Some Covid-19 thoughts
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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"Discretion" isn't part of the new policy.
As a former EKG technician and EMT who participated in literally hundreds of "codes" (with only 1 brought in by ambulance who was ever successfully resuscitated and sent to the ICU - where he promptly died), let me provide some background.
The ultimate survival rate for people whose heart stops (asystole/ cardiac arrest) while not in a medical facility is as close to zero as you can get (0-2%) if someone doesn't start performing effective CPR within 3 minutes. https://www.statpearls.com/articlelibrary/viewarticle/17935/ Since MOST people suffer from this at home (75%), or in public (22%) your chances of surviving depend on the immediate presence of people nearby who notice, who will then try to give you CPR, who will be capable enough to perform it well enough the whole time while waiting for EMS, in order to keep you alive.
That's why the survival rate is so low for cardiac arrest outside of a medical facility. It depends on a set of circumstances that virtually never happen.
The policy says that if the person is in asystole when EMS arrives, AND no one has been performing CPR, AND the EMS crew can't restore a spontaneous heartbeat after at least 20 minutes of trying, the chances of survival are so low that the crew is THEN allowed to discontinue further medical resuscitation.
Nobody is saying that EMS is allowed to not treat or transport a person whose heart is beating and who is breathing, just because in their "discretion" they look too sick.
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Deaths
364,927___+5,082
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The trumpard terrorists who committed acts of treason yesterday were largely not wearing masks.
I hope they all got it. If it kills them, great. Fewer morons polluting the gene pool with their inferior genes.
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Deaths
367,662___+3,935
We may see 400,000 dead before Trump leaves office.
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Deaths
371,465__+3,803
We will definitely see 400,000 before Trump leaves office.
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Trump will have the worst jobs record in modern U.S. history. It’s not just the pandemic.
Friday’s awful jobs report from the Labor Department showed there were still 3 million fewer jobs in the United States than there were on Inauguration Day 2017, when Trump stood in front of the capitol and vowed to reverse the American carnage.
No other modern president has left the U.S. with a smaller workforce than it had when they took office. Since the government started keeping track in 1939, no other president has even seen significant job losses during a single presidential term.
Everybody knows that full recovery won’t come until the virus is under control. And our path to getting the virus under control right now is either people behaving in a different way or mass vaccination. And on both of those fronts, it’s pretty clear that the administration has failed to deliver.
The administration resisted simple behavioral changes, such as wearing masks, that would have had no economic cost and have been shown to be effective in containing the virus.
We had a big advantage in terms of getting the vaccine. We are ahead of Europe in procuring it, but we don’t seem to be able to actually get the shot in people’s arms.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/08/trump-jobs-record/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Steepen the Curve
https://xkcd.com/2409/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Deaths
375,039___+3,574
I've heard on the news we're at around 380,000 new cases a day and we may see a million dead by May if this trend continues.
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Good for them.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/10/coronavirus-covid-19-vac
cine-hesitancy-us-health-workers
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The rates of refusal – up to 40% of frontline workers in Los Angeles county, 60% of care home workers in Ohio – have prompted concern and in some cases, shaming. But the ultimate failure could be dismissing these numbers at a critical moment in the US vaccination campaign.
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Vaccine hesitancy is common – 29% of healthcare workers said they were vaccine-hesitant, according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation published last month. And it’s not exclusive to the US – up to 40% of care workers in the UK might refuse to have the vaccine, the National Care Association said in mid-December.
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In New York City, the firefighters union found last month that 55% of 2,000 firefighter members surveyed said they would not get the vaccine.
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Recent surveys show that Black people are the most vaccine-hesitant. In mid-November, 83% of Asian Americans said they would get the vaccine if it was made available to them that day. That sentiment was shared by 63% of Hispanic people, 61% of white people but just 42% of Black people, according to a Pew Research report.
The first draft of anything is shit. :)
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