<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 11:44 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <</span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Suppose the higher error-rate kits are made in high volume in South Korea or China and the expensive lower error kits made in USA. How do we choose which kind of kit to buy? </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">I don't know where you got the idea that foreign test kits are inferior to the domestic type, the CDC sent out thousands of kits but they blunderd, the kits had such a high false positive rate they were worse than useless and had to be recalled, so they to had to start from scratch and as a result the USA lost over a month of priceless time. Meanwhile the World Health Organization had a test kit that worked just fine but the administration insisted on using a domestic one. I know of no regulation that would prevent the CDC from using the WHO test kits they just didn't want to, I guess they thought it would hurt their pride.</font></div> <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>John I don’t think you are advocating that FDA rules be set aside. </i></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">I don't even know what specific rules you're talking about. I do know that after the Ebola outbreak Barack Obama built a elaborate pandemic response structure within the WHO to deal with the exact sort of thing we're facing right now, but it will be of no help because a self described "Very Stable Genius" dismantled it early last year to save money. </font></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <i></i></span><i>Even if they were, the manufacturing of medical stuff in the USA isn’t set up for high volume.</i></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">As I said, 2 months ago nobody was set up to make those kits in high volume but some executives have the ability to change the way things get done if they think it's important, and some executives don't.</font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> <i>It isn’t at all clear to me that POTUS could set aside FDA regulations,</i></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">It's certainly clear to <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">POTUS, he's publicly said "I can do anything I want". </span></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The US government cannot dictate into existence high-volume manufacturing</i></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Of course it can! In January it could have offered to buy 10 million kits if they could be delivered within a month and thanks to the free market somebody in this country or some other country would have provided it. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">And I've got to say the contortions you're going through to assign no blame to the current administration for the way they're handling this crisis is painful to behold. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div></div>
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