OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

[SlyPokerDog]

Coronavirus Latest: Major Meat Processors Shutting Down Plants As Employees Get Sick With COVID-19

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2...n-plants-as-employees-get-sick-with-covid-19/

 

[wizenheimer]

a couple of disturbing articles...

people may be catching Covid a 2nd time and young people may be more vulnerable than older people. This may significantly complicate vaccine development:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/sci...rus-low-antibody-levels-raise-questions-about

and, the feds are stealing medical orders from states and not saying where the supplies are going:

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-supplies

that added to the feds stopping funding for many testing sites....yeeeeeesh

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[wizenheimer]

Mike Pence just said from the beginning they knew that this was 3X more contagious than the flu. Total bullshit!

liars is as liars does

 

[yankeesince59]

Mike Pence just said from the beginning they knew that this was 3X more contagious than the flu. Total bullshit!

Trump has been ass fisting Pence like a puppet since day 1...The Donald is quite the ventriloquist.

 

[BigGameDamian]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/katu.c...es-reach-1321-officials-report-six-new-deaths

Oregon coronavirus cases reach 1,321, officials report six new deaths

 

[BigGameDamian]

Trump says we have the best testing system in the world.

 

[tlongII]

What you suggest is logical, but that doesn't mean that's what's actually happening. Doctors have friends and relatives, and those people may be getting tested at a greater than rational rate.

barfo

Why would the testing of friends and relatives of doctors skew the results to a lower rate of positives than the national average?

 

[Road Ratt]

 

[BigGameDamian]

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...ication&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=506358

Coronavirus daily news updates, April 9: What to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the nation

 

[Chris Craig]

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I had a terrible respiratory ailment late last year

 

[barfo]

Why would the testing of friends and relatives of doctors skew the results to a lower rate of positives than the national average?

Depends on how testing was done elsewhere. If states do testing using different protocols, then the results will not be comparable.

barfo

 

[barfo]

I had a terrible respiratory ailment late last year

It was probably that pangolin you ate.

barfo

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[HailBlazers]

Hope Jeff is staying Safe.

 

[RR7]

I had a terrible respiratory ailment late last year

I know a lot of people in portland that did as well, end of last year,but also January and February this year. With different ailments, the school I work at, we had half of our kids out at different stretches in february. Some were flu, some pneumonia, some other stuff. And a good friend had a nasty respiratory illness in January shes pretty sure was this. I have been wondering for a while if Oregon's low numbers are because it or something like it already came through here earlier?

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I know a lot of people in portland that did as well, end of last year,but also January and February this year. With different ailments, the school I work at, we had half of our kids out at different stretches in february. Some were flu, some pneumonia, some other stuff. And a good friend had a nasty respiratory illness in January shes pretty sure was this. I have been wondering for a while if Oregon's low numbers are because it or something like it already came through here earlier?

It's been here. My boss was so sick he said he thought he was going to die. I wouldn't go near him. He says he tested negative for the flu. 70-80 percent of my coworkers got it. I got a flue shot in September so figured that was why I didn't get sick.

I remember in January getting mad at my wife for saying call out sick. She had multiple employees who skipped work for illness. I remember because I like call in sick instead of call out.

I overheard her talking with her peers about how many people were missing work.

With how much travel we get from around the world we should be leading the numbers of infected. I went to a Knights game on March 1st.

 

[Road Ratt]

 

[Minstrel]

I had a terrible respiratory ailment late last year

My mom had one in December and even had the symptoms of loss of smell and taste. She was wondering if it could have been COVID-19, but I wasn't sure how that would fit the timeline. This, if true, would explain it.

 

[tlongII]

Depends on how testing was done elsewhere. If states do testing using different protocols, then the results will not be comparable.

barfo

Really? I figured friends and relatives of doctors would be, you know, average.

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[THE HCP]

I'm guessing those are homeless/nameless, etc?

I have a feeling that if somebody dies from an virus like this, they can’t be released to the families.

 

[yankeesince59]

I have a feeling that if somebody dies from an virus like this, they can’t be released to the families.

