Some Covid-19 thoughts
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The Health Care System Has Collapsed
As a resident physician who has only trained in an era of COVID—I was asked to consider graduating from school early in April 2020 to help with medical staff shortages—my time as a doctor has been defined by working in a system that has already collapsed. The American health system I work in has featured limited personal protective equipment, oxygen shortages, and the construction of field hospitals in convention centers and parking garages. Last winter, many hospitals across the country instituted crisis standards of care, forced to ration health services based on criteria that few people envisioned would be used outside of a mass casualty event, like a terrorist attack. Today, hospitals are full in much of the country, with patients requiring an ICU being airlifted thousands of miles in search of a staffed bed. These are not features of a health system that is approaching failure. These are features of a health care system that has broken down spectacularly, forcing doctors and patients to climb through the rubble looking for help.
More at https://slate.com/technology/2021/09/healthcare-system-collapse-icu-ra
tion-beds.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, winning an argument is not something that can be done over the internet. Where are referees watching the arguments/discussions and calling penalties on the internet? Where is the scorekeeper? Where are officials setting the rules? Nowhere. On the internet, the losers declare themselves the winners! There are no penalties for losers of arguments on the internet because it is only bits of data. Real world winners get tangible rewards, not bits. And real world losers lose their life, their job/money/house/marriage, or just end up sick while wasting time on the internet.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The problem is that Second can never win an argument.
At least he can't here.
His track record of posts makes anything he says suspect. He contradicts himself on a daily basis because he doesn't actually believe in anything other than Left = Good / Right = Bad.
You're sick in the head and waste all your day on the internet, so we know where you land on that spectrum.
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https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new-details-emerge-about-coronavir
us-research-at-chinese-lab/
https://archive.ph/jcL32
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The grant was initially awarded for a five-year period — from 2014 to 2019. Funding was renewed in 2019 but suspended by the Trump administration in April 2020.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, winning an argument is not something that can be done over the internet. Where are referees watching the arguments/discussions and calling penalties on the internet? Where is the scorekeeper? Where are officials setting the rules? Nowhere. On the internet, the losers declare themselves the winners! There are no penalties for losers of arguments on the internet because it is only bits of data. Real world winners get tangible rewards, not bits. And real world losers lose their life, their job/money/house/marriage, or just end up sick while wasting time on the internet.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The problem is that Second can never win an argument.
At least he can't here.
His track record of posts makes anything he says suspect. He contradicts himself on a daily basis because he doesn't actually believe in anything other than Left = Good / Right = Bad.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Six, I see that it concedes your point, it has never experienced this winning.
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Originally posted by second:
The Health Care System Has Collapsed
As a resident physician who has only trained in an era of COVID—I was asked to consider graduating from school early in April 2020 to help with medical staff shortages—my time as a doctor has been defined by working in a system that has already collapsed. The American health system I work in has featured limited personal protective equipment, oxygen shortages, and the construction of field hospitals in convention centers and parking garages. Last winter, many hospitals across the country instituted crisis standards of care, forced to ration health services based on criteria that few people envisioned would be used outside of a mass casualty event, like a terrorist attack. Today, hospitals are full in much of the country, with patients requiring an ICU being airlifted thousands of miles in search of a staffed bed. These are not features of a health system that is approaching failure. These are features of a health care system that has broken down spectacularly, forcing doctors and patients to climb through the rubble looking for help.
More at https://slate.com/technology/2021/09/healthcare-system-collapse-icu-ra
tion-beds.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
yeah, firing everyone and replacing them with robots or first year grad students from countries americans have never heard of will do that for ya
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new-details-emerge-about-coronavir
us-research-at-chinese-lab/
https://archive.ph/jcL32Quote:
The grant was initially awarded for a five-year period — from 2014 to 2019. Funding was renewed in 2019 but suspended by the Trump administration in April 2020.
It's been known for almost a couple of years now in a general kind of way that Wuhan (lab or university) was doing subcontracted research work on bat coronaviruses funded by Fauci's agency.
Anyone who has been on either end of a research grant knows that it doesn't progress without a metric crapton of paperwork: Proposals, MOUs, budgets, interim reports, emails, phone calls - which are logged, invoices, disbursements, etc etc.
The fact that the WHO "investigated" the origin of the virus without ever asking for the relevant documents is not only careless, it's a coverup.
I don't know how much evidence remains. I imagine that a lot of paper-shredding and email erasing has gone on since this all started late 2019.
Good for the Intercept that they knew who to ask, and for what. (FOIA requests have to be very specific, especially for contentious issues, o'wise you will be stonewalled.)
We should be looking to see if our own bioweapon people had any hand in this, too.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/massive-foia-release-proves-fauci-f
The materials confirm the grants supported the construction--in Wuhan--of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses that combined a spike gene from one coronavirus with genetic information from another coronavirus, and confirmed the resulting viruses could infect human cells.
(Recombinant DNA includes molecules constructed outside of living cells by joining natural or synthetic DNA segments to DNA molecules that can replicate in a living cell, or molecules that result from their replication. -Science Direct)
The materials reveal that the resulting novel, laboratory-generated SARS-related coronaviruses also could infect mice engineered to display human receptors on cells ("humanized mice").
The materials further reveal for the first time that one of the resulting novel, laboratory-generated SARS-related coronaviruses--one not been previously disclosed publicly--was more pathogenic to humanized mice than the starting virus from which it was constructed...
...and thus not only was reasonably anticipated to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity, but, indeed, was *demonstrated* to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity.
The materials further reveal that the the grants also supported the construction--in Wuhan--of novel chimeric MERS-related coronaviruses that combined spike genes from one MERS-related coronavirus with genetic information from another MERS-related coronavirus.
unded-wuhan-research-construct-sars-related
chimeric virus is one which is made by combining bits of one virus with another.
This was explained in great detail by Chris Martenson, who highlighted the insertion very early in the pandemic.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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At this point, I think we should start burning scientists at the stake and just go ahead and put a full ban on any further advances in technology and medicine.
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... we should start burning scientists at the stake ...
Because of a virus that never killed anyone?
Or is your prescription because of what scientists might do in the future - yanno - kill people now because of possible future crimes?
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BECAUSE everything else we could ever possibly do is a double-edged sword, and since humans are the ones wielding it, we're always going to use the bad edge first.
There is very little ROI in future innovation of any kind for humanity when all of the inevitable negatives are taken into account. And that statement is being very generous.
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