Some Covid-19 thoughts
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UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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Hospitals Know What’s Coming
“We are on an absolutely catastrophic path,” said a COVID-19 doctor at America’s best-prepared hospital.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/11/americas-best-prepa
red-hospital-nearly-overwhelmed/617156/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
“I don’t see how we avoid becoming overwhelmed,” says Dan Johnson, a critical-care doctor. People need to know that “the assumption we will always have a hospital bed for them is a false one.”
What makes this “nightmare” worse, he adds, “is that it was preventable.” The coronavirus is not unstoppable, as some have suggested and as New Zealand, Iceland, Australia, and Hong Kong have resoundingly disproved—twice. Instead, the Trump administration never mounted a serious effort to stop it. Whether through gross incompetence or deliberate strategy, the president and his advisers left the virus to run amok, allowed Americans to get sick, and punted the consequences to the health-care system. And they did so repeatedly, even after the ordeal of the spring, after the playbook for controlling the virus became clear, and despite months of warnings about a fall surge.
Not even the best-prepared hospital can compensate for an unchecked pandemic. UNMC’s preparations didn’t fail so much as the U.S. created a situation in which hospitals could not possibly succeed. “We can prepare over and over for a wave of patients,” says Cawcutt, “but we can’t prepare for a tsunami.”
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Quote:How dense can you be? It does not matter what the real cause of death was, they would be labeled as Covid in 2020. Whether it was stubbed toe, indigestion, or cold.
Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:Would they had died from just being over weight?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'd be much more concerned about my younger brother who is 250lbs overweight, and his even younger wife who is 150lbs overweight. Neither of which smoke.
Big is beautiful though... at least until they call your premature death from obesity a Covid death to bump the numbers.
All I'm saying is that if John Candy, John Belushi or Chris Farley died in 2020 they'd be labeled Covid deaths.
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Quote:I thought you were from NY.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I literally laughed out loud at this. I'd never heard of calling someone a potato until now.
OTOH since you're the FFF.net resident cartoon-boy/ meme-pusher, I find that your post telling us to ignore your posts is really funny as well.
Folks I know from NY do refer to Deplorables in Flyover Country as potatoheads.
And regionally, when explaining why some people are unable to perform certain tasks adequately, the phrase is used: Plant a potato, get a potato.
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'Upstate' NY, very different from 'downstate' NY, aka NYC ... just like Mackinac Island, MI is very different from Detroit, MI. You might be thinking of NYC.
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Deaths___261,240
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