Yeah, that makes sense but I assume those boxes will be covered with dirt and will eventually get soaking wet from rain. Add to that, the upcoming very warm temps, and that makes for a pretty grizzly scenario whenever the virus diminishes and families will naturally want their relatives exhumed, and relocated to family cemetery plots, etc.

I would think that cremation would make more sense, at least for the families who would agree/consent to it.

Or, are these people in the boxes destined to remain where they are now as their permanent resting place?



But I admit, maybe I'm looking at this all wrong.

 

[ABM]

Yeah, that makes sense but I assume those boxes will be covered with dirt and will eventually get soaking wet from rain. Add to that, the upcoming very warm temps, and that makes for a pretty grizzly scenario whenever the virus diminishes and families will naturally want their relatives exhumed, and relocated to family cemetery plots, etc.

I would think that cremation would make more sense, at least for the families who would agree/consent to it.

Or, are these people in the boxes destined to remain where they are now as their permanent resting place?



But I admit, maybe I'm looking at this all wrong.

This would suck

 

[illmatic99]

17,000 people have died in this country.

17000

And he talk about his ratings. Does this bloated fat fuck have even an ounce of empathy in his body? Soulless POS. I so badly wish karma was real.

 

[ABM]

Yeah, that makes sense but I assume those boxes will be covered with dirt and will eventually get soaking wet from rain. Add to that, the upcoming very warm temps, and that makes for a pretty grizzly scenario whenever the virus diminishes and families will naturally want their relatives exhumed, and relocated to family cemetery plots, etc.

I would think that cremation would make more sense, at least for the families who would agree/consent to it.

Or, are these people in the boxes destined to remain where they are now as their permanent resting place?



But I admit, maybe I'm looking at this all wrong.

Wow, I just saw this.

 

[Shaboid]

Yeah, that makes sense but I assume those boxes will be covered with dirt and will eventually get soaking wet from rain. Add to that, the upcoming very warm temps, and that makes for a pretty grizzly scenario whenever the virus diminishes and families will naturally want their relatives exhumed, and relocated to family cemetery plots, etc.

I would think that cremation would make more sense, at least for the families who would agree/consent to it.

Or, are these people in the boxes destined to remain where they are now as their permanent resting place?



But I admit, maybe I'm looking at this all wrong.

It looks like those being buried at Hart's Field are only those without next of kin or those that can't afford a funeral. This is typical of NYC, but usually the numbers are only about 25 a week and the work was done by Riker's Island inmates. It has now increased to 24 a day and the work has been taken over by contractors. That is what I just read at least.

 

[ABM]

17,000 people have died in this country.

17000

And he talk about his ratings. Does this bloated fat fuck have even an ounce of empathy in his body? Soulless POS. I so badly wish karma was real.

Could've been less deaths. Hard to say.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...w_yorks_ventilator_rationing_plan_142685.html

At its most severe, coronavirus attacks the lungs, making it impossible to breathe without a ventilator. Landing in the hospital on a ventilator is bad. But worse is being told you can't have one. After learning that the state's stockpile of medical equipment had 16,000 fewer ventilators than New Yorkers would need in a severe pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo came to a fork in the road in 2015. He could have chosen to buy more ventilators. Instead, he asked his health commissioner, Howard Zucker to assemble a task force and draft rules for rationing the ventilators they already had.

That task force came up with rules that will be imposed when ventilators run short. Patients assigned a red code will have the highest access, and other patients will be assigned green, yellow or blue (the worst) depending on a "triage officer's" decision. In truth, a death officer. Let's not sugarcoat it. It won't be up to your own doctor.

Cuomo could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece or a total of $576 million in 2015. It's a lot of money but less than the $750 million he threw away on a boondoggle "Buffalo Billion" solar panel factory. When it comes to state budget priorities, spending half a percent of the budget on ventilators is a no brainer.

Now the pandemic is actually here. Cuomo's grim reaper rules will be applied. New York City's deputy commissioner for disease control Demetre Daskalakis is anticipating "some very serious difficult decisions." So far, in New York City, 1 out of every 4 people with a confirmed case has been hospitalized, and 44% of them have needed a ventilator.