Coronavirus politics and news.

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Originally Posted by RCSownsU

It's like people don't realize what happens when a hospital gets over loaded.

From an ems stand point over the last few weeks, no hospitals in the NYC/LI area were taking cardiac arrest patients(unless rosc was achieved in the field) cath labs were repurposed for covid patients.

So if you went into arrest, only thing that can be done is field work. So if you have a basic emt and a driver respond with no ALS available, all you or your family member will get is chest compressions and a bag.

ALS was stretched very thin due to the overwhelming amount of calls, so they may have been tied up on one of the multiple other alarms an agency may have at the time and not be available for the Arrest.

Or, do to the over whelming amount of calls, the call may have to have been sent to an out of district agency. So a trauma patient, in need of fast medical care, instead of waiting 6-8 minutes for an ambulance to arrive, may have to wait 16-18 minutes for one to arrive and that can be the difference between life and death. Not something very common on trauma calls, because unless multiple other trauma calls are going on at that time, usually ALS would be in a fly car and can get directly to the scene and even if they had to wait for an ambulance from an outside agency, at least they could start advanced medical care in the field.

It's so much more far reaching than just the covid patients.

But, I wouldn't expect someone who has so little understanding of anything, to understand that. As you know they think , beaches are more important than people dying.

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Because they don't care about human life. They care about theirs.
it's the pull yourself up by your bootstrap BS. That is until they can't reach their bootstrap and then they cry like *****es about how they n need help.
I truly hope Phoba is ok but his opinion on the ERs would be quite valid, I would say. (George would probably say he doesn't know anything)

It's why is so friggin funny how many people are against a single payer system, until they are in a position that they need it and I promise, they are not saying "Oh well, I guess I should have gotten a job that gave me benefits or made more money to get my own. I'll just go over here and quietly die."

They are saying "Pleeeeeaaaase Help me. Pleeeeaaaase!!!!!"

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Originally Posted by Posada20

Really ? The death rate of the virus is at about 5% max here in the US , and a vast majority of those infected don’t even need a hospital . So tell me again how what I said is nonsense ?

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Why not go hang out in a hospital where there are a bunch of Covid cases and test your theory?

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Originally Posted by Posada20

If anything those two perhaps should have been more prepared than anyone in this country for this . New York city has had a bullseye on it since 2001 but what does cuomo do with the hundreds of millions with federal dollars? Builds a failed solar panel factory lol

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And LOL, LOL. If they new it, so did the president, so why didn't he get more help and more tests, much more quickly? Had he done so, lives would have been saved. LOL

Why didn't the President protect the economic capital of the country and one of the most important cities in the world? LOL.

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Originally Posted by rrzubnyy

But my issue is why they get zero blame from the opposition?

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Because they are doing the best they can. Because they took it on the chin and the rest of the country saw what was happening and the Governors of other states were able to close down and slow the spread.

They are getting blame, from Trump.


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"But contrary to the president’s claim, the task force did not make a recommendation about purchasing more ventilators. That was outside the scope of the report, Valerie Gutmann Koch, the former senior attorney and special consultant to the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, told us via email.

Trump “obviously didn’t read the document he’s citing,” Dani Lever, a spokeswoman for Cuomo, said in a statement to The Hill. “This was a 5 year old advisory task force report, which never recommended the State procure ventilators — it merely referenced that New York wouldn’t be equipped with enough ventilators for a 1918 flu pandemic. No one is, including Mr. Trump.”"

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/tr...unch-at-cuomo/

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Originally Posted by Posada20

How could trump have known enough about this virus 5 months ago to have done anything about it but neighboring countries , and the rest of the world didn’t until about 4 months later . Not even the cdc or fauci , the experts on disease and viruses , knew enough about the virus either or they wound not have been saying as recently as early last month that the virus was nothing to serious to worry about and that the concern of the general public being exposed to the virus is very low as recently as March 6th.

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Well, he could have maybe, you know, started with being honest? Maybe, I don't know, just spitballing here but maybe, get a really solid plan in place? You know, maybe start ramping up production of what would be needed?
Tests? PPEs? Ventilators? Finding people who can coordinate front line efforts?

I mean maybe that doesn't make sense?

But again, way to show your representation of the US education system. Posada knew the midterm was coming, he had 3 months but didn't study and then blamed the teacher for failing.

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Originally Posted by Kinkotheclown

Posada got an erection for the first time in a decade after reading this.

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I assumed Posada was only about a decade old

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Originally Posted by goingfor28

I assumed Posada was only about a decade old

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The we should congratulate him on his first one!

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Originally Posted by Kinkotheclown

The we should congratulate him on his first one!

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An inaugural erection celebration!

Please wear a mask and maintain at least 6 feet social distance.

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Originally Posted by drt1010

An inaugural erection celebration!

Please wear a mask and maintain at least 6 feet social distance.

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Afraid he'll poke you if you get too close?

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Originally Posted by goingfor28

Afraid he'll poke you if you get too close?

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He will definitely report it

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No comment.

My opinion, Trevor Noah is spot on.

Fast forward to minute 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2xPTP5hr6o

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Originally Posted by Posada20

I understand that most people going to the beach now would have a greater chance at getting a sunburn and cancer from it than dying or even getting very sick from the virus .

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Early results show that 4.1% of adults in LA County have coronavirus antibodies, translating to 221,000–442,000 adults vs <8,000 confirmed COVID19 cases, suggesting that the actual number of infections is 28- to 55-fold HIGHER. https://www.latimes.com/california/s...ting-la-county

On 2/26, Trump bragged US only had 15 coronavirus cases and “within a couple of days is gonna be down to close to 0."

US COVID19 cases:
2/25: 53
3/3: 102
3/10: 678
3/17: 4,459
3/24: 42,663
3/31: 160,698
4/7: 398,809
4/14: 582,594
4/21: 786,638

MIT Technology Review: The US needs to do 20 million tests a day to reopen safely, according to a new plan.
Biotechnology Apr 20

A group of experts has produced a plan for the US to reopen its economy safely this summer. However, it’s contingent on doing at least 20 million tests every day, scaling up contact tracing, and ensuring that those who need to isolate can be properly supported.

https://www.technologyreview.com/202...reopen-safely/