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There is no debate. Healthcare workers are invariably wearing masks around all patients, regardless of known COVID19 status.

It is simply irresponsible to claim that wearing masks offers only marginal benefit. This is a respiratory virus, it is transmitted by droplets.

The downvoting of this plain truth ought to scare anyone who values science over politics.

The WHO also is claiming that Taiwan is just a part of China and the WHO will not accept a free Taiwan. Seems overly political and specific for an "independent" health organization.

They said wearing masks does not help decrease infectious spread. They actually claimed that wearing masks can increase infectious spread because of improperly wearing it.

If oil price goes down, demand for renewables goes down.

Lower demand for renewables means... Higher prices? Less output of actual renewable products like solar panels? Less demand for new wind turbines?

The population and economy and role in world travel of New Zealand is hardly comparable to the United States.

A high percentage of COVID-19 infected people are asymptomatic.

How would temperature and subjective screening prevent these asymptomatic patients from infecting many others?

No, I mean every government is incapable of saving everyone or preventing any infections. Nearly all countries in the world have had infections in their borders. The state of New York has an incredibly high infection rate because of its role in being a hub of international travel. New York still has not closed its borders, and their role in spreading disease within its borders can not be understated.

There is a stark difference in population, density, and economic activity between the United States and every other country in the world. The United States is the global hub of business, it's easy to see why they would be different compared to Norway.

The virus was circulating in the United States undetected, by January. As one of the largest, most heavily traveled countries in the world, there was little hope that they would be able to shut their borders early enough to stave off any infections.

Every government got this wrong, local, state, and federal. Democrat and Republican. The most important lesson is that you can't trust the government, they're not capable of saving you. You need to be able to save yourself.

So is the sea level being measured or estimated?

Ventilators are incredibly simple and can suffer considerable constant abuse without a hiccup.

These are medical grade devices.

It's like artificially inflated GDP numbers from producing bad steel that nobody will buy. It does something, but in the end it's really nothing, and actually quite wasteful.

This is incorrect. There is no supply/demand relationship for pricing services. Doubling the number of trained physicians will not decrease healthcare costs, it will simply drive down physician annual income.

The main driver of inflated healthcare costs is administrative waste: hospital management, insurance management, government management.