Thanks for the link. I didn't find that quote in the article, but maybe it was in there. If it's not in there then it's crazy that you linked that article saying "Peter Thiel" - another commenter said the same thing. If it's in there then it's weird that my quoted Google Search didn't yield at least that article.
Likely Adyen considering the press release that came out a couple years ago. But I wouldn't be surprised if they were also using Braintree at some point.
> Committee chair Senator Lindsey Graham called the session to address what he called "censorship and suppression of news articles" and the "handling of the 2020 election" by the platforms.
Dorsey & Zuckerberg are voluntarily testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
I'm pretty sure this is what Blendle[0] is doing - pay per article. I've been using it for a year and ended up subscribing to a few of the publications.
Not OP but I don't think we'll bounce back as quickly due to the lack of urgency coming from the Federal government. I suspect we'll fall into a vicious cycle of business layoffs, corresponding dip in consumer spending, reduction in r&d/business investment as we are now and after cases taper off which now seems even further away than what it could've been had the CDC/FDA/WH been on top of this earlier. Some countries took the threat seriously and immediately took care of things.
The person described in that Vox article - upper respiratory symptoms, no direct contact with someone with confirmed Covid-19 - wouldn't meet the criteria for testing anywhere that I know of off-hand. Certainly not in the UK or Australia, probably not in South Korea (though they allow people who don't qualify to buy testing out of pocket), not in a whole bunch of EU states, and Italy has much bigger things to worry about. Maybe in the more urban parts of China?
The community spread by this point has hit the entire US surely. They can't track every single confirmed person location-by-location because it's been far too long.
You are wrong about South Korea. Their testing has been incredibly effective from the beginning, patient 31 in South Korea had no known contact and was told to take a CV test by her doctors, but didn't take the advice until a 2 days later.
https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTER...
In my country, you get tested even if you haven't had direct contact with confirmed COVID19, but have the symptoms and have travelled to selected countries or states in the last 4 weeks.
as a non-US person, the US can do much more than testing, (which is what most other countries can do). A cure, or a quick vaccine is what matters, testing is just a measure of how bad you are performing. Containment measures are necessary, and they work, but eventually we ll all get the virus, in a vaccine or not
Not doing any actual airport screening, rejecting the WHO tests so we could develop our own (for some reason), denying that there was even a problem for 4 critical weeks, telling people as recently as a week ago that they should be out going to restaurants and bars... all the failures of leadership that caused us to blow well past containment.
In contrast, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong got right on top of it, and early. They're also the only countries seeing a flat rather than exponential trend right now. Which means their hospitals are not at threat of being overwhelmed.
The president and the most popular news network have been downplaying the severity for weeks. The US is absurdly behind other countries in testing. We've tested less people total than South Korea tests in a single day. And cases are being overlooked left and right. No one I know in NYC has been tested. Multiple folks were in public situations with possibly infected tourists. One was exposed to a confirmed case via a third party and got the symptoms right on schedule. No tests available. Everyone was told they're only testing if respiratory distress occurs and to stay home and take Dayquil.
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You could have chosen to have a productive and civil conversation about the immigration restrictions and how they're related to actions taken by President Obama. Instead you chose to make blanket accusations, inane assumptions about everyone here, and resorted to unnecessary name-calling. Why?
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