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Decentralized Public Health System Disrupting Testing Analysis

Wayne Jr said:
Healthcare is not a human right.
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Healthcare is a human right as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, spearheaded by the United States back in 1948, and signed now by almost every nation on the planet. People should not be allowed to die of treatable medical conditions just because they hit hard times.

It is interesting that the idea is now under siege right here at home where it started.
 
ldsrptcvt said:
The US has no idea how to manage all the testing data it’s collecting | MIT Technology Review

"Every state health department reports the number of positive and negative tests. But then disparities arise. States can choose whether or not to slice the numbers up geographically (like by zip code); tally recovered cases and deaths (confirmed and probable); show hospitalizations and factors like ventilator or ICU usage; or include demographic information like patients’ ethnicity, age, sex, and preexisting conditions."

"This mishmash of approaches and standards is causing delays in the US response to the pandemic. Without a uniform, efficient pipeline for aggregating and reporting covid-19 testing data, we lack the up-to-date information that would help focus our efforts, and we must spend unnecessary resources and time reconciling irregularities and disparities in the numbers. Things like contact tracing, surveillance, and resource management for hospitals depend on real-time testing information, but that is hard to get when no one is reporting it in the same way."

I am dissecting an episode of MIT Technology's "Radio Corona", a discussion with Neel Patel, the author of the above article, and Dr. Erich Huang, Associate Dean of Bioinformatics at Duke University, held on May 14.
It appears that we have substantial problems with at least two things:
1. uncoordinated test data collection protocols
2. technologically inferior communication channels

The radio episode is at YouTube
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A job for our uniformed "corps of healthcare engineers?"
 
Thoreau72 said:
Having studied 911 for about 15 years, those events could not have been prevented. They had been planned for years at least. The official story/narrative fails utterly at every turn.

So you ask a question that is really just a hypothetical. Whether Binney (I'm a huge fan) and the NSA could have predicted it would not have mattered. Israel and Mossad hold a very tight grip on the Pentagon and other elements of the federal government.

So I'm not trying to dodge your good question. All I'm saying is that whether Al Gore or George Bush was POTUS, the events would still have played out. NSA could not have stopped it.
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The 9/11 hijackers were well known by the FBI and CIA and we could have had air defenses ready to intercept the hijacked planes. The better surveillance technology (thinthread) was later used to search the trailblazer data base and pulled out crucial facts buried in piles of useless data - all the signs were there, hidden in the metadata. "That the elaborate 9/11 plot went undetected will forever be remembered as one of the intelligence community’s worst failures."

U.S. Intelligence Needs Another Reinvention - The Atlantic
 
ataraxia said:
It should be. Not having it is barbaric and inhumane.
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Healthcare not being a right does not mean people should go without it. Something doesn't have to be a right inorder for everyone to have it.

Everyone should access to healthcare and healthcare is not a right.
 
ldsrptcvt said:
If we have the right to Life, we have the right to healthcare
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You do not have a right to the services of another person as per the 13th Ammendment.
 
Wayne Jr said:
You do not have a right to the services of another person as per the 13th Ammendment.
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then neither do we have the right to defense against military attack. We have a whole separate entitlement program to maintain constant full military forces with state of the art everything, when the Constitution barred a standing army; everyone owning guns and defending themselves.

the founding fathers did not aspire to worldwide domination
 
Wayne Jr said:
Correct. National defense is not a human right.
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then why are we forced to pay HUGE amounts of money to support the defense community - healthcare included even if not deployed; and outrageous expense trying to build bionic soldiers and other nonsense. Do you have any idea how much money goes into this?
 
ldsrptcvt said:
then why are we forced to pay HUGE amounts of money to support the defense community -
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Because we voted in big spenders. Elections have consequences. If we don't like all the spending then we need to vote in fiscal conservatives, but conservatives bring other baggage with them into office like removing abortion rights and putting prayer in schools. You have to pick your poison, but it's all poison.
 
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danielpalos said:
The right wing claims there is no right to healthcare with a welfare clause General, not common.
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Ok, so go take that up with the right-wing. Holding me accountable for what some group that I am not a member of says won't get you very far in life.
 
Wayne Jr said:
Ok, so go take that up with the right-wing. Holding me accountable for what some group that I am not a member of says won't get you very far in life.
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You are the one alleging there is no human right to healthcare with a welfare clause General not Common.
 
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