https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689 Even the comments are interesting. I have not read the full article, so I do not know what all Taiwan did, but, obviously, it worked, and we did not copy. I am sure that Sen. Johnson will claim that the federal government has been very successful in dealing with the pandemic, just not as successful as Taiwan, mostly because our country is so much larger, or something along the line of how great we are making it hard to do as they did. I am sure that there are civil liberties issues that would complicate the matter as well.
Now I have read it. I have heard that in January & February, Pres. Trump wanted to damp down news of the Corona virus because he thought it would affect the stock market in a bad way, thereby hurting his reelection. To me it sounds like something he would do – putting politics, his reelection, ahead of the well being of the American people.
This article tells me that Taiwan went overboard in it’s response, but that is in foresight. Now it was a good, very good, response. I think the figures are some 400 confirmed cases, and 6 deaths, out of a population of 27 million. It was also a response prompted by it being shunned by the international community. More power to them! But, as mentioned elsewhere, the ‘facts’ we had were not accurate, so, ya know, garbage in, garbage out. Now it is all too late for us to do as Taiwan did. We will just have to muddle through as best we can.
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Joe was born in xxxx, Arizona on xxxx xx 1955 to David Joseph and Alta Mary Brockert. He joined xxxxxx. His early life was spent in various houses in Globe, Miami, Claypool and Superior, Arizona. He remembered starting school in second grade in Superior and went there until he finished seventh grade.
They made a move to the Midwest that summer. His parents tried to get work in Minnesota that summer, to no avail, came to Wisconsin and finally found something. Joe went to eight grade in Evansville, Wisconsin. He went to Holy Name Seminary in Madison, Wisconsin for his Junior year of high school. Joe did not make the grade (literally & figuratively) at the seminary, so he went back to graduate from Evansville. He started college at Edgewood in Madison, but without a focus , he did not get very far towards a degree. He did get an Associate of Arts degree from Madison Area Technical College in 1978 for Accounting just to prove he could get a degree of some sort. He never did use it to any extent.
Joe worked as a paperboy in Superior and, some, in Evansville. He did some work study jobs in college, but really started to work at the donut shop on Regent Street, Donuts Unlimited. He worked there, off and on, for many years. He spent a summer at Edgewood Summer Theatre near Baraboo, tried to find a job doing bookkeeping after graduation but fell back to working seasonal at Blaney Farms (seed corn). He worked at the donut shop until 1993. He left to work at Triggs Bakery, Quarra Stone and Colonial Bakery. He has worked at Colonial Bakery since 1994.
Joe met the love of his life in a coffee shop near MATC, where they attended classes and they never really left the coffee shop. Joe was married on 17 May 1980 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Joe lived a contented, relaxed life. He did not do much but learn, work, raise a daughter and support his family. He did not attract a lot of attention. He did learn to live for the day. He felt that the key to happiness was to remember to stop and smell the roses, or to look at the most beautiful sight he had ever seen, Mary, or to just go for a walks with her. He was humble enough to know that his writing would be of interest to very few, mostly those related to him, obviously, so he never tried too hard to get his rambling thoughts recorded.
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