new deadly human-to-human-transmissible coronavirus emerges out of China
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, OK! The # of infections in the USA has almost sextupled in the space of about 6 days! It's getting pretty hard to keep up with those numbers!!
And STILL limited by the #of test kits and CDC test criteria!
There's very likely 10 times as many cases out there. They're not testing like they should be.
Gotta keep those infected numbers under what China had before they kicked out all foreign media and magically the virus stopped spreading.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Stop dry-labbing, Jack.
It only makes you look like you're in panic-driven denial and unable to deal with facts.
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This was the scenario I laid out - even if COVID-19 has a case fatality rate of 'only' 1.5%, it's still 15X more than 'the' flu.
If you imagine you normally have 1 patient at a time in the ICU during 'the' flu season, imagine 15 at a time instead. If your hospital has 10 patients at a time during 'the' flu season, imagine 150 patients at a time instead.
And then, a lot of younger people in the US are at greater risk than in, say, Italy - due to diabetes, hypertension, poor overall health, and so on. The same factors that helped many older people live longer in Italy until coronavirus struck them down are absent in the US.
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'That's when all hell broke loose': Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals
"The reality is that what we're seeing right now in our emergency rooms is dire," said Dr. Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.
"Last week when I went to work, we talked about the one or two patients amongst the dozens of others that might have been a Covid or coronavirus patient," Spencer told CNN's Anderson Cooper Tuesday. "In my shift yesterday, nearly every single patient that I took care of was coronavirus, and many of them extremely severe. Many were put on breathing tubes. Many decompensated (medicalese for cratered) quite quickly."
At first, patients skewed toward the 70-plus age group, but in the past week or so there have been a number of patients younger than 50.
"I don't think they understand the severity of this disease," the doctor said of the younger patients.
It's not just New York that's feeling the pressure. Hospitals across the country are seeing a surge of patients, a shortage of personal protective equipment such as masks and gowns, and health care workers who feel that they, their families and their patients are being put at risk.
One ER nurse in Virginia described her hospital as "exceptionally chaotic," with an emergency department where potential Covid-19 patients were sitting next to patients with other health conditions.
"You have an elderly couple that is having chest pain sitting right next to someone who has a cough and flu," she said. "I think that's extremely reckless."
She said she hadn't hugged her daughter since the outbreak started, for fear she may pass anything on to her.
Another nurse in Georgia said she was repeatedly denied testing, even as her own symptoms worsened over the course of a week. The nurse, who had cared for several patients who died of pneumonia but were never tested for Covid-19, was finally tested Tuesday -- the same day she was admitted to the hospital and put in isolation.
"It was not until this morning that I could finally be tested," she said as she gasped for breath between heavy coughs. "It is insane. And it's infuriating. You feel you have to scream to even be heard."
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Stop dry-labbing, Jack.
It only makes you look like you're in panic-driven denial and unable to deal with facts.
The only people who are easily terrified are those who have never faced any adversity in their lives.
You should be grateful for your extremely privileged life that you've grown accustomed to and try not focusing on what you might lose so you won't feel so bad about it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:You mean because I didn't turn myself into an alcoholic mess at the first setback? Is that your yardstick for adversity?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The only people who are easily terrified are those who have never faced any adversity in their lives.
Quote:And after completely fact-free posts now you're down to completely fact-free trolling. CONGRATULATIONS! Your panic has driven you to loony land!
You should be grateful for your extremely privileged life that you've grown accustomed to and try not focusing on what you might lose so you won't feel so bad about it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:You mean because I didn't turn myself not an alcoholic mess at the first setback?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The only people who are easily terrified are those who have never faced any adversity in their lives.
You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.
When you see me, you see a white male who never had a problem in his life.
My life was a tragedy since I was a kid who never had a childhood. I was a latchkey kid babysitting my brothers and protecting them from messed up selfish parents and their emotional abuse and neglect, from an age that would have had my parents thrown in jail and had us placed in a foster care if that were going on today.
I could write a book detailing my history, the people I've known as friends, some of them still with us, many of them dead or in and out of the prison system for the rest of their lives.
I've had years where I've seen more shit than you've seen in your entire life, lady.
And after all of that... I'm still here, and in many respects I'm much stronger than I ever was because of all of it.
I piss on your little virus and this manufactured panic that the rest of you are currently enthralled by.
You're living in my world now. I don't think there's a time in my life where I ever felt more comfortable with my surroundings than right here and right now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Oh, poor baby! We may not know anything about you, but what makes you think you know anything about us? Just because we don't whine everlastingly about our childhoods and use it as a crutch to explain our current failures doesn't mean any of our lives were a bed of roses either.
My life was a tragedy since I was a kid who never had a childhood. I was a latchkey kid babysitting my brothers and protecting them from messed up selfish parents and their emotional abuse and neglect, from an age that would have had my parents thrown in jail and had us placed in a foster care if that were going on today.
Quote:Now THAT is dysfunctional!
You're living in my world now. I don't think there's a time in my life where I ever felt more comfortable with my surroundings than right here and right now.
Yanno SIX, the smartest man I know is my hubby, and your life experiences don't hold a candle to his. He thinks you're whiny, and I tend to agree. Stop pouting. You sound like a three-year old.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Fuck your husband.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:A lot of self-important drama in your life, 6ix. It must go with being a Trump lover:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I piss on your little virus and this manufactured panic that the rest of you are currently enthralled by.
You're living in my world now. I don't think there's a time in my life where I ever felt more comfortable with my surroundings than right here and right now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Waller County judge backs off planned stay-at-home order, cites Trump’s message
Waller County Judge Trey Duhon says he had expected to announce a stay-at-home order for his rural county this week, following the lead of other major counties in the region. But then Duhon reflected on President Donald Trump’s message about how the country needs to start getting back to work in the coming weeks, a view not shared by many public health experts.
“It was just the notion that we can’t be paralyzed by this event,” Duhon said by phone Wednesday, referring to Trump’s remarks. “America is about ingenuity, it’s about working, it’s about enterprise, it’s about free market. People get up, they go to work. They earn a living. They move up the ladder. That’s what we do. That’s what makes America successful. So, if we’re paralyzed and we do nothing, then everything will just collapse.”
On Wednesday, Duhon stopped short of issuing a stay-at-home order, reflecting a reluctance among some local leaders to adopt the most stringent rules available to them to slow the spread of COVID-19. While Democrat-led Harris and Fort Bend counties have issued stay-at-home orders, GOP-majority Montgomery and Waller counties have not.
More at www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Waller-Cou
nty-judge-backs-off-planned-15157015.php
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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