of global health security capabilities in 195 countries. The index analyzed preparation levels by focusing on whether countries have the proper tools in place to deal with large scale outbreaks of disease, with scores measured on a scale of 0 to 100 where 100 is the highest level of preparedness.

The United States has the strongest measures in place and it came first with a score of 83.5, ahead of the United Kingdom with 77.9 and the Netherlands with 75.6. China was further down the ranking with a score of 48.2, placing it 51st.

 

[Blue Crab]

Trump is a lyin mofo!

 

[Nice!]

What that article doesn't say is whether the data was taken before or after Trumpy's cuts to CDC and Pandemic Response teams. 

 

[The Joker]

Sure it does. Because there never were any cuts.  
 

AP Fact checked that when those talking points came out. 

 

[The Joker]

Trump is a lyin mofo!

That is true.  
 

But it doesn’t change the fact  that John Hopkins conducted that study before anyone even heard, of this strain of Coronavirus. 

 

[ShortForBob]

Big surprise..totally unexpected. Wealthy countries are simply streaks ahead in the Global Health  Security thing.

A community service announcement brought to you by a lot of rich Americans.

Al Gore must be really really pissed off.


Developing the GHS Index

To create the GHS Index, NTI, JHU, and the EIU project team—with generous grants from the Open Philanthropy Project, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Robertson Foundation—worked with an international advisory panel of 21 experts from 13 countries to create a detailed and comprehensive framework of 140 questions, organized across 6 categories, 34 indicators, and 85 subindicators to assess a country’s capability to prevent and mitigate epidemics and pandemics.

 

[ShortForBob]

I fail to see the point of this thread.

 

[The Joker]

I fail to see the point of this thread.

The point is pretty simple.
There are multiple threads talking about how unprepared the US is and how poor the response has been. 
This study shows those threads and most of the comments were based on False and misleading information.   

 

[Steam Flyer]

Thank good ness for one bit of good news

What that article doesn't say is whether the data was taken before or after Trumpy's cuts to CDC and Pandemic Response teams. 

Sure it does. Because there never were any cuts.  
 

AP Fact checked that when those talking points came out. 

??

I saw the budget, dumbass. Isn't that what you elected him to do, slash Big Gubbermint and "wasteful spending" especially all that big-brain science-y stuff that makes you right-wing pinheads uncomfortable?

- DSK

 

[ShortForBob]

The point is pretty simple.
There are multiple threads talking about how unprepared the US is and how poor the response has been. 
This study shows those threads and most of the comments were based on False and misleading information.   

So...you post something published prior to this outbreak, outdated and reactive. That figures.

 

[benwynn]

So...you post something published prior to this outbreak, outdated and reactive. That figures.

In his defense, he did say that his point was simple.

 

[warbird]

What that article doesn't say is whether the data was taken before or after Trumpy's cuts to CDC and Pandemic Response teams. 

You are a fucking tool.  Trump's cuts were fund shifts to block grants to the states. Your fucking bullshit lefty fuck meme regurgitation belongs on joke anarchy.

 

[The Joker]

So...you post something published prior to this outbreak, outdated and reactive. That figures.

Outdated?  It couldn’t be more timely.
It fucking came out in October of 2019. 
 

 

[ShortForBob]

I fail to see the point of your existence. 

I fail to see the point of everyone's existence.

 

[benwynn]

You are a fucking tool.  Trump's cuts were fund shifts to block grants to the states. Your fucking bullshit lefty fuck meme regurgitation belongs on joke anarchy.

Trump proposed CDC cuts, but they didn't happen.  Congress basically ignored his ass and increased funding.

 

[ShortForBob]

Outdated?  It couldn’t be more timely.
It fucking came out in October of 2019. 
 

You're so funny. So. It came out before it's suppositions could be tested in real time.

It's one thing to have the beds, another to keep em empty.

 

[badlatitude]

The point is pretty simple.
There are multiple threads talking about how unprepared the US is and how poor the response has been. 
This study shows those threads and most of the comments were based on False and misleading information.   

Didn't you consider that perhaps your yay team moment, might be a bit premature? Three weeks from now, you could be in a warehouse, getting care from one nurse per125 patients, while laying on a cot.

 

[justsomeguy!]

I fail to see the point of this thread.

Some folks have a need to feel that their respective cuntries are "numero uno" in something.

 

[Steam Flyer]

In his defense, he did say that his point was simple.

The ones both on, and in, his head

- DSK